The third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son.
Gen 1: 1-2 (Raghaf)
Deuteronomy 32:11 Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.
The creation apologetic is then the first evidence of the Spirit of God being associated with the creation activity.
John 1:3 Through him all things were made,
1 Tim 2:5 From the beginning He was the mediator
Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God
Psalms 104 When you take away their life’s breath, Spirit
they die and return to dust.
Spirit, wind, breath and mind
Exodus 14:21 strong east wind
Num 11: 31 a wind went out from the Lord
Gen 3:8 – The wind of the day
Gen 2:7 breath of life or lives
Job 19 "My breath is offensive
combines the two to moving air
it is always God’s gift
The sense here is that The Spirit is a life giving energy that God alone possesses permanently by His own nature.
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John 5:26 - "For just as the Father has life in Himself, so to the Son
prototype of Jesus.
Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn (Prototakos) over all creation.
Ephesians 3:16 -
to be strengthened with power through His Spirit
Thus the emphasis is not on the kind of life but on the Source of Life.
So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.