Who Alone Has Immortality? (Series: Hell, Immortality and the Justice of God, Episode 1)

The debate about hell didn’t start with a celebrity, a controversy, or the Middle Ages.

It started in Genesis.

In this opening episode, we slow the conversation down and ask a more fundamental question—one most Christians have never been taught to examine:

Are human beings immortal by nature… or only by grace?

Before we talk about judgment, hell, or final punishment, we have to get our anthropology right. This episode lays the ontological foundation for the entire series by exploring what Scripture actually says about life, death, and dependence on God.

Drawing from Genesis, Paul’s writings, and the biblical theology of the Tree of Life, we challenge one of Christianity’s most assumed ideas: that the human soul is naturally indestructible. Instead, we discover a far more biblical—and far more sobering—vision of life as a gift, not a possession.

Along the way, we engage:

• Our modern obsession with defeating death
• The difference between self-existence and given life
• Why dependence is not a weakness but the essence of creaturehood
• How Scripture consistently frames immortality as God’s possession alone

This episode is not yet about hell.
It’s about the kind of beings we are—and what it means to exist by grace.

Teaser:
If life is conditional, then death isn’t arbitrary—it’s logical. And that changes everything about how we understand hell.

The truth matters — and so do you.