The whole man, Adam, sinned. Therefore the sentence and promise of death comes upon the whole person. Not just the body.
What God created: dust + breath of life (spirit) =soul; sinned, therefore the whole man died.
Now unless we change the entire meaning of the word death when it comes to spirit, then we must assume that the spirit , or the soul (being the whole person) also dies.
Death does have duplicate meanings.
One death per the Natural, physical.
One death per the Spiritual, ie Separation from God, whether or not the natural physical thing is living.
It therefore has no "change of address" as some believe, but remains in the grave (sheol/hell) until the resurrection, except for that which gave the body it's life, the breath.
I would say this is a Complicated issue.
Dealing with the creation ~ of God, what He created;
God created/FORMED A MAN, From Dust.
What is the MAN?
A Form called A BODY.
What is the makeup of the Body?
Bones, Tissue, Organs, Blood, Nerves,
...Mind (thoughts in the Brain)
...Spirit (thoughts in the Heart) etc.
All Natural things, out of a created Natural earth.
And this Created MAN, did WHAT?
Nothing.
This Created MAN, could DO NOTHING of itself.
Thus, so far, a man has been CREATED and FORMED. FROM Dust. And can do nothing.
Then what? God ALSO "MADE" man.
Made WHAT? Souls. From What? Dust?
Scripture doesn't say.
Scripture specifically says, The Form came from Dust, was called man, and that Formed Body shall Die and Return to Dust.
And the "MADE soul" ?
Scripture specifically says; ALL souls belong to God.
And LIFE IN a soul?
God IS LIFE. The Life IN the soul belongs to God.
A soul that God has MADE, is His.
The Life IN the soul that God MADE, is His.
Isa 57:16
So - WHAT about this Created Formed Dust Body, called Man?
Does it have LIFE? It has the Natural construct TO LIVE, but has NOT YET been MADE LIVING.
How is this Created Formed MAN, MADE to be LIVING?
Gods intent -
To Create a man, by forming him out of dust.
To MAKE the man In Gods Likeness.
(Here we see the difference between;
Create AND Make.)
To Create something - Something Does Not exist, and then Exists.
To Make something - is to Give something that DOES Exist to the existing Something.
God was NOT created.
Man WAS created and formed from Dust.
For God to 'MAKE' man in Gods Likeness,
Man would thus Receive, Something Given the Formed Body.
Souls belong to God.
Life belongs to God.
A soul IS NOT GOD.
A soul IS something God has MADE.
Life IS something God has IMPARTED into a soul.
And what now IS a soul, with Gods Life in it?
A Living Soul.
And HOW Does God IMPART a LIVING SOUL, into a BODY? Via HIS BREATH, breathing INTO the BODY.
And WHY? Because a BODY WITHOUT something to BRING the BODY into LIVING, is a BODY that is Neither Living or Dead.
It is called QUICKENING. Meaning even though the Body was FORMED, TO LIVE, it cannot LIVE UNTIL it is ... BROUGHT INTO A LIVING STATE, WITH LIFE FROM GOD.
The Life from God, that quickens a Body, IS a SOUL, with Life from God, called a Living Soul, and is quickened Via Gods Breath.
Thus, Gods INTENT, was to MAKE a Created Body, and in His Likeness....ALIVE.
Gen 1:26
Gen 1:26...Created
Gen 2:7.....Formed
Gen 2:7.....Made
The Bodily Form, once quickened, with a Living Soul....Now becomes a BODY that is ALIVE, with it's OWN BLOOD, which is the body's own Life.
IOW - the Living soul is the catalyst that activates the Body into it's OWN Living state.
Everything OF and IN the Body, is called BY ONE Identity. And God does not NAME (yet), the Body...(and all that is in it)....the Parents name the Body...(and all that the body IS, and what IS IN the Body is "officially" called by that ONE NAME).
(And to note, that ONE body, can have numerous names, titles, of his own choosing, or even others choosing, that that ONE accepts).
Point being -
What belongs to the man IS the mans.
What belongs to God, IS Gods.
Life that belongs to God IS Gods, and CANNOT DIE.
Things that God MAKES IS Gods, and at His Pleasure, He can control and do with, as He Pleases.
Man's LIFE, is His Blood.
God has provided, air, food, water, shelter...
...that man can USE, to Keep his Life living.
Or Not.
Man can KILL his own Life, by interrupting the operation of his Blood, which beats his Heart and maintains his life.
Man CANNOT Kill the living soul, within his body, called by his identity, "his soul".
Man's OWN body, via Gods design, reproduced, by a mans natural seed, and Formed by God.
Man's planting of his natural seed, and fertilizing a woman's seed, is the method for reproducing mans like Kind of thing.
When the thing is revealed, it is called born;
It was Formed by God, receives it Quickening of a Living Soul, and begins it's own individual life, with IT''S OWN Blood maintaining it's own natural life.
Point being - The BODY is born CORRUPT, from a CORRUPT SEED of man.
The BODY, is sentenced TO DEATH, for it's Corruption. It began with Adam. In the day He ate of the forbidden fruit. His Body was warned not to eat. Or he would die. His Body ate. His Body Died that DAY. Physically? No.
Separated from God? Yes.
There are Physical Deaths, and Spiritual Deaths. Any Separation FROM God IS a Spiritual Death.
Adams BODY was sentenced to Death.
And Where ADAM's BODY and God had BEEN in the Garden together...Adam was removed from Gods Presence, separated from God, THAT DAY HIS BODY ATE. From there forward, mans reproducing seed, became corrupt. And ALL men are reproduced and BORN IN SIN...ie Separated from God.
What about Adam's SOUL? Did it become separated from God, on the SAME DAY Adam's Body was separated from God?
Yes. Adam's BODY became separated from God, and Adam removed from the Garden.
His Body STILL being subject to PHYSICAL DEATH. And we learn His Body died.
Yes. Adam's SOUL became separated from God.....BUT.....was SAVED/RESTORED, (His SIN Covered) unto God BEFORE Adam Left the Garden.
The Death of the Body, is Mans Sentence.
All bodies shall die.
The Living Soul, given the Body IS NOT CORRUPT. But is SHALL become CORRUPT, being IN A CORRUPT BODY.
The BODY IS Sentenced TO DEATH, "FOR" it's Corruption.
And the Living soul? IF it also were SENTENCED to DEATH....ALL SOULS would HAVE TO DIE.....but that is not the case.
SOULS can BE SAVED...FROM WHAT?
From it's Corruption of being in a corrupt body.
From a Spiritual Death...separated from God.
IOW, the living soul....Belongs to God.
The Living soul, becomes subject to what the body does, because it is IN the Body.
The living soul, being MADE subject to the Body; CAN DIE - not physically by the man.
But rather by what the mans Body does...
The soul, can become Separated from God...
A spiritual death.
IOW -
Man cannot KILL a soul.
Man cannot KILL the Life in a soul.
Man CAN cause a soul to be Separated from God. (Spiritual death)
Man CAN Kill Body's.
All Body's SHALL DIE.
God CAN cause a soul to BE RESTORED from Separation from Him....BACK to Him.
ONLY God can physically KILL a soul.
Life FROM God Never Dies.
Life from God, is what is IN a Living Soul.
Life, belongs to God.
Souls, belong to God.
God Imparts Living souls into Body's.
God Departs Living souls out of Physically Dead Body's.
Living souls, having been IN physical bodys, know, learn, hear, feel, see, Everything the physical body has experienced.
Living souls, are things with Gods Life in them. Life from God DOES NOT occupy DEAD BODY'S.
IOW -
Life of the BODY is BLOOD, it SHALL die.
Life of the SOUL is Gods LIFE, Gods LIFE shall NEVER DIE, but LIFE from God CAN and WILL be Departed from SOULS, and SOULS destroyed.
There Has BEEN NO DESTRUCTION of Gods SOULS....."YET"
There SHALL BE NO DESTRUCTION of Gods SOULS.....UNTIL AFTER THEY ARE JUDGED and SENTENCED.
Every BODY that has been created AND born, and MADE, having RECEIVED a LIVING SOUL...
IS...a body sentenced to DEATH.
EVERY LIVING SOUL, the life thereof, and the soul itself, BELONGS TO GOD.
NO LIVING SOULS have yet BEEN JUDGED.
Living Souls, that HAVE DEPARTED physically DEAD BODY'S....
ARE ALL WAITING JUDGEMENT DAY.
SOME living souls, HAVE been SAVED, and are forever RECONCILED, RESTORED, and GOD WITH THEM, and those SOULS WITH God, (whether IN or OUT of Body).
In the body,Gods Spirit is With Them on Earth
Our of body,Gods Spirit is With Them in Heaven.
SOME living souls, HAVE NOT been SAVED, and (in body) ON earth can BE Saved.
And (out of body) are waiting Separated from God, in Hell. (Not on earth, Not in Heaven).
Living souls, IN HELL, are called Dead.
They are ALIVE...yet dead, BECAUSE they are Separated from God...spiritually dead.
Just as a physically alive man IS called DEAD,
(Crucified). This spiritually dead man, IS acceptable to God, BECAUSE the death, was Gods Spirtual ACT, according to His design, that SUCH a body "GIVEN" to Him FOR Him to KILL, Becomes JUSTIFIED to be MADE forever alive. (Remember Jesus GIVING His BODY, FOR God to KILL IT, and He being FOREVER ALIVE thereafter?)
IOW - every body SHALL die...but the scenario changes, when a MAN GIVES his own body to God, for Him to Kill it.
The QUESTION OF HELL....continued.
God Bless,
Taken