Is the soul immortal?

Question

I have seen some debate here about whether or not the soul is immortal. I know in Ezekiel it says that the soul that sins shall die. but couldn't this be referring to the second death spoken of in Revelation? A death that is actually eternity in Hell? If your soul ceases to exist at death why are we told to preserve it blameless until Jesus comes?


1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Answer 1

Yes, the soul is immortal. Why would Jesus have saved us and promised Heaven if it is not?

Answer 2

If you want to do the research, here are all the scriptures where the word soul appears.

You will notice that immortality is not used inconnection with the word soul, whereas death is.

Immortality is a reward for faithfulness.

Satan told Eve, if we disobey God, we will not die.


To aid in understanding the uses of “soul,” we have grouped below, under various headings, texts where “soul” occurs.

Animals are souls

Ge 1:20, 21, 24, 30; 2:19; 9:10, 12, 15, 16; Le 11:10, 46, 46; 24:18; Nu 31:28; Job 41:21; Eze 47:9.

A living person or individual is a soul (is; not have)

Ge 2:7; 12:5; 14:21; 36:6; 46:15, 18, 22, 25, 26, 26, 27, 27; Ex 1:5, 5; 12:4, 16; 16:16; Le 2:1; 4:2, 27; 5:1, 2, 4, 15, 17; 6:2; 7:18, 20, 21, 25, 27; 17:10, 12, 15; 18:29; 20:6, 6; 22:6, 11; 23:29, 30; 27:2; Nu 5:6; 15:27, 28, 30; 19:18, 22; 31:35, 35, 40, 40, 46; 35:30; De 10:22; 24:6, 7; 1Sa 22:22; 2Sa 14:14; 2Ki 12:4; 1Ch 5:21; Ps 19:7; Pr 11:25, 30; 16:24; 19:2, 15; 25:25; 27:7, 7, 9; Jer 43:6; 52:29; La 3:25; Eze 27:13; Ac 2:41, 43; 7:14; 27:37; Ro 13:1; 1Co 15:45; 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:14.

The creature soul is mortal, destructible

Ge 12:13; 17:14; 19:19, 20; 37:21; Ex 12:15, 19; 31:14; Le 7:20, 21, 27; 19:8; 22:3; 23:30; 24:17; Nu 9:13; 15:30, 31; 19:13, 20; 23:10; 31:19; 35:11, 15, 30; De 19:6, 11; 22:26; 27:25; Jos 2:13, 14; 10:28, 30, 32, 35, 37, 37, 39; 11:11; 20:3, 9; Jg 5:18; 16:16, 30; 1Ki 19:4; 20:31; Job 7:15; 11:20; 18:4; 33:22; 36:14; Ps 7:2; 22:29; 66:9; 69:1; 78:50; 94:17; 106:15; 124:4; Pr 28:17; Isa 55:3; Jer 2:34; 4:10; 18:20; 38:17; 40:14; Eze 13:19; 17:17; 18:4; 22:25, 27; 33:6; Mt 2:20; 10:28, 28; 26:38; Mr 3:4; 14:34; Lu 6:9; 17:33; Joh 12:25; Ac 3:23; Ro 11:3; Heb 10:39; Jas 5:20; Re 8:9; 12:11; 16:3.

Life as an intelligent person

Ge 35:18; Ex 4:19; 21:23; 30:12; Jos 9:24; Jg 9:17; 12:3; 18:25; 2Ki 7:7; 2Ch 1:11; Job 2:4; 6:11; Pr 1:18; 7:23; 22:23; 25:13; Mt 6:25; 10:39; 16:25; Lu 12:20; Joh 10:15; 13:38; 15:13; Ac 20:10; Ro 16:4; Php 2:30; 1Th 2:8; Jas 1:21; 1Pe 1:22; 2:11, 25; 1Jo 3:16.

Soul delivered from Sheol or Hades (“hell”)

Ps 16:10; 30:3; 49:15; 86:13; 89:48; Pr 23:14; Ac 2:27.

Dead soul, or corpse

Le 19:28; 21:1, 11; 22:4; Nu 5:2; 6:6, 11; 9:6, 7, 10; 19:11, 13; Hag 2:13.

Soul distinguished from spirit

Php 1:27; 1Th 5:23; Heb 4:12.

God has soul

1Sa 2:35; Ps 11:5; 24:4; Pr 6:16; Isa 1:14; 42:1; Jer 5:9; 6:8; 12:7; 14:19; 15:1; 32:41; 51:14; La 3:20; Eze 23:18; Am 6:8; Mt 12:18; Heb 10:38.

I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Fuzzy, Haze and DebbiePittman, all gave you sturdy solutions. That scripture in Ecclesiastes 3:19 that Debbie quoted, is sturdy food for theory. did you already know that the Latin word for soul is 'anima' - from which we get 'animal'? The Bible does not instruct that the soul is a few immaterial spirit or ghost that inhabits people, and that maintains to stay to tell the story after dying. it relatively is purely no longer a Bible-based coaching. The word soul (Hebrew: Nephesh; Greek: Psykhe) as used in the Bible purely potential a residing creature. you would be sure this by making use of consulting a Bible that supplies the Greek and Hebrew textual content textile alongside the English. (Genesis a million:20, 21, 24; Genesis 2:7) The Bible shows that the soul is mortal - people and animals are mortal (Ezekiel 18:4, Acts 3:23) The coaching of the immortal soul crept in to Christianity (apostate Christianity) from Greek philosophy. that's no longer a Bible-based coaching and does not harmonize with the Bible. The Bible's coaching that the soul is surely the entire being, human or animal, additionally harmonizes with medical findings. The bodies of people and animals have one in each and every of those organs that carry out particular applications that make a contribution in a single way or yet another, immediately or circuitously, to the sustenance and mushy delight in existence. If we are immortal then why can we want actual bodies with organs to take care of the existence or such bodies? It makes unquestionably no experience! it relatively is a revealed actuality that the organ talked approximately as the suggestions is to blame for our suggestions, conciousness, self-expertise. If we had a concious immortal soul which could stay to tell the story the dying/injury to the physique then how is it even attainable for us to lose conciousness whilst struck on the top? shouldn't our immortal soul proceed our conciousness even with injury or trauma to the top? so which you are going to see that that the coaching of an immortal soul residing interior us makes unquestionably no experience - the two from the attitude of the Bible and in the sunshine of medical findings.

Answer 4

You are very correct about the second death mentioned in Ezekial. As far as the preserving your soul blameless, that has more to do with you while you are alive; as you cannot do anything with your soul once you are dead. Paul wanted the Thessalonians to abstain from activities that would directly and indirectly affect the condition of their soul.
Directly: Obvious and deliberate activities that grieves the Holy Spirit.
Indirectly: Engaged in activities that appear questionable. Though you may not be technically engaged in anything wrong, you are creating the appearence of wrongdoing. This tarnishes your message and that of Christs.
Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Without a doubt the human soul is immortal. This is clearly seen in countless verses in both the Old and New Testaments including Psalm 22:26; Psalm 23:6; Psalm 49:7-9; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Daniel 12:2-3; Matthew 25:46; 1 Corinthians 15:12-19 and many other verses. One such verse is Ecclesiastes 12:7, which declares, “Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it.” Also Daniel 12:2 says that “those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.” Jesus Himself even said that the wicked “will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life" (Matthew 25:46).

Answer 6

The scripture in Ezekiel is just one scripture in the bible that lets us know the truth about the soul. What happens to us at death is and should be no mystery if we peer into the Word of God. When a person dies, he ceases to exist. Death is the opposite of life. The dead do not see or hear or think. Not even one part of us survives the death of the body. We do not possess an immortal soul or spirit. The soul is one's life, not some shadowy form that lives on after you die. Take for example Exodus 4:19- " All the men who were hunting for your soul are dead.: What were Moses' enemies hunting for? They were seeking to take Moses' life. There are other passages in the Bible that show that soul clearly refers to life as a person.( 1 Kings 17:17-23; Matthew 10:39; John 15:13; and Acts 20:10) After Solomon observed that the living know that they will die, he wrote: "As for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all." He then enlarged on that basic truth by saying that the dead can neither love nor hate and that "there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave." Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10 Similarly, Psalm 146:4 says that when a man dies, " his thoughts do perish." We are mortal and do not survive the death of our body. The life we enjoy is like the flame of a candle. When the flame is put out, it does not go anywhere. It is simply gone.
The Bible does not teach of a Hell as many religions teach. In original languages, the Bible uses the Hebrew word she'ohl' and its Greek equivalent hai'des more than 70 times. Both words are related to death. Some Bible translations render them as "grave, hell or pit". Sheol is not a literal place in a specific location. It is the common grave of dead mankind, the figurative location where most of mankind sleep in death. Jesus showed death was like a sleep when he spoke of resureccting his friend Lazurus. The Bible teaches that all those in the common grave of mankind will be resurrected. John 5: 28,29. Those who are resurrected will not be resurrected to heaven, but to earth, as God's original purpose was for the "earth to be inhabited" Isaiah 45:18. It will not be to the earth as we know it now, but to a cleansed earth as Psalms 37: 10, 11 show us.."And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more, and you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be. But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace." At that time it will be God's kingdom, with Jesus Christ his Son ruling as king that will have righteous mankind as subjects on his earth. Daniel 2:44 "And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite."

Answer 7

Genesis 2:7 says "And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man CAME TO BE a living soul." (capitals mine)
Why did the Bible tell us that man CAME to BE a living soul? Why didn't it say that man came to HAVE a living soul? That would have cleared up everything.

The Greek word used for soul - Ne'phesh - was also used for fish, birds and other animals. Precisely the same Hebrew phrase used of the animal creation, namely, ne′phesh chai·yah′ (living soul), is applied to Adam, when, after God formed man out of dust from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, “the man came to be a living soul.”
It is true that the account says that ‘God proceeded to blow into the man’s nostrils the breath [form of nesha·mah′] of life,’ whereas this is not stated in the account of the animal creation. Clearly, however, the account of the creation of man is much more detailed than that of the creation of animals.
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21 says " For there is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit, so that there is no superiority of the man over the beast, for everything is vanity. All are going to one place. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust.  Who is there knowing the spirit of the sons of mankind, whether it is ascending upward; and the spirit of the beast, whether it is descending downward to the earth?" It says that they are all going to the same place. Therefore if you believe that people are going to heaven or hell, then the animals are going to heaven and hell also. But the Bible plainly states that they are going back to the dust, becoming nothing, they are just dead - have no life. This is true for both the animals and for humans.

Answer 8

The soul lives on forever after the body dies. At the second coming and the resurrection, the 2 become one again. Ezekiel was not talking literally, about the soul dying. That sinning is like a spiritual death because sin can and will cut us off from the presence of God.

Answer 9

Yes, the spirit that dwells inside our tabernacle of flesh is immortal. We lived before birth and we will live beyond physical death. The spoken of is the second death, which is permanent separation from God. We are in a state of spiritual death right now, being separated from God. Nevertheless, we shall be redeemed of this death because we shall be brought again into His presence. Then, those that remain spiritually filthy, will be cast out of His presence into the second death. Thus we suffer a physical death, wait for the resurrection and go to final judgment where we receive our reward or punishment according to the justice of God.
You are on the right track.

Answer 10

Yes, unrepentant sinners do experince the second death as written in Revelation 20- but for the save of Christ 1 Thes 5:23 is true.

Answer 11

The souls of the unsaved are not immortal. They become nonexistent. To prove this is Biblical, go to Romans11:36 and you will read, "For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen." The basic closed circuits, of the one substance, energy, in the one substance, energy, are "of Him", circulate "through Him", and finally can undifferentiate back "to Him". The fact that God is energy, is Biblically proven in 1John1:5 where it says, "God is light". Energy is quantumly measured in quanta of light, photons.
There are two things in the universe: energy, and information; and, information is the conformation of energy. That conformation must be in differentiated closed circuitry, that there be something to move out of the way and fill in behind in the one substance, energy. Enough differentiation causes consciousness so that, in turn, the matrix of energy is thereby differentiated and therefore conscious. We are not energy. We are only information. Matter itself is only called "alpha code information". If we were energy we would never sleep.
It was found that in outer space there are automatic differentiations wherever there is enough nothingness, for, the infinitesimal point nothingness, . , is rastered by time into timespace, U , which exerts its oneness in one direction, /, stirring closed circuitry, O, that all going the same way, vO^XvO^, repels, X, forcing confluency, =, back into undifferentiation.
The force of stirring, /, is different on either side of a circuit in this process due to the value of pi going from zero to higher values, and thereby there is a different amount of force on either side of the circuit thereby allowing the circuit to circulate.
The friction is caused by the Planck's volumes. Nothing can be smaller than Planck's volume. The infinitesimal point nothingness is absolute nothingness, nothing. As said "nothing" can be smaller than Planck's volume.
This process is eternal, therefore, energy is eternally conscious, and has been called God. We are only information. If we were energy we would never sleep. God never sleeps.