"And Man Became a Living Soul"

The Ibriy (Hebrew) word translated as soul in the above verse is nephesh. Note that this verse does NOT say nor mean that when Yahuwah breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils that He imparted an immortal soul to him. What it does say and mean is that He made the body of the man and then caused that body to live. A good alternative rendering of the last part of this verse would be, "and man became a live and breathing creature".

For those of you who are paying attention, the scripture plainly delineates our Eloah as being the Father, the Son, and the Sacred Spirit. Scripture also states plainly that He is ONE. How can that be?

There are many people who will disagree with this statement, but the facts of the scripture cannot be altered by people refusing to see them. Yahuwah being one person in three manifestations is called the "Holy Trinity" by those who adhere to that doctrine. Those who believe this are often referred to as "Trinitarians" by those who do not believe it. (Some say "three persons in one Godhead" but that is polytheism and therefore paganism.) This word "trinity" does not appear anywhere in the scripture because it is a Latin word and none of the autographs of the scripture were written in Latin. The concept of the word is there, however, as Eloah the Father, Eloah the Son, and Eloah the Sacred Spirit. In some "modern" (meaning apostate) versions, all references to the three have been deleted. This occurred primarily because of the machinations of Messrs. Westcott and Hort many years ago as they "updated" the Greek text and it has culminated in many of the "modern" versions that are extant today. At any rate, just as Yahuwah shows Himself as three, we can also be shown as three. After all, we are created in His image.

So the three manifestations of Yahuwah are Eloah the Father, Eloah the Son, and Eloah the Sacred Spirit. The three manifestations of the human are the body, the soul, and the spirit. The body is the physical flesh and blood entity that you see when you look in a mirror. The soul is the life force that animates the physical body and is what Yahuwah breathed into the nostrils of Adam to make him a "living soul". The soul is what keeps your heart pumping and your lungs breathing. Without it, there is no life in the body. The spirit is the part that Yahuwah places in us and distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom. This part, and NOT the soul, is the part of us that is immortal, and is what Yahuwah deals with on a celestial plane. These three parts make up the creature we call a human.

This body and its animating force, the soul, differ little from other animal bodies with their animating forces. When that animating force leaves the body, the body dies, whether it is an animal or human body (Ecclesiastes 3:18-21). There are many things, such as the requirements for sleep, air, food, and water, that we share with the animal kingdom. These creatures, and the use of the word creature is definitive, have common physical traits with us because we are all part of the creation of the same Almighty El. He made a pattern for our type of animal life and then built many things on that same pattern. The difference in the animal kingdom and the kingdom of man is that third part. That third part is the spirit that comes from Yahuwah. When we die, the spirit returns to Him. We have it. Other animals don't.

Obtain a good Ibriy/Greek dictionary, such as the one that comes with the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (about $20 at your local Religious Book Store) for use as you read the Scripture. When you come across some of these things that have been taken for granted by generations of people trying to be children of Yahuwah, such as this immortal soul question, look the words up in that dictionary. See what the underlying meaning of the words and phrases are. You will be very surprised to find that many times the meaning is not even close to what you have been told it was.

The definitions for the words rendered as body, soul, and spirit, within the meaning of this pamphlet, in the Ibriy (Hebrew) and the Greek Scripture are listed below for your enlightenment. The numbers beside them designate whether they are from the Ibriy [Hebrew] (H) or the Greek (G), and the numerical part is the Strong's reference number.

The Body

Ibriy - H1472. geviyah, ghev-ee-yaw' - a body, whether alive or dead.
Also rendered as - dead body, carcase, and corpse.

Greek - G4983. soma, so'-mah - the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively.
Also rendered as - bodily, slave.

The Soul -

Ibriy - H5315. nephesh, neh'-fesh - a breathing creature, i.e. animal or (abstract) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental).
Also rendered as - any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead (-ly), desire, X [dis-] contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart (-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortality, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, + slay, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
(This word in its various renderings appears in the Ibriy scriptures 749 times in 672 different verses.)

Greek - G5590. psuche, psoo-khay' - breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstract or concr. (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from G4151, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from G2222, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew. H5315, H7307 and H2416)
Also rendered as - heart (+ -ily), life, mind,+ us, + you.

The Spirit

Ibriy - H7307. ruwach, roo'-akh - wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
Also rendered as - air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spiritual, tempest, X vain, ([whirl-]) wind (-y).

Greek - G4151. pneuma, pnyoo'-mah - a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively a human spirit, the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, daemon, or (divine) God, Christ's spirit, the Holy Spirit.
Also rendered as - ghost, life, spiritual, spiritually, mind. (Comp. G5590)

In summation, for those folks who believe that their soul is what departs their body at death to go to "heaven" or "hell" this should give them the insight needed to dispel that error. The body is the physical vehicle that we see. The soul is the force that animates that body. And the spirit is the rational part of our being that lives on after the death of the body. They also need to check out the pages on "heaven" and "hell" located on this site.

And the very Eloah of peace sanctify you completely and I pray to Yahuwah that your whole spirit and soul and body will be preserved blameless until the coming of our Sovereign Yahushua the Anointed. (1 Thessalonikeos [Thessalonians] 5:23)

C.F. Castleberry
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