“What will you gain if I die, if I sink into the grave? Can my dust praise you? Can it tell of your faithfulness? Psalm 30:9 Dust cannot do anything.
Ephesians 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Your human spirit is your mind, it is the real you. The dust is only the temporary earthen vessel in which the treasure of your knowledge of GODS truth is stored in your human spirit.
2 Corinthians 4:6-7
. 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you. Romans 1:9
But it is the spirit in a person, the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding. Job 32:8
Here Job says that the human spirit is our understanding, therefore our consciousness and knowledge as long as we have a body to function in.
Paul said the same thing. 1 Corinthians 2:11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them?
Blessed is the one whose sin the LORD does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit. Psalm 32:2
Proverbs 20:27
The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit (not dust) that we are God’s children. Romans 8:16
“Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Job 7:11
Then Mary said:“My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! Luke 1:46-47
Even Jesus had a human spirit.
Luke 23:46 Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, "Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit." ...
All human beings have a human spirit. Dust has no mind, cannot think, cannot sin. It is the human spirit that sins. Dust cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD. Even sin is not of the dust but of the defiled human spirit. The man who was committing adultery with his fathers wife, what did Paul say ? To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 1 Corinthians 5:5
This spirit Paul refers to is the human spirit. The human spirit lives in a temporary dwelling or house or tent. 2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an everlasting house in heaven, not built by human hands.
2 Peter 1:13-14
I
think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent
of my body, / because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as
our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
The outer self is the dust, the human spirit is the inner self, the real person.
2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
1 Corinthians 15:42-44
So
will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is
perishable; it is raised imperishable. / It is sown in dishonor; it is
raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. / It is
sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a
natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
This is what I have been trying to show you. A human being is not just "living dust" as Kel says. A human being is a spirit in a mortal body of dust. This human spirit is the real us. Life is not in dust or the fleshly body, John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.
Kel understands that the soul is the union of dust and breath or body and spirit but where he goes wrong is in crediting the dust with what is the function of the spirit. In this Kel is thinking physically or carnally. Consider the story of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4:16 “Let his mind change from that of a human And let an animal’s mind be given to him, And let seven periods of time pass over him. The mind or heart is the spirit of man. We need to have the mind of Christ in us, that is the way Christ thought which guided everything he said and did.
Nebuchadnezzars body remained the same, it was his spirit that was changed from that of a human to an animal. This shows that it is the spirit of any animal including the animal man that makes them what they are, not their bodies. The mind is the spirit of man or animal. The reverse of this would be when Balaams donkey spoke to him in Numbers 22:28 Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”
In the first resurrection the saints will be spirit beings as their unconscious spirit that went back to GOD at death is put into a spirit body and then the saints are immortal, this is how this mortal must put on immortality,
1 Corinthians 15:50-53
50 Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
Take note, if the dust is still in the ground, and Kel says we are nothing but dust, then the above scripture would be wrong. Kel is the one who is wrong. Paul said in this same chapter that there is a spirit body, Paul also said that if this earthly body is destroyed we have another body in heaven for us, a spirit body. Peter said his earthly tent laid aside.
What further proof do you need ?
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