THE BREATH OF LIFE

 

The breath of life.  Have you ever considered what this breath of life is ?  In order for a soul to be alive it must have the breath.  Your body was created by GOD with lungs that take in air to oxygenate the blood that is pumped through the body to sustain the body’s operation.  Now, this breath of life is a spirit especially designed to induce breathing to provide the necessary oxygen to keep the body functioning.  Dead people don’t breathe, only living people breathe.  This is how the spirit of the breath of life imputes what seems to be life to the body.  The body is composed of matter which has no life or intelligence.  The spirit of the breath of life has life and intelligence.  It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh profits nothing.  John 6:63

The breath of life spirit cannot operate unless it has a body to operate in.  If the breath of life spirit has no body to operate in then it becomes inoperative, can do absolutely nothing.  

This is how GOD designed and created a human being.  Without the breath of the spirit the body is dead, the breath of life spirit stops operating and is dormant or as many scriptures say is asleep.

 James 2:26 “As the body WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD…..”

Solomon informs us that at death the breath of life spirit returns to GOD.

 Ecclesiastes 12:7 last part ……”and the spirit goes back to GOD who gave it.”   

Now you must remember that this breath of life spirit requires a body in order to operate therefore the body and breath of life spirit are mutually dependent upon each other to have mortal life.

Perhaps you have heard of the lie of the immortal soul.  There is nothing about the soul that is immortal.  Perhaps you know that the soul is the complete mortal person, the union of the body with the breath of life spirit.  It is a lie to say that a human being has three parts; body, soul and spirit.  Humans, all humans, have only two parts; the body and the breath of life spirit.  If in 1 Corinthians 15:53 KJV last part “and this MORTAL must put on immortality” then humans are not immortal.  

What we learn from all this information is that death is not life, that humans have no part of themselves that is immortal.  Therefore, when anyone dies, even Jesus Christ, there is no immediate life after death.  

The message of the gospel is that if we in faith believe the truth of the gospel then even if we die GOD will resurrect us when Jesus returns. To believe the lie of the immortal soul or to think that there is immediate life after death is not the gospel, it’s a lie.