of every soul regardless of its destiny,” he writes. “Every man’s soul is immortal and can never be annihilated.”20 He later notes, “ ‘They that are Christ’s’ tells us who shall become immortal,” and “ ‘At His coming’ … tells us when we shall become immortal.”21 Yet he adds: “As a matter of fact the soul never lost its immortality.”22 Since Calvin (whom we will consider in detail in chapters 29–30), Reformed writers in particular have viewed man’s immortality as a consequence of his formation in