Genesis
2:7 then the LORD God formed the man of
dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the
man became a living creature (i.e. soul).
1Timothy
6:
13 I charge you in the presence of God, who
gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before
Pontius Pilate made the good confession,
14 to keep the commandment unstained and free
from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 which he will display at the proper time—he
who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
16 WHO
ALONE HAS IMMORTALITY, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has
ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
1Thess
4:
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed,
brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who
have no hope.
14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen
asleep.
15 For this we declare to you by a word from the
Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will
not precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven
with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of
the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 Then we
who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
1Cor
15:
42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead.
What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in
glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a
spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
45 Thus it is written, "The first man Adam
became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but
the natural, and then the spiritual.
47 The first man was from the earth, a man of
dust; the second man is from heaven.
48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who
are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of
heaven.
49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of
dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the
imperishable.
51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at
the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised
imperishable, and we shall be changed.
53 For this perishable body must put on the
imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable,
and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is
written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
55 "O death, where is your victory? O
death, where is your sting?"
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of
sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rev 20:14
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the
second death, the lake of fire.
To
this very day, since Christ rose from the dead, He is the lone “immortal”.
Nowhere
in scripture is it said directly, or even implied, that men were created with
immortal souls. Immortality is granted to the saints alone, at Christ’s return.
The twisted teachings on pre-trib rapture, or men’s immortal souls floating around in the ether after death, etc.etc.,have this false teaching regarding immortality as part of their foundation. Adam became a living soul destined for death. Christ is the true life-giver. Immortality for the saints displays the victory that Christ wrought on their behalf, i.e. the death of death, the last enemy.
The twisted teachings on pre-trib rapture, or men’s immortal souls floating around in the ether after death, etc.etc.,have this false teaching regarding immortality as part of their foundation. Adam became a living soul destined for death. Christ is the true life-giver. Immortality for the saints displays the victory that Christ wrought on their behalf, i.e. the death of death, the last enemy.
1John 3:2 Beloved,
we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we
know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he
is.
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