Here is the sense in which your soul is by nature an aspect of the Divinity: the spirit which God breathed into the nostrils of Adam was not a neshama that could not die (as the serpent is prone to suggest) but was a trial soul, as it were, a trial neshama. That Adam would possess this soul for eternity depended on Adam passing the trial. God told Adam that if they ate of the tree forbidden to them they would not pass the trial. They would certainly die. Know this.
The neshama which Adam received was made to be immortal because it was made to pass the trial - but because it was made for this trial it was also possible that it could fail to pass the trial. It is an incomplete statement to say that Adam's soul was an aspect of the Divinity. To state this as though it were a complete statement is misleading. It is a complete statement and therefore true only when it is said that it is an aspect of the Divine Power. And further, it needs to be said that this means that it was the act of God's breathing into the nostrils of Adam and not that which He breathed which caused Adam to live. Actually these things need to be articulated and explained in full before any of these statements can be called complete and true.
In what sense was Adam's soul made as an aspect of the Divine Power? It was not so independently. For what is created and made is not independent. Neither was it originally. For what is created and made is not original. Adam's soul was made as an aspect of the Divine Power in the sense that it was and is being expressed by the Sustaining Utterance, the Word of God. As such it is dependent and not original. It is dependent for existence continually and also for the measure and definition of its existence, its relationship to the Word which expresses it, to the One whose Word it is. Thus it cannot be stated theologically that the soul of Adam was or is immortal, for it is defined only by the Word of God which is sustaining it. The Word of God may cease to express the soul of Adam at anytime that God wills. Accordingly, He said to Adam, do not eat of the tree in the midst of the Garden, for the day you eat thereof in dying you shall die - in being capable of death/mortality, you shall experience it and not rise again. It is inadequate even as theology, and certainly as a direct reading of Scripture, to separate the body and the soul in this sentence of God given to Adam - as if to say your body will die but your soul won't die because it is immortal and cannot die. This is the actual theological notion behind the idea that all that is involved in death is the separation of the soul from the body. This confusion arises first of all because the corporate soul of Adam is not distinguished from the souls of the children of Adam. Time is still involved in the deaths of the children, until the end of the generations, then everything returns to the head, the corporate soul of Adam and time is no longer involved and al time is one day, the day that Adam sinned. It then becomes self-evident that if Adam's body cannot be raised from the dead Adam's soul is no more than the smoke of its dust and ashes. And the resurrection cannot come by Adam. It can come only by another, by the Son of Adam.
The strong delusion that is coming upon the world that the world should believe a lie is none other than materialism, not just scientific materialism but philosophic and religous materialism, as well as commercial materialism as a common sense interpretation for life. All these are one thing and all of them deny the mortality of the soul. It does not seem that athiestic materialism denies the mortality of the soul. It seems just the opposite. Actually, athiestic materialism is athiestic is most often more for the purpose of affirming the immortality of what it might more likely call the human spirit than it is athiestic for the purpose of denying the existence of God. Materialism is the dogmatic insistence that not only can nothing be known than what can be demonstrated through the proof of the physical senses but also nothing exists except what can be eventually known in this manner. Thus the premise of materialism is self-deification, for it asserts dogmatically that we alone (and any life form like us) are the only knower and verifier of existence. If an individual walks up and down the street saying aggressively, "I am God," we call such a person delusional. They will probably be locked up and put on heavy medication. But the whole world that is fast coming to believe in the lie of materialism is no less claiming that we all together are God and the only God that does or can exist and yet this is not recognized as delusional.
