The Bible does not teach this at all. When the Hebrew word for "soul" is used, it refers to a living, breathing creature, either animals or human. "Souls' are not immaterial things that live in a material body....they are alive only on earth.
The ancient Jews that adhered to their scripture, believed in a physical resurrection back to this earth. There was no immortal soul ever mentioned. This idea was adopted from the Greeks.....you won't find it in the Bible at all, either in the OT or the NT.
It never did, that is why I went searching for the truth. Are the dead really dead? Did God tell Adam that he would go to hell if he sinned?...or to heaven if he was good? Neither of those things were even mentioned. It was simply a matter of...."obey and live....disobey and die".....nothing more.
Jesus promised a spiritual resurrection for those chosen to rule with him in his kingdom, (Revelation 20:6) but for the majority of humankind, their resurrection will be back to this earth to enjoy the life God intended at the beginning.
In John 5:28-29 Jesus said...
."Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, and those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment."
When Jesus said that he was indicating that this event was yet future. People's graves are here on earth and the dead, both the righteous and the unrighteous are called out of them. (Acts 24:15)
Since we have no 'soul' to to return to the body, God meant something different when he said that the "spirit" returns to God at death. (Ecclesiastes 12:7) Are the "soul" and the "spirit" one and the same thing? Most people assume so. But the Bible does not teach this.
But think about this......Adam was created from the elements of the earth and
"God breathed into his nostrils the "breath" (spirit) of life and the man became a living "soul". (Genesis 2:7)
In Hebrew, these two words are used to mean two completely different things.
The first is "
nĕshamah" which always means "breath". It is never used as some conscious, immaterial part of man...it is just the breath in his lungs.
The second word is "
nephesh" which can rightly be translated "living being" or "creature". This word likewise is never used to describe some immaterial part of man. It is used for both animals and humans who breathe the same air and die the same death. (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20)
So what is "resurrected" is the recreated physical body of a person, with the breath restored to again become a "soul".
When you think about it, the idea that we don't really die is just a perpetuation if the first that the devil told in Eden.