Immortal soul — JW/annihilationist claim that it is a Greek import, not Jewish or biblical

Mike identifies this as a historical argument about the concept of the soul, not just the definition of nephesh or psyche. He says annihilationists and those holding conditional immortality argue that life after death as a continued existence is a later Greek philosophical idea imported into Christianity, not original to Scripture. Mike's counter: the passage of Samuel's spirit being summoned by the Witch of Endor (1 Samuel 28) shows a disembodied Samuel interacting with Saul, which is inconsistent with the view that humans simply cease to exist at death. He also says there is more afterlife hope in the Old Testament than is typically acknowledged.