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This is the breath of life (neshamah) going back to Adam and Eve when God breathed life into them.
This goes beyond the life (chay) God gives
to the plants and the animals.
Genesis 7:15 (KJV)
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
The word “soul” is translated from Hebrew, the word nephesh. The Hebrew nephesh merely means a breathing animal.
Animals are called nephesh in: Genesis 1:20, “moving creature” (Hebrew, nephesh); Genesis 1:21, “great whales, and every living creature” (Hebrew, nephesh); Genesis 1:24, “living creature” (Hebrew, nephesh).
The translators in translating into the English language used the English word “creature, but in Genesis 2:7 they translated the same nephesh into the English word “soul”—man became a “living soul” (nephesh).
The word nephesh literally means “life of animals,”
referring to physical life and not spirit, the soul is physical, composed of matter, and can die.
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Now if you want to talk about "the spirit in a man"
1 The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
- science calls it your conscience, they can't see,
or feel, or understand it not being physical.
8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
- it's what imparts thought, it separates mans
brain from mere animals.
Ecclesiastes 11:5: “As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything” (RSV).
God says we don’t know how, but we know when a child receives the human spirit: when it’s in the womb.
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