Wrested Scriptures

Immortality of the Soul


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  The Truth about
   Man's Nature
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  Genesis 35:18
  1 Sam. 28:8-15
  1 Kings 17:21
  Ecc. 12:7
  Matthew 10:28
  Luke 16:19-31
  Acts 7:59
  1 Thess. 5:23
  Hebrews 12:23
  1 Peter 3:19
  Revelation 6:9
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
"The spirit shall return unto God who gave it."

Problem:
This passage is cited as evidence that man's immortal spirit (or soul) leaves the body at death and returns to God.

Solution:
  1. The passage makes no distinction between "good" and "bad" spirits.

  2. If the spirit is to return to God, it must have come from God. But who would suggest one has a conscious existence before the earthly life begins? Therefore, there is no reason to expect a conscious existence when this life ends.

  3. The word "spirit" (Hebrew "ruach") is the same as in Ecc. 3:19 (Heb. "ruach", translated "breath"). could any argue that beasts have, or are, immortal "spirits"?

  4. The writer of Ecclesiastes emphatically teaches the mortality of man. (See Ecc. 9:5,6,10; 3:19,20).