Is the soul immortal?

With the soul defined, the question imposes itself. And the answer invokes no faith at all: it follows, step by step, from the attributes established on the previous page.

— And why is the soul immortal?

— By the same reasoning we used to understand the attributes of God,

Roger. If God is infinitely just and good, and created souls with feelings, memories, relationships of love and friendship, it would be profoundly unjust and contradictory to His own nature to destroy them after so brief an existence. All the bonds of familiarity, of love, of friendship would be lost. The good deeds practised in life would be lost. An infinite intelligence that creates something as complex and as rich as an individual soul, only to annihilate it after a few decades, would be contradicting its own attributes of justice, goodness, and perfection. The immortality of the soul is not a caprice of God — it is a logical and inevitable consequence of His own nature.

Excerpt from the work The Great Discovery, by César Manuel Malainho de Oliveira.
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