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

GRACE THAT IS TO BE BROUGHT UNTO YOU AT THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST” (1 PETER 1:3-13).
• "BUT IF BY THE SPIRIT, YOU PUT TO DEATH THE DEEDS OF THE BODY YOU SHALL LIVE" ROMANS 8:13.
• "THAT WE MAY BE ALSO GLORIFIED WITH HIM" ROMANS 8:17.
• "WITH THE GLORY WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED TO US-WARD" ROMANS 8:18. WHEN? NOT NOW, BUT AT THE RESURRECTION.
• "WAITING FOR OUR ADOPTION" ROMANS 8:23. (NOT AN IMMATERIAL PART OR “OUR” WAITING FOR "ITS" ADOPTION).
• "FOREORDAINED TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON" ROMANS 8:29.
• FOR THIS HOPE WE MUST "WITH PATIENCE WAIT FOR IT" ROMANS 8:25.
• FOUR TIMES IN JOHN 6:39-54 CHRIST SAYS HE WILL RISE UP THOSE THAT ARE HIS "AT THE LAST DAY" (JOHN 6:39, 40, 44, AND 54).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible, "The idea of a life to come is in many portions of the OT conspicuous by its absence. There is nothing anywhere that will compare with the NT conception of 'eternal life'" Page 546.
Eternal life is the gift of Christ to those who obey Him, not something all mankind possess without obeying Christ.
ETERNAL LIFE
• Will be received in the future [John 3:16], “but have” is undeniably future tense.
• Will be inherited [Matthew 19:29], not something that the “soul” of all now has.
• Is the gift of God [Romans 6:23] only to those who obey God, not something all have from birth.
• We now have the hope of eternal life [Titus 3:7] in the future, something only believers shall receive.
• Eternal life is promised [1 John 1:25]. If all have it from birth it could not be the gift of God promised only to believers.

(2) DEATH
Salvation is from death, not from torment for those who cannot die. Eternal life with torment in Hell means there is no death. The penalty of sin is death (Romans 6:23), not eternal life in Hell. This passage is preached continually, but very few that preach it believe it. They preach, "The wages of sin is death," and in the same breath preach a person has a part that cannot die and the wages of sin for our deathless part of us is an eternal life of torment in Hell. Death is death, not an eternal dying but never dead. Death is not eternal life with torment.
All have sinned; the wages of sin is death. Death is God's penalty for sin; how could God have said this anymore clear and simple? The gift of God canceled the wages of sin and gives life. The free gift of God is not changing one kind of life for another kind of life, or life in one place for life in another place. It is giving life in place of death. This is made possible not by Christ living our life of eternal torment for us, but by Christ dying our death for us. The free gift of god is life, not just a change of address from hell to heaven for those who have eternal life and cannot die.
"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life" (Romans 6:23). There are two reasons why the sinner will die in this passage. (1) They will receive the wages they earned for sin, which is death. (2) Eternal life, immortality, is given only to those who are in Christ. The lost will never be given the gift of immortality.
"Shall save a soul (psukee-life or person) from death" "Will save him from death" New International Version James 5:20. The person saved is saved from death, not from an eternal life of torment.
"Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls (life-psukee)" 1 Peter 1:9
"Sin unto death" Romans 6:16: Not sin unto an eternal life of torment
"What fruit then had you at that time in the things whereof you are now ashamed? For the end of those 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 (at judgment). For the Wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life" Romans 6:21-23. DEATH is not a gateway to a better LIFE. Death is an "enemy" and our hope is the resurrection, not death being life. "For you shall be recompensed in the resurrection"(Luke 14:14), not instantly after death
"Be you faithful unto death (end of this life) and I will give you the crown of life (at the judgment)...shall not be hurt of the second death" ("You" not to a immaterial "part of you") Revelation 2:10. And with the world they shall "passes away" 1 John 2:17
"For if you live after the flesh, you must die" Romans 8:13 ("You" not just a part of "you" must die)
"We (not only a part of us) have passed out of death into life" 1 John 3:14
Death is so sure to those not in Christ that they "abides in death" 1 John 3:14
"If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable. But now has Christ been raised from the dead, the first fruits of them that are asleep. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all DIE, so also in Christ shall all be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:21-23). In the plainest language possible, Jesus said, "If you believe not, you shall die in your sins" (John 8:21-24). Many read this passage and see, “If you believe not, your soul that cannot die is now dead.”
Those who believe in eternal torment are saying to the unsaved that they already have eternal life but will spend it in the wrong place. They are saying to the lost that they can never die but that they will live an unhappy everlasting life. They are saying the lost will be in Hell and just as alive as those in Heaven, and in no sense can the lost to be said to be dead; in no plain common sense language can the wages of sin be said to be death to an immortal being that cannot die for if it could die or if it were dead it would not be an immortal being. They are saying that death cannot be death, but death is only a transfer of life from this realm to life in another realm. For a person to now have an immortal soul that can never die, death, particularly the second death must be changed to a second life.
Those who believe men are now immortal must take death out of the Bible. In all the repeatedly times Christ promised eternal life to believers, He must be made not to mean what He promised; not eternal life, but to be promising only a reward or happiness.
"WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH," not an eternal life of torment for those who cannot ever be dead (Romans 6:23). Death is not life in a different form; death ends life and without the resurrection death means the utter destruction of life to both believers and unbelievers. Death is to be abolished at "the end" (1 Corinthians 15:24-26) by casting it into lake of fire. Jesus endured the wages of sin in our place so that we would not have to. Christ could not be our savior if the wages of sin is eternal torment. Jesus died in our place; but He did not endure eternal torment in our place, therefore, if the wages of sin were eternal torment He could not be our savior. He would not have paid our debt. He did "taste of death for every man" (Hebrews 2:9). Today's theology that says death is only life in a different place and is not really death makes our salvation impossible by making the death of Christ impossible.
Robert Turner said, "Sin separates us from God, and 'the soul that sinneth, it shall die.'" Florida College Annual Lectures, 1986, Page 172. Which one is he saying? (1) The soul that sins lives forever separated from God, or (2) "The soul that sins shall die." The two are a total conduction of each other and both cannot be true.
Romans 6:21-23 If we have a soul that is now immortal, it now has eternal life and will always have eternal life, even if is not in Christ, even if there were no resurrection, even if Christ had not died in our place the wages of sin could not be death to a soul that cannot die.
• "For the end of these things is death...for the wages of sin is death" King James Version
• "For the outcome of these things is death...for the wages of sin is death" New American Standard
• "These things result in death...for the wages of sin is death" New International Version
• "These things only bring death...when people sin, they earn what sin pays--death" New Century Version
• "And they lead to death...sin pays off with death" Contemporary English Version
• "Things that end in eternal doom...for the wages of sin is death" New Living Translation
• "The result of those things is death...for sin pays it wage--death" Today's English Version
o There is not the slightest sign of an immortal soul that is not subject to death in this passage.
The three steps to death in James 1:15: (1) Lust (when it has conceived) (2) gives birth to sin (3) Sin (when it is accomplished) brings death. In today's preaching the three steps are changed to (1) Lust (2) Sin (3) Eternal life in Hell.
• "Then when LUST hath conceived, it bringeth forth SIN; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth DEATH" (King James Version)
• "Then, when DESIRE has conceived, it gives birth to SIN: and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth DEATH" (New King James Version)
• "Then the LUST, when it hath conceived, beareth SIN: and the sin, when it is full grown, bringeth forth DEATH" (American Standard Version)
• "Then when LUST has conceived, it gives birth to SIN and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth DEATH" (New American Standard Version)
• "Then, when that DESIRE has conceived, it gives birth to SIN, and that sin, when it if fully grown, gives birth to DEATH" (New Revised Standard Version)
• "Then, after DESIRE has conceived, it gives birth to SIN; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to DEATH" (New International Version)
It is life or death, not reward or torment; never an everlasting life of torment with God doing the tormenting. There is so much teaching in the New Testament on life and death that it is as if God foreknow men would change the wages of sin into an everlasting life of torment, and He gives them no way to say at the judgment "I did not know." Why do men not believe God? Death is in contrast to life. It is the opposite of life, and not just another kind of life. Death is not life in heaven, hell, purgatory, or hades. It is not life of any kind, anywhere; death is death, not everlasting life with torment, not a mere change in the mode of existence. The unsaved cannot be both eternally dead and eternally alive and conscious. They cannot be