The ‘Christian’ cognates of S&S with Hindu, Islam, voodoo & spiritualism
The popular Christian concepts of the human spirit and soul are actually the “expanding intentions” (S) and the stretching of intended purposes” (MW) of simple Hebrew and Greek words. “Additions” (MW) to personify & hominify the unpretentious & clear Hebrew (OT) and Greek (NT) words that each literally mean “breath” (S) along with an English word literally meaning – breath, to indicate or imply an existing human “spirit”. Additionally “expanding the intentions” (S) of the Greek (NT) word for wind/breath (S) along with a Hebrew (OT) word meaning “psyche” (S), [which implies “that which lies outside of knowledge” (MW), and/or “life”(S): defined as “that quality that distinguishes the manifestation of a living from a dead body” (MW)], and stretch interprets (S) them to, “soul”. The expanding, stretching, or enlarging in scope these simple, clear words enables the unintended Biblical concept of an existing human entity termed a spirit, or a soul, to enter into Christian thought. This was accomplished first by Philo (20BC-40BC) infiltrating the Greek philosophies of Plato & Socrates into Christianity then revivified by Justin Martyr (100-165). [The apostle John noted in 1Jn 2:18 that, “even now many antichrists” (anti: opposing, hostile too, combating MW) “have come”.] These pagan Greek philosophy were further ensconced into Christian thought by Clement of Alexandria (d. 215), Origen (ca 184-254) then Augustine in the fourth century AD. Thus entered into Christian thought the concept of some form of life or animacy to possibly have existed prior and/or to exist beyond the demise of the body, thus carrying on the first recorded open faced lie on earth as recorded in Genesis 3:5, “You will not surely die (pass out of existence (MW)”. This veiled reincarnation and propagation of the lie implies that some portion of rebellious humans cannot be extinguished or extirpated but will at least live/exist on forever in a heaven, a purgatory, or a hell – a purely pagan philosophy traceable in modern history to Plato.
The reality, the truth, is Biblically put together simply in Genesis 2:7 by the statement that God breathed (“sent out by exhaling a specified kind of air” MW or “breath or nothingness” MW) into man – the wind of life – and man came into existence (S). Into a state of breath (inhaling and exhaling MW) in contrast to death (S). As Isaiah puts it “Who giveth vital air to the people on it, and breath to them who tread there on” 42:5 Sept. A divinely revealed unsophisticated truth which only by the expanding (S) and stretching (MW) of intention (S) became todays popular Christian non-biblical cognates (spirit/soul) of Hindu’s reincarnation, Islam’s Qadar, voodoo’s zombies and the teachings of spiritualism.
When God says the reality (“wages” Romans 6:23) of sin is death, He simply and foundational means the loss of His gift of breath – thus nonexistence. As Ecclesiastics 12:7 literally states “the breath/wind returns to God who gave it” causing the nonexistence of the previously breathing, living being (see Ps 116:8; 23:14; Ez 18:4,20; Mt 8:26). This is the sad end for those who refuse His freely given, hard earned offer of forgiveness and other-centered character transformation that would re-enable them to receive the gift of an harmonic eternal life. He still, in deep loving desire pleads: turn ye, turn ye from your harming ways for why will ye pass out of existence (see Ezekial 33:11; Zechariah 1:3-5)?
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