Does the soul and spirit operate without a body?
No. The soul and spirit by itself does not operate as an entity; it has to have a body. Scripture never shows the human being operating without a body. The believer’s hope includes a changed body, fashioned like Christ’s glorious body, not a bodiless existence.
Les teaches that the soul and spirit by itself does not operate as an entity and has to have a body. He says that never in all of Scripture does the human being operate without a body. He also points to Philippians 3:20-21, where Paul writes that our conversation, or citizenship, is in heaven. As believers we are already citizens there, and from that same heaven we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He shall change our vile body so that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself.
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Can the soul and spirit exist and function without a body?
The soul and spirit by itself does not operate as an entity; it has to have a body.