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

be destroyed or go away in this life, or that their salvation will be in this life.
• If the lost are now in Hell, what more "destruction is in store for them" at the resurrection and judgment? [Revised English Bible].
• If the saved are now in Heaven, what more salvation will there be for them at the resurrection and judgment?
HEBREWS 10:39 APOLIA - DESTRUCTION
• "But we are not of those who shrink back and are DESTROYED (apolia), but of those who believe and are SAVED" New International Version.
• "But we are not among those who shrink back and so are LOST (apolia), but among those who have faith and so are SAVED" New Revised Standard Version.
• "But we are not those who turn back and are LOST (apolia). We are people who have faith and are SAVED" New Century Version.
• We are not among those who draw back and PERISH (apolia), but among those who have faith and LIVE" New American Bible [Catholic].
• "But we are not among those who shrink back and are LOST (apolia); we have the faith to preserve our LIFE" Revised English Bible.
2 PETER 2:1 APOLIA - SWIFT DESTRUCTION
• "And bring on themselves SWIFT DESTRUCTION (apolia)" New King James Version.
• "Bringing SWIFT DESTRUCTION (apolia) upon themselves" New American Standard Version.
2 PETER 3:7 APOLIA - DESTRUCTION The destruction BY FIRE of "the ungodly" AND "the heavens that now are, and the earth" will BOTH be at:
• "DAY of JUDGMENT and DESTRUCTION (apolia) of ungodly man" American Standard Version, New American Standard Version, Revised Standard Version, New International Version, and Living Oracles by Campbell.
• "DAY of JUDGMENT and DESTRUCTION (apolia) of the Godless" New Revised Standard Version.
• "DAY of JUDGMENT and PERDITION (apolia) of ungodly men," King James Version, and New King James Version. Perdition is a Latin word, which means, "utter destruction."
• "DAY of JUDGMENT when the godless WILL BE DESTROYED (apolia)" Revised English Bible.
• "DAY of JUDGMENT and DESTRUCTION (apolia) of ungodly people" Amplified Bible.
• "DAY of JUDGMENT and DESTRUCTION (apolia) of godless men" McCord's New Testament Translation, Hardeman College.
• "The DAY of JUDGMENT, the DAY when godless men WILL BE DESTROYED (apolia)" New American Bible.
• "Are being kept for the JUDGMENT DAY AND THE DESTRUCTION (apolia) of all who are against God" New Century Bible.
IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 3 THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EARTH AND THE DESTRUCTION OF UNGODLY MEN IS THE SAME. WHAT HAPPENS TO ONE WILL HAPPEN TO THE OTHER. BOTH ARE TO BE DESTROYED BY FIRE AT THE SAME TIME, ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. If the same word in the same sentence was used with two different meanings there would be no way anyone could know the writer was saying God will destroy (apolia) the earth but will torment (apolia) men. God could not have said any clearer that He will destroy both? Do you believe God or man?
"PASSES AWAY...ABIDES FOREVER" 1 John 2:17. This is a contrast showing that the world with those who are of the world shall pass away, but
• "He that does the will of God abides forever."
• Those who are of the world shall pass away with the world, and do not "abides forever."
The world "shall pass away...be dissolved...be burned up...dissolved...shall melt with fervent heat" [2 Peter 3:10-11]. The unsaved are "not of the Father, but is of the world, and the world passes away" [1 John 2:17]. There is no way to say any stronger or clearer that the lost shall pass away [come to an end] just as the world will come to an end. "BUT THE HEAVENS THAT NOW ARE, AND THE EARTH, BY THE SAME WORD HAVE BEEN STORED UP FOR FIRE, BEING RESERVED AGAINST THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND DESTRUCTION OF UNGODLY MAN" [2 Peter 3:7]. Both are destroyed "in the day of," not one [the earth] destroyed "in the day of," and one [the lost] being destroyed for all eternity but never destroyed; not that they will be just as undestroyed after a million years as they were at it's beginning and will be undestroyed for all eternity. Not the destruction of one and the everlasting torment of the other one, but it is the same destruction of both at the same time. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EARTH AND THE UNGODLY IS ON THE JUDGMENT DAY, THE THEOLOGY OF TODAY SAYS, "NOT SO, SINNERS WILL HAVE NO DESTRUCTION, BUT WILL LIVE FOREVER IN TORMENT FOR THEY CAN NEVER BE DESTROYED."
JOHN 3:16 APOLIA - PERISH "Should not PERISH, (apolia) but have ETERNAL LIFE." This verse certainly teaches that God sent His Son that a person may have eternal life, not just a reward to those who are born with eternal life. It does not teach that a person is born with a soul that cannot die, and this part of a person had eternal life before Christ came and without the death of Christ. John 3:16 teaches those who believe on Christ will have life, and those who do not will have death, not life without end in Hell.
ACTS 8:20 APOLIA - PERISH "May your silver PERISH (apolia) with you" [Acts 8:20]. The SAME THING that happens to the silver happens to the person ["PERISH WITH YOU"], both the gold and the person will perish together. Is the silver being tormented WITH HIM or did both perish?
The King James and New King James translators try to cover this up by using "perdition." Apolia is translated "perdition" Eight times in the King James Version, and comes from the Latin Bible used by the Catholic Church, not from the Greek. Does this show the unwillingness of the translator's to translate it honestly? Were they trying to hide its true meaning; if not, WHY DID THEY TRANSLATE THIS GREEK WORD INTO A LATIN WORD IN AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION? Was it because they did not want it understood by there English readers that could not read Latin? Perdition in Latin is not a synonym for endless torture; perdition means "utter destruction," but not many English readers would know this. It hides the true meaning from all who do not understand Latin but nonetheless lets the translators say they did not mistranslate it. Apolia is translated "perdition" in both the King James Version and the American Standard Version in John 17:12; Philippians 1:28; 2 Thessalonians 2:3; 1 Timothy 6:9; Hebrews 10:39; Revelation 17:8; 17:11. In 2 Peter 3:7 the King James Version says, "perdition" and the American Standard Version says, “destruction." The New Revised Standard Version, New International Version, and most other translations have been more truthful to the English readers and taken "perdition" out and replaced it with "destruction."
[4] OLETHROS is used 4 times. Translated DESTRUCTION all 4 times. Wigram, Page 528.
2 Thessalonians 1:9 "Who shall be punished with EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION [olethros] from the presence of the Lord." WE ARE TOLD CLEARLY AND EXACTLY:
• (A) WHAT THE PUNISHMENT IS: EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION. Not punished with everlasting torment, but PUNISHED WITH EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION. "Punishment, even eternal destruction." American Standard Version, 2 Thessalonians 1:9. "And these will pay the penalty of eternal destruction" New American Standard Version
• (B) Also when it shall be: [2 Thessalonians 1:10] "when He shall come" [not forever or in "Hell"]. "At the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power" [2 Thessalonians 1:7]
Two views of 2 Thessalonians l:9
One view) THE EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION COMES FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. The "everlasting destruction" comes "from [apo] the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power" New King James Version. This destruction is the penalty for sin [death] to those who are not in Christ and are not saved by His death. Henry Thayer said, "Destruction proceeding from the [incensed, wrathful] countenance of the Lord, 2 Th 1.9" A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, Page 59. In Jeremiah 4:26, the origin of the destruction is from God. In Isaiah 2:10: 2:19; and 2:21 the Septuagint, a Greek version of the Old Testament made in third century BC, has the same Greek words ["from the presence of the Lord"] used by Peter in Acts 3:19 where it is used as proceeding from the Lord.
• "And fire came out FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD and consumed them, than they died before the Lord" [Leviticus 10:2]
• "Fire also came forth FROM THE LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men" [Numbers 16:35]
• "We would see a sign FROM [apo] you" Matthew 12:38
• "So there may come seasons of refreshing FROM [apo] THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD" [Acts 3:19]
• "Everlasting destruction FROM [apo] THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD and from the glory of His power" [2 Thessalonians 1:9 New King James Version]
A second view) THE DESTRUCTION IS TO BE SENT AWAY FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. Unconditional immoralists add "away" from the presence of the Lord. They want this destruction to be only being sent away from the presence of God, as if there were such a place, to be banished to some place where God is not there. To be away from the presence of God is to be nowhere at all. Not to be; to have no existence at all anywhere. To be alive anywhere is to be where God is [Psalms 139:7-9]; and with God sustaining the life they have, for there can be no life that is not sustained by God. There cannot be a place where there is life away from the presence of God. Today's theology denies the omnipresence of God by saying there is a place where God is not present, then says mankind can forever live there without God being there to sustain their life. The destruction comes from God. It is "destruction from the presence of the Lord," not to be given eternal life but then "being sent away from the presence of the Lord."
Both Acts 3:19 and 2 Thessalonians 1:9 have the identical words, “FROM (apo) the presence of the Lord.” A sign, many things, destruction, and seasons of refreshing are all things that came FROM God, not things that were SENT AWAY FROM God and will exist forever away from His presence. Apo is used many times in the New Testament and never means away.
• “We would see a sign FROM (apo) you” [Matthew 12:38]. A sign that came FROM (apo) Christ, not a sign that was “forever away FROM the presence of Christ.”
• “FROM (apo) the presence of the Lord” [Acts 3:19]
• “FROM (apo) the presence of the Lord” [2 Thessalonians 1:9]
• “And suffer many things FROM (apo) the elders” [Matthew 16:21 New American Standard]. Christ suffered many things FROM (apo) the elders, not many things that were “forever away FROM the elders.”
• “So all the generations FROM (apo) Abraham unto David are fourteen generations [Matthew 1:17]
• “He is risen FROM (apo) the dead” [Matthew 14:2]
TWO PASSAGES THAT ARE USED BY SOME TO PROVE TORMENT IN HELL, 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 and Revelation 14:10-11. Where is Hell? Those who believe in Hell use 2 Thessalonians 1:9 to prove Hell is away from the presence of God and that death, the wages of sin is separation from God, but not a real death. Yet, they make Revelation 14:10-11 be literal to prove Hell, but when they make this torment be literal torment, they literally make it be in Heaven, not Hell.
1. "IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD."
2. Or AWAY (which is added) "FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD"