If man is immortal, why did the apostle TEACH that God “ONLY HATH immortality”? I Tim. 6:16.

What reasons have we for believing that our souls are immortal, when the apostle emphatically states that God, ONLY, possesses this degree of life — that it inheres in HIM ALONE?

If we already possess immortality, why should the apostle exhort us to “SEEK immortality”? Rom. 2:7.

Would it not be misleading for the apostle to exhort us to SEEK for something we already possess?

If we are by nature immortal, why should the apostle exhort us to “PUT ON immortality”? I Cor. 15:53.

Would it be possible for us to put on that which we already have on by nature?

Are not these proof-texts sufficient evidence to convince any reasonable-minded Christian that immortality is CONDITIONAL — that it is something to be GAINED?

If the soul is immortal and cannot die, why did the prophet Ezekiel state that “the SOUL that sinneth it SHALL DIE”? Eze. 18:4, 20.

If souls are immortal and cannot die, why did the apostle ask the question, “How are THE DEAD [souls] raised up? and with WHAT BODY do they [dead souls] come”? I Cor. 15:35.

If the soul is immortal and cannot die, and THIS BODY which we sow is NOT that body that shall be raised again, what is it that dies that will be raised again? I Cor. 15:36, 37, 38.

If our souls are immortal and cannot die, and OUR BODIES ARE NOT RAISED AGAIN, how could there be any raising of the dead? I Cor. 15:36, 38.

If our souls are immortal and do not die, would they not EVOLVE from the human to spirit conditions at the laying aside of the body? — and is not this the doctrine of EVOLUTION?

If our souls are immortal, and the saved evolve into heavenly bliss immediately on leaving the body, why did our Lord say, “Thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just”? Luke 14:14.

If our souls are immortal, and the lost souls evolve into the spirit nature, to be tormented, immediately on leaving the body, why did our Lord say that he knew how to “reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment TO BE punished”? II Peter 2:9.

What was the HOPE of the prophets and apostles? Was their hope of a future life centered in the IMMORTALITY of the soul — evolving from human to spirit nature? — or was their hope of a future life centered in the MORTALITY of the soul, its death, its redemption, and its “resurrection FROM the dead”? Eze. 18:4, 20; Psa. 33:19; 34:22; 49:8, 15; 78:50; Acts 23:6; 24:15; Rom. 1:4; I Cor. 15:12, 13.

If our Lord’s soul did not die, why did the prophet Isaiah say that HE “POURED OUT HIS SOUL UNTO DEATH,” and that HE MADE “HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN”? Isa. 53:12, 10.

If death of the soul means moral death — death in sin and eternal separation from God, as claimed by sectarian teachers — how could our Lord’s soul have died? How could he have “poured out his soul unto [literally into] death”? How could he have made “his SOUL an offering for [or on account of] sin”? What Christian would dare make the charge that our Lord’s soul suffered moral death; that his soul died in sin; that he poured out his soul unto sin, and that he is eternally separated from God? Isa. 53:12, 10.

How can death of the soul be moral death, when moral death and sin are one and the same? Is it possible that a thing can be its own penalty?

If our Lord’s soul (literally his being, his poured-out life) was not put into and environed by hell (sheol, the dark place; hades, the grave) which, without intervention, would have held him, why did the apostle Peter and the prophet David say that “his SOUL was not left in hell”? Acts 2:27, 31; Psa. 16:10.

If angels, or spirit beings, are immortal, how is our Lord going to DESTROY the devil? Heb. 2:14.

If the destruction of the soul is destruction in sin, as claimed by sectarian teachers, how could THE DEVIL be destroyed? How can he be destroyed in that which he is already in, and the father of? I John 3:8; John 8:44.

If death of the soul means death in sin, how are we, who are by nature the children of the devil, children of wrath — born in sin and iniquity — going to die in that in which we are born — already in by nature? Job 14:4; Psa. 51:5, 58:3; Rom. 5:12; Eph. 2:3; John 8:44.

Are not all people “the dead” who are burying “the dead,” except the little flock who seek and find immortality by being begotten and BORN AGAIN of the Holy Spirit? How, then, can the dead die spiritually when they ARE BORN spiritually dead? Matt. 8:22.

If the death of unjust souls means death in sin, would not the resurrection of the unjust mean resurrection out of sin? And would not the resurrection of the unjust out of sin necessitate future probation? Acts 24:15.

If hell is an eternal abiding place for the wicked, who will have charge of them after the DEVIL IS DESTROYED? Heb. 2:14.

If our Lord came “that he might DESTROY the works of the devil,” how will there be any sin, or sinners, or hell left? I John 3:8.

Why is it that the wise and prudent never quote scrip- ture to prove their doctrine of immortality, but invariably depend upon heathen philosophy and “science, falsely so called”? Matt. 11:25; I Tim. 6:20; II Tim. 3:1-8.

Isn’t it strange that the whole world, both heathendom and Christendom, have believed Satan’s first lie: “Ye [immortal soul] shall not surely die,” and have disbelieved God: “Thou [mortal soul] SHALT surely die”? Gen. 3:4; 2:16, 17.

Did not the Lord God form man’s body of “the dust of the ground” and “breathed into his nostrils the breath [spirit] of life,” and did he not become a “LIVING SOUL”? Gen.2:7.

Did not the man become a DYING SOUL when he disobeyed? And when his breath (spirit) left his body and went back to God who gave it, did not his dying soul finish in DEATH?—did not his body go back to dust? — and isn’t man, in the words of the prophets and apostles, completely “destroyed”? — and has he not “perished”? Gen. 2:7,17; 3:19; Rom. 6:23; II Thess. 1:9; Phil. 3:19; I John 2:17; 3:8, 14, 15; 5:12; Acts 3:23; II Peter 2:1; 3:9; James 1:15; 4:12.

Would not man (a dying soul) have been eternally destroyed — annihilated — if our blessed Lord had not “redeemed” him by having “poured out his soul [life] unto death”? Isa. 53:10, 12; Psa. 49:8-15.

Doesn’t the Lord counsel us to “fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to DESTROY both soul and body in hell” (gehenna, or second death!) And will he not do so (i.e., DESTROY the soul) if we do not heed the voice of the great Prophet, Priest and King? Matt. 10:28; Acts 3:23.

Don’t you know that while man can kill the body, man cannot destroy the soul because of the redemption of all (souls) from the first (Adamic) death? (Psa. 49:15; 71:23; 103:4; Isa. 35:10) — and that all souls are asleep (in an unconscious state) awaiting the resurrection morn? (Psa. 34:22; 49:14) — and that ALL shall then hear the voice of the Son of Man and come forth from the grave to live forever if they are obedient to the great Prophet, Priest and King? (John 5:25, 28, 29). But if they will not hear (heed) that Prophet, will he not DESTROY their souls in gehenna-fire (second death)? — and is not this their annihilation, because Christ dieth no more to redeem the dead? Acts 3:23; Luke 12:5; Rom. 6:9; Rev. 20:14; 21:8.

Do you know that eternal life and IMMORTALITY are different, and that our Lord not only brought life to light but that he also brought immortality to light? Did he not bring two facts to light—both life and IMMORTALITY? II Tim. 1:10.

Do you know that while immortal beings possess eternal life, a being with eternal life does not necessarily possess immortality?

Do you know that eternal-life-creatures are dependent upon God for their life, and are in a destructible condition, whereas immortal creatures are independent, and, like unto the great Jehovah, possess inherent life and are in an indestructible condition? John 5:26

Do you know that all of God’s creatures are mortal, and that “he only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto”? — and that this express image of himself, this life in self, this immortal and divine nature, is THE PRIZE of the HIGH CALLING which is offered as a reward to the faithful followers of our Lord and Saviour? — and that the promise to the balance of mankind is RESTITUTION of perfect human nature in Paradise restored, and eternal life to whosoever will? I Tim. 6:16; Heb. 1:3; John 5:26; Phil. 3:14; Rom. 2:7; Acts 3:21; Rom. 11:25-30.

Do you know that the Bible teaches the mortality, destruction, redemption and resurrection of the soul and not the body, from lid to lid? Eze. 18:4; Lev. 23:30; Jos. 11:11; Job 33:22, 28, 30; Psa. 16:10; 22:29; 33:19; 34:22; 35:17; 40:14; 49:15; 56:13; 63:9; 78:50; Isa. 53:12. (Proof quotations of the soul’s mortality are too numerous to mention. Take your concordance and look up immortality and soul if you wish a surprise.)

Do you know that when the apostle Paul speaks of the “redemption of our body,” that he has reference to the BODY OF CHRIST, of which all the saints are members? Does he not use the words “our” (plural) and “body,” (singular)? Rom. 8:23; 12:4, 5; I Cor. 12:12-27.

Do you know that when the apostle Paul speaks of our mortal bodies being quickened, he means that when our old carnal minds (self-will) have been displaced by the new mind (will of God), that the old body, which had been dead to all but self, would be quickened into serving the new mind, the controlling thought of all such being, “not my will, but thine, be done”? Rom. 8:11; Luke 22:42.

Do you know that immortality of the human soul necessitates an eternal abiding place for the wicked, and that the advocates of this false theory have established in the minds of the people a belief in the blasphemous doctrine of an eternal, living, conscious condition in a habitable place called hell, where immortal, wicked souls are tormented day and night forever and forever?

Do you know that the bright shining (epiphania) of the second presence (parazoa, mistranslated “coming”) of our Lord will soon shine upon this erroneous doctrine of immortality with such brilliancy that it will compel Satan to use other methods to deceive? (II Thess. 2:1-11) — and that one of his other methods will be the materializa- tion of fallen angels, who are now having their chains (restrained privileges) removed prior to the judgment? (Gen. 6:2, 4; Jude 6) — and that these evil spirits, or angels (messengers) of Satan, will reaffirm the human immortality theory by materializing and personating the dead, claiming that there are no dead, and that what we call death is nothing more than the natural law of evolu- tion, changing immortal creatures from human to spiritual? I Tim. 4:1; Rev. 13:13, 14; Deut. 18:9-12; I Cor. 6:2, 3.

“When they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that hath familiar spirits and unto wizards, that chirp [not peep] and that mutter: should not a people SEEK UNTO THEIR GOD? On behalf of the LIVING should they seek unto the DEAD?” Isa. 8:19 R.V.).

Isn’t this enough scriptural evidence to convince any believer of the Word of God that the doctrine of immortality promulgated by both Christendom and heathendom is false?

Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.