Indeed there is; Adam and Eve were created in the image of God. Is not God a spiritual being?
This is merely a supposition on your part and an erroneous one at that. As we said there are no scriptures to support such a claim except by one wrestling with the scriptures.
Adam was not created a spiritual image of his creator; he was created an earthly image of his creator.
We are not however to understand this "
image" to be one of nature, i.e. physical shape or bodily form; but, rather,
a moral and intellectual image of the Great Spirit, fashioned appropriately to his earthly conditions and nature. This implies mental faculties of reason, judgment and will, moral qualities of love and justice, and the propensity to worship his Creator.
Man was created as an EARTHLY representative of his SPIRITUAL Creator. Thus was God manifested in the FLESH of Adam.
Neither Adam nor Eve upon eating the forbidden fruit died spiritually for they never possessed any spiritual essence to begin with, they died physically.
“
The soul that sins IT will die”. (
Ezek 18:4)
It may well be that your problem stems from an improper understanding of what a soul is.
Adam and Eve were living souls created from the dust of the earth.
“
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath (“
neshamah”)
of life; and man became a living being (soul).”
Gen 2:7
“The word ‘
soul;’ as found in the Scriptures, signifies a
sentient being; that is a being possessed of
sense-perception. Note closely the sequence of events entailed in the creation of man as stated in the above text.
First the organism or
body was formed from the dust of the earth, and then the
spirit of life, called ‘
breath of life,’ was instilled in the body or organism, which in turn resulted in the creation of a
living soul, or sentient being.
Thus seen a soul is the combination of body and breath; it is a living, thinking creature.
Man does not have a soul. Man IS a soul.
This is very simple, and easily understood. It shows that the body is not the soul, nor is the spirit or breath of life the soul; but that when these two were united by the Lord, the resultant quality or condition was a living man, a living being--a living soul possessed of perceptive powers. There is nothing mysterious about this nor is there any intimation that a spark of divinity (spirituality) was infused into humanity, any more than into the lower animals.”
Now some are of the impression that man is made up of three parts:
The
body -- made of clay, the
animal soul that dies upon our body's death, and the
godly spirit that returns to God upon our death.
The Scriptures however recognize man as composed of only
two elements (not three), body and spirit. These two produce soul, sentient being, intelligence, the man himself, the being, or soul. The term "
body" applies merely to the physical organism. It neither relates to the life, which animates it, nor to the sentient being which is the result of animation. A body is not a man, although there could be no man without a body. The
spirit of life is
not the man, although there could be no manhood without the spirit of life.
The word "
spirit"
is, in the Old Testament Scriptures, from the Hebrew word “
ruach”. Its signification primarily is
breath; and hence we have the expression "
breath of life," or "
spirit of life," because breathing supports the spark of life once started. The words "
spirit of life," however, signifies more than merely breath; they relate to the spark of life itself, without which breath would be impossibility.
This is what the scriptures state in regards to the soul,
“
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.”
Gen 2:7
This shows that
there are two elements necessary to the composition of a living soul or sentient being, first
the organism or body, which the Word of the Lord states came from the earth and was composed of the dust of the earth, and secondly
the spirit of life, called "
breath of life," which was communicated to the lifeless organism from God. Once these two elements were joined, and only then did the soul (or individual) come into being.
When we die the “
breath of life” returns to the Father, and the body returns to the dust from whence it came, the “
soul” ceases to be. It is only because God has intended a Resurrection of both the just and the unjust, that man is considered only to be “
sleeping” asleep in death, therefore God has not destroy completely the remembrance of the individual, the soul.
The process of dissolution,
death, is in harmony with these facts. “
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit (“
ruach” Strong’s # 7307, breath of life)
shall return unto God who gave it.” (
Eccl 12:7)
The “
spirit or breath of life” is not some kind of spirituality that was imparted; it is simply the power of God which animates the organism, together making up the soul.
This same spirit is imparted to all living things, are we then to assume that the lower creation is likewise possessed of spirituality?