āAnd 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.ā Genesis 2:7.
A soul is a living being and a soul is always a combination of two things, body plus breath. A soul cannot exist unless body and breath are combined. The Scripture teaches that we are souls.
What is the āspiritā that returns to God at death?
The body without the spirit (breath) is dead. James 2:26 KJV. The spirit of God (the breath which God gave him), is in my nostrils." Job 27:3.KJV
The spirit that returns to God at death is the breath of life. Nowhere in the Scriptures does the āspiritā have any life, wisdom, or feeling after a person dies. It is the ābreath of lifeā and nothing more.
Oneās pulse is stopped completely since some weeks.
Oneās heartbeat is stopped completely since some weeks.
Oneās brain is stopped completely since some weeks.
Can we say for all practical reasons that now this one is forever dead for sure, and there is no way that it can become alive again ever in the future?
Man became a living soul in the physical realm, but his soul was already in existence in the spiritual realm. You did not offer the proof I requested.
Souls do not die nor are they resurrected for judgement day, they are already existing in purgatory with their history of memories based on their Earthbound behaviors in tact.
Iām gonna dig out my Bible and find you some scriptural evidence you may deny. Itāll be like looking for a needle in a haystack which makes for happy hunting.
The idea that a person can exist without a body is a Greek idea. The Biblical Jews did not think that way. Even the ones who believed in an afterlife, thought that those in heaven/hell had physical bodies.
Plato correctly described the location of the soul as I know it to be true (at some point when I refind it, I will provide a copy of his descriptions). The soul has itās own body able to exist separate from the physical human body.
You cannot know anything that is āpermanentā or āinfiniteā. You can only know what is transient and finite. In other words, you cannot know that someone is dead for all eternity, you can only know that someone has been dead for a period of time. You can also expect that someone will be dead in the future but expectations arenāt reality i.e. your expectations can be proven wrong no matter how certain of them you are.
The key is to understand how intelligence works. Most people idealize intelligence. They think that intelligence is something it is not, some kind of supernatural ability that allows us to travel into the future in order to see whatās going to happen. Thatās not what intelligence is.
What happens is that we get tired of waiting for people to āwake upā. You need to set a time limit if you want to find your answer. Otherwise you wonāt find it. In other words, you wait certain amount of time and if they donāt āwake upā within the set period of time, you pronounce them dead, if they do, you pronounce them alive.
The body is going to rot - it will be consumed by animals, bugs and bacteria. Once itās gone, that person is not coming back unless he gets a new body. And that means there is a soul separated from the physical body which survives the destruction of a body and can take residence in another body.
No Iām not. Maybe my post was not clear. I merely pointed out the obvious fact the body will be destroyed after death. If you expect someone to come alive again, then he will need a new body. And the consequence of that thinking is that there would have to be a mobile soul.
But Iām not a dualist. I donāt actually think that a soul can exist without a physical body, so I donāt think that anyone is coming back after dying.