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

"If it be your mind [soul - nehphesh]" King James Version
[22] Genesis 27:4 "So that I may bless you before I [soul - nehphesh] die" New Revised
Standard Version.
• "So that I [nehphesh] may bless you before I die" Revised Standard Version,
New Revised Standard Version
• "So that I [nehphesh] may give you my blessing before I die" New
International Version
• "So that I [nehphesh] may give you my blessing before I die" Revised English
Bible
• "To give you my [nehphesh] blessing before I die" Amplified Bible
• "That I [nehphesh] may give you my special blessing before I die" New
American Bible
• "Then I [nehphesh] will bless you before I die" New Century Version
• "Then I [nehphesh] will pronounce the blessing that belongs to you, my
firstborn son, before I die" New Living Translation
• "I [nehphesh] want to eat it once more and give you by blessing before I die"
Contemporary English Version
• "That I [nehphesh] may eat of it, [preparatory] to giving you [as my firstborn]
my blessing before I die" Amplified Bible
• "That my soul [nehphesh] may bless thee before I die" King James Version.
How would Isaac's son know if he were blessed by an "immaterial invisible"
no substance part of a person that he could not see? By this time, hundreds of
years after Genesis 1:1, the King James translators must have been desperate
to be able to put "soul" into the Bible.
UP TO GENESIS 27:4 FOR HUNDERS OF YEARS NEHPHESH IS
TRANSLATED SOUL:
• ONLY FOUR TIMES OUT OF TWENTY-TWO IN THE KING JAMES
VERSION
• ONLY ONE TIME OUT OF TWENTY-TWO IN THE NEW KING JAMES
VERSION
• NONE IN MANY OTHERS TRANSLATIONS
Nehphesh has been used 21 times before the New King James Version used "soul" for
the first time, but even then the translators of many versions have chosen not to translate
it "soul." IN GENESIS "NEHPHESH" IS NOT AN IMMORTAL "IMMATERIAL,
INVISIBLE PART OF MAN," BUT IT IS THE LIFE, LIVING CREATURE, LIVING
BEING, ANY LIVING THING, WHETHER ANIMALS, FISH, OR MAN. IF THE
TRANSLATORS HAD CONTINUED TO TRANSLATE NEHPHESH AS LIFE,
LIVING CREATURE, LIVING BEING, OR PERSON, AS THEY DID IN THE FIRST
TWENTY-ONE TIMES IT IS USED, THERE MAY NOT BE THE DIVISIONS
THERE ARE TODAY. WHY DID THEY NOT TRANSLATE NEHPHESH INTO
SOUL IN THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE THAT COVERD HUNDARDS OF
YEARS? MAYBE BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT WOULD HAVE MADE
ANIMALS HAVE SOULS, AND THEY DID NOT BELIEVE ANIMALS COULD
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HAVE SOULS. I find it difficult to see how anyone could not call their honesty into
question for it is undeniable that they put their belief over the word of God and
deliberately hid the truth from their readers; deliberately hid the truth from you.
[23] Genesis 32:30 "My life [soul - nehphesh] is preserved" King James Version. Most
translations use "life" in this passage for their soul could not perish and would not need to
be preserved.
[24] Genesis 34:3
• "His heart [soul - nehphesh] was drawn to Dinah" New International Version
• "He was deeply attracted [nehphesh] to Dinah" New American Standard Version
• "His soul [nehphesh] clave unto Dinah" King James Version. If this translation is
not saying an immaterial immortal soul clave unto a material mortal being what is
it saying?
[25] Genesis 34:8
• "My son Shechem has his heart [nehphesh] on your daughter" New International
Version
• "My son Shechem is in love [nehphesh] with this girl" Revised English Bible
• "The heart [nehphesh] of my son Shechem longs for your daughter" New Revised
Standard Version
• "The soul [nehphesh] of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter" King James
Version
[26] Genesis 35:18
• "As she breathed [nehphesh] her last-for she was dying" New International
Version.
• "Then with her last breath, [nehphesh] as she was dying" Revised English Bible
• "As her soul [nehphesh] was departing (for she died)" King James Version
[27] Genesis 36:6 "All the persons [nehphesh] of his house" King James Version
[28] Genesis 37:21 "Let us not kill him [nehphesh]" King James Version
[29] Job 12:10 "In whose hand is the soul [soul - nehphesh, used referring to animals] of
every living thing, and the breath of all mankind." "The life of every living thing" New
American Standard Bible
[30] Job 41:21 "His breath [soul - nehphesh, used referring to an animal, possibly a
crocodile]"
[31] Isaiah 19:10 "All that make sluices and ponds for fish [soul - nehphesh, used
referring to animals, fish]" King James Version
[32] Jeremiah 2:24 "A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffed up the wind in her
[soul - nehphesh, used referring to an animal] desire"
[33] Numbers 31:28 "And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out
to battle: one soul [nehphesh-used referring to man and animals] of five hundred, both of
the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses and of the sheep." Of about 870 times
“nephesh” is in the Old Testament this and Job 12:10 are the only passages where the
King James translators translated “nephesh” as “soul” when it has reference to animals
and the only reason they did this time is that it has equal reference to people as it does to
animals and they had no choice.
"So carefully has the translation of nehphesh been guarded in relation to animals as 'souls,' that
we can't help but wonder if it were not done intentionally to conceal the fact that animals are
souls as well as men." David J. Heinizman, "Man Became A Living Soul"
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[34 to 870] It would be to long to quote all the 870 times the Hebrew word nehphesh is in
the Old Testament with just over one-half being translated "soul" in King James Version
[Wigram, Page 829, Old Testament].
1. SOUL about 473 times. Not once do any of them imply anything about life
beyond the grave or about the soul being immortal
2. LIFE about 122 times
3. PERSON about 26 times
4. MIND about 15 times
5. HEART about 15 times
6. PERSONAL PRONOUNS 44 + times [yourselves, themselves, her, me, he, his,
himself]
7. ALL OTHERS about 200 times [man, creature, living being, own, any, living
thing, lives, the dead, dead body, kills, slays, slay him, mortally, discontented,
ghost, breath, will, appetite, hearty desire, desire, pleasure, lust, deadly, fish]. All
870 times it is associated with the activity of a living being, including dying,
and it never implies anything about life after the death of the living being.
None of them are an immortal inter part of a person. They are a living being that
can die, be killed, or be dead. Nehphesh is always associated with the activity
of earthly breathing beings, both of person(s) and animal(s). It never implies
anything about life beyond the grave. IT IS NEVER TRANSLATED
"SPIRIT."
Can one word be rightly translated this way? Can a word that is not a pronoun be
rightly translated into a pronoun as it is in the King James Version? How could the
translators know when to change the noun into a pronoun? NO ONE READING SOME
OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE WOULD HAVE ANY
WAY OF KNOWING THAT ALL THESE WORDS ARE TRANSLATIONS (OR
MISTRANSLATIONS) OF ONLY ONE WORD. Did the translators do so because
they wanted to make a person be an "immortal being," and more than a "living
creatures?" In almost one half of the times nehphesh is used in the Old Testament, even
the King James translators could not translate it "soul." When the all-knowing God used
just one word, why did the translators use many words and change it as they wished to
from a noun to a pronoun? Did they think that for all the years from Adam unto Christ,
God thought people could understand just one word; but now about forty words are
needed to translate one word? If one word were all that was needed from Adam to the
King James Version, why would God's one word not be enough today? Do the translators
think they have improved the Hebrew Old Testament? The use of many words came
when the Catholic Church brought in unconditional immortality, and they had to get it
into the Bible. The Hebrew manuscripts still have just one word - nehphesh, which was
the one word God inspired. Were the translators inspired to change it to many words?
Nehphesh is translated soul far fewer times in the New American Standard Version
and in most other translations, including the New King James Version, than it is in the
King James Version. Were they going as far as they dared to in correcting the King
James Version?
The way soul is understood and used today in English (an inter undying PART of a
person) makes putting the word soul in a translation for the English people today be a
false and deliberately misleading translation; for it makes it where today's English reader
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cannot know what God said, and will understand only what the prejudiced outlook the
translators wanted their readers to understand WHEN THE WORD SOUL IS
UNDERSTOOD AS IT IS USED TODAY. Without much study of Bible words, which
most Bible reader will never do, they cannot know what God said to them when they read
the word soul and will think that the outlook of the translator is the word of God, which
seems to be somewhat prejudice. God's word has been deliberately replaced with the
teaching of man [Matthew 15:9] in a way that will have more influence on our
conception of what our nature is and the nature of all living beings than any other
question.
THE “SOUL” AND “EATING OF BLOOD”
Is the immortal "soul" [nehphesh] in the blood? Is a part of a person that many say
it lives after the death of the body in the blood of both men and animals? [Leviticus
17:10-15] In only six verses nehphesh is used ten times.
• Used referring to animals four times
• Used referring to man six times
• Translated soul six times and life four times in the King James Version
"I will even set my face against that SOUL [person - nehphesh, used referring to man]
that eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the LIFE [soul -
nehphesh, used referring to animals] of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to
you upon the altar to make an atonement for your SOULS: [nehphesh, used referring to
man] for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the SOUL [nehphesh, used referring
to man]. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No SOUL [nehphesh, used referring
to man] of you shall eat blood...For it is the LIFE [soul - nehphesh, used referring to
animals] of all flesh; the blood of it is for the LIFE [soul - nehphesh, used referring to
animals] thereof; therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No SOUL [nehphesh, used
referring to man] shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the LIFE [soul -
nehphesh, used referring to animals] of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eats it
shall be cut off. And every SOUL [nehphesh, used referring to man] that eats that which
died of itself...he shall wash his clothes, and bath himself in water" In this passage, the
King James Version translated the same word "soul" six times when it used referring to
man and "life" four times when it used referring to animals. Can anyone not see how the
translators picked when they wanted "nehphesh" to be "soul" and when they wanted
"nehphesh" to be "life"? They could not let an immortal soul be in the blood nor could
they let animals have an immortal soul. Their theology said a man had to