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Only
one God has immortality, and because the person cannot be immortal (1 Tim 6.16,
1.17).
Man
is mortal (John 4.14, 1 Cor 15.53) and because he must search for immortality (Rom
2.7).
Man
was made from the dust of the Earth (Gen 2.7) and created in the image of God -
a reasonable creature (Gen 1.26-27).
HOWEVER,
THIS DOES NOT IMPLY THAT HE WAS CREATED IMMORTAL AND OMNISCIENT AS GOD.
BREATH
OF LIFE (Heb. "neshimat-a-chaim") was blew in the face of the person
in creation (Gen 1.7, Job 33.4). It is there and the animals (Gen 7.22). In the
Old Testament this phrase is found 24 times, and nothing is said about immortality.
SOUL
(Heb. "nefesh", 754 times in Old Testament ; Greek.
"psuhe", 104 times in New Testament). It have people and animals too,
because they themselves are "soul alive" (Gen 1.20, 24 ; 2.7).
THEREFORE THE SOUL IS MORTAL. "The soul thus will die" (Ezekiel
18.4).
SPIRIT
(Heb. "ruach", 377 times in Old Testament ; Greek.
"pnejma", 385 times in New Testament). Nowhere says that he is
immortal. Animals also have the spirit
of life (Gen 7.15-22, Eccl 3.19-21).
Bottom
line: these words are found in the Scriptures of all 1644 times, but said the
provisions of the "immortal soul", etc. In addition, in Ezekiel 18.4 and
elsewhere spoke of her mortality.
The
doctrine of the immortal soul is pagan and NOT BIBLICAL .
The
origin - the ancient world (Babylon,
Egypt, etc.).
Sources
: Plato (427 -347 B.C.), Origen (185-254 A.D.), decision of V-th Lateran
Cathedral (1515).
The spirit of life, the man
with the creation, leaves it at the death (Eccl 12.7, 3.19-21).
In humans and animals have the
same spirit of life that death leaves them (Eccl 3.19-21).
That spirit, or breath of life
has no consciousness of itself, it is clear from the fact that the spirit has
never opened one of his conscious existing to connect with the person in
creation and at birth.
There is also more evidence
that the same spirit has more conscious activities after he leaves the person
at his death, than it was before the connecting with the person.
Where is the spirit at death,
must be the same location from which it comes the resurrection, at the same
time, we know that the spirit flies away to God (scattered), and the dust
returns to the Earth (Eccl 12.7).
The BIBLE DENIES the HUMAN
CONSCIOUS STATE AFTER DEATH, for "the dead know nothing" (Eccl 9.5,
Ps 6.6).
The death of the man stops to
think, to love, to hate and to praise God (Ps 146.4, Eccl 9.5-6, Is 38.18).
The dead know nothing, as those
who have never lived (Job 3.11-17, 10.18-19). They do not know and those who continue to live on the
Earth (Job 14.20-21, Is 63.16).
The fact that the soul, spirit
and body are in a State of complete unconsciousness during sleep, they are
deceased and in death, because death is compared to sleep (John 11.11-14, Dan
12.2, 1 Thess 4.14-16).
Answers to objections :
1. The promise of Christ that
the thief will be with him in paradise, doesn't prove life after death because
Christ ascended to heaven to His Father shortly AFTER THE REVIVAL (John
20.17-18).
2. The parable of Lazarus and
the rich (Luke 16.19-31) does not teach that a person has consciousness after
death, because there is no mention of the SOUL or SPIRIT, but said about people
that have eyes, tongue and toes. The target of parables - explain what will
happen to the righteous the wicked rich and poor after the trial.
3. The "resolve and be
with Christ" (Phil 1.23) will, when Paul will receive his award at the
second coming of Christ (2 Tim 4.8).
4. What Paul says in 2 Cor 5.1-8 ("out of body")
will, when "this one mortal becomes dressed in immortal", at the time
of the first resurrection (1 Cor 15.42-44, 54).
Penalty
as the reward of the righteous WILL BE AFTER THE JUDGMENT (Rev 11.18, 22.12 ;
Acts 17.31 ; John 12. 48). Satan and the wicked are reserved to the day of the
Court to punish (2 Pet 4.9, Jude 6). They do not suffer before this time, since
he did not know what killed before that great day (Matt 8.28-29, 7.21-23 ; Eccl
9.5 - "no retribution to them").
The
wicked will be burned "unquenchable fire" (Matt 3.12, Mark 9.43-48).
He called the unquenchable because goes out as long as there are hot (Jer
17.27).
Satan
and the wicked will be "tortured forever" (Rev 20.10, 14.11). The
expression "for ever", "forever" and "forever and
ever" (Hebrews "olam", Greek "aion") are often used to
this life, long and short, for example, and it will remain his slave forever (
Ex 18.9 ) [for life].
The
third angel's message :
"He
who worships the beast (and his image) and takes the mark it on your forehead
or on his hand, the same shall drink the wine of God's fury, wine, whole, dough
cleaner in the cup of his wrath, and will be tormented with fire and sulphur
before the Holy Angels and of the Lamb, and the smoke of their torment will
ascend for LIFE, and <until consideration> will have no rest day nor
night, those who worship the beast and his image and receiving the mark of his
name. Here is the patience of the Saints, fulfilling the commandments of God
and the faith of Jesus" (Rev 14.9-12).
The
continuation of the ceasefire, which drew Gomorrah and Sodom to ashes, would be
only a "moment" in comparison with the infinite time. This can be
said about the destruction of the wicked after the judgment (Jude 7, 2 Pet 2.6, Lam 4.6).
Thus,
the words "for ever", "forever" and "forever and
ever" are set to infinity, if we are talking about things that will never
BE CHICKPEAS, relocating and of limited duration, if applied to the subjects,
that will not always exist.
Hell
or LAKE OF FIRE : the wicked will be thrown, the earth beneath their feet turn
into lava, and there will be burned (Satan) and branches (wicked) (Mal 4.1 ; Is
34.8-9 ; Rev 20.9,15 ; Mark 9.43-48). The wicked will, however their was no
"and you" (Ezek 18.4-20 ; Obad 15-16 ; Matt 10.28; Rev 21.4). They will go into the
"Sheol" (nothingness).
After
that, the new heavens and the new Earth will take place earlier and there
always will be true (2 Pet 3.10,13 ; Rev 20.15, 21.1-4 ; Mal 4.3).
The wicked will suffer
some less, some more of their cases respectively (Luke 12.47-48 , Judah 15-16 ,
Rev 20.12). They always will dead, therefore the punishment of them, which will
cause the destruction will be eternal (Matt 25.46).
