The Wages of Sin Is Death: The Fall, the Soul, and the Lie We Inherited (Series: Hell, Immortality and the Justice of God, Episode 2)

What if one of the most influential voices shaping how Christians think about the soul wasn’t Paul — but Plato?

In this episode, we slow down and ask a question most believers have never been invited to examine:

Did Scripture ever teach that the soul is indestructible — or did that idea come from somewhere else?

Without attacking the church or dismissing tradition, this conversation carefully re-opens the biblical text itself. From Genesis to Jesus to Paul, we trace how Scripture speaks about life, death, soul, and immortality — and whether “death” in the Bible really means separation, or something far more final.

We explore:

• Death as consequence, not merely punishment
• What nephesh and ruach actually mean in Scripture
• Why resurrection, not soul survival, stands at the center of Christian hope
• How Greek philosophy quietly reshaped later Christian assumptions
• Why immortality is presented as a gift, not a default human possession

This is not fast theology.
It’s careful, text-driven listening.

If death truly is the wages of sin — not transition, not relocation — then the warnings of Scripture become sharper, not softer. And the hope of the gospel becomes not survival, but resurrection.

This episode sets the foundation for a deeper conversation about judgment, hell, and justice — which we’ll turn to next.

The truth matters. And so do you.