Aquinas, and Calvin.22 Jacques Maritain states it for us: “The human soul cannot die. Once it exists, it cannot disappear; it will necessarily exist forever and endure without end.”23 This concept has influenced theology for a long, long time, but it is not biblical. The Bible does not teach the natural immortality of the soul; it points instead to the resurrection of the body as God’s gift to believers.24 God alone has immortality (1 Tim. 6:16) but graciously grants embodied life to his people (1