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
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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.
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 been 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 near-death 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.
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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. 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. As long as one believes this pagan doctrine and reads it into the Bible it makes it virtually impossible to understand the Bible correctly.
“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
they 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.‖
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“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 raised a spiritual body” not ―sown and raised a natural body then changed to spiritual body.‖ It is a spiritual body that is raised, not an ―immaterial invisible no substance spirit‖ that has no body.
“It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory” not ―sown and raised in dishonor then changed to honor.‖
A changed body versus an immortal soul: Paul said, “How are the dead raised? And with what manner of body to they come...you sow not the body that shall be, but a bare grain...but God gives it a body...to each seed a body of its own...So also is the resurrection...it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural
body, there is also a spiritual body...howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual...and as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly...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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality” [1
Corinthians 15:35-54]. It is this mortal body or person that will put on immortality, not an immortal soul that will put on immortality.
The image of Christ is not just a glorified earthly image of Adam. The body made for this earth that is put in the ground will be raised a spiritual body suitable for life in Heaven. The immortal soul doctrine says not so, (1) the ―immaterial invisible no substance souls‖ that will be in Heaven are now existing and are immortal while we are living and cannot be changed (2) and these souls will be alive in Heaven from the moment of death; (3) these immortal souls that we now have can never be dead, therefore, they cannot be raised from the dead. Who is wrong, Paul or today's theology?
The body changed, not an immortal soul changed "For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion
anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory"
[Philippians 3:20-21]. "The body of our humiliation" is not an "immaterial, invisible, no substance" soul that will be remade ("fashion anew") into another "immaterial, invisible, no substance" soul, but it is us that will be changed from an earthly body to a body like Christ now has, changed from a body that is suitable for life on this earth to a body that will be suitable for life in Heaven. It is our body that will be changed, not an immaterial something in us that is now just as it will be in Heaven and cannot ever be changed. I do not know how I can be raised without this earthly body and still be me, but I believe God when He says that it will be me with a spiritual body. Those who believe a person now have an immortal immaterial soul now living in them believe this invisible something in them is now "conformed to the body of His glory."
What body will be resurrected? Many believe that without the resurrection of the earthly body it would not be us but a new creation. Are they saying God could not make this change without first resurrecting the earthly body?
Some say the dead in Christ will be, " raised an earthly body, then changed to a spiritual body"
Others say it will be ―raised an earthly body and restored to be like the earthly body of Adam before he sinned”
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Both are adding to and changing what the Bible says, “raised a spiritual body” ? [1
Corinthians 15:44]
Image of Adam versus image of Christ: We are now a soul in the image of Adam.
We will be raised in the image of Christ [1 Corinthians 15:45-49]. The "living soul," the physical body in the image of Adam we now have [Genesis 2:7; 1 Corinthians 15:44-45] is not the "spiritual body" [1 Corinthians 15:44] in the image of Christ that we will have. An immortal soul, which many believe we need to save so that it will live in Heaven is not the "spiritual body," which we will have after the resurrection. We do not now have the "spiritual body," which is in the image of Christ, and will not have it unto we put on immortality at the resurrection [1 Corinthians 15:54]. We will be the same person we now are, but our bodies will be changed from the image of Adam to the image of Christ, from earthly bodies to spiritual bodies. All of us, our whole person, will be in Heaven; not just some thin air, immaterial, invisible part of us that has no body.
“If there is a natural [psuchikos–soulish] body there is also a spiritual body” [1
Corinthians 15:44-45]. Paul is quoting Genesis 2:7, the first man, Adam became a living soul [psuche]. Terms Paul used of the natural soulish body.
The natural soulish body is “a living soul [psuche]” [1 Corinthians 15:44].
It is “of the earth, earthy” [1 Corinthians 15:47].
It is the “image of the earthy” (Adam) [1 Corinthians 15:47].
It is “flesh and blood” [1 Corinthians 15:50].
When God made the earth He give fish bodies that are appropriate to live in water and birds bodies that are appropriate to fly. He gives Adam a body that was appropriate for life on this earth, a body of flesh and blood. Where will we be after the judgment day; if on earth we will need to have earthly body suitable for life on this earth, if in Heaven we will need to have a spiritual body suitable for life in Heaven? Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, but the earthly body in the image of Adam both before and after he sinned, was flesh and blood. If the earthly body is to be resurrected then it is the natural body of flesh and blood that sinned that is to be resurrected, but in the resurrection we will be like angels who are in Heaven [Matthew 22:30]. Is there anyone who believes angels have earthly bodies of flesh and blood in the image of Adam either before or after he sinned? After the resurrection Christians will have spiritual bodies in the image of Christ, not earthly bodies in the image of Adam that cannot inherit the Kingdom of God [1 Corinthians 15:50].
If Christians are to be reunited with their earthly bodies at the resurrection no mater where the kingdom of God will be after the resurrection it cannot be inherited by “flesh and blood” [1 Corinthians 15:50].
1. Or if, as some teach, the kingdom of Heaven is to be on this earth, “flesh and blood” bodies that are in the image of Adam could not inherit it [1 Corinthians 15:50]. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh” [John 3:6]. “It is sown a natural
body [It is the body of “flesh and blood” that is put in the grave]; it is raised a
spiritual body” [1 Corinthians 15:44]; this passage is not complicated, the body is put in the ground is a natural body and the body that comes out of
the ground will be a spiritual body. The spiritual body is not just a glorified earthly body.
The natural body is sown in the ground in corruption, dishonor, and
weakness.
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The spiritual body is raised with incorruption, glory, and power.
2. Or if, as others teach that the ―soul,‖ the ―immaterial, invisible, no substance‖
something is to be is to be reunited with the body of “flesh and blood” at the resurrection, neither the body nor the ―soul‖ could inherit the kingdom of Heaven
as long as the ―soul‖ is reunited to the “flesh and blood” body.
How could it be said any more clearly that this earthly body will not be raised, or that we do not now have the body we shall have after the resurrection? (1) Or that it is not an inter immortal part of us, which we now have, which needs no change, which will never be dead to be raised? (2) Nor any more clearly that we are now "mortal," but will be raised "immortal"? We could not put on immortality if we have it on, if we now have an immortal (undying) soul that is not subject to corruption (death). It is this mortal person that must put on immortality, not an immortal soul that is now in this mortal person that must be freed. If a person did have a soul that is now immortal, that immortal soul could not "put on immorality."
1. Those asleep: Their physical bodies sowed will be raised spiritual bodies. “It is sown a natural body‖ but it is not the natural body (the body of flesh and blood) that will be raised but “it is raised a spiritual body.”
2. Those living: Their physical bodies will be changed to spiritual bodies. The change to both those asleep and those who will be living will be identical and at
the same time, both at the resurrection. On this side of the coming of Christ we
have only physical bodies. On the other side of the coming of Christ we will have
spiritual bodies. It will be an alteration of the whole person from being physical in the image of Adam to being spiritual in the image of Christ, not just an immaterial part of us forever being unchanged.
3. "But now has Christ been raised from the dead, the first fruit of them that are asleep. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then they that are Christ's at his coming" [1
Corinthians 15:20-23]. The term "dead" or "die" means the same every time it is used in this passage. It is the person that is dead and will be made alive at the resurrection, not just some part of the person that is now alive and cannot be dead.
Death is death and cannot be made to mean alive.
THE BIBLE TEACHES ---------- BUT MAN TEACHES
WE PUT ON IMMORTALITY AT THE |WE ARE IMMORTAL FROM BIRTH
JUDGMENT 1 CORINTHIANS 15:53 |(ALSO WE "SEEK" IT ROMANS 2:7)
WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH ROM 6:23 |HUMAN SOUL CAN NEVER DIE
THE "END" OF THE LOST IS TO BE |LOST WILL BE BURNED,
BURNED HEBREWS 6:8 |BUT WILL HAVE NO "END"
THE WORD THE OR IDEA OF "HELL" |"HELL" IS TAUGHT AS THOUGH IT IS
IS NOT IN BIBLE |ON MOST EVERY PAGE OF THE BIBLE
"RAISE UP EVEN FROM THE DEAD" |LIVING SOULS TO BE BROUGHT BACK FROM
HEBREWS 11:19 |SOMEWHERE, NOT RAISED FROM DEATH
THE EVIL SHALL PERISH |THE EVIL CAN NEVER PERISH,
BE DESTROYED |OR BE DESTROYED, OR DIE
DEATH TO BE ABOLISHED |DEATH IS "SEPARATED FROM GOD"
1 CORINTHIANS 15:26 AND 15:55 |AND CAN NEVER BE ABOLISHED
LOST WILL BE DEVOURED HEB 10:2 |THE LOST CAN NEVER BE DEVOURED OR
CONSUMED HEBREWS 12:29 |CONSUMED, THEY MUST BURN FOREVER
GOD CAN DESTROY SOUL IN |GOD CAN TORMENT THE SOUL,
GEHENNA MATTHEW 10:28 |BUT HE CANNOT DESTROY IT
CHRIST DIED (GIVE HIS LIFE) |HIS SOUL DID NOT DIE: ONLY
FOR OUR SINS |HIS HUMAN BODY WAS DEAD
CHRIST CAME TO GIVE US LIFE |ALL HUMANS ARE ETERNAL FROM BIRTH
JOHN 10:10; 10:28 |(HAVE LIFE AND IMMORTALITY) THERE-
"ETERNAL LIFE" JOHN 17:2 |FORE ALREADY HAVE "ETERNAL LIFE"
GOD IS EVERYWHERE |GOD IS NOT EVERYWHERE
|(IF DEATH IS SEPARATION FROM GOD)
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GOD IS JUST AND LOVING |THIS TEACHING MAKES GOD
|UNJUST, SADISTIC, CRUEL, EVIL
FIRST THE NATURAL [NOW] |WE WERE BORN WITH A NATURAL
" THEN THAT WHICH IS SPIRITUAL" |BODY WITH A SPIRITUAL BODY
[AFTER THE RESURRECTION] |INSIDE THE NATURAL BODY
A DAY OF WRATH AND JUDGMENT |A DAY OF JUDGMENT BUT AN
(SAME DAY) ROMANS 2:5FF |ETERNITY OF WRATH
NOTHING ABOUT GOD TORMENTING |BOTH ARE TAUGHT AS IF THEY
ANYONE OR WRATH OF GOD ON THE |WERE GOSPEL FACTS
LOST AFTER JUDGMENT DAY | .
THE RESURRECTION IS UNTO LIFE |THE DEAD ARE NOW LIVING IN HEAVEN
JOHN 5:29 AND IS "FROM THE |OR HELL - HAVE LIFE AND REWARDED
DEAD" ROMANS 1:4; ACTS 23:6 |OR PUNISHED WITHOUT THE RESURRECTION
CHRIST SAID "I GIVE UNTO THEM |HE GIVES ETERNAL (IMMORTAL) LIFE
ETERNAL LIFE" JOHN 10:18 |TO ALL AT BIRTH
EARTHLY BODY IS BUT A BARE |WE NOW HAVE THE FULL-GROWN
SEED OF SPIRITUAL BODY WHICH |SPIRITUAL BODY, THE SOUL,
WE WILL HAVE AFTER JUDGMENT |BEFORE DEATH AND THE JUDGMENT
DAY - 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35-49|NOT JUST A SEED OF IT
JUDGMENT AND PUNISHMENT ARE AT |WE ARE JUDGED GOOD OR BAD AT DEATH
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST |AND PUNISHED/REWARDED AT THAT TIME
"THEY ARE WORTHY OF DEATH" |BUT THEY CANNOT DIE AND GOD
ROMANS 1:32 |CANNOT KILL THEM
"FOR THERE IS NO WORK, NOR |"FOR THERE IS WORK, AND
DEVICE NOR KNOWLEDGE, NOR |DEVICE, AND KNOWLEDGE, AND
WISDOM, IN SHEOL, WHITHER |WISDOM, IN SHEOL WHITHER YOU
YOU GO" ECCLESIASTES L9:10 |GO " ECCLESIASTES 9:10
"SOUL THAT SINS, IT SHALL DIE" |THE SOUL IS IMMORTAL,
EZEKIEL 23:4* |THEREFORE, IT CANNOT DIE *THIS SEEMS TO BE A PERSON BRING PUT TO DEATH UNDER
THE LAW, BUT MANY ALMOST ALWAYS APPLY IT TO THE SOUL DYING AT THE JUDGMENT, EVEN WHILE THEY ARE TEACHING THE
SOUL CANNOT DIE. SEE HEBREWS 10:28.
GOD --- VERSUS --- THEOLOGY |
GOD SAID "DESTRUCTION" |GOD MEANT "TORMENT" |
GOD SAID "DEATH" |GOD MEANT "SEPARATION" |
GOD DID NOT SAY MAN HAS AN |PLATO AND THEOLOGY SAYS |
IMMORTAL SOUL FROM BIRTH |AND TEACHES IT FOR HIM |
NOTHING IS SAID ABOUT WRATH|SOME KNOW AND TEACH IT WILL|
AFTER THE JUDGMENT DAY |LAST FOR ETERNITY IN HELL |
NOT FLESH OR SPIRIT! - WHAT IS THIS THIRD KIND OF BODY BEFORE THE RESURRECTON?
NOT EARTH OR HEAVEN! - WHERE IS THIS THIRD KIND OF PLACE WHERE THOSE WHO ARE NOT ASLEEP ARE
NOW IN?
(EARTH)-DEATH |(ASLEEP IN CHRIST)| RESURRECTION (HEAVEN)
BY MAN | LIVING OR DEAD? | BY MAN (CHRIST)
(ADAM)-DEATH |1 CORINTHIANS 15:21| RESURRECTION OF DEAD
DIE IN ADAM | ALIVE BEFORE BEING | IN CHRIST "MADE ALIVE"
1 COR. 15:22 | "MADE ALIVE" | AT HIS COMING
"UNTO DEATH" | ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?| "CROWN OF LIFE" REVELATION 2:10
"ONCE TO DIE" | THE SILENCE OF GOD| "AFTER THIS COMES
| BUT WE SPEAK | JUDGMENT" HEBREWS 9:27
"THIS WORLD" | THE THUNDEROUS | "