There's no need to take random verses and make a mishmash out of them. What do these verses mean? Physical life requires oxygen and nutrients to the blood, and as long as the blood flows through the body there is physical life. As long as oxygen reaches the blood there is physical life. But the soul and spirit live on after physical death. They are IMPERISHABLE.
Spirit is incorruptible
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
While soul is occasionally reference as the spirit of man, there is no immortality or transmigration of the soul. ……….soul and spirit (biblically) are two very different things. How people use them in secular and religious dialogue may or may not reflect Gods intent.
The Hebrew word for
soul is the word
nephesh.
It is used 738x in the OT and has been translated soul 475x, and various other words 263x, including: life, person, mind, heart, creature, body, himself, ..etc. The Hebrew word
chay, which means “
alive, living soul, or moving life”…. will always be employed in the Word of God with
nephesh ….as living life, in contrast to a dead or perished soul.
The first time
nephesh is translated “
soul” is in Gen 2:7…..but, it is not the first time it is used. In Genesis chapter one, it is used four times in verses 20, 21,24 &30 …But for the purposes of this post, I want to key off of
Gen 1:21….
Gen 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living [
chay]
creature [
nephesh]
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.
The first thing to note is that when God created
soul life, he created it in great whales and every living creature that moveth. That tells us that soul life is not only in animals, but that it was created in animals first.
Create =
bara in Hebrew - The word
create is to bring something into existence that did not exist before, or to make something out of nothing. Once God creates something He does not need to create it again …He just speaks it into existence. After Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 1:21, God did not create anything again until the 5th day when He created
soul life in “great whales and every
living creature.
((WHERE is the soul?))
The soul is our breath life, It’s what gives life to a persons body, it’s vitality. …. But the question becomes ….Where is the soul?
In Leviticus God tells us…..
Lev 17:11 For the life [
nephesh]
of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls [
nephesh]:
for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul [
nephesh]
The word
life in this verse is the same word for
soul (
nephesh) Soul life is in the blood.
Going back to basic Biology: Oxygen is delivered throughout the body by means of the red blood cells ….actually it is the hemoglobin molecules from the red cells that deliver the oxygen to the individual cells in the body tissue. The bloodstream also picks up CO2 from the body and returns it to the lunges to be exhaled…
What happens when we die?
The heart, which pumps the blood, which delivers the oxygen to the brain …… stops….. soul life ceases in that particular person…. but is carried on through prodigy. But if there is no offspring, the soul is gone when that person dies; there is nothing immortal about the soul.
In
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (
chay nephesh)
The words “
breathed into his nostrils” is the figure of speech
anthropopatheia or condescension. This figure of speech is used of the ascription of human passions, actions, or attributes to God.
(
Of the 219 known figures of speech, God uses more than 214 are found in the Bible.)
The same soul life that God created in Genesis 1:21 is the same soul life that God breathed into Adam, which made Adam a living soul….It is also the same soul life that continues in mankind today.
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