Issue Number:111

Date: 09/21/1935

p. 1, c. 2

Why Do Men Teach God Gave Men an Immortal Soul?

Mr. John Edwards, Woodridge, Va.

God fore knew that the ecclesiastical systems, catholic and protestant, in the name of Christ would be over-reached by the devil and used for his purposes as a part of his organization through His prophet Jeremiah. He stated: Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then are thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me, for though you teach in my name your iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God. I love strangers and after them will I go taking sides with the world. These systems have gone from God. Jeremiah 2:21-25. No man should teach the people any thing that can not be found in the Bible, man having an immortal soul can not be found in the Bible. Jehovah alone has immortality. First Timothy 6:1 6. That thou keep this commandment without spot unrebukeable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. Why would men teach that we have immortal souls when it is not true? God said the soul that sins shall die. God calls Himself a soul and said He is soul hates sin. Psalms 11:15.

Resurrection of the dead means an awakening out of death and standing up again in perfect life. The resurrection of Jesus was up to that time the greatest demonstration of God's power ever made manifest to man. It was written concerning Jesus, As for me I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied when I awake in thy likeness. Psalms 17:15. For thou will not leave my soul in hell, the grave. What is man that liveth and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the grave? Psalms 89:48. For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not any thing, neither have they anymore a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Ecclesiastes 9:5-10.