the soul is immortal?

Question

so an all-powerful God is capable of creating souls but not capable of destroying them?

Answer 1

if (s)he is all powerful (s)he can do whatever (s)he wants to.

Answer 2

Fuzzy, Haze and DebbiePittman, all gave you good answers. That scripture in Ecclesiastes 3:19 that Debbie quoted, is good food for thought. Did you know that the Latin word for soul is 'anima' - from which we get 'animal'? The Bible does not teach that the soul is some immaterial spirit or ghost that inhabits humans, and that continues to live on after death. That is simply not a Bible-based teaching. The word soul (Hebrew: Nephesh; Greek: Psykhe) as used in the Bible simply means a living creature. You can confirm this by consulting a Bible that gives the Greek and Hebrew text alongside the English. (Genesis 1:20, 21, 24; Genesis 2:7) The Bible shows that the soul is mortal - humans and animals are mortal (Ezekiel 18:4, Acts 3:23) The teaching of the immortal soul crept in to Christianity (apostate Christianity) from Greek philosophy. It is not a Bible-based teaching and does not harmonize with the Bible. The Bible's teaching that the soul is really the whole being, human or animal, also harmonizes with scientific findings. The bodies of humans and animals have a variety of organs that perform specific functions that contribute in one way or another, directly or indirectly, to the sustenance and comfortable enjoyment of life. If we are immortal then why do we need physical bodies with organs to sustain the life or such bodies? It makes absolutely no sense! It is a revealed fact that the organ called the brain is responsible for our thoughts, conciousness, self-awareness. If we had a concious immortal soul that can survive the death/damage to the body then how is it even possible for us to lose conciousness when struck on the head? Shouldn't our immortal soul continue our conciousness despite damage or trauma to the head? So you can see that the teaching of an immortal soul living inside us makes absolutely no sense - both from the standpoint of the Bible and in the light of Scientific findings.

Answer 3

Yes, you are immortal.

You are a soul, you don't have one somewhere.

And God didn't create souls or the universe, He is the soul and the universe. There was no beginning, big bang or otherwise. There is no end, big whimper or snuff out. Who or What created God?

You are God. We live in an illusion of separation.

Look at the world around you as being a part of you and your world will change.

Answer 4

The soul is immortal by definition. But there is an awful lot of them and most of them sort of fade out and disappear, or least become less significant as time goes by.

Answer 5

The soul is immortal, which means it will never die, and it is like God. Would he destroy himself?

Answer 6

The Scriptural teaching of the resurrection, however, is not compatible with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. If an immortal soul survived death, no one would need to be resurrected, or brought back to life.

Jesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. He did so with regard to Lazarus, a man whom he knew well and who had died. Jesus told his disciples: “Lazarus our friend has gone to rest.” The disciples thought that Jesus meant that Lazarus was resting in sleep, recovering from an illness. They were wrong. Jesus explained: “Lazarus has died.” (John 11:11-14) Notice that Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. Lazarus was not being reborn as another human. He was at rest in death, as though in a deep sleep without dreams. Other scriptures also compare death to sleep. For example, when the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote about some in his day who had “fallen asleep” in death.


The Bible teaches that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” They are not alive and have no conscious existence anywhere. The account of Lazarus confirms this. Upon returning to life, did Lazarus thrill people with descriptions of heaven? Or did he terrify them with horrible tales about a burning hell? No. The Bible contains no such words from Lazarus. During the four days that he was dead, he had been “conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Lazarus had simply been sleeping in death. John 11:11.
The account of Lazarus also teaches us that the resurrection is a reality, not a mere myth. Jesus raised Lazarus in front of a crowd of eyewitnesses. Even the religious leaders, who hated Jesus, did not deny this miracle.

Think about this too: If Lazarus had been in heaven for those four days, would he not have said something about it? And if he had been in heaven, would Jesus have made him come back to earth from that wonderful place? Of course not!

Yet, many people say that we have a soul, and they say that the soul lives on after the body dies. They say that Lazarus’ soul was alive somewhere. But the Bible does not say that. It says that God made the first man Adam “a living soul.” Gen. 2:7, Adam was a soul. The Bible also says that when Adam sinned, he died. He became a “dead soul,” and he returned to the dust from which he had been made. The Bible also says that all Adam’s offspring inherited sin and death too.

Martha expressed no thought about an immortal soul that was living on elsewhere after death. She did not believe that Lazarus had already gone to some spirit realm to continue his existence. On the contrary, she showed her faith in God’s purpose to reverse the effects of death. She said: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:23, 24) Likewise, Lazarus himself related no experiences of some afterlife. There was nothing to report.

Clearly, according to the Bible, the soul dies and the remedy for death is the resurrection. You enjoy the best sleep ever, until Jesus resurrects you, sometime in the future.

Answer 7

The Soul is immortal but the Reggae is for ever

Answer 8

It's not that he can't. HE doesn't want to. If this life we're tested to see if we're worthy of his kingdom. The body dies the soul lives on either in heaven or in hell. The soul is immortal !

Answer 9

He CAN destroy your soul.....in hell.....but God is a merciful God. You will be punished for what you have done, how he sees fit. Then he will have mercy on your soul.

Answer 10

he breathened in creating people thus giving us soul. the soul belongs to him that's why we seek for salvation

Answer 11

the soul is immortal?

is it? Got any proof?