Is the resurrection compatible with the immortality of the soul?

Answer 1

What would be the point of a resurrection? Meaning a return from death, if one never really died, why return? Where return?

The fact that the teaching goes back to the false religion of the Egyptians and NOT the Bible teachings at all points out the falseness of immortality of the soul.

Answer 2

No, God's written word says that God alone is immortal and that the soul that is sinning, it itself will die Ezekiel 18:4. The human being in it's entirety is a living soul Genesis 2:7. When we die we become non-existent and need a resurrection from the dead, this is God's promise for all those in their memorial tombs.

Answer 3

No it's not. If someone has an immortal soul, then how can you bring them to life; they are already living.

Answer 4

Carmelite Theology (part of the Catholic Teachings on the Revelation of God) deals a great deal with the soul and its immortal nature, God's indwelling and Divine Presence. The soul is considered an Interior Castle or as Christ said in the Gospel: My Father's House has many mansions. Gracelife is God's life in the soul gathered through prayer.

This is a different subject from the Resurrection. The Resurrection is regarding raising up the body and the soul. Jesus+ rose from the dead in His Glorified Body. He promised eternal life to all those who take up their cross and follow Him. Those who deny and even hate the worldly value of this life, gaining spiritual life and virtue from Him, He will raise up on the last Day.

The Bible says that there will be a Final Judgment and many will rise to receive blessings and an eternal reward, but some to everlasting shame and disgrace.

The First Resurrection occurred with Christ, who raised up all of those who had died from Adam through Joseph, Mary's husband and St. John the Baptist, the last of the Old Testament prophets.

Since the soul can not die, we look to Christ to save us from the second death which is an eternal death. The subject of mortality is very serious and Jesus, the Son of God, is to be revered for His Sacrifice and His Priesthood.

The connection between the soul and the body is in the Paschal Mystery where Christ has saved us from a soul dead to sin:

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The Paschal mystery has two aspects: by his death, Christ liberates us from sin; by his Resurrection, he opens for us the way to a new life. This new life is above all justification that reinstates us in God's grace, "so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life."526 Justification consists in both victory over the death caused by sin and a new participation in grace.527 It brings about filial adoption so that men become Christ's brethren, as Jesus himself called his disciples after his Resurrection: "Go and tell my brethren."528 We are brethren not by nature, but by the gift of grace, because that adoptive filiation gains us a real share in the life of the only Son, which was fully revealed in his Resurrection. [see source]

Here we find the salvific mission of Christ at work in the sacramental nature of the Church.

And this is where some of the doubts of nonbelievers is shown for the problematic error of believing they have no soul because the soul is enlivened by Baptism, being dead to sin until the Lord of Life enters in. Very often people doubt the Resurrection because they have not encountered the Living Lord who says 'No one can enter the Kingdom of Heaven unless he is born again by water and the Spirit.'

Further, the soul must encounter Christ through prayer and annointing, because this is what set the Psalmist to sing: He restoreth my soul.

Answer 5

There is no such thing as a soul, nor is there anything immortal about any form of life except for the germ cells. The notion of a resurrection is fiction.

Answer 6

No, because resurrection is the soul being reunited with the body. The body dies at physical death when the spirit leaves the body but, the spirit never dies.

Answer 7

I thought about that, why would you need a resurrection mentioned in John 5:28 if you never died?
As it shows in movies that you just go from one body into a spirit body and float away. If it goes to heaven and then to resurrect you God brings you back. wouldn't that be cruel?

Answer 8

The soul is not immortal and that is not a Bible teaching.

Future life is dependent on a resurrection, just as Jesus taught. A resurrection to life on earth.

Answer 9

No.

If you are not REALLY dead, then what's a resurrection for? Makes no sense.

To be resurrected, you need to be cold dead.

Answer 10

Only in terms of judgment day. What a person does in their body determines there eternal destination.