Apparently you're with the folks who claim that the soul and spirit are one in the same...
What's the matter, don't you understand the question? You never made any effort to answer it. And you apparently didn't read my post where I specifically mentioned that not once do the Scriptures mix up the terms "soul" and "spirit". They apply to different things, and are never one in the same!
There are over 1000 verses in the scriptures that contain the words soul or spirit or both...I'll post just a sampling but it would seem that a cursory study of the issue should put any doubts to rest...
Your sampling doesn't show anything in respects to what I said. Anyway, yes, there are many more places than the 1,000 you mention.
In the NT we find the word "spirit" 385 times.
In the OT we find the word "spirit" 400 times.
In the NT we find the word "soul" 105 times.
In the OT we find the word "soul" 752 times.
Of these 1642 times we find that not once is one used for the other. To the amazement of many, the OT mentions "dead" souls 26 times - souls can die! And the NT also says that many times - if one lets his/her eyes see what is said. And, BTW, not once do you find any "soul" going to Heaven at death, but, however, we do find that the "spirit", i.e., the breath of life returns to the One who gave it to mankind (and the animals also! Man and animals, they both have the same spirit)!
Pay attention to this:
Gen 2:7 "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. "
My questions to you, if you dare answer them by reading what it actually says: "What two things made man a living soul? Does this say that God put a "soul" into the body of man?
I'll anxiously await your two answers.
I'm guessing you figure a 'soul' is the result of flesh plus spirit...A breathing person is a soul...
I've read some of yours and your author's stuff on your website...
The views are not new...Been around for who knows how long...
But the thing I noticed is that you have to change some words in the English text and mess with the placement of the punctuation to get to where you're at...
AND of course, you use the African manuscripts to prove your points where I stick with the Majority texts...
I'm certainly not a scholar...But I try to keep up with some of those, as much as time allows, who have spent their lives studying the scriptures...
As we know, the Apostle Paul said he'd rather be absent from the body and present with the Lord...So we know that the soul is not the body...
Therefore the soul can not be the culmination of the body/spirit...In Paul's case, the body is missing...
We know that the spirit is wind, or like wind...It is the breath that we breathe...Greek word is pneuma...Pneumatics...Air...
And the Spirit of God goes where we don't know because we can't see it...But yet someone sees the souls of those beheaded under the altar in Revelation...
I'll stick with the souls in heaven scenario...