Romans 6:23: If man has an immortal soul why does he need the gift of eternal life?

Answer 1

Despite the well intentioned answers here, your question speak of the logic to how you look at the scriptures. You got it right by asking!

Man does not have an immortal soul!

Just as God told Adam in the garden, if he ate of the fruit he would 'positively die', Satan contradicted him and said 'you positively will NOT die'. leading to the situation we find ourselves in today.

However, obviously to Satan, and the rest of the world, oops, Adam is no longer around, he died, and so have everyone else who has ever lived... So, he ammended the original lie "you positively will NOT die" to, er... well, ah... 'you will not die, you are still living when you are dead, yeah, that's the ticket, you die, but you are still living!' WRONG! :-)

Sadly, false Christendom keeps repeating Satan's original lie over and over... 'well you don't die, you keep living, but in heaven or hell. This is unscriptural, and exactly the opposite of what God had said.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 says "the dead or conscious of nothing at all" So, the dead are really dead, and anyone who says otherwise is repeating a form of the original lie!

Answer 2

God said they're not immortal. A living soul is simply a body with the breath of life still within. Once God takes that life force away from the body, it becomes a corpse; no longer living. The dead know nothing. Eternal life is a gift granted to the Righteous, at the Second Advent/Christ's Return.

Answer 3

Is this a rhetorical question?

The answer is that man DOES NOT have an immortal soul, and eternal life is a gift of God. Eternal death is the only other option. Hellfire, as the nominal Christian world understands it, does not exist. The dead are just that: dead. Some are dead in Christ and await resurrection to eternal life.

Answer 4

"If man has an immortal soul why does he need the gift of eternal life?"

Well, that's the thing, you see, man does not have an immortal soul -- woman doesn't either. Two points... (1) Nothing about us is immortal. Only God is immortal:

"I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen." 1 Timothy 6:13-16

(2) We do not have a soul -- we *are* a living soul (Genesis 2:7). God's formula for Man:

Dust of the Ground + Breath of Life = A Living Soul

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Lastly, the saints will only become immortal when Christ Returns to receive His own (1Co 15:51-58).

Answer 5

Precisely, how do you obtain this gift. See John 3:16. By believing in Christ as your Saviour. The gift of eternal life is never promised to the wicked only the righteous. Clearly, hell does not burn forever or else the wicked would have eternal life just like the righteous albeit in torment.

Answer 6

I love your questions you know how to get people thinking. I am sure that you know I am gonna say that the soul is not immortal thats why we need the gift so here have a star!
God Bless

Answer 7

We are resurrected, so we can receive immortality. Thus our bodies and our souls will one forever after we are resurrected. Eternal life can also refer to life with God. Even though we will be immortal, we will only dwell in the presence of God if we live worthily and accept His teachings and the atonement of His Son Jesus Christ.

Answer 8

Because Romans 6:23 says the wages of sin is death.

Answer 9

It is not a question of if you have eternal life for everyone does. It is where you are going to spend your eternal life. the eternal life referred to in Romans 6:23 is to spend it with the Lord. The death referred to in this passage is separation from God.

Answer 10

Where do you get that our souls are immortal with out God? Matthew 10:28 says that the soul can be destroyed. It seems to indicate to me that only He can destroy it but in the end isn't that what the final judgement is?