Is it biblical to say that the body formed from dust and the breath (spirit) of life makes a living soul?

Question

Just like red+blue=purple, right? So if these two elemnts seperate, how can your soul exist? (Nephesh/Psuche) Tee soul can't be split in two. If I cut myself in half now, I wouldn't be alive. I cannot comprehend the idea that you can seperate your soul (which biblically is Nephesh/Psuche, your physical self) from yourself. That's like saying Purple can be taken out of purple! WHat? That doesn't make sense at all!

Who says the spirit is yourself?

no luvwinz, you misinterpreted my analogy.
Red(body)+breath/spirit(blue)=living soul(purple).
Soul (purple) cannot leave the body (red)

Body (red) + breath/spirit (blue)= the living soul (purple).
the living soul (purple) cannot leave the body (red)

Answer 1

um there is no soul, that was already proven. so it isn't biblical, but ignorant to say.

Answer 2

well really nobody knows how literally that is put. the actual meaning was the bodies were formed by clay and then God breathed life into the body which could mean he assembled it of flesh and blood and then just made the body alive ( transcribed as breathing life into them ) which would mean that the soul is the body and the body is the soul when you mix red and blue to get purple you cant seperate the purple because purple is purple not just red and blue

Answer 3

The Human Soul

Precisely the same Hebrew phrase used of the animal creation, namely, ne′phesh chai·yah′ (living soul), is applied to Adam, when, after God formed man out of dust from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, “the man came to be a living soul.” (Ge 2:7) Man was distinct from the animal creation, but that distinction was not because he was a ne′phesh (soul) and they were not. Rather, the record shows that it was because man alone was created “in God’s image.” (Ge 1:26, 27) He was created with moral qualities like those of God, with power and wisdom far superior to the animals; hence he could have in subjection all the lower forms of creature life. (Ge 1:26, 28) Man’s organism was more complex, as well as more versatile, than that of the animals. (1Co 15:39.) Likewise, Adam had, but lost, the prospect of eternal life; this is never stated with regard to the creatures lower than man.

Soul—A Living Creature

As stated, man “came to be a living soul”; hence man was a soul, he did not have a soul as something immaterial, invisible, and intangible residing inside him. The apostle Paul shows that the Christian teaching did not differ from the earlier Hebrew teaching, for he quotes Genesis 2:7 in saying: “It is even so written: ‘The first man Adam became a living soul.’ The first man is out of the earth and made of dust.” 1Co 15:45-47.

The Genesis account shows that a living soul results from the combination of the earthly body with the breath of life. The expression “breath of the force of life [literally, breath of the spirit, or active force (ru′ach), of life]” (Ge 7:22) indicates that it is by breathing air (with its oxygen) that the life-force, or “spirit,” in all creatures, man and animals, is sustained. This life-force is found in every cell of the creature’s body

Answer 4

Perhaps this will help you to understand.

I felt my babies soul and personality come into my body within 38 minutes of conception.

When I went into premature labor at 24 weeks and the placenta ripped before they were able to stop the labor I felt my babies soul leave 1 minute after the placenta ripped.

His body lived on from 3:35 P.M. when the placenta until 11:45 P.M. when his little heart stopped which was about 5 minutes before the contractions began from the doctors re-inducing labor and he was stillborn at about 11:55 P.M. on January 20, 1999.

And Yes, I do sometimes feel his presence with me even though his body was cremated long ago.

What are your questions?

Answer 5

You seem to be confusing the parts with the whole. If you, as you exist now are made of red (soul) and blue (body) equalling purple (your current "alive" state), why couldn't you then exist as purely red (soul) when your blue (body) dies? You would then exist in a spiritual form. You wouldn't be existing as your purple "alive" self ever again (not as you know it anyway).

Why would you be pulling purple from purple if all that is left is the soul?

Answer 6

I think your mixing metaphors.

lets say spirit is merely the raw energy that things like souls are "made of".

a soul, would be a bunch of "spirit" with a certain formation,

a soul, as we know it, without any experiences in human form, isn't much at all. like a hard drive without any data, and without being plugged in, is a paper weight.

so putting a spirit, into a human shell, while having the formation of a soul, makes us who we are, but the "who we are" is attached to the soul, not the body.

remember also sometimes "spirit" and "soul" are exchanged synonomously, even though most understand them to have distinct meanings now.

the self that is "left" after you die isn't EXACTLY the same as it was before you died, you still have your memories and such, but the perspective is different.

and to those who say its been proven theres no soul, lol, thats absurd.
and lack of evidence doesn't mean its not there. it just means you can't prove it is, at the current level of technology.

hopefully my explanation helps clarify the sitution.

Answer 7

I would say, no. The Bible says in Genesis 2:7 "the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." The breath of life makes our bodies alive, our spirit has always been. It is simply housed by our bodies.

Answer 8

No, the body is just the house for the Spirit to live in upon this earth, when the body dies the Spirit then goes, to Heaven if a person has excepted Christ as Saviour, or hell if the person has rejected Christ as Saviour.

Answer 9

I think, actually, that the line of thought would be more like:

So, you can take red out of purple and leave only the color blue... which is quite true.

Spirit and body = self, (living person)
remove self, (life) and spirit = body remaining
Quite true!!!

Answer 10

It is probably biblical. It is certainly nonsense. There is no evidence of any such thing as a soul as a separate corporeality distinct from the body that contains it.

Answer 11

Man does not HAVE a soul. He IS a soul. When God blew into him the breath of life, he came to BE a living soul. God said to him " from the dust(nonexistence) you were made, from the dust(nonexistence) you will return".