The immortality of the soul.

Everyone wants to get out of this world alive, but the real question is would you like to live forever? Death is a topic and reality that most of us don't really like talking about, and we have gone on about finding God in many different ways. There are the unlimited ways that we try to, alleviate the pain in our lives and we dream of a heaven where there will be no more pain, where we will be free to be who we were really meant to be. I could talk about many concepts of heaven and which one I think might be right, but my hope level is a little low right now meaning that my concept of the afterlife, may parallel that of Judaism or neo-conservative Christianity, with authors like N.T. Wright highly influencing and changing my thoughts about Salvation or Justification, big words for big Christians.

What I would like to talk about is this thing called death and the immortality of the soul. You might or might not heard it said that God (if you believe in him) is the only immortal being. It would be argued that in Christ the person enters an immortal state after death because of the life of God in Christ dwelling in he or she. This I believe to be true. I believe that outside of Christ-the God-man, the soul ceases to be human after it's death, ie. hell.

If we believe in an immortal soul for all beings, it would mean that God's immortality sustains them either in heaven or in hell, I believe the former to be true. Not to say any more about the eternality of hell, for there my knowledge would be speculation right now.

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