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Isn't spirit essentially the same as "breath"?
If man or animal stops breathing, don't they die?

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5315&t=KJV
Strong's Number H5315 matches the Hebrew נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh), which occurs 753 times in 683 verses in the Hebrew concordance
5315 nephesh neh'-fesh from 5314; properly, a breathing creature,

Genesis 1:
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath H5315 life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature H5315 that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature H5315 after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, H5315 I have given
every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Gen 2:
7 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. H5315

Take a look at the similarity of the events of the "valley of the bones" in Ezek 37 and the 2 witnesses in Revelation 11:11. They don't come alive unless they can breath again.
I just thought this was interesting:

Ezekiel 37:
3 Then said He unto me "Son of adam! can these bones live". And I said " my Lord Yahweh, thou knowest!
10 And I prophecy as He instructed and the spirit/breath is coming in them and they are living and are standing on their feet,
an army/host, great, exceedingly-exceedingly.
[Luke 2:34/Reve 11:11]

Reve 11:11
And after the three days and half-equal, a spirit/breath of life out of the God entered into them and they stand on their feet
and great fear falls upon the ones observing them.


On another note, what I found rather amazing is the similarity of Ezekiel 37:9 concerning the "breath" coming from the 4 winds and the Indian prayer below giving their interpretation to the great Spirit giving the breath of live from 4 directions.
http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-9.htm
Ezekiel 37:
9 Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life."'"

http://www.indians.org/welker/greatspi.htm

"Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind, Whose Breath gives life to all the world. Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom.

O Great Spirit of the North, who gives wings to the waters of the air and rolls the thick snowstorm before Thee,
O Great Spirit of the East, the land of the rising Sun, Who holds in Your right hand the years of our lives
O Great Spirit of the South, whose warm breath of compassion melts the ice that gathers round our hearts,

O Great Spirit of the West, the land of the setting Sun, with Your soaring mountains and free,


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Hmmmmmmm....interesting question.....there's the question of figurin' out what the "after-life" means........are peoples gonna live ferever cuz they're "breathing", amigo?
 
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Hmmmmmmm....interesting question.....there's the question of figurin' out what the "after-life" means........are peoples gonna live ferever cuz they're "breathing", amigo?
Honestly I do not know.
I am still trying to figure this life out, much less the after life...

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Isn't spirit essentially the same as "breath"?
Negatory.

Acts 16:16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
 
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Negatory.

Acts 16:16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:

You don't think "spirit" in that context means the same as "demon"?
 
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I think, Extraneous, that Christianity has been all too often a religion of sickness and that now we need a religion of health. It is definitely of no constructive purpose to preach a religion centering on the view we are born evil, corrupt through and through, that the majority of the human race is bound for hell, that even the elect deserve to go to hell but are just lucky. All those concepts do is build in a huge guilt trip and an overall negative approach to life. It is precisely for that reason that many have left the church. We need something more positive. If we are going to get anywhere, we need to see ourselves as fundamentally worthy in our eyes and the eyes of God. We need to see ourselves as having the potential to do great and beautiful things. We need to see God as continually offering new potentials for new forms of beauty. We need to see ourselves as loved and appreciated by God, not judged sternly and damned.
 
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Are all spirits demons?
Now that is a good question!

As far as demons mentioned in the Bible, I found it rather odd that the KJV never uses that word........

http://www.eliyah.com/lexicon.html

https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=demons&t=KJV#s=s_primary_0_1
There are no concordance results for "demons" in the KJV.

https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=demons&t=YLT#s=s_primary_0_1
"demons"
occurs 48 times in 41 verses in the YLT.

1Ti 4:1
And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,
Rev 16:14
for they are spirits of demons, doing signs -- which go forth unto the kings of the land, and of the whole world,
to bring them together to the battle of that great day of God the Almighty; --


Rev 18:2
and he did cry in might -- a great voice, saying, 'Fall, fall did Babylon the great, and she became a habitation of demons,
and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird,


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Are all spirits demons?
Of course not.

John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
 
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