God Breaths the Breath of Life into Man, Part 1 (TMF:376)

Monday, April 04, 2016
Peace to Live By: God Breaths the Breath of Life into Man (TMF:376) - Daniel Litton
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       I want to take a few moments here and examine the creation of man and woman a little closer. Now, Genesis chapter 2 gives us a more thorough account of Day Six of creation, as I’ve already mentioned. Let’s go ahead and read that account. Let’s pick up in verse 5, and read through verse 9 to get started: “When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” First, I would like to note that God breathed in the man the breath of life, and this made the man a living soul. So, the man’s body could not function apart from the soul. The soul was necessary in order for the man to be alive.