@InfraBlue,
I will always believe that the bible is the worlds greatest Rorschach test, it amplifies the heart of its reader (It has much the same effect as alcohol). Every man that reads it will get some or all of it wrong, but how someone treats and responds to what they read is a strong indicator for what is in the heart. I do not eliminate myself from that assessment, I Expect that my understanding will be flawed to some or perhaps a complete extent, but I hope that the effort I have put into understanding and applying what I read will be enough to be considered useful for something beyond judgment day, whoever it is doing the assessing and whatever the reality is beyond that. If you see inconsistencies where I see cohesion, perhaps you are right, and you can see what I cannot, hands up here my friend, I'm guessing.
Whether I am a soul, or I have a soul, I personally think it matters not for the purposes of it's own consideration (although it may complicate certain other principles and consideration), but it is useful to try to understand what is in the bible, so we use our best guesses to try to pass a single thread through all of what we read. If there is a message in there that I mistakenly taken the wrong way, I hope by the end of my days to have some kind of understanding of what it is.
I know for my part intend to keep on guessing.