DOES THE BIBLE TEACH THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL AND ETERNAL TORMENT

"YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE"

There is a confusing teaching that man will receive eternal life. Man will never have eternal life, but he can receive everlasting life. If man had eternal life that would make him God. If I would have made this statement without an explanation I would have been inundated with comments about how I’m am the anti-Christ and headed for hell. This is what happens all the time in this hub world. In our effort to prove I’m right and you are wrong we often don’t really hear what the other is actually saying. If we actually listen to each other, I think we find there is much we agree on. But in our battle to be the one that’s right we sometimes force disagreement on issuers we would otherwise agree on. The pride of needing to be right all the time gets in the way of true communication. But man can never have eternal life because:

Eternal=existing through all time: lasting for all time without beginning or end. if man was created at some point than he could never have eternal life. But without adding the true definition can you image the scripture I would be hit with to prove me wrong? Scripture twisted and taken out of context. Simply because the other was not listening, and just set out to prove the other wrong. Now I’m going to set out to explain why I believe the bible do not teach the immortally of the soul. Even though the spirit of man can, and does, function apart from his earthly body [when the body dies] it is in nowise immortal in and of itself. Only one is immortal, and he gives immortality to whom He pleases:

“… our Lord Jesus Christ which in His times He shall shew, who is blessed and only Potentate, the King of Kings, and Lord of lords. who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen. [1 Ti 6:14]."

Behind this misconception, is the first deception! “and the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die.” [Gen 3:4]. In other words, you are eternal and immortal like the gods. The one thing that people just don’t like to hear is that they are not immortal. Man was given a chance at everlasting life in the Garden of Eden, he refused it. Instead he chose to gain immortality, through occult knowledge. The deep things of Satan! If Adam was already immortal, why would he need to eat of the Tree of Life to live forever. Remember there were two trees of importance in the Garden of Eden. One that led to occult knowledge, the other would give life everlasting [not eternal life]. He did not eat of the Three of Life. That he may live forever, having made his choice to gain godhood by means of the occult; he was driven from The Garden of Eden so that he would not eat of the tree of life and live forever in sin. What is the reason God give for placing an angel with a flaming sword in the garden which turn every which way? To protect the Tree of Life, so that man would not gain immortality. [Gen 3:24].

“And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever. [Gen 3:22].

God’s plan from the beginning was for man to eat the fruit of The Tree of Life to live forever. And man must still eat from that tree to live forever. God has not changed His plan for man to receive everlasting life. We still must eat from the tree of life. That tree of life is still in paradise waiting for man to take of its fruit to receive everlasting:

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which in the Paradise of God.” [Rev 2:7].

There is no other way to immortality but to eat of the tree of life. Satan’s deception did not change God’s original plan for man to receive everlasting life. To believe there’s any other way to everlasting life, is to fall under the spell of the occult. Jesus pave the way to back to the tree of life. It is through Him that we get back to the tree of life. We are not immortal beings!

“to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, and everlasting life. [Romans 2:7].

Why would someone have to seek for something a they already possess?

“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. [1 Co 15:53].

The fact that it must be put on immortality in the future, means we are not inherently immortal.

“So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. [1 Co 15:54].

It was the fruit of the tree of life that gives immortality, and it is still that fruit that gives everlasting life today.

Man having fallen for the lie of Satan, that he is immortal and eternal like God, he now needs a place for the eternal soul to dwell throughout eternality. So if the eternal soul is bad it needs a bad place to spend all eternality, a place to be tormented through all eternality. A concept that is contrary to love. Men in all his cruelty never think of doing this to another human being, yet they teach that a loving God, one that’s defined as love itself, would do something so cruel. Just thing about it. A man lives only 25 years as a sinner and without repentance, and for those 25 years for him to spend all eternality, flesh burning screaming begging for mercy, could be my son or daughter, or yours, God forbid. A man born in iniquity, and shaped in sin, the cards staked against him from the start. For his flesh to burn for all eternality would be a cruel punishment. What ever happen to love and mercy God said we should show to each other? Would not God show that same mercy? This doctrine turns God into a horrible monster, and shows us to be more merciful than God Himself. God in The book of Genesis drove the man from the garden so that he wouldn’t eat from the tree of life and live forever in sin

As we have seen from scripture, man’s immortality is conditional, it depends on man meeting certain conditions. First if Adam was to live forever it was required that he eat of fruit of Tree of Life. Which he didn’t. He listened to the liar and thought he could gain immortality [godhood] through esoteric knowledge. By means of the occult! Satan said man would never die, God said the man would surely die. Who do you believe in this argument, Satan who says you are eternal and equal with God, or God who said you can die?

“And fear not them which can kill the body, but not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matt 10:28].

To destroy= (1.) demolish: to demolish something or reduce some to fragments. (2.) ruin: to ruin something or make something useless. (3.) abolish: to abolish, rescind, or end something.

The Word of God makes it perfectly clear that the soul of man can be destroyed! Throughout scripture God used words like destroy and perish, when describing the soul that continues in sin. The soul that sineth shall die! [Eze 18:20]. So man has the potential for immortality, but it’s conditional.

There is another order of created beings that were called the sons of God even before man was created. These being are of a higher order than man, these beings are immortals. With the title of sons of God, comes the gift of immortality. These beings were created with unconditional immortality. It is for these beings that the eternal hell was created, and not for man. When the soul of man is thrown in this eternal the lake of fire it is destroyed, like the bible says, because it is not immortal. Not so with them that were created immortal, they are immortal, which was there gift from their creator, everlasting life. When they fell God did not take back that gift from them, they live forever. But they live separated from their God. God in His great mercy made sure that man would not suffer the same faith. So He drove the man from the Garden of Eden so he wouldn’t eat from the Tree of Life and live forever with Satan and his angels in their everlasting home Hell. Had man eaten the fruit from the Tree of Life, he would have to spend eternality in hell. But God in his mercy made immortality conditional for man. Either he would become a son of God, and be given immortality, or if he refuses that gift he would perish. In that way God actually showed just how merciful He really is. Man sends man to eternal torment, God simply take the person out of existence. Which one sound like a loving and mercy God? No man is force to accept the gift of life, but nether will God torment them throughout eternality. The soul that continues in sin will be destroyed, as if it had never existed. Hell was not made for the soul of man the lake of fire was not made for the soul to exist alive in, it is for the destruction of that soul, but it is meant for everlasting home of Satan and his angels:

Your whole outlook on life and death depends on who you believe, about life and death. The devil says you are eternal and will never die. God said you are mortal and can die. Which one will you believe? The liar [Satan] who say what you want to hear, or God who cannot lie, who say you will surely die if you continue in sin. The choice is yours to make, but make that choice based on the word of God and not on Satan’s deceptions.

This false doctrine of eternal torment have driven many searching soul away from Christianity, and caused The Loving father to be seen as a monster, simply because they have accepted the word of the deceiver over the word of their creator on the immortality of the soul. And many that preach this eternal torment may not even be saved themselves. Don’t get angry at me. I’m just repeating what Jesus said. So be careful who you condemn to eternal torment. Just talking about Jesus doesn’t necessarily mean one is actually doing the will of Jesus. There are some that are casting out demons in the name Jesus that will be condemned in the Day of Judgment. But don’t take my word for it, here’s what Jesus said:

“Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I confess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. [Matt 7:22-23].

So let us be very careful who we send to eternal torment. If you are wrong about God tormenting soul for all eternity, just think of the reproach you are bringing on his name, and the people you are responsible for driving away from God. If you are preaching the immortality of the soul, it is not from the bible, God said the soul that sineth will die!

“AND THE LORD GOD SAID, BEHOLD, THE MAN IS BECOME AS ONE OF US, TO KNOW GOOD AND EVIL: AND NOW, LEST HE PUT FORTH HIS HAND, AND TAKE ALSO OF TREE OF LIFE, AND EAT, AND LIVE FOREVER!