Why does the human spirit, the breath of life, leave the body ? The human body is composed of matter, the dust of the ground. Dust has no life in it. The human spirit animates the body or gives the appearance of life as long as the spirit is in the body. James said,
“As the body without the spirit is dead” James 2:26
The human spirit was designed by GOD to need a body because without a body the spirit cannot function in any way. The human spirit operates through the brain, which is the interface between our spirit and our body. Our senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell are transmitted from the body through the brain to our spirit and visa versa . If any of these 5 senses is destroyed then our spirit no longer has that sense. If your eyes are put out you no longer see because that sense no longer transmits the information through the brain to your spirit. The same is true for all of the other senses. A dead person has no senses at all, have you ever seen a dead person do anything ? Your human spirit is what keeps the body functioning but if your body becomes too severely damaged the spirit can no longer keep the body functioning and leaves the body to go back to GOD.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 “and the spirit returns to GOD who gave it.”
This disembodied spirit cannot function without the body just as the body cannot function without the spirit. In the first resurrection this disembodied spirit is joined to a spirit body and you are alive again forever. The Genesis account in chapter 1 verse 27 says GOD created man in HIS own image,
“So GOD created man in HIS own image.”
So, what is GODS image, likeness or form. The Hebrew word for image is Strongs article H6754 “Tselem” it means a phantom, illusion, representative figure, vain show. Therefore a human is a poor or incomplete copy of GODS image. GODS image is spirit.
John 4:24 “GOD is spirit”
GOD is not flesh and blood but we humans have a spirit and this is how we are in GODS image. GOD is not dust with a spirit, HE is totally spirit and that is what the potential for humanity is, to become spirit as GOD is spirit. GOD requires no breath of life as we do and neither do the angels. This body of flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD.
1 Corinthians 15:50 “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD”
Therefore if our body of flesh cannot inherit the kingdom then what part of us does ? The human spirit inherits the kingdom of GOD. It’s the spirits of just men made perfect not their fleshly body.
Hebrews 12:23 “To the general assembly and church of the first born which are written in heaven and to GOD the judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect.”
Many people do not understand any of this. There are various beliefs as to what happens after we die. The truth about death is that there is no life of any kind after death except a resurrection from the dead at the return of Christ. Scripture says we must be changed,
1 Corinthians 15:51 “Listen, I will tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep (die) but we will all be changed….”
Changed in what way ? We are changed from flesh to spirit. If this fleshly body we have is destroyed we have another body composed of spirit that at the resurrection of the dead when Jesus returns is joined with our human spirit that went back to GOD when we died. Our spirit is unconscious until placed into the spirit body. There is a natural body of flesh and there is a spirit body.
1 Corinthians 15:44 “it is sown a natural body, it is resurrected a spiritual body.”
This is when we will truly be in GODS image. There are people that say Jesus today in heaven is glorified flesh, but how does scripture describe Jesus?
1 Corinthians 15:45 “the last Adam became a life giving spirit.”
Scripture also says this,
1 John 3:2 “we know when Christ appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”
2 Corinthians 3:18 “And we all with unveiled faces contemplate the Lords glory are being transformed into his image with ever increasing glory…”
Romans 8:29 “Those who GOD for new HE also predestined to be conformed to the image of HIS son …”.
So then, if Jesus is a life giving spirit now and we are going to be changed to be like him in the resurrection at his return then we are going to become spirit beings. Until that day comes if we are dead we are totally unconscious and unaware but once our human spirit is placed into that spirit body we will live again forever.
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