The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life - WHAT IS THE SPIRIT IN LIVING CREATURES?

 This was similar to the case of certain newborn babies. Although there is life in the baby when born, it sometimes does not begin to breathe right after birth. The doctor finds it necessary to spank the child to make it start breathing, for without breath the child would soon die. So, too, the life in Adam's body cells had to be sustained by the breathing process in order for Adam to carry on the activities of a breathing person. 

Whereas the human soul is the living person himself, the spirit is simply the life force that enables the person to be alive. The spirit has no personality, nor can it do the things a person can do. It cannot think, speak, hear, see, or feel. In that respect, it might be likened to the electric current of a car's battery. That current can ignite the fuel to make the engine produce power, cause the headlights to shine, sound the horn, or cause the car's radio, to produce voices and music. But without the engine, headlights, or horn or radio, could that battery current do any of these things by itself? No, for it is merely the force that enables the equipment to perform and do such things. 

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