To depart from Scripture at any point is neither safe nor right. Thus Estabrook's discussion of my paper (Joubert 2011) in which he expressed his difficulties with my defense of the soul is welcome (Estabrook 2012). Estabrook first highlights what he considers to be unsound implications of my definition of the soul. He then criticizes my interpretation of the texts used to demonstrate souls are alive after death. Estabrook's main contentions are two-fold:

1. the biblical promise of resurrection implies that souls are not alive after death; they are asleep, meaning a state of unawareness (Estabrook 2012, pp. 73, 75, 79), and
2. the body and soul make up a whole person, which entails that a soul is unable to interact with other things (physical or spiritual) without a body/brain (pp. 73, 74, 77). A series of questions are posed to deal with the contentions.