Immortality or Resurrection, William West [best romance books of all time txt] 📗

(the whole person, Matthew 10:28), unconditional immortality cannot be true. If a person can lose his life (Matthew 10:39) unconditional immortality cannot be true. Those who believe a person has a part that cannot die knows "the wages of sin" (Romans 6:23) must be changed to be something other than death for if "death" means "death"; the sinner will die; he cannot live forever in Hell. The Bible teaching on death must do away with or there can be no hell.
John 3:16: If all have eternal life at birth, why did God give His Son that all who believe on Him would have eternal life and not perish? If we are born with eternal life, how could the gift of God to those who believe and obey Him be eternal life? Eternal life is only for those who believe. Just as sure as those that believe on Christ will have eternal life, those who do not believe on Christ will not have eternal life any place.
John 11:25: "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." "And declare unto you the life, the eternal life" (1 John 1:1). Only those who are raised with Christ through baptism have life. They are the only ones who, “Though he die, yet shall he live” [John 11:25]. Christianity without a resurrection to life for those in Christ is inconceivable.
(1) LIFE
The gift of God is eternal LIFE but only to those in Christ. God's gift of LIFE is not just a reward to those who are born with eternal life and cannot die.
1. The Greek concept of an immortal soul assumes that the soul already possess eternal life and is not subject to death.
2. The orthodox view is that a person has an "immaterial, invisible part of men," and only this part of himself possesses eternal life at or before birth and is not subject to death; the orthodox view is that this is the only part of a person that will be in Heaven or Hell immediately after death before and without the resurrection and judgment. According to the orthodox view all the dead are now in Heaven or Hell and will always be there even if there never will be a second coming of Christ or resurrection or judgment.
3. The bible says that Christ "abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel" (2 Timothy 1:10). Without the resurrection there would be no life after death. Before the resurrection, no person or no part of a person has immortality.
Psukee (life) is the only word-translated soul in the New Testament. The adjectives eternal and everlasting are never used with psukee. Psukee is translated: life 40 times, you 1 time, us 1 time, mind 3 times, heart 1 time, heartily 1 time, soul 57 times in the King James Version. Psukee (life) is the natural life or a person from Adam or the natural life of any living being (Revelation 8:9; 16:3). It is the life common to all living creatures, man and all animals, and is never said to be eternal. All living creatures by natural birth have psukee (life) from birth to death. "The first man Adam become a living soul (psukee-living being)" (1 Corinthians 15:45): psukee is the same as nehphesh in the Old Testament. Adam became "a living soul"-nehphesh-a living being (Genesis 2:7). It is the life Adam had in common with animals and all living creatures.
Zoee (life) is a gift from Christ to those who believe, the eternal life He gives to those who are His. "Zoee" is used about one hundred thirty times (Wigram, Page 339, Sometimes spelled "zoe") and is translated "life" every time. It refers to the life given by Christ to believes in all but about ten of the about one hundred thirty times it is used, and in those ten it is life or existence in this life time, “Seeing He Himself gives to all life (zoee), and breath, and all things” (Acts 17:25).
B. W. Johnson said "The zoee, (life, existence) is never said to end, or perish. It is the psuchee (breath, or animal life), that is laid down, or perishes." Commentary on John, 1886, John 10:27-28.
Zoee (life) is the life Christ gives to believers; a life that is beyond this earthly life that nonbelievers do not now or will ever have. Life (zoee) that Christ gives to believers is existence for believers as opposed to non-existence or death for nonbelievers, it is existence and being alive as opposed to non-existence and being dead. The penalty for sin is death and Christ made the atonement for our sins by his death; life for us is only through Christ’s atonement and without his atonement there is only death, not eternal life anyplace with or without torment. The wages of sin is death and Christ has not made the atonement for the sins of the wicked that never believe Him and there is no life for them, without eternal life they cannot be eternally tormented.
• "SHALL INHERIT ETERNAL (AIONIOS) LIFE (ZOEE)" MATTHEW 19:29
• "THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES MAY IN HIM HAVE ETERNAL (AIONIOS) LIFE (ZOEE)" JOHN 3:15. THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IS THROUGH BELIEVING IN CHRIST, NOT BY BIRTH, NOT BEING BORN WITH AN IMMORTAL SOUL THAT HIS ETERNAL LIFE WITHOUT BELIEVING IN CHRIST.
• "WHOSOEVER BELIEVES ON HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE (ZOEE)" JOHN 3:16
• "HE THAT BELIEVES ON THE SON HAS ETERNAL LIFE (ZOEE); BUT HE THAT OBEYS NOT THE SON SHALL NOT SEE LIFE (ZOEE)" JOHN 3:36. HE OR SHE THAT OBEYS NOT THE SON IS NOT NOW IMMORTAL AND WILL NEVER BE IMMORTAL IN HELL OR ANY PLACE, WILL NEVER HAVE ETERNAL LIFE ANY PLACE
• "THE WATER I SHALL GIVE HIM SHALL BECOME IN HIM A WELL OR WATER SPRINGING UP UNTO ETERNAL LIFE (ZOEE)" JOHN 4:14
• "FRUIT UNTO LIFE (ZOEE) ETERNAL JOHN 4:36
• "SON ALSO GIVES LIFE (ZOEE)" JOHN 5:21
• "OUT OF DEATH INTO LIFE (ZOEE)" JOHN 5:24
• "THAT YOU MAY HAVE LIFE (ZOEE)" JOHN 5:40
• "UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE (ZOEE)" JOHN 5:29
• "FOOD WHICH ABIDES UNTO ETERNAL LIFE (ZOEE)" JOHN 6:27
• "SHOULD HAVE ETERNAL LIFE (ZOEE); AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY" JOHN 6:40
• "AND I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE (ZOEE)" JOHN 10:28. HE IS NOT GIVING THEM LIFE THAT THEY HAD AT BIRTH, BUT LIFE THAT THEY OR NO PART OF THEM HAD BEFORE THE NEW BIRTH. WHEN JESUS SAID, "HE THAT BELIEVES NOT THE SON SHALL NOT SEE LIFE," ETERNAL LIFE IN TORMENT SHALL NOT BE SEEN.
• "HE SHOULD GIVE ETERNAL LIFE (ZOEE)" JOHN 17:1-3
• "YOU MAY HAVE LIFE (ZOEE)" JOHN 20:31
• "THE FREE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE (ZOEE) IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD" ROMANS 6:23
• "BELIEVE ON HIM UNTO ETERNAL LIFE (ZOEE)" 1 TIMOTHY 1:16
• "LAY HOLD ON THE LIFE (ZOEE) ETERNAL, WHEREUNTO YOU WERE CALLED" 1 TIMOTHY 6:12
• "MAY LAY HOLD ON THE LIFE (ZOEE) WHICH IS LIFE (ZOEE) INDEED" 1 TIMOTHY 6:19
• "ABOLISHED DEATH AND BROUGHT LIFE (ZOEE) AND IMMORTALITY TO LIGHT" 2 TIMOTHY 1:10
• "IN HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE (ZOEE)" TITUS 1:2
• "WE MIGHT BE MADE HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE (ZOEE)" TITUS 3:12
• "SHALL RECEIVE THE CROWN OF LIFE (ZOEE)" JAMES 1:12
• "DECLARE UNTO YOU THE LIFE (ZOEE), THE ETERNAL LIFE (ZOEE), (CHRIST) WHICH WAS WITH THE FATHER" 1 JOHN 1:2
• "AND THIS IS THE PROMISE WHICH HE PROMISED US, EVEN THE LIFE (ZOEE) ETERNAL" (1 JOHN 2:25). AT THE RESURRECTION 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 immortality at the judgment if all men are now immortal and cannot die, for all, both the saved and the lost, would have been born with eternal 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 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. This theology makes Christ give life only to a part of a person that is already immortal and already has 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