Question about the immortal soul. 
Me Please!
I am surprised to hear some Christians do not believe the soul is immortal. Speaking to a non-catholic about this... he says.."the Christian believer will be in the presense of God (Christ). Point is that the soul is not inherently immortal, but may achieve immortality. Two different ideas."
I tried to tell this person that the soul is composed of spirit not matter, it can not die. Death mean disintergration of parts. Only composite things can die. We are Created by God with a nature to live forever. for a spiritual entity cannot disintegrate and die.
In fact the book of Genesis has an account of ther formation of mans soul, in that we are made in the image of God, since our bodies die, therefore the real image of God is in our soul, and it resembles God by immortality. Genesis II, 7 also says that man became a living soul. If God breathed a living soul into man's body, then man's body is a distinct thing.
The immortality of the soul are spoken of in Scripture. "The souls of the just are in the hand of God. The torment of death shall not touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die." Wisdom. 3, 1-2
"Fear not them that kill the body but are not able to kill the soul." Matt. 10, 28
"While we are in the body we are absent from the Lord." II Cor.chapter 5, v 6 and read also Philip 1, 23, for the same concept.
Heb 9, 27 "It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this the judgment." Judgment follows death, and the dead body not being able to give an account of itself then it must be the living soul spoken of.
Remember too when Our Lord quoted the Pentateuch against the Sadduccees, proving immortality from Exod. 3. "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And He said, "He is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
I decided to bring this discussion to this board just for more insight.
Any takers out there.
Me Please!I am surprised to hear some Christians do not believe the soul is immortal. Speaking to a non-catholic about this... he says.."the Christian believer will be in the presense of God (Christ). Point is that the soul is not inherently immortal, but may achieve immortality. Two different ideas."
I tried to tell this person that the soul is composed of spirit not matter, it can not die. Death mean disintergration of parts. Only composite things can die. We are Created by God with a nature to live forever. for a spiritual entity cannot disintegrate and die.
In fact the book of Genesis has an account of ther formation of mans soul, in that we are made in the image of God, since our bodies die, therefore the real image of God is in our soul, and it resembles God by immortality. Genesis II, 7 also says that man became a living soul. If God breathed a living soul into man's body, then man's body is a distinct thing.
The immortality of the soul are spoken of in Scripture. "The souls of the just are in the hand of God. The torment of death shall not touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die." Wisdom. 3, 1-2
"Fear not them that kill the body but are not able to kill the soul." Matt. 10, 28
"While we are in the body we are absent from the Lord." II Cor.chapter 5, v 6 and read also Philip 1, 23, for the same concept.
Heb 9, 27 "It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this the judgment." Judgment follows death, and the dead body not being able to give an account of itself then it must be the living soul spoken of.
Remember too when Our Lord quoted the Pentateuch against the Sadduccees, proving immortality from Exod. 3. "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And He said, "He is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
I decided to bring this discussion to this board just for more insight.
Any takers out there.
