Now moving from birth (and rebirth) to death, we can learn more about the relationship of the body, soul, and spirit. First, the spirit and soul leaves the body and returns to God. This is what we commonly refer to as heaven, but it is not eternal.
“[A]nd the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.” -Ecclesiastes 12:7
“[A]nd the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.” -Ecclesiastes 12:7
“And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.” -Genesis 35:18
After we die, we are first disembodied souls and spirits in the intermediate state, but we do not stay that way. Even though our physical bodies as we know them have become corrupted and will die, God will resurrect and perfect them, so he obviously wants man to have one. Your body is part of you. The resurrection of the body, not the existence of your soul and spirit after death, is the pledge of redemption.
“And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,” Job 19:26
“If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.” -Romans 8:11
Our resurrected bodies will be changed and perfected and immortal, though. They will not have the same limitations as our current bodies.
“Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.” -1 Corinthians 15:51-53
“who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.” -Philippians 3:21
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