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a blessed abolition of existence--an euthanasia. The radical idea of destruction, that is extinction
of being, if first taken out of the term Death; then the word is made to stand for its opposite,
eternal being; and then the associated idea of misery is grafted upon the stock of the converted
primary; the result being, that destruction stand for endless misery. An exactly parallel treatment
of the promise of Life, therefore, will result, first, in taking out of it its radical idea or conscious
existence--next, in making it stand for its opposite, extinction--and lastly, in joining the idea of
happiness with the converted primary, -so that you obtain the complex result of a happy
extinction. It would require some argument of overmastering force to persuade nine-tenths of
the scholars of Christendom to perform this operation upon the promise of life to the righteous"
Edward White, "Life in Christ," page 357.
The Bible must be made to use opposite word than what it means. The theological use
of these words today is the same as saying white is black, sweet is bitter, night is day.
• White must be made to mean black
• Sleep must be made to mean awake
• Death must be made to mean life
• To die must be made to mean to live forever in torment
• Destruction must be made to mean eternal torment
• To perish, be destroyed, must be made to mean to be preserved incorruptible and
imperishable in Hell. Perish and destroy do not mean a loss of well being and
never has
• Fire must be made into something that preserves, not something that devours or
consumes.
With definitions such as are given by today's theology, anything, whatever
anyone wants, can be proved; and whatever anyone does not want can be disproved.
Those who believe in Hell give God the power to "destroy both body and soul in
Gehenna," but only after they put their own meaning on both destroy and Gehenna, and
they say the meaning of both is an eternal life of misery and suffering in Hell.
There is no way anyone could know that death is not death but eternal life in torment.
How could the wages of sin be death when the sinner will have an eternal life in Hell?
Without a 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.
152
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. 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.
153
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 will find eternal 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 life in Hell, 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].
154
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." This is one of the passages the
translators did not dare translate psukee into "soul."
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
a blessed abolition of existence--an euthanasia. The radical idea of destruction, that is extinction
of being, if first taken out of the term Death; then the word is made to stand for its opposite,
eternal being; and then the associated idea of misery is grafted upon the stock of the converted
primary; the result being, that destruction stand for endless misery. An exactly parallel treatment
of the promise of Life, therefore, will result, first, in taking out of it its radical idea or conscious
existence--next, in making it stand for its opposite, extinction--and lastly, in joining the idea of
happiness with the converted primary, -so that you obtain the complex result of a happy
extinction. It would require some argument of overmastering force to persuade nine-tenths of
the scholars of Christendom to perform this operation upon the promise of life to the righteous"
Edward White, "Life in Christ," page 357.
The Bible must be made to use opposite word than what it means. The theological use
of these words today is the same as saying white is black, sweet is bitter, night is day.
• White must be made to mean black
• Sleep must be made to mean awake
• Death must be made to mean life
• To die must be made to mean to live forever in torment
• Destruction must be made to mean eternal torment
• To perish, be destroyed, must be made to mean to be preserved incorruptible and
imperishable in Hell. Perish and destroy do not mean a loss of well being and
never has
• Fire must be made into something that preserves, not something that devours or
consumes.
With definitions such as are given by today's theology, anything, whatever
anyone wants, can be proved; and whatever anyone does not want can be disproved.
Those who believe in Hell give God the power to "destroy both body and soul in
Gehenna," but only after they put their own meaning on both destroy and Gehenna, and
they say the meaning of both is an eternal life of misery and suffering in Hell.
There is no way anyone could know that death is not death but eternal life in torment.
How could the wages of sin be death when the sinner will have an eternal life in Hell?
Without a 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.
152
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. 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.
153
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 will find eternal 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 life in Hell, 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].
154
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." This is one of the passages the
translators did not dare translate psukee into "soul."
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
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