IMMORTAL, JUST AS ALL "LIVING BEINGS" [nehphesh] FISH,
BIRDS, ANIMALS, ARE MORTAL, NOT IMMORTAL. HOW CAN
THIS BE ONE OF THE PROOF TEXTS USED TO PROVE ADAM
WAS MADE WITH AN IMMORTAL SOUL? IF IT PROVES ADAM
HAD AN IMMORTAL SOUL, THEN IT PROVES THAT FISH HAVE
AN IMMORTAL SOUL THAT CANNOT DIE.
IT IS IMPORTANCE TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS BEING
SAID THAT ANIMALS AND MANKIND ARE A SOUL [ARE
LIVING BEINGS] NOT THAT ANIMALS OR MANKIND HAVE A
SOUL [HAVE A PART, AN IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE, NO
SUBSTITUTE SOMETHING IN THEM THAT CANNOT DIE].
MANY THINK GENESIS IS SAYING ONLY MANKIND HAS SOULS
BUT ANIMALS DO NOT. BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN
TAUGHT MOST, WITHOUT REALIZING IT THEY READ INTO
THIS THAT ONLY MANKIND HAS A SOUL THAT IS AN
IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE, NO SUBSTITUTES SOMETHING THAT
CANNOT DIE. This causes them to believe that only this immortal part of
them self will be saved (more on this at the end of this chapter).
THE BREATH OF LIFE: Some have switched from the soul being the
immortal part of a person to the spirit being the immortal part of a person
that animals do not have. “Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the
ground, and breathe into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living being” The phrase “breath of life” that was breathed into man is the
same Hebrew “breath of life” in Genesis 7:21-22 that is in the nostrils of
birds, cattle, men and beasts. It is not a soul that men have but animals do
not have; it does not say that God breathed into Adam an immortal soul; the
breathless body that God made from the earth is what became a living
breathing being [nshahmah]. God did not tell Adam he had a body that was
made from the earth but the real Adam was made of something not from the
earth.
• “Breathed into his nostrils the breath of life [nshahmah]” man
[Genesis 2:7]
• All in whose nostrils was the breath of life [nshahmah]” both man
and animals have the same “breath of life [nshahmah]” [Genesis
7:22]
• “Saved alive nothing that breaths [nshahmah]” both men and
animals [Deuteronomy 20:16]
• “Utterly destroyed all that breaths [nshahmah]” both men and
animals [Joshua 10:40]
