We must know that God could have made Himself all manner of puppets and robots-creatures without a will or reason of their own. But such is not what He sought. He desired and designed a creature that could respond of their own volition. God's own experience of death in Christ Jesus frees Him to move in grace in behalf of Man . That one is given a new life principle-he becomes a part of a new human race in Christ Jesus .
Death has no more hold on that one.
However, nothing is lost to God as so many think. All things simply revert to their former state, the body of clay unto dust , and the spirit of life unto the One who loaned it for a season. The soul is thus consumed away in this dying process . In truth we are engulfed in life . We take this Neshamah-life to be distinctively the life principle given to all mankind.