Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
CHAPTER FIVE
WHAT IS DEATH?
In order to understand what is death, we need to look into the definition of life in the Bible.
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OLD TESTAMENT MEANING OF DEATH
In fact I have discussed it in my earlier book “In the Image of God” where I have talked about
five levels of souls. There is a higherarchy of life forms on the earth. Hebrew concept of life
as shown in the words (Strong's #2421 – חָיָה haya life) and נֶפֶׁש.חָיָה (nefesh living soul or
living being) is the primary word for life
Haya is used 70% of instances to human life, 17% refer to animals and 11% refer to God as
living.
Nefesh נֶפֶׁש is used 43% of its uses (295 times) clearly indicate life for both animals and
people (Kennard 2008, p. 170).
Thus hayya in Genesis 2:7 is a common expression in the Old Testament for “living being”
as a description of people or animals (Genesis 2:19).
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