IBIJ
 
If you read this article from Wikipedia you will see why I don't bother to debate with anyone on this subject. It seems everyone has his own theory and he will defend it even if he has to lie. Your Seventhday Adventist church is mentioned under teaching the Monistic theory.
 
I copied and pasted parts of this article. It was too big to fit the BB.

This article is about Christian anthropology. For other uses, see Anthropology (disambiguation).
In the context of Christian theology, theological anthropology refers to the study of the human ("anthropology") as it relates to God. It differs from the social science of anthropology, which primarily deals with the comparative study of the physical and social characteristics of humanity across times and places.
Historically, Christian theologians have differed on how many components make up the human being.
 
[edit] Three parts (Trichotomism)
Main article: Tripartite (theology)
A minority of theologians have argued that human beings are made up of three distinct components: body/flesh, soul, and spirit. This is technically known as trichotomism. The biblical texts typically used to support this position are 1 Thessalonians 5:23 and Hebrews 4:12.[15]

 
[edit] Two parts (Dichotomism)
Main articles: Bipartite (theology) and Dualism (philosophy of mind)
The traditional Christian view, still held by a large number of lay Christians and theologians, is that the human being is made up of 2 components: material (body/flesh) and spiritual (soul/spirit). The soul or spirit departs from the body at death, and will be reunited with the body at the resurrection.

[edit] One part (Monism)
Modern theologians increasingly hold to the view that the human being is an indissoluble unity.[15] This is known as holism or monism. The body and soul are not considered separate components of a person, but rather as two facets of a united whole.[16] It is argued that this more accurately represents Hebrew thought, whereas body-soul dualism is more characteristic of Greek philosophy
Some Christian groups which stress a monistic anthropology deny that the soul can exist consciously apart from the body. For example, the Seventh-day Adventist Church teaches that the intermediate state is an unconscious sleep; this teaching is informally known as "soul sleep".
 
Christian anthropology has implications for beliefs about death and the afterlife. The Christian church has traditionally taught that the soul of each individual separates from the body at death, to be reunited at the resurrection. This is closely related to the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. For example, the Westminster Confession (chapter XXXII) states:
"The bodies of men, after death, return to dust, and see corruption: but their souls, which neither die nor sleep, having an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave them"
 

Hi GP13
 
First you have nothing...
 
Then...
Genesis 2:7
the LORD God formed the man The Hebrew for man from the dust of the ground...
YOu have a dead carcus.
 
Then...
Genesis 2:7
...and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
You have a living soul.
 
How can this be so confusing?
 
I'd love to see biblical support for your closing quote in your last post.
 
Happy Sabbath
IBIJ