Where does the soul fit in all this when we die?
Thank you for your interesting Question...
God is a Spiritual Being, who is manifested in 3 distinct manifestions.
Father-Creator
Pre-Incarnate Word-Son-INcarnate 2nd Adam
Holy Spirit
WE, humans, are "made in God's image/likeness" so, as God is 3<>1, we are also :
Body
Soul
Spirit
Here is how that works out...
1.)
Genesis said that man "1st Adam" .... ""was made in
OUR image"
I teach the "our" as "God the Father, Jesus THE Christ = (the Pre-incarnate Word), and The Holy Spirit.
= "
3".
2.) Man is also, by "image", created as 3.
1. Body
2. Soul
3. Spirit
You live in a body
You have a soul
You are a Spirit
So, you are the Spirit. You live in a mortal body, and you have a mind (Soul) that is all living as "one".
Are you thinking? = Then your "soul realm" your Soul, is functioning.
3.)
The Soul realm, is not the Spirit or the body.
The Soul realm is :
1. MInd
2. Will
3. Emotions.
4.)
When you are born again, you are born again = Spiritually.
This is the REAL YOU, as "the new creation in Christ"...."one with God" "Son/Daughter" of God.
This REAL YOU is going to get a NEW Eternal Celestial Body that is Created to contain the Born again Spirit.
Your. current body is not born again and your mind is not born again.
This is why the NT tells you that you are to RENEW your mind, or = "by the Transforming of your mind".
Your Spirit IS born again, and this means that you have become a part of God's Holy Spirit. "Temple of THE Holy Spirit".
= "If a person has not the Holy Spirit, then they are none of God's."
See that? ...
To be born again, is to be born again INTO the Spirit of God, by The Holy Spirit of God.
This is the "new Birth" and the result is to have become a "new Creation... In Christ'.... = Spiritually.
You end up with Christ in you, and you "in Christ"..... "one with God".
5.)
Christ Himself is our Righteousness. He is our Eternal Life...And our born again Spirit is now joined into and with His, and that is why we have become "IN Christ", and "Christ in you, the hope of Glory". as a "new Creation".
Its by becoming born again "In Christ" = Spiritually..... that we become the same as Christ, literally, = as a Son/Daughter of God.
See that?
This is why the NT says ....regarding all the born again..
A.) = "As Christ
IS.....so are the born again, in this world".
This is what it means to literally be "made righteous", and become "the righteousness of God, IN Christ".
See it?
Now the way this is usually taught ....is that when Adam died, = he died Spiritually.
But that isn't really accurate.... as the "death" was not the death of Adam's Spirit.....but it was the separation of Adam's Spirit, from God's Spirit.
See, our spirit never dies, it just ends up in eternity as born again, or not.
Our Spirit ends up, as "One with God " "in Christ",....
or.... eternally separated from God after death,= "2nd death) exactly as you find the Spiritual separation that currently exists between all unbelievers, and God's Spirit.. until they are born again.
If they are never, and they die, then that is the 1st death, become eternal spiritual separation from God, as the 2nd death.
This 1st death, was the same that happened to Adam.
The 2nd Adam, who is JESUS, came to restore our spirit as "born again" into God's Spirit. This is to become a "new Creation, in Christ". = Born ....again.
This is "spiritual death" become "Born again" as "translated from darkness TO LIGHT">... And this LIGHT is GOD, and Jesus is the "Light of the World' and the born again are ""Children of the Light".
This LIGHT is the KOG, and we who are born again, are now there..... "seated in heavenly places, IN CHRIST".
If a person is never born again, then they continue to exist in "spiritual separation" from God, into Eternity, and that is the 2nd Death.
Its simply the continuation of spiritual separation from God, after they died.
God has a place for these to go, and that is Hell, then Lake of Fire.
There are no born again in Hell.
There are no Christ rejectors, never born again, found in Heaven.... and you can't be born again in Hell.
Thats a lot of revelation, sort of condensed, but, its the Truth.
This is why Jesus tells us....."
You MUST be born again", as if you are not, then you have not been restored to God, who is..
="A Spirit". (The Holy Spirit.)
AND.....You are not restored to spiritual union with God by water baptism.
Salvation, is simply to be restored SPIRITUALLY to God. by being Born again...."spiritually".
This is to "pass from death TO LIFE".. from "dead spirit" to "born again" Spiritually.
See that?
Its simply to be returned to spiritual union with God, as Adam had it, before he sinned and lost it.
This is : SALVATiON.
The Cross of Christ, is the BLOOD Sacrifice that deals with all our sin, FIRST.... so that God can THEN birth us by His Holy Spirit into His Holy Spirit....Into HIMSELF, as BORN....again..... = "A New Creation... IN...Christ".