Bottom line. Yes, it can be a deeper study, but don't delve into areas unrevealed.
John 14:26
...the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost...
He shall teach you all things...
There are some very basic foundational facts, which must always be kept in mind,
Yes. There is the Knowledge revealed in Scripture ...And there is: the Holy Spirit that teaches one who has the Holy Spirit and asks him.
Matt 7:8
For every one that asketh receiveth...
applying philosophical interpretations
I never stated I was applying philosophical interpretations.
God only hath immortality. 1 Timothy 6:16.
And? Who said otherwise?
Ecc 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it WAS. Remember...ONLY Jesus' Body WAS DEAD and WAS RAISE ALIVE..TO FOREVER LIFE.
And the spirit shall return to God who GAVE it.
Further study would reveal to you;
Gods BREATH, imparts a LIVING SOUL into a man.
Gods HOLY SPIRIT, imparts HIS SPIRIT OF TRUTH into "some" men.
Gods HOLY SPIRIT, imparts HIS SEED into "some" men.
Gods HOLY SEED, births "some" men an Eternally LIVING spirit.
A MANS Bodily Form, DOES NOT HAVE IMMORALITY, and SHALL DIE.
A man WHO HAS received a RESTORED SOUL, shall NEVER HAVE, Gods eternal spirit of LIFE, departed from THAT soul.
A man WHO HAS received a BORN AGAIN SPIRIT, born of GODS SEED, is a spirit that SHALL HAVE FOREVER LIFE, BY GODS POWER.
GOD controls WHERE "SPIRITUAL LIFE FROM HIM GOES".
God creates "spirits".
God gives "spirits" ETERNAL LIFE.
Spirits "NEVER DIE", precisely because they HAVE eternal Life IN THEM, FROM GOD.
Therefore immortality comes to man as a gift which even the redeemed must seek for. Romans 2:7.
Uh huh....COMES TO A MAN AS A GIFT.
[QUOTE[ Yet even your assertion that though the body is mortal and perishes, the spirit is not and cannot perish, therefore cannot die, is incorrect [/QUOTE]
Reread...COMES TO A MAN AS A GIFT.
Then STUDY "HOW" and "WHEN" the GIFT "COMES TO A MAN".
because God is Spirit, and is therefore the only immortal Spirit.
Yes God IS SPIRIT. And YES God GIFTS HIS SPIRIT; that "other spirits", He creates and makes, shall FOR EVER have LIFE, (from God); IN His created and made spirits.
And "ONCE" Gods "created and made" spirits RECEIVE FROM GOD, "HIS GIFT", it is FOR EVER!
Now you are speaking SPECIFICALLY of the BODILY FORM.
WHO has said the Bodily FORM HAS PHYSICALLY received "IMMORTALITY"?
Here you should study further; the DIFFERENCE between WHAT GOD DOES;
And WHAT an Earthly man CAN SEE.
When the Lord SAYS, do this, and ye shall receive; When a man Does this...IT IS DONE.
The LORD'S Word IS "NOT" dependent upon "IF" a man CAN "SEE", what the Lord "HAS DONE".
A man "WAITS" to SEE, and in the meantime,
" is SUPPOSED TO TRUST THE Lords Word "IS TRUE"
No. Living souls ARE Living PRECISELY, because they HAVE Gods BREATH of LIFE, IN THE souls; AND SOULS and the LIFE in the SOULS BELONG TO HIM!
Souls do not COME out of the Dust -
They COME FROM GOD!
And "Gods living souls "depart" a DEAD BODY and RETURN to God;
God Himself SENDS, Living souls, WHERE HE chooses to SEND THEM....with Him, or without Him.
1 Cor. 15:52
Again You give Scripture that speaks Specificlally of the BODILY FORM, that is physically DEAD in the grave.
This physically DEAD BODILY FORM, "knows nothing, sees nothing".
The physical DEAD BODY, (in Christ), even the physical ALIVE BODY (in Christ)...WAITS;
TO SEE, their IMMORTAL Glorified Bodies.
You should have learned....the difference BETWEEN, a mortals "understanding' and Gods "understanding".
MORTALS WAIT TO SEE; What the Lord HAS ALREADY SPOKEN. And DONE.
Nearly 20 times the Lord spoke and TOLD mortal men; what SHALL happen for them TO SEE. Telling moral men; "it shall come to pass'.
Like so MANY....MORTAL MEN DO, with their limited understanding....WAIT TO SEE, before they TRUST TO BELIEVE the Word of God.
So after nearly 20 times of the Lord saying;
It SHALL come to pass....the Lord says..
Number 11:23
....thou shalt see now...
Whether MY WORD shall come to pass unto thee or not..
Pss 33:9
For he spake, and it was DONE.
Matt 9:22
..Jesus..said..
"Thy FAITH HAS MADE thee WHOLE".
1 Thes 5:23
..The very God of peace SANCTIFY you WHOLLY"
..your WHOLE spirit, and soul and body.
Acts 20:32
...inheritance among them WHICH ARE Sanctifi-ED by Faith.
1 Cor 1
..sanctifi-ED in Christ Jesus
Rom 15:16
...BEING santifi-ED "BY" the Holy Ghost..
Aside from your philosophical view...
The Living Soul, does not come from dust, nor go to the dust and rot.
The Living Soul, is a soul that God made, belongs to God, Has LIFE in it from God, departs physically dead body's and goes to where God sends it.
Gen 6:7
...the LORD said..I will destroy MAN whom I have created front he FACE of the earth...
I have made them.
Gen 46:4
...the SOULS which I have made...
Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me...
And THE BREATH OF THE ALMIGHTY "gives" me LIFE.
Jer 1:5
...I formed you in the womb...
Job 33:4
...the BREATH of THE ALMIGHTY "gives" me Life.
Ezekiel 16:26
..a NEW heart I will give you..
..A New spirit will I put within you...
Ezekiel 18:36
...make you a new heart and new spirit...
Matt 10:28. TWO separate things....
...fear him which is able to DESTROY "BOTH"
..."SOUL and BODY" in Hell.
The truth is; ONCE a mans Living soul "IS" in the torment side of Hell....for the rest of his Existance...he shall exist IN TORMENTS...
Which is Separation from God and all the Comforts the body AND soul experienced while his living soul was IN his BODY, and they WERE living ON the face of the Earth.
it is that the punishment, the wages of sin, being death,
The wage of the SIN of the BODY is Death.
All Bodies SHALL DIE....at LEAST ONCE.
deprives us forever of any chance of living.
FALSE.
A BODY Crucified with Christ; IS a NATURAL Living Body, that EXPERIENCES, ONE supernatural DEATH; that is Acceptable to God for THAT BODY to have fulfilled HIS Payment of SIN!
Some body's IN CHRIST, shall additionally experience, a natural bodily physical death....and SOME IN Christ, SHALL NOT.
That death is ultimately complete and utter destruction.
Second death.
Even the devil, scripture says is ultimately destroyed.
First was cast out of Heaven...
Was cast Down to Earth.
Will be cast OUT of the mountain of God.
and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
DESTROY THEE..
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings,
LAY thee BEFORE kings ?
LAY a 'spirit' Before kings?
that they may behold thee.
...kings shall SEE (behold) the cherub spirit?
18 therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 ...thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
To comprehend WHAT is DESTROYED and WHAT is SEEN by men UPON the earth...one requries further study.
Spirits, CAN, APPEAR TO earthly men, "AS" an earthly man.
Christ APPEARED to men MANY TIMES, "AS" a man.
Christ APPEARED to men "IN THE LAST DAYS", "AS" a man; and God said CALL HIM JESUS; CALL HIM "THEE" ONLY begotten Son of God.
And the PREPARED BODY, Jesus Appeared in...WAS KILLED BY MEN....but NOT Destroyed.
Satan "mimics" the Lord. Satan "shall Appear" in the bodily likeness "AS" a man.
Satan shall SIT, in a house BUILT by Men, to HONOR GOD.
Before the Eyes of "kings", ie rulers of individual world nations; God SHALL Destroy
The BODY, of Satan, WITH FIRE, and it's ASH scattered upon the Earth.
The spirit of Satan, SHALL BE removed from the earth, and cast down to the Pits of Hell, for 1,000 years.
The spirit of Satan shall then be released from the Pits of Hell....and ALLOWED to influence MORTALS, who for 1,000 years had opportunity to SEEK the Lord, BELIEVE IN HIM, and through the generations of 1,000 years TEACH their children ABOUT the Lord...
AFTER, Satan has reeked HAVOIC AGAIN upon the Earth, toward MORTAL men, willing to YEILD to him...
The spirit of Satan SHALL be CAST into the LAKE OF FIRE in Hell, for eternity.
There SHALL he, "spirit", FOREVER be IN FIRE, continuously, burning, being purified,
But never being BURNED UP.
Rev 20:
10...And the Devil .. was cast into the lake of fire ...AND SHALL BE TORMENTED day and night FOREVER.
What is DESTROYED..BY GOD...is the body of Satan that he took upon himself, in the likeness as a man.
What shall be IN eternal torment IN the Lake of Fire, FOREVER, IS Satan, who IS spirit.
Created Spirits and Made Sprits given LIFE from God DO NOT DIE.
The WHOLE of a NATURAL man that REJECTS GOD,
SHALL NEVER BE MADE SPITIRUALLY WHOLE, body, soul, spirit.
Human men CANNOT SEE SPIRITS.
SATAN IS A created spirit.
SANTAN shall appear before men, kings of the earth, the people of nations....IN A BODILY form.....
And kings of the earth, the people of nations...SHALL SEE, the bodily form of Satan; DESTROYED.
Satan himself, a created spirit, shall never die, but WILL be in torments FOREVER.
God Bless,
Taken