The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life - DOES MAN HAVE AN IMMORTAL SOUL

But what about the soul? Is it not a part of man that separates from his body at death and goes on living? To answer this properly we need to determine what the soul is. You may be surprised to know that animals as well as men are called "souls' in the inspired Scriptures. For instance, Numbers 31:28 speaks of one soul. [Hebrew, neph'esh)] out of five hundred, of humankind and of the herd of the asses and of the flock." -See also Revelation 16:3, where the Greek word for "soul," psykhe' appears.

What, then, is the soul? Let us see what the Creator's own written Word says about it. At Genesis 2:7 we read: "And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of the dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and man came to be a living soul."

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