"The spirit is never a reference to breath, literally breathing,...

"The spirit is never a reference to breath, literally breathing, unless a metaphor is being used to refer to breath as life and this life is then referring to the life of the spirit. Genesis is about the journey of the human spirit, a journey every one of us must take. Breathing oxygen is so far off from understanding that I can't believe it's you arguing for it."

And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. John 20.22

This is done by Jesus himself