Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Mark 8:36-37 What do you think it means to lose one's soul?"

Man is already lost. He needs to be saved.

"...Christ's parables show us that we must be made new. We are all sinners in need of a Savior. "Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one! (Job 14:4, NASB)." Our hearts are deceitful and wicked (Jer 17:9). To think otherwise makes God out to be a liar (1 Jn 1:10). It is impossible to defend yourself and defend God at the same time (McGee). "As it is written, "there is none righteous, not even one." (Rom 3:10). The verdict is in: "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23)." Christ alone is holy..." Full text: I'll take my chances

And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels [Mark 8:34–38].

"The Lord does not reveal His person apart from His work of redemption. After Peter confessed who He was and they truly recognized Him, He immediately told them, “… the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again” (Mark 8:31). And then He gives the passage we have quoted. Here He is not putting down a condition of salvation, but stating the position of those who are saved. This is what He is talking about. “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me.” What kind of a Christian are you today? Are you one who acknowledges Him and serves Him and attempts to glorify Him? My friend, this is all important in these days in which we live." McGee, J. V. (1991). Vol. 36: Thru the Bible commentary: The Gospels (Mark) (electronic ed.) (104–105). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

"Mk 8:36 — “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?”

The question is meant as rhetorical—nothing can make up for the loss of one’s soul—and yet how many of us regularly exchange our lives for much less than “the whole world”?" Stanley, C. F. (2005). The Charles F. Stanley life principles Bible: New King James Version (Mk 8:36). Nashville, TN: Nelson Bibles.

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "...Losing our souls is not a future event, but a past event, that can only be rectified and reversed through God sending His Son to die the deserved death for lost souls and Christ sending His Spirit to regenerate the justified to new spiritual life."

Yes. J. Vernon McGee used the illustration of mud turtles.



See:

Ro 8:28 J. Vernon McGee

Response to comment [from a Catholic]: "she doesn't seem to know anything about the second death."

If you die believing the false gospel of Roman Catholicism, you will experience the Second Death (Jude 11).

"Roman Catholicism vs. historical, biblical Christianity: "We have different authorities, we believe different gospels, we worship different Christs, we are led by different spirits and we are on different paths to eternity. Compare this with the unity the apostle Paul described with those who are in one body and one ......Spirit, with one hope; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, on God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all (Eph 4:4-6)..." Full text: No Idolatry & False Teaching

"Term used in the NT only in the book of Revelation, to describe God’s eternal judgment on sin. Originally a rabbinic expression, the second death will be experienced by those whose names are not written in the “Book of Life” (Rv 20:15). The second death is equated with the “lake of fire” (v 14), or the lake that burns with “fire and brimstone” (21:8, KJV), and is described as the lot of “the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, … murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars” (RSV). Those who are victorious in this life have nothing to fear from the second death (2:11)." Elwell, W. A., & Comfort, P. W. (2001). Tyndale Bible dictionary. Tyndale reference library (368). Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.

"Nang thinks that would be too good for me."

Christians have shared the light of truth with you but you have not responded to that truth (Jn 14:6, 1 Jn 4:6, Mt 6:23, 2 Thess 2:11).

"Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72." ~ Mark Twain

"What about serpentdove?"

I am a believer (Jn 8:55). You are a make-believer (1 Jn 2:4).

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Adam 'died' but was 'alive' outside paradise. He was not annihilated."

Adam died spiritually.

[Adam and the Reign of Death by John MacArthur] "...[W]hen Adam sinned something terrible happened. Go back to Romans chapter 5. When that man sinned, and believe me Eve is embodied in the sin of Adam, though Adam was the head of the race, the first one created, and Eve taken from his side, when that one man sinned, sin entered into the human stream. That's what Paul is saying. His sin brought a constitutional change of unholiness into his soul. That which had been pure, unstained by sin or disobedience, that which had been innocent of any guilt factor at all was now stained and corrupted instantly.

Now would you notice it says in verse 12 that by one man sin entered the world...not sins. It's not talking about acts, it's talking about the nature, it's talking about character, not deeds. When Adam sinned the sin principle, the corrupt decaying principle of sin entered into the human stream. And just like Adam passed on to his posterity a nose, and eyes, and ears and arms and legs, he passed on the corrupting principle of sin. Sin entered the human stream.

You see, that's because God made us as a procreating race so that what we are is passed on to who we bear. And you have Adam and Eve, as well, sinners with a corrupting defiling principle in them. And when they procreate, they will procreate sinners and more sinners and more sinners and more sinners and here we are. And it all started when Adam sinned. The world of mankind was corrupted..." Full text: Adam and the Reign of Death

Losing one's soul