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Wierwille, Victor P. Power for Abundant Living. New Knoxville, OH, U.S.A.: American Christian Press, 1971. ISBN:0910068011. 368 pages. [Part IV The New Birth. Chapter 16. Body, Soul, Spirit - Formed, Made, Created, pp. 229-247.]

The subject we are going to be moving into now is one of the great subjects in the Word of God which I'm going to endeavor to unfold and make living and real for you. It is the section that deals with the battle of the senses versus revelation faith in the light of the new birth.

In other words we are going to be dealing with the battle that rages between the senses and revelation faith and in its relationship to the new birth.

You see, the study that we are now getting into on the new birth and the battle of the senses versus revelation faith is the whole crux of Christianity. If you get this clear and if you understand what this is all about then everything else will fall into proper order and sequence. But if you do not understand the battle of the senses versus revelation faith or the new birth then nothing will jell, nothing will fit consistently. It will not cohere and work with a mathematical exactness and scientific precision.

There are very few people in the Church who have ever understood or been able to explain the new birth and to make it fit with both life and with the Word of God, very few.

Now, I cannot explain the new birth to you. The new birth is the miracle of all miracles. I cannot explain it, that's right. But I believe that by God's mercy and grace, I can take you into the Word and that this Word of God with the power of God in it, and your understanding of it, that it, will explain itself to you, so that you will understand it.

You see, if you are going to explain something you have to be bigger than that which you can explain or that which you do explain. This is why when I hear the arguments that people give for the existence of God--all of us have been educated along these lines where they've given us these arguments for the existence of God like the cosmological and the teological, all of those--they prove absolutely nothing.

Because if I'm going to prove God Almighty I've got to be bigger than that which I can prove. I'd have to be bigger than God. Like I tell my people, "old Henry could explain the Ford. The Ford never explained Henry."

So, now we'll get into the depth of this thing because to get to the greatness of God's Word we will have to realize some of these fundamental and foundational truths regarding this new birth and the battle that rages between the senses and faith.

Now, this natural man, and when I speak of the natural man I speak of the man of body and soul. The man who is not born again of God's spirit. He is a wonderful man. He's maybe a good hearted man. He may be a wonderful benefactor, loving and everything else. I'm talking about the natural man and I'm speaking accurately Biblically. And I'm using my words semantically in the right way according to the Word of God.

The natural man, this man of body and soul is limited to the information gathered via the five senses. The five senses are the only media, the only avenues, the only channels of learning that the natural man has. Everything that ever comes to the human mind of the natural man has to come over one or the other of these five senses. He either sees it, he hears it, he smells it, he tastes it or he touches it. These are the five senses. Everything that this man ever learns he learns by a combination of one or the other of those five senses.

You see, to learn anything, (now this is a foundational truth and listen carefully) to learn anything we must have a center for learning which is outside of the individual seeking. Man needs a point of contact which is outside of the man for learning. Truth needs a center of reference which is not the man seeking.

You see, if we are going to learn anything we can only learn from an outside source. We either have to see it, hear it, smell it, taste it or touch it. So to learn anything and this law of learning is dynamically important that you realize that every person who learns, learns practically the same way through one or the other or a combination of those five senses.

Take for instance the learning process of a baby. If a baby could be born and live without any of the five senses, now this I know is scientifically and medically impossible. There is no record of any child ever having been born alive without one or the other of those senses. But just to teach, listen. If it could be born without one of the five senses, without any of those five senses that child could never learn. It couldn't learn a thing.

The reason a child can learn is because a child has the five senses and it has a center of reference outside of the child. The baby is born for instance, and lo and behold, right after it is born, they give it to its mother. The mother immediately begins talking to the baby and says, "my, aren't you just the cutest thing." And it's redder than a beet. And she'll talk to that little baby just like as if that baby is already graduating from high school or from college.

Well, what is the mother to that baby? That mother is a point of reference. A center of reference for learning outside of the baby. Pretty soon father comes in and when father comes in they allow him to hold the baby. He's scarred to death because it's so tiny he's afraid he'll break it in two. But he looks at it and he says, "my goodness, looks just like me" or "like your mother!"

The father becomes a center of reference. It has sisters and brothers, all of these are centers of reference for learning which are outside of the baby.

The child grows up, a few years old, gets out to play in the streets and alleys, and everyplace else with the rest of the children. Lo and behold, all of those children are centers of reference for learning for that baby, that child. It comes home one night and at the supper table, or just before supper he uses a word which ordinarily is not used in your home and you scratch your head wondering where did he pick that up. Well, he learned it from someone. He learned it from someone.

Now this child goes to school, to kindergarten for instance. Every teacher is a center of reference for learning. All the children are. All the books that this child has read to it or that it will begin to read as it gets older.

It goes through grade school. It goes through high school. And then let's say this young man starts out for college. In college all the professors, all the students, all the reading, all of this is a center of reference for learning.

You see how the learning process operates. Put it in the field of philosophy. This is a field of course many people know, I am dynamically interested in, and whether I'm qualified or not in the field, someone else could judge. But I do have a major in both philosophy and history and I've been deeply concerned about the philosophical field.

But why is it that one person follows Plato and another person follows Aristotle someone else follows Socrates, somebody else will follow Freud or Hazel or Nietzsche, why? Very simple. Let's say that I am a student of philosophy and I study all these different men. They are all lodged up here what they have said. Now I have a hodge-podge of different opinions, viewpoints up here.

All of these men are centers of reference for learning but in areas they vary and differ. So here I am with confusion. Now in my mind I begin to catalogue. I separate out that which appeals to me or that which I feel is right or truth philosophically.

And let's say after a period of time by the process of elimination I come to the place that I believe that Aristotle had the greatest amount of philosophical accuracy. And I say "well as for me from now on I am going to follow Aristotle." Then what do I become philosophically? An Aristotelian.

Or if I should decide that Plato is the most accurate of them all, then I become what they call in philosophical circles a Platonist. Or a Freudian.

Do you see how this all came about? All because the natural man has to have a center of reference for learning which is outside of the individual seeking. He has to have a point of contact. But we not only need a point, most of us have had multiple points, thousands upon thousands.

"What about the religious field?" Alright, here's a young child. Dad and mother belong to a certain denomination so this child is brought up in that denomination. And when the child, let's say is nine or ten or eleven years old, it visits with another boyfriend or girlfriend and goes to their Sunday school and church. And there that morning it's a different denomination. He hears it from a different viewpoint and it contradicts what he's been taught in his own church. Now he has two opinions in his mind. Two things lodged up there.

Then let's say later on he goes to another church of another denomination. And speaking about the same passage of scripture he now hears a third viewpoint. These are all centers of reference outside of the individual seeking.

Then let's say he goes to college. And let's say in his particular church he was taught that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and that this theory of evolution is only a theory. It has never been a proven fact. As a matter of fact it's is totally unproven and unscientific. Today we've proven this.

But, he goes to college and his professor in biology or some other course teaches him that man evolved by the process of evolution, the Darwin theory. Which contradicts what the accuracy of the Word says. Now, the boy has it up here, now he has to make a decision! And you know what decision he will end up making most of the time? He will agree with that decision which most of the students propound. Why do the students propound this theory? Because of what the professor taught. The professor taught him, he believed what he taught.

Now he teaches his students. That's how we get all the theories like the theory of evolution from the college professor into the high school professor into the grade school teacher. Because they were all educated by this man carried on down the line.

So, here I am in the religious field. And I go on to college, then I go on to seminary, let's say. And I study under all these men, every one of the men I study under, every theologian I read is a center of reference for learning outside of the individual seeking. They are all lodged up here in my mind.

And I have up here a tremendous amount of confusion. Oh, I won't admit this to anybody. But everybody that's ever passed through it knows it. Because he's never quite sure of any one thing. Because here's a great professor who said one thing and an equally great professor, on the other hand, said something which absolutely contradicted what this professor said. So I have this in my mind. I'm confused but I won't admit this because I want everybody to think that I'm not confused that I'm the man that has all the answers, you know. But I'm really confused.

So, through the process of elimination again in my mind, and in cataloging these things. Let's say that I come to the conclusion that in my way of thinking, in my pattern of life, and in what I believe is true, Martin Luther had the greatest curb on truth and the accuracy, and I then in turn become what we call a Lutheran. That's right. On the other hand let's say that I would conclude that John Calvin had the greatest accuracy then I turn out to be a Calvinist. Or I turn out to be a Barthian or a Bullinger or something else because I have by the process of elimination in cataloging things in my mind, I have come to the conclusion that these men had the greatest truth. This is how we got men and denominations where we speak of them as Lutheran or as Baptists or as Methodists or as Calvinists.

All through the understanding of how the senses operate in the natural man. And how the five senses seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching, that all of those five senses account for the information that comes to the human mind. And this is why we believe what we believe.

Now, knowing logically that we have to have a center of reference, every person, and I put it in the singular because this is truth. We have to have at least one center for learning which is outside of the individual. But most of us have had multiple centers; we are confused in a multiple way.

This knowing how the law of learning operates and how this thing works, I came to the conclusion many years ago that for me this Word of God, this Bible--not the King James version, but THE Word of God which was given when holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy spirit--that this Word of God is my only source for truth outside of the individual seeking.

This is my primary and sole rule for faith and practice. This is why the law of learning, operating the way it does, and our knowledge of this, I have to have some center of reference. For years I read around the Word of God; two, three theological works a week, every week. Because I just love to read and so I read and read and read. Well, these men were all centers of reference for learning and all I got was a hodge-podge of personal conviction but it was basically confusion. Because, equally great men regarding the same verse of scripture would contradict each other.

So, when I began to understand the operation of the senses in relationship to learning, I finally came to the conclusion that instead of staying in confusion with all of men's opinions a lifetime, I was willing to come to one point, one center of reference for truth which was outside of the individual seeking, and that was THE Word of God! And I've staked my life on the accuracy and the integrity of God's Word. If this Word is wrong, then I'm going to be wrong in what I teach. But I'm willing to take that "chance" as you would call it. As John Paul Jones or someone said "he's willing to go down with the ship." I'm willing to go down with the ship.

If the Word of God is wrong I'm going to be wrong in everything that I've taught you in this class on "Power for Abundant Living". And everything we are dealing with now, I could be wrong on, but if the Word of God is right, then the law of learning substantiates the truth that we're presenting and that is that this becomes our sole reference, our primary, our only rule of faith and practice outside of the individual seeking. We have to have something to turn to because you must learn, you must learn from something which is outside of you. Man needs a point of contact which is outside of him.

This is why I believe that the Word takes the place of the absent Christ. The holy spirit takes the place of Christ in us through His Word. I believe that the Bible gives the truth regarding man's origin, regarding man's fall, regarding the destiny of man. I believe that the Bible gives the truth regarding man's redemption, his dominion, authority and power over all of God's creation. I think the Bible gives the truth regarding the future destiny of man. I think it gives the truth regarding the origin and purpose of the Israelite nation. I think the Bible gives the truth regarding God and His family. I think the Bible gives the truth regarding Jesus Christ, his coming, his death, his resurrection, his ascension, his giving of the holy spirit, his return. I believe that the Bible gives the truth regarding the new heaven and the new earth that God is going to come to establish. I think it gives the truth regarding the new creation, the resurrection, and many other unknown matters.

I believe that the Bible gives the truth, not facts. Facts come from the Latin word, in part from factum which means "to do" or "to make". Anything man does, anything man makes is a fact. But I believe that the Word of God is truth. Truth is that which eternally is the same yesterday, today and forever. And I believe that the Word of God is truth.

And I believe that this revelation, this revelation in the Word of God is an absolute necessity for this senses man if this senses man is going to be an educated, if he is going to be a complete man. Without the accurate knowledge of that which is written in God's Word the best of natural men will never be complete. They will never arrive at the place that they know that they know that they know, that they know and that they are completely satisfied. Because this revelation, this revelation in the Word of God must be known by the natural man if he is going to be a complete man.

Now, I'd like for you to turn to Isaiah chapter 43. I want to read you a verse of scripture, or read it with you, that is singularly and dynamically important and few people really stay put on it. Listen, verse 7 of Isaiah 43:

So, I say to my class "are those three words "I created him, I formed him, I made him", are those three words--"created, formed and made" synonymous?" And you know what most of the people say in my class? "Yes". And you know what I say? "NO!"

Why? Well, I've just taught you that the Word means what it says and it says what it means. It is of no private interpretation. When God said "formed" what does He mean? Formed. When He says "made" what does He mean? Made. When He says "created" what does He mean? Created.

Had He meant formed all the way through, you know what the Word would say? Formed at all three places. Why does it say? "I created man, I formed man, I made man"! Because that's what He means. Now, it's up to us then to find out what does it mean when He created, made and formed man.

Take another verse of scripture in Thessalonians chapter 5 and verse 23:

Are those three words "your whole spirit, soul and body" synonymous? I know what you'll say, "no they are not." Well you are surely right. No more so than formed, made or created are synonymous. Body, soul and spirit are not synonymous. Body means body. Soul means soul. Spirit means spirit.

Now, it is up to us to go to the Word and let the Word speak as to what it is that is formed, made or created. What is body, soul and spirit?

"In the beginning", in the beginning! When was this? In the beginning! How many years ago? I do not know, nor anybody else. Later on, when I read Genesis with you, I'll be back to this, but as you know, it says in Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

It's in the beginning [Somebody once said "this was a place where the first ball game was mentioned--in the big-inning"] So, we are back here in the beginning. In the beginning, whenever that was, man was formed, made and created. He was a three-fold being. The body of man was formed. The soul of man was made. And the spirit within man was created. This is "in the beginning." This is why Isaiah speaks of it as formed, made and created. This is why Thessalonians speaks of it as body, soul and spirit.

The body of man was formed. The soul of man was made. And the spirit within man was created. This is "in the beginning."

Now we turn to Genesis to chapter 2 and verse 7. We will be going into Genesis time and time again now to see the great accuracy of God's Word and how it answers every question.

There is the word "formed." "Formed" man of the dust of the ground, and this word "formed" means "to fashion." He formed man's body. He formed it of the dust of the ground and the Hebrew word for formed is the word yatsar. It is this word in the Hebrew. The word for formed is the word yatsar. It means "to fashion out of something", "to fashion out of something that is already in existence." This is the meaning of the word "formed." Formed is "to fashion", "to mold", "to give it a form." And it says this is what He formed of the dust of the ground.

According to Genesis 2:7 the Lord God in the beginning formed man of the dust of the ground. He formed his body. Had God wanted man to look differently than he looks, He could have formed him in some other way. Because other animals were formed differently. And therefore the Lord God gave man a form.

And I tell you to this day any place you go in the world you have very little difficulty in distinguishing between a man and a monkey. Have you? I'm sure you don't even though a man may act like a monkey half of the time, it doesn't make him a monkey; or maybe a man acts like a jackass, that doesn't make him a jackass. You have no difficulty distinguishing between the form of a jackass and the form of a man. Why? Because in the beginning the Lord God formed the body of man.

The [Heb.] word "man" is the word adam. The word adam means red. And because He formed it of the dust of the ground; the same basic chemical elements that are in the dust of the ground are in that part of man which God formed when He formed the body.

It's the body that is made up of dust. He formed man of the dust of the ground. The word yatsar is this word "formed." Which means "to fashion out of something which is already created." Had it not been in existence, God could not have used this to form or to fashion. This is why in Genesis chapter 3 in verse 19 it says:

What is this verse talking about? It's talking about the body. The body was taken out of the dust, formed of the dust. The same elements that make up the dust of the earth, the ground of the earth, are the same elements chemically that make up the physical human body. The flesh part that which you see here, this part is made up, formed like this.

You can go, for instance, in the most interior part of Africa and you can look at a pygmy and you can tell that that pygmy has a form--a form that puts the pygmy in the category of mankind. Have no difficulty with this.

The Lord formed the body. And He said, "dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return." What's He talking about? He's talking about the body. He's talking about the body because of the law that's involved. Everything must ultimately go back to its original state.

Here's a desk. This desk looks solid but it really is not solid it is just a compaction of molecules more or less, everything else that's involved. You cannot destroy this desk. You may burn it. You can do other things to it but you can't destroy it. You can only change its form because nothing is ever lost. Nothing is ever destroyed. It all has to go back to its original from whence it came.

So, here you have for instance where it said, "the Lord God formed the body of man." He formed the body. He made it look like this, gave it curves, as I tell my class many times. Had God wanted you to look like this. He'd have had you looking like that, but He gave it those pretty little curves.

He formed the body. Now, this body is formed of the same elements that are in the ground; the dust, the dirt, the ground. Every man's body to this day is made up of the same stuff, and ultimately, finally, that which is of the dust must return to dust again. That's what He's talking about.

It reminds me of a story of a boy who had been to Sunday school. And coming home at noon he was eating dinner with his mother and father and he propounded a question which was quite interesting. He said, "mother in Sunday school this morning they were teaching about Genesis and how we are all made of dust. And is this true?" And mother said, "why? Sure Johnny, it's true." And he said, "well, you know, there is something going on in this house and I can't quite figure it out." And she said, "what do you mean Johnny?" "Well", he said, "I looked up under the bed this morning and there is dust under there, so somebody is either coming or going. "For dust thou art and dust thou shalt return"."

Let's look in Ecclesiastes chapter 3 and verse 20 where it says:

What is it speaking of? The body. Now, this body of man as it was formed-- the word "formed" is the word yatsar: fashioned of the dust of the ground.

Now, the next thing is the word "soul." Man is body and soul and spirit. Now, the second great truth from God's Word that we must rightly divide and understand is the word "soul." The word "soul" in the Hebrew is the word nephesh. It was made, and the word "made" is the word asah. It was made.

In order to understand this word "made" you must realize a great truth. And that is that there is a substance required, of which the thing made consists. Now, the soul in man is that which makes you you; that which makes the man the man. That which make you the individual, the person; that which makes you "you", is your soul.

Now, the soul is "the spirit of man." It is also called "the life of man", which is common to all mankind. In Genesis chapter 2 again back to verse 7. The first part of the verse we've covered. Now we will go on.

That's it. The body was formed but God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. "Breathed into his nostrils" is the figure condescensio. He put life into it. He breathed into his nostrils the "breath of life." Those words "breath of life" are dynamically important because God imparted life. He made man a living soul which is the spirit of man.

The reason the soul is sometimes referred to as spirit in the Bible is because the soul is life and all life is spirit. This is why it's referred to as the spirit of man; the life of man.

The soul is nothing more and nothing less than that which gives you life. Has nothing to do with whether you are a Christian or not a Christian. As long as you have breath life, as long as you have breath life you have a soul. Breath life is [example of the inhaling of air and its exhaling]. As long as you can do that, you have a soul.

Now, the confusion between the soul and the spirit has caused no end of difficulty for people. They say the soul is immortal for instance or they talk about transmigration of the soul, the immortality of the soul. Why? These are all erroneous usages semantically of words that are used with a mathematical exactness and scientific precision in the Word of God.

The soul has nothing to do with whether you are a Christian or not. That's right. With the exception that if you did not have a soul you wouldn't have any life left. You would have no breath life. The soul is that which makes you "you". The man who is not a Christian, if he is alive he has a soul. Nephesh is the Hebrew word for "soul." Chai is the Hebrew word for a soul that is alive. Because a man could be a dead soul, a dead body, as it is called a dead person in the Bible. But if he is a living person, he is a nephesh chai; a living soul who has breath life. Understand? He has breath life.

Now, to get to the truth of this we look at Luke chapter 12, the depth of it in Luke chapter 12 and in verse 19. Listen to this:

Here's a man who has such good crops. He had to build bigger and better barns. And then, in this verse 19 he says "I will say to my soul,..." Well, who is he talking to? To himself, to himself! "I will say to my soul--Soul, you've got a lot of goods laid up; take it easy, eat, drink and be merry. Sure, live it up!"

Who is he talking to? He is talking to himself, to his soul. You see, the soul is that which makes you "you." Have you ever talked things over with yourself? Sure you have. The reason you can talk things over with yourself is because you have a soul. You are alive. You have breath life. If you did not have an alive soul, if you were not an alive soul, you couldn't talk things over with yourself. After all, it's the most intelligent conversation you ever hold. Isn't it with yourself? You never have any arguments or anything else. It is the soul that makes you alive.

Look at 1 Peter, Hebrews, James, I Peter listen to this in chapter 3 and in verse 20.

It is talking about the flood and eight souls were saved by water. Were they Christian? No, a thousand times no! Christ had not yet come. It was Noah, his wife, their three sons and their three wives. That meant all eight people, eight souls, eight alive people were saved by water. That is what the word "soul" means. Has nothing to do with whether you are a Christian or not.

Look at Acts chapter 27, verse 37, we're getting closer here. Listen to this:

"Two hundred threescore and sixteen souls" they were on board ship. The record in Acts is talking about when Paul and Luke, who was with him, were aboard ship being sent toward Rome. All the rest on board ship were what we would call pagan Romans or Romans who were not believers, not Christians. But they all were alive people, and on board ship the only two who were Christian, that we know of, were Paul and Luke, the only two.

We were all aboard ship "two hundred threescore." Threescore is how much? Sixty and sixteen, two hundred and seventy six souls, souls meaning alive people. That's all it means. It has nothing to do with the fact that you are Christian or not Christian, but that you are alive. The soul is that which makes you "you." It is your life. It is the life of man. That's right. Look at Acts 7 and verse 14:

Three score is sixty and fifteen, seventy-five. Joseph calling Jacob. Jacob was in Israel and he called him to Egypt. Why? Because of the famine and Jacob came down; brought his whole family, everybody all together there were seventy-five souls. Were they Christian? No, long before the time of the coming of Christ or the day of Pentecost.

But they were alive people! Seventy-five alive people went to Egypt. That's what it's talking about.

Now it says in Ezekiel chapter 18 and in verse 4:

What's it talking about? The alive person who sins is going to die. That's all it is talking about. Also, "all souls are mine," all alive people are mine. This soul life is the life that man possesses. It is conscious life. It is breath life. It is soul life.

Look at Genesis chapter 1 and I want to read verse 30 with you. But let me ask you a question. Does old Betsy the cow have a soul? What about Rover the dog? Well? If old Betsy didn't have a soul old Betsy couldn't go which ever way she goes "moo-moo" or something (that's something you wear I believe). But, how about Rover? If old Rover didn't have a soul he couldn't bite you if you were a mailman. That's right.

The soul of the cow is that which makes the cow the cow. The soul of old Rover the dog is that which makes the dog the dog. Animals have a soul. This is why if you are going to be logical; all Eastern religions teach that the soul is spirit and that the spirit is soul. That's right. And they teach that there is a special heaven. They teach that there is a heaven for all animals and this is logical. Because if the soul is spirit and this is what is going back to God, then old Betsy the cow has a soul; where does this soul have to go? Back to God. Old Rover the dog; where's he have to go? He's got to go back to God. He has a soul. That's why they have a dog heaven, a cow heaven, a mule heaven, a heaven for all the animals. And that's logical, that's right.

The Protestant people who talk about the soul when it dies going back to God, they just don't know what they are talking about. The Eastern religions are logical if they are right. If the soul is that spirit of God that goes back to God, then the Eastern religions are right that they have a heaven for everything that is alive.

The Protestant church has been way off in left field in this particular thing. The Protestants teach that the soul is spirit and it goes back to God, but they deny that a cow having soul has to go back up to God. But by the same logic, if the soul came from God, it must ultimately go back to God, just like the spirit and just like the body of man. The body of man must ultimately go back to what it is "dust thou art unto dust shalt thou". What? "Return!"

So, if the soul came from God, the soul must go back to God. And old Betsy the cow has to go back to God. And old Rover the dog, and old Baa-Baa Black Sheep, all of these have to go back to God. IF what they teach is true.

But it isn't true! Because the soul is that which makes you "you." It is that which gives the breath life, breath life. Listen again at this in verse 30:

The word "life" in Genesis 1:30, that word "life" is the word soul! [which was asah] It is this word "soul" nephesh chai, everything that's in life. Well, that verse says exactly that. The beast has a living, a living soul. Look at chapter 1 of Genesis and I'll give you a few more.

The word "life" is the word "soul" in verse 20. Moving creatures that have life, soul. You see, if they have a soul they have movement, they have breath life. All of these things are involved. In verse 21:

The word "creature" is the word "soul"! In verse 24 of chapter 1:

The word "creature" is again the word "soul." Verse 30 I already gave you. So, these are some of the places in Genesis chapter one where the word "soul" is used regarding creatures as well as man.

You see, the soul then is that which gives it life, life. This is why the Bible refers to a living man, a man that is moving as nephesh chai. In other words, the word nephesh in the Hebrew is the word "soul." Chai means "moving life," "moving soul." Nephesh chai is always used as living life in the Word of God in opposition to dead nephesh, dead soul or a soul that perishes. An alive soul is always chai nephesh while a dead person is always just referred to in the Bible as nephesh.

Now, God made the beasts, every beast wherein there is a soul, a life. The question I want to now propound and answer is where, "W H E R E" with all capital letters, WHERE is the soul life within man? Where is this life? Leviticus, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus chapter 17, and you ought to mark this, not only in your Bible but in your mind.

"The life of the flesh is in the blood"! How is life passed on? It is passed on from the blood, from one generation to another. "The life of the flesh is in the blood." This soul life is in the blood and it's passed on through the sperm as it impregnates the egg. That's how this soul life is passed on.

Later on I'm going to show you from God's Word that the word "created" is only used three times in the book of Genesis. And that God did not have to create soul life for man because what soul life is, God had already created before He got to man. So, when He got to man, all He had to do was put this breath life, this soul life, in him.

Now, what happens to the soul? Well very simple, as the body goes back to dust, so the soul is passed on from me to my progeny and if I have no off-spring, if I have no children, then when I die my soul is gone. There is a phrase that man uses which is just so accurate it just shocks you. It says, "he took his last breath." Have you ever heard that? Ever heard that phrase? "He took his last breath," that's literally accurate from God's Word. When man takes his last breath that's the last of it. [The last inhaling and exhaling.] That's it. When I take that last breath, that's the end of it. Right.

Now, when I take that last breath, I'm dead. Sure, I know the chemical death, the biological death. I know of cellular death. I know all of this that's involved because it's all written in Genesis in the Old Testament, all of these accurate things are in there. But in essence, in the least common denominator, when man takes his last breath, that's the last of it, that's why it's called the last breath. It's his soul life. His soul life is gone, then he is a dead person. And the Bible speaks of him as a dead soul. This is why in Genesis chapter 2 to verse 7:

It doesn't mean God stretched Himself out on top of man and went and blew a little bit in his nostrils. No, no, no it's a figure 'condescensio.' He breathed into his nostrils "the breath of life," "the breath of life"! And when man takes his last breath, that's the end of the breath of life. And the soul means nothing more and nothing less. Nothing immortal about the soul, that's right, no more so than there is anything immortal about dust. Dust is dust. Man's body is made of dust and it goes back to dust. When man takes his last breath. That's it.

This is why we must understand that the body was formed, the soul was made in man. And then, we have one more great truth to consider and that is the spirit of God in man. How then did man have body, soul and spirit? And, it is that spirit part of man that we are so deeply concerned about and that we are going to be studying with a minute accuracy.

We now want to deal with the created part of man in the beginning. You'll remember in the beginning man's body was formed. The soul was made within man.

Now the spirit in man in the beginning was created. The Hebrew word is the word bara and this created part in man in the beginning is the spirit of God. We turn to Genesis chapter 1 and in verse 27, now, listen carefully.

The word "created" is used three times in this verse but it refers to one thing only. So, technically you could say it's used once. Listen again:

Now, what did God create in both Adam and Eve? What did He create? Well, the Word says He "created man in His own image." Now, God doesn't look like this. God does not have a form or comeliness, and then I said subsequently. He has no homeliness either. God has no form. If we go to John chapter 4 and in verse 24 we will notice something here. Listen to this, we've had it, but we need to keep driving this back into our minds.

God is Spirit. A spirit has no form or comeliness. Now in Genesis chapter 1 in verse 27 we read that God created man, "God created man in His own image." And John 4:24 tells us that God is Spirit. So, what did He create within man? Well, God must have created within man what God is. God is Spirit and He created His own image within man. When He created His own image within man, that made man body, soul and spirit.

Now, God being Spirit can only speak to what He is. And He created within man His own image, this put man into God's category. Not in the body and soul department of man, not in his body and soul but in his spirit.

God is Spirit. Now man's body was formed. The soul was made but the spirit in man was created. God's own image, God's own spirit within man. Thus, this puts man in God's category, not in the body and soul part but in the spirit. God is Spirit, thus God can speak to spirit. God is Spirit and He can only speak to what He is, that's all.

In the beginning, man then was body, soul and spirit. It is this part of man (the spirit) in the beginning, that made it possible for God to [most easily] talk to him and for him to communicate with God. This gave him the fellowship with God; and in the vernacular language you could say "he could walk with Him and talk with Him." This is the created part of man in the beginning, and this man of body, soul and spirit is this three-fold man in Genesis that we read about in Isaiah, that we read about in Thessalonians when it said that he was formed, he was made, he was created and he was body and soul and spirit.

Now, we go to Genesis chapter 1 and we will see some tremendous truths. The word "created" as I told you was technically only used three times in the whole book of Genesis in the opening chapters that we are dealing with. In Genesis chapter 1 and verse 1 it says:

The text has heaven in the plural. "In the beginning God created." The word "created" is used in the Bible whenever God, for the first time, brings anything into existence. Once it has been created, God never needs to create it again. The word "create" semantically is used in the Word of God referring to the first time when something is brought into existence or into manifestation or into being. Once God has created something, He never has to create it again.

"In the beginning God" is what the King James version says. The oldest texts should read the first word in the Bible. Is the word "God" not the words "in the beginning." First in the Bible is the word "God." Even to this day, if someone from an Eastern country, the head of a state, would write to me, which has occurred, the first thing that he puts at the top of his letter. He takes his letter and what he puts here, at the top of this letter before he ever addresses it to me, he writes the word "God." He writes the word "God" up here. He puts God first to this day. Then, he might address it "Victor Paul Wierwille" such-and-such, a location and so forth. But he puts God at the top because in the east and among the eastern people, like the Hindus, they still think of God as being first. That's why the first thing in the Bible is the word "God." And the text should read as follows: "God created [bara] the heavens and the earth in the beginning."

So, everything that's ever needed, everything that's ever been needed to this day was created at the time of the beginning in Genesis chapter 1, verse 1, with the exception of two things--soul and spirit. Everything else was created back in Genesis 1:1, when it says "God created in the beginning."

Now, when was the beginning? "The beginning", that's when it was! When was it? "In the beginning." That's all I know about it. That's plenty! Do you know why? Because the leading scientists, many of them, who deal with trying to figure out how old the earth is and all the rest of the things, they can't get beyond the Word of God. The Word of God is going to be accurate, no matter what they find. But it's an astounding thing when you find paleontologists and other equally great scientists 'disagreeing' thousands upon thousands of years, some millions of years. As to the time of the original creation. Equally great scientists disagreeing thousands and thousands of years.

Now I'll tell you something, if I missed a lady's age by ten years, you ladies would all be angry. But science today can miss it a million years and nobody cares. Why? Because we have become so captivated by the word "science" that if somebody says "well, it's scientific", we immediately say "that's wonderful." Bah! When was it? "In the beginning." No scientist is ever going to beat that one. Suppose it was three trillion years ago, it still would be when? "In the beginning"! That's right. That's what it says, that's what it means. Isn't that wonderful!? You talk about the accuracy of the Word, nobody can touch it. No scientist will have an argument with it. That's right, because it still was "in the beginning."

God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning --everything with the exception of two things: soul and spirit. That's why, when He got to animals, He had formed the body of animals but there was no soul, no soul life. This is why the next [the second] usage of the word "created" is in verse 21:

The text reads "and God created living souls, or great whales, and every living moving thing." That's the text. God created what? Soul life, and we found out that "the life of the flesh is in the blood," which is the soul life. This is what He created for animals.

So, when He gets to man, does He have to, in man now, create soul? When He gets to man. Does He have to create soul? No! Why not? Because, whatever soul is, which is breath life, and that life is in the blood, that soul life He has already created before! That's why when He got to man, as we read, He formed the body and when He got to man He made the soul. This is the second usage of the word "create" in the book of Genesis.

Then the third time the word "create" is used in Genesis is in verse 27.

I'd just like to say to you that I hear people and scientists talk about creating life today, that's the wrong misnomer. Or somebody talked about creating a new production or something else they've done. They say they've "created it." That is semantically a misusage of the word "create." They may rediscover; they may revamp; they may readapt; they may recompound, but they cannot create.

To create is to bring into existence that which has never been before. I hear the biochemists and other people at times that I've been with, I've heard them talking about creating life in a test tube. For instance, creating human beings without having the ordinary processes that are normally involved in reproduction. That's a misnomer, they cannot create because if they were to create they would have to start out with nothing. They are not starting out with nothing. They are starting with something that already has life in it, like either the sperm or the egg, that's right.

So let's just keep the record straight. When a man says "create" he must mean to bring into existence that which has never been before.

In the beginning God created everything with the exception of two things that's ever been needed--soul and spirit.

When He got to animals, He created soul life. When He got to man, He did not have to create soul life because He had already created it before when animals were formed. But in man, He did something else; He created in man as it says in verse 27:

That's the third usage of the word "create". That's all it is ever used. I have heard Sunday school teachers, preachers, everybody else talk about God creating on the first day, so have you. Second day He created so-and-so, third day He created so-and-so. He didn't do anything like it! Didn't do anything like it. Doesn't say so in the Word. Look at Genesis chapter 1. All He had to do in verse 3 was:

Why didn't He have to create it? Because whatever light is had already been created in the beginning in Genesis 1:1 when God created everything in the beginning. All He had to do now was to speak it into being, that's a figure, but it's prefect. Look, I say to you "turn to Genesis chapter 1, verse 1," what do you do? You turn to Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. Why? Because I said so. I spoke it into being. I literally spoke it into being that you turned to Genesis 1:1. Well, bless your little old souls, if I can do this, can you not conceive of God Almighty, who created the heavens and earth having a little ability. No problem with me. The problem is in the stupidity of the human mind. That's all.

Look, it says verse 3 "And God said." Verse 6 "And God said." Verse 9 "And God said." Verse 11 "And God said." Verse 14 "And God said."

Then, where does this crazy idea come in that God created? Oh, from the teachers. That's all. People do not know any better, who think they are right but they are wrong. And so, when we teach our Sunday school classes that on the first day God created life, second day He created this, either we are wrong or the Word of God. I want to tell you something, 's nothing wrong with the Word of God, it's us! The fellow says "it's me, oh Lord." Nothing wrong with the Word, for the Word is accurate. It is accurate in minute detail, and the Word is so accurate here in Genesis that it fits the fields of chemistry, the fields of biology, it fits all the fields of geology, every field of science. There is no field of science, which is true science, which contradicts any facet of the truth of the accuracy of God's Word in Genesis 1:1. That's right!

How long ago is Genesis 1:1? I do not know, but I know it was in the beginning. And sometime between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 there is a long period. How long? I do not know, but I know this: that when verse 2 came into being it says, "and the earth became without form and void." It was not created this way, it became this way. Now, the question is: what caused this original creation in Genesis 1:1, which was perfectly perfect, to get to the place that it became without form and void? Or as the Hebrew puts it, 'tohu va bohu.'

Well, here you need some tremendous accuracy on the Word. You've got to go to sections like in Isaiah chapter 14 verse 12 and in Ezekiel 28:15-19. You've got to look at Romans 8:26 and a section in I Timothy 3:16 and in Revelation 12:4.

There you will find that in the beginning God created angels. He put all of the angels under three categories--Gabriel, Michael, Lucifer. These three angels were the top brass. They sat at the top echelon. God was above them. These three archangels were responsible for all the other angels. Angels are 'created spirit beings,' that's what they are. They date from the beginning.

Michael, Gabriel and Lucifer--these three angels were the great ones

One of those created angels, Lucifer, who was an angel of light, very prominent; he wanted to usurp the throne of God. You could speak of it as mutiny in heaven, if you like. This is what Isaiah and those chapters are talking about. And this archangel, Lucifer, got the boot. He got kicked out and with him, according to Revelation, one third of the angels of heaven, because they wanted to usurp the throne of God.

This Lucifer then is called in the Bible, Satan; he is called the serpent; he is called the Devil after he got the boot, after he got kicked out. Satan and one third of the angels of heaven make up the evil spirit or the devil spirit world about which few people know very little or believe less. That's right.

All of the information that people get by possession, by allowing their bodies to be controlled, by allowing devil spirits (which they call 'good spirits', but they are still devil spirits), ['s deceiving]. Because look if you got a can, a can that has pickles in it, and you label it 'apples' on the outside, that doesn't change the pickle on the inside.

So, these people who say these are 'good spirits' label the can 'good spirits' on the outside, but it's devil spirit on the inside; doesn't change the spirit on the inside. They allow themselves to be possessed; their vocal chords to be taken over. Their bodies to be taken over, they give their minds to them and so they become possessed. All devil spirits that's where all that information comes from, all of it, that's right.

Now, all the devil spirits that are in the world, one third of those angels originally created in Genesis 1:1 make up the evil spirit or the devil spirit world. And they've got power, a lot of power, tremendous power, no question about that. Tremendous information, they're flying around all over the place, looking over the whole joint. They are in certain areas thicker than others . This whole section on the 'discerning of spirits,' and how these devil spirits operate, apart line-by-line, word-by-word [is in] the Word of God. There are many, many scriptures that have to be considered and they again work with a mathematical exactness and scientific precision.

These devil spirits are the ones that are just racking and ruining people to this day. They are all here with the exception of those that were originally responsible for causing the degradation that occurred before the flood. Those are held in chains, which is a figure indicating they are no more free to roam, and there of course is another side of the story: that Jesus witnessed to [them] in his resurrected body with the greatness of the power of God in his life!

But, this thing was so cataclysmic, which occurred, that when this thing occurred the whole thing was in a mess, that [which] God had originally created in Genesis 1:1. That's why verse 2 says "and the earth became without form and void." That's how it became that way.

Then verse 3 simply starts telling you what God does to put this earth back in shape, so that mankind, as we know mankind, can live in it. That's right. And mankind as we know it from the beginning was a man of body, soul and what? .And spirit!

Now, were there men before? To the scientists yes, but not men as we know mankind from Genesis chapter 1. Why? Because when a scientist looks at a form or a skeleton or he puts it together and it looks like this or has any form like man, or anything like this at all, he puts it in the category of [or related to] Homo sapiens. [I don't care how you want to pronounce it, but I know they get the word "sap" from the word, that's why we speak of people as being saps once in and a while, I guess.]

But, this is the category. But, you see, what they do not know and what they cannot see is what was the life of that being? What was the life? They do not know what the life was because you cannot see soul, nor can you see spirit. You can only see the manifestation.

Alright! So suppose there were men back there. Could've been. How much time do you want between Genesis chapter 1, verse 1 and verse 2? I don't know. Have all the time you want, because in that section between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 there could be eons of time. That's right.

So, in that section you can have the fossils. You can have everything that you want with no contradiction in the Word. That's right. And the reason I am really concerned about the accuracy of this is because in verse 28 of the first chapter, after God created man as we know him, with body, soul and spirit. What the life of those so-called by scientists, mankind [or proto-mankind], was before Adam and Eve? I do not know. The Bible doesn't tell me, so I don't know. The scientists do not know because they can't get that life back, because it's not there. All they got is bones to deal with.

But I know this: whatever that life was then, is not the life that God created when He created soul life for animals. It is a different life. But they could have had it, for in verse 28 it says:

Why fill it up again? Why make it full if it had never had anybody? I think Genesis 1:28 will cooperate and substantiate fossils, or whatever else is involved, because of that tremendous statement "let them replenish" or "fulfill again."

So, between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 you can have all the fossils. You can have everything else and you see how accurate the Word of God is. It doesn't contradict a thing. It doesn't undercut anything but it's accurate! Scientifically it is accurate! Biologically it's accurate! It's accurate in every field of chemistry, every field of science! The Word of God is the truth!

So, in the beginning God created everything He ever needed. And between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 you have this period of time. Then occurred what it said in Genesis 1:2. Then, in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 3 we begin with what God did to get this old earth ready for mankind who would have body, soul and spirit to live on. The earth on which you and I live today. This is where we have to go in our continued exposition and study of the integrity and the accuracy of God's Word regarding this subject of man being formed, made and created.

We're dealing with the great truths from the book of Genesis, and while I'm thinking along a lot of these lines, the first two or three or four chapters of Genesis are just loaded with many spiritual goodies. Truths that if you ferret them out, and you work them with a mathematical exactness and scientific precision, [they] give the answers, the truth, to men and women who really want to know the score. Scientists and everyone else, they've got to come back to the integrity and the accuracy of these first few chapters in Genesis if they ever want to really get to the truth of life and the background of life.

While I'm thinking along this line, before I get into some more of these verses in these chapters. All of this confusion about the authorship of Genesis, especially the first two or three chapters--you know that teaching, j-e-p-d documents and all the rest of that--that's all just a 'bunch of baloney', it's guesswork, it's man's guesswork, because the Word of God says that "the Word was given when holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit."

So, they are trying to explain the difference. The difference is not in the j-e-p-d documents, the difference is in the revelation that God gave, and there are no contradictions. It is like if I wrote you a letter today, and then I write you a letter tomorrow. I just repeat some of the things tomorrow that I said today, or I may add to it, all of these things. I'm just thinking of that scripture that they use to prove that Jesus Christ was with God at the beginning and the two of them had a good talk before they got around to making man. It's Genesis 1:26.

So, they [Augustine et al] use the word "us", saying that Jesus was back there with Him and they talked things over and he and God decided they were going to have a little "doo" and make man and do this kind of thing, create him. No, no, no, no. If you understand anything about English, this is old English. It's like when the Queen of England says "we the Queen of England." Why does she say "we"? She's not a 'we.' May be 'wee' but she isn't 'we'. Yes, she is, because when she speaks, she speaks for the immensity, the greatness of the whole kingdom, and so she says "we the Queen."

Well, the King James old English "let us make man" is this old English. This thing which God did when God created man was so tremendous that it puts it in the "let us" category. Also, something else I'd like to say regarding the meaning of the word "Genesis." "Genesis" means generation or beginning or creation. Like we use it, it's transliterated the word "Genesis" in the Greek to the English in "genealogy" and "genetics" and "gynecology." All of those come from the root word of the word "genesis."

In the first nine verses of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis the word "earth" always refers to the planet, after that the word "earth" refers to the dry land. Also, there is another truth you ought to know that is stipulated and stated so accurately here in Genesis and that is 'matter is antecedent to physical life' and not life to matter.

There is [also] evidence to show that there was one continent at one time, and that something happened, something of a cataclysmic nature happened that divided this one continent. Because today, if all the continents were put together today allowing for the erosion and all these other matters, they still today would fit like a 'jigsaw puzzle,' fit in perfectly.

Now, these are some of the things that you ought to know from the great accuracy of God's Word in Genesis. I perhaps will not be able to recall and remember every detail that is set here in Genesis chapters one, two, three and four, but I'm doing my best to share with you the greatness of these tremendous truths. Because in Genesis we have the whole foundation of the accuracy of God's wonderful matchless Word, that Word which He set above His name.

I want to get into Genesis chapter one, and get down to verse eleven. You see, I showed you that God did not create on the first day this; [on the] second day that, and so forth. In verse eleven it says:

Look at verse 12:

You talk about accuracy and truth, there it is. "After its kind," everything 'after its kind.' You plant potatoes, what do you get? Potatoes. You plant onions, you get onions. Sow your wild oats and you get the wild oats. Everything 'after its kind.'

The word "kind" is the word genos which is transliterated over into "genus." Everything 'after its kind.' If you breed a cow you are going to get a calf. If you breed a dog you are going to get a puppy. If you are going to breed a cat you're going to get a kitten. You cannot cross a dog and a cat and get a catty-dog. You cannot cross a cow and a horse and get a horsey-cow or a cowy-horse.

Why? Because of the law, and thank God for the greatness of His laws which work with a mathematical exactness and scientific precision-- everything after its kind, everything after its kind. That is why you can have variety in species but not in genus, not in kind, in genus. You can, in the bovine family [have] for instance a little cow, a big cow. Like you can have a jersey or you can have a holstein. There is a tremendous difference in weight and size between a guernsey and a jersey, and a holstein and a brown swiss, for instance. But they all belong to the kind, the genus of the bovine family of cows, cattle. That's right.

Now, there is no overlapping of genus. There is no overlapping. You cannot take a cow and breed a cow to a horse because the genus is not there. Everything after its kind! But you can have variety within species. There is no evolution in genus. The evolution is in species because you could have a little cow, [or] you can have a big cow. You can have a black cow, you could have a red one. You can have a black-and-white one, you can have an orange one. I suppose.

You see, in the holstein family is black and white, yet occasionally you get a red holstein. Why? Because of the throwback not in genus but in the species. You can have variety in species but never genus. That's why everything is after its kind, everything.

So, you can have evolution in species, but you cannot have evolution in genus. That's why all theories of evolution die before they ever start, unless you deal in evolution in the category of species and not genus.

Now, this becomes singularly important because the Word of God said "the life, the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself." The seed is always in itself and it's the seed that has the life. The seed is that which has the life. The seed is in itself.

You take a seed any seed--wheat, corn, oat, barley, mustard seed any seed, apple seed--you take the outer shell off, you take the next shell off, you keep looking and you put the most high powered microscopes on it in the whole world. You get down to the core of it, you can't see anything, no life. You put it back together under the most ideal climate in every situation; moisture wise, heat wise, put it back together [the broken pieces] and put it into the ground in a laboratory, and it will not grow. Why? Because the life is in the seed and the seed is in itself. We have messed, destroyed, annihilated that life. But you turn right around and take the same apple seed [unbroken] and put it in the ground. Have the moisture, have the sunshine without man messing with that seed, and lo and behold, it comes up! Why? Because the seed has life in itself.

Remember the old nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty? 'Humpty Dumpty was just an egg some little old hen laid without any strain or stress.' And after she laid it she cackled a few times, had no problem with it. 'Humpty Dumpty was an egg that's all. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.' And it says 'Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.' I remember the picture from the books that we had in school when I was a young lad. And I can still see that egg smashed to smithereens with yolk all over the place, 'and it, just in a great big wonderful mess.' 'Humpty Dumpty was an egg. He sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the kings horses.' Do you know what that means? All the strength that the king has. Well, how much strength does a king have? All the strength of the kingdom belongs to the king, every man belongs to him, everybody. All the kings horses, all the strength of all the king. 'And all the kings men.' Do you know what that means? All the brains of all the scientists of all the research men, everything else. 'All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put little old simple Humpty Dumpty together again, and all he was was just an egg.'

Could not get back once they had disturbed the life. Once that Humpty Dumpty had fallen apart and gone to smithereens, all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put little old simple Humpty Dumpty together again. Why? Because the life is in the seed, it's in itself in that seed. Everything after its kind and the life is in the seed.

When it comes to man, who has the seed? The seed does not come from the woman. The seed comes from the male side. The life which is in the flesh which is soul life. All soul life, all soul life is in the blood of the sperm of man. And as the blood in the sperm of man carrying that one thing as soul life it carries other things to. I know this about the chromosomes the genes and so forth, but one of the things that the sperm carries when it impregnates the egg is that the sperm carries soul life. For the life of the flesh is in the blood and the soul life is in the seed. Everything after its kind whose life is in the seed!

This becomes singularly important in man when we come to the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, that's right. Because up to this day woman is still made the same way that she was made in the beginning when God formed and made mankind. He made woman and He made her the same way, she's still made the same way.

Man is still made the same way. No woman in a normal pregnancy will ever contribute any soul life to her offspring. The soul life comes from the sperm as it impregnates the egg in the fallopian tubes, and then it moves down into the womb and fastens itself, and through the process of osmosis as it is attached by the placenta the mother continues to feed the nutrients to this embryo and fetus as it develops within her womb.

I will take you into the depth of this as we get into the study of the new birth and the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, some of these great truths... But right now again, let us note very clearly that this record here in Genesis is so accurate because it indicates that everything must come after its kind, after its kind!

You know, we talk about the laws that are involved, well this law of everything after its kind is tremendous. For instance, when Adam and Eve had intercourse they had a baby. That baby grew up, that baby got married and that man and woman then had intercourse and they had babies one upon another, this way.

Now, because of the way in which life is arranged that, the soul life comes from the sperm and the way that the genes are arranged on the chromosomes, both from within the egg as well as within the sperm where, the mother brings to this new offspring certain characteristics as does the father. And if you understand what we refer to in biology as dominant and recessive characteristics you have a wonderful, wonderful truth.

How many times did God create soul? The Bible said in Genesis He created it just once and that was when animals were first formed [in Gen 1:21]. Then He created soul life for animals and this life is in the blood, this soul life. Now, not all the blood is soul life. Not everything in the blood is soul life, but one phase in the blood is soul life which comes from the male side.

Now, He has never created soul since. He created it just once, then He took that soul life which is breath life and He put it in man, in Adam, when He formed and made Adam. Now, Adam had progeny, he had sons and daughters all the way down the line. And this soul life that was in Adam lived in his children, that's right. When Adam took his last breath, his soul was gone, that's what the Word says. But his soul life lived on in Abel, in Cain, in Seth and the rest of the sons and daughters. And to this day it is still the same soul life living in mankind that God originally put in Adam when He formed and when He made him.

This is the only great and logical truth from God's Word that accounts for the variations in color, for instance, among mankind. Why are some people white, some people yellow, some people black, some people red? How do you account for all this? Well, certainly not the way some people have tried to account for it, that's for sure. We account for it from the integrity and accuracy of God's Word, that the Word said He created soul life once and that's all, and that He put this in man and it is still going on to this day.

But understanding procreation, how genes, chromosomes and all the rest of these involved, and the contribution from the sperm as well as from the egg point of view, what happens explains it. There is a verse in Acts chapter 17 I want to share with you, and then I'm going to show you something. Acts chapter 17. Not that I haven't been showing you a lot of things, but this Bible is just loaded with great wonderful truths and it gives the answer. And every answer that's truth always makes sense, all the rest of the stuff just doesn't make sense. It's just guesswork. Look at Acts 17 and verse 26, talking about God.

He made of one blood. How could God have 'made of one blood'? Very simple, because He made the soul life in blood once in Adam and he passed this on through the progeny down to this day. Well then, where did you get your color from? From the combinations of genes through the years and that's no problem. You can explain it even by Mendel's Law. You people who know anything about biology and these other related subjects are able to carry this through minutely.

But, the law is such that in the third or fourth generation, as you start breeding animals for instance too, you have the same truth in animals. This is why when it comes to breeding in animals, there is very selective breeding because they know what they can produce in color and in every other way genetically.

But here you have it. It ends up where one would be the same. One would tend to be lighter and the other one would be even lighter. On the other side, because of the combination of the genes on the chromosomes and how they are intertwined, interwoven as the egg and the sperm get together and how this develops within the mother, one will tend to be dark, the other will be even darker.

Now, let's say you take two of these [dark ones] and put them together, you will repeat this group, but you are going to end up having darker dark. While over here [white ones], you are going to end up, because of the dominant characteristics, you are going to end up having lighter light.

Remember the old cliche or statement "birds of a feather flock together." Still true, because over a long period of time, people with light characteristics like to marry people with light characteristics, and then their progeny produce lighter light and darker light. So on the darker side, so we produce darker dark. The great variation [is] between this extreme over here [left side] and over here [right side]. And by the process of intercourse and children being born over many, many years, we've produced what we today have in our society, the lighter light people and the darker dark people.

That's the explanation from the accuracy of God's Word like everything after its kind. That's the explanation of how we got the different colors, the different races of men that dwell upon the face of the earth. And it does not contradict any of God's Word and it does not contradict the scientific accuracy with which we know things are true in the field of genealogy, genetics and other biology and chemistry fields and so forth.

Now, there is a question that always comes up I better answer for you again. It's sort of a crazy question but you see a question is really never a silly question if a man really has it, and he doesn't know the answer if he isn't trying to be facetious about it. They say, well, how in the world if Adam and Eve were the first couple--the first man and wife in this particular world of which we are dealing here in Genesis starting with verse three, not with verse one or two, as I've explained, but verse three--then, if there were no other people like them in the category of Homo sapiens then, who in the world could Cain marry? Who did Cain marry for instance?

Well, it's no problem. He married his sister. That's right. Well, who else should he marry there wasn't anybody else around? [Well, after all maybe his sister was sort of sweet. Did you ever think of that? Hum, I like my sisters, sometimes I think maybe my sisters were much more tremendous than some of the girls I dated... I couldn't say much more because my wife is here.] But, you see, this is no problem because in Genesis chapter five in verse four it says:

There is the answer. So, the children of Adam they just married their own sisters. Why? To this day, to this day we, in our state allow, I believe, marriage to second cousins. Why do we not allow marriage further back? Because of the possibility of the recessive characteristics creeping out in a family! [the Word of God order is not to do so] So, you [have the risk to] develop weak children. [However,] after all, these thousands of years we still allow to marry second cousins.

You see, if you had a perfectly pure blood stream with no poisons in it you could marry your sister and your progeny would be perfect. The reason we are not allowed to marry sisters is because of the impurities in our blood stream, this is why.

Now, Adam and Eve in the beginning had pure blood streams, this is why so many people lived so long at the beginning. They say "well those years weren't as long as ours." Yes, they were just as long as our years. But the reason the longevity was what it was [back then], was because of the purity of the blood stream. As the years rolled by and they intermarried to the end where they brought up many of the recessive characteristics into the form where they became manifested as dominant in their lives. That's when you began to produce weaker people, and they started dying off earlier. Otherwise they live to the ripe old age that's mentioned here in the accuracy of God's Word. All because of the greatness of this law: everything after its kind. And the seed is in itself. What a wonderful truth this is from God's wonderful matchless Word! And how accurate this becomes when we understand the greatness of it with the power of God, which is written here in these first few chapters of the book of Genesis.

To see more:

The Conception of Jesus Christ

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See also:

Other Biblical Studies.

Tasters of the Word (YouTube), videos recientes: "Astronomía y Nacimiento de Jesucristo: Once de Septiembre Año Tres A.C.", "Estudio sobre Sanidades" (en 20 episodios), "Jesus Christ, Son or God?" and "We've the Power to Heal":http://www.youtube.com/1fertra

Tasters of the Word (the blog, with: "Astronomy and the Birth of Jesus Christ"):http://fertra1.blogspot.com

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