What Is Man?
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Communication with the Spirit World of God
by Johannes Greber
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WHAT IS MAN?
I Thess. 5:23 (KJV)
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole
spirit (4151 - "pneuma") and soul (5590 - "psuche") and body (4983 - "soma" )
be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Genesis 1:20, 21, 24, 25, 30 (KJV)
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature
(8318 - "sherets") that hath life (2416 - "chay"), and fowl that may fly above
the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living (2416 - "chay") creature
(5315 - "nephesh") that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly,
after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it
was good.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living (2416 - "chay")
creature (5315 - "nephesh") after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and
beast (2416 - "chay") of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast (2416 - "chay") of the earth after his kind, and
cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind; and God saw that it was good.
30 And to every beast (2416 - "chay") of the earth, and to every fowl of the
air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life
(2416 - "chay"), I have given every herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis 2:7 (KJV)
And the LORD God formed man (120 - "adam") of the dust of the ground, and
breathed (5301 - "naphach") into his nostrils the breath (5397 - "neshamah")
of life (2416 - "chay"): and man (120 - "adam") became a living (2416 -
"chay") soul (5315 - "nephesh").
Genesis 3:19 (KJV)
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the
ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt
thou return.
Genesis 9:5 (KJV)
And surely your blood of your lives (5315 - "nephesh") will I require; at the
hand of every beast (2416 - "chay") will I require it, and at the hand of man
(120 - "adam"); at the hand of every man's (120 - "adam") brother will I
require the life (5315 - "nephesh") of man (120 - "adam").
Lev. 24:17-18 (KJV)
And he that killeth any man (5315, 120 - "nephesh", "adam") shall surely be
put to death. And he that killeth a beast (5315, 929 - "nephesh", "behemah")
shall make it good; beast (5315 - "nephesh") for beast (5315 - "nephesh").
Numbers 31:28 (KJV)
And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war, which went out to battle:
one soul (5315 - "nephesh") of five hundred, both of the persons (120 -
"adam"), and of the beeves (1241 - "baqar" [an animal of the ox kind]) and of
the asses, and of the sheep.
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Joshua 11:11 (KJV)
And they smote all the souls (5315 - "nephesh") that were therein with the
edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was not any left to breathe
(5397 - "neshamah"); and he burnt Hazor with fire.
I Kings 17:21 (KJV)
And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD,
and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul (5315 - "nephesh")
come into him again.
Ps. 22:29 (KJV)
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down
to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive (2421 - "chayah"
["chay" comes from this prime root meaning 'to live']) his own soul (5315 -
"nephesh").
Ps. 104:29-30 (KJV)
29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath
(7307 - "ruwach"), they die, and return to their dust.
30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit (7307 - "ruwach"), they are created: and thou
renewest the face of the earth.
Ps. 146:3, 4 (KJV)
3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no
help.
4 His breath (7307 - "ruwach") goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that
very day his thoughts ( 6250 - "eshtonah": from thinking) perish.
Eccl. 3:19-21 (KJV)
19 For that which befalleth the sons of men (120 - "adam") befalleth beasts
(929 - "behemah"); even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth
the other; yea, they have all one breath (7307 - "ruwach"); so that a man (120
- "adam") hath no preeminence above a beast (929 - "behemah"); FOR ALL IS
VANITY.
20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
21 Who knoweth the spirit (7307 - "ruwach") of man (1121, 120 - "ben", "adam"
[a son, as in a builder of the family]) that goeth upward, and the spirit
(7307 - "ruwach") of the beast (929 - "behemah") that goeth downward to the
earth?
Eccl. 9:5, 10 (KJV)
5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything,
neither have they any more reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no
work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Eccl. 12:7 (KJV)
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit (7307 -
"ruwach") shall return unto God who gave it.
Isa. 53:12 (KJV)
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the
spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul (5315 - "nephesh")
unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of
many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Ezekiel 18:4, 20 (KJV)
4 Behold, all souls (5315 - "nephesh") are mine; as the soul (5315 -
"nephesh") of the father, so also the soul (5315 - "nephesh") of the son is
mine: the soul (5315 - "nephesh") that sinneth, it shall die.
20 The soul (5315 - "nephesh") that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not
bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of
the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the
wickedness shall be upon him.
Matt. 10:28 (KJV)
And fear not them which kill the body (4983 - "soma"), but are not able to
kill the soul (5590 - "psuche"): but rather fear him which is able to destroy
both soul (5590 - "psuche") and body (4983 - "soma") in hell.
Luke 8:55 (KJV)
And her spirit (4151 - "pneuma") came again, and she arose straightway; and he
commanded to give her meat.
Luke 23:46 (KJV)
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said Father, into thy hands I
commend my spirit (4151 - "pneuma"): and having said thus, he gave up the
ghost (1606 - "ekpneo" [from 1537 "ek": point of origin, & 4154 "pneo": a
prime word; to breathe hard]).
John 5:28 (KJV)
Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming, in the which that are in the
graves shall hear his voice.
Acts 2:27 (KJV)
Because thou wilt not leave my soul (5590 - "psuche") in hell, neither wilt
thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Acts 3:23 (KJV)
And it shall come to pass, that every soul (5590 - "psuche") which will not
hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Acts 7:59 (KJV)
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit (4151 - "pneuma").
I Cor. 5:5 (KJV)
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the
spirit (4151 - "pneuma") may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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I Cor. 15:45 (KJV)
And so it is written, The first man (444 - "anthropos": human being) Adam was
made a living (2198 - "zao") soul (5590 - "psuche"); and the last Adam was
made a quickening (2227 - "zoopoieo": to make alive, give life) spirit (4151 -
"pneuma").
* * Jesus, the last Adam, is the giver of spiritual life, i.e. He makes the
"pneuma" alive to God.
I Thess. 4:13, 14 (KJV)
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which
are asleep (2837 - "koimad" [to put to sleep]), that ye sorrow not, even as
others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which
sleep 2838 - "koimesis" from 2837) in Jesus will God bring with him.
Hebrews 4:12 (KJV)
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged
sward, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul (5590 - "psuche") and
spirit (4151 - "pneuma"), and of the joints and marrow, and intents of the
heart (2588 - "kardia": the thoughts & feelings (mind)).
James 2:26 (KJV)
For as the body (4983 - "soma") without the spirit (4151 - "pneuma") is dead,
so faith without works is dead also.
I Peter 3:19-20 (KJV)
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits (4151 - "pneuma") in
prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God
waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that
is eight souls (5590 - "psuche") were saved by water.
Rev. 16:3 (KJV)
And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the
blood of a dead man: and every living (2198 - "zao") soul (5590 - "psuche")
died in the sea.
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