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

both dead and alive at the same time
"For if you live according to the flesh, YOU will die: but if by the Spirit YOU put to death the deeds of the body, YOU will live" Romans 8:13. “YOU” will live or die, not just an "immaterial, invisible part of man" (W. E. Vine). The same thing that "will die" is the same thing that "will live," but we are told that "it" cannot die.
• Narrow way = LIFE - Broad way = DESTRUCTION (Matthew 7:13-14)
• LIFE or DEATH (Romans 6:23; 4:17; 1 Corinthians 3:22)
• LIFE or PERISH (John 3:16)
• LIFE or DIE (Romans 8:13)
• LIFE AND PEACE or DEATH (Romans 8:6)
• SAVED or DESTROY (James 4:12)
• LIFE or DESTRUCTION (Matthew 7:13-14)
• Into LIFE out of DEATH (1 John 3:14)
• Under the Old Testament Law (earthly life or death)
o LIFE and DEATH (Deuteronomy 30:15-20)
o DEATH and LIVE (Ezekiel 18:23)
o DEATH and LIVE (Ezekiel 18:32)
The Bible says what it means and means what it says. God inspired John to say, "should not perish" but many say God did not mean, "perish," but "will have an eternal life of torment."
Is the world on Satan's side?
• God said, "You shall surely die" (Genesis 2:17)
• Satan said, "You shall surely not die" (Genesis 3:4)
• Most Protestant theologians say, "You shall surely not die"
In Romans 1:28-23, Paul gives a list of sins, and then he said, "They that practice such things are worthy of death." Not have an eternal life of torment in Hell, but of death, but many today say, "They that practice such things are worthy of eternal life in hell." Will you believe them or Paul? You cannot believe both. "What fruit then had you at that time in the things whereof you are now ashamed? For the end of these things is death...You have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life, for the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:21-23). The gift of God to those who believe on His Son is eternal life (John 3:16), and this gift is something they do not already have; not something ALL were born with. If all have eternal life from birth, even those who do not believe, how could life be a gift to believers? When those who believe that all now have eternal life (an immortal soul) read the Bible, and change "life" into "a reward" and change death, die, perish, destroyed, and destruction into "punishment." To them, the Bible cannot mean what it says and they must change it.
ADDITIONS TO THE BIBLE
“Eternal Hell,” “immortal soul,” “save your immortal soul,” and “eternal suffering in Hell fire” are not in the Bible but are used often by preachers and Bible teacher and are falsely presented as being the teaching of the Bible.
The first death is the end of life of the flesh (life as it exist now). The second death then must also be the end of life (life as it will exist then), or it is not a second death, but something altogether different from death - a second life. An everlasting life of torment is not a second death. The traditional concept is that a person has an immortal soul, which neither the first or second death can kill, therefore; death must be changed to be something other than death. On about every page throughout the New Testament it is life or death, not just reward or punishment. The unsaved die, perish, are destroyed, and are lost. The obedient are saved from death and given life and immortality at the judgment. If the soul now has eternal life, if it is immortal and cannot die, then much of the language of the Bible has no meaning and is saying nothing. Why is there so much in the bible on death when there is no death? Many have believed what their preacher or church says and have rejected the Bible as being untrue. Eternal life is frequently promised to the righteous, but never to the wicked. If they do not have eternal life they cannot endure eternal torment.
Our body will be "fashion a new" American Standard Version, "Change" King James Version. "Transform" New American Standard Version, Philippians 3:20-21. "But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory...but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." If the lost will live forever in Hell, do they also have the victory over death; will not their life (not their death) be just as eternal as the saved?
Summery: If it were true that there is no real death, that death is only a separation from God, then there could not be a resurrection of the dead for no one could be really dead. The pagan doctrine of the immortality of the soul makes the Bible doctrine of the resurrection of the dead both impossible and useless. Any life after death depends wholly on the resurrection of the dead at the coming of Christ (Luke 14:13-14; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; 1 Corinthians 15:51-55).

THE BIBLE HAS BEEN CHANGED
TO TEACH THAT DEATH IS ETERNAL LIFE
"We have passed out of death into life" (1 John 4:14). It is us (the whole person) that were dead in our relation to God, not a dead soul that “passed out of death into life” and is now alive. If we did have a soul that was dead but is now alive, it would be a contradiction of the doctrine that the soul can never die, for an immortal soul that cannot be dead would have been dead, and it would have "passed out of death into life;" the soul, which we are told can never be dead was dead at one time but now the soul that was a dead soul is now alive. It was the person that was dead before they were in Christ, but is now alive in Him, it is the person that has passed out of death into life, not an undying immaterial part of the person that could never be dead.
Believers in immortality from birth must change the Bible to say:
1. Those who are destroyed are not destroyed. (James 4:12; 2 Peter 2:12; 2 Peter 3:7)
2. Those who perish do not perish. (1 Corinthians 1:8: John 3:16)
3. Those who die do not die. (Romans 6:23) (Death is not death)
4. The end of the wicked is not their end. (Philippians 3:19; Hebrews 6:8)
5. Those who are consumed are not consumed (Hebrews 10:27)
6. Mortals are born immortal; (1 Timothy 6:16) therefore, how can there be any such thing as being mortal? There are no mortals and could never be a mortal if all men are created immortal
7. The second death is not a death; it is eternal life with torment (Revelation 21:8)
Are they really teaching the Bible when they corrupt it into saying the opposite of what it really says, or teaching what they want the Bible to say?
IS “THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH”
Or
IS THE WAGES OF SIN AN ETERNAL LIFE OF TORMENT?
It cannot be both. If all are immortal from birth, then death could not exist; no one will ever die; no one will ever be dead; therefore, the wages of sin could not be death.
Death, the enemy defeated for believers: "Jesus said unto her, your brother shall rise again. Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes on me, though he die, yet shall he live; and whosoever lives and believes on me shall never die" (John 11:23-26). "If a man keep my word, he shall never see death" (John 8:55). "I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever" (John 6:51). It is evident that Jesus was not speaking of physical death for like Lazarus believers shall die, but unlike nonbelievers they have a new existence, a new life in Christ that is no longer subject to the enemy, death. After the resurrection they will have a victory over death and will be able say, "Death is swallowed up in victory, O death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law: but thinks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Corinthians 15:55-56). We are told twice that the second death has no power over believers (Revelation 2:11; 20:6). They are not subject to it and shall live forever. "Our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel" (2 Timothy 1:10); Christ defeated the enemy by His resurrection.
"The words of the Bible contain all the ideas in it. These words, then, rightly understood, and the ideas are clearly perceived. The words and sentences of the Bible are to be translated, interpreted, and understood according to the same code of laws and principles of interpretation by which other ancient writings are translated and understood; for, when God spoke to man in his own language, He spoke as one person converses with another-in the fair, stipulated, and well-established meaning of the terms. This is essential to its character, as a revelation from God; otherwise, it would be no revelation, but would always require a class of inspired men to unfold and reveal its true sense to mankind" Alexander Campbell, "The Christian System," Page 3, Gospel Advocate Company, 1835. "It is absolutely essential to the very idea of a Divine communication in the from of a revelation, that its words and sentences be understood according to their usual sense at the time when that communication was made, and amongst the people to whom it was addressed and to whose care it was committed" A. Campbell, An essay on "Life And Death" from the Millennial Harbinger, 1844.
“’Perish’! ‘ Perished’!! ‘Perisheth’ and ‘Perishing’!!! What do these words mean? They occur in the sacred scriptures about one hundred and forty times. Again, I ask what do they mean? I answer in every reference the word carries the thought of destruction; in numerous cases, utter annihilation, utter destruction. Let us suppose that all we can know of the destiny of the ungodly we must get from the passages in which these words are found. What would we conclude? Eternal conscious punishment for all the wicked, without regard to how wicked? Not if there is any meaning in the language? The word is used in the scriptures in the exact sense in which the word as it stands in English is used, or its corresponding word in every language and dialect. We say: ‘His hand has perished.’ We say: ‘For want of rain our crops have perished.’ We say: ‘Babylon has perished.’ We say: ‘The seed we sowed perished because it was without life.’ What do we mean? We can only mean one thing. Absolute destruction! So far as we know God has but one way of communicating with man; namely, language. This language is clear, pointed, unmistakable. Christianity has life, or immortality, and he offers it to men here, and those who reject the light and the life must perish. Here is the definition by