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Allow the Bible to train your mind.
We do not remain alive [zao] forever. We die because we do not possess life [zoe] within ourselves - but God never intended for human beings to die when he created mankind. It is sin that causes death, and just as sin entered the world through one man - and death through sin - death spread to all people, because all sinned (Romans 5:12).
Not only did all the offspring (all descendants) of the first humans sin IN Adam, but all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).
(Anyone who has ever had sinful thoughts and desires, told lies, or broken one of the other ten commandments, or committed any other sin, is a sinner. Jesus said, "For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander." -- Matthew 15:19).
The Logos ("Word") of God, in whom is life [zoe] (John 1:4) - through whom all things were created (John 1:1-3) - came down from God into the world, took on a human body (John 1:14), and bore our sins - which cause death - in His own body, and died (His body died), and rose again from the dead. He possessed life in Himself, and death could not hold Him.
Created human beings (and we, the descendants of the first human beings) do not possess life [zoe] in ourselves, but God has given eternal life [zoe] in Christ Jesus (the Word of God who came into the world) to whosoever believes in Him (John 3:16).
Greek Septuagint translation of Genesis 2:7:
καὶ ἔπλασεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον χοῦν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς καὶ ἐνεφύσησεν εἰς τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ πνοὴν ζωῆς καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ ἄνθρωπος εἰς ψυχὴν ζῶσαν.
The words in English:
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground,
* zaō means to live, breathe, be among the living (not lifeless, not dead) (from Thayer's Greek Lexicon).
THE BREATH OF LIFE [ZOE] FROM GOD IS WHAT CAUSES HUMAN BEINGS TO LIVE [ZAO] | TO BE ALIVE [ZAO] IN OUR HUMAN BODIES.
Israel's king Solomon wrote the following regarding what happens upon death:
The dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life's breath (Srong's Hebrew H7307: ruach; spirit of life from God) returns to God who gave it. -- Ecclesiastes 12:7, NETfree translation.
("In Him (God) we live | are alive [zao], and move, and have our being; For we are also his offspring." -- Acts 17:28).
When Jesus raised a young girl from the dead, the gospel of Luke tells us that:
"her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat." (Luke 8:55).
(The Bible does not talk about the quickening (making alive again) of a "dead human spirit": Nothing which has the breath of life [zoe] from God (Genesis 2:7; Genesis 6:17; Genesis 7:15 & 22; Ecclesiastes 12:7) is alive [zao] forever, or ever can be alive [zao] forever (immortal) unless it has the breath of everlasting life [zoe] - which is in Christ - given to it
- but thanks be to Christ and to the Father, it is written, "This is the testimony, that God has given to us everlasting life, [zoe aionios] - and this life [zoe] is in His Son.
- He who has the Son has (everlasting) life [zoe]; he who does not have the Son of God does not have (everlasting) life [zoe] - 1 John 5:11-12.
(It does not say, "He whose own human spirit has been 'quickened from death'" - or "regenerated" or "resurrected from death") has eternal life [zoe aionios]. The Son of God alone has life [zoe] in Himself - John 5:26. Our life and the eternal life [zoe aionios] given to us, is in Him. "When Christ (who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him." (Colossians 3:4).
Did you know that the quickening (making alive again) of the body and the resurrection of the dead body - through the quickening and resurrection of the dead body of Christ Jesus - are integral parts of the gospel, which is the gospel of redemption from sin AND death - by the blood, death, and resurrection of Christ Jesus?
In the New Testament,
BEING BORN ANEW OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD
PLACES AN INDIVIDUAL IN CHRIST
ENSURING THAT THE INDIVIDUAL'S
DEAD | DYING BODY
WHICH WILL PRODUCE
THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY FROM DEATH
WHEN HE RETURNS
(BECAUSE OF, AND THROUGH THE POWER OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION)
AND THE REGENERATION OF ALL THINGS.
THIS IS THE NEW TESTAMENT'S TEACHING,
AND IT'S ALL THANKS TO CHRIST TAKING ON A HUMAN BODY,
AND TAKING OUR SIN UPON HIMSELF,
BEARING THE SIN IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE CROSS
AND DYING, AND RISING AGAIN FROM THE DEAD,
HIS DEAD BODY HAVING BEEN QUICKENED BY THE SPIRIT.
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