Gen.1:26(Amp) tells us, "And God said, Let Us (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) make mankind in Our Image, after Our Likeness, and let them have complete authority." Gen.2:7(Amp) says, "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or life, and man became a living being."
After God formed and brought forth all the vegetation and life on the earth, He said that, "There was no man to till the ground." Adam and Eve were spirit beings, made in God's Own Likeness and God is a Spirit Being, they needed a natural body to till the ground. 1Cor.15:45(Amp) says, "Thus is is written, the first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality), the Last Adam (Christ) became a Life Giving Spirit), restoring the dead to life."
Adam was first created a spirit being like God and was an eternal being, then God formed a body in which to function in the natural realm. Adam and Eve would not have died, except for the sin in the Garden. Jesus wasn't born from the seed of man, which was already dead by sin. He was born by the Seed of God and submitted Himself to death. Jesus told Pilate in Matt.26:53(Amp), "You could have no authority over Me at all; I could call down twelve legions of angels to deliver Me, if I choose."
Sin entered Adam and Eve when they committed the sin of high treason in the Garden. They didn't just die in the flesh, but in the spirit too. Adam's spirit was cut off from God, Who is the Source of Life, and joined together with satan, who is against God and is death itself. A spirit being doesn't die, but is eternal because God is eternal and we're made in His Image.
Lev.17:14(Amp) says, "As for the life of all flesh, the blood of it represents the life of it." Now it's easy to understand God's order to sacrifice animals to cover and retain life in the flesh. God accepted the life of animals to cover man's trespasses and continue the life to man. The blood of animals couldn't give life, unlike the Blood of Jesus, but could only extend the life and cover man's sins. So, daily sacrifices needed to be performed in order to maintain life to God's people, until He could bring Jesus into this world and eradicate all sin and death.
Those in covenant with the Father, like Abraham, his descendants and many others, didn't die like we know death, but they were destined to enter Heaven. The natural body is yet to be made new according to God's Word and will be immortal and eternal through Jesus. 1Cor.15:49-50(Amp) says, "Just as we have borne the image of (the man of dust), so shall we and so let us also bear the Image of (the Man of Heaven), But I tell you this brethren, flesh and blood cannot become partakers of eternal salvation and inherit or share in the Kingdom of God; nor does the perishable (that which is decaying) inherit or share in the imperishable (the immortal)."
John3:1-3,6(Amp) says,"Jesus answered him (Nicodemus) and said; I assure, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again (anew, from above) he cannot ever see (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the Kingdom of Heaven." He continues in Verse 6, saying, "What is born of (from) the flesh is flesh (of the physical is physical; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit."
Religion and tradition can't do what needs to be done, in order to inherit the Kingdom. We must be born again from on High, by faith in Jesus as our Lord and Savior. The term "born again" isn't just a term used by so many people, but is an actual experience with the Holy Spirit and a personal relationship with the Father, by covenant of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. One on One.
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