The soul is your behavior mechanism. It is the mind, emotions, and will. The spirit is not the soul, alvbeit the spirit is within the soul until death or salvation. Hebrews 4:12 shows me that God's Word can separate the soul and spirit. God's Word also shows me that once I believed that Jesus is the One Whom God sent for my salvation it was GOD WHO separated my spirit out from my behavior mechanism and then as promised by GOD He has His Spirit residing in the born again spirit of me. According to Jesus the Spirit once abiding in me will NEVER LEAVE ME OR FORESAKE me. The behavior mechanism is still tempted and can and will sin, but the spirit has been separated from the soul so that God abiding therein prevents the possibility of sin in the newborn spirit. Unbelief is Sin, the very Sin which God is to put an end to in the Tribulation, the time of Jacob's Trouble.

You ask why is it so hard to 'accept' that unbelief can return. To accept that farcical assertion is to not believe It Is GOD Who does the saving of the spirit. It is God Wo births the humnan spirit into salvation. If I accepted your lie that unbelief 'can' return to the spirit I would be actually doing 'unbelief' in the Promises of God, that He has come to abide in my born again spirit. Where GOD IS there cannot be sin. Do you believe you are more powerful spiritually than a Promise of God to abide IN your spirit?

Unbelief is SPIRITUALLY impossible once GOD is abiding in the born again spirit. Satan however can manipulate your mind of the soul and get that aspect of you to doubt. Doubting with your mind is not spirit doubting, it is sin in the already under curse soul. Your you cannot sin after you die. Why? Because the behavior mechanism ceases to have any form of life in it. BUT THE SPIRIT, whether saved or not, does not cease to exist upon death.

I hear Elsie asking 'what must I do to remain saved'. THAT is the wrong question, friend, because it presumes God needs anything from you to birth your SPIRIT into a new family identity. The saved are POSITIONALLY in Christ, a new creation, with God's Spirit abiding in the newborn spirit. Satan can't touch that. If he could then god would be depending upon you to prevent satan killing your newborn self. At the Rapture -which satan hates- it is GOD WHO gives your newborn spirit a new glorified body and new behavior mechanism, for your eternally alive spirit toinhabit, forever.

Meant to include you folks in the ping to number 53.

Meant to include you in the ping to #53

Thank you for the ping to this excellent discourse.

I hear Elsie asking 'what must I do to remain saved'.

You are exactly right here!

And the answer is:

Continue to BELIEVE!