Did God create our spirits before we were flesh living on earth, and was it all the same time?

Question

There has to be a reason for our test here on earth, I don't think God made us to test us. It's like we have to prove something we have done or didn't do

Answer 1

Yes, God did create our spirits before he created Adam and Eve's physical bodies.

Genesis 1:27 says that He made man (male and female) in his own image. This was the spiritual creation.
Then in Genesis 2:7 says that He "formed man of the dust of the ground." This was the physical creation. and then in verse 8 it says He "put" Adam in Eden.
If you read Genesis 2:4-8, you will see that it actually says that everything had a spiritual creation prior to its physical creation.

As far as testing or proving us is concerned, in a way we are being tested and proved, as we have to show that we are righteous and worthy enough to return to live with HIm again.
Though part of the reason for us being here is to obtain a physical body.

Answer 2

Actually it was God breathing His own Spirit into the form of man that initiated the whole beginning for man. The bible says that God breathed into man after He had formed Him and man became a living soul. The consciousness that was characteristic of the first "Adam" is the residual effect of the contact of Spirit with the flesh. Through reproduction down through the ages we have within us the result of the original confiquration of the DNA which causes us to have the same potential as Adam had before the fall however we do not possess the openess to the Spiritual communion that Adam had before the fall. It is not until we are "born again" that our spirit is reconnected with the Spirit of God and in this way we can truly be said to be a "new creature" in Christ.
Oh and by the way Jesus never claimed to be the way the truth the life and the test. Its a relationship, not a test ok?

Answer 3

Souls were created, it was and is the spirit from God that is the life of the soul, the imperfections of sin was passed onto the born, we are alienated from God, a SAVIOR will make the dead alive and bring them back to God,
who did not wipe all out, but allowed us life Num.22:16; it is the spirit that is the life of the born souls and life gets shorter Gen.6:3; Moses age 120 1513 BCE, Psm.90:10; David age 70 is old age, at 1037 BCE. Eccl.3:19-21; 12:7; the spirit returns to God who gives it at death, at the resurrection of the soul, the spirit of God returns to the soul. Psm.104:29,30 as if they are created out of the dust. Eze.37:12-14; Acts 2:27-31; James 2:26; Gen.3:19; Dead is dead. Dead is silence, in death there is no thought. Rev.11:18; Time for the dead to be raised. Rev.20:1-6; No Satan 1000 years. John 6:39,40,44; After the heavenly are raised up. Rev.20:12,13; Rev.20:7-10 [ Satan gone ];
They resurrect the earthly. John 5:26-29; Dan.12:2; Isa.26:19; Job 19:25, 26;
Acts 17:31; 24:15; Rom.14:9-12; Philip.2:5,9-12; 2Cor.5:10; Judges Heb.9:27;

Eph.2:7; 3:21; The world with Jesus is without end. John 3:16; 2Pet.3:13;

Answer 4

God didn't create us. The idea of a god and the teachings of the bible are nothing more than human beings rationalizing their existence. After all, are we not rational beings if nothing else? We always have to have a rational explanation for everything, it's only human, so why would man not come up with a good THEORY to explain how we got here?

Answer 5

We existed long before we were born. God asks Job where he was when the foundations of the earth were laid, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. We existed when the foundations of the earth were laid. That's just the foundations of it. So we existed before we were born. How much longer only God knows.

The link below will bring you to a page with scriptures concerning the antemortal existence of man.

Answer 6

What looks like a test may just be freedom. God would like to be loved by people who are free.

Answer 7

First, let’s look at the real meaning behind the word “spirit”. The original Hebrew word is “ruach”, and the Greek is “pneuma”. These words to not refer to an entity unto itself, but the animating force of a living, breathing creature.

To illustrate:
When you unplug a radio, does the electricity that was running it go anywhere? No, it’s simply gone. Neither does our spirit go anywhere. It simply stops animating our body, making us dead.

The word soul (since I know that’ll be your next question), is “nephesh” in Hebrew, and “psykhe” in Greek. Again, these words do not refer to a spirit creature inside us. The words refer to the entire creature itself. Genesis 2:7 says: “And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.” It doesn’t say he came to HAVE a living soul, but that he came to BE a living soul. In numerous other places in the Bible, animals are spoken of as being souls also. To back this up further, Ezekiel 18:4 says: “Look! All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son—to me they belong. The soul that is sinning—it itself will die” This shows that souls (or creatures) die. Traditional doctrine says that the soul is immortal, but this clearly says otherwise.

Answer 8

god didnt create us to test us.... he created us to live in a utopia... earth is supposed to be another heaven, but the sin of adam and eve created the life we have now....
god created us with free will so he cant intervene, the last time he did was moses and the flood... and he promised never to do it again with a rainbow.

now with that free will we can choose to believe or not, and the devil tries to make us unbelievers.

satan uses things to pull us away from god, and god in return uses satan's deceptions to draw us closer to god.

Answer 9

Yes we were created before this Earth Age in which we are born innocent of Satan's rebellion through the womb.

Answer 10

hmm.
i dont believe in god but grew up believing in him,but i think that we all recarnate and live another live based on what we lived in the pass.like the mistakes[not sins] you did in the past,if your truly srry for it then when you live your other life,you'd know better then to do it again.