Beholding the Beauty

The pattern of things in the heavens was shadowed in the pattern of the things of the Law (Heb. 10:1), and Christ, being the very image of the invisible God (Col. 1:15) is the Beginning and End ( Rev 1:8 ; 21:6 ; 22:13 ) of those things which are to come , the End of the Law ( Rom 10:4 ), and the Beginning of the Kingdom of Heaven ( Col 1:18 ). Christ, therefore, Who is shadowed in the Law, is revealed to us in it when the veil of unbelief is taken away from our eyes by faith ( 2 Cor. 3:13-18 ). He was not alone. Eternally He was without mother ( Heb 7:3 ), yet He was not alone, but with the Father ( 1 John 1:2 ) in the bosom of the Father ( John 1:14, 18 ; Heb 1:5 ). He came among us without father ( Heb 7:3 ), yet He was not alone, but from His mother, born of a woman ( Luke 1:35; 2:7 ; Gal 4:4 ), being found with Mary His mother ( Matt 2:11 ) by the wise men. They did not find Him only, but Him together with Mary. They fell down, it says, and worshiped H...

EDIT (9/15/2010 4:08 p.m.): This is a work in progress, and generally paints with a very broad brush. However, please understand that my modus operandi with this article is to purposely narrow the semantic range of the words "spirit" and "soul" to their (apparent) usage in Gen. 2:7, and to try to understand and/or translate those exact words as used in the rest of Scripture from their meanings to be consistent with this new narrower range. -------------------------------- My current understanding of the nature of death and the Scriptural (or more accurately, Traditional, of which Scriptural is a part) definitions of the spirit, soul, and body, is as follows: That the "living soul" is the union of spirit (from God) and body (from dust). (Gen. 2:7) That death is the separation of that spirit from the that body, resulting in the corruption of said body, and the return of the spirit to God. (Eccl. 12:7) (This spirit is what is commonly referred to today as ...