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Lesson 24 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course 9

SCIENCE can reveal no more than this. NOT MERELY THE BODY -- that was formed!
HUMAN PHILOSOPHY cannot reveal even Does it say that MAN was formed out of dust or
this much, because philosophy has no way to out of SPIRIT?
prove any of its speculations apart from the tools 2. Was merely the BODY composed of
of science. dust -- OR was THE MAN composed of dust?
ONLY THE BIBLE CAN REVEAL Genesis 3:19, last part. Whom does YEHOVAH
WHAT SCIENCE IS UNABLE TO KNOW! God address in this verse -- the body, or the man?
Here is what the Bible reveals about WHAT Then it is the man, not merely the body, who is
MAN REALLY IS! composed of dust, isn’t it?
1. Of what is man composed, according 3. What was to happen to man? Genesis
to Yeshua the Messiah? John 3:6, first part. Is 3:19, last part. Who was to return to dust, the
man born of the flesh in this life? Then is he body or THE MAN? Does God say “thy body”
FLESH? Since man is born of fleshly parents, he shall return to dust, or “THOU” -- THE CON-
is NOT composed of SPIRIT. SCIOUS MAN -- shall return to dust -- which?
COMMENT: Yeshua here plainly 4. After YEHOVAH God had formed the
points out that if we are born of flesh, we lifeless man and made every cell in his body,
CANNOT be composed of spirit. The natural what did YEHOVAH do to make the man
man, then, is NOT composed of an ALIVE? Genesis 2:7, middle part of verse. Did
IMMORTAL SPIRITUAL SOUL in a body of YEHOVAH breathe something into man’s
mortal flesh. He is composed ENTIRELY of nostrils? What was it that He BREATHED
mortal flesh -- of protoplasm: and when that INTO the man?
flesh or protoplasm dies, the MAN IS DEAD -- COMMENT: YEHOVAH God
ALL OF HIM! Science proves that! breathed into the man “the breath of life” -- the
2. Was Yeshua the Messiah born of the AIR or WIND that gave the man life! It does
flesh? Romans 1:3. Then the Messiah was NOT say the man had an immortal soul because
composed of flesh, wasn’t he? Compare this YEHOVAH God breathed one into the man! It
with Colossians 1:22. Yeshua certainly knew was breath -- the same breath we breathe today --
what flesh was -- because he was composed of that imparted life to the first man. YEHOVAH
flesh! blew air or wind into the man’s lungs through the
3. Was the apostle Paul composed of nostrils, and the man lived!
flesh? Romans 7:18. Was Paul a soul 5. Is the same breath of life passing
CLOTHED in a body of flesh? -- or did Paul through the nostrils of the animals and fowl and
speak of himself as his flesh? Then is it not true rodents? Genesis 7:21-22. Then the source of
the real Paul, the personality, was flesh and not LIFE of man, of animals and of birds is the
an immortal spirit? SAME breath of LIFE, isn’t it? Since there is no
4. Is the mind of the natural man also immortal soul imparting life to the animals and
fleshly minded? Colossians 2:18, last part. to the fowl of the air, therefore, there is no
immortal soul imparting life to man, is there?
How Man Was Created 6. What happens if living flesh is
deprived of the breath of life? Psalm 104:29, last
YEHOVAH God created the first man. part. Do they die? Do THEY -- or only their
YEHOVAH tells us how He did it so we could bodies -- return to the dust? Same verse.
know what we are. Here is how He says He 7. What does Psalm 146:4 reveal about
created man: the life of man? What is it that returns to the earth
1. Out of what did YEHOVAH God form when the breath leaves? Is it only the body -- or
man? Genesis 2:7. Notice that it was the man -- is it the man -- “he”? ALL of him? What happens

DEATH -- Where Is Your Sting?