Not just bones but even stones can live when prophecy from God is breathed on them. John the Baptist, the famous religious leader from the first century AD Roman occupied Province of Judea, preached: "God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham". He was cousin to the even more famous Jesus of Nazareth who said: "The Spirit gives life - the flesh counts for nothing." This means we need not think it matters whether our biological heritage is good or bad; the word of Jesus is spirit and life and raises us from biological advantage or disadvantage to all that His blood has bought for us. When the lifeless form of Jesus Christ, nailed to a cross of wood, hung there dead with its blood on the ground below and the water and blood from the puncturing of His side by a soldier washed the cross, this body of death brought the beginnings of eternal life for those who believe and let the spirit words Jesus Christ spoke change them into children for God. This same Jesus, who is now alive having risen, has only the purest form of God-given life within Him and He creates a flock for whom He ever lives as Shepherd.
