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Immortal soul
Plato believed: "The soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will truly exist in another world!" The Dialogues of Plato.
The immortal-soul teaching, however, goes back much further than Plato. In the book The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, by Morris Jastrow, we read: "The problem of immortality engaged the serious attention of the Babylonian theologians Death was a passage to another kind of life." Also, the book Egyptian Religion, by Siegfried Morenz, states: "The early Egyptians regarded life after death simply as a continuation of life on earth." The Jewish Encyclopedia notes the connection with these ancient religions and Plato when it says that Plato was led to the immortal-soul idea "through Orphic and Eleusinian mysteries in which Babylonian and Egyptian views were strangely blended."
“The early Christian philosophers adopted the Greek concept of the soul’s immortality and thought of the soul as being created by God and infused into the body at conception.” The New Encyclopædia Britannica (1988), Volume 11, page 25.
When God created the first man, Adam, He did not infuse into him an immortal soul but the life force that is maintained by breathing. Therefore, “soul” in the Biblical sense refers to the entire living being. If separated from the life force originally given by God, the soul dies.
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul raised questions: Where do souls go after death? What happens to the souls of the wicked? When nominal Christians adopted the myth of the immortal soul, this led them to accept another myth?—the teaching of hellfire.
The Truth is: | Satan also told Eve that she would not die The Immortal-soul idea is rooted in pagan worship It's not surprising that false religion promotes Satan's lie |