To be a “living” being requires spirit. When God breathed life unto the substance of Adam, he became a living soul. [i] “Living” is “hay” in the Hebrew, and means, “of God, as the living one, the fountain of life” (Strong’s Dictionary).
“Soul” in the Hebrew is “nepes” and means “to be a breathing creature.” However, all animals are breathing creatures, but only adami (mankind) had God breath life unto them. There was something special about Adam. He was God’s chosen and peculiar creature, just as Christians are when they are born again. [ii] Likewise, the seed of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob are chosen and peculiar. [iii]
"Chosen" is “of God’s fountain”; those he chose to “drink” of His Living Water. Jesus was the “Fountain” when he died, out of His Belly flowed two substances: the water and blood from his belly. [iv] When Adam was created, God breathed life. In other words, God’s breath from His side provided the Water of Life.
Just as God became a fountain for mankind, so did Jesus. When Jesus died, He breathed life unto Adam’s kind, but only if they breath it in as Adam did.
Adam breathed in life through his nostrils. Christians must “drink” of the Living Water from the belly of Jesus. That is not drinking the actual blood and water, but as at the Last Supper, it is remembering the purpose of Jesus. That was to regenerate Adam’s kind into living souls.
So that anyone can drink, both a source and a receptacle are required. God is the Source, or “Fount” and sinners are the receptacle, or “vessel.” God, as the Source, was the primary and supreme Vessel which was translated into English from the Greek as “cup”. [v]
Cup could as easily have been translated as “vessel.” Jesus wanted another to empty the fountain from their vessel to regenerate mankind. No one else could do it. Perhaps Judas tried to be the One at his suicide, but his vessel did not have Living Water but the waters of death in him… “Satan” by name.
After Jesus died, Simon the Sorcerer claimed to be the source of the Holy Spirit. He claimed to be the real Messiah. Satan had found a temporary home in the vessel of Simon who thought he had received the Holy Spirit. [vi] With Simon gone, who knows in whom the spirit of Satan abides?
All of that to point out that everyone has a soul. It can be either empty or filled with one of two substances: (1) Living water from God, or (2) Dying water from the “Well of Souls” beneath the Foundation Stone. In other words, the spirit of Satan in Hell. [1]
All of Adam’s kind were chosen in the beginning because Adam was the model for human kind. (Lucifer was only prototypical but the prototype failed.)
“Election” would be “whosoever” [vii] that God chooses to place souls in at their birth; not at rebirth as most assume. [2]
The “peculiar” are those who have the Spirit of God in their vessels, within their bodies.
What do souls look like? For Jesus, it was the form of a body of a man: “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape” [viii] … A shape that resembled Jesus enough that Nebuchadnezzar recognized the shape of Jesus’s vessel as Him who was inside the fiery furnace. With that said, human souls are inside the flesh, and their “peculiar” shape is spirit that looks like them!
Sacred literature describes the soul as the shape of the body and inside the flesh. The specific or peculiar shape of the spirit of the person fits exactly within the vessel. The Living Water comes from the shape of Jesus and takes the shape of those who are reborn.
Christians are made anew with the spirit of God within them, just as in the beginning. As with Adam, the Breath of God took the shape of Adam when life was breathed unto him. He was the image God made, and God breathed His Invisible Image into that peculiar Image of clay to make “it” a living soul.
With sin, Adam had the Spirit of God exhumed from his vessel. He was no longer in the image of God. Satan, symbolically, breathed in the Spirit of God and breathed out his own contaminated breath into the world. For a moment he had tasted godhood, then spewed it from his mouth, just as God will do to Christians who are in apostasy:
Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth. (Rev 2:16)… “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. (Rev 3:16)
Mankind was made in the Image of God, and when God was made Flesh, he was made into the image of man for both Jesus and Adam are in the Image of God: “(The Son) in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature” (Col 1:14-15).
Hopefully, by now, the reader is either enlightened or confused. The assumption for now is enlightenment. You know what you look like, and if you have been reborn a Christian, the Spirit of God in you would look like you but be as Jesus. You are the Temple of God and Jesus resides in your soul.
But how can that be? When Jesus died, He gave up the Ghost. Jesus just would not die, so the centurion helped him. He pierced Jesus in the side with a lance, and out of His belly flowed Living Water and blood. Mankind received both the Spirit of God on the earth as well as the DNA of Jesus. When that happened, look at the follow-up:
46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, “Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit:” and having said thus, He gave up the ghost. 47 Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.” (Luke 23:46-47)
The “Ghost of Jesus” was spilled into the world for the preservation of the human species. Luke and the others wrote that Jesus “gave up the Ghost.” There were witnesses when the vessel of Jesus was filled with the Spirit, in “bodily shape” and there were witnesses that Jesus gave up that same Spirit, with His shape.
Death transformed Jesus. The Spirit with which God endowed in Jesus to make Him peculiarly God, with death, was transformed into the Holy Ghost, to wit:
38 He that believeth on Me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:38-39).
The “living water” is pneuma in the Greek therein. Jesus was “glorified” after His death. The Holy Spirit of God (Pneuma) experienced death inside the Vessel of Jesus. Once that Pneuma was breathed out as Living Water, then the substance changed. No longer was that Spirit in the Image of the Invisible God but in the Image of God in the Flesh.
A ghost is a “spirit of a dead man” (Merriam- Webster Dictionary). The Holy Ghost of Jesus is the Spirit of the dead Jesus.
Now read about Abraham when he “gave up the ghost”:
7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. 8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people. (Gen 25:7-8)
Consider those passages today and reflect on what is written above about the Spirit and Ghost. Tomorrow, I will comment on the meaning of Abraham’s Ghost.
[1] The Foundation Stone is beneath the Dome of the Rock and beneath it is the Well of Souls. That abyss is believed to be where the bad seed and offal was threshed at the time it was Ornan’s threshing floor. Above the stone was the Holy of Holies where the Spirit of God rested. His “Fountain” was the Spirit of God Who sat on His throne between two cherubim. The Spirit of God was the Way to the Tree of Life (Gen 3:24).
[2] That is based on eternal souls that were created before the foundation of the world. (Ephes 1:4)
(picture credit: Southside Times; "Explaining the difference between ghost and spirit")
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