Monday, February 15, 2021

THE SHAPE OF THE HUMAN SOUL

  Theologians are limited by the capacity of languages. Mankind was created “glorious.” The closest definition of that is splendorous. Scripture does not address the degree of that splendor well, calling everything generated by God, “very good.” Better said is, “entirely good” or “perfection.” Since only God is “Good” (Mat 19:17), then “very good” is very much like God, not God, but in the “image of God” (Gen :1-27). But also “in our image” (Gen 1:26). “Our,” of course, is God in Mind, Body, and Spirit.

  Scripture describes the substances of humans, to wit: “heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength” (Mark 12:30). Greek for “Heart” is kardia, meaning, “thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes, endeavors, and so forth (Strong’s Dictionary.) The physical mechanism of sensing all those things is the heart. It enunciates all those characteristics. Together, they are human nature. Although God is not natural, but supra-natural, those words shortchange God who just IS. Hence, the one word for God’s supra-nature is “Glorious” and describes His Quality — entirely Good, or Perfection.

  Adam was created in that same image. He was perfect, even having a “will” as God has His Will. God is entirely free to select from among many desires. His one desire is that none should perish. People have the same will as God with one exception: God will never choose sin because sin offends Him. But people can because they are deceived into believing that sin is a beautiful thing. (Gen 3:6), Whereas God sees sin as the ugliest thing that He allows, man does not. Ultimately, sin is the perception that people have the same “Will” as God. Lucifer spoke the truth — sin is TO BE as God (Gen 3:5). Perhaps “very good” was chosen because only God is Good to perfection. Perhaps the will of mankind was the difference, as God will never choose sin, but people can and do. The Satan motto is, “Do what thou wilt; that is the whole law.” The will of man is the problem, and the Will of God, the solution.

  God cannot go wrong on these things: thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes, endeavors… but people can. Thus, the one-word description for “heart” is “will.” People freely will that those things be done.

  Jesus spoke of that on how to pray: “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Mat 6:10). In heaven God’s Will, will be done; His desire that on Earth that same nature exists; that our will which was in the image of God’s Will, be done again. Original sin changed the “heart” or “will” of Adam and Eve. “Born again” (John 3:7) is repairing the defective will, or heart, of sinners. It is to rid the heart of callousness; hence “circumcision of the heart” (Rom 2:29).

  Adam was created without that hardness of the heart. Upon sinning, the atrophy of the heart commenced. After continually sinning, the heart (will) becomes calloused. Rebirth is removing the callous or hardness of the heart to be in the image of God again. It is emancipation from Satan who hardens hearts. Since the heart is the tell-tale sign of the will, then the “flesh” represents the human will, and the atrophying flesh which needs circumcision.

  Therefore, God’s children would love God with their will. They should be willing to serve Him without coercion. Christians do not obey for the reward but obey because of grace. The Flesh of God died for our flesh; hence gratitude should exist. The heart is the seat of gratitude, so new “hearts” freely will to do God’s Will. His Will is still to be done, but not because of obedience, but gratitude.

  That sums up loving God with all the “heart.” The one word that sums up the human will is the word, “flesh,” because the flesh on the body is essentially the idols of humans that must be appeased. That is why the flesh is the enemy of mankind.

  Since sinners will not give up their appetite for sins, then God did that in our place. He died to change our appetites. Adam began to die, not in an instant, but his will withered. He was slowly dying. When reborn, Christians are as newborn babes in Christ, but a genuine rebirth gradually changes the appetites of Christians. It is the reverse process of dying and is living spiritually.

  Hence, flesh is the enemy of mankind. It is the epicenter of all those things enumerated previously. However, the soul is without flesh. Think of the soul as a body without flesh, not merely without an epidermis, but without physical substance. That soul, if it could be seen, would be an image of the person. It would look like you and be the real you. The flesh is more in the image of the Devil because he is the father of sinners (John 8:44). However, sin goes all the way through the meat and bones to the heart. Sin changes the human will. For sinners, it is Satan’s will that is done.

  “Election” is not an undeserved reward but a pairing of the soul with the body of people. It completes the person and personality of the pre-existing soul. The Soul of God is His “Tabernacle,” and within that Tabernacle dwells the Holy Spirit. In the beginning, God was all Soul, and that invisible Substance, or invisible Body, is His “Alpha.” God, to know our flesh (will) took on Flesh Himself. He covered His invisible Body with Flesh to show Himself to mankind. Before, God had manifested Himself as fire, smoke, a cloud, water, and even sometimes in the flesh. He chose Flesh for His inaugural appearance because it was the Image in which He had made Adam. That is His “Omega.”

  What does God’s Temple, or Soul, look like? What is the appearance of its invisible Image? The Soul of God looks like Jesus only without physical substance. The substance of God’s soul is immaterial but His Will is like Jesus’s because Jesus is God in the Flesh. Indeed, the Will of Jesus was demonstrated as the Will of God in earth and is the same as in heaven. Jesus demonstrated that with His temptations.

  There is one place in the Bible that describes the shape of God’s Soul, to wit: “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, ‘Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased’” (Luke 3:22). 

  First off, God’s Soul had the same shape as human body, but this Soul was peculiar to Jesus. “Ghosts” are disembodied souls, so when Jesus was baptized, God’s Soul became embodied. Jesus was borne (translated) with the Mind of God but the body-shape of God was not borne with Him. That substance was translated to the Flesh of God at the baptism by John. At that point, the substances of Jesus were two: Mind and corruptible flesh.

  Somehow, the mind is eternal but the brain only temporary. Thus, the soul has spiritual cognition, to wit: The rich man in Hell and Lazarus in Abraham’s bosom were cognitive, reasoning, and logical (Luke 16). Thus, Jesus and Adam were both borne with the faculty of thought. Again, I use the word “borne” rather than “born” because Adam and Jesus were transported, not carried, from heaven to earth — from the spiritual realm to the physical realm.

  When Jesus was baptized by John, the Spirit of God remained only on Him (John 1:3). Jesus was baptized, not only with water, but Living Water since the Holy Ghost imbued Him.

  John’s baptism was one of repentance for the forgiveness of sin (Mark 1:4). Since Jesus was without sin, then no repentance was necessary. Water was of no efficacy. But the Person, Jesus, wasn’t finished yet. There was a “step two” in the process! Step one was transportation of His Soul to Mary’s body where God would begin to mold it. Now examine step 2:

The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, “Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased". (Luke 3:22)

  Compare step 2 to Adam’s step 2:

The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Gen 2:7)

  God formed Adam from the dust of the ground in a “womb” of some dimensions. Either Adam’s womb was the celestial dome, or it could have been the “Temple” in the Garden of Eden. By that it is meant, under the canopy of the trees of the Garden that formed a Tabernacle in the center and lesser tabernacles surrounding the central one. (i.e., like tabernacle worship of the Hebrews before the Temple was built. Or lastly, Adam was possibly born in the Cave of Treasures which may be Jeremiah’s Grotto under the newly discovered, perhaps real, Calvary. Jews believe that Adam was formed on the Foundation Stone. Just a small piece  of the Foundation Stone remains to this day, but it may have extended all over what is now Jerusalem. That makes sense because that name means “foundation of peace.”

  Regardless as to where, both Jesus and Adam were borne in a womb; Jesus in Mary’s and Adam in an unknown womb, but both were space provided by God for His upcoming miracles!

  You may have noticed, but the Father used the same process for creating the “first Adam” (man) and the “Second Adam” (God in the form of a man). Scripture points to the same creation process! Why would go do something other than what He did before?

  Consider step one again. God molded Man (Adam) from clay which he made up with His own Spittle – the mist from the ground. God’s DNA went into Adam’s clay. Then God made a clay ball, added clay as needed, and molded a shape resembling a man. Then He added clay and made Adam, not a child, but an adult male. The clay ball is essentially the embryo of Adam, and each additional clay made Adam larger. God carried Adam, perhaps out of the Cave, and onto the Foundation Stone where the Father formed a statue of Man, as designers still do to this day.

  That is presupposed because that is the same process used for Jesus. His “clay ball” was His own embryo in its protective “canopy” which God formed in Mary until His shape was formed. Then outside the womb of Mary, God grew his image unto manhood. The second Adam was the maturity of the first Adam when God breathed life unto the corruptible flesh of Jesus. Yes, the flesh of Jesus was corruptible but not by Him. The nails and pierced side corrupted His flesh when He gave life to all mankind.

  Since Eve is the mother of all, then when the first Adam cloned himself, his side was corrupted as well. How so? In an earlier commentary, I mentioned that “woman” has a second meaning — “adulteress,” and that is what Eve apparently pursued with the spirit of the Serpent.

  Jesus began the regeneration process of Christians with water and blood from His own side in like manner as Adam. They were both of marriageable age, and Eve was the bride of Adam. She became his bride because they were of one flesh.

  Likewise, mankind, if they are righteous, become brides of Jesus when “Life” came out of His side. That is why both blood and water are effective, not blood alone, nor water alone. You see, the marriage process matches as well. That is why Holy Matrimony must be holy!

  So as not to bore the reader further, consider the introduction of God’s two “images” Into the world. Adam was a mature man made entirely good (Gen 1:31) and with his own will. Jesus revealed Himself at the baptism of John. His Holy Ghost, the one with Adam’s appearance, not the shape of a dove, but with a breeze from God’s Breath. Adam’s bodily shape came on Jesus and filled His theretofore empty soul, and Jesus, as Adam, became a “Living Soul.” “Life” in God’s lexicon, is having “Living water” in the theretofore empty soul. Rebirth (John 3:7) is the emptying of the Serpent’s DNA from the person’s soul, to cleanse it before filling. (No new wine in an old flask for Adam nor Jesus!)

  The Holy Ghost of Jesus was breathed unto His corruptible flesh. It was from the elements (or dust) that Adam was formed. So far, the Second Adam is much like the first! Step two was in process.

  Jesus received the Holy Ghost “like a dove.” His Ghost was not the Image of a dove but was translated to Him from another realm with the motion of a dove.

  The dove describes the movement of God’s “breath” just as in the case of the Holy Ghost, “Suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting” (Acts 2:2). The Holy Ghost in Jerusalem was not a “mighty wind” but filled the many Christians like a wind, or with the turbulence that thousands of doves would make as they flocked the multitude. Again, it would not be a bevy of doves, but as a bevy of doves.

  The Holy Ghost descended on Jesus at His baptism. Jesus was baptized as no other theretofore. He was baptized by moving water in the Jordan and Living Water at the same time. Of course, the Holy Ghost is not water, but the Power of the Holy Ghost is as rushing waters to bring life.

  It is the gain of virtue just as healing is the loss of virtue, “They that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of Him, and healed them all” (Luke 6:18:19). The Holy Spirit would have made the sound of a rushing wind as virtue healed them all.

  Think of the mighty rushing wind that the Holy Ghost sounded when virtue flowed from Jesus to heal the nations: “Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the ghost. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom” (15:37-38).  Giving up the Ghost was the loss of virtue so intense that the “wind” from it tore the curtain in the Temple quite a distance away. The Holy Ghost also quaked the earth to transmit virtue to heal the dead. Adam himself got back his ghost — the Ghost of God that perfectly fit Adam’s soul, and was the again in Image of Christ.

  A “ghost” is defined as the “disembodied spirit of a dead person” (Merriam-Webster). That does not fit the biblical context. “Ghost” is in the Greek “pneuma” and in the Hebrew “gava’..” The former means “breeze” and the latter means “expire” (ibid).

  Death is expiring (exhaling) the Holy Ghost, like a breeze. Hence, the Holy Ghost is a living (animated) Spirit of God that fills the soul of a Christian. Thusly, the Holy Ghost is an embodied Spirit that is “exhaled” from the body at death to move on to another realm. The Holy Ghost in Christians would look like the first and second Adam, and not themselves, because the Power of the Holy Ghost changes the form and nature of sinful man.

  When Jesus was baptized, the Holy Ghost swooned quietly on to Him (John 1:33). Soon after, it is learned that Jesus was filled (imbued) with the Holy Ghost before he was tempted by Satan. Jesus breathed in His Holy Ghost because He is God and without sin. His “cup” (vessel) was created clean in the “clean room” of Mary.

  The Holy Ghost came on Jesus in “bodily form” not the body of a dove, but as a body like Adam’s. Remembering that ‘adam is the Hebrew word for “man,” then a Spirit like a man entered Jesus. The first ‘adam was created perfectly, so a perfectly shape man, in spirit, would enter Jesus, making Him the second ‘adam. But the regeneration of ‘adam would not be finished yet! Not until the Holy Ghost would be breathed out of Jesus.

  Adam was generated by God to dress and keep the Garden of Trees. “Trees are as men walking” (Mark 8:24). Even a blind man envisioned that! Adam’s purpose was to serve and preserve mankind. That was his “Great Commission.” The Second Adam had the same purpose. He was generated in the flesh like ‘adam to serve and preserve ‘adam-kind. His crucifixion was in Jerusalem, what before was certainly the center of the Garden. The second Adam came back to the same place to fulfill the first Adam’s Great Commission, to wit: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Mat 28:19).

  The holy water of the Jordan is in Israel. The “Living Water” of Jesus is omnipresent. Baptist with water is not specified in the Great Commission. But instead, teach them the Word, and Jesus, the “Hand” of God will do the baptizing for out of His belly will flow Living Waters.

  When Jesus was crucified, Living Waters flowed from His belly and may have flowed right into the dust of Adam who is said the be buried beneath Calvary (The place of Adam’s skull). The mist from the dust would remold Adam to his former shape.

  When the Holy Ghost departed from Jesus, the one of the first acts of His Ghost was breathing Adam back to life! As Jesus’s Ghost was given up, like a mighty quake it opened the graves of some of the dead in Christ, “And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose” (Mat 27:52). Adam surely confronted those who killed Jesus. [1]

  Some of the dead arose, so as Paul wrote, “To live is Christ; to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). The Living Water from the belly of the Second Adam gave life to the dead and provided safe Water for the living with a “thirst” to “drink.” The Great Commission of all ‘adam’s is for Living Water to flow from their sides to provide life to the nations.

  Just as Adam had Living Water from his curved side (not rib) to give life to Eve, the mother of all, all ‘adams are to have Living Water from their bellies to heal the nations, just as Jesus remarked to the woman at the well. Jesus must have imparted Living Water to her because she “drank” of His Word, then went on to share it with others.

  The Soul of Jesus is the shape of His Body. It had to be because His Holy Ghost came to Him in “bodily shape.” His Ghost perfectly fit His Soul, and it is assumed that the Soul of Jesus fit His Body. With that hypothesis, perhaps it could be validated. Did anyone else ever have that explanation? It turns out that God revealed it to Sedrach, to wit:

  And Sedrach said to God, “From where will you take my soul, from which member?” And God said to him, “Do you not know that it is placed in the middle of your lungs and heart and that it is spread out to all its members?” It is removed through the pharynx and larynx and the mouth; and whenever it is due to go out (from the body) it is drawn with difficulty at the beginning and as it comes together from the fingernails and from all the members there is, of necessity, a great strain in being separated from the body and detached from the heart.” (Apocalypse of Sedrach:1-4; original 150-500 AD)

  Whoever Sedrach was, perhaps Shadrach, God revealed to him the shape of the soul. (Note that Shadrach saw the bodily shape of the Ghost of Jesus in the fiery furnace). The soul, as described by God, whether in reality or in thought, I do not know, but it is described.

  The soul fits the entire body of man (‘adam). The soul of all ‘adam-kind is the image of Adam, and Adam’s is the Image of Jesus. When Christians are baptized with the Holy Ghost, the Ghost of Jesus is imbued unto them to fill their souls and flesh entirely. In the case of John Doe who is baptized with the Holy Ghost, the new bodily shape is not like John Doe, but like both Adams! Why would anyone be reborn to resemble their old selves? They are new creatures (2 Cor 5:17), no longer resembling their old selves but the new person created by God. Their souls would all look like Jesus inside however they look on the outside.

  The death of Jesus on the Cross finished something. Remembering that to “die is gain,” then although the corruptible body of Jesus perished quickly in His Tomb, yet His soul was the same — the same bodily shape of Jesus. Thereafter, the Ghost of Jesus translated from one place to another (e.g., to Hell, to Paradise, to the locked room to encounter the elven, and so forth). Nobody, not even Thomas, ever touched Jesus because the Flesh of Jesus was no longer the flesh of ‘adam. It was new Flesh, a new “coat of skin” to cover the Lamb of God. That new Flesh was incorruptible and will never perish!

  At the General Resurrection of the Saints, they too will discard their “aprons of fig leaves” and have on coats from the incorruptible Flesh of the Lamb of God. His Flesh was the sacrfice for all who have sinned and is enough to provide coats of the Lamb of God for all who will wear it!

  Thus, the third process in generating Jesus, was putting on glorious (splendid) Flesh. The old red clay bled its red out, and clear and pure Living Water from the “Belly” of God imbued the veins of Christ. God’s Body Shape in the Flesh did give up the Body Shape of the Father, but the Ghost of God received new Flesh that looked like mankind but was not hindered by things in Earth. The new Flesh of Jesus still moves quickly between the heaven and the earth (meaning the invisible and visible realms).

  The bodily shape of Jesus has something that the body-shaped Spirit in Christians have yet to obtain; that is the ability to exist in all places all the time! Christians will never be God, and those capabilities will never happen. On the other hand, when the heavens and the earth will be regenerated, the bodily shape of the Holy Ghost in John Doe will move freely between heaven and earth, as they again become one.

  The Resurrection of Jesus is a repeat of the erection of Adam. The same goes for Christians. God does not have different processes for different people but uses the same tried and true processes. Both Adam and Jesus — the first and second Adam — were formed in the womb. How is that? Of course, the original Flesh of Jesus was formed in the womb of Mary, and there it grew. Outside the womb, God was with Him but not in Him. When he was a full-grown ‘adam, just as Adam, then God breathed life unto Jesus by filling Him with His Holy Ghost; One that looked like Adam to re-create a second Adam of about the same age as the original.

  Then the old Flesh of Jesus perished, and in the “womb” of the tomb, God regenerated Jesus in the same perfect shape and holy state of Adam before he sinned. What was finished at the death of Jesus? Perfection for those who would be Holy as God is Holy. Also, just as Adam was certainly resurrected when Jesus was, all those who are holy will be as well!

  The last step in generating Jesus was His Regeneration in the second “Womb.” After carrying off sin, the Holy Ghost of Jesus returned to the tomb and wa1ked right through the walls and rolled back the stone as “The Angel of God” …as the bodily-shape of the Holy Ghost of Jesus with His Ghost covered with new flesh that the world could not contain.

  What remained for Him to be a second Adam? To be in the Presence of God. He could not be touched by the unclean hand of sinful men or God’s Temple (Himself) would be defiled. The last stage in His development was standing tall as the Tree of Life before the Spirit of God.

  Adam had failed with that. He stood tall, but tall in the presence of Satan under the Tree of Knowledge of the world. The reason Jesus stood tall in the Presence of God is because Adam did not. He did what Adam would not. Because of that, Adam now stands tall in the Face of God, in contrast to his shame long before when he sinned.

  The process for Adam and Jesus was the same. Both were baptized with the Holy Ghost — Jesus at the baptism of John, and Adam with the baptism with the Holy Ghost from the Belly of Jesus. Thereafter, the salvation of all “Adams” is not by rushing water but by the Living Water from the “Belly” of the Jesus-shaped Holy Ghost. That is rebirth, and just as Adam’s “birth” was aborted by the Wicked One, the rebirth of any ‘adam can be aborted by the same Wicked One, but only if the reborn do not stand in the face of Satan rather standing tall for Jesus.

  Remembering that ‘adam-kind consists of heart, mind, soul, and strength; then the mind is safe at rebirth, the soul is safe at death, and the flesh is safe at General Resurrection. When all three are delivered as one “body” to the Presence of God, then salvation is complete. Living souls then are preserved and “glorified” until Satan dies his final death.

  This moment, with the Great Reset, Satan may have already taken on new flesh considering that his old flesh (Judas) was hanged on a tree the same day that Jesus was.

  Perhaps Jesus’s “trip” to Hell was short. Perhaps He dumped all the sins of mankind on Satan that day, and as nothing more than God’s stooge, Satan took them to the pits of Hell! Remembering that Lucifer lusts for both kingship of earth and heaven, then he will create chaos in both until his newly acquired flesh is destroyed by fire.

  In summary, the shape of the Holy Ghost is the same as the shape of the Body of Jesus. His Soul is not wafer-shaped, and His Blood is not wine. It is Living Water that all may drink freely.



[1] My book, The Skull of Adam, is all about the bones of Adam saved for that great day.

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