There is no word for body in the Hebrew language.
So? Does that mean the material body doesn't exist?? What are you trying to get at?
The soul was believed to express itself by taking a form made by it's surroundings (dust). That means while we are here, as Jesus demonstrated upon resurrection, we are expressed by dust.
Re-read Gen 2 again. God formed man from the dust of the ground. It doesn't matter what "was believed". What does matter is what the Bible says.
But in the Kingdom a new form of expression made up of that of the Kingdom.
Read your own sentence. How does it make any sense?
As we once resembled Him here, we will then resemble Him there in the Kingdom.
"there" in the kingdom. Where is "there"?
When the dust expression dies, the spirit returns to it's source and sleeps until resurrection day.
As I thought, you believe in "soul sleep". Except the Bible presents a much different picture.
Jesus shared a story of a rich man and a poor man names Lazarus, both of whom died and went to hades. The rich man went to "torments" and the poor man went to "Abraham's bosom", where Abraham was.
Both men were quite conscious. Luke 16 has the story. Those who claim this is just a parable fail to understand that Jesus never named actual names, much less someone of high position, like Abraham. So don't bore me with that attempt of twisting the truth.
In Rev 6:9-11 we read about those who died for Christ:
9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.
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They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?”
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Then each of them was given a white robe, and
they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.
So, please explain how a sleeping soul can "call out in a loud voice", or be "given a white robe", or "told to wait a little longer"?
The dust does not awaken, only the spirit in the book of life at the resurrection.
The ONLY TIME dust is mentioned in relation to man is in Gen 2, where God formed Adam from the dust of the ground. After that, men are described as "flesh", not dust.
10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, [sheol, hades, hell] whither thou goest.
What does this verse mean to you?
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Sure. After physical death, the body decomposes and returns to dust.
But consider what Paul says about after death:
2 Cor 5:6 - Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.
v.8 - We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Psalm 115: 17 The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.
NIV v.17-18
17 It is not the dead who praise the LORD, those who go down to the place of silence;
18 it is we who extol the LORD, both now and forevermore. Praise the LORD.
Do you notice the comparison here? The subject is who praises the Lord. Not that the "dead do not praise the Lord".
Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
I see no relevance in this verse with the discussion.
1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
If you read the passage carefully, it says "the dead shall be raised incorruptible". It doesn't say "the dead shall wake up".
Job 14:12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
The chapter comes from Job's lips, not the Lord's. He's giving his opinion.
Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
It should be obvious, given the verses and passages I just shared, that the command to "awake and sing" for those who dwell in dust is a reference to the resurrection of the body.