ajay0
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That is where I find what the Bible really teaches differs because in Scripture there is No eternal soul ( meaning death-proof souls )
The soul that sins dies - Ezekiel 18:4,20 .
Adam was Not a temporary soul but a living soul until the day sinner Adam died - Genesis 2:7
Adam was only offered everlasting life right here on planet Earth and No where else.
Adam went from non-life, to life, and returned back to non-life - Genesis 3:19
Dead Adam had No consciousness because the dead know nothing - Ecclesiastes 9:5
No post-mortem life for Adam and no life for anyone else until the future resurrection hope - Acts of the Apostles 24:15
As per eastern philosophy, what this infers is that the soul that sins or creates a lot of karma for itself, becomes unconscious or insentient.
Imo, this is what is metaphorically stated over here, that the soul dies. It is a sort of a living death, as the soul is eternal, but it lives in constant misery due to karma created by its cravings and aversions that makes it insentient/unconscious and under the domination of prakriti/matter.
Consciousness asleep is matter, and matter awakened is consciousness. All is consciousness at its fundamental nature or state as per the enlightened masters, and hints in this regard has also been dropped by quantum physics.