[[[FACE-PALM with so much enthusiasm it left a mark]]] Talk about "wrest[ing]" scripture.
We have already considered Ecclesiastes 12:7, in the light of Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10.
The False Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul..
Ecclesiastes 12:7 does not say anything about an immortal/soul/spirit. It speaks of God's spirit (breath of life) that returns to Him. We, which are of the dust, return to dust.
Scripture says, that when a being or person dies:
Ecclesiastes 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
This verse makes no distinction between the righteous and the wicked. Therefore:
Question - Where do
the wicked go when they immediately die according to your theology, where the
beasts? Do they enter Heaven, where God is, which you must believe according to
Ecclesiastes 12:7? Do you know that is how the spiritualist reads it?
Notice please:
Genesis 2:7 LKB - And the LORD God
formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became
a living soul.
Genesis 2:7 HOT Translit. - 2:7 waYiytzer y'hwäh élohiym et-häädäm äfär min-häádämäh waYiPach B'aPäyw nish'mat chaYiym way'hiy häädäm
l'
nefesh chaYäh
Genesis 2:7 HOT - וייצר יהוה אלהים את־האדם עפר מן־האדמה ויפח באפיו נשׁמת חיים ויהי האדם
לנפשׁ חיה׃
Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God
formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called
every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Genesis 2:19 HOT Translit. - waYitzer y'hwäh élohiym min-häádämäh
Käl-
chaYat haSädeh w'ët Käl-ôf haSHämayim waYävë el-häädäm lir'ôt mah-Yiq'rä-lô w'khol ásher yiq'rä-lô häädäm
nefesh chaYäh hû sh'mô
Genesis 2:19 HOT - ויצר יהוה אלהים מן־האדמה
כל־
חית השׂדה ואת כל־עוף השׁמים ויבא אל־האדם לראות מה־יקרא־לו וכל אשׁר יקרא־לו האדם
נפשׁ חיה הוא שׁמו׃
The bible makes
no distinction between the 'nefesh chayah' of man (good or evil) or beast in the matter of receiving or giving up the breath (spirit) of life from God:
Man:
Job 33:4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and
the breath of the Almighty hath
given me life.
Beast:
Genesis 6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
Genesis 7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
Genesis 7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Revelation 16:3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and
every living soul died in the sea.
Revelation 16:3 GNT TR και ο δευτερος αγγελος εξεχεεν την φιαλην αυτου εις την θαλασσαν και εγενετο αιμα ως νεκρου και πασα
ψυχη ζωσα απεθανεν εν τη θαλασση
Man & Beast (again; Greek):
Genesis 2:7 so-called LXX - καὶ ἔπλασεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον χοῦν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς καὶ ἐνεφύσησεν εἰς τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ πνοὴν ζωῆς, καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ ἄνθρωπος
εἰς ψυχὴν ζῶσαν.
Genesis 2:19 so-called LXX - καὶ ἔπλασεν ὁ θεὸς ἔτι ἐκ τῆς γῆς πάντα
τὰ θηρία τοῦ ἀγροῦ καὶ πάντα τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἤγαγεν αὐτὰ πρὸς τὸν Αδαμ ἰδεῖν, τί καλέσει αὐτά, καὶ πᾶν, ὃ ἐὰν ἐκάλεσεν αὐτὸ Αδαμ
ψυχὴν ζῶσαν, τοῦτο ὄνομα αὐτοῦ.
Notice:
Ecclesiastes 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Notice, we, the "dust" (formed, ordered), once the breath of life of God, being His breath, His life (which we borrow), is taken back, return to "dust" (unformed).
The "spirit" in that passage is God's life giving breath (active agency), by which the "dust" (formed, ordered) was made to live and breath, thus becoming a whole unit, a living soul/creature/being.
Mankind is made of the "dust" (formed, ordered):
Genesis 2:7 KJB - And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 3:19 KJB - In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
See, we return to the ground, dust. We stay that way, until a resurrection.
Psalms 104:29 KJB - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
This is just as
Ecclesiastes 12:7 KJB says. Notice the word "return", and the two locations of which the two things (1. dust & 2. breath/spirit) return to. We, the "dust" (formed, ordered), return to the ground from which we were made from, and the breath of life of God, His spirit, which He lent unto us, goes back to Him, its Originator.
Take notice, that
all such "spirit", whether lent (gave, the Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord) to the "dust" of mankind (good or evil, saved or lost) or lent to the beasts, returns to God in Heaven, as the passage makes no distinction of the "spirit" lent (gave) to any of them. It is the active principle that makes alive, that which had not been alive.
There are many passages which reveal this over and over again:
Job 27:3, 34:14;
Genesis 6:17, 7:15;
Job 9:18, 12:10, 17:1, 19:17;
Psalms 104:29, 146:4;
Ecclesiastes 3:19, 8:8;
Lamentations 4:20;
Ezekiel 37:5-6, 8-10;
Habakkuk 2:18.
Idols (formed clay, earth, stone, wood, etc) have no such breath of life of God, ie, no such spirit from Him, thus are not alive:
Psalms 135:17;
Jeremiah 10:14, 51:17, etc.
