Man was created in the SPIRITUAL image of God.
Genesis 1:27
God
created
man in His own (spiritual) image, in the image of God He
created him; male and female He
created them.
God is pure and perfect SPIRIT.
John 4:24
God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in
spirit and truth.”
All SPIRITS are immortal.
Ecclesiastes 12...
Remember God in Your Youth: AT DEATH...
7 then the dust (body/soul combo) will return to the earth as it was, (SEE: Genesis 2:7)
and the spirit (breath of life) will return to God who gave it. (SEE: Genesis 1:26 SPIRITUAL image)
8 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher, “all is vanity!
Jesus the God-Man's SPIRIT was "committed" to heaven by Him.
His "spirit-body" ascended.
Man's SPIRIT either dwells with or is separated from God...
....eternal life in the heavenly realms for believers.
....eternal existence in the "lake of fire" for UN-believers.
Job 33:4
“The Spirit of God has made me,
And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Isaiah 42:5
Thus says God the Lord,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread out the earth and its offspring,
Who gives breath to the people on it
And spirit to those who walk in it,
John 6:63...Jesus
It is the Spirit who gives life;
the flesh profits nothing;
the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.