you know Ahwatukee, I wonder why those do not see the context of the Breath of God to make man living being as in Gen 1:26 and 2:7 which says God breathed into his nostril the breath of life and man became living soul. This is the state of man before sin was in him. NO death then after the fall cain kills his brother and in ten 4:10 "the voice of thy brothers blood cries unto me from the ground".
the breath of life is given to everyone to become a living being which even unsaved people has now. The Born again experience is life free from sin and now the flesh will die but we have hope of life eternal or with God forever as it was to be from the beginning . This is why annihilationism make no since . we see added man speaking to God from the ground as we heard Jesus speak about in Luke concerning the "certain Rich man" who also spoke in the state of death.
I think its a parable. Without parables,(comparing the things of men seen, the temporal, to the things of God, not seen, the eternal )
Without giving us the spiritual understanding Christ spoke not to the multitude (everyone) hiding the spiritual meaning from those who have no faith (natural man)
People buried in ground don't thirst for water , the have no bladder to store it in order to keep the body hydrated .
Hell is a living work of suffering as shown with Jonas and Christ .
I think the word soul is used differently than you offered. God breathed spirit life different from a soul. Making the soul and spirit all one thing can cause confusion. Adam was created with a living soul but when he sinned the soul as that which communes by walking in agreement with another died instantly, unlike the temporal spirit which became 70 or 80 years (Psalms 90)
Natural man is identified as having no faith no way to commune with God not seen .
This faith issue is something that many leave out not understanding how the word is used can lead a person down another path other than the path that id lide by the word of God as a lamp unto our feet .No faith no light
Deuteronomy 32:20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith
A soul is needed to walk together. Like Christians, soul brothers and sisters seeing we share the same born-again soul by which we can agree with God.No soul no agreement .
Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.Can two walk together, except they be agreed?Amos 3:1-3
There is a clear division between the temporal spirit the essence of breath of this temporal life and a soul by which we can walk with God.God working in us to both will and do Hs good pleasure .
Natural man as a restless wanderer is born without a soul in that way(hard heart) and must be born again in order to enter fellowship as in the garden, guarded with flaming swords. The fiery judgment of His word
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Heb 4:12
While the spirit speaks of the breath of man the soul speaks of the communication of man working with together with another . Like for instance God is revealed of having one mind and always does what His soul pleases even that he which he does as work of His faith. He creates as a labor of love a soft heart in man.
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and
what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. For
he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:Job 23:12-16
When man sinned His spirit was corrupted and he died a slow death according to the Psalms today 70 or so years .But when the corruption began the possibility of communing with God as walking in agreement with Him was dead with no way for God to work in mans heart.(no faith) It remained hard with no way for God to work to soften it and therefore no way to enter God's eternal Sabbath rest.
Natural man like Cain became marked as a restless wanderer . not receiving rest because he had no way to agree with God not seen.
Faith was needed but Cain could not mix faith in what he heard or saw seeing God could not confirm. Again having no faith there was no way to mix faith and believe God not seen hearts remain hard.
No soul no rest. No faith by which we can believe God who works in us with us to soften our hearts, hearts remain hard
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being
"mixed with faith" in them that heard it.For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works And in this place again,
If they shall enter into my rest.Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.Hebrews 4:1-9
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