1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org

1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org 1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org

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THE ENEMY OF LIFE APPEARS 29 souls after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, after their kind . And it was so . And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him ; male and female created he them. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed : it shall be food for you ; and to every animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth on the earth, in which is a living soul,

30 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE" every green herb for food . And it was so ."-Genesis 1 :20, 21, 24, 27, 29, 30, Dar.' 4 Jehovah God did not give the first man a soul that had transmigrated from some dead fish, bird or land animal . God's creating of every living thing "after its kind" is against any transmigration of souls . Souls do not mix, but stay to their kind . Man had dominion over lower animals, and so he would not descend to them nor they ascend up to him . Each kind is fixed by unchangeable divine law. God did not put in man an invisible soul that had till then been flitting around in heaven like a butterfly, the butterfly being to the pagan Greeks a symbol of their idea of a human soul. No ; but the first man Adam was himself the soul . "And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man BECAME a living soul ." Genesis 2 :7, ASV Man's conscious existence as a living human creature is soul . He has no soul apart and distinct from his human body. Like the lower animal creatures, man alive is a living soul . Instead of appointing man from the start to an existence of unavoidable wretchedness and misery See also the Septuagint translation, marginal readings, as published by S . Bagster and Sons Ltd., London, Eng . The text of The Emphasised Bible by J. B . Rotherham reads also like the above . See also the marginal readings of Genesis 1 :20,30 in the King James Version Bible for the application of the expression "living soul" to the lower animals, the way it is in the original Hebrew text . 4 . Why does man not have any transmigrated soul? 5 . What shows that man was not meant for a wretched existence?

THE ENEMY OF LIFE APPEARS 29<br />

souls after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing,<br />

and beast of the earth, after their kind . And it<br />

was so . And God created Man in his image, in the<br />

image of God created he him ; male and female<br />

created he them. And God said, Behold, I have<br />

given you every herb producing seed that is on<br />

the whole earth, and every tree in which is the<br />

fruit of a tree producing seed : it shall be food<br />

for you ; and to every animal of the earth, and to<br />

every fowl of the heavens, and to everything that<br />

creepeth on the earth, in which is a living soul,

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