Onewithin said:
I am somewhat surprised that you have not been able to distinguish "soul" from "spirit." We have discussed this at length. The "soul" is the complete person, everything about him, including his flesh, his blood, his thinking ability. The "spirit" is not something that lives within us and departs at death, consciously, to live on somewhere else. It is the breath of life from God that keeps us alive. It is not a conscious person that lives on, even after death.
I just cited this part of your comment to say something about the same idea. I totally agree with all you just commented before.
The idea about this point is that some believers think Jesus' spirit went out from him alive, and they say this Jesus' spirit resurrected Jesus' body at the third day. That is really confusing, cause if Jesus' spirit resurrected Jesus' body, then there would be two Jesuses, and it would be not Father, Son and spirit, as they say, but Father, Jesus spirit, Jesus body alive, and spirit, four ...
The only way we can understand Jesus' resurrection is that we understand what really means Jesus was dead.
Acts 2:24 But God resurrected him by releasing him from the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held fast by it. (...) 31 he [David] saw beforehand and spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he forsaken in Haʹdes nor did his flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus God resurrected, of which fact we are all witnesses.
Everything is related: death, dead state, resurrection, etc. If there is only one aspect that is misunderstood, the correct understanding of all biblical truth is compromised.