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Please do a teaching on the soul and is it eternal?
There's a man who is mixing up the body of Christ by teaching that the soul is not eternal and dies with the body.
Okay, no, the soul is not eternal and the soul never dies.
The soul does not die with the body.
Your soul is not eternal, it's everlasting.
Eternal and everlasting are not the same.
Eternal has no beginning or end.
Everlasting has no end but does have a beginning.
So no human is born with eternal life.
Each one of us has a beginning.
Only God is eternal, not man.
God has no beginning or end which makes him eternal.
We had a beginning, so we're not eternal.
Now with that said, okay, with that said, after one hears the gospel and rests their
faith in Christ by believing what they heard, at that time, they do receive eternal life.
But follow me, the eternal life they receive is not theirs.
Because again, we're not eternal, we're everlasting.
We have a beginning.
But at that time, it's the life of Christ that is applied to us.
So therefore, yes, we receive his eternal life.
We're in him.
And that happens at the moment of belief, at the moment that we're spiritually baptized into him.
So his eternal life is now applied to us.
Now, to your point about a man teaching that, you said that there's a man teaching that the soul dies with the body.
I wonder if this teacher you're speaking of is Seventh-day Adventist or a Jehovah's
Witness or maybe someone that's hijacked their teaching because they've been teaching this sort of nonsense for years.
They call it, well, the exact term escapes me at the moment, but they claim that God
will, oh, I remember, I think I remember, the term is called soul annihilation.
Don't quote me on that, but I think that's it.
It's nothing new.
It's been around for quite some time.
It's where they say that God will recreate the souls of those he redeems.
And the rest, well, they just cease to exist.
That's the claim, and it's a false one.
They have verses for it, just like most all false doctrines.
There's some verses they have, but they lack in contextual integrity.
They remove them from their context, rip it right out, and teach all sorts of erroneous things.
It's a false doctrine taken out of context, but they could care less about honoring Scripture, Scripture like this one.
Let me see.
Just a moment here.
Okay, here it is, Luke chapter 23.
Luke, very good with his words, not hard to understand, inspired by the Holy Spirit, of course.
Watch this.
Luke 23, starting at verse 43.
This is when the malefactors were hanging there alongside Jesus.
And one said, watch, watch this, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Wait, what?
He didn't say, Today shalt thou soul go to sleep, until it gets recreated, did he?
Until you receive a new one.
No.
Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Look here.
We have a match.
What Jesus said there matches Ecclesiastes chapter 12.
Chapter 12, verse 7.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the Spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Did you get that?
That's disembodied life.
That's what that is.
God in his magnificent excellence created our souls to survive on their own.
Doesn't need a body.
The body and soul can clearly be separated.
And your soul is not going to die when your body does.
As also proved with the transfiguration spoken of in the book of Matthew.
Moses and Elias died before Jesus was even born.
Yet they appeared to James, Peter, and John.
Well how could that occur?
How could that occur if this teacher you speak of is correct?
It couldn't.
There is ample proof.
You can't miss it.
Souls never die.
Christ and what he says in the 25th chapter of the book of Matthew.
Jesus is talking about a couple of groups of people, the unrighteous, who will go off
into everlasting punishment, and the righteous, who will receive eternal life.
Which sounds an awful lot like what he said in the 5th chapter of the book of John.
I did a teaching on that some time back.
There is where he mentioned that the hour will come when everyone in the grave will
hear his voice and arise.
He says the ones who had done good, the do-gooders, will receive a resurrected life.
But the ones who had done evil, they get the resurrection of damnation.
Now for a Bible believer, it's obvious that both groups have souls that never die.
Souls that continue to exist.
The confusion only comes when these verses are lifted from their context.
Wrong doctrines.
That's how they get started.
They're a product of twistianity.
Years ago, I had a listener, a Seventh Dayer, he tried to use some of this twistianity on me concerning this same issue.
Trying to convince me of what I think they call soul annihilation.
He used an Old Testament verse that said, the dead know not anything.
And they won't.
They won't know anything that is happening here on earth.
But that doesn't mean their soul died.
That's twistianity for you.
Not to mention that it clearly says ANY THING.
The words are separated.
Two words, not one, as the Seventh Dayer was trying to put over on me.
And listen, words and sentence structure matters.
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