The Immortality of the Soul, Is it a Scriptural Doctrine? - Alonzo T. Jones

Chapter 1
The Resurrection
There is no truth more plainly taught nor more
diligently insisted upon in the Bible than this: That
the future existence of men depends absolutely
upon either a resurrection of the dead or a
translation without seeing death at all. Paul's hope
for future existence was in the resurrection of the
dead. In speaking of his efforts to "win Christ," he
says: "That I may know him, and the power of his
resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings,
being made conformable unto his death; if by any
means I might attain unto the resurrection of the
dead." Phil 3:10, 11. It was of "the hope and
resurrection of the dead" that he was called in
question by the council (Acts 23:6); and when he
had afterward to make his defense before Felix, he
declared that the resurrection of the dead was the
end of his hope, saying: "And have hope toward
God, which they themselves also allow, that there
shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just
and unjust." Acts 24: Time and again Paul thus
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