And when we separate the breath from the body the soul no longer exists.

The Scriptures do not say that God breathed into this body immortality, but merely that the soul resulted by animating the body after it had been created; and this resulted from the breath which he breathed into the nostrils.
[56]A locomotive may be used as an illustration.

It stands upon the track with no fire in the box, no water in the boiler, hence no steam.
We speak of it as a dead engine.

Then the steam is produced by heating the water; it is forced into the cylinders, the throttle being open and the machine moves.

Withdraw the steam and it stops.
[57]Just so with man.