![]() ![]() When we die, our bodies return to “dust” (cf. Those who are wise a will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.” This passage promises a resurrection of both the just and the unjust. In Luke 23:43, Jesus promises one of the thieves who is dying beside Him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” Obviously, Jesus believed the soul of the repentant thief was going to survive physical death.ĭaniel 12:2–3 says, “Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. As 2 Corinthians 5:8 teaches, to be “absent from the body” is to be “present with the Lord” (NKJV). In Revelation 6:9, John sees “under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.” So, the souls of Christian martyrs are in heaven. For example, in Psalm 23:6 David says, “I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” In Ecclesiastes 12:7 the Preacher mentions two things that happen at death: “The dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.” In 1 Thessalonians 4:14, Paul says that believers who have died will be with Christ at the rapture of the church: “We believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.” All these passages indicate that the soul is immortal. ![]() The immortality of the soul is clearly seen in many places in Scripture. In contrast, the body is physical the earthly body we now possess is subject to death. The soul is spiritual and thus has the quality of immortality. The soul never ceases to exist but is everlasting. That is, the soul is not subject to death. Without a doubt the human soul is immortal. The soul is the center of life, feeling, thought, and action in a human being. It is the “true self”-who a person really is. ![]() The soul is central to the personhood of a human being. The human soul is that part of a man or woman that is not physical. ![]()
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