Before I comment, I would need to know how you differentiate a soul from a spirit. Also, I have a feeling that your and my view of God are quite dissimilar.
The body is the clay, the spirit is the breath of God and the soul is the offspring of the union (marriage of the two)
Adam, a living soul, because of the breath of God giving the clay life, has it's own spirit apart from God and
therefore a living soul.
The soul is the heart of the indwelling individual spirit which holds life in the body.
An animal also has a soul but not after the image of God. Animals have no concept of right or wrong, therefore, not able to exercise judgment between good and evil. An animal exists only while its spirit exists in the body. After that.....the end of it. I believe.
The human soul does exist after the death of the body along with it's own spirit.
When the body dies the soul lives on as an individual spirit. (Prior to Jesus all souls were kept in a holding place and after Jesus, all souls were freed.)
A dead soul is the spirit that has not been redeemed.
i.e. Adam, was before his alienation, a soul that could live forever. See the underlined following verse.
Gen_3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now,
lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
My question was to get different views on the subject.
Blessings, AJ