People will become souls again when spirit and body reunite at the resurrection. Robert Morey uses some of the above passages to claim that death and resurrection are consistently spoken of in terms of the leaving and returning of this eternal soul. The above passages support conditionalism because they always imply that the essence of our being remains with the body. The New Testament gives the same message. If consciousness leaves the body at death, there would be clear Scriptures.
Physical death is like an electric machine losing power.
When the spirit departs, we stop functioning the way a machine stops when electricity is cut off. The body should no longer be called a soul if they separate. One reason is that the soul has several meanings in the Bible. The soul departing is a metaphor for death. The Soul at Death Since the Bible says the person goes to the earth, this implies the essence of our being also goes to the earth.