Is the Soul really Immortal?
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Who only, does the Bible say has immortality?
I Tim 6 (v. 13) I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus.... (v. 15) which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, (v. 16) who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
What does the world authority say, concerning this matter?
In 1513, Pope Leo X issued a Bull (Apostolici Regimis) declaring, “We do condemn and reprobate all who assert that the intelligent soul is mortal.” This was directed against the growing “heresy” of those who denied the natural immortality of the soul, and avowed the conditional immortality of man. The Bull also decreed that “all who adhere to the like erroneous assertions shall be shunned and punished as heretics.”[1]
Now contrary to what this papal “Bull” stated, you will notice that the Bible does teach a “conditional immortality” of man, all the way from the beginning of creation, in the garden of Eden.
Gen 3 (v. 22) Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever” (v. 23) therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden.... (v. 24) So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden....to guard the way to the tree of life.
We can certainly come to the conclusion that, anyone eating the fruit from the tree of life, would no doubt be living forever! And because God put angels there with flaming swords to guard it, mankind as we know it started to die.
Gen 5 (v. 5) So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
Now, nowhere in the Bible does it say that man has an “immortal” soul that lives forever; in fact my Bible says that the “soul” can be destroyed.
Matt 10 (v. 28) And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Now, some people will teach in reference to this verse that, it is not really your soul but your “spirit” that burns forever and ever in the hell-fire! But as we learned earlier in this lesson (page 2 of 9) “How man was created,” your spirit actually returns to God who gave it, at the point of death.
Eccl 12 (v. 1) Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come....(v. 6) Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed,...(v. 7) Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
So where did the thought, that man has an "immortal" soul originally come from?
Gen 3 (v. 1) Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.... (v. 4) Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. (v. 5) For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Why does the majority of Christianity and other religions too, believe in the immortal soul?
The whole concept of the immortal soul came not from the Bible, but instead, it slipped into the Christian church through Babylonian sources. Its roots are in Babylon, though the doctrine became fully developed in Greek philosophy.[2]
The following quotation clearly describes the origin of the pagan doctrine of immortality:
This doctrine can be traced through the muddy channels of a corrupted Christianity, a perverted Judaism, a Pagan philosophy, a superstitious idolatry, to the great instigator of mischief in the Garden of Eden. The Protestants borrowed it from the Catholics, the Catholics from the Pharisees, the Pharisees from the Pagans, and the Pagans from the old Serpent, who first preached the doctrine amid the lowly bowels of Paradise to an audience all too willing to hear and heed the new and fascinating theology, “Ye shall not surely die.”[3]
Matt 22 (v. 23) The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him, (v. 24) saying: “Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. (v. 25) Now there were with us seven brothers....
(verse 28) Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her. (v. 29) Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. (v. 30) For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.”
It was the concept of the Babylonians that an immortal soul left the body at death and lived on. Therefore the Babylonians established a system of gods and goddesses, worshiping the spirits of those who supposedly lived on.
If you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth of the resurrection], and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians.[4]
I Cor 15 (v. 12) Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Matt 22 (v. 31) But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God saying, (v. 32) I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
What will eventually happen to people who continue to believe that the soul is immortal?
Spiritualism is the masterpiece of deception. It is Satan's most successful and fascinating delusion,--one calculated to take hold of the sympathies of those who have laid their loved ones in the grave. Evil angels come in the form of those loved ones, and relate incidents connected with their lives, and perform acts which they performed while living.[5]
In this way they lead persons to believe that their dead friends are angels, hovering over them, and communicating with them. These evil angels, who assume to be the deceased friends, are regarded with a certain idolatry, and with many their word has greater weight than the word of God. Thus men and women are led to reject the truth, and give "heed to seducing spirits."[5]
The word of God declares in positive terms that "the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun." This plain scripture directly contradicts the teaching of Spiritualism, and if it were heeded would save souls from the snare of the enemy.[5]
This video is about what “the Master” (satan) told the high priest about the Immortality of the Soul. video ref. [6]
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References:
1. H.J. Schroeder, (1937). Disciplinary Decrees of the General Councils, p.483 & 487.
2. Mark Finley, (1995). Beyond Orion's Gates, p.259, Hart Research Center.
3. Amos Phelps, (1805-1874). Is Man by Nature Immortal? (A printed sermon by a Methodist-Congregational minister).
4. Justin Martyr, (died A.D. 165). Dialogue With Trypho, ch. LXXX, in Ante Nicene Fathers, vol.1, p.239
5. The Signs of the Times (26 Aug 1889) “Spiritualism the Masterpiece of Deception,” par.1
6. Roger Morneau “Belief in Immortality of the Soul is Demonic Necromancy” Online video. YouTube, 8 May 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IjhNPFphmE
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