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

at your own
pleasure [soul - nehphesh]" Deuteronomy. 23:24
2. "To bind his princes at his pleasure [soul - nehphesh]" Psalms 105:22
3. "Set at liberty at their pleasure [soul - nehphesh]" Jeremiah 34:16
DISCONTENTED [soul - nehphesh] one time. "Everyone that was discontented [soul - nehphesh]" 1 Samuel. 22:2
GREEDY [soul - nehphesh] one time. "They are greedy [soul - nehphesh] dogs" Isaiah 56:11
HEARTY [soul - nehphesh]
• Nehphesh - one time. "Of a man's friend by hearty [soul - nehphesh] counsel" Proverbs 27:9
• Psukee - one time. "And whatsoever you do, do it heartily [soul - psukee], as to the Lord" Colossians
3:23
APPETITE [soul - nehphesh] two times
1. "If you be a man given to appetite [soul - nehphesh]" Proverbs 23:2
2. "The appetite [soul - nehphesh] is not filled" Ecclesiastes 6:7
FROM THE ABOVE, IT IS CLEAR THAT ALL THE WORDS INTO WHICH
NEHPHESH AND PSUKEE ARE TRANSLATED CLEARLY SHOW THAT A PERSON
DOES NOT HAVE A PART THAT HAS ANY EXISTENCE WITHOUT THE BODY OR
ANY FUNCTION OR LIFE AFTER DEATH. "NEHPHESH" OR "PSUKEE" IS NOT
SOMETHING THAT CAN LIVE WITHOUT THE BODY. IT IS ANY LIVING BEING, A
PERSON, OR ANIMAL. IN A PERSON "SOUL" IS THE EARTHLY PERSON WHO IS
IN THE IMAGE OF ADAM, NOT AN IMMORTAL PART OF A PERSON THAT CAN
LIVE WITHOUT THE WHOLE PERSON. Both persons and animals ARE nehpheshs [living
beings, souls], not a living being that HAS a nehphesh [a soul] that will live without them
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The following quotation will illustrate the vague idea of many in relation to that which may be
saved through Christ.
"A man stands looking over the rail of a vessel into the surging water, and cries out, 'Save it!' Men come
rushing up with, 'Save what? A man overboard?' 'No.' 'A woman?' 'No.' 'Then it must be a child.' 'No, it is
not a child.' 'What then can it be?' 'I cannot tell.' 'Well, what does it look like?' 'I do not know, it has never
been seen.' 'What form is it?' 'It has no form.' 'How large is it?' 'Why, it has no size.' 'Well, about how much
will it weigh?' 'It has no weight.' 'Will it perish in the water?' 'No, no; it can never perish but save it, save
it.'"
"IT" OR "ME"
Many who believe the doctrine of unconditional immortality often say "IT" when they speak
of the soul. Will it be "ME" or will it be my soul "IT" in Heaven? If I had a soul and "IT" had
thoughts and emotions which are not my thoughts and emotions, "IT" is not "ME," but another
being living in me.
The whole person will be raised from the dead at the resurrection. It will be "ME" changed
from a "soul" [nehphesh-psukee] a living creature in the image of Adam into a new spiritual body
in the image of Christ. Some believe and teach it will only be an immaterial (no substance)
invisible part of "ME," which they call the soul "IT" that will be in Heaven.
If "IT" thinks, has any thoughts or knowledge, has any kind of sensibility different than or
apart from "ME"; it is not "ME," but is another being. If the spirit "IT" is not my mind, then "IT"
must have a mind of "ITS" own and thoughts of "ITS" own.
Is "IT" intelligent and has a brain of "ITS" own? If not, then "IT" has no sensibility, then "IT"
is only a nonliving thing.
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If the "soul," ["nehphesh" and "psukee"] as used in the Bible, is not our life, mind, feeling and
emotions; if "IT" is not the whole of a person; then "IT" could only be another being existing
within "ME"; but "IT" and "ME" are not the same; and only the soul "IT" shall be in Heaven, but
not the real "ME" [the part that now feels, thinks, and lives]. Only this no substance being living
in "ME" which I can know nothing about. Not what "IT" looks like, or what "IT" thinks, how
"IT" feels, or any other thing about "IT."
I could not even know "IT" is in "ME" without being told that "IT" is there. Therefore, "IT"
could only be another being that will live on after "ME" is dead. When "IT" lives in Heaven, it
will be "IT" living, not "ME," and my mind and thoughts will be dead, and "ME" will not even
know that "IT" is living.
If my spirit "IT" is not "ME," then when "ME" dies, my mind will be dead. If "IT" is a part
different from my mind, heart, feeling, thoughts, then how can "IT" be condemned for what "ME"
thinks, and feels, and does?
If what will be in Heaven is "ME" [my mind, feeling, thoughts, heart, life] with a spiritual
body in the image of Christ; where is the "soul" ["IT"], which I now have, but cannot see, or
know anything about what "IT" will be? Will "IT" be in Heaven with "ME," and I still will not
know anything about "IT" or see “IT”?
If "IT" is not my mind, what does "IT" think? If "IT" is only something living in "ME," which
I know nothing about; and "IT" will leave "ME" at my death and go onto another home without
"ME"; and I still will not know anything about "IT," or what "IT" is, or what "IT" thinks, or
where "IT" is, or what "IT" is doing, or looks like.
After MY death, "IT" will live without a body or substance where "ME" [my mind, feeling,
thoughts, heart] cannot live. If I am a "dual being" and "IT" is the second of my two beings, when
my first being is dead, "ME" will be dead, and only the second being "IT" will be alive. Only a
part of "ME" is immortal and only a part of "ME" will ever be in Heaven or Hell, and that is the
part of "ME" that will never know anything about what "IT" is like.
If my spirit ["IT"] came into existence when I was born, and "IT" is different from my earthly
being, then "ITS" thoughts are not the thoughts of "ME" [not the thoughts of my mind]; therefore,
how do I know "IT" has ever had any thoughts, or that "IT" knows anything?
If "IT" is immortal, "IT" has no need of the tree of life to live forever; but "ME" is not immortal,
and could not live forever without the tree of life. Death is not the enemy of "IT" for "IT" cannot
die for the sins of "ME." "IT" cannot pay the wages of the sins for "ME."
WILL YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN, OR WILL "IT" TO HAVE ETERNAL
LIFE IN HEAVEN? The Bible does not teach there is another part living in a person, but the
whole of a person as he is now, and only the body will be different in Heaven from what we now
are. A person is only one being, and will be the same one part being in Heaven. We do not have a
soul [do not have an "IT"], but we are a living soul, which is the image of Adam, a living being, a
living person. Men and animals do not have a soul, but are a living soul [living creatures]. There
is a world of differences in being a living soul, as is taught in the Bible, and having an
"immaterial invisible" soul as is taught today.
After death the Bible never speaks only of the sleep of the body, or only of the sleep of the
soul, but of the sleep or death of the person. God's creation of this earth is very good even with
the thorns caused by sin; but His creation of Heaven is far better and does not have the thorns.
Nevertheless, the soul "IT" is made to be living in us and to be of neither creation, just some thin
air something with no substance. When Lazarus was raised, he was the exact identical person he
was before his death, with the same body, a "soul" [nehphesh - psukee] living creature in the
image of Adam. At the resurrection the saved will be the exact identical person as now, but with a
new "spiritual body," in the image of Christ, not some thin air no substance "IT" that will be
different from the person we now are.
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Many use "soul sleeping" just as many have used "Campbellism," and "water salvation." They
can see only Plato's immortal part of a person that lives on after the death of the person. It will not
be Plato's inter immortal no substance part of a person that will exist after the death of the body.
It will be "ME" not just some part of "ME" that will be raised from the dead, not "IT" that is not
dead. It is "ME" that will sleep and "ME" that will wake up at the resurrection. Not "IT" that I
will know nothing about.
If "IT" [the soul] is immortal from birth, "IT" can never die for "IT" is immortal. If "IT" is
what will be in heaven, there can be no resurrection, for "IT" is not dead to be resurrected. If "IT"
can never die, "IT" did not need Christ to die in "its" place to keep "IT" from dying, for "IT" is
immortal and cannot die. "IT" has no need of the death of Christ to save "IT" from the death that
"IT" cannot die. It is a person "ME" that will put on immortality at the resurrection, and not just a
part of a person "IT," which is both alive and immortal before the resurrection. It will be my life,
mind, feeling and emotions, my whole person "ME" that will be immortal in Heaven, not just
some unknown part of me.
I do not know how God can raise "ME" from the grave and give "ME" a new spiritual body
and it still be "ME"; not just some "IT" which was not dead to be raised; but I have complete faith
that He can and will. My faith is in Christ and the resurrection He taught. Will faith in the pagan
doctrine or in the immortal soul it teaches save you or condemn you?
Do you believe that it will be YOU that will be saved or lost or SOMETHING in you that you
that is not the real you, something that you cannot see or know what it? THE NEVER DYING
SOUL DOCTRINE OF AN IMMORTAL SOUL IS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH
HUNDREDS OF THE PLAINEST STATEMENTS OF THE BIBLE. HOW CAN ANYONE
SAY THEY BELIEVE THE BIBLE WHEN THEY HAVE REPLACED IT WITH THE
TEACHING OF THE HEATHEN PHILOSOPHY OF PLATO?
CHAPTER TWO
Life or Death
Many continually preach, "The wages of sin is death" but do not believe what they
preach and contradict them self by preaching that unbelievers will go to Hell, "The wages
of sin is an eternal life of torment in Hell."
The changing of Life and death to:
• Has "life" has been changed to mean only a "reward" and "death" changed to
mean "eternal life with torment"?
• Is "the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
our Lord"? Romans 6:23, or is death eternal life with torment?
Eternal life is a conditional gift to the saved at the resurrection and judgment. “HE
THAT HAVE THE SON HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. HE THAT HAS NOT THE SON HAS
NOT LIFE” (Immortality) 1 John 5:12. "He that hears My word, and believes Him that
sent Me, has eternal LIFE, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of DEATH
into LIFE" (John 5:24).
"I have set before you LIFE and DEATH" (Deuteronomy 30:19). Life and death are
two of the most misused words in the Bible. Many are unwilling