PAGE 18 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST(OUT OF THE DUST)

GOD MADE ADAM AND EVE IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS:

"SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE CREATED HIM;  MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED HIM." GENESIS 1:27

THE HEBREW WORD FOR IMAGE IS "TSELEM" AND IT MEANS LITERALLY A SHADOW THAT IS AN OUTLINE OR REPRESENTATION OF THE ORIGINAL. THEY WERE BOTH CREATED IN GOD'S LIKENESS BUT THEY WERE CREATED LOWER THAN ANGELS. DAVID SAYS IN PSALM 8:

"WHAT IS MAN THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM, THE SON OF MAN THAT YOU CARE FOR HIM? YOU MADE HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE HEAVENLY BEINGS." PSALM 8:4

THE HIERARCHY OF GOD AND HIS BEINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

GOD - FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT
ANGELS
HUMANS
ANIMALS

BOTH THE ANIMALS AND HUMANS ARE CREATED OUT OF THE SAME DUST OF THE EARTH. MANY IN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY TODAY TRY TO SAY THAT HUMANS AND ANIMALS MUST HAVE A COMMON ANCESTOR BECAUSE OF RECENT SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS THAT SHOW THE AMAZING SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE DNA OF HUMANS AND ANIMALS, SUCH AS FISH AND CHIMPS.

HOWEVER,  SCRIPTURE REVEALS THAT IT WOULD MAKE SENSE THAT THEIR DNA WOULD BE SIMILAR, BECAUSE THEY WERE BOTH MADE OUT OF THE SAME DUST.

ALL OF GOD'S CREATURES,  ANIMALS AND HUMANS,  HAVE A "NEPHESH" OR SOUL. GENESIS 1:20 SAYS:

"AND GOD SAID, 'LET THE WATER TEEM WITH "NEPHESH"'" GENESIS 1:24 SAYS:

"AND GOD SAID, 'LET THE LAND PRODUCE "NEPHESH" '" THE WORD "NEPHESH" MEANS LIFE OR LIFE-FORCE AND IT MEANS ANYTHING THAT IS ALIVE.

THE SCRIPTURE STATES THAT THERE IS  SUCH A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUMANS AND ANIMALS  THAT THEY COULDN'T SHARE THE SAME ANCESTOR.  THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT HUMANS ARE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD AND ANIMALS ARE NOT. GOD DID SOMETHING TO MAN THAT HE DID NOT DO TO THE OTHER CREATURES THAT HE MADE. GOD BREATHED INTO MAN'S NOSTRILS "THE BREATH OF LIFE." THIS "BREATH OF LIFE" IS UNSEEN AND UNDETECTABLE BY SCIENTISTS.

THE HEBREW WORD FOR "BREATH OF LIFE" IS "NESHAMAH", WHICH MEANS LIFE OR SPIRIT.  THE "NESHAMAH IS THE INVISIBLE SPIRIT  GIVEN TO EACH HUMAN.  UNLIKE THE "NEPHESH", IT IS INTELLECTUAL,  ALLOWS US TO REASON,  TO MAKE MORAL DECISIONS, AND TO REJECT OR CONNECT WITH GOD.  PROVERBS 20:27 SAYS:

"THE "NESHAMAH" OF MAN IS THE CANDLE OF YAHWEH, SEARCHING ALL THE INWARD PARTS OF THE BELLY." PROVERBS 20:27

THE "NESHAMAH" IS THE MORAL CONSCIENCE IN EACH HUMAN BEING.

THE "RUACH HAKODESH" IS THE HOLY SPIRIT OR THE SPIRIT OF ELOHIM GOD OR YAHWEH GOD. THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM THE "NESHAMAH", THE HUMAN SPIRIT. THE "RUACH HAKODESH" IS A SEPARATE MEMBER OF THE TRIUNE GOD. WHEN WE ACCEPT YESHUA, JESUS, AS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR AND THAT HE DIED ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS, THIS MEMBER OF THE TRINITY, THE "RUACH HAKODESH" OR HOLY SPIRIT, JOINS TOGETHER WITH THE HUMAN SPIRIT  INSIDE OF US, THE "NESHAMAH". THE TWO SPIRITS BECOME ONE UNIFIED SPIRIT AND THEN IS FOREVER CALLED THE HOLY SPIRIT. GOD IS THEN LIVING WITHIN US.

ANIMALS CANNOT CONNECT WITH YAHWEH GOD IN THIS WAY BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A "NESHAMAH". ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED WITH A "NESHAMAH" IN THEIR HEARTS, BUT THEY DID NOT HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT OR "RUACH HAKODESH" JOINED TOGETHER INSIDE OF THEM.