086. How do you prove immortality of the soul?

How do you prove immortality of the soul? In the Bible immortality as applied to man is used of the body and not of the soul, but I suppose the question means: How do you prove that there is a future existence after death?

We prove it from the Bible. In another book I have proven that the Bible is the Word of God (The Bible and Its Christ), and that all its teachings are absolutely reliable; and the Bible teaches beyond a question that all men shall be raised from the dead, the righteous unto the resurrection of life and those that have done evil unto the resurrection of judgment (John 8:28-29). It furthermore teaches what the exact state of those who accept Christ and of those who reject Christ will be in the future eternal existence. Furthermore, the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the best proven facts of history, and proves to a demonstration that death does not end all.

There are arguments for immortality of a scientific and philosophical character, but if we leave out those built upon the resurrection of Jesus Christ all that these arguments prove is the probability of life after death, the probability of a future existence; but when we take the Bible in, and above all the resurrection of Jesus Christ, our belief in a future existence is no longer based upon a mere probability; it is removed from the domain of the merely probable into the domain of the absolutely certain and proven.