Do the Jehovah witnesses believe in an eternal soul?

Question

You know like Jesus says"in your patience you possess your souls".Or Lazarus died and went to Abraham.Etc. Etc. Numerous examples.

Kurt-wrong Lazarus,I'm talking about the beggar.Also just because YOUR Lazarus died physically, doesn't mean his soul died too.

Answer 1

A "soul" is a life, with no implication regarding some immortal otherwordly entity. Each deceased life is in Jehovah God's remembrance (with the potential for future resurrection), but the dead do not exist anywhere but memories until and unless the life is resurrected.

(Ezekiel 18:4) The soul that is sinning - it itself will die.

(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all

(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]

(Genesis 2:17) But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.”

(Genesis 17:14) And an uncircumcised male who will not get the flesh of his foreskin circumcised, even that soul must be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”

(Judges 16:30) And Samson proceeded to say: “Let my soul die with the Philistines.” Then he bent himself with power, and the house went falling upon the axis lords and upon all the people that were in it, so that the dead that he put to death in his own death came to be more than those he had put to death during his lifetime.

(Job 33:22) And his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to those inflicting death.

(Psalm 78:50) He did not hold back their soul from death itself; And their life he handed over even to the pestilence.

(Isaiah 53:12) he poured out his soul to the very death

(Acts 3:23) Indeed, any soul that does not listen to that Prophet will be completely destroyed from among the people.’

(Revelation 16:3) And the second one poured out his bowl into the sea. And it became blood as of a dead man, and every living soul died, yes, the things in the sea.

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Answer 2

Immortality is a reward for faithfulness.

eternal soul idea is a variation of Satan's lie that if you disobey God you will not die, Genesis ch. 3.

The parable of the rich man and Lazarus is a story not fact.

It is directed to the scribes and Pharisees (they loved riches), showing that they (the rich man) were about to lose their favored position, and that the "common people" Lazarus were going to receive God's favor.

When you read the Gospels you see that the Scribes and Pharisees were tormented every time Jesus spoke.

The fact that the soul dies (Ez 18:4) shows that the parable can't be literal.

Kurt was correct when he said that Lazarus was sleeping, as you pointed out, he was referring to a different account.

Answer 3

We have faith the soul can die and does die - Ezekiel 18:4 and 20. the guy him or herself IS a soul - Genesis 2:7. As for the assertion that Psalm ninety is skipped over? according to probability Proverbs 23:4 and 5 are additionally being skipped over. "do no longer toil to learn riches. stop out of your guy or woman awareness. have you ever led to your eyes to look at it, whilst it isn't any longer something? For with out fail it makes wings for itself like those of an eagle and flies away in the direction of the heavens." So our money additionally is going to heaven because of the fact the Bible says it "flies away in the direction of the heavens"? No. We use an idiom interior the ENGLISH language that applies to the two verses the two - It vanishes into skinny air. The rationale of the scriptures ought to be taken into consideration. The Bible is not extra asserting that a SOUL is going to heaven than money is going to heaven. there is not any eternal soul. To have such could negate the term, the definition, or maybe the desire for a resurrection. And all of us understand that there is one in all those factor as a resurrection, because of the fact Jesus stated that HE replaced into the resurrection and the existence. And as such, the two righteous and unrighteous will earnings one in all those resurrection. - Acts 24:15. on the time, Paul used the term WILL - destiny stressful - from his day.

Answer 4

According to their literatures w/c are bible based the word "soul" have these meanings depending on the context the word soul was used:

1. As the whole person. So a soul has blood, can be counted, and can die.

2. As life itself. Some of the passages cited are: (a) soul for soul, (b) Moses enemies are looking for his soul--that is to kill him

3. Animals. As let the earth bring forth creeping souls--creation narrative in Genesis.

There are 3 ultimate destinations of dead souls: (a) to be resurrected on a paradise earth, (b) to be resurrected in heaven and rule w/ Christ , and (c) to suffer eternal death--but not eternal torture

JWs do not believe in an immortal soul. This idea is pagan according to some reference materials such as World Book Encyclopedia, etc

Answer 5

They believe in eternal life, but not in the immortality of the soul. JWs believe in "soul sleep." When you're dead, you're dead, but Jehovah God is able to recall the dead to life. JWs believe He will do this one day. The righteous will be awarded with eternal life, while the rest of us get annihilated in a lake of fire. JWs do not believe in a soul in terms of an incorporeal essence that leaves the body at death and finds its way into another dimension called the after life or gets stuck wandering around as a ghost.

Answer 6

I am not a JW...but I have studied with them from time to time...& if I remember correctly, they do believe in an eternal life, but much like 7th day adventists, they believe in "soul-sleep". That when a person dies their soul goes back to God, & the person is not aware of anything until they are resurrected on "paradise earth". The JW's believe that only 144,000 ppl will be allowed access to Heaven.

Answer 7

No they do not. They take there beliefs from the scripture that say as for the dead they are concious of nothing. and he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish. and Lazarus our friend has gone to rest, but I am journeying there to awaken him from sleep.’ . . . Jesus said to them outspokenly: ‘Lazarus has died.

Answer 8

I just asked a Jehova witness special for this question and she said that they do believe in eternal life after death.

Answer 9

No... they believe in the Infernal Doorbell

Answer 10

I WAS ONCE A JW, AND YES WE BELIEVED IN ETERNAL LIFE.