Of course they have….
Romans 6:7,
Weymouth New Testament
“for he who has paid the penalty of death stands absolved from his sin.”.
In context Romans 6:7 means that our body is ruled by sin and after we die and are freed from this body we no longer sin.
(going further the spiritual body we are raised in is a body that is able to be controlled by our spirit, and hence it is called a spiritual body)
Romans 6:5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
Sometimes it’s necessary to use more than 1 Scripture to support one’s beliefs; this is Especially true when describing ‘soul’ & ‘death’. We know all Scripture agrees, so it’s imperative when trying to understand 1 verse, we consider it in the light of all the others that relate to the subject. In this case, Scriptures to harmonize w/ Matthew 10:28 is Ezekiel 18:4, Ecclesiastes 9:5, Psalms 146:3-4, and numerous others. Believing the soul ‘is alive’ after death, conflicts with these…. Plus, it disregards the Biblical teaching of the Resurrection. (If something is alive, it can’t be resurrected. Where was Lazarus before Christ resurrected him, then?)
Ezek 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
This use of soul might just mean person. If it does mean the spirit soul in a person then there is no problem, it shall die for sin also.
Eccles 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
This does not say that there is no soul that lives after death.
Psalm 146:
3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
This does not say that the dead cannot think, it is about their thoughts in life,,,,,,,,,and is better translated as "his plans perish", as many translations do.
So you look at scriptures where you imagine it says the soul goes out of existence at death (when they do not say this) and ignore the scriptures where it shows that the soul lives on after the death of the body.
( Rev 6:9-11, Matt 10:28, 1Kings 17:21, Samuel coming back from sheol etc)
death? (As opposed to, what? Half death? Just kidding.)
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If you really think the wicked person who died is actually alive somewhere, going through torment
As Luke 16 shows, some are comforted and some are in discomfort.
There is punishment for sin apart from going out of existence. It does not say how long it takes for a soul to be destroyed in gehenna.
Rev 14:11
And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
This understanding reveals a redundancy on God’s part: some will be resurrected, just to be judged unworthy , and then killed again? That would make no sense. Why would God waste the time and energy? No, the resurrected unrighteous will be judged on their actions after their resurrection! This makes Romans 6:7, sensible.
Where do the scriptures say that the resurrected unrighteous will do anything after being resurrected except be judged? Nowhere. It is probably not a good idea to make stuff up so that you can justify a scripture (Romans 6:7) that does not even mean what you say it means in the first place.
Best to stick with what the scriptures tell us.
Rev 20:13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.