Jehovah's Witness'

[Peg]

Ok, so doesn't this mean that when we die our body stays on earth and our spirit goes with God? So then how can our soul be our body? Sorry still confused.

Regards,
Dianne

i know its confusing, but when we understand the meaning behind 'soul' and 'spirit' we see that they are not the same thing.

If i was to say, "so and so is in high spirits today" you'd know that i was talking about their personality and character. Lady Zaidie explained its difference to 'soul' very well...""the body and the life in the body" but not the spirit, the personality"

IOW, the soul is the physical body whereas the spirit is the life force within that body...its what animates the body.

We know the soul can die from this scripture:
Ezekiel 18:3 "Look! All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son—to me they belong. The soul that is sinning—it itself will die"

then we see the state of death is unconsciousness in this scripture
Ecclesiasties 9:5*"For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all"

and we are also told the the spirit does not live on in this one because all 'thought' perishes so obviously the spirit is not a conscious thing
Psalm 146:4 "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground;
In that day his thoughts do perish"


So from these scriptures, both soul and spirit die. The soul because it is the physical body, and the spirit because it is the life force within that body. Its the life force within the body that God remembers and when he creates a new physical body in the resurrection, he will put his memory of that persons spirit into it.