I gave you the words of Jesus who said there is BOTH a body and a soul.
Yes, both words are in Scripture.
Right, but that does mean the body is the same as the soul.
Let me give you more proof of this here in…
Yes, it does. It says the man which is the body "became" a living soul.
1 Kings 17:21-22
King James Version
21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.”
Notice the child’s living soul entered back into the child’s dead physical body, proving the living soul exited the physical body upon the physical death of the body.
This confirms what Jesus said about there being both a body and a soul. It can’t be any clearer than that.
Ok, now reread that passage and replace the word soul with the word life.
Most people think of death as physical, but there is also a spiritual death. In the Genesis account God told Adam that in the day he ate from the tree of knowledge that he would surely die. But the day Adam sinned against Gods command, he did not physically die, so what death was God talking about?
God was talking about the spiritual death that takes place when we sin. Being separated from Gods presence is also a part of this spiritual death. We see this in Adam, and also in Cain, who after killing his brother was cast out of Gods presence, and marked.
Actually, there's no such thing as spiritual death. You won't find that phrase in Scripture. Also, Adam did die in the day he ate from the tree. If we look at the ancient Jewish and early Chrisitan understanding of this, we see what God meant. David said a thousand years in God's sight are as yesterday. Peter, alluding to this passage said a day with the Lord is as a thousand years. They're referring to God's prophetic day. Adam lived 930 years. That's just short of a thousand years, one day.
Here's the early Christian understanding.
2. Thus, then, in the day that they did eat, in the same did they die, and became death’s debtors, since it was one day of the creation. For it is said, “There was made in the evening, and there was made in the morning, one day.” Now in this same day that they did eat, in that also did they die. But according to the cycle and progress of the days, after which one is termed first, another second, and another third, if anybody seeks diligently to learn upon what day out of the seven it was that Adam died, he will find it by examining the dispensation of the Lord. For by summing up in Himself the whole human race from the beginning to the end, He has also summed up its death. From this it is clear that the Lord suffered death, in obedience to His Father, upon that day on which Adam died while he disobeyed God. Now
he died on the same day in which he did eat. For God said, “In that day on which ye shall eat of it, ye shall die by death.” The Lord, therefore, recapitulating in Himself this day, underwent His sufferings upon the day preceding the Sabbath, that is, the sixth day of the creation, on which day man was created; thus granting him a second creation by means of His passion, which is that [creation] out of death.
And there are some, again, who relegate the death of Adam to the thousandth year; for since “a day of the Lord is as a thousand years,” he did not overstep the thousand years, but died within them, thus bearing out the sentence of his sin. Whether, therefore, with respect to disobedience, which is death; whether [we consider] that, on account of that, they were delivered over to death, and made debtors to it; whether with respect to [the fact that on] one and the same day on which they ate they also died (for it is one day of the creation); whether [we regard this point], that, with respect to this cycle of days,
they died on the day in which they did also eat, that is, the day of the preparation, which is termed “the pure supper,” that is, the sixth day of the feast, which the Lord also exhibited when He suffered on that day; or whether [we reflect] that he (Adam) did not overstep the thousand years, but died within their limit,—it follows that, in regard to all these significations, God is indeed true. For they died who tasted of the tree; and the serpent is proved a liar and a murderer, as the Lord said of him: “For he is a murderer from the beginning, and the truth is not in him.”
Irenaeus of Lyons, “Irenæus against Heresies,” in The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, vol. 1, The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1885), 551–552.
Here is the Jewish perspective from the book of Jubilees.
Adam died, and all his sons buried him in the land of his creation, and he 30 was the first to be buried in the earth. And
he lacked seventy years of one thousand years; for one thousand years are as one day in the testimony of the heavens and therefore was it written concerning the tree of knowledge: 'On the day that ye eat thereof ye shall die.' For this reason
he 31 did not complete the years of this day; for he died during it.
God said in
Isaiah 59:2
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Paul said in
Col 2:13 and
Ephesians 2:1that we were
dead in our sins. It is written in
Ezekiel 18:20 that the soul that sins it shall die. Paul also said in
1Tim.5:6 that the woman who lives in pleasure
is dead while she lives.
So to God you are dead spiritually while you are yet alive in the body because of sin. Just as Jesus said in
Matthew 8:23 to let the dead bury their dead.
On the contrary. Paul often uses death as a metaphor. Paul also said, "I die daily" Was he spiritually dead? He also said he was alive without the Law but when the Law came, he died. Was Paul spiritually alive and then when he heard the Law he died spiritually? No. He's using death as metaphor. Just like in Ephesian, dead in sin is simply a way of saying they could do nothing about their sinful condition. Just as a dead man can do nothing about his condition.
It is also written that to be carnally minded
is death. So the issue of sin must be dealt with so that we can be reconciled back to the presence of God. God said in
Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
We know we cannot make ourselves a new heart and a new spirit, but God can. Which is why God sent His Son Jesus Christ to reconcile us back to God through His sacrifice on the cross. And through Christ we have the forgiveness of past sins, and we are also empowered by Him to overcome future sin by spiritual rebirth.
When this spiritual rebirth happens we pass from Death unto Life.
Jesus said in
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed
from death unto life.”
When we get victory over the mark of sin by Faith in Jesus Christ, we also get victory over the name, which is
Death.
Jesus too uses death as a metaphor. There is nothing in Scripture about spiritual death. That's not even possible because man is not a spirit. The only spirit in man is God. He puts His breath/spirit in man to make man alive and to believers He gives the Holy Spirit. However, neither of these are man, they are God.
