Facts for the Times

IS THE SOUL IMMORTAL?

Bible Testimony

“The blessed and the only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of Lords; who only hath immortality.” 1 Timothy 4:16. FT 97.1

“To them who by patient continuance in well-doing, SEEK for glory, honor and IMMORTALITY.” Romans 2:7. FT 97.2

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man BECAME a living soul.” Genesis 2:7. FT 97.3

The soul can be cut off, die and go into the grave; hence it cannot be immortal. Proof. Genesis 12:12, 13; 17:14; Numbers 15:30, 31; Joshua 10:28-31; 11:11; Job 7:15; 33:18-22, 28, 30; Psalm 7:1, 2; 30:3; 33:19; 49:12-15; 78:50; 89:48; 116:8; 119:25; Isaiah 10:17, 18; Jeremiah 18:20; Ezekiel 13:19; 18:4, 20, 27: Revelation 16:3. FT 97.4

From the Review & Herald we take the following: FT 97.5

“The word ‘soul’ or rather the Hebrew and Greek from which it is translated, occurs in the word of God eight hundred and seventy-three times—seven hundred and sixty-eight times in the Old Testament, and one hundred and five times in the New. Also the word rendered ‘spirit,’ occurs in both Testament eight hundred and twenty-seven times—four hundred and forty-two in the Old Testament and three-hundred and eighty-five in the New. Their aggregate use in seventeen hundred times. But notwithstanding the Bible speaks to us eight hundred and seventy-three times of the soul, it never once calls it an ‘immortal soul;’ and though it tells us eight hundred and seven times of the spirit, it never once tells us of a ‘deathless spirit.’” FT 97.6