Keith Sharp | Answering The Watchtower Society
The Watchtower teaches that man is wholly mortal and ceases to exist after death. “Man is a combination of two things, namely, the ‘dust of the ground’ and ‘the breath of life.’ … Thus we see that the claim of the religionists that man has an immortal soul, and therefore differs from the beasts, is not Scriptural” (Let God Be True. 59-60). God’s Word answers that there is nothing that humans have as a result of birth that gives them superiority over beasts when they die (Reasoning. 383). The Bible teaches that every human has a spirit that continues to live after the body dies (Ecclesiastes 12:7; Matthew 10:28; Acts 7:59; 1 Corinthians 5:5; 2 Corinthians 5:6-8; 12:2-4; Philippians 1:21-24; 2 Peter 1:13-15).
