Many of Christendom’s scholars, too, know that these doctrines are not taught in the Bible,b but that is not generally what their preachers say from the pulpits.

Regarding the soul, see the New Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIII, 1967, pages 449-50, 452, 454; The New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible, edited by H. S. Gehman, 1970, page 901; The Interpreter’s Bible, Volume I, 1952, page 230; Peake’s Commentary on the Bible, edited by M. Black and H. H. Rowley, 1962, page 416.