As someone has put it, the biblical understanding of human beings is not that they have bodies, but that they are bodies…

Those who believe in the immortality of the soul believe that life after death is as natural a human function as waking after sleep.

The Bible instead speaks of resurrection. It is entirely unnatural. We do not go on living beyond the grave because that’s how we are made. Rather, we go to our graves as dead as a doornail and are given our lives back again by God (i.e., resurrected) just as we were given them by God in the first place, because that is the way God is made.

from Wishful ThinRking