Hi lauriellen,
Yes this creation is a marvel, the more you look into any aspect of it the more astounding it becomes. The mind of God is truly beyond the scope of human comprehension.
Isa 55:9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.
That's what makes our God so wonderful to me, He is not limited (well maybe only self-imposed limits), "the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him" (2Ch 2:6; 6:18, 1 Ki 8:27). He is far above all that we can imagine and He is perfect... and He wants to bring us into that perfection to share it with Him!
It is so interesting to me how absolutely God is working out every single little detail in our lives, so that we are caused/guided to have the exact life we need, to make us into what He wants us to be, so there will be all these unique individuals. We have such a glorious future, the whole human race will someday enjoy a perfect communion with God, it doesn't get any better than that!
Dr's could take a perfect body (that is dead for whatever reason), hook it up to all the life support machines available, such as breathing machines, artificial heart and blood circulation machines, whatever is available, and it would still not make that body come to life. Which makes me ponder, the 'life' had to come from somewhere? In other words, a body can not generate it's own life.
Job 34:14 If God took back the breath that he breathed into us,
Job 34:15 we humans would die and return to the soil. (cev)
Psa 146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.
It seems to me that our bodies don't die first and then the breath leaves (as depicted in science), but that God actively takes back the breath that He gave, and THEN our bodies return to the earth?
I don't really know where I am going with this, but this thought seemed to take away some of my doubt. I would appreciate any input or share where Ray may have taught more along this subject.
That's why I do not have any concern that someday man will create 'artificial' life in robots. Man does not have the capacity to give life/awareness/consciousness, not even to those humans that are considered 'brain dead,' that "spirit of life" must come from God.
Gen 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 being.
Gen 7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.
Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
We can see that it is 'spirit' from God that gives life to all breathing things, it is a gift from the Almighty that gives all creatures this experience of physical life in this world. It does come with that first breathe and wakes us up to life, just as it goes with the last breath and then we 'sleep,' with no consciousness at all, until God gives that spirit/soul back to us at resurrection.
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COMMENT: The spirit HAS NO CONSCIOUSNESS, not even in life. When a doctor puts someone under to operate, the person is NOT DEAD, he still has his spirit, but he has NO CONSCIOUSNESS. We need a brain to have soul and consciousness. When someone shoots you through the brain, you LOSE YOUR SOUL.
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Every person (and animal) has a "spirit." There is no life without spirit. At death OUR spirit return to our God Who gave it to us. Spirit does not die. But, spirit has no consciencousness of its own. It must be united with a body. That is why there is coming a Resurrection of the DEAD. Adam's body had the spirit of God breathed into it and then Adam became a LIVING SOUL. God's Holy Spirit is His Spirit of Holiness which imparts spiritual knowledge and spiritual character to those who possess it. The wicked and unbelievers have a spirit that keeps them alive, but they have no spiritual perception of spiritual truths because they do not possess the Holy Spirit of God living in us through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Dear John:
Yes, there is a spirit in man (AND ALL ANIMALS). Nothing can live without "spirit." Spirit IS life (Ecc. 8:8; Ecc. 12:7; Luke 23:46; I Cor. 2:11; etc.). There is no consciousness in our spirit alone. There is only consciousness (soul) when man's spirit is combined with a body. God retains our spirit until resurrection when He puts our spirit into a new body and we once again become conscious or receive back the quality of "soul." We are said to have new "spiritual" bodies, not that we are made "spirits."
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mercy, peace and love
Kat