In order to accept such a notion as someone who uses the Bible as their source of information related to the soul, people who believe in “soul sleep” must reject the following Biblical proclamations:
Souls Are Alive With God Immediately After the Death of the Body
Luke 23:39-43 and Ecclesiastes 12:5-7
Souls Are Functional Immediately After the Death of the Body
Luke 16:19-31
Souls Are Available Immediately After the Death of the Body
Matthew 17:1-3 and Matthew 22:31-32
Souls Are the Source of Life Immediately After the Death of the Body
1 Kings 17:19-23
Easy to explain. ... comma's were not in the original Greek, Put the comma after today in verse 43 and the meaning has nothing to do with going to heaven that day. but that Jesus told him that day.
Luk 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee to day, shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Ecc 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and
the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Ecc 12:8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
The spirit is not an intelligent personality but the spirit of God that was given to Adam and eve when their life started.
Spirit of God like the life that comes from God.
Luke 16:19-31 the rich man and Lazarus
It’s comes in a list of parables. The Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines “parable” as “a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle.” The story of the rich man and Lazarus comes at the end of a string of parables filled with symbolic, non-literal illustrations (see Luke 15). For instance, in the parable of the lost sheep, Jesus is certainly not teaching that His followers have four legs or eat grass; it’s all metaphor for a greater spiritual point.
It contains an impossible conversation. The parable portrays the rich man in “Hades” speaking directly to Lazarus in “Abraham’s bosom.” Can people in heaven have conversations with people in hell? For that matter, do people in heaven really watch people burning in hell? Not according to Jesus, who describes a “great gulf fixed” between the saved and the lost (Luke 16:26).
It uses clear symbolic imagery. The rich man wants Abraham to send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool his tongue (verse 24). This must be symbolic—because it can’t possibly happen physically. How much water could pass through the flames, and what help would it provide someone suffering in hell?
It uses figurative expressions. Do the people who died with faith in Christ find their rest in Abraham’s literal bosom? How big is Abraham’s bosom? This must be a figurative expression, for we know that angels will gather the saints at the second coming of Christ (see Matthew 24:30, 31).
The real message of this parable is often and unfortunately lost because people use it to try to prove something Jesus wasn’t even talking about.
It would otherwise contradict the rest of Scripture. If this story were literal, it would be hard to explain why the Bible says “in death there is no remembrance” (Psalm 6:5). Instead, those who die are asleep in the grave awaiting resurrection (1 Thessalonians 4:15, 16). The Bible compares death to sleep over 50 times. See one example by Jesus in John 11:11–14.
Mat 17:3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
If you study the bible God made a special exception for the soul (body and life) of Moses and Elijah didn't see death.
Mat 22:23 The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,......
Jesus was helping the Sadducees to see that there is a future resurrection.
Mat 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
The resurrection will give life to the saved.
1Ki 17:22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and
the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
soul = nephesh
From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality;
used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental). - any, appetite, beast, body, breath,
There are many more verses that say the opposite to what you are trying to prove. You have already made up your mind which is sad.