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

four times the Saviour, in giving promise to those
who believe in him, sets it forth as the
consummation of that belief that "I will raise him
up at the last day." And in Luke 14:13, 14 we read:
"When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the
maimed, the lame, the blind; and . . . thou shalt be
recompensed at the resurrection of the just."
Paul, however, gives us, upon this subject, a
straight-forward, logical argument, which leaves
the doctrine of the immortality of the soul not a
particle of ground to rest upon. The fifteenth
chapter of 1 Corinthians is devoted entirely to an
argument in proof of the resurrection of the dead.
The apostle first proves, by hundreds of living
witnesses who had seen him after he was risen, that
Christ arose from the dead. Still there were some
who said, "There is no resurrection of the dead,"
and in refutation of that idea, he introduces three
points of argument, any one of which utterly
excludes the doctrine of the immortality of the soul
from any place whatever in Christian doctrine.
1. In verse 16, his premise is, "If the dead rise
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