Matt 5:20 or enter you won't.

Originally posted by wotsup: ↑

Soul -> the man, body got the breath of life through the nostrils and he Became a living soul.
That suggests, before the life he would be deemed as a soul, a dead one lol
So, that appears to suggest that the whole package of a person is deemed as a living soul, and not has a soul on top of a living person.

For the very fact he got the breath of life through the nostrils, it seems to suggest that that is simply the air we breath, into his airways, via the nostril.
(don't get bogged down on how he actually got this breath).
Breath is also deemed as spirit.
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"Adam and Eve are a single human that represents every human, spirit and life-force."

LOL, so the Spirit got naughty with the Soul and Lo - Behold, Cain and Able just happened to pop out of ??????????? hmmmmm, I'll ave to come back to you on that one, ummmm, hmmmm, nope, Duno
I'm Finking LOL.
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"Regarding resurrection, all I'm saying is that dead bodies remain dead, we all know this. Jesus body was an ordinary body, His spirit however was that of a Manifestation of God, it was immortal, and no doubt supported the disciples as they rose up to spread the Teachings of Jesus throughout the known world."

Based on many passages in the Bible, you would have to get very, very creative and try and make huge spiritual messages out of many verses, 'some how' ???

Many seem to propose that upon death, the likes of your spirit in a conscious form goes somewhere, heaven for example.
If that were the case when Paul was trying to comfort people whose loved ones had died, why would he not just say, no worries guys, they are already there?
But instead, he only referenced some sort of bodily resurrection, only when Jesus returns. (Some call this soul sleep).
This I'm sure is about the only message in the entire Bible, the theme.

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Soul is the life force so we agree.

Don't let nostrils throw you off, the breath of God is not air, it is spirit, it is the image or likeness of God. Life is spiritual life death is spiritual death, as in 'let the dead bury the dead.'

Adam and Eve have several meanings, one is that Eve represents the life force, the ego that is in constant conflict with the spiritual nature, Adam. Another is that Adam and Eve being the symbolic first humans it shows that humanity, regardless of colour, culture or creed belong to a single family and there are more.

Cain and Able continues this symbolic narrative and emphasises great displeasure at murder.

The real creativity is to write the story in the Bible and then have people today believe it is a story in which a dead body comes back to life. You are looking at a 2000 year old retelling of a story recorded long after the event and rich in symbolism and exaggeration.

There are many who did not recognise the returned Jesus, this is because the story is a mix up of events, fable and misunderstanding. They did not recognise Jesus because His return was spiritual and related to His word being taught after He death. His Word was the reality of Christ, not his body.

Strat with what is real in this world today and then use that to reason between symbolic and literal. Jesus lived in the same state of reality as you do, the dead today do not come back to life then or now.