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Secrets of Heaven #94

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94. Genesis 2:7. And Jehovah God formed a human, dirt from the ground, and he breathed into the human's nostrils the breath of lives; and the human was made into a living soul.

To form a human, dirt from the ground is to form our outer self, which was not previously human; verse 5, after all, says that there was no person to cultivate the ground. To breathe into the human's nostrils the breath of lives is to put life into our faith and love. The human was made into a living soul means that our outer self has also been brought to life.

  
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Genesis 2:7

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7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.