Immortality or Resurrection by William West (philippa perry book txt) 📕

If one is not a Christian because of the love of God and the hope of eternal life, he cannot be a Christian because of the fear of going to Hell. The Lord does not add anyone to the church because of fear of the nonexistence pagan Hell. Some would say, "Has not the fear of Hell made many Christian?" No, the believing of Satan's lie over God has made many be lost even while they think they are saved. No one can be frightened into Heaven. Hellfire preaching is the gospel of fear used by men like Jonathan Edwards. It cannot save, it deceives.
The Judgment Day will be a fearful day for the lost [Hebrews 10:26-31]. Maybe more fearful than anything a person has ever known. We will all stand before the judgment seat of God; those who have not obeyed the Gospel, or have not remained faithful will face God's wrath at the judgment.
Summary: IT WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE TO SAY ANY CLEARER THAT EVIL MEN WILL BE KILLED, UTTERLY PERISH, BE UTTERLY DESTROYED JUST LIKE AND WITH THE ANIMALS AND THINGS AT THE END OF THE WORLD. ALL THE RIGHT WORDS, BOTH IN THE GREEK AND IN THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION ARE USED TO SHOW EVIL MEN WILL DIE, COME TO AN END. IT COULD NOT BE SAID ANY STRONGER OR CLEARER. ON THE OTHER HAND, NONE OF THE WORDS USED SO OFTEN TODAY ARE USED, AN UNDYING SOUL, AN IMMORTAL SOUL TO SAVE, EVERLASTING TORMENT, ETERNAL HELL, YOU ARE GOING TO HELL WHEN YOU DIE, ETC. THESE WORDS, WHICH ARE USED REPEATEDLY FROM TODAY'S PULPITS WOULD BE AN ABSOLUTE MUST TO PROVE TODAY'S TEACHING OF HELL, BUT THEY ARE TOTALLY ABSENT IN THE BIBLE. If you think you could say it better, try it. There are no better words in our language. There is not anything that shows a person will live forever in torment. The parables and metaphors Christ used clearly show destruction, not torment. Did the Holy Spirit do a poor job of choosing words when He was guiding into all truth? Luckily He has some with their theology to help Him out lest the new convert understand the English words the way they are translated. Is it not unreasonable to make words in the Bible have a meaning attached to them that is unlike their use in any other book in the world?

THE WRATH OF GOD
"Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense and again, the Lord shall judge His people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" Hebrews 10:30-31. See Romans 2:1-16; 1 Thessalonians 1:10. The Day of Judgment will be a fearful day to the lost, when they must give an account to God. The theology of many makes it essential that the wrath of God keeps the fire of Hell hot, and forever tormenting the lost in extreme pain and anguish. The Bible does not one time say His wrath will mean He will inflict everlasting pain and anguish on the lost.
1) WRATH OF GOD IN THIS LIFE: MANY OF THE SCRIPTURES ON THE WRATH OF GOD IS HIS WRATH ON THE SINNER NOW IN THIS LIFE [Romans 1:18; 2 Peter 2:9]. Sodom was destroyed. It was totally annihilated with all that were in it. In the flood all life not in the ark was totally destroyed, annihilated, abolished, not tormented. Throughout the Old Testament God's wrath has been on people, cities, and nations that disobey Him. They were destroyed by fire, sword, wars, floods, famines, pestilences, but never forever tormented. Capernaum was thrust down to the grave. It does not exist today.
2) WRATH OF GOD "IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT." MANY OTHER SCRIPTURES ARE ABOUT HIS WRATH IS AT THE JUDGMENT DAY
• "Wrath IN THE DAY OF WRATH and revelation of the righteous judgment of God...but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worked evil...IN THE DAY when God shall judge the secrets of man" [Romans 2:5-16 American Standard Version].
• "For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries. A man that has set at naught Moses law died without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses: of how much sorer punishment, think you, shall he be judged worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified and unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For we know him that said, vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, and again, the Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" [Hebrews 10:26-31].
• "And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this comes judgment" [Hebrews 9:27].
• "Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through him" [Romans 5:9].
• "Inasmuch as he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained" [Acts 17:31].
• Also 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 5:9
3) WRATH OF GOD AFTER THE JUDGMENT: There is not one word about the wrath of God after the judgment day is over. MANY MIX THE FIRST TWO TOGETHER AND MISAPPLY MOST OF THEM TO THEIR HELL AFTER JUDGMENT DAY which they must prove at all cost. Is it that they want them burning in Hell while we are in Heaven? NOTHING IS SAID ABOUT GOD TORMENTING ANYONE AFTER THE JUDGMENT DAY IS OVER, OR ABOUT HIS WRATH AFTER THAT DAY; BUT IT IS TAUGHT AS IF IT WERE A GOSPEL FACT. God's wrath will be on the Judgment Day [Matthew 16:27; Luke 14:4; John 5:27-29; Acts 17:31; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Timothy 4:1; 2 Peter 3:7; Malachi 4:1-3]. WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GOD'S WRATH AFTER THE JUDGMENT IS OVER? NOT ONE WORD.

THE TYPES OF THE JUDGMENT
The types and shadows all teach death, not an eternal life of torment. The punishment for sin is always death.
1. THE FLOOD 2 Peter 2:5: Eight lived; but for the rest of mankind there was only death in the flood, not a life of torment. Genesis 7:13-23 "And God said unto Noah, The END of all flesh is come before me... AND BEHOLD, I WILL DESTROY THEM WITH THE EARTH...And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to DESTROY all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth SHALL DIE...And all flesh that moved on the earth PERISHED, [died, King James Version] birds, and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life DIED. Thus, He BLOTTED OUT [was destroyed, American Standard Version] every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were BLOTTED OUT [was destroyed, American Standard Version] from the earth; and only Noah was left [alive] and they that were with him in the ark" [New American Standard Version]. DIED, PERISHED. WAS DESTROYED, BLOTTED OUT, AND NOT LEFT ALIVE WAS LITERALLY THE END OF THEM, ALL IN WHOSE NOSTRILS WAS THE BREATH OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE DIED. Does anyone think "birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing..." etc., did not perish when they died, and are living in some third world somewhere with these evil men that did not perish when they died? The flood is a type of the judgment. THE WICKED WILL LITERALLY PERISH, DIE, BE BLOTTED OUT, AND NOT BE LEFT ALIVE; AND ONLY THE SAVED WILL "REMAINED" ALIVE. "For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God; by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, PERISHED: 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: 5-7]. Just as those outside of the ark were all destroyed by the flood and none, animals or man, were left alive and tormented, all those outside of Christ will be destroyed. There is no question or doubt that destroy, perish, die, and end was the end of all life at the time of the flood. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE [type] OF THE JUDGMENT TO COME. ONLY THOSE IN THE ARK [Christ] WILL BE LEFT ALIVE.
2. SODOM AND GOMORRAH Jude 7: "ARE SET FORTH AS AN EXAMPLE, SUFFERING THE PUNISHMENT OF ETERNAL FIRE" [American Standard Version]. GOD "CONDEMNED THEM TO EXTINCTION AND MADE THEM AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT IS COMING TO THE UNGODLY" [2 Peter 2:6 New Revised Standard Version]. These cities were literally burnt up, not still burning with the people walking around in torment. THEIR END [EXTINCTION] WAS COMPLETE TOTAL DESTRUCTION AND ETERNAL; AND IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION THAT IS COMING TO THE UNGODLY AT THE JUDGMENT. SODOM HAS CEASED TO EXIST. SO THOROUGH WAS ITS DESTRUCTION THAT ITS LOCATION IS NOT KNOWN. Some believe it was under what is now the Dead Sea, some that it was other places. THE ANNIHILATION, END, DESTRUCTION, EXTINCTION OF THE UNGODLY WILL BE TOTAL AND ETERNAL, JUST AS IT WAS OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH. THEY WILL CEASE TO EXIST. This is the first use of "fire and brimstone" and the only time it was literally rained on anyone. It was the total destruction of the two cities, and is later used as a symbol of total and eternal destruction. [Psalms 11:6; Isaiah 34:9; Ezekiel 38:22; Revelation 19:20; 20:10; 21:8]. "By turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly" [2 Peter 2:6 New Revised Standard Version]. That they were reduced to ashes and the fire went out is also a part of the example of what will happen to the ungodly. The fire did not preserve them in eternal torment, but eternity destroyed them. Where is the revelation that changes this example of total destruction by a fire that went out when the destruction was complete into an example of destruction that will never be complete and the fire will never go out?
2 Peter 2:6:
• "And if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes HE CONDEMNED THEM TO EXTINCTION AND MADE THEM AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT IS COMING TO THE UNGODLY" New Revised Standard Version.
• "And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, HAVING MADE THEM AN EXAMPLE UNTO THOSE THAT SHOULD LIVE UNGODLY" American Standard Version.
• "He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, HAVING MADE THEM AN EXAMPLE TO THOSE WHO WOULD LIVE UNGODLY THEREAFTER" New American Standard Version.
• "He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, AND MADE THEM AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE UNGODLY" New International Version.
• "And