Nuggets from Occult Invasion—Life, Soul, and Spirit

If the physical universe is an unsolvable mystery, life itself is even more mysterious. We don’t know what life is—only that it comes from God and is not physical. Life animates physical bodies, yet is not part of the body. Physical life has something to do with a soul: God “breathed into man’s nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul” (Genesis:2:7And 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.
See All...). The Bible doesn’t define soul, but it seems to be present within creatures that breathe.

Whereas lower creatures are said to have a soul, never is spirit associated with animal life. Man is created “in the image of God” (Genesis:1:26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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See All...; see also 1 Corinthians:15:45And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
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