Incorrect. We all have souls, whether or not they are immortal is up to us.
Your soul is only immortal by the grace of God. If you are in a state of mortal sin you are without grace and your soul is essentially dead.
Souls that are alive and full of grace go to heaven. Dead souls go to hell.
Thank you for your response! So you are saying that a soul is spiritually dead when it goes to hell. Interesting.
The word for perish is the Greek apollymi. It means to destroy utterly and also to lose.
It is used in these verses as well:
“Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.” Matt 12:14, Mar 3:6
“But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.” Matt 27:20
“And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.” Luke 8:24
“And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!” Luke 15:17
“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed [them] all.” Luke 17:26-29
It appears that the word apollymi means to destroy or to perish (as it is mostly translated) as the way the English understands it: to die and be no more.
It seems like Christ is saying that the believers shall have eternal life and the disbelievers shall die and remain in the ground to turn into dust. They shall be utterly destroyed and all traces of them shall be forgotten. This agrees with the Old Testament and the wisdom of Solomon (which is God’s wisdom).
“All [things come] alike to all: [there is] one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as [is] the good, so [is] the sinner; [and] he that sweareth, as [he] that feareth an oath. This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead. For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any [thing] that is done under the sun.” Ecc 9:2-6
Incidentally, the word translated perish in verse 6 is translated by the Greek septuagint as apolyto is the middle indicative form of apollymi used in the verses I gave. It means to perish, to kill, to die. Jesus himself equates death with falling asleep. When you are asleep, you know nothing and see nothing. You are in a state of unconsciousness. Therefore, death would be a state of unconsciousness or blackness. No thinking, no speaking, no feeling, nothing in absolute terms.
Life is dictated by consciousness. If a man has eternal life, he has eternal consciousness. It does not matter if he is a state of eternal bliss or eternal torture. He is still conscious of his surroundings and susceptible to emotion and pain.
