Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.’
Ouch! If your soul is marked for death, all that remains is DUST. – 0 + ?
A rebuttal to a commentator that quoted Gen. 3:19 as we are to be reminded that we are only dust. I tell you that if you are a ‘-‘ then you are dust, and if you are a ‘0’ you are little better than dust, but IF you are ‘+’ you are highly valued and a Living Soul first using a body of dust as transport.
For those that think ‘0’ is not so bad, 0 is waiting to pass the First test and each test there after. + passed the test and is being tested again, pass = +, failed is -, 0 is restart. The GOAL that when your body dies, your soul might continue to LIVE, all else is dust and does not exist.
You can be a ++ if you want to, but you must decide to do so and then do it.
Shalom,
Yaakov
Addendum: How do you become a “+” or what test?
First Witness: Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil, 16 in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances; then thou shalt live and multiply, and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
Second Witness: Deuteronomy 28:13 And the LORD will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them; 14 and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Deuteronomy 28: 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.
Third Witness: Leviticus 26:3 If ye walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them 4 then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield her produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. . . . 14 But if ye will not hearken unto Me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 and if ye shall reject My statutes, and if your soul abhor Mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all My commandments, but break My covenant; . . . (curses or evil upon you).
Fourth Witness: Exodus 19: 3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying: ‘Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: 4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto Myself. 5 Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples; for all the earth is Mine; 6 and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.’ . . .
Last comment and witness: There are many, many more witnesses of this in the Written Torah, so these are just five of them. Everything you need to know and do is in the Writings of Moses which is the First Five books also called the Written Torah. In this you can learn what it means to “love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances;”. I know that you can discover/learn the five personal items: 1) Who is the ALMIGHTY LIVING GOD? 2) What does HE Want? 3) How am I to treat those never me? 4) How am I to treat those Not Near me? 5) I am Responsible for everything I do?
The Fifth Witness: Deuteronomy 30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off. . . . .14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil, 16 in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances; then thou shalt live and multiply, and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.