From my understanding the soul is timeless and unconditional. The traditional interpretation of the spirit depends on time as in the Holy Spirit was not available to us until after Jesus.
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A human sole is not timeless. It can be destroyed:
Matthews: 10 KJV N.T.
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
The Holy Spirit/Holy Ghost is timeless. It existed before, during and after Jesus crucifixion and rise to heaven. The following event happened before Jesus was crucified and rose to spirit heaven:
Luke: 3 KJV N.T.
22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
The Spirit of Truth is a different Spirit. This Spirit is also timeless. However it was made available to those people only after Jesus was crucified and rose to heaven:
John: 16 KJV N.T.
9 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Consolation lies in the fact that a person is not his soul, his spirit or his physical body.
A soul, a spirit and a physical body are simply things which a person posses.
A person is simply God, Himself, 'the witness', clouded in and by, a soul, a spirit and a physical body.
A person is timeless, unconditional and indestructible because he is God. A human realities his timelessness and unconditional and indestructible nature when his soul become omniscience and his spirit become omnipotent. Then his individuality disappears. He discern no different or separation from God. He discerns no difference between himself and God. Every thing is God and he is every thing. At this point there is only one homogeneous thing that is omnipresent/God and he is literally that thing.
The total destruction/dissolution of one's soul, one's spirit and one's physical body leaves one as only, the omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent, God almighty.
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