The “spirit” is the breath that keep creatures alive. It’s not a separate entity either. That “one whole man” is subject to death....nothing survives the death of that soul. That is what the Bible teaches. Resurrection is a restoration of life, not a continuation of it. Only the elect “who remain till the coming of the Lord” will experience an instant resurrection. This is the new birth or being “born again”....becoming an entirely new creature....which is necessary for life in heaven.
The “creature”...a man-KIND of thing, was “created” with its “own” LIFE.
It’s OWN LIFE..must Become “ACTIVATED”...with a “POWER SOURCE”.
That “POWER SOURCE” IS “Gods Breath”.
Yes God “IS” Spirit.
The Understanding IS: God IS, “SUPREME POWER”. All “POWER” Given TO a “KIND” of created thing...IS GIVEN “as MUCH or as LITTLE” POWER as God Himself “GIVES” that thing.
WE KNOW, from Scriptural Knowledge, God has “given” Great Power to Gods Celestial creations, being Greater Power than God “gave” to Gods Terrestrial creations.
WE KNOW, also, Some of Gods Celestial creations Have been given Greater Power than other Celestial creations.
WE KNOW, also, Some of Gods Terrestrial Animal-KIND of creations Have been given Greater Power than other Terrestrial Animal-KIND of creations.
WE KNOW, also, Some of Gods Terrestrial Man-KIND of creations Have been given Greater Power than other Terrestrial Man-KIND of creations.
Point Being...Every Man-Kind of Terrestrial creation...(formed Body) DOES NOT receive “POWER from Gods Breath”...and Never Becomes ACTIVATED into a LIVING BODY.
Point Being...Every Man-Kind of Terrestrial creation...(formed Body) THAT DOES receive “POWER from Gods Breath”...and BECOMES an ACTIVATED “LIVING BODY”...IS a BODY by which that BODY’S LIFE Becomes ALIVE...
...A BODY’S LIFE....”IS” it’s BLOOD. A BODY’S Blood, KEEPS that Body ALIVE.
...Gods Breath IN the SOUL, IN the BODY, KEEPS the BODY’S BLOOD alive.
Any man CAN CAUSE, his own blood (life), (or an others), to STOP flowing, STOP maintaining the LIFE of his Body. Stop the flow of the BLOOD (LIFE)...
The BODY shall CEASE Living. The Blood will stop moving, passing through the Heart, the Heart will stop pumping and pushing the Blood through the Body, and the Body shall DIE, and begin rotting, decaying, stinking, Returning to from whence it came....DUST of the Earth.
AND what about the “soul”? Life IN the SOUL From Gods Breath?
Gods “LIFE” Never ceases Living.
The “soul” given a man...BELONGS TO GOD.
Ezek 18:
[
4] Behold,
all souls are mine...
Life IN the Soul, belongs TO GOD.
Life IN the Soul, GIVES a BODY “power/life FROM God” ... FOR that BODY to become “MADE” alive.
The Soul, belongs TO GOD.
Souls, “WITH Gods Breath (LIFE)”...DEPART, LEAVE, a BODY that IS DYING.
WE Know, WHERE the BODY, VOID of it Blood LIFE Goes...it returns to the Dust.
SO WHERE, does the SOUL (with Gods Breath of Life) GO?
IT GOES TO WHERE GOD....SENDS IT!
WHICH IS WHERE?
* Heaven, WITH God....OR.....Hell, Separated from God, ie. WITHOUT God.
AND?
WHAT determines, WHERE God WILL “SEND” a soul with Gods Breath of Life IN IT?
* The individual mans (Bodily life...ie Hearts Belief) “AT the TIME” of the mans BODILY DEATH.
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IF “at the moment in Time” of the mans Bodily Death...the mans “HEARTFUL BELIEF”....Believed IN GOD...”that Living Soul” Goes to BE “WITH” God “in Heaven”.
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IF “at the moment in Time” of the mans Bodily Death...the mans “Heartful Belief”....did NOT BELIEVE IN GOD....”that Living Soul” Goes to Hell, to BE Separated and “WITHOUT” God.
THAT ^ was a 4,000 year old MYSTERY to man-KIND....of KNOWING WHAT SHALL OCCUR....BUT NOT knowing the exact Moment of the Time of their Bodily Death....or “WHEN it WILL” specifically “occur”.
* Men Have BEEN “WARNED” for Centuries...OT and NT...”IF” a man ENDURES, to “his end”, by Believing, and Keep Believing....the man WILL BE saved.....BUT “IF” he stops Believing, and Bodily Dies while he has STOPPED believing....his living soul SHALL NOT BE SAVED...and his Departed Living should SHALL BE separated from God, and NOT WITH God.
* Ya OKAY...SO WHAT?
THE WARNING INCLUDES KNOWLEDGE...the world is FULL of (powerful, cunning, clever) EVIL spirits, Wicked (powerful positioned men)...with smooth clever speech to INFLUENCE men (and sometimes Threaten and Force) TO REJECT God; TO “instead”, ACCEPT THEM, as their “god”, their “keeper”, their “savior”, their “protector”, etc.
* So, point being....Bodily man-KIND absolutely has the OPTION to take the risk, of HOPING they are STRONG enough TO NOT BE “influenced”, “threatened”, “forced....by Evil spirits (that ARE more powerful than mankind) or Wicked men (who sit in Ruling Kingships with Power OVER men)...
OR...
* FOR the last 2,000 YEARS, men were Offered, a New Testimony, of a New Offering, of a New Covenant (PROMISE)....TO Learn About, TO Consider TO “accept”...OR “reject”...(according TO the Individuals OWN word, and the Individuals OWN freely made CONFESSION.)
* This New Testimony, Offering, Covenant was revealed to mankind...
BY, THROUGH, OF....the Word of God, God Himself Sent to Earth, in the “likeness” as a man; For mankind to HEAR and SEE and LEARN and “individually FREELY choose to ACCEPT...or REJECT”.
* This New Offering, EXPRESSLY, gives the individual man, GREATER “LIFE” from God AND “Greater power” from God.
* This New Offering, EXPRESSLY, gives the individual man,
IF the man ACCEPTS the Offering a SURETY, a GUARANTEE, his soul life, and new spirit life
WILL FOREVER BE .... “WITH” the Lord God Almighty.
* THAT ^ surety, guarantee, greater power (if accepted)...VOIDS a man hoping to be “WITH” God, VOIDS a man hoping he is not “influenced” by evil spirits and wicked men to stray AWAY from God, VOIDS a man depending on his own “limited” power.
* THAT surety, guarantee, greater power....IS given a man, IS kept/maintained/preserved ... Expressly BY the POWER of God “IN” the man and NO POWER, IS greater than Gods Power.
1 John 4:
[
4] Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because
greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
No man, No evil spirit CAN supersede the POWER OF GOD...
IN a man.
* Men are NOT forced to Accept Gods Offering.
* Men WHO, do NOT Accept Gods Offering....MAY believe, and MAY KEEP in BELIEF to the moment of their Bodily Death...and their living soul saved WITH God.
* Men WHO, DO ACCEPT Gods Offering...DO believe, and ARE “made to BE WITH God”, Before their “bodily’ Death. Their “soul” IS SAVED. Their “spirit” IS “made” alive (greater power of Gods Life in the man)...and their soul and spirit SHALL NEVER BE separated or “WITHOUT” God.
* THEY (soul & spirit) WAIT, “WITH” God, FOR the manifestation of their BODY to be “raised and changed”, from corrupt rotting flesh, TO a glorified ever Living Body.