Soul before Body

Soul can not live without body or vice versa.

There was a time when the two should be separated into. And soul was more like a holy thing that is supposed to be maneuvered by some kind of divine guidances. In addition to that, humans had been assumed to be engraved with the original sin that had breaken the rule, assigned by the god.

The thing's been changed a lot, although many still believe in them.

The two is part of humans' integration system to be alive. one is not better or more superior than the other. And they play an interpreserving role so to speak.

And also there has been a strong tendency to develop the theories in a body side lately, to reveal and explain how humans are functioning. As a result, a soul side is getting to lose its faith in a religious perspective and belief in a physical sense.

But it has not finished with its journey yet in defining and explaining how to humans function system works in every tiny details. 

So I guess it is fair to say at this moment that soul can not live without body or vice versa.