... what is to be saved. Finally, the biblical notion is not that we survive death because immortality is simply a natural property of souls; if we survive death it is becaus! e God miraculously saves us; apart from God's intervention death would mean annihilation for us. Thus Irenaeus says: "Our survival forever comes from His gre atness, not from our nature." 2It would ... theological perspective. Let me now consider them in turn. The first is the notion that after death the soul exists for a time, i.e., until the resurrection, in an intermediate state without the body. The second is the ...

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