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

"It is Christ Jesus that was SEPARATED, yet rather, that raised from the
SEPARATION" Romans 8:34
• "The firstborn from the SEPARATION" Colossians 1:18
• "He that raised up Christ Jesus from the SEPARATION" Romans 8:1. This
redefining of death to be life would make Christ not to have died for our sins;
therefore, there could not have been a resurrection. Christ could not have been
raised from the dead; He was never dead, JUST SEPARATED. It would make
His death not be a genuine death, but a reunion of Jesus and God when neither
one was dead, just separated from each other.
• "They also that are SEPARATED in Christ have perished" 1 Corinthians 15:18
• "Christ was SEPARATED for our sins" 1 Corinthians 15:3
• "The law of sin and SEPARATION" Romans 8:2
• "For the mind of the flesh is SEPARATION" Romans 8:6
• "For without the law sin was SEPARATED" Romans 7:8
• "I through the law am SEPARATED to the law" Galatians 2:19
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• "Again from the SEPARATION" Hebrews 13:20
• "Was translated that he should not see SEPARATION" Hebrews 11:5
• "How are the SEPARATED raised?" 1 Corinthians 15:35
• "So also is the resurrection of the SEPARATED" 1 Corinthians 15:42
• "SEPARATION is swallowed up" 1 Corinthians 15:55
• "Abolished is SEPARATION" 1 Corinthians 15:26. If separation is abolished or
swallowed up, then where are the separated or dead going to be?
• "And the SEPARATED, shall be raised incorruptible" 1 Corinthians 15:52
• "By man came SEPARATION, by man came also the resurrection of the
SEPARATED" 1 Corinthians 15:21
• "You proclaim the Lord's SEPARATION till he comes" 1 Corinthians 11:26
• "Whosoever lives and believes on me shall never SEPARATE" John 11:26
• "Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and SEPARATES" John 12:24
• "It is Christ Jesus that SEPARATED" Romans 8:24
• "The body is SEPARATED because of sin" Romans 8:10
• "Sin revived, and I SEPARATED" Romans 7:9
• "These all SEPARATED in faith" Hebrews 11:23
• "And I will kill her children with SEPARATION" Revelation 2:23
• "A name that you live, and are SEPARATED" Revelation 3:1
• "SEPARATION shall be on more" Revelation 21:4. Also "The last enemy that
shall be abolished is SEPARATION" 1 Corinthians 15:26. This is the same as
saying "separation shall be separated."
• "Though he DIE, yet shall he LIVE" John 11:25. This would be saying, "Though
he be SEPARATED, yet shall he be UNSEPARATED."
“For the wages of sin is DEATH, but the free gift of God is eternal LIFE” [ROMANS
6:23]. If “life” is literal then “death” in the same passage is just a literal. How could
anyone know that just one word in a literal sentence is not just as literal as all the other
words? If the death for sinner is not literal death, the life for believers is not literal life.
The same persons that tell us death is not literally death tell us that death literally means
death when it is used in reference to animals; dead animals are dead, not separated.
Those who tell us that death means "SEPARATION" do not want to use
"SEPARATION" when talking about the just dead or the death of animals, AND
DEFINITELY NOT WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE DEATH OF JESUS, for then
it does not fit in with the theology that says death cannot mean death, therefore,
death can only mean separation for the lost. But, according to this theology, death
cannot mean separation for the saved. DEATH MEANS SEPARATION ONLY
WHEN THEY WANT IT TO MEAN SEPARATION.
If death is only eternal separation from God, that separation would be forever and
death could never be destroy, the lost would always be separated for God and Paul was
wrong in 1 Corinthians 15:54.
THE SAME ONES THAT TELL US DEATH IS SEPARATION FROM GOD TELL
US THAT GOD WILL FOREVER BE WITH THE LOST IN HELL TORMENTING
THEM, THAT THE LOST CAN NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD. WHICH
TIME DO THEY BELIEVE WHAT THEY SAY? All life depends on God the giver of
life; therefore, separated from God no one could have life, not life in Hell or any other
place.
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This theology makes nonsense of the Bible. The Bible speaks repeatedly of death and
the wages of sin being death, but this theology tells us that everyone is born deathless. If
no one is dead, the resurrection will not be from the dead to living, but just a change of
address from the living who are separated to the living who are unseparated.
"Spiritual death" and "death is a separation" are not Biblical expressions. They are
interpretations. They are additions used to teach what man wants to hear, not what the
Bible teaches. Death and separation are different words in both the Hebrew and the Greek
and have different meanings just as they do in English. When someone dies we say that
person is dead, not that person is separated.
How can death be a separation of the body and soul when the soul (a living being,
person) is the earthly body that is in the image of Adam? 1 Corinthians 15:48-50: It is the
image of Adam, the soul, a living being that is flesh and blood and cannot inherit the
kingdom of God.
IS THERE LIFE WITHOUT GOD? If death is life separated from God, then mankind
can live without God, and life can exist that is not sustained by God. But, the truth is the
dead can never be separated from God if they have eternal life with torment with God
doing the tormenting. There could be absolutely NO EXISTENCE if one is separated
from God for there can be NO LIFE without God, and without life there can be NO
TORMENT. If any have life in Hell, God must be in Hell with them giving them this life;
and He must be there to do the tormenting, for if He were not, there would be no life and
no torment. TO BE SEPARATE FROM GOD CAN ONLY MEAN TO BE NOWHERE.
IF A PERSON CAN EXIST SEPARATED FROM GOD, THAT PERSON IS SELFEXISTING.
THEY ARE A GOD FOR ONLY A GOD CAN BE SELF-EXISTING,
THEREFORE, ACCORDING TO TODAY'S THEOLOGY, ALL THE LOST ARE
SELF-EXISTING GODS. How far will they go to prove "Hell"?
The King James Version puts God in Hell. "If I make my bed in Hell behold thou art
there" (Psalms 139:8). If those in Hell are separated from God, then God cannot be in
Hell but by its mistranslation to put Hell in the Bible the King James Version says that
God is in Hell. Do they think God has forever given the lost to Satan to do with them
what he wants to? Will Satan have his own kingdom where he is in total control, which
will have more in it than God's kingdom? He will if the dead are separated from God and
God is not in Hell with them. If there were a Hell, which way do they want it? (1) Either
God is in Hell doing the tormenting and sustaining the life they have and they are not
separated from Him; (2) or God is not in Hell and the lost are separated from Him and He
is not doing the tormenting or sustaining the life they have. It cannot be both ways.
Today's theology makes many problems. Where did the concept come from that there is
any life when one is separated from God, the source of all life? It is not a matter of
eternal life with Christ or eternal life separated from Christ, for there is no life separated
or apart from Christ. A sinner does not have any kind of immortal life. Only those in
Christ will have it.
If death is "separation" of our soul from this earthly body and not a real death, then the
resurrection could only be the return and reuniting of the soul to the earthly body and
they must forever be together or the resurrection would not be forever. If the earthly body
ends at the end of the world, then death (separation) of the saved will be forever.
Campbell said, "Every word not specially explained or defined in a particular sense by any standard
writer of any particular age and country, is to be taken in the current or commonly received signification
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of that country and age in which the writer lived and wrote." Alexander Campbell, Christian System, Page
3. Theological meaning of words came about after the New Testament. Both the Old
Testament and New Testament use the words as they were used then. THERE ARE NO
WORDS IN THE BIBLE THAT HAVE A THEOLOGICAL MEANING IN PLACE OF
THE COMMON MEANING THAT THE PEOPLE HEARING THEM WOULD
UNDERSTAND. Did God say one thing, but mean something different from what He
said? If so, then we need a Pope or someone who is inspired to tell us what God said,
"otherwise it would be no revelation, but would always require a class of inspired men to
unfold and reveal its true sense to mankind" Campbell, Christian System, Page 3.
There is no need for us to read the Bible. No one could know that God used "death" to
mean "separation" without a revelation from God, or someone who is inspired to tell us.
Who was the inspired person that told us "death" means "separation?" If no inspired
person did tell us, many preach that which they have no way of knowing, for they would
have no revelation to tell them that when God said death that He really intended to say
separation.
Summary: IF, AS SOME TEACH, THAT HELL IS THE PUNISHMENT FOR SIN,
THEN TORMENT, NOT SEPARATION OR DEATH IS "THE WAGES OF SIN."
TORMENT, NOT SEPARATION, IS MADE TO BE THE THING THEY CALL
DEATH, BUT THOSE WHO SAY DEATH IS SEPARATION DO NOT SEEM TO
SEE THEY ARE TEACHING TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DOCTRINES AT
THE SAME TIME. (1) DEATH IS AN ETERNAL LIFE OF TORMENT WITH GOD
DOING THE TORMENTING, AND (2) DEATH IS ETERNAL LIFE SEPARATED
FROM GOD. MOST THAT BELIEVE UNCONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY DO
NOT THINK OF THE LOST AS REALLY BEING SEPARATED FROM GOD
BUT OF GOD BEING WHERE THE LOST ARE AND TORMENTING THEM
FOREVER. THEY SAY SEPARATION, BUT THAT IS ONLY AN ATTEMPT TO
TAKE DEATH OUT OF THE BIBLE WHEN THEY ACTUALITY THINK AND
TEACH GOD IS THE ONE WHO WILL BE WHERE THE LOST ARE AND
WILL BE THE ONE WHO WILL BE ETERNALLY TORMENTING THEM.
THEY DO NOT REALLY BELIEVE SEPARATION FROM GOD IS THE
WAGES OF SIN OR THAT THE SINNER IS REALLY FOREVER SEPARATED
FROM GOD. They seem to be somewhat confused for they say death is separation from
God and "a loss of well being," but tell those who grieve at funerals that their dead loved
ones are not separated from God but are in Heaven with Him, and their well being is now
much better than it was before death. They are going both ways simultaneously, they say
for the lost death is eternal life with torment, and for the saved death is eternal life in
Heaven. If they were right, then for both the lost and the saved, death is really life for
there cannot be death to an immortal soul that is not subject to death, therefore, cannot
die. Death must be changed to be eternal life for both the saved and the lost. BUT IN
THEIR ATTEMPT TO DO AWAY WITH DEATH, THEY ARE DRIVEN TO SAY
DEATH IS LIFE SEPARATION FROM GOD BUT WHAT THEY REALLY BELIEVE
IS THAT DEATH IS ETERNAL LIFE BEING TORMENTED BY GOD.
JOHN 3:36 "But, he that obeyed not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God
abides on him." Implied: he shall see death, the opposite of life. You are alive, or