SOULS CAN DIE
Holy angels are created beings who have everlasting life as they dwell in the very presence of God, who is the Author of life. Human beings are created too and often are referred to as souls but the Bible makes it plain that souls can die. Death and life are not the same thing."The soul that sinneth, it shall die." (EZEKIEL 18:20,4) According to the Bible there is no "spirit" or "immaterial essence" called a soul that leaves our body at death. Nothing separates from the body after death to go to heaven or to hell. The person, the individual, that poor soul, is simply dead; it is not immortal.
HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT IMMORTAL
If there is any part of any human being that cannot die, then that part of them is immortal. Yet, God has never suggested that we are immortal. Our heavenly FATHER and JESUS "Who only hath immortality... (1 TIMOTHY 6:16) will bestow immortality, as a gift upon those whose characters are like that of JESUS CHRIST when HE returns the second time. Immortality is not promised to those who reject Christ. They will not live forever in heaven and they will not live forever in hell.
DEATH IS CORRUPTION
Because the human body is subject to a decaying process in death, it is referred to as being corruptible but God promises that this will not always be so. "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. (1 CORINTHIANS 15:53,54)
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AN APPEAL:
If you haven't truly done so already, believer or unbeliever, please...surrender your heart to God while there is still time; surrender your thoughts and feelings to Jesus Christ the one who loves you and died in order for you and I to be able to obtain victory over all sin and selfishness in our lives...God loves you..God wants you and I to cooperate with Him so that we can be made ready to live eternally in a world of perfect love and peace.
