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I DO know that John the Baptist leaped in his mother's womb over the news of our Lord Jesus Christ. Explain to me if you can, how he was able to do that if he wasn't already a spirtual being with a soul.
John's example is meaningless for the question. We're also told that he was filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb. No one else before or since has been described that way, so John was unique. It's lousy biblical exegesis to take a unique, once-in-all-of-history event like that and try to extract a general principle from it. The point isn't whether John shows that everyone has a soul before birth; the point is to show that the Messenger recognized the Message through the Holy Spirit that was already in him.
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OK... i looked up your verses you listed. I do NOT believe that is what God is saying. God breathed into Adam life and therefore mankind became a spiritual being. It doesn't mean the minute someone breathes air for the first time they become a spiritual being.
What about the Job passage? Both say that the spirit/soul comes alive at that breath. You're welcome not to believe it, but that's what both verses say. And you really haven't given a reason to believe otherwise. All you're saying is "I don't believe it." That's your prerogative, but don't try to claim that it's what the Bible says, because it's not.
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On the contrary, we are loved, known, fearfully and wonderfully made, called out and very much alive with a soul, body and spirit in the womb.
Show me a passage that SAYS "very much alive with a soul, body and spirit in the womb." You won't find one. Psalm 139, to which you refer, describes ONLY physical development. It says nothing about the incorporeal part of the human. Look a little more closely and you'll see that it's true.
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Leviticus says: For the life of a creature is in the blood ( not in their first breath) just saying
So what? Why don't you quote the whole passage?
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For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life. 12 Therefore I say to the Israelites, “None of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.” Lev 17:11-12
So by your reasoning, the blood being put on the altar for atonement should be our own blood, because we're just like the animals, right? This passage has nothing to do with our topic. If we're just going to grab random statements out of the Bible, then anything goes. So:
Eber, Peleg, Reu 1 Chron 1:25. That proves I'm right.
Checkmate!
Just sayin'.