Immortality or Resurrection (Updated) - William West (top ten ebook reader .TXT) 📗

/> 18. Hebrews 6:19 "Which we have as an anchor of the soul [life-soul-psukee]."
• "We have that hope as an anchor for our lives" [psukee]" Revised English Bible
19. Hebrews 13:17 "For they watch in behalf of your souls [life-soul-psukee]
• "They keep watch over you [psukee]" New International Version
20. James 1:21 "Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your
souls [life-soul-psukee]."
• "Which can save you [psukee]" New International Version
• "With its power to save you [psukee]" Revised English Bible
21. 1 Peter 1:9 "Receiving the end of your faith, [even] the salvation of [your] souls [lifesoul-
psukee]."
• "Your [psukee] salvation" New American Bible
22. 1 Peter 1:22 "Seeing you have purified your souls [life-soul-psukee] in your
obedience to the truth."
• "Now that you have purified yourselves [psukee]" New International Version
• "You have purified yourselves [psukee]" New American Bible
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23. 1 Peter 2:25 "For you were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the
Shepherd and Bishop of your souls [life-soul-psukee]."
24. 1 Peter 4:19 "Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit
their souls [life-soul-psukee] in well-doing unto a faithful Creator."
• "Trust themselves [psukee] to a faithful Creator" New Revised Standard Version
• "Entrust their lives [psukee] to a faithful Creator" New American Bible
25. 2 Peter 2:8 "For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing,
vexed [his] righteous soul [life-soul-psukee] from day to day with [their] lawless
deeds."
• "Felt himself [psukee] tormented by seeing and hearing about the lawless deeds."
New American Bible
26. 2 Peter 2:14 "Enticing un-steadfast souls [life-soul-psukee] having a heart exercised
in covetousness; children of cursing."
• "They seduce the unstable" New International Version
27. 26. 3 John 2 "Beloved, I pray that in all things you may prosper and be in health,
even as your soul [life-soul-psukee] prospers."
[4] PASSAGES WITH PSUKEE
APPLIED TO GOD OR CHRIST.
1. Matthew 12:18 "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my
soul [life-soul-psukee] is well pleased."
• "My loved one in whom I [psukee] delight" New American Bible
• "My beloved, in whom I [psukee] take delight" Revised English Bible
2. Matthew 26:38 "Then said he unto them, My soul [life-soul-psukee] is exceeding
sorrowful, even unto death: abide you here, and watch with me." Mark 14:34 "And he
said unto them, My soul [life-soul-psukee] is exceeding sorrowful even unto death:
abide you here, and watch."
• "Then he said to them, 'I [psukee] am deeply grieved, even to death'" Matthew
26:38 New Revised Standard Version
• "My heart [psukee] is nearly broken with sorrow" New American Bible
• "My heart [psukee] is ready to break with grief" Revised English Bible
3. Matthew 20:28 "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give his life [life-soul-psukee] a ransom for many." Mark 10:45 "For
the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his
life [life-soul-psukee] a ransom for many."
4. John 10:11 "I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life [life-soulpsukee]
for the sheep. 12 He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the
sheep are not, beholds the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees, and the wolf
snatches them, and scatters [them]: 13 [he flees] because he is a hireling, and cares
not for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd; and I know mine own, and mine own
know me, 15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my
life [life-soul-psukee] for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this
fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice: and they shall become one
flock, one shepherd. 17 Therefore, the Father loves me, because I lay down my life
[life-soul-psukee], that I may take it again." An immortal soul, as taught today,
cannot die; therefore, the translators could not say Christ gave up His immortal soul.
He gives His life, not an immortal soul.
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5. John 12:27 "Now is my soul [life-soul-psukee] troubled; and what shall I say?
Father, save me from this hour."
• "Now my heart is troubled" New International Version.
6. Acts 2:27 "Because you will not leave my soul [life-soul-psukee] unto Hades, neither
will you give your Holy One to see corruption."
• "You will not abandon me [psukee] to the grave" New International Version
• "You will not abandon me [psukee] to death" Revised English Bible
7. Acts 2:31 "He foreseeing [this] spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither
was he [life-soul-psukee] left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption."
• The same word is translated "soul" in Acts 2:27 and "he" in Acts 2:31 in the King
James Version
8. Hebrews 10:38 "But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my
soul [life-soul-psukee] has no pleasure in him." In these passages psukee, which is
translate soul or life, refers to God or Christ.
• "And if he shrinks back, I [psukee] will not be pleased with him" New
International Version
• "And if he draws back I [psukee] take no pleasure in him" New American Bible
• "But if anyone shrinks back, I [psukee] take no pleasure in him" Revised English
Bible
[5] PASSAGES WITH PSUKEE (soul)
USED IN SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE.
For notes on these see chapter eight. Those who believe in the Pagan doctrine of an
immortal soul from birth and Hell have no plain easily understood non-figurative
statement. That they must make figurative language, metaphors and symbolic
passage into literal statements SHOWS THE WEAKNESS OF THEIR BELIEF,
that it is from man and not from God. Figurative language and parables are made to be
superior over plain statements, and clear language must be made to agree with what they
think is said in the symbolic language.
1. Revelation 6:9 "And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the
souls [life-soul-psukee] of them that had been slain for the word of God." See chapter
eight - the fifth seal - souls under the altar in heaven - a symbolic picture.
2. Revelation 8:9 "And there died the third part of the creatures which were in the sea,
[even] they that had life [life-soul-psukee]; and the third part of the ships were
destroyed." A third of the immortal undying souls died? Are immortal souls, as the
word is used today, in the sea? Do fish have an immortal soul?
3. Revelation 12:11 "And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and
because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life [life-soul-psukee]
even unto death." If made literal, this symbolic passage says the soul [psukee] can
die.
4. Revelation 16:3 "And the second poured out his bowl into the sea; and it became
blood as of a dead man; and every living soul [life-soul-psukee] died, [even] the
things that were in the sea." If made literal, this symbolic passage says living souls
are the things that are in the sea. Every "living creature" fish in the sea are "souls
[psukee]" that died. When will all the fish in the sea literally die?
• "And every living thing [psukee] in the sea died" New International Version
• "And every creature [psukee] living in the sea died" New American Bible
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• "And every living thing [psukee] in it died" Revised English Bible
5. Revelation 18:13-14 "And cinnamon, and spice, and incense, and ointment, and
frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep; and
[merchandise] of horses and chariots and slaves; and souls [life-soul-psukee] of
men. And the fruits which your soul [life-soul-psukee] lusted after are gone from
thee." If there were an immaterial part of a person, could it lust after material things?
Will an immortal soul be slaves in Heaven or any other place?
• "Slaves, and human lives [psukee]" Revised English Bible.
6. Revelation 20:4 "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given
unto them: and [I saw] the souls [life-soul-psukee] of them that had been beheaded
for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshiped not the
beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon
their hand; and they lived ["came to life" New American Standard Version, New
Revised Standard Version], and reigned with Christ a thousand years." "The rest of
the dead lived not until ..." ["did not come to life" New American Standard Version,
New Revised Standard Version] Revelation 20:5. Some immortal souls "came to life"
and some "lived not." If the soul cannot die, it cannot come to life and if it cannot die,
then all souls live and none can "lived not." This passage is a real problem when
taken literal.
• Five of the six times psukee is used in Revelation, is something that can and does die.
1. Revelation 6:9 "Souls [life-soul-psukee]...slain"
2. Revelation 8:9 "And there died the third part...that had life" [life-soul-psukee]
3. Revelation 12:11 "Loved not their life [life-soul-psukee] even unto death"
4. Revelation 16:3 "Every living soul [life-soul-psukee] died" [In the sea, all fish
died]. Can anyone tell me why the translators, who believed the soul could not
die and do not believe fish have a soul, put "ever living soul died" in this
passage? "And every living thing [life-soul-psukee] in the sea died" New
American Standard Bible.
5. Revelation 20:4 "The souls [life-soul-psukee] of them that had been
beheaded"
THE SOUL IS THE EARTHLY IMAGE OF ADAM
A "LIVING SOUL" IS THE "NATURAL BODY"
Psukikos: natural [earthly].
• "The NATURAL (psukikos - man)" [1 Corinthians 2:4]
• "A NATURAL (psukikos - body)" [1 Corinthians 15:44]
• "There is a NATURAL (psukikos - body)" [1 Corinthians 15:44]
• "That which is NATURAL (psukikos)" [1 Corinthians 15:46]
THE SOUL OR THE SPIRIT IS NOT THE SPIRITUAL BODY THAT WE WILL
HAVE AFTER THE RESURRECTION
WE ARE NOW A LIVING SOUL WHICH IS IN THE IMAGE OF ADAM
1 Corinthians 15 [1] NATURAL BODY verse 44,46 WE NOW HAVE
ADAM [2] A LIVING SOUL verse 45 ADAM'S
[3] EARTHLY verse 47 IMAGE verse 49
WE WILL BE A SPIRITUAL BODY WHICH WILL BE IN THE IMAGE OF CHRIST
[1] SPIRITUAL BODY verse 45 WE WILL HAVE
CHRIST [2] LIFE GIVING SPIRIT verse 46 CHRIST'S IMAGE
[3] HEAVENLY verse 48 verse 49
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"NATURAL" in verse 46 is used in place of "A LIVING SOUL" in verse 45, and ARE
THE SAME THING. WE NOW HAVE ADAM'S IMAGE [a living soul-a living
being], BUT WE WILL HAVE THE IMAGE OF CHRIST [a spiritual body].
"For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ: who shall FASHION ANEW the body of our humiliation, that it may be
conformed to the body of His glory" [Philippians 2:20-21 American Standard Version]
"CHANGE" King James Version "TRANSFORM" New American Standard Version.
"Beloved, now are we children of God, and IT IS NOT YET MADE MANIFEST WHAT
WE SHALL BE [what a spiritual body is composed of]. We know that, if he shall be
manifested, we shall be like him; [have a spiritual body, be of the same substance] for we
shall see him even as he is" [1 John 3:2].
"For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but ARE AS
ANGELS IN HEAVEN" [Matthew 22:30]. "For when they shall rise from the dead, they
neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as angels in heaven" [Mark 12:26].
The image of Christ, the spiritual bodies we will have after the resurrection is not an
earthly body in the image of Adam. WE ARE NOW A SOUL [living being]