living being

  • Speaking Your Mind

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.  Genesis 2:7  NASB A living being– In the Hebrew text, these significant words are nepeš ḥayyâ (for us, sounds like nefesh hayyah).  The words themselves are fertile ground for all kinds of translation assumptions. …

  • Human Dualism

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.  Genesis 2:7  NASB Living Being – Will we ever get past Genesis?  Probably not.  The depth of this account of creation can hardly be plumbed.  Once more we return…