THE BREATH OF LIFE

 

Job 12:10 “in HIS hand is the life of every living thing and THE BREATH of all mankind.”

Acts 17:25 “Nor is HE worshipped with men’s hands as though HE needed anything since HE HIMSELF gives to all people LIFE AND BREATH and all things.”

Job 33:4 “The spirit of GOD has made me and the BREATH of the ALMIGHTY give me LIFE.”

Genesis 2:7 “And the LORD GOD formed man of the dust of the ground and BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE and man became a living soul.”

Psalm 104:29-30 “When YOU hide YOUR face they  are terrified, when YOU take away their BREATH they DIE and return to dust.”

The breath of life is our human spirit that GOD designed to work in concert with the human body. Neither human body or human spirit can function by themselves.  The Breath is what oxygenates the blood by the lungs breathing air and the blood is circulated through the body by the heart. This is what the breath of life does. Even the lower animals are designed the same way but their spirits are designed to match with their bodies and their instinctive behaviors.  Only humans were created to potentially have a relationship with GOD, not the lower animals.  Without breath the body dies, the breath of life is what keeps the body alive and therefore the body without the breath of life, the human spirit, is dead. 

 James 2:26 “As the body (dust) without the spirit (breath of life) is dead…”

Job 34:14 “If GOD were to set in HIS heart to it and withdraw HIS spirit and breath all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to dust.”

Jesus said;

John 6:63 “It is the spirit (breath) that gives life, the flesh profits nothing.”

Without the breath of life the lungs can’t function, the heart stops and the flow of blood stops because the breath is no longer present.  These facts are what makes humans MORTAL.  Neither the body or the spirit of a person is immortal.  The two parts that make a soul, a living breathing creature, must be joined together to have mortal life.  Mortal life is the only kind of life a soul was designed to have.

Jesus Christ was created by GOD exactly the same way all humans are.  Jesus was a soul dependent on breath to be alive.

Mark 15:37 “And Jesus cried out with a loud voice and breathed his last.”

Luke 23:46 “Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, FATHER into YOUR hands I commit my (human) spirit. And when he had said this he breathed his last.” 

No human being, even Jesus Christ, was instantly alive after death.  This is because the two parts our souls are interdependent on each other TO BE ALIVE and when separated by death neither can function.  Jesus was mortal and we are mortal and for Jesus and us the only way to live again is if the FATHER raises us from the dead.  

There are many people, that in spiritual ignorance, will not believe the truth of GOD. This plainly demonstrates they are not converted.  It is the breath that gives life and without breath there is no life. 

How could a disembodied spirit breath without lungs, a heart and blood ?  The disembodied spirit returns to GOD at death in a spiritual condition scriptures describe as sleep.  The human spirit is not dead but is inoperative because it has no body.  In the resurrection the saints receive a spirit body and live again and because this new body is composed of spirit it is immortal, this mortal must put on immortality at the resurrection at the last day when Jesus returns.