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

Now we read in the word of God as follows: "O
death, I will be thy plagues." Hos. 13:14. And
again we read that "death" "shall be destroyed." 1
Cor. 15:26. Can it be that God is going to visit with
plagues, and destroy, the gate to endless joy? Is he
so displeased to have his creatures entering into
endless joy that he is determined to destroy the
very means by which they enter that blissful state?
If the words of this preacher, the language of this
hymn, and the doctrine upon which they are
founded, be the truth, then the Lord is going to do
just the thing that is here pointed out, that is, he is
going to visit with plagues. and destroy, the gate to
endless joy.
But this is not all. We read further of Christ:
"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of
flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part
of the same; that through death he might destroy
him that had the power of death, that is, the devil."
Heb. 2:14. Granting the claim that death is the gate
to endless joy, then from this scripture it follows,
just as absolutely as logic can demonstrate, that the
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