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

the saved shall put on immortality (eternal life).
This is so sure that it is spoken of as if we now have it.
• "And in the world to come eternal LIFE (zoee)" Mark 10:30
• (1) "God gave unto us eternal LIFE (zoee), (2) and this LIFE (zoee) is in his
Son. (3) He that has the Son has the LIFE (zoee); (4) he that has not the Son of
God has not the LIFE (zoee)" 1 John 5:11-12. No invisible immaterial part of a
person that is not in Christ now has eternal life or the promise of eternal life.
• "And the end, eternal LIFE (zoee)" Romans 6:22
• "Looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal LIFE (zoee)" Jude
21
• "That of all that which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it
up at the last day" (John 6:29). "For this is the will of my Father, that every one
that beholds the Son, and believes on him, should have eternal LIFE (zoee); and
I will raise him up at the last day" (John 6:40). "And I will raise him up at the
last day" (John 6:44) "And I will raise him up at the last day" (John 6:54)
• "Who will render to every man according to his works: to them that by patience
in well doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal LIFE (zoee)"
Romans 2:7
• "I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE (zoee)" "Jesus said unto her, I
am the resurrection, and the LIFE (zoee): he that believes on me, though he die,
yet shall he live; and whosoever lives and believes on me shall never die" (John
11:25-26)
• "Our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought LIFE (zoee) and
immortality to light through the gospel" (2 Timothy 1:10). Christ is the Word of
life. "Concerning the Word of life (and the life was manifested, and we have seen,
and bear witness, and declare unto you the life, the eternal life, which was with
the Father)" (1 John 1:2). Only those raised with Christ through baptism have the
promise of eternal life and will not be subject to the Second Death.
THE PROMISE OF ETERNAL LIFE AT THE JUDGMENT ONLY TO THOSE
WHO BELIEVE IN AND OBEY CHRIST IS POSITIVE PROOF THAT WE DO NOT
NOW HAVE IMMORTALITY. A born again person cannot be given life and
immortality at the judgment if all men are now immortal and cannot die, for they would
have been born with life and born immortal. The theology, which says a person is born
with immortality, robs Christ of the gift of life to all who believes and gives life to all at
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birth. THESE PASSAGES MAKE NO SENSE IF WE ARE BORN WITH A SOUL
THAT HAS LIFE AND CAN NEVER DIE, AND THIS SOUL THAT IS NOT
SUBJECT TO DEATH IS THE ONLY PART OF US THAT WILL BE IN HEAVEN.
DO THEY THINK CHRIST GIVES LIFE ONLY TO A PART OF A PERSON, WHICH
IS ALREADY IMMORTAL AND HAS HAD ETERNAL LIFE FROM BIRTH AND
CANNOT DIE? Immortality is conditional on being in Christ; there is no eternal life
except in Christ.
• "He that eats this bread shall live forever" John 6:51, 6:57
• "For if... we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection" Romans 6:5
• “And this mortal must put on immortality” 1 Corinthians 15:53
• "Made alive" Ephesians 2:1-5
• “Who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance incorruptible,
and undefiled, and that fades not away, RESERVED IN HEAVEN FOR YOU,
who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto A SALVATION
READY TO BE REVEALED IN THE LAST TIME...receiving the end of your
faith, the salvation of your souls” (psukee-lives "the salvation of your lives" Our
lives are saved from death by the blood of Christ who give His life to save our
life, not just an "immaterial, invisible part of a man") “Set your hope perfectly on
THE 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.
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(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, never death. "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"
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(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