Chapter Two: The Intermediate State (6)

The "Immortality of the Soul" The biblical and Reformed hope of the life of the elect believer with Christ in heaven in his soul immediately upon death -- the intermediate state -- must not be confused with the philosophical notion of the "immortality of the soul." Greek philosophy taught that the soul of every human is inherently immortal. Physical death, therefore, only destroys the body. The soul naturally continues to live in a more-or-less happy, if vague, existence as part of a universal...