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Where does our physical body come from?

I want to thank all who took the time to post in this thread. :thumbs::thumbs:


Y'all have certainly given me many slices of differing breads to taste. I have my idea concerning this, but I didn't want to start a thread asking a question, and then give you the answer later. I have witness this being done before(I have done this in times past, but have stopped doing that), and didn't want to do it again. I was wanting to know what everyone else though about this, and how they came to their conclusions using scripture. Thanks again, and may God bless y'all with a very Merry CHRISTmas. I love you all!!

i am I AM'S!!

Willis
 

marke

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The "dust of the earth" seems to indicate the elements. We all come from the same elements, arranged by God who knits together those common elements while we are within our mother's womb.

God created a very natural process, but it is according to His plan, and the more we learn of the intricate workings of organic life the more we should get on our face before Him in worship. More so, we are not merely organic. We are alive and possess a soul -- made in the imago dei -- the very breath of God to live, and yet we are not completely alive unless or until we become justified and regenerated through Christ.

This is correct, in my opinion. I have been debating evolutionists for a while over at CARM and been studying different scientific issues in that process. Our bodies are made up of extremely complicated arrangements of chemical elements in an intricately designed combination of DNA strands with specific coding arrangements organized by the genetic code. Animals also have similar DNA strands and similar genes, and all are just arranged chemical elements, elements which may be found in dirt, for example.

The spirit of man, on the other hand, is not made from dirt and without the spirit man's body is just fancy dirt and will crumble back into its separate elements when the spirit leaves the body.
 

percho

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Agreed.



Agreed.



Here's where I differ from you and your interpretation. God breathes the soul into the earthy, and then the earthy comes alive only because the soul is placed in there. When the soul leaves, to go to either heaven or hell, the earthy then goes dormant, and then starts decaying over time, eventually returning to the dust of the earth(or this is what I have always believed to be the case). I think you believe the flesh and God's breath make up the soul, correct? If I am wrong, please forgive me. But this is what I have gleaned from reading your posts.



If the "breath" means the soul then I am in agreement with you part of the way. The soul will never die, but will go on existing somewhere for eternity, whether in heaven or the lake of fire. The soul will never die(cease to be functional/dormant, iow).



Please elaborate on David's soul being dead. His physical body died, and he was burried, is correct. But his soul went back to God who gave it.




Correct. However, Jesus' soul(Spirit) never died. His flesh died, when He commanded His Spirit/Soul back into God's hands. Then on the third morning, His Spirit(Soul) went back into His body, and it came forth victorious of death, hell, and the grave. But His Soul/Spirit never died. I see mankind as being soul and flesh, and I think you see mankind as soul, spirit, and flesh, correct?

What scripture do you find that God breathed a soul into the man.

From Hebrew Interlinear Scripture4all.org
Gen 2:7 and he is forming Yahweh Elohim the human soil from the ground
and he is blowing in nostrils of him breath of lives and he is becoming the human to soul living.

It is the breath (spirit from God, spirit is life) that makes what was created from the ground living soul.

Yes what was created from the ground in the image of God with the breath of life from God became a living soul. So says your Bible.

Breath doesn't mean soul to my understanding it means life. Soul is what came in existence with life from God. The five senses began working and storing knowledge of its environment and it's emotions. God told Adam, the living soul, dying you will surely die. Satan told Eve, God lied to you, dying you shall not surely die. You are not a living soul that can die. You have a soul that can never die, must be what he told her, the very opposite of what God had told Adam it the soul does not die.

Peter said, David being a prophet spake of the resurrection of Jesus.
that (means what follows was resurrected)
his soul (Jesus the person who wept) was not left in Hades
neither (something else also was relative to resurrection)
his flesh did see corruption.

Peter said David was speaking of Jesus and not himself. He had already told them David was both dead and buried. Why say both? The soul David died and they buried him and he saw corruption. If David wrote souls go to Hades/Sheol at death and it was the soul of the Christ his seed which was not left in Hades then the soul of David must still be in Hades.

David's son wrote the spirit (breath that gave life to the soul) returns to the God who gave it. Per David the soul to Hades. And the dust returns to the earth or as Paul put it, for if our earthly house (the dust) of [this] tabernacle (the soul) were dissolved (returns to the earth) we have.

Jesus commended his spirit (the breath of life from God) into the hands of his Father. The once living soul Jesus was then dead. Dead for three days and three nights then the Father by his Spirit renewed the Spirit to Jesus regenerating him with life in himself just as the Father has life in himself.

If the living soul Jesus did not die your sins have not been paid and if the soul of Jesus has not been regenerated there will be no life for us.
 
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