In order to be alive a person must be a soul. A soul is the complete person, body and spirit. This is how GOD designed and created a human being. The Genesis account of GOD creating Adam plainly says Adams body was composed of the dust of the ground and his human spirit was the breath of life from GOD, as long as there is breath there is life. You must breath to be alive and this human spirit, the breath of life is what imparts life to the body, immortal beings require no breath but mortal humans do, and that is all that the breath of life provides; it doesn’t provide immortality.
The human spirit of Adam, before being breathed into his body to make him a soul, was not immortal because if it was mortal then the spirit of Adam would have existed in eternity as a conscious disembodied spirit, which has no support from the scriptures. There are people that say humans do not have a human spirit but scripture disagrees;
1 Corinthians 2:11 “For what a man knows, the things of a man, except the spirit of man that is in him.”
Job 32:8 “But it is the spirit of man, the breath of the ALMIGHTY, that gives them understanding.”
Zechariah 12:1 (last part) “and who forms the spirit of man within him.”
There is indeed a human spirit which is the breath of life from GOD.
The soul is not immortal therefore the parts that make it are not immortal either. The human spirit must have a body to be alive and that body can either be composed of dust or spirit. When composed of dust life is temporary and has an end but when the body is composed of spirit then it is immortal. Since at death the human spirit returns to GOD, having no body, is inoperative and will not function . The human spirit requires a body in order to be alive. This spirit body is not immediately given so the human spirit remains inactive, unconscious and non operational until the resurrection when this mortal spirit is clothed with an immortal spirit body. Since both the human spirit is spirit and the spirit body is spirit this produces a spirit being. Only at this time is the person conscious and aware and alive.
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