• The Mystery Solved!
    Awake!—1988 | July 8

    • Interestingly, the new German Lutheran Evangelischer Erwachsenenkatechismus (Evangelical Catechism for Grown-ups) openly admits that the source of the teaching that the human soul is immortal is not the Bible but the “Greek philosopher Plato (427-347 B.C.) [who] contended emphatically that there was a difference between body and soul.” It continues: “Evangelical theologians of modern times challenge this combination of Greek and Biblical concepts. . . . They reject the separation of man into body and soul.”

  • The Mystery Solved!
    Awake!—1988 | July 8

    • b The Lutheran catechism agrees with the Bible, saying: “Since man as a whole is a sinner, therefore at death he dies completely with body and soul (full death). . . . Between death and resurrection there is a gap; the individual continues his existence at best in God’s memory.”