I may be wrong but it seems as though as much or more of secular philosophy enters into what you posit as sola scriptura than actual sola scriptura
It is from the NT presentation as such that I derive my understanding of the relation of body to human spirit (2 Co 5:1-9),
where the human spirit is presented as the principle of human life, and
the Holy Spirit as both
indwelling and the principle of eternal (God's) life
within.
I am not inclined to philosophy, you will lose me quickly there.
I am inclined to orthodox Christian theology, where needed by me.
Now some of us have a mind or thought processes that are bent towards philosophizing. I myself do. In part I supposed because I grew up that way with a philosopher father. It is almost obsessively analytical.
But when it over rides or eliminates what the Bible is telling us we come up with all these terms such as one finds in the religions of things like Christian Science, Divine Science, the esoteric, eclectic systems of religion. They are difficult to pinpoint as to the meaning as they mean whatever the one using them gives them, and they veer off the truth.
There is nothing in scripture that actually tells us we ever had a divine spirit or that we lost it, or that the new birth gives it back to us.
No, our immortal spirit is human, not divine, but being a spirit, it is the correspondence with the divine Holy Spirit (Ro 8:16).
Our immortal spirit being the principle of human
life (2 Co 5:1-9) gives me to see the locus of the Holy Spirit, who is the principle of eternal
life,
to be within my immortal spirit, for the NT presents him as "indwelling," and a "deposit" (2 Co 5:5).
There is nothing in scripture that tells us we were created with divine life or that such was imparted in Eden,
Eternal life is God's life. Jesus gives us eternal life, which is God's life.
Adam lost it in the garden: "Dying, you shall die." Two deaths, spiritual and physical.
Eternal life, God's life, is not located in our bodies, it is located in our immortal spirit, it is our
spiritual life (Jn 5:21, Ro 8:9-13, Col 2:13, 1 Jn 4:9, etc.), as distinct from our physical life. Being our spiritual
life, I locate it in the human principle of
life, the immortal human spirit.
Adam lost it, and we are born without it. It is re-imparted in the new birth (of divine life) within our spirit.
or that God's divine life is a principle.
Principle is origin. God's divine life is the origin of divine life within our immortal human spirit.
There is nothing in scripture that tells us our essence is ever changed.
Because Scripture does not speak of "essence."
Essence is our terminology, which meaning we use in our applications of Scripture.
And I say fallen is a
substancial (
essential) change in our human nature, altering everything, both physical and spiritual.
Scripture does tell us that God is the source and giver of all life. It tells us we were created without sin or knowledge of evil, but were capable of transgressing the commands of God (sin) and we did.
Scripture tells us that we were
born condemned by the imputed sin of Adam (Ro 5:12-14, 28), that we are by
nature, objects of wrath (Eph 2:3).
We are
born with our nature and objects of wrath..
It tells us that as the first man was the federal head of all mankind, [
"Federal head" is not in my Bible, "First Adam," in contrast to the "Second (Last) Adam," is in my Bible.
The imputation of the sin of the First Adam is the
pattern (Ro 5:14) of the imputation of the righteousness of the Second Adam (Ro 5:19), is in my Bible.