Immortality or Resurrection (Updated) by William West (reading strategies book .TXT) 📖

created, then super-added a living being to the man making him a dual
being. It does not say God made a being without life and then put another living being in the
lifeless one. It says God made the man and then put life into him. According to Plato's a soul was
put into the prison house, the body at birth and freed from it at death; while in the prison house of
man, the soul uses its eyes to see, its ears to hear, and uses all the body. If it were a living being
that was put into the body, could it see, hear, etc., before without the eyes and ears of the body,
and can it do so after the death of the body? If the “soul” was not capable of performing these
functions without the body, how can it do so after the death of the body? THE LIFELESS BODY
BECAME A LIVING BEING WHEN GOD BREATHED INTO IT’S NOSTRILS THE
BREATH OF LIFE AND WHEN THE BREATH OF LIFE LEAVES THE BODY, IT
BECOMES A LIFELESS BODY. IT WAS LIFE GIVEN TO THE BODY, NOT AN
IMMORTAL LIVING BEING IMPRISONED IN IT THAT WAS BETTER OFF WITHOUT
THE BODY IN WHICH IT WAS IMPRISONED.
[4]. "YOU SURELY SHALL NOT DIE" [Genesis 3]
WHERE DID THE IDEA OF AN IMMORTAL SOUL ORIGINATE? Not from the first lie
as many believe. Adam and Eve were told, "YOU [not your soul] shall not eat of it; neither shall
YOU [not your soul] touch it lest YOU [not your soul] die." Satan said, "YOU [not your soul]
shall not surely die." They were not told their "souls" would die. THEY [Adam and Eve] not their
"soul" were sent out of the Garden of Eden "lest HE [not his soul] put forth HIS [not his soul]
hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, AND LIVE FOREVER." Not their "immaterial,
invisible" undying soul eats and lives forever.
1. THERE IS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT A SOUL IN GENESIS CHAPTER THREE,
BUT THIS CHAPTER IS USED TO PROVE A PERSON HAS AN IMMORTAL SOUL
THAT CANNOT DIE
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2. THERE IS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT "HELL" IN GENESIS CHAPTER THREE,
BUT THIS CHAPTER IS ALSO USED TO PROVE AN ETERNAL LIFE OF
TORMENT IN HELL.
• God said, "In the day YOU eat it DYING YOU SHALL DIE."
• Eve said, "YOU shall not eat from it or touch it, LEST YOU DIE."
• Satan said, "YOU surely SHALL NOT DIE."
o Satan lie has been added to in today's preaching. It has been changed to be, "Your
body shall die but YOUR SOUL, WHICH IS THE REAL YOU, SHALL SURELY
NOT DIE."
o "And all the days that Adam LIVED were nine hundred and thirty years: and HE
DIED" [Genesis 5:5]. "Adam LIVED...and HE DIED." Today's theology says
not so, “Adam LIVED...and he CONTINUED TO LIVE. Satan right when he
said, ‘you surely shall NOT die’”
The warning for eating of the tree was "YOU shall surely die.” God's sentence for eating of
the tree was "to dust YOU shall return" [not your soul shall return to dust]. In God's statement to
Adam, the personal pronouns "you" and "your" are used about fifteen times (it varies in different
translations). "Then to Adam He said, 'Because YOU have listened to the voice of YOUR wife, and
have eaten from the tree about which I commanded YOU, saying, YOU shall not eat from it;
cursed is the ground because of YOU; in toil YOU shall eat of it all the days of YOUR life. Both
thorns and thistles it shall grow for YOU; and YOU shall eat the plants of the field; by the sweat
of YOUR face YOU shall eat bread, till YOU return to the ground, because from it YOU were
taken; for YOU are dust, and to dust YOU shall return" [New American Standard Version]. The
"YOU" is Adam, not just an immaterial, invisible part of Adam. Those who use this passage to
teach a person has an immortal soul pick one of the many of the "YOU'S" and say only this one is
an immortal part of Adam but say nothing of the others and hope you do not see the others for
their immortal "immaterial, invisible part of man" cannot eat, will not return to the ground, does
not sweat, etc.; the YOU that eat is the same YOU that died; there is nothing obscure or
vague in this statement, language could not be more definite. This passage is used to teach the
doctrine of an immortal soul [nehphesh] even though it says nothing of a soul [nehphesh] or
immortality, and at the same time, death, which is in the passage, is removed and made not to
exist. WHY WOULD AN IMMORTAL, IMMATERIAL SOUL THAT CANNOT DIE HAVE
ANY NEED OF THE TREE OF LIFE TO LIVE? Why do many think God would tell Adam he
would die if God know Adam was immortal and could not die, and why would God take the tree
of life from him “lest he ear and live forever” if God know Adam had an “immortal soul” that
was the only part of him that would live forever, and his “immortal soul” would live forever
without the tree of life?
In “YOU shall surely DIE,” die is from mooth, Strong’s world 4191 and is used repeatedly
through out the Old Testament with reference to the death of mankind, animals, fish, etc., but
never means eternal life with torment. It is “YOU” Adam that would “DIE” just as animals and
fish die, not some part of Adam that could not die that would LIVE some place separated from
God.
It was a real earthly tree with a real earthly fruit that a real earthly person with a real earthly
hand that was told HE would die if HE eats, and a real earthly person that was put out of a real
garden lest HE [not his soul] put forth HIS hand [not his soul's hand], and take also of the real
tree of life by eating the fruit HE would have had in the same hand HE put forth [not his soul
eating], AND LIVE FOREVER. TO WHAT DID LIVING DEPEND ON EATING OF THE
TREE OF LIFE; to Adam, or to an "immaterial, invisible" immortal part of Adam that could not
die even if it did not eat? Would it not be a contradiction to say Adam had an immortal soul that
could not die and must live forever, but it depended on eating of the tree of life to live, or that the
soul that could not die would die if it did not eat of the tree of life? Yet, we are told that all, even
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Adam, have an immortal soul that will live forever, and this deathless soul has no need of the tree
of life, and that this deathless part of a person is the only part of a person that will ever live
forever; therefore, what could the tree of life give to Adam's deathless soul that it did not already
have? Nothing. According to this doctrine Adam’s deathless soul did not lose it’s deathless when
Adam eat of the tree? This doctrine makes the flaming sword useless to keep Adam from the tree
of life so that he may eat and live forever, for it makes Adam live forever if he eats or if he does
not eat.
1. God placed Adam in the garden and gave him access to the tree of life to sustain his life;
his life was dependent on his having access to this tree, not on his being created with
unconditional immortality and not subject to death.
2. Adam was removed from the tree of life “lest he eat and live forever”; his life depended
on his eating of the tree before he sinned. He was not remade, not recreated with a
different body; he had the same body before and after he was put out of the garden, just
did not have access to the tree of life.
It was Adam that God said would die if he ate, not an immortal soul that cannot die. It
was Satan that told Adam would not die if he did eat. Nothing is said by God about Adam
having an immortal deathless soul that could not die. "You shall surely die" is far from saying,
"When you die, a part of you will live and suffer eternal torment" but many read this into it. Was
Adam created mortal or immoral? If immortal, how could he be threatened with death when he
could not die? If he were immortal, he would be death-proof; therefore, God's sentence of death if
he eats would have been a lie.
"It is appointed unto man to die, and after this comes the judgment" [Hebrews 9:27]. Not just
part of a person, not only the body of the man. This is changed to read only your outer shell, and
not the real YOU shall die. "In the day YOU eat thereof YOU shall surely die" is not, "After the
death of your body, your soul, a part of you, shall be eternity alive in Hell and tormented by God"
but this is what many read into it. Some say this is not physical death but a spiritual death. Then
where did physical death come from? What death was passed unto ALL men [Romans 5:12]? Is it
appointed for a man to die, or changed to be it is appointed for only a part of a man to die?
"The first man is of the earth, earthy" [1 Corinthians 15:47; Ecclesiastes 3:20].
• THE DEATH SENTENCE: God: "YOU shall surely die" [Genesis 2:17] versus Satan:
"YOU shall not surely die" [Genesis 3:4].
• THE DEATH SENTENCE REPEATED: "Dust YOU are, and unto dust YOU shall
return" [Genesis 2:19]. The YOU that shall die is the same YOU that shall return to dust.
These words do not point to a continuation of life but to the end of it.
• THE DEATH SENTENCE PASSED TO ALL: "Therefore, just as through one man sin
entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because
all sinned" [Romans 5:12]. As a results of Adam’s sin took him away from the tree of life
and brought death which passed on to all for all are born mortal and do not have access to
the tree of life, all return to dust.
• THE REMEDY FOR THE DEATH THAT CAME THROUGH ADAM'S SIN. "For the
hour is coming, in which ALL THAT ARE IN THE TOMBS shall hear his voice, and
SHALL COME FORTH; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and
those that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment" [John 5:28-29].
Was this sentence of death given to an immortal soul that cannot die? If it is immortal how
could any kind of death sentence be given to it, how could it not live forever? It could not be
subject to death. It would not matter if Adam ate or did not eat for his immaterial invisible
immortal soul could not die. In the fall of Adam and his sentence, nothing is said about an
immortal soul. It was Adam that sinned, Adam that died; and it was through Adam that death
came into the world and passed unto all men, not death passed to all immortal souls [1
Corinthians 15:21-22; Romans 5:12-14]. The penalty to Adam and all his seed is death, not
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eternal life in Hell. There will be a resurrection from the death that came into the world from
Adam's sin.
Today's preachers would tell Adam that he was going to Hell for his sin, but God said not one
word about Hell. "Die" has been changed to "Hell." "Death" has been changed