Death is the opposite of life, not a subway train to another existence that Satan would have us believe. If this were the case then the need for a Savior of the World would be meaningless, as everything regarding life would be automatic, and our births as human beings would guarantee us immortality. But for proving that this Great Lie is false, we must look for the definition God gives death in the Bible. The clear definition of the soul's mortality is very well established. Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body , or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.
Confusion also arises in what the soul is.
This body can either be a human body or an animal body to qualify for being a soul. Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. The Silver Cord is simply the Life giving spirit of God that imparts life to this physical realm. This silver cord, when active in a body makes the body alive, whereas if it is withdrawn then the body dies, decays and rots away, turning eventually to dust. This idea of returning to dust brings us back to the Garden of Eden and what God told man would happen to him for his disobedience.