Are our souls inmortal?

Question

Is it written in the bible? When we die here, I know our souls either go to hell or heaven but they're not destroyed, are they?
Please if you know a verse in the bible that shows that our souls live forever, let me know.

Answer 1

It is not quite that clear. The thing that is eternal is our spirit. That is the part of us that is born again (John 3:6 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.") It is the spirit of the Christian that is saved and goes to heaven. ( 1 Co 5...his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus) The spirit originates from the breath of God at creation and that is why it is eternal. The soul is the immaterial part of us that is human. It is the part that sins and it is the part tha dies. (Bible - the soul that sinneth it shall die) When believers die the soul dies (separates from the body) and the spirit goes to heaven. In the unbeliever at death the soul separates from the body and goes to hades then after the judgment it is cast into hell. In hell there is everlasting existence but it is everlasting death, not everlasting life.

Answer 2

Romans 2:7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality.

So what does this tell you? If you had an immortal soul, why should you need to seek for immortality? 1 Timothy 6:15-16 says "which He will mainfest in His own time, He who is the blesed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen."

Only God is immortal or can give any kind of immortality. Man is mortal, subject to death. When we die, we do not immediately go to Heaven or Hell. That is a lie Satan began in the Garden of Eden and the preachers continue the lie to this day. Where did Jesus go to raise Lazeous from the grave? Did he call him down from Heaven? Or did He go to the grave to get him? If he had been in Heaven, don't you think he would have said something about it or at least asked why Jesus would call him back from such a wonderful place to such a dark and desolate Earth? Eccl. 9:5-6 says we know nothing when we die and will know nothing till Jesus comes back to get us. See 1 Thess. 4:16-17. Now ask yourself, why would Jesus need to come back to get His people if they were already in Heaven? And if someone says it is to get the rest that are still here, why could He not just lay them to rest then and take them to Heaven as the others would have had to be taken? Just does not make any sense, does it? Jesus comes back to get His people from all the ages to take back with Him as they are in the graves and those that are alive and remain will be caught up together with those that came up from the graves to go back to Heaven then. Nowhere do you find in the bible that you go to Heaven when you die or that you have a soul that is immortal. What is a soul? If you look at Genesis 2:7, you find a soul is the combination of the body or dust of the ground, and the breath of life. With those two things together man became a living soul. It does not say he was given a soul but that he was a living soul. See 1 Cor. 15:51-55
Matthew 10 : 28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
In Hell, you will be destroyed both body and soul or the complete thing,not just the body or not just a spirit entity but the body will be destroyed right along with your breath of life. Quite different from what the preachers and priests are teaching but it is biblical. See below for more info and studies on it and more.

Answer 3

Only the souls of true belivers are immortal, Bible says, when you truly belive have Everlasting Life and never pierish and when Jesus will appear will be like Him. Also said in Romans 8, if the Spirit that raise Chirst from the dead live in has will also raise our mortal bodies from the graves. This is four our bodies too.
The sinners, which go to hell, after a period of years, they will be destroyed. Hell can't be Everlasting, because only God is everlasting, without a beginind and an end. Hell was created, and all that is created has an end, without the ture, born again belivers.

Answer 4

Interesting Questions

1.If man has a soul – Why does Gen 2:7 say that man became a soul? (1 Cor 15:45)
Difference in being an elephant and having an elephant

1a.Why do many modern translations translate the Hebrew word for soul into being,
if the soul is something separate and distinct from the person? Gen 2:7 NIV

2.If man’s soul is immortal – Why does Ez. 18:4, 20 say it can die? (Acts 3:23)

2a.Why does Jesus say it can be destroyed? (Matt. 10:28)

3.If a man’s soul lives on after death – Why do man’s thoughts perish at death?
(Ps. 146:4; Eccl. 9:5,10)

3a.If a man’s soul lives on after death – Why did Jesus liken death to sleep?
(John 11:11-14; Acts 7:60)

3b.If a man’s soul lives on after death – Where is King David?
(Acts 2:29, 34; John 3:13)

4.What happens to a man’s soul when his spirit returns to God?
(Ps. 146:4; Eccl 12:7; Ps 104:29)

5.Why does the “New Encyclopedia Britannica” say that the Hebrew and Greek word for soul really means animated beings both human and non human. So Animals are souls (Breathers). (Gen. 1:20, 21, 24, 25; Lev 24:17, 18)

“The Hebrew term for ‘soul’ (nefesh, that which breathes) was used by Moses . . . , signifying an ‘animated being’ and applicable equally to nonhuman beings. . . . New Testament usage of psyche (‘soul’) was comparable to nefesh.”—The New Encyclopædia Britannica (1976), Macropædia, Vol. 15, p. 152.

6.Why does the “New Catholic Encyclopedia” state that the word soul never means a soul as distinct from the body or the individual person.

“There is no dichotomy [division] of body and soul in the O[ld] T[estament]. The Israelite saw things concretely, in their totality, and thus he considered men as persons and not as composites. The term nepeÅ¡ [ne´phesh], though translated by our word soul, never means soul as distinct from the body or the individual person. . . . The term [psy•khe´] is the N[ew] T[estament] word corresponding with nepeÅ¡. It can mean the principle of life, life itself, or the living being.”—New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967), Vol. XIII, pp. 449, 450.

7.Please note “Immortality of the soul is a Greek notion formed in ancient mystery cults and elaborated by the philosopher Plato.” —Presbyterian Life, May 1, 1970, p. 35.

8.What was the original lie? (Gen 3:4) “You will not die.” if you disobey God.
The immortality of the soul concept says “You will not die if you disobey God.
Your immortal soul lives on someplace.”

So in reality the immortal soul idea is a teaching of Plato and not Jesus (#2a & 7)

The soul is the person, the individual being who breaths, thinks, eats and dies. (#1a & 2)

For a soul/person to live again God must resurrect that person (soul) to life again. (Acts 24:15)

Answer 5

First of all, you do not have and immortal soul, if you did, then why had no one gone to Heaven before Jesus came to the Earth, 4000 years had came & gone since Adam & Eve, millions of people had died, what did Jesus say to a man of the Pharisees, Nic·o·de'mus was his name, a ruler of the Jews.

John 3:13
Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man.

What is a Soul?
Right in the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, we are told that the soul is not something you have, it is something you are. We read of the creation of Adam, the first human being: “The man came to be a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7) The Hebrew word used here for soul, ne'phesh, occurs well over 700 times in the Hebrew Scriptures, never once conveying the idea of a separate, ethereal, spiritual part of man. On the contrary, the soul is tangible, concrete, physical.

Look up the following cited texts in your own copy of the Bible, for the Hebrew word ne'phesh is found in each of them. They clearly show that the soul can face risk, danger, and even be kidnapped (Deuteronomy 24:7; Judges 9:17; 1 Samuel 19:11); touch things (Job 6:7); be locked up in irons (Psalm 105:18); crave to eat, be afflicted by fasting, and faint from hunger and thirst; and suffer from a wasting disease or even insomnia as a result of grief. (Deuteronomy 12:20; Psalm 35:13; 69:10;) In other words, because your soul is you, your very self, your soul can experience anything you can experience.

Does that mean, then, that the soul can actually die? Yes. Far from being immortal, human souls are spoken of in the Hebrew Scriptures as being “cut off,” or executed, for wrongdoing, being struck fatally, murdered, destroyed, and torn to pieces. (Exodus 31:14; Deuteronomy 19:6; 22:26; Psalm 7:2) “The soul that is sinning, it itself will die,” says Ezekiel 18:4. Clearly, death is the common end of human souls, since all of us sin. (Psalm 51:5) The first man, Adam, was told that the penalty for sin was death, not transfer to the spirit realm and immortality. (Genesis 2:17) And when he sinned, the sentence was pronounced: “For dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) When Adam and Eve died, they simply became what the Bible often refers to as ‘dead souls’ or ‘deceased souls.’

Answer 6

Biblically speaking, Revelation talks about utter destruction. The smoke from that utter destruction rises forever. If you read in Genesis, it states that God breathed into Adam and he became a living soul. Your soul is not the same thing as your spirit (according to the Bible). You never hear anyone substitute Holy Soul for Holy Spirit, do you?

Answer 7

"Which God will bring about in his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who ALONE is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen." I Timothy 6:15,16

God alone is immortal


A lot of Christians are saying that the soul can’t die but what does God say

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Ezekiel 18:4

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can DESTROY both SOUL and body in hell.
Matthew 10:28

the soul can be destroyed

Answer 8

I am "Rational Spirituality", and I do not quote the Bible because it had been written 350 years after Jesus, and was edited 1000 times in order for it to be inobjectionable to those in power. According to "Rational Spirituality" a Soul needs to earn its immortality. It earns it by subjecting itself to the learning process, to the process of growth and purification in a lifetime. But people who choose the easy way out of every situation in life, and believe in no purpose, do not seek eternal life as a Soul, and it is not given to them. Evil people earn themselves what is called "hell", but it means that they have to pay for their own wrong-doings, often at a greater rate than was the transgression.

A good, pure, and well- meaning Soul lives forever.

Answer 9

Our spirits are eternal. When Jesus was resurrected he removed the bonds of death and every soul (body and spirit) has the gift of immortality.
Daniel 12:1-3
John 5:24-29

Answer 10

I believe our souls are immortal, but I don't know of a Bible verse. If there was one, it'd most likely be in the New Testament