They were not to eat from the tree, was that not a law?
do we have the law of not eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? No, I didn't think so...according to scripture, the law was given when Adam and Eve ate of the tree, before that there was no law, just an instruction to not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You can play semantics all day long and it won't change the truth of scripture.
Did you have a soul before you came to God for salvation?
first, we are talking about Adam and Eve, not about me, so this question is off topic...secondly, scripture indicates that we all have a soul, it is either dead in sin or alive in righteousness...seems to me you should brush up on your biblical understanding here before trying to argue it.
Were you a spiritual person, before you came to God, for salvation?
sure, I was spiritually dead in my tresspasses and sin, just like all of us were. Eph 2:1-2 in fact, we were listening and obeying the "spirit" of this world, aka satan and his cohorts. When I came to Christ, I died to my sin and became alive in Christ. No change from spirit to non spirit or non spirit to spirit, but rather a change of the spirit I was created to have....you know the image of the living God.
Before you came to God did you have the breath of life in you? Did you have a soul? Where you spiritual? Or, were you a natural man?
1 Corinthians 2:14
I find myself with an all but uncontrollable urge to call you honey child at this point. I Cor. 2:14
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Notice it says nothing at all about receiving the soul that we are already created with, but rather receiving the Spirit aka HS and the change in our nature when that Spirit is yielded to. If you want to argue this with me, you will have to find some passage that says that God gives us a new soul upon belief unto salvation not the coming HS. In fact, it appears that you still haven't figured out that there is a spirit and a soul. Seriously, you would do well and be wise to study the matter before going off about things you do not understand. In fact, I did the study only a few months ago and before doing that study, would not have had the authority to speak on the matter. Today though, I have put in the time and effort and found that the truth fits perfectly with the totality of scripture, just like we would expect from a living word, from a living God.
Can you receive the anointing of the Spirit, after you turn to God for salvation, and be filled with his Spirit?
Okay, I'm gonna get a bit tough here since you keep confusing spirit and soul. I will until you figure out the difference respond only to questions about the soul since the soul is what we are currently talking about. As such, when I received the HS, I put on the new man, that is, my soul changed from sinful desires to Godly desires.
Again, you are not hearing, or simply not reading. This is what I said...
now, you are changing your story to fit your opinion. So, above you say Adam and Eve were created with a soul, which is spiritual, now you say, no soul just spirit....which are you going with?
I say this in the nicest way, you are not able to hear. And two, I never said that.
you said in one place that Adam and Eve were created with a soul, then in another that they only had the spirit of God breath life into them. This is a contradiction and one of the many problems with your theory. There is a difference between soul and spirit as you have repeatedly been shown, yet you refuse to address the differences.
What is equally disturbing is that I asked you to cut to the chase by telling us who you think Jesus is and you refuse to answer that simple question so that you can try using semantics and rhetoric to confuse people so that they go along with you. At least that is what these posts seem to be all about.
So...in an effort to bring this back to some simple discussion rather than jumping through hoops, answer the following questions.
1. Do you understanding the difference between soul and spirit?
2. Were Adam and Eve created in the image of God?
3. who do YOU say Jesus is?
4. Oh and one more question...do you believe the bible to be truth?
If spirit, the breath of life, makes man a living soul, and when man dies, the spirit, breath of life, returns to God, then for man's soul to live on, all souls would also have to return to God, whether good, or evil. How can there be living souls, in some other holding place, if there is no breath of life in them? When it's the breath of life that makes them a living soul?
huh? more rhetoric to try to muddy the waters? The soul is the result of the breath of life. The indwelling HS is not the breath of life that is recorded in Gen. Come on, you have to know this by now, your posts show thought and study but when challenged, they cave as if there is no understanding, why?