We are intrinsic to all of our makeup here on this earth. Many passages in the bible 'seem' to indicate certain things, that when analyzed indicate something different than was originally thought.
When someone makes that statement we don't have a soul, we ARE a soul, there are holes in that theology. Adam was his body and his soul which the Lord breathed into his already made body. Some come away with the tought that all souls since then were breathed into the bodies the same way, but the only foundation I know if for this is the Adam reference, and as you know, he didn't come from a womb.
The danger in this thinking is some have used it for a way to make abortion of children ok since, well hey, they never had a soul because they were never born, and yet we have backing for a God who foreknew us all even before birth and no confirmation a soul ever was "breathed" in the same way since. In fact, we have more precident for the opposite because the Holy Ghost entered John the Baptist in the womb.
I call some of that thinking "soul death" since those who say our soul dies until resurrection, and at one time I was a proponent of that because it was difficult to rationalize the resurrections if a part of us was already there.
In reality though it is a mysterious process in which the soul leaves the body to go to be with the Lord at death until it's time for resurrection.
Sure there are scriptures more specifically about the body that people take to mean the soul being dead. I'm thinking of passages in Ecclesiates.
Atheists will say the same thing about the brain. We are our brains or something similar because they believe when they die that's it.
For those who went on as unbelievers they go to another entirely different entirely worse place than us.
Since this thread doesn't specifically address the death process and what happens, in out current states we are a body with a soul. A naturalist calls us walking gut bags, while a believer calls us souls with body shells which I think is the most accurate.
Nothing metaphysical is generally known to be scientifically analyzed, so they don't see the soul.
Our souls as believers are always with the Lord. Whether in life, or in death.
