What Returns to God
A word of Knowledge:
What Returns to God
Genesis 1:26 KJV
God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
John 4:24 KJV
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Just as God is a Spirit, likewise, man is also a spirit, with a soul, living in a body.
Genesis 2:7 KJV
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.
Genesis 3:19 KJV
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 KJV
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
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"Breath" Definition -
Original Word
נשׁמה
Transliterated Word
neshâmâh
Phonetic Spelling
nesh-aw-maw'
Strong's Definition
From H5395; a {puff} that {is} {wind } angry or vital {breath} divine {inspiration} intellect or (concretely) an animal: - {blast} (that) breath ({-eth}) {inspiration} {soul} spirit.
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition
1. breath, spirit
a. breath (of God)
b. breath (of man)
c. every breathing thing
d. spirit (of man)
Usage by Word
breath (12), blast (3), spirit (2), breathed (2), breathe (2), souls (1), inspiration (1), breatheth (1)
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Therefore, the breath of life in which the LORD God breathed into man is the "spirit" of man.
When we passed on from this present earth, it is our "spirit" that shall return to God, not our soul or body which was formed out of dust.
Which is to say that the spirit of man is that which gives the animate life (make alive) to our soul and body, even life itself, that man (or any creatures) became alive.
Hebrews 4:12 KJV
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The next time you read the Word of God (KJV), pay special attention to whether He is referring to your spirit or your soul or your body.
(Note: the "flesh" refers to your soul and body).
3 John 1:2 KJV
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou [your spirit] mayest prosper and be in health [your body], even as thy soul prospereth.
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