Before we continue... Do you hold to the Dichotomy position or the Trichotomy position?
Often times, the word souls is used interchangebaly with the word spirit.
I think I have been using the meaning of spirit in my argument here, when referring to soul.
If we hold to the Dichotomy view, would that change the argument to "Spirit sleep"?
Anyway. If we accept that soul = body + breath, and the body, as a soul dies, then it is dead. It is not sleeping.. so there is no "soul sleep", only "soul death." The problem with a Dichotomy view is that whn we die... whatever is left that is not physical goes somewhere.. that is in scripture. So we are then left with a redefined Dichotomy, which is body and spirit.
And if we hold to the Trichotomy view, then as above, the soul dies, along with the body, and the spirit still remains.
In either case, there is no sleep of the soul, only death. And there is no sleep of the spirit, for as we see in scripture, the spirit of a man is aware, coherant, and active.