The only time the breath of life was breathed into man was at creation. I've found no scripture that supports that God breathes the breath of life or as you say, installs the spirit of an individual into a fetus as it emerges from the womb. Show me a scripture that says that is what's happening at birth. The scriptures are showing me that we are souls not that we have souls and that the animals are souls as we are. The scriptures show that the spirit that's in man is the same spirit that's in animals so in death man has no superiority over the animals. Just as animals die so does man. I believe the only chance the man has is if God remembers him and resurrects him in the resurrection. So no I don't believe God breathes a spirit of an individual in the fetus as it emerges from the womb.
Barney Bright challenges >>
"The only time the breath of life was breathed into man was at creation. I've found no scripture that supports that God breathes the breath of life or as you say, installs the spirit of an individual into a fetus as it emerges from the womb."
In the absence of finding any Scripture supporting your non-Biblical ideology, you have taken it upon yourself to write your own Scripture declaring that the only time God breathed the breath of life into man was at creation. Where do you find that falsehood in Scripture?? Show me where I am wrong!!
Job confirms this:
“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too have been formed out of the clay.
The Spirit of God has made me,
the breath of the Almighty gives me life." Job 33
"Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
For as long as life is in me,
And the breath of God is in my nostrils" Job 27
The body is really unimportant. "Flesh and blood do not inherit the Kingdom of God". The body is just a housing unit to temporarily carry our spirit while we are here on earth. "For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven" 2 Corinthians 5:1-2
God forms man from a pile of dust. It has no life on its own, it is created merely as a body to contain and convey the spirit of man. Then when the fetus is fully formed, God gives man his spirit, when He breathes into man's the nostrils the breath of life, and he becomes a living being. And then when death comes:
"Man's body returns to the dust from whence it came, And the spirit returns to God who gave it." Ecclesiastes 12:7
Ezekiel's prophecy regarding the resurrection of the Valley of Dry Bones:
"3 He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, You know.” 4 Again He said to me, “Prophesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.’ 5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause breath [spirit] to enter you that you may come to life. 6 I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the Lord.’”
"7 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8 And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9 Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life.”’” 10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army." Ezekiel 37:1-14
God declares that if He withdrew His Spirit and His Breath: "If He should determine to do so, If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath, All flesh would perish together, And man would return to dust." Job 34:14-15
"For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead." James 2:26 (ESV)
God declares that a body without breath is dead, and nostrils are not functional in the womb.