A "soul" is a person ... only God is immortal. There is nothing about or within a person that is immortal. Like stated before (the verses are clear) ... we (the saved) receive immortality and eternal life at Jesus' 2nd coming and the (saved) dead are resurrected and the living (saved) at that time are translated/transformed and receive immortality. Then, and only then, do the saved receive immortality and eternal life.
Why would God/Jesus promise the gift of immortality (ever lasting life - eternal) if we have within us ANYTHING that is immortal?
Nice.
What is ignored is that Man was NEVER created IMMORTAL but was given privilege to eat of the tree of life in the middle of the garden right next to the tree of knowledge of good and evil...so every time they ate of the first they were tempted by the other...
“Now they have become like one of US” was NOT referring to Adam and Eve’s immortality but to their knowledge of good and evil.
They did not gain that knowledge from eating the forbidden fruit but from the subsequent events having eaten it...they realized they did NOT DIE were they lied to?...that they needed covering...they hid when He came looking for them...blamed the other...witnessed Him cursing everything He made.. the animals, the very ground, her, him, their lives now work and pain, and their death...(sparing only the Sabbath its rest now needed more than ever)...
their lesson to good and evil continued with the shock of Yah KILLING not the deserving law breakers but an innocent for its skin...for His wrath to PASS OVER...the WHOLE UNIVERSE must have recoiled to the horror of death...the FIRST...its blood letting...AND BY THE CREATOR
and for them? WHO ARE THESE BEINGS? Indeed...MERCY GRACE revealed AS NEVER BEFORE...there had been no need of it
Staring at the carcass wearing their coverings NOW they had knowledge of good and evil...
Now “Behold they have become like one of US to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and
take also of the tree of life, and eat, and LIVE FOREVER”-
So He kicked them out...placed a guard with a light saber which turned every way to prevent access to that tree of life...its immortality...
A MAN HIS SOUL IS NOT IMMORTAL...NEVER WAS
But then:
Revelations 22: “And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.(trinitarians please note only TWO thrones) 2 In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river,
WAS THE TREE OF LIFE, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month.(not a roman Gregorian calendar to be sure) The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse,(nailed to the wood like He said He would) but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. (As IS the LAW) 4 They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads.(not a translated one either I imagine) 5 There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.”
MAN IS STILL NOT IMMORTAL but given access again to LIFE ETERNAL by FAITH IN HIM HIS LAW HIS WORK...its grace and mercy revealed FOREVER...do this and live
HalleluYah
