The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

Science in declaring that the lower animals are .living souls.It is thus evident that man will not be grantedfuture state because he is or possessses a Coul, bbecause he alone of earthly creatures was madethe image of God; that is, w2tb +he mental poweof .reason, memory, -judgment' -and will, aud!with the moral qualities of justice,' bewyoleqlove, etc., similar to those possessed by God, thobginferior in degree.Is the Soul Immortal?The next part of our subject is a very imone. It is the answer to the qbestion : Is ' timmortal? A &eat deal depends upon this.the Bible tells us that =me will be saved, itif the soul is immortal that there are only twnatives possible. Bither all will ultimately attaineternal bliss with God,"or some are doomed to aqeternity of woe, whatever may be the form of thatwoe.On the other hand, if our loving heavenlyFathgr can destroy the soul, he will not be restrictedto either of these alternatives, He will hot require "to ignore the freedom of man's will as the hctriueof " Universalism " would demand, nor will he becompelled to condemn the wilfully wicked to,eternal woe.It was in 'the surqmer of 1899 that this question. was first brought prominently before my notice. Atthat time I was visited by two or three of my friends iwho.enquired : " Is the soul immortal ?" I replied :" Of conrse it is!" " Why?" they asked, " do you ,- ' Of course it is'?" " Oh !" I answered,"Kicaxse nearly. everybody believes it."a ~utsurely," my friends argued, ".you would not give