1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org

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?