2 COR. V, 6. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst
we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
JOB XXXIII, 4. The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the
Almighty hath given me life.
JER. XXXVIII, 16. So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah,
saying, As the Lord liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put
thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men
that seek thy life.
(3.) _Immortality._
GEN. II, 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.
ECCL. III, 21. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and
the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
ECCL. XII, 7. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and
the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
MATT. X, 28. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able
to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both
soul and body in hell.
LUKE XX, 37. Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the
bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
38. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live
unto him.
2 COR. V, 2. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed
upon with our house which is from heaven:
3. If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not
for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might
be swallowed up of life.
5. Now he that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God, who
also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at
home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
2 COR. XII, 2. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago,
whether in the body I can not tell, or whether out of the body I can
not tell; God knoweth: such a one caught up to the third heaven.
3. And I knew such a man, whether in the body, or out of the body, I
can not tell; God knoweth:
4. How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable
words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
REV. VI, 9. And when those beasts give glory and honor and thanks to
him that sat on the throne, who liveth forever and ever,
10. The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the
throne, and worship him that liveth forever and ever, and cast their
crowns before the throne.
(4.) _Intellectual Powers--Knowledge._
JOB XXXII, 8. But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the
Almighty giveth them understanding.
GEN. II, 19. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of
the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to
see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living
creature, that was the name thereof.
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