Yes God breathed a spirit of life if you want to believe this is not an allegory, Gods spirit now became mans spirit. If god were to take his spirit away from man...man would no longer be alive. The Nicodemus story about water, never says that the water means baptism. Scripture already says that "The Kingdom of God is within you." So don't go looking anywhere else for it. You chose it and live it now...
Church doctrine has changed what was possibly originally meant.
Paul's Mistake
"Paul mistook the Jewish "Messiah" to mean the Hellenistic "Christ". This happened before anything was written down; it happened during Paul's conversations with people as he was working through what had happened. A messiah is a person who is a great leader who leads your people to freedom. The title was taken by Jews from Persian culture. A christ is a god-king who dies as an offering to some divine being as a sacrifice in return for prosperity, especially agricultural prosperity. Both are anointed with oil as a mystical, sexual rite."
Jesus didn't exist (Quoted in 1999, site is now down)
Christianity
The christ theme was inserted into the story of Yeshua by Paul and his subsequent followers. This was the christ theme taken from the Hellenistic Greek traditions and Mithraism had a large influence, through Paul, on the myths that Christianity assimilated.
"Christianity is a "Paulist Doctrine;" far removed from the teachings of Rabbi Yeshua (Jesus). This is where "Judaic Christianity" became "Hellenistic Christianity," and where the two religions finally, completely split."
www.dimensional.com/~randl/tarsus.htm (Quoted in 1999)
Attis
"He was the son of the goddess Nana's earthly incarnation. She was a virgin. "He grew up to become a sacrificial victim and savior, slain to bring salvation to mankind. His body was eaten by his worshippers in the form of bread. He was resurrected to become the most high god, who holds the universe together. Like his priests, he was castrated, then crucified on a pine tree, whence his holy blood poured down to redeem the earth"
Untracable source
Osiris
Osiris started out as an Egyptian God of Vegetation, Resurrection and the endless seasons. (Married to Isis). Osiris evolved to become a dominant God in the Egyptian religion.
Osiris presides over the tribunal of the dead, who must appeal to him with gifts and tokens of goodness gained whilst they were alive, because he can give them new life. The Cult of Osiris and Isis, found in Rome, were directed towards Salvation and making sure that they would please Osiris when they die.
Osiris was tricked and killed (but returned to life), and for a period of time his enemies ruled in his place. (Similar to Revelations20)
Asklepios: 5th century BC
The majority of the miracles performed by Jesus appear to have their root in Asklepios' miracles, healings etc. A blind healed by Asklepios see at first only trees, like the one healed by Jesus. Asklepios heals poor and rich, men and women, slaves and free, like Jesus. He raises the dead, the details being the same as in the Jesus stories.
Herakles: 5th century BC
Like Jesus he was born of a virgin (God Zeus as a Father), like Jesus he walked on the waters, like Jesus he left mother and father to live a life of pains, was viewed as a savior, dies with the words "father, it is done" and rises to heaven, and there are many more parallels.
Dionysios: 8th century BC
Like Jesus he is the son of a god (Zeus) and a mortal woman, like Jesus he was a healer, like Jesus he turned water into wine (the marriage at Kana) and was a mortal and resurrected god.
"My El, why have you forsaken me?"
Spoken by a pagan Messiah, "El" is a pagan God and this is the word used in older Biblical texts.
christ theme
The pagan kings were often assumed to rule by divine right, and the ritual sacrifice of them often involved a judas. The judas would take the place of the true king for the sacrifice, the point of which was to renew the Earth and to bring salvation to mankind. Mythically the sacrificed people were rose again from the dead at