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    Understanding God’s election

    Learn what things? No one here posts more nonsense than you do.
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    Understanding God’s election

    And I answered and explained that to you. And don't forget that Solomon is writing post-fall! So...yes...man and nostril-breathing animals all have souls that animate the body and give life to it. Even man's dead souls, which which we all come into this world, gives life to our bodies -- but...
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    Which was never God's intention originally, nor will any animals be eaten on the New Earth. In fact, permission to eat animals wasn't given to mankind until after the Flood. Regarding your last sentence, that is incorrect. Chapter One of Genesis is the flyover, birds-eye large view of the...
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    Understanding God’s election

    So was the Last Adam created with flesh and blood, so what is your point? Also, what makes you think that A& E would have gone to heaven if they had passed God's test? God clearly intended to dwell with the human race on this EARTH forever -- which is precisely what will happen when Jesus...
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    Understanding God’s election

    And that is not said of any other person in scripture since all creation ceased on the 6th day. The creation of Adam was a one-time, unique event. By Adam becoming a living soul, this meant his soul was spiritually alive unto God, which very much differs from our situation since we came into...
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    Understanding God’s election

    Yes...and that's the only scripture that describes how God imparted Spiritual Life to Adam's soul. Show me a text whereby God breathes the breath of life into the nostrils of animals. You're comparing apples to oranges.
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    Understanding God’s election

    Yes, all animals have the breath of life; but show me in scripture where God breathed that life into them and those animals became living souls! And what Solomon is talking about in the above passage is physical death. Both the sons of men and the animals all face the same destiny: Physical...
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    Understanding God’s election

    And what does that have to do with Adam's spiritual state before he sinned? Was Adam spiritually alive or dead prior to his fall? If Adam were the latter, then he had not much advantage over any of us who also come into this world as spiritual stillborns. Or...do you think Adam came into this...
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    Understanding God’s election

    This passage speaks to what kind of life that was put into the ark. The phrase "breath of life" is referring to nostril breathing creatures (Gen 7:22) -- humans and animals alike. The passage says nothing about any creature becoming a "living soul". Nor does scripture teach that God breathed...
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    Understanding God’s election

    Good question. I haven't really given that much thought but...it's very likely that Adam was created as a "living being" in the fullest sense of this phrase. God certainly intended for Adam to live and to enjoy and to serve his Creator forever, which accounts for why Adam was "very good"...
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    Understanding God’s election

    Really? Have chapter and verse for your theory?
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    Understanding God’s election

    Then why not reference the actual place where Cain and Abel lived instead of Eden, if in fact they didn't live in Eden? It reads more naturally if Eden was the actual place and this would account for the specific reference to Eden in Gen 4:16.
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    Understanding God’s election

    See my reply to Cameron. What's illogical is that your theory (and Cam's) would mean that God created Adam in a state of spiritual death. There are numerous scriptures that teach that God is the source of LIFE, most especially the most important form of life...spiritual! Either Adam came...
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    Understanding God’s election

    Then he couldn't have died spiritually, could he? If Christians are made alive by the Spirit, then how could Adam have died subsequent to fall? What you're really saying is that Adam was created in a state of spiritual death! It's only God's Spirit who gives LIFE! God himself BREATHED into...
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    Understanding God’s election

    Eden is mentioned in several places in the OT alone to wit: 2Kin 19:12; Isa 37:12; 51:3; Ezek 27:23; 28:13; 31:9, 16, 18, etc. Eden was actually a large piece of land while the Garden was located somewhere within that land. In fact, some river that flowed from Eden actually watered the garden...
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    Understanding God’s election

    Time to break out the bubbly and celebrate... :D
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    Understanding God’s election

    Absolutely...for two reasons: Gen 2:7 wherein the 'breath of life" is the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit is called the "breath" in various places in scripture. Secondly, logically speaking Adam had to have been spiritually alive prior to his sin, otherwise how could he have died spiritually...
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    Understanding God’s election

    Yes, thank God all his equally dead progeny did all that. I never knew the dead had all this great ability.
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    Understanding God’s election

    What changed was that spiritual life he had by God's Spirit at creation was replaced with death and emptiness.
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    Understanding God’s election

    Oh...that's easy. Many here will quickly tell you that faith comes from man's "free will". :rolleyes: