Immortality or Resurrection - William West (best pdf ebook reader for android TXT) 📗

CONDEMNED FOR WHAT "ME" THINKS, AND FEELS, AND DOES?
IF WHAT WILL BE IN HEAVEN IS "ME" [MY MIND, FEELING, THOUGHTS, HEART, LIFE] WITH A SPIRITUAL BODY IN THE IMAGE OF CHRIST; WHERE IS THE "SOUL" ["IT"], WHICH I NOW HAVE, BUT CANNOT SEE, OR KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT "IT" WILL BE? WILL "IT" BE IN HEAVEN WITH "ME," AND I STILL WILL NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT "IT" OR SEE “IT”?
IF "IT" IS NOT MY MIND, WHAT DOES "IT" THINK? IF "IT" IS ONLY SOMETHING LIVING IN "ME," WHICH I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT; AND "IT" WILL LEAVE "ME" AT MY DEATH AND GO ONTO ANOTHER HOME WITHOUT "ME"; AND I STILL WILL NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT "IT," OR WHAT "IT" IS, OR WHAT "IT" THINKS, OR WHERE "IT" IS, OR WHAT "IT" IS DOING, OR LOOKS LIKE.
AFTER MY DEATH, "IT" WILL LIVE WITHOUT A BODY OR SUBSTANCE WHERE "ME" [MY MIND, FEELING, THOUGHTS, HEART] CANNOT LIVE. IF I AM A "DUAL BEING" AND "IT" IS THE SECOND OF MY TWO BEINGS, WHEN MY FIRST BEING IS DEAD, "ME" WILL BE DEAD, AND ONLY THE SECOND BEING "IT" WILL BE ALIVE. ONLY A PART OF "ME" IS IMMORTAL AND ONLY A PART OF "ME" WILL EVER BE IN HEAVEN OR HELL, AND THAT IS THE PART OF "ME" THAT WILL NEVER KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT "IT" IS LIKE.
IF MY SPIRIT ["IT"] CAME INTO EXISTENCE WHEN I WAS BORN, AND "IT" IS DIFFERENT FROM MY EARTHLY BEING, THEN "ITS" THOUGHTS ARE NOT THE THOUGHTS OF "ME" [NOT THE THOUGHTS OF MY MIND]; THEREFORE, HOW DO I KNOW "IT" HAS EVER HAD ANY THOUGHTS, OR THAT "IT" KNOWS ANYTHING?
IF "IT" IS IMMORTAL, "IT" HAS NO NEED OF THE TREE OF LIFE TO LIVE FOREVER; BUT "ME" IS NOT IMMORTAL, AND COULD NOT LIVE FOREVER WITHOUT THE TREE OF LIFE. DEATH IS NOT THE ENEMY OF "IT" FOR "IT" CANNOT DIE FOR THE SINS OF "ME." "IT" CANNOT PAY THE WAGES OF THE SINS FOR "ME."
WILL YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN, OR WILL "IT" TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN? THE BIBLE DOES NOT TEACH THERE IS ANOTHER PART LIVING IN A PERSON, BUT THE WHOLE OF A PERSON AS HE IS NOW, AND ONLY THE BODY WILL BE DIFFERENT IN HEAVEN FROM WHAT WE NOW ARE. A PERSON IS ONLY ONE BEING, AND WILL BE THE SAME ONE BEING IN HEAVEN. WE DO NOT HAVE A SOUL [DO NOT HAVE AN "IT"], BUT WE ARE A LIVING SOUL, WHICH IS THE IMAGE OF ADAM, A LIVING BEING, A LIVING PERSON. MEN AND ANIMALS DO NOT HAVE A SOUL, BUT BOTH ARE A LIVING SOUL [LIVING CREATURES]. THERE IS A WORLD OF DIFFERENCES IN BEING A LIVING SOUL, AS IS TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE, AND HAVING AN "IMMATERIAL INVISIBLE" SOUL AS IS TAUGHT TODAY.
AFTER DEATH THE BIBLE NEVER SPEAKS ONLY OF THE SLEEP OF THE BODY, OR ONLY OF THE SLEEP OF THE SOUL, BUT OF THE SLEEP OR DEATH OF THE PERSON. GOD'S CREATION OF THIS EARTH IS VERY GOOD EVEN WITH THE THORNS CAUSED BY SIN; BUT HIS CREATION OF HEAVEN IS FAR BETTER AND DOES NOT HAVE THE THORNS. NEVERTHELESS, THE SOUL "IT" IS MADE TO BE LIVING IN US AND TO BE OF NEITHER CREATION, JUST SOME THIN AIR SOMETHING WITH NO SUBSTANCE. WHEN LAZARUS WAS RAISED, HE WAS THE EXACT IDENTICAL PERSON HE WAS BEFORE HIS DEATH, WITH THE SAME BODY, A "SOUL" [NEHPHESH - PSUKEE] LIVING CREATURE IN THE IMAGE OF ADAM. AT THE RESURRECTION THE SAVED WILL BE THE EXACT IDENTICAL PERSON AS NOW, BUT WITH A NEW "SPIRITUAL BODY," IN THE IMAGE OF CHRIST, NOT SOME THIN AIR NO SUBSTANCE "IT" THAT WILL BE DIFFERENT FROM THE PERSON WE NOW ARE.
MANY USE "SOUL SLEEPING" JUST AS MANY HAVE USED "CAMPBELLISM," AND "WATER SALVATION." THEY CAN SEE ONLY PLATO'S IMMORTAL PART OF A PERSON THAT LIVES ON AFTER THE DEATH OF THE PERSON. IT WILL NOT BE PLATO'S INTER IMMORTAL NO SUBSTANCE PART OF A PERSON THAT WILL EXIST AFTER THE DEATH OF THE BODY. IT WILL BE "ME" NOT JUST SOME PART OF "ME" THAT WILL BE RAISED FROM THE DEAD, NOT "IT" THAT IS NOT DEAD. IT IS "ME" THAT WILL SLEEP AND "ME" THAT WILL WAKE UP AT THE RESURRECTION. NOT "IT" THAT I WILL KNOW NOTHING ABOUT.
IF "IT" [THE SOUL] IS IMMORTAL FROM BIRTH, "IT" CAN NEVER DIE FOR "IT" IS IMMORTAL. IF "IT" IS WHAT WILL BE IN HEAVEN, THERE CAN BE NO RESURRECTION, FOR "IT" IS NOT DEAD TO BE RESURRECTED. IF "IT" CAN NEVER DIE, "IT" DID NOT NEED CHRIST TO DIE IN "ITS" PLACE TO KEEP "IT" FROM DYING, FOR "IT" IS IMMORTAL AND CANNOT DIE. "IT" HAS NO NEED OF THE DEATH OF CHRIST TO SAVE "IT" FROM THE DEATH THAT "IT" CANNOT DIE. IT IS A PERSON "ME" THAT WILL PUT ON IMMORTALITY AT THE RESURRECTION, AND NOT JUST A PART OF A PERSON "IT," WHICH IS BOTH ALIVE AND IMMORTAL BEFORE THE RESURRECTION. IT WILL BE MY LIFE, MIND, FEELING AND EMOTIONS, MY WHOLE PERSON "ME" THAT WILL BE IMMORTAL IN HEAVEN, NOT JUST SOME UNKNOWN PART OF ME.
I DO NOT KNOW HOW GOD CAN RAISE "ME" FROM THE GRAVE AND GIVE "ME" A NEW SPIRITUAL BODY AND IT STILL BE "ME"; NOT JUST SOME "IT" WHICH WAS NOT DEAD TO BE RAISED; BUT I HAVE COMPLETE FAITH THAT HE CAN AND WILL. MY FAITH IS IN CHRIST AND THE RESURRECTION HE TAUGHT. WILL FAITH IN THE PAGAN DOCTRINE OR IN THE IMMORTAL SOUL IT TEACHES SAVE YOU OR CONDEMN YOU?
Do you believe that it will be you that will be saved or lost or something in you that you that is not the real you, something that you cannot see or know what it? The never dying soul doctrine of an immortal soul is in direct conflict with hundreds of the plainest statements of the Bible. How can anyone say they believe the Bible when they have replaced it with the teaching of the heathen philosophy of Plato?
CHAPTER TWO
Life or Death

Many continually preach, "The wages of sin is death" but then by what they preach they contradict them self by preaching that unbelievers will go to Hell where they will live forever, therefore, "The wages of sin is an eternal life of torment in Hell" not death.
The changing of life and death to:
• Has "life" has been changed to mean only a "reward" and "death" changed to mean "eternal life with torment"?
• Is "the wages of sin death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord"? Romans 6:23, or is death eternal life with torment?
Eternal life is a conditional gift to the saved at the resurrection and judgment. “He that have the Son have eternal life. He that has not the Son has not life” (Immortality) 1 John 5:12. "He that hears My word, and believes Him that sent Me, has eternal life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life" (John 5:24).
"I have set before you life and death" (Deuteronomy 30:19). Life and death are two of the most misused words in the Bible. Many are unwilling to believe that when God said, "The wages of sin is death" that He did really mean what He said, that death is death and not eternal life in some other place. Death is not a lifelong imprisonment with torture. Death is death, not a better life in Heaven or a worse life in Hell, it is life or death. Death is the exact opposite of life, and death cannot be changed to be eternal life with torment. For a person to have an immortal soul from birth, death as the wages of sin must be explained away. Innate inborn immortality is hostile to God's word. If a person is born with an immortal "immaterial, invisible part of men" (W. E. Vine) that is not subject to death and this "soul" is the only part of a person that will survive death, the law of God has no power over whether that soul lives or dies for it cannot die; God can only say how or where this "immaterial, invisible part of men" is to live, for this "part of man" is not subject to death and must always live some place.
"He that hears my word, and believes him that sent me, has eternal life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life" (John 5:24). Not a soul that has eternal life passing out of one kind of eternal life into another kind of eternal life, but a person (“he”) that has passed out of death into life.
"It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this comes judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). "For the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment" (John 5:28-29). We bear the image of Adam, and like Adam, we all will die; but both the saved and those not saved will be raised at the second coming of Christ and be judged. The saved will bear the image of Christ and have life forever (1 Corinthians 15:45-49). The church at Smyrna was told, "Be you faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life...He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death" (Revelation 2:10-11). Throughout the Gospels, Christ promised life to all who believed Him. Paul says, "His servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness" (Romans 6:16). "What fruit then had you at that time in the things whereof you are now ashamed: for the end of these things is death. But, now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life" (Romans 6:21-22). As clear as human language can be, Paul says, "For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23).
In Romans 6:23, the issue is:
LIFE - - - - - - - - - - - -OR - DEATH
NOT LIFE IN ONE PLACE-HEAVEN – OR - LIFE IN ANOTHER PLACE-HELL
DEATH IS THE ABSENCE OF LIFE – NOT - ANOTHER KIND OF LIFE, WHICH WILL BE EITHER BETTER OR WORSE THAN THIS LIFE
All who obeys Christ and "overcomes," will at the judgment be given the crown of life; and shall not be hurt of the second death. The clear implication is that anyone who does not overcome shall be hurt of the second death at the judgment (Revelation 2:11). "He that overcomes shall inherit these things: and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. BUT for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death" (Revelation 21:7-8).
There may be more in the New Testament on life and death than any other subject. If God can destroy a person