The body is a vessel in which the Spirit dwells.
Without a spirit in the body, the body is inert and lifeless.
‘Out of body body’ experiences are the Spirit TEMPORARILY leaving the body. While the spirit has TEMPORARILY left the body, the body is SLEEPING (as in, like in Coma). There is no activity in it and is in a dangerous position. Persons have been buried in such a state by living persons who believe that person has died because, in the past no one knew what a Coma was. An occasion was stipulated in the scriptures where Jesus expressly told a worried parent that their child ‘WAS NOT DEAD’ but merely ‘SLEEPING’. To the parent and onlookers the child WAS DEAD. Jesus effectively ‘re-called’ the spirit of the child back into body and the child woke up completely ok but possibly hungry since the body had been without food for some time. It would have been the spirit of the child that cares for the body which would have deemed the body needed sustenance and obtained it from resources around it.
So, YES, the body is not self-functioning … it is like a robot without a computer programme in it. It’s just metal, wires, components, and circuitry. It requires an intelligence - a processor - to direct what it does… a Spirit to ENLIVEN IT:
- ‘God created the BODY of Adam…’
- ‘And God blew the breath of life (Spirit) into the nostrils of the man and he BECAME A LIVING SOUL’
What kind of ‘Soul’ was Adam before the spirit was blown into him?
A ‘DEAD’ Soul…. See it?
And don’t be confused. In the Bible, ‘DEAD’ is just meaning: ‘An absence of the spirit from the body’.
To God, we are only ‘DEAD’ when our Spirit is DESTROYED…. which is not the case until the END OF TIME after the judgement to those whom Jesus judges as not worthy for his kingdom: the wicked and abominable, isolators, and devils.