Is Death Separation of Body and Soul?

"Many mainstream Christians claim that at death, only the body dies while the soul lives on, consciously entering the presence of God. In this view, believers never really die—they skip over death entirely by transitioning instantly into eternal life.

There is no place in the Bible that defines death as the separation of the soul from the body.

So where did this concept come from? From Plato. The idea that "death is the separation of the soul from the body" comes from Greek philosophy, especially Plato.   In his dialogue Phaedo (also called On the Soul), Plato, through the voice of Socrates, taught that: “Death is the separation of the soul from the body... and the state of being dead is the soul’s being alone by itself, apart from the body.”— Phaedo 64c, 67d

In this podcast we explore some implications of the Platonic "death is the separation of the soul from the body" claim on mainstream Christianity."

Listen to this 15-minute podcast from the Hebrew Scholar, author of the Satellite Bible Atlas, and 30-year resident of the nation of Israel, Bill Schlegel:

The Big Lie: “Death is the Separation of the Soul from the Body”