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The Spirit shall Return unto God who Gave It
According to the Bible or specifically Ecclesiastes 12, there are the God and spirits given by Him to men:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
It is generally accepted that a man is made of the physical body and the mind. The body is a mass of molecules, atoms, and other elementary particles, which is substance or material. However, the mind is work of spiritual energy based on physical structure of the brain.
In other words, when a man is born with the brain in certain structure, the God gives a spirit to the man. Then, the spiritual energy starts to work, generating the mind.
But, it should be noted that this physical world where a main is born and lives was generated from the spiritual energy coming from the spirit world or Heaven long time ago, or specifically about 14 billion years ago. So, it is no wonder that there is linkage between the spirit world and this material world or the human world, and through this linkage or channel, the God sends a spirit to each new born baby.
In this context, the true and real world is not this material or human world but the spirit world. Therefore, without spiritual power or spiritual effects, this world is vanity or nothingness. Indeed, if the entire universe is full of stars where none lives, the universe is vanity or nothingness. Because there is linkage with the spirit world, this universe has meaning and significance, especially for men.
In near-death experiences, men sometimes perceive existence of the spirit world that leads to Heaven or the hell. In such a case, at the entrance to the spirit world, men surely feel satisfied, welcomed, fulfilled, and loved unconditionally.
However, the fact that a man has a spirit given by the God and the spirit will return to the spirit world at his death in this world is not so important as the issue that there are Heaven and the hell in the spirit world. The critical issue is that only poor, faithful, and righteous men can be accepted in Heaven and rich, unfaithful, and evil men go to the hell.
Ultimately, everything in this material world or human world is vanity or nothingness without the linkage with the spirit world. A man without work of the spirit energy or the mind is also vanity or nothingness, since his body is just dust.
Matthew 8, King James Version
24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!