Revelation 4:9-11 “Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, (10) the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: (11) "You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
We have seen thus far that man is a spirit being and that he lives in a physical body. So where does the spirit of man come from? There is only one creator, which is God. The Holy Spirit makes that truth very plain to us in the above quoted passage of scripture, when He tells us that all things are created by God. Even angels, who are extremely powerful beings, and have been given power over God’s creation, nevertheless have no ability to create, for they are themselves beings that have been created by God. And so we see that other than God, there is no one else that has the ability to create. Therefore because God is the creator of all things, we see that the spirits of men are also created by God and come directly from Him.
Hebrews 12:9 “Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?”
In the above quoted passage of scripture the Holy Spirit through the apostle Paul tells us that God is the Father of spirits. The spirits that the Holy Spirit is referring to in this passage are the spirits of men. And so we can see from this passage that not only is God the creator of man’s spirit, but because He is also the Father of man’s spirit, it is entirely scriptural to say that man’s spirit is born of God.
Numbers 27:15-18 “Then Moses spoke to the Lord, saying: (16) "Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, (17) who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep which have no shepherd." (18) And the Lord said to Moses: "Take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.”
In the above quoted passage of scripture the Holy Spirit through the prophet Moses tells us that God is the God of the spirits of all flesh. The reason that God is the God of the spirits of all flesh is because the spirits of all flesh come from God, for as we have already seen, without the spirit no flesh could live. And so we see in this passage that Moses is confirming the same truth to us that the writer of the book of Hebrews did, i.e. that the spirit of man comes from God.
Ecclesiastes 12:5-7 “For man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets. (6) Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the well. (7) Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.”
In the above quoted passage of scripture the Holy Spirit describes what happens to man when he dies physically. He tells us that the dust will return to the earth, referring to our physical bodies decaying and becoming the dust that it was made from. But the Holy Spirit goes on in this passage to tell us that the spirit will return to God who gave it. That does not mean that everyone who dies goes to be with God, for we have already seen that only believers go to be with the Lord. But rather, what the scripture is saying is that God decides where the spirit goes after death. But the point that I wanted to make from this passage is that man’s spirit comes from God, for the scripture says that God gave the spirit. And so we can see from the passages of scripture that we have mentioned in this section, that it is clearly evident that God is the creator of the spirit of man.
Michael E.B. Maher
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