Hi Micah7:9,
Dan got me to thinking about what you were asking here. So first of all man is made out of "the dust of the ground," into a physical being, that's the first He says there.
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground...
But we can see with all life is first formed/created, even within the mother womb and when that is complete, then it gets the breath of life. It was next/secondly that God breathed into him the spirit of life that Adam/man became a living souls.
Gen 2:7 ...and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
The spirit/breath from God goes into a person and gives the physical flesh and bones life/awareness/existence. This spirit gives man, as well as animals 'life,' as all things consist by Him.
Col 1:17 And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.
Can you see how God is omnipresence, as His spirit (not talking about the Holy Spirit here) is in all things?
Pro 20:27 The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.
Ray explained this in a way that may help you with this at the '06 Mobile Conference.
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So let’s think about this a little bit, who is the Father? In Him we live and breath and have our being. Liken the ocean to the Spirit of God, and liken us to the fish. The fish are 95% water, the ocean is in the fish, and the fish are in the ocean, get it?
A bird has very porous bones, because they have to be very light. It flies in the heavens, it breaths fast, because it needs strength and oxygen. So the air (which is like the Spirit of God, which is what he calls it in the NT, Greek word for spirit is pheuma), the expanse is even called heaven, where the bird flies, and liken the air to the Spirit of God. The bird has air in him and is flying through the air.
Now this is what the Scriptures say, we are in God and God is in us. So, get it out of your head that God is a man, sitting on a stone throne, like Abraham Lincoln in Washington D.C., an old man with gray hair. God is right here, it (Bible) says so, we have to just listen to the words.
God is Spirit, it also says God is invisible, you can’t see Him, not literally. We can see Him in Spirit, as in our heart, in our mind, our soul, our spirit, in our innermost being.
The thing that makes us different from plants and other animals, is we can 'see' God. I’m trying to help you right now, to see God. So when you leave here, you will see God in a way you didn’t, when you walked in here. If God opens it up to you, I can only tell you, but God must open it up for you to grasp it.
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Hope that is of some help.
mercy, peace and love
Kat