Spirit and soul are not the same. God used his spirit in creation.
God did not use his soul.- Psalm 104v30.
i agree they are not the same.
1Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is a God of the living because faithful dead are viewed as alive because they will be resurrected back to life. Acts 24v15.
Then who is God bringing with him here before they get their new bodies?
1Th 4:14 For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus comes, God will bring back with Jesus all the Christians who have died.
Right we should not fear the one who can not kill the soul [person] but be in fear of the one who can destroy the soul [one's life] in Gehenna. Mt 10v28 B.
Mat 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
The passage is clear, the body can be killed, but not the soul. Man can only kill the body, but thats all he can do to you, he cannot kill your soul. For only God can destroy both Body and Soul.
Isn't that why Acts 3v23 can state the soul can be destroyed.
i believe the word soul can be used is different ways explained in the strongs dictionay. The soul can be the whole person or it can be the inner man. For example, in a war 25 souls died at the hands of the enemy, yet the same word can be used to say, dont fear those that can only kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul, fear God who can destroy both.
Since the soul in Not immortal it dies. -Ezekiel 18 vs4,20.
The soul that sins will die. Again the word soul has more than 1 meaning, it can describe the whole person or the inner man. I heard you also throw a term at me that could mean "Spiritual death" or something in that manner. Anyway, my belief is that the term "Soul" means more than just 1 deffinition. just as you believe God has more than 1 deffinition. There are passages that explain the soul as having different meanings as well. There are passages that say "souls depart at death" meaning it can be more than just the persons living body.
Satan is also Not immortal and will be destroyed. Heb 2v14 B.
No one is immortal to God who created
Jesus was not in paradise on the day he died.
That sounds so anti-biblical to me... you need to know that the term "Truly I say to you" is a term found 74 times in the bible. its a greek saying and always is said before the content of the sentence. Hence, a comma is placed correctly in all 74 places in the bible it appears. The term as you might believe, "Truly I say to you today", is not a greek saying and only apears once in the bible. We must be consistant when translating scripture and not let our belief translate it for us. Do you think its best to be consistant in translating scripture?
The NWT correctly places the comma 73 out of 74 times after this greek saying, why the inconsistancy?
Jesus went to hell. -Acts 2vs27,31;Psalm 16v10
1Pe 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1Pe 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
The burning pagan hell is not the Biblical hell or common grave of mankind.
What did Jesus say?
Luk 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Luk 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
Dont blame pagans for making up a story such as a burning hot place where people are tormented. Blame Jesus
Paradise or the thousand-year reign of Christ is still ahead of us.
i do not disagree that the 1000 year reign is ahead of us, but paradise is a place that exists now.
2Cr 12:3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth
2Cr 12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Jesus was not resurrected to heaven until 50 days after his resurrection.
But he was somewhere for 3 days before.
in Love,
Tom