Expert: Rev Philip Dacre - 2/27/2011

Question
I am presenting the following verses and would like to know if based on them, is it safe to assume that God Resurrects people by breathing the "Breath of life," into them Just as he did with Adam causing him to become a living being - In particular Ezekial seems to indicate that this would be God's method of resurrection:

       1) Ezekiel 37:4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! 5 This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath[a] enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’” 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. 9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.

      2) Job 33:4 "The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life."

      3) Job 27:3 "as long as I have life within me,the breath of God in my nostrils,"

      4) Acts 17:25 "25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else."

Answer
Dear Pete,



Without air of life no one can live. Seems evident, God's Spirit which brings life, also is called in Hebrew and Greek "breath"...namely "Ruach" & "Pneuma"

So then I think we can safely assume that your hypothesis is correct.

God bless