Notes:

Do we have an immortal soul?  The idea has been put forth that our soul will be transferred to heaven or purgatory.  The belief is that judgment is passed onto the soul.

 

How does the Bible talk about soul?  The word sold comes from 3 Hebrew words and 1 Greek word.

 

Gen. 2:7 → God breathed in the breath of life and he became a living man.

 

“Breath of Life” -- It is one Hebrew word, Neshamah (a blast of wind or your intellect).  We are able to reason and set plans on our life.  It was given to man, no other species.  Man became a living soul -- nephesh.  He set man apart for the animals.  Nephesh is referred to a creature having a living, breathing, existence.  Nephesh is also translated into life and person and mind.

 

Gen. 1:20

 

Gen. 12:5 → Nephesh is pointing to physical people

 

Gen.27:4 → Abraham pointing to his own life as his soul.  He is asking for nourishment for his body.

 

Nephesh can also go beyond the physical and center around the mind.

 

Gen. 23:8 → The mind and inner thoughts.

 

Gen. 34:3 → The inner feelings of a person.  Nephesh points to the whole person.

 

This soul that is used can be seen, this isn’t the mainstream teaching of soul.

 

Gen. 42:21 → Joseph’s brothers remember his pain and suffering.

 

Exo. 12:16 → Can also be in reference to just a man.

 

Exo. 1:5 → All the souls that came from Jacob numbered 70 -- these were his offspring, not just spirit.

 

Lev. 4:2 → This soul can sin through ignorance.  

 

Gen. 35:18 → A soul can die.  Rebecca is about to die in childbirth.

 

Eze. 18:20 → If we sin, we bring the penalty of death on ourselves.

 

Eze. 18:4 → Behold all souls are mine.  The soul that sins, it shall die.  Everything about us can and will die.  This is a physical and eternal death.

 

The word soul never translates to a spirit in man that is eternal or eternally conscience.  

 

Soul in the New Testament.

 

One Greek word, that is psuche.  It is translated as soul 58 times.  It is also translated 48 as life, 3 times as mind, and 1 time as heart.  It refers to the breath of life.

 

Matt. 10:28 → It is widely quoted as man having a soul.  Our soul and body are very mortal and can be destroyed.  This points to the third resurrection of eternal death.

 

Mark 12:26

 

God’s word explains itself.

 

Mark 12:26 → Christ is addressing the Sadducees who were the deists.    The Sadducees were skeptics and infidels of teaching the nation of a God.  They did not believe in any resurrection.  

 

Mark 12:18

 

Matt. 16:28 → How could some men not taste death and still see Christ.

 

Matt. 17:12

 

There is a different spirit placed in man, an intellect.

 

Luke 23:46 → Into your hands, I commit my spirit.

 

Job 32:8 → There is a spirit and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.

 

Eccl. 3:18-21

 

Eccl. 12:7 → Dust will return to Earth and the spirit returns to God.

 

Eccl. 9:5 → The dead know nothing.

 

Job 14:14

 

Duet. 32:36-40

 

Rev. 1:8

 

Rev. 1:17 → I am the first and the last.  He is alive forevermore.  

 

Matt. 19:29

 

Luke 10:25 → What shall I do to inherit eternal life.

 

John 3:15

 

You have to do something to inherit eternal life.

 

Rom. 6:23 → Wages of sin is death.  The gift of God is eternal life.

 

1 Tim. 6:13

 

The Greek word for immortality is deathlessness.  God has given eternal life to only His son.

Titus 1:1-2