Dear friends — Jehovah's Witnesses — we greet you in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We are grateful for the privilege that the Lord Jesus Christ gives us to write to you once again about the Truth. Yes, dear friends, by the grace of our Saviour Jesus Christ, we write to you in this second message concerning another Truth that the Jehovah's Witnesses organization is hiding from you: the immortality of the soul and Hell.

Dear friends, you are taught within your organization that the soul is mortal and that Hell is equivalent to the grave. The Jehovah's Witnesses organization has long taught you that the body is the soul — and that when the body dies, the soul dies with it, that is, it is destroyed. Concerning the wicked, for example, the organization teaches you that they will be destroyed and not preserved eternally for torment; that they will be as though they had never existed; that they will be exterminated. All these teachings are false and devoid of meaning. And this very fact is proven by the Bible — the New World Translation published by the organization itself. Yes, dear friends: the New World Translation produced by the organization — the very translation that supports the doctrine of the soul's mortality — explains and demonstrates that the soul is not the body, that it is immortal, and that Hell is entirely real and has nothing to do with the grave. Let us discover this right away.

Let us begin by examining Genesis 4:8–10.

Genesis 4:8–10
⁸After that Cain said to his brother Abel: “Let us go over into the field.” So while they were in the field, Cain assaulted his brother Abel and killed him. ⁹Later on, Jehovah said to Cain: “Where is your brother Abel?” and he said: “I do not know. Am I my brother’s guardian?” ¹⁰At this He said: “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground.

Dear friends, this passage from Genesis 4 recounts the story of the two brothers you know as Cain and Abel — how Cain killed his brother Abel. It is instructive to observe what happened after Abel was killed by his brother. At verse 10, Jehovah through His New World Translation informs us of what took place after Abel's death. After the death of Abel, the New World Translation reveals to us that Abel's blood was crying out from the ground toward Jehovah — even though Abel was dead. How can this be possible? How can one explain that the blood of a man continues to cry out or lament even though the person has already died? Is the blood the body? Of course not! Blood is found within the body. After being killed by his brother, Abel's body became lifeless — his body was destined to decompose and be destroyed. How then do we explain that his blood continued to cry out after his death? What is the blood? The New World Translation gives us the answer in all truth.

Deuteronomy 12:23
Just be firmly resolved not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 12:23 (1984 Edition)
Simply be firmly resolved not to eat the blood, because the blood is the soul and you must not eat the soul with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 12:23 (NWT - French)
Toutefois, sois fermement résolu à ne pas manger le sang, car le sang, c’est l’âme, et tu ne devras pas manger l’âme avec la chair

There is the Truth! The blood is the life — the soul. The French edition of the NWT explicitly uses the term soul (l'âme). If therefore the blood of Abel continued to cry out to Jehovah after he had died, this simply means that his soul was very much alive after his death — since the blood is the soul according to the Word of Jehovah (Deuteronomy 12:23) that we have just read. Dear friends, you therefore understand that after the death of a person, his soul continues to live. The soul is therefore not mortal as you are taught in that satanic organization — the Jehovah's Witnesses. The soul NEVER dies; it is immortal.

There are many other examples that the Word of Jehovah — the New World Translation — gives us concerning the immortality of the soul. Let us see the example from the book of Revelation.

Revelation 6:9–10
⁹When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those slaughtered because of the word of God and because of the witness they had given. ¹⁰They shouted with a loud voice, saying: “Until when, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, are you refraining from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

What is the Word of Jehovah speaking of here? It speaks of the souls of persons who had been killed because of the Word of God — these are therefore the souls of dead persons. The question we must ask is: what were these souls doing? At verse 10, the Word tells us that these souls were crying out in a loud voice to God — exactly as the soul (blood) of Abel had done. These souls were crying out to God so that He might judge those who had killed them. Dear friends, if the soul is mortal or is destroyed together with the body, how then do you explain the cries of the souls of these persons who were killed for the Word of God? The soul can never die — it is immortal.

Let us take another example from the New World Translation that demonstrates that the soul is entirely distinct from the body and is immortal.

Acts 20:8–10

8 There were quite a few lamps in the upper room where we were gathered together. 9 Seated in the window was a young man named Eutychus who was sinking into a deep sleep. As Paul kept talking, Eutychus, now overcome by sleep, fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead. 10 But Paul went downstairs, threw himself on him, and embraced him, saying: 'Stop making a commotion, for his life is in him.' (NWT)

Dear friends, ask yourselves why Paul said "his life is in him" after the young man Eutychus had been picked up dead. In fact, Paul used this kind of language because he knew in advance that after the death of a person, that person's soul is destined to leave the body — to abandon the body. Through this passage, dear friends, Jehovah shows us clearly that the soul is distinct from the body, and that at a person's death, the soul is destined to leave the body. Let us take one final example where Jehovah shows us that the soul is distinct from the body and that it is immortal.

2 Corinthians 5:6–8
⁶So we are always of good courage and know that while we have our home in the body, we are absent from the Lord, ⁷for we are walking by faith, not by sight. ⁸But we are of good courage and would prefer to be absent from the body and to make our home with the Lord.

What do we observe here? We observe clearly the ardent desire Paul has to leave his body. He even says that as long as we live in the body, we are away from the Lord. From this, dear friends, we understand that the body is nothing other than the vessel in which the true person dwells — and this true person is none other than the soul (Job 10:11). What else does the Lord teach us in this passage? He teaches us that in order to make our home with Him, it is necessary for us to be absent from the body. What does it mean to be absent from the body? It simply means leaving or abandoning the body. If therefore we must leave this body in order to dwell with the Lord, what is it within us that can go and dwell with the Lord? The soul is distinct from the body; it is the soul that is destined to live eternally with the Lord. The body counts for nothing — it will not cause us to live with the Lord, for it is mortal.