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

revelation from God, no one could know that God meant only a loss of well being when He used these words.
If Hell exists then death cannot be death, if death is death there cannot be a Hell.
THE MISSING WORDS
Words that are not in the Bible but are preached today as if they were on every page (1) Immortal soul (2) Hell (3) An eternal life of torment. The Bible is made to say what the readers want it to say and their faith (what they believe) is only a projection of their own desires.
John Locke wrote, "By death some understand endless torments in hell fire; but it seems a strange way of understanding a law, which requires the plainest and directest of word, that by death should be meant eternal life in misery."
Dean Alford, "A canon of interpretation, which should be constantly born in mind, is that a figurative sense of words is never admissible except when required by the context" Commentary on Acts 10:42. "Death" used in a figurative sense to be "eternal life separated from God" is never required by the context but that "death" means "eternal life" is a must for today's theology. Today's teaching is that the Bible almost never means what it says and must be interpreted, and one of the ways it must be interpreted is to explain the meaning of death to be life.
H. L. Hastings, "Eight times he (Paul) speaks of the wicked as destined to perish. Death is used to express their destiny seven times. Nine times they are spoken of as be destroyed, once as devoured by fire, and once as burned. Not one of these words has, in the original or the translation, the meaning of eternal torment. Not one of them means any such thing in common conversation, and it is only by a 'theological' or false definition, alike repugnant to the laws of language and common sense, that such an idea can be conveyed by such language. Paul does not tell us that he used these words in a peculiar or theological sense. No Greek would have supposed so, had they heard him; and we are led to conclude that as Paul would not use words calculated to mislead, therefore, we should take these words in their most obvious and current signification. Paul did teach the utter destruction or perishing, or death, or extermination of ungodly men. He would not have taught it unless it was true; therefore, it is the truth" The Last Judgment, Page 22.
Summary: If immorality is unconditional and the only part of a person that will live forever in Heaven or any other place cannot die, then many words cannot "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." Many words, life, death, die, dead, destroy, perish, destruction, consumed, kill, end, burned up, and sleep, must be redefined in a way that the world does not use them. We must have "a class of inspired men to unfold and reveal its true sense to mankind." The belief that men are born immortal and can never die makes death impossible and death must be redefined as a different kind of life in a different place. This is just what they have done by saying death does not mean to be dead, but death means to be alive and living an eternal life with torment separated from God. Anyone who reads the Bible believing that a soul is an "immaterial, invisible part of a person" (W. E. Vine) that is immortal and can never die, is compelled to change all texts that speak of the lost being destroyed to mean that they are only tortured forever but are not destroyed. "Destroy" cannot be understood "in the fair, stipulated, and well-established meaning of the terms." Parables, symbols, and figurative languages are made to be superior over plain statements. What is clear language is made to agree with what they think is said in the symbolic language. In truth, they are saying the clear language just is not the truth, and God did not know what He was saying. If God had used words in a way that those hearing Him would not understand them in the way He used them, and those reading them today would also not understand them in the way He used the words; then He deliberately misleads them.
God said it the way He meant it.
1. Life is life, not just a reward to an immaterial invisible part of a person that now has eternal life and can never be dead.
2. Death is death and it is the opposite of life, not a different form of life. Not eternal life with torment.
3. Destruction is destruction. Destruction does not mean there is a part of a person that can never be destroyed. Destruction does not mean kept alive in eternal torment.
4. End is end, not going on without an end.
5. Kill is to end life and does not mean never able to be killed, never able to end life.
6. Burned up is burned up, not ever able to be burned up.
7. Consumed is consumed, not ever able to be consumed.
8. Perish is perish, not just a loss of well being to those who cannot perish.
9. Sleep is sleep, not to be awake in Heaven or Hell.
There is no way that God could have said, “the wages of sin is death” any clearer that what He did.
CHANGES THAT MUST BE MADE BY THOSE WHO BELIEVE
IN ETERANL LIFE IN HELL MUST MAKE
TO MAKE THE BIBLE AGREE WITH THEM
Traditionalist must change the Bible to say the opposite of what it says.
• “He that believes on the Son has eternal life; but he that believes not the Son shall not see life” [John 3:36] must be changed to, “He that believes not the Son was born with eternal life and will see life in Hell where he will live forever.”
• “For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and few are they that find it” [Matthew 7:13-14] must be changed to, “For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life in Heaven, and most shall see life in Hell.”
• “For God so loved the world that He give His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on Him should not perish, but have eternal life” [John 3:16] must be changed to, “That all will have eternal life someplace, in Heaven or in Hell.”
• “Even He who is able to save and to destroy” [James 4:12] must be changed to, “Even He who is able to save alive in Heaven or save alive in Hell.”
• “For he that sows unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption: but he that sows unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life” [Galatians 5:8] must be changed to, “Both shall reap eternal life, just not in the same place, some eternal life in Heaven and some eternal life in Hell.”
• “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” [Romans 6:23] must be changed to, “For the wages of sin is eternal torment in Hell for those who were born with eternal life, but the gift of God is a reward for those who were born with eternal life.”
• “Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it” [Luke 17:33] must be changed to, “Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall preserve it in Hell: but whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it in Heaven.”
The changes that must be made by those who teach eternal life in Hell could be extended to many pages but this should be enough for anyone who loves the truth more than the “doctrines and precepts of men” [Matthew 15:9].
The reinterpretation of the many words used that mean the end of life has no equal. Other reinterpretations are based on the changing of a few passages; Peter being the first Pope is based mostly on a reinterpretation of Matthew 16:18; but for souls to be deathless and tormented forever there had to be many plus many more changes or adding to. "Everlasting destruction" had to be changed to be "everlasting life with torment." Was Paul trying to deceive by using the word "destruction" and today's theology has to correct him by saying, "No Paul, you really meant to say everlasting torment"? Destruction does not mean to preserve alive in eternal torment.
In Matthew 10:39 Lose his life (Greek psukee-soul) must be changed to mean an everlasting life of torment.
1. "He who finds his life (soul-psukee) shall lose it."
2. "He who loses his life (soul-psukee) shall find it."
The person who saves his life by denying Christ will lose it at the judgment. The person that loses his life because he is a Christian and will not deny Christ will find life at the judgment. There is no way Christ could have said it any clearer or plainer. It is "LIFE" that is being spoken of, not a part of a person that was born with life and cannot lose it. There is not a word said about eternal life with torment in this passage. Those who do not obey Christ shall lose the very thing that is saved by those who do obey him. They shall lose life. The lost shall die. The saved shall live.
"And you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him" (1 John 3:15). Was John wrong when he said no murderer has eternal life? If, as many say, mankind has a "soul" that is immortal and cannot die, and if the only part of men that shall live after the judgment is an ever-living soul which all even murderers have, then a murderer does have eternal life from birth and can never die, for all the lost have the same "immaterial, invisible part of man" (W. E. Vine) that will live forever that the saved have. Without eternal life, a murderer cannot have an immortal soul. If he did have an immortal soul, he would have eternal life abiding in him; if he does not have eternal life abiding in him, he does not have an immortal soul. To teach the soul of all is eternal and can never die make all have eternal life, it can only be a question of where they will spend their eternal life. John said, "And this is the promise which he promised us, even the life eternal" (1 John 2:25). "We have passed out of death into life...no murderer has eternal life abiding in him" (1 John 3:14-15). Is there anyway John could have said any clearer that a murderer does not have an immortal soul or eternal life?
Death is not hell. A dead person cannot be tormented; they can feel no pain. Only the living can be tormented. If Hell were a real place, those in it would be alive, not dead. Their life would be just as eternal as the life of the saved.
• Death makes Hell impossible
• Hell makes death impossible
• Hell makes the resurrection of the dead impossible
If there is no death, there cannot be a resurrection of the undead. If there is no resurrection, we have no hope 1 Corinthians 15:16-19. Can there be a doctrine more harmful than the