1751.-Has Man a Mortal Soul?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 27, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 52.

1751.—Has Man a Mortal Soul?

The answer depends wholly upon what is meant by soul. Soul sometimes means the whole man. Eight souls were saved in the ark. 1 Peter 3:19. Again and again we read in Joshua 10 that in the wars he waged he destroyed all the souls of certain cities, meaning the whole person. Man became a living soul. Gen. 2:7. This took in the whole man, and the whole man is mortal. Sometimes soul means life. "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Matt. 16:26. And that mortal will never become immortal until the Lord Jesus Christ shall come the second time. Then this mortal shall put on immortality. 1 Cor. 15:50.