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Beyond the Sunset

• What is the soul?

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Agenda

• Soul Definitions
• Does the soul exist outside the body?
• Is the soul immortal?

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Soul Definitions

• Substance of Life
• Genesis 27
• Psalms 7850
• Group of People
• 1Peter 320
• Spirit
• Acts 227

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Soul Definitions

• Distinct from spirit
• Hebrews 412
• I Thessalonians 523
• DISCUSSION In these verses, soul is distinctly
  different than spirit. What does soul represent
  here?

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Does the soul exist outside the body?

• The Claims
• The dead cease to exist
• The soul does not survive death

The dead are wholly unconscious, being
entirely out of existence except in Gods
memory. J.F. Rutherford
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Does the soul exist outside the body?

• God of the living
• Luke 2037-38
• Gathered unto his people
• Genesis 258-10

• DISCUSSION What does gathered unto his people
  mean?
• Genesis 1128

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Does the soul exist outside the body?
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have
a body.
C.S. Lewis(1898 1963)
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Is the soul immortal?

• The claims
• No Bible verse explicitly states the soul is
  immortal
• Only God is immortal
• 1 Tim 614-16

• Josephus stated, the Sadducees believed
• the soul was not immortal
• there was no resurrection
• there was no afterlife

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Is the soul immortal?

• Logical Reasoning
• Major Premise God is an immortal spirit
• John 424 1 Timothy 117
• Minor Premise We are the offspring of God
• Acts 1729 Genesis 127
• Conclusion Our image, that of an offspring, is
  an immortal spirit

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Is the soul immortal?

• Death cannot kill the soul
• Matthew 1028
• The cry of the martyrs
• Revelation 69-10

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Conclusion

• Soul has numerous definitions
• The soul does live outside the body
• The soul is immortal