your points are well taken. People, animals, and fish have souls, and are referred to as souls. It is more of the ambiguity of the Narrator. His purpose is to weed the garden. How can a soul die and go out upon a man's death? The Scripture also explains that the soul and the spirit can be divided by God.
However the 100000000 dollar question of the day is how it it that The Lord Himself descends with a shout, with the voice of The Arch Angel?????????????????????????????
Do you suppose that there are two of them, and the Lord shouts, and Michael speaks with his voice??? Or perhaps there is something to this nonsense I speak of???