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To: PROLIFE who wrote (17295)	6/10/1998 11:21:00 AM
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Chapter four ...the book by David Alsobrook...Abortion.... THE DIGNITY AND SACREDNESS OF LIFE When the Creator breathed into mans nostrils the spirit(the same word also means breath) of life, man became " a living soul".(Genesis 2:7) The Hebrew word is NEPHESHEMA. God breathed into the lifeless clay image He had perfectly formed after His own likeness and man became a "nepheshema", the Bible says. The root word is NEPHESH which refers to the natural life force. In Leviticus 17:11, the Bible teaches that animals also have NEPHESH, or the natural life force, and this life force is present in the blood. This is the reason the Israelites were not to eat of the blood of animals as explained in Leviticus 17: 10-14. The life element in the blood of animal sacrifices provided a KAPHAR(atonement,covering) for the sin of Israel. The words "life" and "soul" used throughout these verses are the Hebrew word NEPHESH. It is a derivative of NAPHASH which means "a breathing creature". Man likewise had this natural life force placed in him by God. However, let us understand that man was not merely a "NEPHESH" but a "NEPHESHEMA" The suffix "ema" means that man was more than nephesh. Man was given a spiritual life force as well as the natural life principle. Observe that the animals were also formed out of the ground, as was man, but God did not breathe the spirit of life into their nostrils(compare Genesis 2:7 and 19) This proves that the Creator's breathing into man was not solely for the purpose of natural life. Animals have natural life , but as already stated, God did not breathe the spirit of life into them. The natural, physical, biological life of man is quite similar to that of animals(ie mammals) This is due to the fact that both man and mammal were formed out of the ground. In man alone, however, there is a separate and unique element: THE BREATH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF YAHWEH. God imparted something from Himself into the clay form which became man, This explains why the killing of an animal is not on the same level as killing of a man. This also shows us "there is a spirit in man" (Job 32:8) and proves that the humanistic philosophy that man is merely an advanced animal is ludicrous. chapter 4 to be continued...........