Departure of the Soul

“And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni...” (Genesis 35:18)

Where does the life when it departs? as if it must be a conscious entity after it has gone. To see that because [the Bible] speaks of the life departing it does not follow that it is an entity. [Y]ou have only to ask, “Where did our life come from when it entered our being?” Was it an entity before it entered? If not, then why should it be an entity after it has gone out into life’s great ocean whence it came? Life is a condition of being; when that condition is destroyed we say the life is gone. The light of a candle is a condition. Blow out the light and you destroy the condition; and when you say the light is gone out you do not suppose that it exists as a light separate and independent of the candle. So in the use of such terms as “my sight is gone,” “my hearing is gone”.

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Author: Thomas Williams

Keywords: Immortality of the soul, Soul, Soul's immortality, Immortal soul, Kill the soul, Immortal spirit, Undying spirit, Undieing spirit, Life after death, Undying soul, Undieing soul, Soul was departing, Departure of the soul, Soul life, Departing soul

Bible reference(s): Gen. 35:18, Mat 16:25-26

Source: The Great Salvation (Englewood: Advocate and Gleaner Pub. House, 1893?).

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