Semmelweis Reflex
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The spirit of an unsaved person does not die at the same time the body dies, even though the spirit is mortal. It will eventually die at the second death at the lake of fire, but not before. Between the death of the body and the second death, that unsaved spirit is alive in the outer darkness in pitch black and no sound except their own wailing and gnashing teeth.
First off, it is the Old Testament that refers to a person as a soul. The New Testament is where the born again are triune - spirit, soul and body. Of the three the spirit and soul are the mind and conscience, otherwise known as the heart where the laws are written and become immortal while their body is still mortal awaiting the change to immortality.
Another thing. Adam was created immortal. When he willfully sinned, his spirit, soul and body all became mortal. It is only a born again person whose spirit and soul become immortal first, and their mortal body will become immortal at the resurrection when it is changed.
Although the sins of the OT saints were passed over so as long as they served God they were immortal and went to heaven with Jesus when He ascended 40 days after His resurrection.
You're going to need a lot of scriptural references to support all of that.
1. The spirit isn't alive. See pneuma.
2. The terms Old Testament and New Testament are misnomers based upon a Latin mistranslation for covenant. There is no Old and New Testament. There's only one.
3. Spirit is breath, wind, compelled mental inclination (i.e. mean spirited, low in spirit, broken spirit). Soul is life, life experiences, blood. What? No metaphysical/theological jargon for the plain ol' body? The body is one with the universe, man. We are all one. Part of a multiune.
4. Adam was created to live forever. Can the immortal die as he did? The Bible is full of warnings for the born again immortal. If they mess up they, like Adam, ain't immortal no more.
5. Saints? What is that?