IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

Gen 15:15 & 25:8 with Gen 11:32 & 25:9-10 (Since Abraham was not buried with his fathers or his people it must have been his soul that went to his �fathers in peace� and that �was gathered to his people�),

1 Sam 28:11-20, Isaiah 14:9-10 (dead are agitated and speaking),
Wisdom 9:15-16, Mt 10:28,

Mt 22:29-32 (n.b. while there is a physical resurrection at the end of time, there is also a spiritual resurrection which is the departing of the soul to purgatory or heaven at the point of physical death - see, e.g. Scott Hahn�s 11 tape series �the End - The Book Of  Revelation� ; that Jesus is talkin about the spiritual resurrection is indicated by Jesus� use of the present tense (in contrast to the Sadducees� use of the future tense)  here as well as in Mk 12:25-27 & Luke 20:34-38, implying that these things - marrying not, being like the angels and therefore not dying - were going on at that moment; the spiritual resurrection is the first resurrection of Rev 20:4-6 - the thousand years (in ancient Jewish numeral symbolism a thousand years mean a long, indefinite period of time) having begun with Christ�s passion),

Luke 16:19-31, Luke 23:43 with 23:46, Acts 2:31, Acts 7:59-60,

2 Cor 5:6-10 (even when �home with the Lord� which is to �be away from the body� Paul and others �aim to please him - therefore their souls will still be active when their bodies are dead; if �at home in the body� is only symbolical and means only �to live in a materialistic world� then a clear and irreconcilable contradiction exists between verses 6 & 9),

Philippians 1:23-24, 1 Peter 3:18-20, 4:5-6, 2 Peter 1:13-14
Hebrews 12:1 follows Hebrews 11 so the the cloud of witnesses refers to those dead heroes mentioned in Hebrews 11
Rev 5:8 (dead men - the 24 elders - offer up our prayers),
Rev 6:9-11 (souls of the slain speak - verse 11 indicates that some of their fellow servants and brethren have not yet died),
Rev 7:9-17 (dead cry out in a loud voice and serve God day and night - the surrounding text (e.g chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) make it clear that there are still humans, good and wicked upon the earth; if this were a passage describing the adulation of God by the faithful after the final judgement it would have been placed in chapters 21-22 and not chapter 7)

cf also Mt 12:40 (�the heart of the earth� cannot be Jesus�tomb)
& John 5:25 (note the phrase �and now is� - therefore Jesus is about to preach to the dead; the �hour� in John�s Gospel refers to Jesus� suffering and death through to his resurrection)

Creatures now sharing God�s immortality :- Gen 5:24 with Heb 11:5, 2 Kings 2:1-13,Mt 17:3,  Mt 27:52-53, Luke 20:35-36 (angels)
(n.b. Luke 20:35 seems to allude to a period  after death and before the resurrection)
(These verses demonstrate that 1 Tim 6:16 cannot mean that God does not now share his immortality - which he alone possesses, with his creatures)
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