Your ShelfYour Projects

Circular Reasoning on the Immortality of the Soul

50%

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 15.

Read the full edition

Circular Reasoning on the Immortality of the Soul

ADVOCATES of error reason in a circle. For example: They say the soul is immortal, because that certain terms implying duration are used in connection with it; and they hold that these terms, though always limited or extended according to the nature of the object to which they are applied, must express eternal duration in this case, because they are applied to the existence of the immortal soul. This is equivalent to saying, “It is so, because it is so, because——”