 F. Belton Joyner in "United Methodist Answers", states that the "New Testament does not speak of a natural immortality of the soul, as if we never actually die.It speaks of resurrection of the body, the claim that is made each time we state the historic Apostles' Creed and classic Nicene Creed," given in "The United Methodist Hymnal".In ¶128 of the "Book of Discipline" of the Free Methodist Church it is written