The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Man's Soul

I suspect that this question is being asked in relation to the previous subject of "Annihilation", eh?

1. There are several ways to define 'immortality' of which two are particularly salient.
   - Re: God who is said who only has immortality (1Tim 6:15,16). God alone has no beginning nor end.
   - Re: Man, and angels, being spiritual beings, with whom the soul has a continuous or endless existence. Before the Fall there was no death and thus man can be rightly said to have been immortal.
2. In the OT the immortality of the soul is more implicit than explicit. You can see this in such passages as: Ex 3:6 (cf. Matt 22:32); Job 19:23-27; Eccl. 3:11, Ps 16:9,11; 17:15; 49:14,15; 73:24; Isa 26:19; Dan 12:2, et al.
3. In the NT we find more explicit passages: Matt 10:28; 11:21-24; 12:41; Lk 23:43; Acts 24:15; Jh 5:29; 11:25f; 14:3; 1Cor 15; 2Cor 5:1,10; Rom 2:5-11; 1Thess 4:16; Phil 3:21; 2Tim 4:8; Rev 21:4; 22:3,4, et al.