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When Man Was with God in ParadiseGod’s “Eternal Purpose” Now Triumphing for Man’s Good
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To make that first human body alive and functioning perfectly, God did not take from heaven a bodyless “soul” (psy·kheʹ)c that, according to the pagan Greek idea, was flitting around like a butterfly, and breathe or insert it into the lifeless body.
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When Man Was with God in ParadiseGod’s “Eternal Purpose” Now Triumphing for Man’s Good
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c One of the meanings of the Greek word psy·kheʹ is “butterfly or moth.”—See Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon, Volume 2, page 2027, column 2, VI. In Grecian-Roman mythology, Psyche was a beautiful maiden personifying the soul and loved by the god Eros.
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