Living souls depart the body? Might you give scriptural evidence on that please. The Bible states quite the opposite.
Begin with the beginning.
Form, God called a man.
God blows His Breath INTO the Form,
The Formed man is now A Living Formed man.
The Formed man Begins its independent natural life.
* The Parts of the Formed man begin independently functioning.
* ie the senses... ears hear, eyes see, nose smells, mouth makes sounds, skin feels touch.
Adam and Eve were unique, void of a natural womb birth.
Thereafter Humans bodily form in a womb, DEPENDENT on the mother’s life, ie THE Blood LIFE of the mother, separated via the placenta.
Life of a human man is his BLOOD...
Every mans LIFE (Blood) God requires.
(All appointed to Die, once, remember?)
Gen 9
[
5] And surely
your blood of your lives will I
require; at the hand of every beast will I
require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I
require the
life of man.
Once a human is born from the womb, God blows His breath into the nostrils of babe....The ears hear, eyes see, nose sneaks, mouth makes sounds, skin feels touch.....receiving of Their SOUL...Gods Breath of Life
All souls belong to God.
Ezek 18:
[
4] Behold,
all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
The Life IN all Souls, IS Gods Breath.
The Soul itself is a mysterious THING. A vessel of some sort that holds Gods Breath?
...a Soul can die? What is Death of a Spiritual thing?
...We know God is the Creator AND Maker of all things.
Isa 57
[
16] For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and
the souls which I have made.
Spiritual things never die...
But MADE things do die...body’s, souls.
MADE things can be Destroyed...ie
Body’s, souls, earth.
Isa 43:
[
7] Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory,
I have formed him; yea,
I have made him.
Isa.45
[
12]
I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Matt 10
[
28] And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is
able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
~ body, soul, spirit are three different things.
~ they are joined in one man at three different times.
~ they can be divided or separated one from the other at different times
~ they are each together the WHOLE of one MAN.
When a body dies...it rots, stinks, is buried, to cover the stink, and continue rotting, returning to dust of the earth.
When the body is DYING...the “living soul” departs out of the body...
AND goes “somewhere”....
Where it is “SENT”...or where it is “ESCORTED”...depends on “IF” that departed living soul is “SAVED” or “NOT SAVED”.
Any soul separated from God is CALL DEAD.
(Because Death IS a separation from God.)
Living souls IN a living body, separated from God, is called dead.
Living souls OUT of a living body, separated from God is called dead.
Living souls OUT of a living body, WITH God, is not called SAVED.
Living souls IN a living body,
WITH God, is called dead.
Living souls IN a living body, that GOD SPIRIT IS
IN THAT men, that soul is called SAVED.
One mans, formed body, living soul, spirit, is all called by that man’s ONE NAME. All are possessive of that ONE individual man, as my, I, me, mine...
Read Gen chapter 35;
Many important things are revealed in that Chapter.
ISRAEL, deaths, births, travel, burials, land, grave, promises...
Jacob, now Israel, wife Rachel dies in labor.
Her body is buried.
And her SOUL?
Gen 35:
[
18] And it came to pass,
as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
[
19] And
Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
[
20] And Jacob set a pillar upon
her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
In that day...and forward...departed living souls, were sent or escorted to HELL. The unsaved souls were SENT, and The saved souls were ESCORTED. (UNTIL...after Jesus ascended back to Heaven....Departed saved souls thereafter are ESCORTED to Heaven).
A revealing of HELL is described by Jesus, IN HIS DOCTRINE.
Luke 16: 19-31
Review and pay attention to HOW the saved living souls ARE divided (saved from unsaved) and separated BY WHAT (that one saved living soul can not be in the same place in Hell, as an unsaved living soul)...
Pay attention to WHAT these saved and unsaved living souls CAN DO....
See, hear, speak, smell, taste/touch....THE SENSES of a BODY, That become active once the body received Gods Breath of Life.
When the Body’s BLOOD stops flowing, Heart beating, the BODY DIES, it knows nothing.
When the body is dying, the living soul (with Gods Breath) departs the body, and continues Living....seeing, hearing, speaking, smelling, tasting/touch.
An UNSAVED living soul IN Hell, sees, hears, speaks, smells, tastes/touches.......the most putrid, sickening, horrid things, gagging things imaginable...continuous smell of sulphur, screams of agony, nothing pleasant to see, smell, touch, taste, hear....
WHY? Because God IS Just. God IS Good. God freely gave mankind good and pleasant things, to see, hear, touch, taste, smell for all men ON this Earth....and many men REJECT these things are Gifts from God.
SO? Men who REJECT acknowledging these things ARE Gifts from God...
Get to experience a living experience WITHOUT good and pleasant things.
Jesus came and TAUGHT HOW, men could BECOME “MADE WHOLE”, (by, through, of the Power of God) body and soul and spirit, wholly, whole and holy acceptable to be WITH God forever.
1 Thes 5:
[
23] And the very God of peace
sanctify you wholly; and I pray God
your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
^ The is the crux of OSAS.
A saving of the soul, the quickening of the spirit.......
Always becomes MANIFESTED....AFTER the DEATH of the BODY.
* Once the body IS DEAD. THEN is the soul saved, the spirit quickened.
* Crucified WITH Jesus, IS Gods OFFERING of a
new better ASSURED WAY, to become MADE WHOLE, before physical death.
Heb 7:
[
22] By so much was Jesus made
a surety of a
better testament.
I did NOT yet suffer physical bodily death.
But I DID voluntarily, by, through, of, my verbal Heartful confession,
Lay down MY own life (my body), unto Death, for the Love and Belief IN my Lord God Almighty.
So, by Gods Offering, and my freewill to act on Gods Offering...
My body has fulfilled it’s ONE required Death, and I was assuredly By Gods Promise, MADE WHOLE...body, soul, spirit....Already “sanctified”...
Which means “SET APART”....from what?
ALL that IS NOT “yet or may not” ....forever BE WITH God.
...still alive in my flesh....Yet Already ASSURED I am Saved.
OSAS ^
Never, am I become.....”bodily uncrucified” !
And will you do the same? Scriptural evidence?[/QUOTE]
I understand why you understand it the way you do, and I certainly appreciate the lengths you went to prove your point, however like you said, when the breath of life is put into a human, and I will include animal, they become a living soul, when the breath goes out, they die. The breath is the spirit, all are kept alive by God's holy spirit, the breath of life. The Bible is clear on the condition of the dead Taken: (Psalm 146:3, 4) . . .Do not put your trust in princes Nor in a son of man, who cannot bring salvation. 4 His spirit goes out, he returns to the ground; On that very day his thoughts perish.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5-10) . . .For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have any more reward, because all memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they no longer have any share in what is done under the sun. 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your might, for there is no work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the Grave, where you are going.
Nothing lives on, why do you think there is a resurrection? God is not going to put souls back into their original body, many have been consumed by other beings.