affords great insight to 2 Corinthians 5:8: “prefer to be absent from the body (the “now-but”) and to be home with the Lord (the “not-yet”.)”3 I have not read any articles, commentaries, books or other publications dealing with any biblical concept of hell and thus am not qualified to critique any of them. This writing is solely based on my own reading, researching, and study of the Old and New Testaments.
4 רוּחַ אֱלֹהִים / πνεῦμα θεοῦ / ἅγιος πνεῦμαJesus Christ, the “begotten” Son of God (Psalm 2:7) and is referred to as the “Son of Man” (Daniel 7:13; Matthew 8:20) as well as “the second man.” (1 Corinthians 15:47) The words “begotten” and “Son” have been divinely appointed to facilitate man’s ability to comprehend the mysterious, eternal relationship and function between the First and Second Persons of the Triune God. They are figurative in that they are the Father’s way of explaining His Son’s origin in order to bridge the gap between infinity and absoluteness and man’s inability to comprehend and visualize spiritual reality.The grass withers, the flower fades, when the רוּחַ (breath) of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever (Isaiah 40:7–8).Both רוּחַ and πνεῦμα, its counterpart in the Septuagint (LXX) as well as the New Testament, are varied and diverse in meaning: spirit, breath, and wind. God’s רוּחַ is the Third Person of the Godhead, Who proceeds from either the Father (Matthew 10:20; Romans 8:10-11; 2 Corinthians 1:21–22; Ephesians 3:14–16) or His Son (Romans 8:9; Galatians 4:6; Philippians 1:19; 1 Peter 1:11.) The function of His Breath is to source {cf. Romans 15:19; 1 Corinthians 3:16; Galatians 5:22; Colossians 3:16}, convey {cf. Matthew 4:4,10:20; John 16:7–8; 1 Corinthians 2:10,13; 1 John 5:7} and execute {cf. Zechariah 4:6; Romans 8:11} all that God desires.Then the Lord God formed man…and breathed into his nostrils the breath [נְשָׁמָה] of life; and man became a living being. (Genesis 2:7)Job: “In (the Lord’s) hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath [ רוּחַ ] of all mankind.” (Job 12:10)Job: “For as long as…the breath [ רוּחַ ] of God is in my nostrils” (Job 27:3).Elihu: “If (God) should determine to do so, if He should gather to Himself His breath [רוּחַ] and His anger [נְשָׁמָה], all flesh would perish together and man would return to dust.” (Job 34:14–15)Now 2 Timothy 3:16 affirms that “all
