The soul, the body, and the spirit. Paul points out the soul needs to put on a body, and then put on life, which is the spirit.
Is that what you think Paul points out in 2Cor 5:1? Why would Paul point out the soul needs to put on a body, when the living body with spirit is already a living soul? You've said the exact same thing, so why would you think Paul tells us the soul needs a body?
What Paul is telling us in this passage is that he will put off (die) his natural, physical body from the earth, but that does not mean that he will be found naked, because when his body dies, he will not be unclothed, rather physical death of the mortal body means his physical body shall be resurrected immortal. But, before that can happen, Paul says Christ has given him and all believers His Holy Spirit which teaches us that while we are physically present in our mortal body, and at home in the flesh, we are absent from Christ in heaven. But since, through His Spirit in us, we walk by faith and not by sight, we are more than willing to be absent from our physical body because then we shall be present with the Lord in heaven, a spiritual body, a living spirit soul. Death of our body does not mean we are no longer a living soul. For every believer it simply means that we become spiritual body in heaven, because the spirit in us that returns to God after our body dies has ETERNAL life and shall not cease to be alive when our physical body dies.
Paul shows this truth plainly stated in 1Cor 15. Carefully read this passage of Scripture where Paul clearly explains the same thing. That which physically dies in a natural body, but the body raised is spiritual, because there is both a natural body of believers on earth and a spiritual body of believers in heaven. First on earth the Church is a physical body of believers, and when our natural body dies, we belong to a spiritual body of believers in heaven. And just as in life we are the image of the earthy man (Adam), so too in heaven we shall be the image of the heavenly man (Christ), spirit as are the angels of God in heaven. Only faithful man's spirit goes alive to heaven, our mortal body cannot go there because neither flesh & blood, nor corruption inherit the Kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 15:44-50 (KJV) It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam
was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit
that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man
is of the earth, earthy: the second man
is the Lord from heaven.
As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
The air you breath is not spirit. You are spiritually dead, separated from your spirit. You don't get your spirit until the Second Coming
The spirit God gave mankind gives natural, physical life to our body of flesh & blood. Our natural spirit enables us to think, or reason, gives our body the ability to breathe, and is the center for every organ functioning in our physical, earthly bodies. That's why when the spirit departs the body, the body becomes a corpse. When Paul writes that we were dead in trespasses and sins, he is speaking to all who have not the life-giving Spirit of Christ. Without the Holy Spirit, man is naturally alive, but without the Spirit of Christ, spiritually we are dead. IOW without His Spirit in us we have no desire for Christ and live as a natural man/woman living according to this world, fulfilling the lusts of our flesh and of our mind, we are without His Spirit by nature children of wrath and deserving of death.
Ephesians 2:2-3 (KJV) Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
We are living souls through spirit in us. Every living breathing thing upon the earth is a "living soul", whether man or creature, endowed with both body and spirit. Only mankind may possess the Spirit of God when they are born again or born from above while physically alive when His Spirit gives our spirit ETERNAL life. We have the Spirit in us the moment we are eternally spiritually saved. Without the Spirit in us, we shall die in our sins in unbelief, and our fate shall be silence and darkness in the grave. That's why Paul writes we were DEAD in trespasses and sins and without His Spirit to guide us to all truth in the Lord.
No, you are the one changing the point with ages. They had a permanent incorruptible physical body since the Cross when they experienced a physical resurrection. Lazarus had a physical resurrection. A resurrection is just that physical. The first birth was physical. The first death is physical. The first resurrection is physical to God's permanent incorruptible physical body
No human, except Christ our Lord has a permanent incorruptible physical body in this age of time, symbolized a thousand years. Yes, Lazarus was physically resurrected, but his physical body was corruptible, which is why Lazarus physically died. Yes, the resurrection of our mortal body shall be physical, but no man, except Christ, has been physically resurrected immortal & incorruptible, and shall not be until an hour coming when the last trumpet sounds that time given this earth for building the spiritual Kingdom of God in heaven shall be no longer. Just as mankind is physically born, so too mankind is ordained in this age to physically die. The first resurrection pertains to the resurrection of Christ ALONE! He is the first resurrection of the physically dead who shall never die again. It is Christ's resurrection that mankind in life must have part in to overcome the second death. Without having part in the first resurrection through Christ we have NOT His life-giving Spirit to give our spirit ETERNAL/EVERLASTING life that shall never die. I believe Christ when He tells us, "
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" Since these words were spoken after Christ's faithful saint, Lazarus had died, it is clear that Christ was speaking of our spirit that would never die, not our flesh.