Society finds further support for this view in the lives of Bible characters. For example, as a soul, Adam is said to have lived on the earth for a prolonged time and then died. The Watchtower book Let Your Name Be Sanctified says, “For nine hundred and thirty years a ‘living soul’ on earth, [Adam] now became a dead soul in the earth, in the ground.”3 Likewise, Luke 23:46 informs us that Jesus—after saying to the Father, “Into your hands I entrust my spirit” (NWT)—expired. The Watchtower Society thus argues,