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Your body eventually rots away and returns to the dust that it came from. Has nothing to do with resurrection of it. I'm sure God has the ability to put the pieces back together o matter how minute. Look, that's what the scriptures say. If you don't accept it, that's your business.

No scriptural support for that. Body back to the ground. Spirit back to God. The soul is left which then has 2 alternatives. Heaven or hell.

The spirit is the breath of life. Pneuma is breath in Greek. God breathed the breath of life into Adam and he became a living soul. Gen 2:7 7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

What does the false doctrine of universalism have to do with it? Absolutely not. The bible is very clear that all aren't saved, but rather "few there be that find it".

Ecclesiastes 12:7 Ecclesiastes 12:7 7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Yet another tangent

You're off on a different tangent now. You're off on a different tangent now as has gone this exchange. We've gone from just the covenants and their effectivity points to salvation, and have strayed far from the OP subject which should take the respective covenants into consideration in order...

These are your thoughts not supported by scripture. Nowhere do scriptures say the spirit is inside the soul. The spirit returns to God who gave it. He doesn't give out or distribute souls to anyone; you BECOME a living soul, and similarly upon your death, you become a dead soul. Look up the two...

So there is no old covenant and new covenant as the bible states? Now you're just spewing nonsense.

The truth is comfortable to me. The old covenant was in effect until Jesus death, so the gospel records which chronicled his life and teachings while he was alive, was primarily old covenant. The actual NT or covenant didn't start with Matthew, the actual NT started at Jesus's death. You asked...

It's a response to barney and his question to me relating to his misunderstanding of when the NT actually began

Can't be the old testament saints As I explained, the spirit is not the same as the soul and returns to God who gave it. It would have to have said souls in prison not spirits in prison for your statement to have any validity. .

Read Hebrews 9:15-17 15And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 16For where a testament is, there must...

Please see my post, "Understanding 1 Peter 3:19" just now posted which addresses this.

Understanding 1 Peter 3:19 (Pertinent scriptures below) Who are the "spirits in prison", in 1 Peter 3:19, and the "dead" in 1 Peter 4:6? First, you must understand the word "spirits" (pneumasin in the Greek) in 1 Peter 3:19 and the use of this word as opposed to 'soul' (psyches in the Greek)...

Scripture says man becomes a living soul. It also makes reference in Revelation 20 to the souls of the dead. The soul is the being you become, the unique individual that you are that has consciousness.

The spirit returns to God, the body back to the ground, but the soul lives on and goes to either paradise with the Lord or hell. That's what the scriptures teach.

What is the question? The book of Jubilees is readily available on line free of charge as is the book of Enoch.

This, as well as other subjects, must be viewed in their proper, relative, context. While Jesus was alive, so was the old covenant active, not the new, which became dominant upon the Lord's death. So it's important to keep things in their respective focus and corresponding pertainence as relates...

Why not?