If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust. It's all some kind of vision though, the bible doesn't actually claim that Ezekiel brought an army back from the dead. Once again, the breath of god is life itself, and in this vision from Ezekiel, life is placed back into bodies which were dead, and they come back to life. Gods breath makes everything live, because life is by definition the breath of god within living things.ĩ Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.ġ3 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord. But back to more scripture about how everything fundamentalists believe is theologically wrong.īy the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host. This is yet another reason why God itself says in the bible (see below) that you shouldn't take scripture literally. How many people are born with defects or serious medical conditions? And what about the transgender person? If you take this stuff literally, it means that god intentionally formed a female body, and put a male soul into that body, or vice versa. Indeed, this is rather problematic if you take it literally, because it means that god is a shoddy potter. There's a lot of earthen vessel allusions in the bible, calling god the potter, that forms clay vessels (our bodies) into which god places our souls. Talking about souls here can be problematic, so lets just talk about life. "A living soul" as the King James Version gives it. So breath is life, and when life is breathed into the earthen vessel that is a human body, it comes alive. Okay, first off, this is so important a theological question to an ancient society (When does life enter the body?) that it's laid out right there in Genesis:Īnd 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.
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