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Spirit can mean "breath" or "life-force"....or in other words...the energy that causes a person to live or be alive. The breath of life. (Genesis 2:7)

How we know this is because in The Bible at PSalms 146:4 it says - " 4 His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; In that day his thoughts do perish."

Ecclesiastes 3:18-22 shows that man dies in the same manner as the beasts, for "they all have but one spirit [weru′ach], so that there is no superiority of the man over the beast," that is, as to the life-force common to both. This being so, it is clear that the "spirit," or life-force (ru′ach), as used in this sense is impersonal. It does NOT live beyond death.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 states that at death the person's body returns to the dust, "and the spirit itself returns to the true God who gave it."

So, the person himself was never in heaven with God; what "returns" to God is therefore the vital force that enabled the person to live.

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