2-This may help with Genesis 2:5 - from a Hebrew scholar...
See where you go for knowledge and understanding to others with PHD's etc.
Some of that is good but should not be the final word for these are a composite of mingling with the philosophy and the traditions of men!
The Lord has taught the the LDS to read study it out in our mind or ponder and then pray and ask the God in Jesus name.
Spirits are eternal when you die your spirit return home to God, and you body rest in the grave!
Your spirit always was and always will be it will never die but where it resides in the hereafter is vital.
So Jeremiah was a spirit in waiting for a corporal body there was no invention by the LDS!
restornu,
If you want to add to choose to believe that bunk, have at it.
I quoted from someone who has devoted his life to understanding the Hebrew language of the scriptures. Language has rules of grammer and structure. The meaning of the passage depends on those. It doesn’t mean whatever you want it to mean apart from that.
Your post illustrates exactly what I have witnessed every single time with a discussion with a mormon. As soon as you talk about anything specific as to the meaning of scripture, they revert to the old “burning in the gut” as the measure of truth. Don’t blame that on the Lord - unless you mean one of the different ones.
Your post illustrates a second thing that others should notice: You insisted on what you wanted it to mean without presenting any objective evidence from scripture.
Scripture teaches we have a spirit that will live on for eternity. It does not teach that it has always existed.
best,
ampu