O Soul WHAT art thou? (No. 1)

Is the soul immortal? Christianity would say 'yes, of course', and I believe too many believers would chime in. This view, however, is far from the truth. The sacred scriptures do not in any place testify to us that our soul lives on after we die.

There is an ample number of passages that speak of the soul dying. Here is just a selection of the many:

'and live may my soul' (Gen 12:13, Abram was afraid of being killed by the Egyptians)

'May my soul die the death of the upright' (Num 23:10)

'rescue our souls from death' (Joshua 2:13)

'Let my soul die with the Philistines' (Judges 16:30)

These few verses prove that the soul cannot be living after death. There is nothing more that needs to be said concerning these verses. It should discard any teaching about the immortality of the soul!

Another fact that we need to bear in mind is that the soul is in the blood. This we read in Gen 9:4, Lev 17:10-16, Deut 12:23.

'Yea, only flesh with its soul, its blood, you shall not eat.'

'for the soul of the flesh, it is in the blood'

'But be steadfast by no means to eat the blood, for the blood, it is the soul, and you shall not eat the soul (blood) with the flesh.'

Now, imagine you die. What happens, your blood stops flowing through your body and it coagulates, clots, and finally decays. Consequently, how can the soul be still alive or functional if the blood, which is the soul, stops to flow and decays? Blood and soul cannot be separated. Blood equals soul. If the blood stops, the soul stops to be soul. Simple really.