Every human is body, soul and spirit. Not just body but they ahve a soul and spirit as well. Jesus was no different. The only difference is that His soul and Spirit are one with God.
Every human has a body....a personality that makes them unique, and breath in their lungs that keeps their mortal body alive.
From the Bible's definition we know what the body means.....it was what God created for Adam. He then breathed into his lungs the breath (spirit) of life and only then was the man called a "soul". Adam was not given a soul, but "became" one as soon as God started him breathing. That is the Biblical definition of a soul...."a living, breathing creature"...both man and animal. The word is never used to describe a disembodied spirit.
This is where people stumble over poor translation. These words used in the Bible are given a meaning that the audience for whom they were written, would understand. Not the meaning attributed later when the church adopted pagan doctrines.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This is a classic example of poor translation...the words at face value appear to say one thing, but in context, are about the body, life and spirit of the entire congregation, not individuals. It is not talking about components in every human body indicating that we have three separate bits of us that function independently.
And of course when He died Jesus' Spirit left His body because it was dead. And that's what happens to anyone who dies by the way.
Jesus was Jewish and the ancient Jews did not have any belief in an afterlife......
"For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have any more reward, because all memory of them is forgotten. . . . 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your might, for there is no work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the Grave [sheol], where you are going." (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10)
Look at Genesis 2:7 to see what the sentence was, given to Adam....no heaven or hell scenario was ever held out to God's people. Death meant a return to the dust. Any future existence was to be by a literal, physical resurrection back to this life but under the peaceful reign of God's son. This is something Jesus promised to do when he was ruling as King of God's Kingdom. (John 5:28-29) Jesus calls all the dead from the same place...their graves. That is because they are all still in them.
The later apostate Jews adopted belief in an immortal soul from the Greeks. But it is not something Jesus ever taught. An spiritual afterlife is a belief that permeates all false worship because it makes God's statement in Eden meaningless. He told the first humans that they would die if they disobeyed his command.....the devil said that God lied. So do we die, or do we just go on living in another form in another realm? Jesus said that the devil lied.
Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
There is no such thing as a ghost. The word "ghost" comes from a German word "geist" meaning "spirit". Yet another example of poor translation.
By entrusting his "spirit" to God, Jesus was yielding his human life over to his Father in order to pay the ransom for the human race. This is not some shadowy part of humans that leaves the body at death, but the final breath that goes out of the body when we stop breathing. Jesus was dead for 3 days in the tomb, just as he said he would be. After that God resurrected Jesus, but not in the flesh....he was given a spiritual body in order to return to heaven. (1 Peter 3:18) He "appeared" to his disciples during the 40 days that he stayed after his resurrection, but not always in the same body.
Psalm 146:4...
"His spirit goes out, he returns to the ground;
On that very day his thoughts perish."
The spirit "goes out" like a candle or a light goes out......life is extinguished.
Read what the scripture says....when the "spirit (ruwach) leaves the body, all conscious thought processes cease, just as Ecclesiastes says.
But, what is so interesting about Jesus' death is that at the same time the Spirit left His body the Spirit of God also was symbolically leaving the holiest of holies in the temple.
Really? Jesus promised that the "helper", the holy spirit would be sent when he returned to heaven to offer up the value of his sacrifice to God.
"For Christ did not enter into a holy place made with hands, which is a copy of the reality, but into heaven itself, so that he now appears before God on our behalf." (Hebrews 9:24)
In his role as "High Priest" Jesus is always there to intercede for us.
Luke 23:45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
So, it's clear that the "veil" of the temple represents Jesus own body and within is the holiest place. Or the place where the Spirit of God is. And when Jesus died, the Spirit left both His body and symbolically left the temple also. This means that Jesus was basically God veiled in human flesh.
Oh dear...I think that is a bit skewed too.
The veil in the temple was a curtain between the Holy Compartment and the Most Holy compartment of the Temple. Only the High Priests was allowed to enter there...and only once a year. The curtain represented the barrier between heaven and earth...the flesh. Christ gave up his flesh and removed the barrier by becoming the first human resurrected to heaven....it then paved the way for his disciples to follow, later....As "firstborn from the dead" no one could enter heaven before Jesus. (Colossians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 15:20; John 3:13)
So of course the holy Spirit although He can't die. He did take on the death and resurrection of Christ. It's clear from scriptures. So yes God did die and rise from the dead in Jesus Christ.
An immortal God cannot die. The holy spirit in the Bible is not a person. It is the administration of God's power, directed where he wills it. When given to humans they can heal the sick, raise the dead, speak in foreign languages, prophesy and do all manner of supernatural fetes.
When Moses was struggling with his assignment after Israel was rescued from Egypt, he was given 70 assistants who all shared the holy spirit that was originally given to Moses. (Numbers 11:16-17) This demonstrated that God's spirit is apportioned as needed for any task that he assigns to his servants.
Romans 8:9-10
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Again, I believe that this is poorly understood in the light of Christendom's doctrines.
Romans 8:11 explains a little further...
"If, now, the spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his spirit that resides in you."
Can you see that the one who raised Jesus from the dead was God, by his spirit? The spirit of God is not an entity but is power from God directed at his discretion to accomplish his purpose. This is what gave Jesus life again. It is what Jesus used during his ministry, and he will use again to raise the dead in the future. (John 5:28-29) It is what gave Christ's disciples their miraculous abilities.
When his friend Lazarus died, where did Jesus say he was? (John 11:11-14) Where did Lazarus say he had been? If he was in a better place, why would Jesus bring him back to this life, only to die a second time?
We must think more deeply about what the Bible says as a whole, not just in selected misinterpreted verses.
Jesus was as powerless as any other humans until his baptism. He received holy spirit then and was able to perform miracles to back up his claim to be the Messiah. He handed on the holy spirit to help his disciples to carry on in his absence.
That is my understanding of these things.