1. Many Protestant Premillennialists believe that the destruction of the lost will be
on this earth and the saved will forever live on this earth; no person will ever be in
Heaven. Many believe the Valley of Gehenna will be restored and the lost will
literally be burn to ashes in it.
2. Some Protestant Premillennialists believe that the saved will be with Christ in
Heaven, not on earth after the thousand years, the second death will be the end of
the lost, but they are not literally burned to ashes on this earth in the restored
Valley of Gehenna.
3. Some Protestant Premillennialists believe the wages of sin is eternal life with
torment for the soul that cannot die, which puts them in the camp of those that
believe death is not the wages of sin.
If we have either a soul or a spirit that is now immortal and can never die or be dead,
how could there be a resurrection of the dead? Do you believe in the resurrection of the
dead? If yes, what do you believe will be resurrected? Will your dead body be raised
from the dead, or do you believe a soul that is not dead will be raised from the dead?
When I first begin this study I was surprised and made to tremble at how few believed in
the resurrection and how many there are that do not really know what they believe about
it. Many believe some part of themselves will instantly be transited from this world to
Heaven or Hell at death without a resurrection before the resurrection and Judgment Day
and before the second coming of Christ, but when asked what is the reason for the
resurrection, they not only do not know but have never really thought about it. Death is
looked at as being a doorway to life in another form, that death is not really death, and
there is nowhere in their thoughts or in their faith for a resurrection for their theology
says no one is really dead. The resurrection has been removed from the faith of many by
today's theology that says some immortal part of a person will go to Heaven at the
moment of death. But is there any life after death before the second coming of Christ
and the resurrection of the dead? Paul said at the resurrection, "This mortal must put
on immortality," but if we have a soul that is now immortal then what is it that is now
mortal that will put on immortality at the resurrection?
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Table of Contents
AN IMMORTAL SOUL OR RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD
The Resurrection, Our Only Hope Of Life After Death
By William West
Chapter one: The reinterpretation of the nature of man - what is man?
Chapter two: Life or Death
Chapter three: The reinterpretations of the great doctrines of the Bible
Chapter four: From where came Hell? The vanishing Hell, The many Hells
Chapter five: Sheol, Hades, and Tartarus
Chapter six: The thirty-one Hell passages
Chapter seven: A strange and unexplainable silence: The reinterpreting of life, death,
torment, destruction, destroy, perish, die, and end
Chapter eight: The interpretation of figurative language, metaphors, and symbolical
passage
Chapter nine: Universalist: The "age lasting" Hell
Chapter ten: The results of attributing evil Pagan teachings to God.
