Day 6: God creates all kinds then elevates humankind?

Blockquote Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living person. - Genesis 2:7 Genesis2:7 NASB - Then the LORD God formed the man of - Bible Gateway

I see the differentiation between the two presentations of the creation of mankind is in the second one with “breath of life”. This cannot be the same “life” shared with all animal kind because the Breath of Life" in Hebrew is directly Ruach haQodesh’s name (Holy Spirit) which concerns the ethical, moral and spiritual “soul” of mankind not shared by animals. Physical “life” may be replicated but never the spirit/soul which makes us human – versus Angels who seem to be of a different nature.

As such this is the single definition of what it means to be Human. The physicality is not in view here. Therefore the “raising” of humanity is not embedded in the first account regardless of the fine nuances of the first account.

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I don’t see that distinction maintained in the Bible. Ecclesiastes 3:19 plainly says of humans and animals that “They all have the same breath [ruach].” Psalm 104 portrays God giving and taking that breath from all creatures:

O Lord, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
Yonder is the sea, great and wide,
creeping things innumerable are there,
living things both small and great. […]

When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
when you take away their breath, they die
and return to their dust.
When you send forth your spirit [or breath, ruach], they are created;
and you renew the face of the ground. (Psalm 104:24–25, 29–30)

4 Nicodemus *said to Him, “How can a person be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?” 5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it is coming from and where it is going; so is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.”
John 3 4-8 NASB Bible Gateway<

From what creative act did Adam and Eve sin against? There is no specific indication in the Genesis 1 account to indicate what creative act gave this “Born of the Spirit”. The Genesis 1 account includes all animals, including humans, and is the “Water” of John 3. The second Adamic creation account has to be read as the “genesis” of the "Spirit" of humankind, of which enabled the physical "water" being of Adam and Eve to relate with Elohim God, and be tested against the Tree of Good and Evil, and the Tree of Everlasting Life.

If Yeshua Jesus is to be believed in John 3’s Master’s Class on Cosmology to Nicodemus, then where in the Genesis account of creation is the “Spirit” portion embodied? The second account’s context is all about the relationship of Humankind to Elohim at the “higher level” of the “Spirit” and not the physical “water life” shared with all creatures.

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