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

God if there is no Hell and you have taught many that
God was the cruel and sadistic God of Hell?
HOW MANY TIMES CAN A PERSON MAKE CHRIST A LIAR BY BELIEVING
AND TEACHING THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT HE TAUGHT AND ATTRIBUTING
THESE LIES TO HIM? How often can we attribute the teaching of man to Christ before
it becomes the "precepts of man" and "vain worship?" (Matthew 15:9). Will you say to
God at the judgment that you loved your theology, a different gospel, more than His
word?
IT ADDS TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION: Most all who believe in Hell misuse
many symbolic passages in revelation to prove it. John said, "If any man shall add unto
them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book" [Revelation
22:18]. Do some love this cruel and evil teaching enough to have these plagues added to
them selves?
"HEAVIER JUDGMENT" James 3:1 and "VAIN WORSHIP" Matthew 15:9. When we
teach things that slander God, and makes the resurrection of Christ not needed, etc., we
teachers will answer to God at the judgment and with a heavier judgment. As teacher we
will be judged for not knowing and teachings the truth. We teach that following the
teaching of man is vain worship and sinful for others, but it is as sinful for us when we do
the same things. If we are not sure beyond any doubt that God's word teaches eternal
torment, but teach it anyway; and it is the commandments of men, it may be the
difference in living or the second death for us. "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin"
[Romans 14:23], and faith comes by hearing the word of Christ [Romans 10:17],
THEREFORE, IF THE DOCTRINE OF HELL IS NOT TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE IT IS
SIN TO BELIEVE OR TEACH IT. Do we think this would not apply to us if we teach
anything that we have any doubt about? At the judgment we will give an answer for both
what we teach, and for what we do not teach. If we teach Hell or that men are born with
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an immortal second part that God cannot destroy, then we better make sure it is from the
Bible; for we will answer to God in the very same way as anyone teaching "faith only";
or any other doctrine of men. Do some condemn themselves by teaching it is a sin to
change God's word, and then preaching what may be the biggest change ever made to it?
There is no acceptable reason for a gospel preacher not to know and teach the truth. What
will they say to God at the judgment?
It is taught by some that the promise of being immediately in Heaven with God has
more comfort than the promise of being in Heaven after the resurrection.
• Comfort that is based on a lie (“you shall not surely die”) is a vain useless
comfort.
• To add to or change God’s word is a sin.
• Only by teaching the truth can a preacher save those who he preaches to and
himself.
Is a person born with an immortal soul, or do the saved put on immortality at the
resurrection? This is one of the most important questions of all times. It has more
influence on our conception of our nature, our view of life in this world, and life
after death, the nature of God, than any other question. YOUR WHOLE
THEOLOGY [all that you believe] IS DETERMINED BY YOUR VIEW OF THE
SOUL. Not only does man now having an immortal soul make the resurrection
impossible, it makes the judgment be passed; and the second coming of Christ
pointless for there could not be a resurrection or a judgment at His coming.
The doctrine of unconditional immortality
• Changes the nature of God, makes Him cruel and sadistic.
• Changes the hope set forth in the New Testament that there will be a resurrection.
It makes no one ever be dead to be resurrected from the dead. At funeral services
we are told the departed are not dead but are now in Heaven looking down of their
loved ones, and any who point out that the Bible says the dead are not in Heaven
before the resurrection is branded as being a part of a cult, often even by those
who believe the dead are in Abraham’s bosom unto the Resurrection.
• Changes the resurrection of Christ, which gives us a hope of being resurrected, by
reducing the death and resurrection of Christ to His earthly human body only if
His soul were immortal and could not have died; therefore, the resurrection of
Christ must be the "first fruits" only of the resurrection of this earthly body. If we
have an immortal "soul" then this part of us that could not die, and therefore could
not be resurrected. Makes the part of a person that cannot be resurrected be the
only part of him that will be in Heaven.
• Changes the message we preach to the lost and their fate, whether they will have
an eternal life with torment or a second death from which there will never be a
resurrection, changes from the wages of sin being death, to the wages of sin is
eternal life with torment in Hell.
• Changes the nature of a person from mortal, to both mortal and immortal at the
same time. Two opposite natures at the same time is not a possibility.
• Changes the nature of the resurrection of Christ, whether He was dead and raised
by God or only His earthly body was dead, and He just came back from Heaven
to it.
• It makes the judgment be passed.
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• Changes the nature of the resurrection from whether the dead are resurrected or
just come back from somewhere. It makes a real resurrection impossible.
• It makes the second coming of Christ pointless.
• Changes many words [die, death, perish, destroyed, lost, end, sleep] to mean the
opposite of the way they were used by those living then, and the opposite of the
way the world now uses them. See chapter two). CHANGES ETERNAL LIFE
TO ETERNAL REWARD, AND CHANGES ETERNAL DEATH [The wages of
sin] TO ETERNAL LIFE WITH TORMENT.
ANYTHING MORE DIFFERENT FROM THE GOSPEL THAN THE IMMORTAL
SOUL THEOLOGY WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE. It makes the resurrection
of those who were never dead and are already in Heaven be nothing but pure foolishness
and the judgment of those who were judged at the moment of death pure folly. If it is not
a total different gospel there could not be one, for not just some part of it is different but
it is one hundred percent different.
The belief in an immortal soul is the foundation of
• Much of philosophy beginning with the Egyptians, the Greeks, and today.
• Reincarnation-transmigration of souls to other bodies after death.
• Most Eastern religions.
• The Catholic and the Protestant immortal soul at birth.
• The doctrine of Hell.
• Purgatory.
• Limbo.
• Nether world.
• Worship of Mary and the reported sighting of her.
• Intercession of and worship of saints.
• The belief that Abraham's bosom is a real place.
• Spiritualism.
• Communication with the spirits of the dead.
• The "New Age" movement and channeling craze with spirits of the dead.
• Near-death experiences or out-of-body experiences
Those who claim to have died and gone to Heaven or Hell are claiming to
have been resurrected from the dead, to have gone to Heaven or Hell and
came back to earth. All near-death experiences are totally dependent on
the belief of the person; Hindus, Muslims and others claim to have neardeath
experiences but their experiences are what are taught by their
beliefs; those who do not believe in Heaven or Hell have near-death
experiences but never believe they go to Heaven or to Hell.
• An evil, cruel, and sadistic God who made most of mankind just so he could
torment them.
All of the above teachings are based on the soul being immortal, which is of
pagan origin. WITHOUT THE DOCTRINE THAT A PART OF A PERSON, HIS
OR HER IMMORTAL SOUL, IS NOT SUBJECT TO DEATH NONE OF THE
ABOVE COULD BE TRUE. Unconditional immortality is the mother or foundation of
more false doctrines than any other teaching. Eternal torment of the soul cannot be unless
Plato's immortal soul is true, Mary could not be seen or make intercession if she is asleep,
there could be no communication with souls of the dead if the whole person were asleep.
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If unconditional immortality were true the resurrection as taught by Christ could not be
true for there could be no resurrection of those who are not dead.
“HOW ARE THE DEAD RAISED?
AND WITH WHAT KIND OF BODY?”
1 Corinthians 15:35-45
WHAT BODY WILL THE SAVED HAVE IN THE RESURRECTION?
"YOU SOW A BARE GRAIN" 15:37| "THE BODY THAT SHALL BE" 15:37
IT IS SOWN IN | IT IS RAISED IN
(1) CORRUPTION | (1) INCORRUPTION
(2) DISHONOR | (2) GLORY
(3) WEAKNESS | (3) POWER
(4) A NATURAL BODY | (4) A SPIRITUAL BODY
EARTHLY BODY | RESURRECTED BODY OF THOSE IN CHRIST
"AS WE HAVE BORNE THE IMAGE | WE SHALL ALSO BEAR THE
OF THE EARTHY 15:49 | IMAGE OF THE HEAVENLY" 1 COR. 15:49
"FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT | WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED IN A MOMENT, IN
INHERIT KINGDOM OF GOD"15:50| THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT LAST TRUMP
HOW ARE THE DEAD RAISED AND WITH WHAT BODY DO THEY COME? 15:35
YOU BURY A GRAIN OF WHEAT GOD GIVES IT A BODY 1 CORINTHIANS 15:38
BURIED(SOWN)IN CORRUPTION RAISED IN INCORRUPTION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:42
BURIED(SOWN)A NATURAL BODY RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY 1 COR. 15:44
BURIED(SOWN)IN DISHONOR RAISED IN GLORY 1 CORINTHIANS 15:43
BURIED(SOWN)IN WEAKNESS RAISED IN POWER 1 CORINTHIANS 15:43
THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTBLE 1 CORINTHIANS 15:52
LIVING SAINTS ARE CHANGED IN A MOMENT 1 COR. 15:51
"THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT ON INCORRUPTION" 1 CORINTHIANS 15:53
"THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY" 1 CORINTHIANS 15:53
ALL NOW HAVE THE BODY OF ADAM SAINTS TO BE LIKE CHRIST 1 JOHN 3:2
BODY OF HUMILIATION |"CONFORMED TO THE BODY OF HIS GLORY" PHIL 3:21
EARTHLY TENT |"A HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS" 2 COR. 5:1-10
EARTHLY IMAGE OF ADAM | HEAVENLY IMAGE OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS 15:49
ADAM A LIVING SOUL | CHRIST A LIFE GIVING SPIRIT 1 CORINTHIANS 15:45
"Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE
CHANGED, IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST
TRUMP: FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED
INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED" [1 Corinthians 15:51-52].
1. "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God" [1 Corinthians 15:50]
2. "We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound" [1 Corinthians 15:51]
3. "And the dead shall be raised incorruptible" [1 Corinthians 15:52]
4. "And we shall be changed" [1 Corinthians 15:52
5. "For this corruptible must put on incorruption" [1 Corinthians 15:53]
6. "And this mortal must put on immortality" [1 Corinthians 15:53]
“But some one will say, ‘How are the dead raised AND WITH WHAT MANNER OF
BODY DO THE COME’…you sow not the body that shall be…God gives it a body even
as it pleased Him” [1 Corinthians 15:35-49].
• “It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption” not “sown and raised in
corruption then changed to incorruption.”
• “It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory” not “sown and raised in dishonor
then changed to honor.”
• “It is sown in natural body; it is