Try this again with rebuttal:
When Jesus Christ has the last enemy death beneath His feet, by the power of God the Father, an actual conquest of death will have taken place. Those who insist the physical body will never resurrect actually deny the fact that death will be defeated.
If death causes something to become dead, the only way to defeat death is to take that which died and give it life a second time. This is the criterion for experiencing resurrection.
1 Corinthians 15:36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
And we can readily understand this when we stop and consider that defeat of death is undoing what death has accomplished. If a spiritual body is an invisible body that rises up out of the dead physical body, we must ask ourselves when the spiritual body died before God resurrected it. If it had not experienced a previous death, then the rising up of a spiritual body out of the physical body is not a resurrection at all. Death was not defeated in having such an event take place.
Death must have taken the life of something for God to conquer death by making that something come to life a second time. Death is not defeated if that which it killed remains dead, and something else rises in its place. Death would have then accomplished what it could and nothing undid its work. Where is the victory there?
When a person dies, the spirit and soul do not die. The spirit was made alive and born again when new birth occurred. Jesus said we are not born of the flesh a second time when we are born again. We are born of the Spirit. That which is born of the Spirit is the human spirit.
Nothing in the Bible speaks of the soul of a believer dying or ceasing a conscious existence when death sees the body expire. In fact, Paul stated that our bodies are tabernacles, or tents, made from the earth, indicating that the soul normally resides within the body, but can leave and continue to exist. We shall get a house made from heaven rather than this temporary tent. That means that our souls and spirits occupy our “tents”, for the time being.
Paul, then stated that he desired to be absent from the body and present with the Lord, rather than remain in the mortal body in which we groan, if he was left with one of those two choices. His greater desire was to see his spirit and soul clothed upon with a house from Heaven.
This, then, informs us that the soul and spirit of a person does not die, but the physical bodies dies. And, therefore, the physical body alone requires resurrection in order for death to be conquered, or else there is no victory over death.
There are also those who believe the spirit leaves the body and returns to God at death, leaving the body dead and the soul in almost a non-existent state. To these people, there is no experience of a departure of the soul from the body to go to Heaven. The person is simply dead and not conscious in any sense of the word.
They do not propose that the soul does not exist in this intermediate state, as such, seeing as that would imply annihilation. And they do not want to consider annihilation. The idea is that they exist as far as God is concerned, but not as conscious living persons.
Luke 20:37-38 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. (38) For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
The statement by Jesus, “For all live unto Him,” is thought by these people to mean that, although these souls are not conscious and dead, they are alive in God’s mind.
They acknowledge that personality does not continue, but the resurrection will cause everyone to be the same people once again, though somewhat changed due to the experience of resurrection. Ideas about all of this are involved, such as the brain containing personality. Resurrection of the body, therefore, somehow brings back the person. Also, perhaps the spirit of man contains individuality to lend the original personality to the individual.
To make the statement that Christ’s words, “for all live unto Him,” does not necessarily mean that the soul continues in a conscious or living state, is to claim that God somewhat “pretends” that they exist. This lessens what Jesus actually meant.
Jesus explained that Moses referred to God as the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He said that the reason for this statement was to indicate that God is a God of the living, not of the dead. It is then that Jesus said, “For all live unto Him.”
The natural reading of that passage would lead one to think that Jesus meant that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are all still alive. This tells us that they are dead to mankind, but not God.
For this reason, Paul made the statement that, upon death, he would depart from the body to be present with the Lord. The body remains among men, and is dead. However, the soul departs from the body in order to be with God so that it is alive to God, for it is then in His presence. The soul and body are not together to be with men in this world. In order to deny that this is a reality, the best that these people can do is to propose that Paul’s statement only expressed wishful thinking. They do not take that statement from Paul as if he proposed an actuality.
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
There is no wishful thinking, as though Paul desired that a mythical experience of the soul being able to leave the body to be with Jesus was real, though in reality it was not. After having read of Paul’s desire to be absent from his body, why would we think that he meant it was not possible, unless we looked for that meaning? Clearly, Paul meant that he knew that he would be made absent from his body and present with Jesus one day, while he chose not to experience that for the moment. He felt that it was more profitable for others that he remained in his body and existing in this life. If there was any wishful thinking, it was not to experience a mythical opportunity to depart from his body to be with Jesus, but to be able to die at that moment, rather than at a future time.
Paul said that he was always confident. He said that the reason for this was his knowledge that his state of being home in the body meant that he was absent from the Lord. He fully believed in immortality and a continuation of his existence with the Lord in the future. He said that he held this confidence because he walked by faith and not by sight. Although he noted that he would rather be absent from the body and be present with the Lord, he remained confident and able to bear whatever he might face in this life, and not be shaken by it.
was confident of a certain fact. He was also willing to be absent from his body and be present with the Lord , we are meant to understand that the possibility of the soul leaving the body to be with the Lord is not a mythical experience. He did not mean that he was confident that this was a true experience. He simply referred to something that he knew was true, and indicated that he maintained his confidence in his faith toward God despite all the pressures that he faced. Because he knew immortality was his in the future, he remained strong in his faith. This is the reason that the next verse stated that he was confident because he walked by faith and not by sight.
2 Corinthians 5:6-7 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (7) (For we walk by faith, not by sight
Paul simply knew that absence from the body was an experience he would one day know.
My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. 
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