Bible Study Genesis First. 7 Vital Reasons to Get God's Overall Perspective

15th Reason. Grasp God's Unique Perspective for the World & Humankind
16. Creation Week Reveals the Beginning & Ending of God’s Plan
17. TWO Distinct Types of Created Living Beings.
18. Discover God’s Makeup. His Combined Male and Female Nature

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When You Grasp the 14 Keys in Genesis 2:7, You’ll Know What it is to Be Human

Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;...

This scripture is a goldmine of is a goldmine of WHAT, HOW, and WHY of human beings.

1. WHAT Neshama and Ruach are; they confer on us God’s image.
2. HOW to nurture and heal our minds.
3. WHY God gave us consciousness and for spiritual life and eternal life.

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How Can a Singular Living Soul have Plural Breath of Lives in Genesis 2:7?

Breath of lives (“im” makes it plural). Living soul (singular),

Unless you know WHAT those multiple lives are (like the Tree of liveS, also plural) you cannot fully understand Genesis 2:7
When and HOW are these liveS obtainable?
They involve physical and spiritual resurrections.

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Genesis 2:7 Revealed: The Unique Gift of Neshama Reserved for Humans.

Neshama is explicitly related to the breath of life for human beings.

Joshua 11:14 And all the … cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man (H120 adam) they smote … until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe (with neshama H5397).

All humans with neshama were destroyed; NOT animals which do not have neshama.

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Start your Bible study journey with the book of Genesis!

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Study the Book of Genesis First. Reason 8. It's the first ‘5 Minutes’ of the Story of Humanity.
Belief in the Miracle of Creation. Reason 9.
The Ultimate Question about God Answered. Reason 10.
Miracles Established Our World and Science. Reason 11.

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What is a Soul?

Genesis 2:7 … God formed man from the dust … and breathed the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Zechariah 12:1 … The LORD … forms the spirit of man within him.

A human soul has 3 distinct parts.
1. Dust: The material body including the brain
2. Breath: neshama, the immaterial immeasurable spirit that God blew into the 1st human
3. Spirit: ruach, a second essence God gave the 1st human

A human, composed of these 3 elements, is a SOUL.

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Humans Possess 2 SPIRITUAL elements, UNknown to Science, Philosophy, or Religion

Genesis 2:7 includes physical dust and breath (neshama both physical and spiritual)

There’s a third component in humans: spirit

Zechariah 12:1 … The LORD … forms the spirit (ruach, the 2nd spiritual element) the spirit of man within him.

Job 32:8 There is a spirit (ruach) in man: and the inspiration (neshama) of the Almighty...

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Does man, "adam" in Hebrew, only refer to the masculine gender? NO

Genesis 2:7 The Lord God formed man (adam) from the dust of the earth…

We know God made Adam first, so we associate "adam" with the male gender.

Let’s dispel that idea with a biblical context.

Numbers 31:35 And thirty and two thousand persons (adam) in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.

“adam” is used to refer to the feminine gender.
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Is There Life After Death? Discover an Astounding Hidden Clue in Genesis 2:7

Go to UnlockBibleMeaning.com, find Gen. 2:7, and switch to Interlinear Bible.

Genesis 2:7 includes Breath of LIVES (plural) and LIVING soul (singular).

It is NOT “God breathed the breath of LIFE.” Biblical Hebrew clearly states, “Breath of LIVES.”

BTW, the Tree of LIFE is really the Tree of LIVES (plural).

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