Yet the true, holistic, biblical Christianity is not necessarily taught by all churches - because many don't know. They teach what they were taught.
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psychḗ
(the mind / the soul / the life of individuals)
záō: The living (alive) God | living humans
(humans who are alive in the body - the word is never used in the New Testament in reference to anything or anyone that's dead or has died).
Zōḗ:
Everlasting life (as life in the body).
Immortality
(A body that does not decay and die)
The grave
(the dead body)
Forgiveness of sin and the good news
zōopoiéō: God quickens the dead body (imparts everlasting life) through "the resurrection of the human spirit" by the Spirit of God and the resurrection power of Jesus Christ, as a result of a new birth in an individual, i.e being born of the Spirit of God.
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In the beginning, God. -- Genesis 1:1.
God is Spirit. -- John 4:24.
In the beginning God (Spirit) created. -- Genesis 1:1.
He created something other than Spirit - He created the natural universe and earth, and all that exists in it, including humans. -- Genesis 1:1; Genesis 1:26-27.
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God (Spirit) breathed (Spirit) the breath of (eternal) life into Adam, and Adam became a living soul with (eternal) life which was derived from the Word and Spirit of life dwelling in Adam, and Adam in Him, through the spirit. -- Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:7; John 14:17-20; John 15:5-6.
"The Spirit breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice, but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes;
so is everyone who is born [γεννάω gennáō] of the Spirit." "That which is born [γεννάω gennáō] of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born [γεννάω gennáō] of the Spirit is spirit." -- John 3:8, 6.
[Strongs Greek 01080] γεννάω gennáō
to procreate (properly, of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively, to regenerate:--bear, beget, be born, bring forth, conceive, be delivered of, gender, make, spring.
Body [sōma], mind / soul [psychḗ], and spirit [pneûma]
A person's life, together with a person's mind, is called "soul" in the scriptures. In the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, the word is:
The word psychḗ is used interchangeably in reference to the life, and the mind and the soul of an individual | individuals, while at the same time making a clear distinction which is consistent throughout the New Testament between the body and the soul.
A human being is one whole person comprised of a (created) body [sōma], a soul [psychḗ], and a spirit [pneûma]. That is, (one) body, (one) soul, (one) spirit, and the three are one.
It's not two bodies (a body plus a "spirit body"), but one (created) body: Spirit is spirit, and is born of God.
This is why in the long list of verses where it's found, the word:
(alive | living) is always referring either to the living God, or to humans who are alive in the body. The word is never used in reference to any human who has died | fallen asleep | is not alive and living in the body, and the word is closely related to the word zōḗ (life),
but
in order to possess immortality in himself the one who has immortality in himself must also have eternal life in himself.
Something that is hardly ever mentioned by Christian Bible teachers, is that the New Testament states very unambiguously that
Hypothetically, if we could always do what is right in God's sight, and (provided that we have never failed, and will never fail), we could:
in eternally youthful bodies (become immortal).
Can any one of us, aside from Jesus the Man, claim to have always done what is right in God's sight for as long as we have lived and for as long as we shall live?
"Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." (Romans 3:19).
"As it is written: "There is none righteous, no not one." "They are all gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable, there is none that does good, no, not one." "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:10, 12, 23).
"Sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned" (Romans 5:12).
Don't be fooled. Death results in a human soul & spirit that has become limbless, because the limbs are:
FORGIVENESS OF SIN,
THE REGENERATION OF THE HUMAN BODY,
AND THE REGENERATION OF ALL CREATION
Death is the enemy of God, and the last enemy to be destroyed (1 Corinthians 15:26).
Spirit is spirit: Not only does the Bible not ever talk about a "spirit-body", but the only verse in the entire New Testament that speaks of a spiritual body is 1 Corinthians 15:44, which is speaking about the resurrection of the body of humans, not of the spirit of humans:
"It is sown a body, natural [Greek: sōma psychikós],
it is raised a body, spiritual [sōma pneumatikós].
There is a body, natural [sōma psychikós],
and there is a body, spiritual [sōma pneumatikós]."
-- 1 Corinthians 15:44.
The word psychikós is from the word psychḗ (soul / life / mind).
The word pneumatikós is from the word pneûma (spirit / breath).
In the Greek text the word sōma (body) precedes the words psychikós (natural) and pneumatikós (spiritual) each time in the above verse, making it clear that it's the body of humans, not the spirit of humans being spoken about, and the above verse is the only verse in the entire New Testament that speaks of a spiritual body.
Although the human spirit continues to exist after death, it will not have a body again after the death of the person (when your body dies), UNTIL:
(through Jesus the Messiah's death and resurrection from the dead):
is that through Jesus Christ and His bodily resurrection from the dead, God
through faith in Jesus Christ, and has thus made it possible for us to live forever in the body once again (following the resurrection of our bodies from the dead) even if we have failed, and do fail to always do what is right and good in God's sight.
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us
into a living [záō] hope (hope of living forever in the body),
THROUGH the bodily resurrection [anástasis] of Jesus Christ from the dead." (1 Peter 1:3).
When Jesus' friend Lazarus (whom Jesus raised from the dead) had died, Lazarus' sister, Martha, exclaimed to Jesus when He arrived,
--- "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now, whatever You will ask of God, God will give You. ---
--- Jesus said to her, Your brother shall rise again [anístēmi]. Martha said to Him, I know that he shall rise again [anístēmi] in the resurrection of the body [anástasis] at the last day.
Jesus said to her,
He who believes in Me, though he die, yet he shall live in the body [záō]. And whoever is aive in the body [záō] AND believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?" (John 11:21-27).
Note: The words "of the body" and "in the body" in the scripture quote above do not appear in the English text, but are inherent in the meaning of the Greek words in the Greek text that it's translated from (shown in the pages linked to in the quote).
THE INTEGRAL PART OF THE GOOD NEWS (THE GOSPEL)
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