Can the definition of a soul found in Genesis 2:7 maintain its integrity throughout the Scriptures?

[Charlie744]

6 minutes ago, Dennis1209 said:

To try and simplify this a bit, if I'm understanding your question(s) correctly, my thoughts again?

We are tri-part human beings; body-soul-spirit. 

Romans 8:16 (KJV) The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: [emphasis added]. Every human from and including Adam is gifted a spirit. The upper case Spirit above is the Holy Spirit. 

Ecclesiastes 12:7 (KJV) Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. [emphasis added]

Adam never lost his spirit while he was in the flesh. He didn't lose it either when he died, it returned to the Lord (Ecc. 12:7).

Prior to the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit didn't permanently indwell anyone; the Holy Spirit made appearances; Samson as an example.

1 Samuel 16:13 (KJV) Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah. 

Adam sinned, therefore death entered the world and he would eventually physically die. Satan became the lord of the dead. Adam kept his human spirit until he died, when it returned unto the Lord. 

1 Corinthians 15:45 (KJV) And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

Hebrews 4:12 (KJV) For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Dennis, I will ATTEMPT to address your comments when I get back a little later on .... but IF I was successful in my initial post, there are / should be at least two steps here to confirm one’s belief in “what is a soul”: 

1) go back to the beginning of the Scriptures in Genesis 2:7 which I believe IS the definition of a soul and try and obtain everyone’s views / thoughts on what is being said.... This means we should NOT look beyond 2:7 AT THIS TIME to identify the definition of a soul OR rely on our CURRENT beliefs of what is a soul (tripartite or bipartite, or whatever). Try and erase all previous understanding of what we have been taught is a soul.

After we identify and can agree on 2:7 ONLY can we then move forward to challenge this definition against any and all subsequent mention of either “soul”, “spirit”, or where they are mentioned together. 

I believe you are now interested in moving on to challenge this definition by bringing forward some subsequent verses... am I correct?

But if you do not mind do you believe:

1) 2:7 IS the definition of a living soul? If not then I would ask you if you would offer where and what is your definition... (some point to the subsequent verses to offer their definitions of what is a soul. That can not work like that... God defines what a living soul is and then we can not deviate from His definition.)

I will be back later on and please consider responding to this before we can discuss your post above. Thank you, Charlie 

 

[Frits]

5 hours ago, Charlie744 said:

I do not believe God breathed THE Holy Spirit into Adam. The Holy Spirit IS God and one of the Trinity. God would breath into Adam His Spirit- part of Him that was righteous and Holy. EVERYTHING of and in God is ONLY Holy and Good and Perfect, therefore even a small breath into Adam would impart great righteousness. This is what separates man from all other creatures. 

I love this description of man. It reminds me of Psalm 8.

5 hours ago, Charlie744 said:

This was identified (for us) in the Scripture as Adam having a shroud or outer covering.

I'd like to read this, where do I look, Charlie?

5 hours ago, Charlie744 said:

Adam did not lose his body, His breathing ability, his human spirit, his ability to think, feel, smell, and everything that made him human but he did lose the one thing that allowed him to be in the Garden and walk with God. 

I can say frankly amen to that, Adam lost his justice: the condition to be allowed to eat from the tree of eternal life.

Yes, thanks again Charlie. You have provided a good explanation.

 

God bless you bro.

[Frits]

7 hours ago, Dennis1209 said:

Adam never lost his spirit while he was in the flesh. He didn't lose it either when he died, it returned to the Lord (Ecc. 12:7).

Hi Dennis,

Based on of the first verse, the book of Ecclesiastes is attributed to Solomon.

This OT man thought that after death the human spirit returns to God. (Ecc.12:7)
But was this actually so?

Before, Solomon had written in chapter 9:5,

"but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."

From the explanation of the Lord Jesus in Lk.16 we now know that Ecc.9:5 is incorrect. After all, Abraham said to the rich man 'Son, remember that' (25).

How should Solomon have known these heavenly secrets? Although (at first) a very wise man, he was not baptized with the Holy Spirit of God and had no knowledge of the hidden things.  The Lord Jesus has revealed them to us. (Mt.13:35)

After he sinned, what questions can we ask about Adam?  Was Adam then still a righteous or an unrighteous?  Can the spirit of the unrighteous exist with God after death?  No.  The loveless rich man turned out not to be with God after death, but Abraham and Lazarus.

Indeed, Adam lost not his spirit, but his righteousness through the fall.  His spirit became a "slave to sin," eventually sustaining Adam's natural life for up to 930 years. When he died, this 'sin slave' was taken to prison (Hades).  The only way for Adam to get out of that prison was to take hold of the hand of the Lord Jesus, as He entered there after His death on the cross, to preach His Gospel of salvation. (1Pt.3:19)

 

God bless you.

[Charlie744]

1 hour ago, Frits said:

I love this description of man. It reminds me of Psalm 8.

I'd like to read this, where do I look, Charlie?

I greatly rejoice in the Lord my soul rejoices with God for he has clothed me in the clothing of salvation, He has wrapped me in a robe of victory, like a bridegroom adorned with a turban and a bride bedecked with her finery (Isaiah 61:10).

When Adam and Eve sin, they lose the clothing of salvation. The result is the loss of Divine protection, of the feeling of nearness and closeness with God, the feeling of a child wrapped in the embrace of a loving mother. It is then that they feel naked. Their response is to cover their bodies, apparently oblivious to the damage done to their soul (their lose of His Spirit). In place of this "clothing of salvation" which has dissipated, they cover themselves, but God provides them with new clothing.

Personally, I don’t understand why folks find it difficult, possible or even likely that God did more than simply breath air into Adam. The creation of man was a departure from His creation of all of their creatures. The only difference of Adam before and after the fall was the lose of his or this “spirit” that He breathed into him . But again, this is just my opinion. 

 

1 hour ago, Frits said:

 

I can say frankly amen to that, Adam lost his justice: the condition to be allowed to eat from the tree of eternal life.

Yes, thanks again Charlie. You have provided a good explanation.

 

God bless you bro.

 

[Charlie744]

Frits, Please take a look at this writing also :

When Franz Rosenzweig published his unconventional German translation of ninety-two Hebrew poems by Judah Halevi, he headed his afterword self-effacingly with a plea from a German translator of The Iliad: "Oh dear reader, learn Greek and throw my translation into the fire."

My determined effort to convey a sense of the vast storehouse of creative Torah interpretation amassed by Jews through the ages carries the same fervent plea. Without some knowledge of Hebrew, it is nearly impossible to appreciate the inventive use of the language by Jewish exegetes as a tool to preserve the fluidity and fruitfulness of the biblical text. Faith in the godliness of the text transmuted its words and letters into materials almost infinitely malleable. Midrash ends up being the polar opposite of a fundamentalist worldview.

My example to illustrate this spiritual ferment is a single verse in this week's parashah, a telling detail in a gripping narrative that proved to be a deadend for the rationalists but a font of inspiration for the mystics. The change of a single Hebrew letter rendered the inert fecund. Before Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden of Eden for having eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, God provided them with clothing: "And the Lord God made garments of skin ('or with an 'ayin) for Adam and his wife and clothed them" (3:21).

In the narrative, this sudden display of divine tenderness follows directly upon the harsh punishments meted out by God to Adam and Eve and the snake for their failure to heed the one explicit prohibition that governed human life in the Garden. What is more, Adam and Eve were no longer naked. Immediately after their sin "they perceived that they were naked and sewed together fig leaves, making themselves loincloths" (3:7). Hence, God's solicitous gesture seems both unexpected and unnecessary: a fleeting expression of sorrow over the fate that awaits humanity outside the Garden.

In the twelfth century, Abraham Ibn Ezra, a major Spanish biblical commentator of a decidedly rationalistic bent, tried to fathom what actually happened in this gross instance of anthropomorphism. He came up with three possible explanations. First, Adam and Eve had been created without an exterior layer of skin. Anatomically, they consisted wholly of flesh and bones. Perhaps that was all they needed in the protective environment of Eden. Now, out of concern, God girded them with an epidermis.

Second, the phrase "garments of skin" could simply be understood as garments to cover their skin. And finally, Ibn Ezra quotes yet another opinion to the effect that, back then an animal lived that bore the shape of a human which God had skinned for human benefit. But after that farfetched conjecture, there were no more. Ibn Ezra's rationalism could take him no further. With an undertone of skepticism, he uncharacteristically avows his faith in the credibility of the text: "This is the end of our investigation. Let us simply believe that God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin. For who can recount God's mighty acts, and who can relate God's deeds and wonders? God's greatness brooks no scrutiny!" (ad loc. 3:21)

A century later, by the change of a single letter, the classic work of Jewish mysticism, the Zohar, a biblical commentary also authored in Spain, managed to spring the deadend into which Ibn Ezra had stumbled. The context for this exegetical move was a discussion of the special vestments worn by Aaron when officiating in the wilderness sanctuary, the Tabernacle. Because of the holiness of the place, his garments were actually akin to those used in the supernal world, made of remnants of pure light. TheZohar interpreted the rare and opaque noun seradin bigdei serad(garments of serad- Exodus 39:1, 41) to come from the verb saradmeaning to survive or be left over, that is remnants. Given that the Tabernacle was an island of heaven on earth, the priestly garment consisted of remnants from above. The sanctity of the site determined the ethereal nature of the garb.

Similarly holy, according to the Zohar, was the Garden of Eden. We are not to imagine that prior to the "garments of skin" made by God for Adam and Eve, they were utterly naked. On the contrary, their original garb, like that of Aaron in the Tabernacle, consisted of light, in consonance with the purity of their earthly paradise. In Hebrew the words for light and skin are homonyms, both pronounced 'or but spelled differently, light with an alef and skin with an ayin. That linguistic kinship enabled the Zohar to soar: by sinning, Adam and Eve had their garments of celestial light replaced by "garments of skin," which merely protected but no longer illuminated. Indeed, it was not their exterior but their interior which had mutated. Beyond paradise, there was neither comfort nor security nor wisdom (Zohar, II, 229a-b). The ethereal light that made everything humanly comprehendible had dimmed.

Some three-and-a-half centuries later, another kabbalist, Isaiah Horowitz, the author of a meta-halakhic work of grand scope and power, made the Zohar's explosive distinction between garments of light and garments of skin the linchpin of his mystical worldview. Our garments are our cognitive limitations. Bereft of the light of Eden, we no longer see the interconnectedness of heaven and earth or spirit and matter. Even the perfection of the Torah eludes us. In Eden, for example, we would have instantaneously recognized the Oral Law (the Talmud et al.) to be an integral part of the Written Law, and never needed to extract it through painstaking study and interpretation or to preserve it in written form. The expulsion made everything so much more obscure and impenetrable. Of all human beings since, only Moses attained the spiritual and intellectual powers that were once destined to be our common endowment. (Shenei Luhot Ha-brit, Israel 1997,Pesahim 348-355).

In retrospect, then, Ibn Ezra's profession of faith was a statement of rationalistic poverty, while the spiritual ardor of the mystics turned clay into gold.

Shabbat shalom,

Ismar Schorsch

[Charlie744]

On 1/2/2021 at 4:29 PM, Frits said:

Hi Charlie,

I respect that Charlie. But may I also have a few questions about it?
If Adam lost his spirit in the fall, how could he live without spirit for 930 years?  (Gen.5: 5)

Hello again Frits... I think I may have mentioned that Adam lost the "spirit" given to him by God not his human spirit or his "human being". He still was a living soul but he now would put on mortality.  I also think there is maybe a connection between / found in other verses - IN Psalm 90:

         3  You turn people back to dust,
                            saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”
         A thousand years in your sight
                            are like a day that has just gone by,
                            or like a watch in the night.

 

                                              - IN Genesis 2:9

  

¹⁶    And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from             any tree in the garden; ¹⁷ but you must not eat from the tree of the           knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will                     certainly die.”

                                                    - IN 2 Peter 3:8

          But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day              is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

Adam died "spiritually" immediately but he died physically some 930 years later. However, both could be interpreted as immediately or within one day.

Spiritually, Adam lost his covering and became mortal that very day, but he would also live almost one full day or 930 years (70 years short of one day of 1,000 years).

 

It is because of the glory with which they were clothed that they were not ashamed. When it was taken away from them—after they had violated the commandment—they were indeed ashamed, because they were now naked (Commentary on Genesis, 2:14). : Ephraem

 

[W]hile sin and disobedience had not yet come on the scene, they were clad in that glory from above which caused them no shame. But after the breaking of the law, then entered the scene both shame and awareness of their nakedness. (Louth, Conti and Oden, Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Old Testament I, Genesis 1-11 2001, 72) Chrysostom.

NKJV - Revelation 3:15-18 - “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. ... 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.

   In Scripture, "Garments" are Metaphorical for "works", both righteousness and evil:

NKJV, Isaiah 59:6 - Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands.

NASB, Isaiah 61:10 - I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

NKJV, Daniel 7:9 - “I watched till thrones were put in place, And the Ancient of Days was seated; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, Its wheels a burning fire;

NKJV, Zechariah 3:4 - Then He answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, “Take away the filthy garments from him.” And to him He said, “See, I have removed your iniquity from you, and I will clothe you with rich robes.”

 

On 1/2/2021 at 4:29 PM, Frits said:

The spirit that Adam had — whom you believe taken away — can't possibly be the Holy Spirit of God.

We see their creation, and in Genesis 2:25 it reads " and they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed" but then, in Gen 3:7 "Then their eyes were opened and they knew that they were naked"

Well, the question might be put, didn't they realize before that they were naked? that they didn't have a stitch of clothing on? I mean, YHVH didn't created them with Levis, they came straight from the earth, and from the rib. So, how do we deal with this question,

There is a saying, "If a tree fell in the forest 6000 years ago, did it make a noise?" We would answer, "Yes" but then, the other person would say; "how do you know that? you weren't there to hear or see it" Then you would say "Well, when a tree today falls in the forest, it makes a noise, so it must have made a noise 6000 years ago" We are relying on other evidence to assume something we did not actually see or hear. This is what we must do with the "nakedness of Adam and Eve" for this, we must go forward in time a few thousand years, to where Moses was on Sinai, this is when he received the second set of tablets with the commandments, he had been on Mt. Sinai 40 days and nights, alone in the presence of YHVH, and when he came down.....

... Moses did not know that the skin on his face SHONE while he talked with Him (G-d) Exodus 34:30

Imagine that, Moses was "glowing" with the "shekinah of YHVH" because of being in HIS presence for 40 days, and this is Moses, who was born a sinner, just like all of us, yet he GLOWED with the glory of YHVH,

Now, could it be that, just perhaps, before the sin of Adam and Eve, when they were still perfect and sinless, the "glory / Shekinah " of YHVH covered them BOTH? being, sort of saying, their "clothing/covering" over their skin? In the Hebrew, the words "light" and "skin" are pronounced the same; "or" only difference is that the word "light" is spelled with an "Alef" and "skin" with an "ayin" the word "Naked" is "arom" in Hebrew, the first letter is also an "ayin" the letter "ayin" in Hebrew is the symbol for "eye" something to see with! and if we were to look at the word "arom" using the ancient Hebrew letter-symbols, we would tend to get the message "seeing man, who used to be supreme, is connected to chaos" so "nakedness" symbolized "sin and chaos"

When Adam and Eve, "were naked and not ashamed" could this mean that they did not have any "material" clothing on, like tunics, nor sandals, nor animal skins, yet they were "covered" still by the Shekinah light of YHVH? if Moses "glowed" just by being in the presence of YHVH for 40 days, imagine Adam and Eve who were "perfect and sinless" and in constant fellowship with their creator? how much more they had to glow, radiate with the light and glory of God, that was their "covering" once they sinned, we can imagine that the "covering of light" diminished and finally disappeared, leaving them THEN "Naked" that is when they discovered their "nakedness" since they had no more covering of light, we can connect this with YHVH's question to them

"Who told you that you were naked? did you eat of the tree of knowledge of Good and evil?" YHVH is giving them a chance to confess, they could relate their now "nakedness" with their "sin" and loss of the "covering of Shekinah"

For this reason, a clean animal (or animals) were sacrificed , and the skins of the animals made into coverings for Adam and Eve, so that their "sins were covered" in the sight of G-d. How much fortunate we are today, for our sins are "forgiven" and "erased" completely through the "blood of Yeshua" and even though we might not have an external glowing light, we have the ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) living inside of us, who is in a way, "Ha Or Shekinah" (The shekinah glory) and gives testimony to our "Yeshuah" (Salvation)

rabbi Ben Avraham

On 1/2/2021 at 4:29 PM, Frits said:

Adam is clearly described as "The first man Adam was made a living soul".
The last Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ as "was made a quickening spirit."
(1Co.15: 45)

If Adam had already had the spirit of Pentecost, wouldn't he also be described as "a quickening spirit"?

God bless you.

 

[Frits]

8 hours ago, Charlie744 said:

Hello again Frits... I think I may have mentioned that Adam lost the "spirit" given to him by God not his human spirit or his "human being". He still was a living soul but he now would put on mortality.  I also think there is maybe a connection between / found in other verses - IN Psalm 90:

         3  You turn people back to dust,
                            saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”
         A thousand years in your sight
                            are like a day that has just gone by,
                            or like a watch in the night.

 

                                              - IN Genesis 2:9

  

¹⁶    And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from             any tree in the garden; ¹⁷ but you must not eat from the tree of the           knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will                     certainly die.”

                                                    - IN 2 Peter 3:8

          But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day              is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

Adam died "spiritually" immediately but he died physically some 930 years later. However, both could be interpreted as immediately or within one day.

Spiritually, Adam lost his covering and became mortal that very day, but he would also live almost one full day or 930 years (70 years short of one day of 1,000 years).

 

It is because of the glory with which they were clothed that they were not ashamed. When it was taken away from them—after they had violated the commandment—they were indeed ashamed, because they were now naked (Commentary on Genesis, 2:14). : Ephraem

 

[W]hile sin and disobedience had not yet come on the scene, they were clad in that glory from above which caused them no shame. But after the breaking of the law, then entered the scene both shame and awareness of their nakedness. (Louth, Conti and Oden, Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Old Testament I, Genesis 1-11 2001, 72) Chrysostom.

NKJV - Revelation 3:15-18 - “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. ... 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.

   In Scripture, "Garments" are Metaphorical for "works", both righteousness and evil:

NKJV, Isaiah 59:6 - Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands.

NASB, Isaiah 61:10 - I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

NKJV, Daniel 7:9 - “I watched till thrones were put in place, And the Ancient of Days was seated; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, Its wheels a burning fire;

NKJV, Zechariah 3:4 - Then He answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, “Take away the filthy garments from him.” And to him He said, “See, I have removed your iniquity from you, and I will clothe you with rich robes.”

 

We see their creation, and in Genesis 2:25 it reads " and they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed" but then, in Gen 3:7 "Then their eyes were opened and they knew that they were naked"

Well, the question might be put, didn't they realize before that they were naked? that they didn't have a stitch of clothing on? I mean, YHVH didn't created them with Levis, they came straight from the earth, and from the rib. So, how do we deal with this question,

There is a saying, "If a tree fell in the forest 6000 years ago, did it make a noise?" We would answer, "Yes" but then, the other person would say; "how do you know that? you weren't there to hear or see it" Then you would say "Well, when a tree today falls in the forest, it makes a noise, so it must have made a noise 6000 years ago" We are relying on other evidence to assume something we did not actually see or hear. This is what we must do with the "nakedness of Adam and Eve" for this, we must go forward in time a few thousand years, to where Moses was on Sinai, this is when he received the second set of tablets with the commandments, he had been on Mt. Sinai 40 days and nights, alone in the presence of YHVH, and when he came down.....

... Moses did not know that the skin on his face SHONE while he talked with Him (G-d) Exodus 34:30

Imagine that, Moses was "glowing" with the "shekinah of YHVH" because of being in HIS presence for 40 days, and this is Moses, who was born a sinner, just like all of us, yet he GLOWED with the glory of YHVH,

Now, could it be that, just perhaps, before the sin of Adam and Eve, when they were still perfect and sinless, the "glory / Shekinah " of YHVH covered them BOTH? being, sort of saying, their "clothing/covering" over their skin? In the Hebrew, the words "light" and "skin" are pronounced the same; "or" only difference is that the word "light" is spelled with an "Alef" and "skin" with an "ayin" the word "Naked" is "arom" in Hebrew, the first letter is also an "ayin" the letter "ayin" in Hebrew is the symbol for "eye" something to see with! and if we were to look at the word "arom" using the ancient Hebrew letter-symbols, we would tend to get the message "seeing man, who used to be supreme, is connected to chaos" so "nakedness" symbolized "sin and chaos"

When Adam and Eve, "were naked and not ashamed" could this mean that they did not have any "material" clothing on, like tunics, nor sandals, nor animal skins, yet they were "covered" still by the Shekinah light of YHVH? if Moses "glowed" just by being in the presence of YHVH for 40 days, imagine Adam and Eve who were "perfect and sinless" and in constant fellowship with their creator? how much more they had to glow, radiate with the light and glory of God, that was their "covering" once they sinned, we can imagine that the "covering of light" diminished and finally disappeared, leaving them THEN "Naked" that is when they discovered their "nakedness" since they had no more covering of light, we can connect this with YHVH's question to them

"Who told you that you were naked? did you eat of the tree of knowledge of Good and evil?" YHVH is giving them a chance to confess, they could relate their now "nakedness" with their "sin" and loss of the "covering of Shekinah"

For this reason, a clean animal (or animals) were sacrificed , and the skins of the animals made into coverings for Adam and Eve, so that their "sins were covered" in the sight of G-d. How much fortunate we are today, for our sins are "forgiven" and "erased" completely through the "blood of Yeshua" and even though we might not have an external glowing light, we have the ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) living inside of us, who is in a way, "Ha Or Shekinah" (The shekinah glory) and gives testimony to our "Yeshuah" (Salvation)

rabbi Ben Avraham

 

Hi Charie,
Surely it is very special that the verses from Genesis can make us so happy!  I've always had a special love for Genesis. The original beginning that God the Father started with creation, started with the angels, created the earth, started with us, and the why of all this.

The Lord Jesus has also read Genesis, and mentions some original aspects.  That, for example, Abel was a righteous person. (Mt. 23:35)

To indicate the original purpose of God, the Lord Jesus sometimes used the term "but from the beginning."  Eg that the Lord God created 'man and woman', the sacred foundation of marriage. (Mt.19:4-8)
Genesis contains a wealth of knowledge that we may receive when we read the text together and are inspired by the Holy Spirit.
The piece you have written now also contributes to that, well done and thank you!
Now notice the following similarities as we
summarizing transpose natural life to spiritual reality:

1a) I am a person and I have a body.

1b) I am a soul and I have a spirit.

Here you see the correlation between 'person' and 'soul', as well as the correlation between 'body' and 'spirit'.

The spiritual body houses the soul, as the "heart" is in the interior of the earthly body.

The soul resides in the body;  temporarily in the earthly body, eternally in the heavenly.  We can lose the earthly body, never the heavenly.

Within this metaphor of body and spirit, I would like to draw your attention to Lk.11:20, where the Lord Jesus says:

'But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.'

In the parallel text Mt.12: 28 'finger' is represented by 'Spirit'.

'Finger' is part of the body, again the correlation between body and Spirit.  With our spirit we can take hold of something in the Kingdom of God, as our hand on earth takes hold of something.
You heard that through the Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus your sins are forgiven, you are now a righteous person, take it and hold on!

The righteous man "wears" and moves in the righteousness of God, that is, his spirit (body) is covered with a "spotless" white garment.

The sinner, by sinning, has put off the garment of righteousness. His spirit loses the light of God and enters 'the shadow of death'.  When he dies, the great demasqué follows, when his soul awakens in the realm of the dead. (Hades)

We'll talk about it a lot more, Charlie.  Unfortunately, my work means I have a little less time from January. (I read my mail every day.)

 

P.s. this is off topic here, but Moses was not born a sinner. We can also complement each other on that.

God bless bro.

[Leonardo Von]

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Can the definition of a soul found in Genesis 2:7 maintain its integrity throughout the Scriptures?

In Genesis 2:7 soul has the meaning of living being. However, soul is a nature that the man received from the Creator when he was sent to this world.

[Markie51]

I agree with your post.  Good work!