LIFE ONLY
IN CHRIST
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RESURRECTION
OR
IMMORTALITY
Subtitled
The Resurrection, Our Only Hope Of Life After Death
Or Is
William
Robert West
Author of
The Rapture And Israel
"The Wages Of Sin Is Death"
OR IS
"The
Wages Of Sin Is Eternal
Life
With Torment In Hell"
An Immortal Soul
And The Doctrine Of Hell
Is There A Soul
In You That Will Live After You Are Dead?
Updated10/20/18
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LIFE IN
CHRIST
RESURRECTION
OR IMMORTALITY
The
Resurrection, Our Only Hope Of Life After Death
William
Robert West
Table of Contents
INDEX and CHAPTER ONE, The nature of man–what is
man?
You are now on INDEX
and CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO, Life or Death
Is at http://www.robertwr.com/life.html
CHAPTER THREE, The great doctrines of the Bible
Is at http://www.robertwr.com/immortal.html
CHAPTERS FOUR, FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN
Are at http://www.robertwr.com/hell.html
Chapter four, From
where came Hell, from man or God?
1. Unquenchable fire, weeping,
gnashing of teeth
2. Old Testament history of Gehenna
3. Gehenna used by Christ on four
occasions
4, The vanishing Hell
5. Twenty-nine plus version of Hell
Three Catholic versions of Hell
Seventeen plus Protestant versions of Hell
Nine other versions of Hell
Chapter five, Sheol,
Hades, and Tartarus
Chapter six, The
thirty-one Hell passages
Chapter seven, A strange
and unexplainable silence of the Old Testament on punishment and life after
death, life, death, torment, destruction, destroy, perish, die, and end
CHAPTERS EIGHT, NINE, TEN, ELEVEN AND TWELVE
Are at http://www.robertwr.com/heaven.html
Chapter eight, Figurative
language, metaphors, and symbolical passage
Part one, The rich man
Part two, The symbolic pictures in Revelation
Part three, The forever and ever of the King James Version
Chapter nine,
Universalist, The "age lasting" Hell
Chapter ten, The
results of attributing evil Pagan teachings to God
Chapter eleven, Historical proof of the
changing of the teaching of the Bible
Chapter twelve, ISRAEL'S DESTRUCTION. Scripture
about the destruction of Israel that are misapplied to Hell, Israels weeping,
gnashing of teeth, outer darkness, Matthew 24, Preterits
Eschatology, Realized Eschatology, A. D. 70 Doctrine, The day of
the Lord, 2 Peter 3
Appendix one
ALL TWELVE CHAPTERS ON ONE WEB SITE ARE AT http://www.robertwr.com/resurrection.pdf
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FOREWORD
What do you believe about souls?
There are many very different doctrines taught in the world today concerning
souls that are believed to be in all humans. By most a soul is believed to be
something that is wholly apart from the person that a soul is in; that a soul
is something that is believed to be complete in its self without the person; it
will live after the person it is in is dead; it is believed that a soul will
exist forever without the person; it will never be dead; therefore, a soul
cannot be resurrected from the dead. Many believe that there is a deathless
soul and it must live someplace forever; that it will live either in Heaven or
Hell even if there is no resurrection. The doctrine of unconditional
immortality of a deathless soul being in a person, and that soul leaving that
person at the death of the person makes it impossible for Christ to have give
His life to save that soul from death; if a soul had immortality it would
already have life and could never not have life; all Christ could do is give it
a reward or punish it.
MANY BELIEVE
(1). At the death of a saved person
a bodiless, deathless soul that had been in a person will fly immediately to
Heaven to the very presents of Jesus and God, and souls that are now in Heaven
are now looking down on loved ones of the dead persons the souls had been in.
(2). At the death of a lost
person, a soul that was in that person will immediately be carried to Hell
where it will forever be alive, suffering and screaming, while it is being
eternally tormented by God with no hope that God will ever stop tormenting it.
(3). At the death of most
persons that are Catholic, souls that were in them goes immediately to
Purgatory where souls will suffer unto souls have suffered enough to pay for
the sins of the persons they were in, then these souls will be saved by their
own suffering, or saved by money given by others.
(4). In the Abrahams bosom
version souls that had been in the saved will go immediately at death to be
rewarded in Abrahams bosom, the good side of hades, unto the coming of Christ
while souls that were in the lost are tormented in the bad side of hades unto
the coming of Christ; after the judgment the souls that had been in the lost
persons that were being tormented in hades will then be endlessly tormented by
God in an endless burning Hell.
(5). A view of a soul now
believed by some Protestants, called Rephaim, is that after the death of the
person, a soul leaves the person and it is a shadowy something that has no
substance, it is nothing more than mental thoughts without any kind of
substance or body.
(6). Spiritualism, After the
death of the person, the spirit becomes a ghost that sometimes haunts the house
of the person it had been in, it is a ghostly spook that can sometimes be seen
at night among the graves and tombstones in a cemetery. According to
Spiritualism, some people can and do call them back, but usually only after
they are paid to do the calling; Spiritualist say these ghosts or spooks roam
the earth and are seen by people, and even live in the house with people; that
the ghost that have left the persons they were dwelling in can come back, and
these ghost can do both good and evil to living persons that still have ghosts
(souls) dwelling in them. Many who do not think of themselves as being a
Spiritualist and even deny that they are a Spiritualist believe much of the
Spiritualist belief; most funerals that I have attended the preacher has a soul
that had been dwelling in the dead person dwelling in Heaven, and that soul was
looking down on the funeral of the dead person it had been freed from; have you
ever been to a funeral where the preacher said a soul that had been in the dead
person was alive in Hell and looking up from Hell at the person it had been in,
I have not.
(7). The teaching of souls going to
Heaven or Hell at death without a resurrection is from Greek philosophy, that
souls are imprisoned in a person and freed at the death of the person; in no
way can it be call Christian; it is a complete denial of Christianly.
The whole person, not a soul that had been in a person, sleeps
from death unto the resurrection, the whole person is resurrected and judged,
the person is given endless life, or endless death.
(8). There are many other
beliefs about what a soul is and what a soul can and cannot do, far too many to
list here.
Two of the views that are commonly
believed about what will happen to souls that leave mankind after death are the
subject of this book.
VIEW ONE. The belief
that the you (the person you now
are) will put on immortality at the resurrection, and it is you (not just some immaterial something
that had been in you) that will live forever in Heaven; we, not immaterial souls, are now in the image of Adam, we, not an immaterial soul, will have
the image of Christ after the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:49). The wages of
sin is death, and after the resurrection and judgment lost persons they will
die the second death; they do not now have immortality and never will be
immortal; those who do not belong to Christ will forever be destroyed after
their judgment. Only saved persons will
be changed from mortal to immortal persons at the resurrection (1
Corinthians 15:42-46); it will be you,
the person, that will be immortal and live in the place Christ has gone to
prepare for you, not a place for whatever
anyone believes a soul to be.
VIEW TWO. The
belief that there is a soul in all persons that W. E. Vine says it has no subjects (Vines Complete
Expository Dictionary Of Old And New Testament Words, page 588), and Robert A.
Morey says, that after the death of the
body a soul will be nothing but mental
thoughts (Death And The
Afterlife, page 79). According to John Calvin the dualistic view that is believed by many Protestants, The soul is an incorporeal substanceset in
the body it dwells there as in a house (Institutes 1, xv, 2, 6). According
to those that believe as Vine, Calvin, Morey, and many Protestants, this
nothing but thoughts is the only thing that will have eternal life in Heaven.
This immaterial something that had been in a person that is nothing but mental
thoughts is all that will be in Heaven or Hell; the person (you) will be gone
and there will be nothing but a soul that had been in you that is nothing but
thoughts, then all of the you that you now know anything about will be
forever be gone. Most that believe all persons are born with an immortal soul
that is dwelling in them have only a vague unclear understanding, or even no
idea of what they believe this unknown immaterial something they believe to be
in them really is, but it (not themselves) is what they believe must be
saved, and only it will be in Heaven if they save it, or in Hell if they do
not save it. The belief that everyone has an immaterial something in them and
this something, whatever this nothing but mental thoughts could be, will live
forever and cannot die makes it not possible for death to be the wages of sin;
if a person has something in them that is deathless; this something would not
be subject to the wages of sin, which is death, and this deathless nothing
could never be destroyed; this, whatever
it is would be, has eternal life from the birth of the person, and it could
never die; therefore, it could not be resurrected from the dead.
VIEW TWO HAS MAJOR DIVISIONS
(1). That there is a "soul" in each person that cannot
ever die or be destroyed, but most of these immaterial nothing but mental
thoughts beings will forever be tormented by God after the death of the person.
I
know of no one that believes there is a soul that is in a person
that knows what a soul is. They tell me what a soul is not, but not what they
believe a soul to be; in the many books I have read, the nearest anyone has
came is to say that after a soul departs from the person it was in is Vines
definitions that a soul is nothing but thoughts without any kind of substance
or body.
(2). Universalism, that in all mankind there is a
"soul" in them that cannot ever die or be destroyed; everyone has
this something in them that will live forever, but it will be saved. If it (a
immaterial bodiless beings) is not saved by the person it is in during this
lifetime, then that soul will be saved after the death of the person it had
been in.
(3). Protestant
Premillennialists. Many
Protestant Premillennialists believe the lost will be totally destroyed, but
there are three, probably more, Premillennial views that are common in
Protestant churches on how or where the lost will be destroyed.
(1). A common
Protestant Premillennialists belief is that the complete 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 their death will not
be by literally being 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 souls that cannot die, which
puts them in the camp of those that believe that souls now have endless life
and will be tormented by God because these souls had been in unsaved persons,
they do not believe death is the wages of sin.
If
there is a soul in us that is now immortal and it 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 you be
raised from the dead, or do you believe as many that only a soul that can never
be dead, but this deathless soul is the only thing that will be raised from the
dead? When I first begin this study I was surprised and made to tremble at how
few really believed in the resurrection, and how many there are that do not
really know what they believe about it. Many believe some deathless something
that they believe to be in themselves will instantly be translated from this
world to Heaven or Hell at death without a resurrection, before the
resurrection, before the Judgment Day, and before the second coming of Christ, but
when they are asked what is the reason for the resurrection, many 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 soul is really dead. The resurrection has been removed from
the faith of many by today's theology that says some immortal something that is
believed to be in 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
life after death will be only at the resurrection when, "This mortal must put on immortality," but if there is a
soul that is now immortal in us, then what is it that is now mortal that will
put on immortality at the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:53)? It is the mortal person (you), not a soul
that will be raised from the dead; the mortal person (you) will put on
immortality at the resurrection; it will be YOU that will be in Heaven.
WHAT DOES
THE BIBLE SAY
ABOUT AN
IMMORTAL SOUL AND/OR SPIRIT?
Together soul and spirit are used
about 1,600 times in the Bible, but not one time is immortal ever used in the
same verse with either one; immortal soul, or an immortal spirit,
deathless or never dying soul or a never dying spirit is not in the Bible,
not even in the King James Version. Immortal or immortality is not in the Old
Testament; the promise of immortality is given to no one. In the New Testament,
immortal is used only one time, immortality is used five times, all six by
Paul. What does he say?
1. "Now unto the King eternal, immortal" (1
Timothy 1:17).
2. Only God has immortality (1 Timothy 6:16).
3. Christ "abolished death and brought life and
immortality to light through the gospel" (2 Timothy 1:10).
4. "To them (Christians persons, not souls) that...seek
for glory and honor and immortality" (Romans 2:7).
5. "This MORTAL
must put on immortality" (1
Corinthians 15:53) at the resurrection. This mortal person, not this already immortal
soul.
6. "This MORTAL
shall have put on immortality" (1
Corinthians 15:54) after the resurrection. This mortal person must put on
immortality at the resurrection, not this soul that is already immortal must
put on immortality.
Why are we to "seek for immortality" if
we are born immortal? Why will we "put on immortality" if
the only part of us that will ever be immortal has been immortal from birth (or
as some believe–before birth)? The fact that a person must "seek
for...immortality," (Romans 2:7, Incorruption American Standard version) and immortality must
be "put on" (1 Corinthians 15:53) at the
resurrection is conclusive proof that a person does not now have immortality,
nor does a person have some immaterial, immortal something in them that is now
immortal and this immortal it cannot die. If Romans 2:7 and 1
Corinthians 15:53 teaches nothing more, they teaches that no part of a person
now possess immortality. Not one passage in the Bible says anyone is now
immortal. The immortal soul theology is from pagan philosophy and was
brought into the church by Roman Catholicism in the Dark Age. If all have a
deathless soul, and we are told that this deathless soul is the only thing that
will ever be immortal, and it is already immortal, the resurrection is made to
be useless. The question is, resurrection or immortality? Will YOU be
saved from the dead, or is there a deathless soul in you that cannot be dead,
and it cannot be resurrected from the dead, and only that soul, not you, will
live in Heaven; are will it be YOU that will be in Heaven?
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CHAPTER ONE
What Is Man?
What is a man? Are all
persons born with immortal souls in them, or do only the saved put on
immortality at the resurrection? Is a person a three part being, an animal body
with both a soul and a spirit that will live after the body is dead? This is
one of the most important questions of all time. It has more influence on our
conception of our nature, our view of life in this world, and our view of life
after death than any other question.
Soul in the Old Testament is
translated from nehphesh, Strongs Hebrew word #5315–a
breathing creature. A study of the way it is translated in the King James
Version, and how other translations differ greatly from the King James reveals
facts that are far different than the belief of most about what a soul is, and
facts that many will find upsetting. The Hebrew word nehphesh is used in the
Old Testament about 870 times and is translated soul only about 473 times in
the King James Version, but in the New International Version (2010-2011
updated version) only 72 out of about 870 times nehphesh is used.
Of the 870 times Nehphesh is in the Bible, in the New
International Version.
Nehphesh is translated soul only 72 times.
Nehphesh is translated something other that soul 798 times.
Of
the 473 times nehphesh is translated soul in the King James Version, it was
translated soul 401 less times in the New International Version.
Nehphesh is translated in the King
James Version into about 40 words; one Hebrew word is translated (or
mistranslated) into nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc. Of 870 times
nehphesh is used in the Hebrew it was changed into many words by the
translators of many versions, changed as they chose to, and all choosing many
times to translate the same word difference even when this word is used two or
more times in the same passage, the same Hebrew word is translated into two
English words in the same passage that definitely are nothing alike; by todays
meaning of soul and life they means two completely difference things;
soul and life are not synonymous.
IN THE KING
JAMES VERSION NEHPHESH IS TRANSLATED
1. NOUNS. Soul about
473 times; Life about 122 times; Person about
26 times; Mind about 15 times; Heart about 15
times.
2. PERSONAL PRONOUNS. 44
plus times–yourselves, themselves, her, me, he, his, himself
3. ALL OTHERS. about 200
times (verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.) man, creature, living being, own, any,
living thing, living creatures, lives, the dead, dead body, kills, slays,
slay him, mortally, discontented, ghost, breath, will, appetite, hearty desire,
desire, pleasure, lust, and deadly.
Can one word have this many totally
difference meaning; can one word be a noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb,
etc.? If it did could anyone know which one was being used; it is evidence that
the translators of many translations changed nehphesh into whatever they
wanted to.
In all 870 times that nehphesh is
used it is always associated with the activity of a living being, including
dying, and it never implies anything about life after the death of the living
being (person or animal). In none of
the 870 times, nehphesh is not an immortal, immaterial, deathless inter
something in a person that has no substance (W. E. Vine, Expository
Dictionary Of Old And New Testament Words); souls (nehpheshs) are the living
beings (persons, animals, or any living thing) that can die, be killed, or is
already dead; although its use is often hid from the English readers
by the way it was translated or mistranslated.
SOUL
(NEHPHESH) AS IT IS USED IN THE BIBLE
(1) Genesis 1:20, "THE
MOVING CREATURE THAT HAS LIFE (nehpheshs–mortal
beings, used referring to animals, Strongs Hebrew word
#5315–a breathing creature). American Standard Version–"Let
the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures (nehpheshs–all
mortal beings, including all animals and mankind).
If soul were an
immortal "immaterial, invisible part of man" (W. E.
Vine, Expository Dictionary Of Old And New Testament Words), why is this Hebrew
word that is translated soul also translated "living
creature" when it is speaking of animals in Genesis 1:21; 1:24;
2:19; 9:10; 9:12; 9:15; 9:16 when the same Hebrew word (nehphesh) is
translated "living soul" in Genesis 2:7 when it is
speaking of a person? According to those
that believe there is an immortal soul in a person a living creature and
a living soul are two completely difference beings. If
this Hebrew word (nehphesh) were an immaterial, immortal living something that
is in a person, it would also be the same immaterial, immortal living something
that is in animals.
(2) Genesis 1:21, "LIVING
CREATURE" (nehpheshs–mortal living beings, used
referring to all life in the water), "And God
created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature (nehpheshs–mortal
living beings) that moves wherewith the water swarmed.
(3) Genesis 1:24, "LIVING
CREATURE" (nehpheshs–mortal living beings), used
referring to animals, all life on the land), "And
God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures (nehphesh–soul) after
their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth." In
Genesis 1:21-24 every living thing on earth, whether in the water or on land,
every thing that has life is a nehphesh, a living being.
All
sea life are nehpheshs, are living beings (not souls).
All
land life are nehpheshs, are living beings (not souls).
And
mankind are nehpheshs, are living beings (not souls).
None of the three are inherent
indestructible immortality beings; none have an immortal deathless soul
dwelling in them.
(4) Genesis 1:30, "LIFE" (nehpheshs–mortal
living beings, used referring to animals), "And to every
beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that
creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life" (nehpheshs–mortal
living beings); all animals, all sea life, all birds are " living
souls."
All four times that soul (nehphesh) is
used in Genesis one it is used referring to animals Strongs Hebrew
word #5315 a breathing creature, i. e., animal; not to a person.
Animals were souls, living beings, before any man existed; why did the
translators deliberately hide the fact that it is the same word that they
sometimes translated soul?
1. They translated it souls when it is speaking of people.
2. They translated it living creatures when the same word is
speaking of
animals. How could the translators possibly know when the same word is
speaking of
mortal beings and when it is speaking of immortal souls that are
in mortal persons?
Just as up cannot mean down, Mortal cannot mean Immortal.
3. Although it is clear that the translators attempted to hide
this from their readers,
Every breathing creature are souls (a living
being–nehphesh) the same as persons.
"Then God said, 'Let the waters
teem with swarms of living souls (nehpheshs–mortal
living beings), and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse
of the heavens.' And God created the great sea monsters, and every living
soul (nehphesh–mortal living beings) that
moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird
after its kind; and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, 'Be
fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply
on the earth.' And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. Then
God said, 'Let the earth bring forth living souls (nehpheshs–mortal
living beings) after their kind: cattle and creeping thing and beasts
of the earth after their kind'; and it was so...and to every beast of the earth,
and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creeps upon the earth,
wherein there is life (nehpheshs–mortal
living beings) I have given every green herb for meat" (Genesis
1:20-30). Living creatures" (nehpheshs–mortal
living beings) is used to describe all living things on earth, people, animals,
birds, and fish; not some, immortal, immaterial, invisible living something
that is in a person that is now eternal. If a person being a soul
(nehphesh–a living being) makes that person be either immortal or in the
image of God, then it makes animals, birds, and fish have an immortal soul in
them.
HENRY CONSTABLE, A. M., The Hebrew
scholars knows that when Moses, in Genesis I. 20, 29, speaks of the nature of
the lower order of animals, and when in Genesis ii, 7, he speaks of the nature
of man, the inspired writer used the very same Hebrew terms of both one
and the other. Each fish, and fowl, and creeping thing, and beast is
called in the Hebrew a nephesh chajah as much as man who was
given the rule over them. But this was in its apparent bearing wholly
inconsistent with the philosophical ideas of the translators. They
considered it dangerous that the similarity of description should appear in the
English version, which Moses did not consider it dangerous to exhibit in the
Hebrew original. Hence they must guard Gods Word from its supposed dangerous
language by translating nephesh chajah very differently in the
first chapter of Genesis, where it is applied to the lower creatures, from what
they translated it in the second chapter, where it is applied to manA gross,
through unintentional fraud has been committed against the English reader. He
is mislead in his searching of the Scriptures He is put on a false scentOur
English translators have supplied us with a commentary of their own instead of
a translation, a comment we will here add, utterly alien to truth. But
the result of this mistranslation is to lead astray the English reader who
trusts in it. This is not the only instance, which occurs of the thing in
reference to this question. The same Hebrew word is throughout the Old
Testament translated according as the Platonic notions of the translator led
him to think it ought to be translated. Plato had a considerable hand in the
translation of King James Bible. The Hebrew word nephesh is
translated creature, soul life &c., just as squared with the notions
of men who carried Platos philosophy into their noble work of the translation
of Scripture. We affirm that a grave injury has been done to the English
reader, and a gross wrong to Gods word. Hades or The Intermediate State
of Man, page 31–32, 1873, pubic domain.
(5) Genesis 2:7, "A LIVING
SOUL" (nehphesh–a living being, used referring to a
person, Strongs Hebrew word #5315–a breathing creature) The
first time the King James Version translated nehphesh into "soul,"
most other translations did not agree with it, not even the New King James
Version. "Man became a living being," Genesis 2:7, New
King James Version.
Living creatures" (nehpheshs–mortal beings) Genesis
1:20.
Living things" (nehpheshs–mortal beings) Genesis 1:21.
Living creature" (nehpheshs–a mortal being) Genesis
1:24.
In which there is life" (nehpheshs–mortal
beings) Genesis 1:30.
"Man became a living being" (nehphesh–a mortal
being) Genesis 2:7.
It
was the man that became a living being, not
the man that had a never dying living being put into him.
Nothing is said about the creation of two being, a living man, and then the
creation of another immortal living soul that was put in the first mortal
living being.
It is obvious that the translators
of the King James Version translated according to a preconceived opinion in an
attempt make persons have an immortal soul dwelling in them, but keeps animals
from also having souls that are dwelling in them; they made a distinction in
animals and men, a distinction that dose not exist in the Hebrew Bible.
Genesis
2:7, Man became,
A living soul" (1) King James
Version.
"A living being" (1) New King James
Version, (2) American Standard Version, (3) New American Standard Version, (4)
Revised Standard Version, (5) New Revised Standard Version, (6) New
International Version, (7) Amplified Version, (8) The New American Bible.
"A living creature" (1) The Revised English
Bible, (2) Young's Literal Translation.
"A living person" (1) New Century
Version, (2) The Living Bible, (3) New Living Translation.
"Life" (1) Contemporary English Version.
Of
these many translations, none would go along with the mistranslation of the
King James Version, not even the New King James Version.
According to chapter one to three of
Genesis man was created a mortal living being just as the animals were. Behold, the
MANlest HE stretch
out HIS hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat,
and live forever, therefore the Lord sent HIM out from the
garden of Eden (Genesis 3:22-23) is speaking of the physical person eating
of the tree of life and living forever physically, it says nothing about an
immortal something that was dwelling in a mortal person, nothing about a soul
eating that was already deathless, nothing about a soul that was already
immortal without eating of the tree of life and living forever. It was the
physical person (Adam) that would have eaten from a physical tree, and the
physical person (Adam) that would have physically lived forever; without the
tree of life Adam was not immortal, without the tree of life Adam
died. What reason would there have been to keep Adam from eating of the
tree of life if Adam was already immortal?
(1). THREE
THINGS ABOUT MAN IN GENESIS 2:7
1. The body. God
formed MAN out of the dust of the earth.
2. God breathed
into HIS nostrils the breath of life.
God
breathing into the nostrils of the lifeless body give the body life; breathing
into the nostrils of the lifeless body did not put an immortal soul into the
lifeless body, and then it was that immortal soul that gives life to the body.
3. MAN became
a living being (nehphesh).
MAN
AND ANIMALS ARE BOTH MADE OF THE DUST OF THE EARTH. Both man and animals are a
nehphesh, both are a living being; both man and animals have the breath of
life. Neither one became a living being with another living being
living in them. There is absolutely nothing about Platos immortal soul in this
passage, not one word.
Job
said, The breath of the Almighty gives ME life, (Job
33:4); he did not say, The breath of the Almighty put a soul in me and that
soul give my body life.
Paul quoted Genesis 2:7 showing that
the natural body of Genesis 2:7 that was given to Adam and
all mankind is not the spiritual body that will be given
only to the saved by Christ at the resurrection. So also it is written, the
first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a
life-giving spirit. Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that
which is natural; THEN that which is spiritual. The first man
is of the earth, earthy, the second man is of heaven. As is the earthy, such
are they also that are earthy, and as is the heavenly, such are they also that
are heavenly. As we have born the image of the earthly, we SHALL also bear
the image of the heavenly (1 Corinthians 15:45-49).
In the day that YOU eat from it YOU SHALL SURELY DIE (Genesis 2:17); for Adam to be
told HE WOULD DIE is very different
from Adam being told that there was something in him that would not die, but it
would live forever in torment. In Genesis 3:19 there is a clear
statement on what dies, By the sweat of YOUR face YOU shall eat
bread, till YOU return to the ground, because from it YOU were taken; for YOU
are dust, and to dust YOU shall return, (Also
Genesis 18:27; Psalms 103:14; Job 10:9). It is appointed for MEN to die once and after this comes
judgment (Hebrews 9:27). It is the PERSON that will die, the PERSON
that returns to dust, and the PERSON that will be resurrected from the dead,
the PERSON that will come into judgment, the PERSON that will put on
immortality, not a soul that cannot die; therefore, it could not be resurrected
from the dead.
If, as some teach, Adam was not one
being, but two being, an earthly mortal being and an immortal being living in
the earthly mortal being, which of the two being was addressed in the singular
pronoun YOU shall surely die? We are repeatedly told that an
immortal soul is deathless and cannot die.
1. It was Adam that was made from the dust.
2. It was Adam that ate.
3. It was Adam that was told, dying YOU shall die.
4. It was Adam that was put out and kept out of the garden away
from the tree of life.
5. It was Adam that died and returned to dust.
Not one word is said about a soul.
If there were an immortal soul living in Adam, it suffered nothing from what
Adam did. To make this be spiritual death, not real death is to change, In
the day that you eat from it YOU shall surely die to be saying, In
the day you eat you will be an immortal sinner that cannot die. Surely die
is used many times and all ways means a real death of a real person, Genesis
20:7; 1 Samuel 14:44; 22:16; 1 Kings 2:37; 2:42; Jeremiah 26:8; Ezekiel 3:18;
33:8; 33:14; Numbers 26:65; and any more.
DR. BERT THOMPSON, PH. D. says
Genesis 2:7 is teaching that Adam was given physical life. Then
he said it is not teaching that Adam had instilled in him an immortal
nature. The Origin, Nature, and Destiny of the Soul, page 19,
Apologetics Press, Inc. 2001.
MIKE WILLIS said expositors have
generally appealed to Genesis 2:7 to prove that all men are born with and now
have immortal spirits. However, in 1 Corinthians 15:45, Paul has clearly
expounded the meaning of the Hebrew words nehphesh, chayyah. "The
living soul" of Genesis 2:7 is the natural body of this passage.
He said this corresponds with the book of Genesis itself because the same
construction is used in Genesis 1:24 to describe animals. When Moses recorded
that God breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life and he became a living
soul, what the writer of Genesis was saying was that the dust of the earth
began to have animal life and does not prove that a person has an immortal
spirit (soul); rather it states that a person has animal life. All men possess
animal life through Adam. A Commentary On Paul's First Epistle To the
Corinthians, page 578, 1979. Dose one who knows the Bible as he does, and
believes a person now has an immortal soul, yet says, the living soul of
Genesis 2:7 is the natural body, prove beyond doubt that a living soul is not
an immortal something that is in a person? The first man Adam became a
living soulthe first man is of the earth, earthy (1 Corinthians
15:45-49).
GUY N. WOODS said the first time the
word soul is used in Genesis 1:20 it is from the Hebrew nehphesh where it is
assigned to fish, birds, and creeping things. He said, It is clear that the
soul in these passages does not refer to anything peculiar to the constitution
of man, but it signifies, as its usage denotes, and the lexicons affirm, any
creature that breathes. "What Is The Soul Of Man," Gospel Advocate,
1985, Number 21.
JOHN T. WILLIS, The last two lines
of verse 7 affirm that mans life is God Given. God enables man to breathe, and
thus to be alive, as he does all other creatures (see Gen. 7:22). Some have
tried to justify a threefold division of man into flesh (or body), soul, and
spirit from Genesis 2:7. They equate dust with flesh or
body, breath with spirit, and insist that the last phrase of
the verse must be translated as a living soul. However, this understanding
reads much more into the biblical text than it really says. (1) The Hebrew
words for flesh or body and spirit do not occur in this passage. (2) The
Hebrew expression nephesh chayyah, which some insist on translating
a living soul, is used of fish and marine life in Genesis 1:20, 21; land
animals in 1:24; beasts, birds, and reptiles in 1:30; and beasts and birds in
2:19. If soul means the eternal part of man or the sum total of mans
body and spirit in Genesis 2:7, it must mean the eternal part of a fish or
the sum total of a fishs body and spirit in Genesis 1:20, 21; etc. (3)
The flow of the context in Genesis 2:7 indicates that the word translated being in
the RSV (nephesh) means the whole person. The authors emphasis is
on the gift of life. The Living Word Commentary, Genesis, page
103–104, 1979, Sweet Publishing Company.
ADAM CLARKE, "Nephesh
chayyah; a general term to express all creatures endued with animal
life, in any of its infinitely varied gradations, from the half reasoning
elephant down to the stupid potto, or lower still, to the polype, which seems
equally to share the vegetable and animal life."
(2). BOTH
MAN AND ANIMALS
HAD THE SAME
BREATH OF LIFE (NSHAHMAH)
BREATHED
INTO THEM
1. Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of he ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life (nshahmah), and the man became a living being
(Genesis 2:7). LIFE WAS THE ONLY THING ADDED TO THE MAN TO MAKE THE MAN
BECOME A LIVING BEING. It could not be said any clearer that man is a
living being; it does not say that man had a living being put into him. The breath of life from God made Adam
become a living being; as lone as that breath of life from God was in him he
had life, when the life returned to God Adam had no life, and he will not have
life unto life comes from God at the resurrection.
2. And the breath (nshahmah) of
the Almighty GIVES ME LIFE (Job
33:4).
3. And all flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and
cattle and beasts and every
swarming that the swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; of all
that was on the dry
land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of life (nshahmah) died. Both man
and
animals have the same breath of life (nshahmah)
both died (Genesis 7:21-22).
4. Saved alive nothing that breaths (nshahmah–breath of
life) both men and animals
(Deuteronomy 20:16). Breath of life and breaths are
the same in the Hebrew, both
are translated from nshahmah, but who
knows why the translators choose to make
them different in the English Bible.
5. Utterly destroyed all that breaths (nshahmah–breath of
life) both men and animals
(Joshua 10:40).
6. There was not any left to breaths (nshahmah–breath of
life) both men and animals
(Joshua 11:11).
7. Neither left they any to breaths (nshahmah–breath of
life) both men and animals
(Joshua 11:14).
Does
an immortal immaterial deathless soul or a spirit breathe, or dose a soul die
when it stops breathing?
It is the breath (nshahmah) of life
that God puts into the body that gives life (Genesis 2:7),
nshahmah–breath is not an immortal deathless soul that has an endless
life of its own. If the breath of life (nshahmah) gives immortality to a
person, then the same breath of life (nshahmah) would give immortality to all
living being, all are given the same nshahmah. The breath of life is
as much the possession of all living creatures as it is the possession of man.
The breath of life does not make any living creature
immortal, not animals, not fish, or persons. All living being depend on this
breath from God for life and all die when the breath of life from
God returns to God, and if there were no resurrection no person would ever
again have life.
Question, What effect did the breath
of life (nshahmah) in the nostrils of animals have on them? Most all
would answer that it made them a living being, not that it put an immortal
deathless soul in them that will live after the death of the animals. Then what
effect did the same breath of life (nshahmah) have on
mankind? It made them a living being just as it did animals; the breath of
life (nshahmah) did not put an immortal deathless soul in mankind
that the same breath of life (nshahmah) did not put in animals.
JAMES HERMAN WHITMORE, What is more
evident than anything else is that the Lord did not address an
unconscious body, but a conscious and intelligent man.
Whoever or whatever was addressed, the same died. According to the
popular notion, the soul is the only part of man that possesses
intelligence. The conclusion then is unavoidable, that it was the
soul that was addressed as thou, and sentenced to return to dust. Hence,
the soul must not only be mortal, but material. It is
further evident that whatever or whoever sinned, the same died. The Doctrine
Of Immortality, page 118, Kellaway and Co.
THE BREATH OF LIFE. Many have
now switched from a soul being an immortal living being in a person to a spirit
being the immortal living being that is in a person; a living being that
animals do not have in them; spirit is now the same thing that soul has
been for hundreds of years. Then the Lord God formed man of dust from
the ground, and breathe into his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living being. The phrase breath of life that
was breathed into man in Genesis 2:7 is the same Hebrew breath of
life in Genesis 7:21-22 that is in the nostrils of birds, cattle, men
and beasts; the breath of life in animals is the same breath
of life that is in persons. The breath of life (1) is
not an immortal spirit, (2) is not an immortal soul that man now have in them that animals do not
have it in them; it does not say that the breath of life God
breathed into Adam was an immortal deathless spirit, or an immortal deathless
soul that God breathed into him, and it does not say all persons now have the
same deathless being living in them; the breathless body that God made from the
earth is what became a living breathing being when the breath of life was
breathed into the breathless body. God did not tell Adam he had a body that was
made from the earth, but the real Adam was made of something not from the
earth.
(3). BOTH
MAN AND ANIMALS BECAME A LIVING BEING.
The body of dust plus the breath of life = a living breathing
being, a breathing soul.
(Nehphesh–a living
being), Genesis 2:7.
1. The
body. The Lord God formed man of the dust from the ground.
2. The life of
the body. And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
3. The result.
And man became a living being. The lifeless earthly body became
alive, a living breathing being.
Both man and animals
became a living being, when they received the breath
of life from God; neither man nor animals had another living being
put into them.
You take
away their breath, they die (Psalms
104:29). The breath of life gives life to the person; it does not put a soul in
the person that has its own life. The breath of life that God breathed into
the body gives life to the body, whither it is a person or animal; it makes the
person or animal be a living being. There is life in
the body only as long as there is breath in the body.
It was the lifeless body that God made
from the earth that became a living being, a living person. Most believe as
Plato did, that a living deathless soul is imprisoned in the body unto the
living soul is able to escape the body, and then the lifeless body goes back to
the earth.
Although this passage is
repeatedly used to prove that an immortal, deathless soul that was put in a
person that was not put in animals, most translations, other than the King
James, apply it to the living breathing being or person, not to an invisible,
deathless, immaterial something that
does not have breath that was put in a person. Adam being spoken of as
a "living being" (nehphesh Strongs Hebrew word
#5315–a breathing creature) proves he was mortal, not immortal, just as
all "living beings" (nehphesh) fish, birds, animals,
are mortal, not immortal. How can this be one of the most used proof texts used
to prove Adam had an immortal soul put in him? If it proves Adam had an
immortal soul, then it proves that fish have an immortal soul that cannot die.
The body without the spirit is
dead James 2:36. Just as the body when God made the body it had
no life unto God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the
man became a living being (Genesis 2:7), when The dust will
return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it (Ecclesiastes
12:7), after death there is no living being and will not be a living being unto
the resurrection when life will again come from God; soul with the meaning it
has today (immortal being that is in a person) is a total mistranslation. If
the breath of life that returns
to God is a conscious being that returns to God at the death of the person,
that soul could not return to God if
it had not previously existed with God; it is life that came from God
and life that returns to God.
Both a living being and breath
of life are used by most that call themselves orthodox to prove mankind
has an immortal soul in them that no animal has. Both mankind and all animals
are a living being and both have the breath of
life, both can and do die. Having the breath of life does
not make mankind or animals immortal.
It is importance to understand that
it is being said by Moses that both animals and mankind ARE A SOUL (both are a
living being, both have the same breath of life), not that animals or mankind
HAVE A SOUL; they do not have something in them that is now immortal, invisible,
there is not a no substitute something in them that cannot die; there is a
world of different in a person or animal being a soul, and having a living
immortal soul being that was put into the person. Many assume, with much help
from the translators and theology that Genesis is saying only mankind have
souls, but animals do not. Because of what most have been taught, without
realizing it they read into this that only mankind have souls that are
immortal, invisible, no substitutes something that cannot die. This causes
them to believe that only this immortal something that is in them, whatever
they think it is, will be saved (more on this at the end of this
chapter). A soul is not a second being, an unearthly being that exist
within the earthly person any more than a soul is a second entity existing in
beast. Both man and animals are souls, both are living beings. We are a
soul, a living being, we do not have a soul. If we have a soul, that
is a living being in us, then we are one living being with another, a second
living being living in us. According to the doctrine that we have a soul living
in us, one living being is living in another living being, and it is only this
immortal deathless being that is us that will be saved, or will be tormented
forever, is the foundation of many of the errors that have divided the
churches. That we are a soul (we are a living being),
not we have a soul (not have a living being living in us) is
one of the most fundamental and most misunderstood teaching in the Bible.
(6) Genesis 2:19, "LIVING CREATURE" (nehpheshs–mortal
beings, used referring to animals), "Every
beast...every bird...whatsoever the man called every living
creature (nehpheshs–mortal beings), that was the name
thereof."
(7) Genesis 9:4, "LIFE" (nehpheshs–mortal
beings, used referring to animals).
(8) Genesis 9:5, "LIVES" (nehpheshs–mortal
beings, used referring to man).
(9) Genesis 9:5, "LIFE" (nehpheshs–mortal
beings, used referring to man).
(10) Genesis 9:10, "LIVING CREATURE" (nehpheshs–mortal
beings, used referring to animals).
(11) Genesis 9:12,"LIVING CREATURE" (nehpheshs–mortal
beings, used referring to animals).
(12) Genesis 9:15, "LIVING CREATURE" (nehpheshs–mortal
beings, used referring to man and animals).
(13) Genesis 9:16, "LIVING CREATURE" (nehpheshs–mortal
beings, used referring to man and animals).
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A birds eye view of the translation of nehphesh in the first nine
chapters, King James Version.
1.
Moving creature that has life" (nehphesh) Genesis 1:20
– animals
2.
A living creature" (nehphesh) Genesis 1:21 – animals
3.
A living creature" (nehphesh) Genesis 1:24 – animals
4.
Wherein there is life" (nehphesh) Genesis
1:30 – animals
5.
A living soul" (nehphesh) Genesis 2:7 – man
6.
A living creature" (nehphesh) Genesis 2:19 – animals
7.
Life" (nehphesh) Genesis 9:4 – animals
8.
Lives (nehphesh)
Genesis 9:5 – man
9.
Life" (nehphesh) Genesis 9:5 – man
10.
Living creature" (nehphesh) Genesis 9:10 – animals
11.
Living creature" (nehphesh) Genesis 9:12 – animals
12.
Living creature" (nehphesh) Genesis 9:15 – man and animals
13.
Living creature" (nehphesh) Genesis 9:16 – man and animals.
Nehphesh is translated "soul" only one
time of the first thirteen times it is used in the King James Version, but it
is not translated "soul" in any of the first
thirteen times it is used in the New King James Version, New American Standard
Version, New Revised Standard Version, New International Version, or most other
translations.
All four times that soul
(nehphesh) is used in Genesis 1; it is referring to animals, not to a person.
IN TEN OF THE FIRST THIRTEEN TIMES NEHPHESH (soul) IS USED IT IS USED REFERRING
TO ANIMALS, but the King James Version delicately hid this by using different
words, and most who read the King James Version never know what was delicately
hid from them. Mankind is the same soul (life–nehphesh) as the
other "living creatures." He does not differ from
other living creatures (soul–nehphesh) by having a soul (nehphesh) living
in him that cannot die. His dominion over other living creatures
(other nehpheshs–souls) is not his nehphesh. In the first nine
chapters of Genesis soul (nehphesh–Strongs Hebrew word
#5315–a breathing creature) is used more often with reference
to animals than it is with reference to persons; it is the animal life,
which both a person and animals have in common. How did the
translators know when it changed to an invisible immortal something that is in
a person, which animals do not have?
This is an example of men attempting
to cover up the truth when it is contradictory to their pagan theology. It
takes a lot of preconceived theology to make nehphesh be an immaterial
invisible no substance soul existing in a man that is now immortal that is not
in animals when it is not deliberately hid as it is in the King James Version.
Moses applies nehphesh four times to lower creatures before he applied it to
man, then immediately after he has applied it to man he again applied the same
word to animals a fifth and sixth time with no hint that he uses the same word
with a different meaning. When the translators give it a different meaning in
only one of the six times it is used in the first two chapters of Genesis it is
nothing more than a deliberate change to add Platos immortal soul to God word
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In Genesis 9:4-16 the same word
is used for both man and animals seven times in the same passage; To
animals five times, to man four times, none of the seven was translated soul.
1. Three times to animals alone, translated (1) life, (2) creature, (3) and
creature.
2, Two times to man alone, translated (1) lives, (2) and life.
3, Two times to animals and man together, translated (1) creature,
(2) and creature.
"But
flesh with the LIFE (Nehphesh used referring to animals) thereof,
which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat. And surely your blood, the blood
of your LIVES (nehphesh, used referring to
man), will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and
at the hand of men, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require
the LIFE (nehphesh, used referring to man) of
man. Whoso sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image
of God made He-men. And you, be you fruitful, and multiply; bring forth
abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. And God spoke unto Noah, and to
his sons with him, saying, and I, behold, I establish my covenant with you and
with your seed after you; and every LIVING CREATURE (nehphesh, used
referring to animals) that is
with you, of the fowl, and the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with
you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will
establish my covenant with you; neither shall the waters of a flood cut off all
flesh be any more; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the
earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me
and you and every LIVING CREATURE (nehphesh, used
referring to animals) that is with you, for perpetual generation,
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a token of a covenant between me
and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth,
that the bow shall be seen in the cloud, and I will remember my covenant, which
is between me and you and every LIVING CREATURE (nehphesh,
used referring to man and animals) of all flesh; and the
waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be
in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting
covenant between God and every LIVING CREATURE (nehphesh,
used referring to man and animals) of all flesh that is
upon the earth."
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(14) Genesis 12:5, "And the PEOPLE (nehpheshs–"living
beings") whom they had acquired" New King James
Version ("soul" in King James Version.) Why did the New
King James change this from souls to people; was it that the translators
did not believe invisible souls could be bought, but people could be bought,
that, as it is translated in the King James Version, it did not say anything
close to todays theology?
(15) Genesis 12:13, "That I (nehphesh–a "living
being") may live because of you" New King James
Version ("soul" in King James Version.) Do you
wonder why, That a soul may live was changed to That I may live?
(16) Genesis
14:21, "Give me the PERSONS (nehphesh–"living
beings) and take the goods" King James Version. Can anyone give
immortal souls to another person? Is there anyone that cannot see why nehphesh
was not translated soul in this passage?
(17) Genesis 17:14, "That PERSON (nehphesh–a "living
being") shall be cut off" New King James
Version.
(18) Genesis 19:17, Escape for your LIFE (nehphesh–a "living
being") King James Version.
(19) Genesis 19:19, Saving my LIFE (nehphesh–a "living
being") King James Version.
In the first nineteen times nehphesh is used it is
translated soul.
Only
three times in the King James Version.
None in the New King James Version.
None in the New American Standard Version.
None in the New Revised Standard Version.
None in the New International Version.
(20) Genesis 19:20, "That my LIFE (nehphesh–a "living
being") may be saved" New American Standard
Version (Translated soul for the fourth time in the King James Version, but
only for the first time in the New King James Version). Do you wonder why the
translators of the New King James Version did not think this word means soul
in the nineteen times it was used before this, but changed their minds this
time? But the New American Standard said both King James Versions are wrong.
(21) Genesis 23:8, If it be your MIND (nehphesh–a "living
being") King James Version.
(22) Genesis 27:4, "So that I (nehphesh–a "living
being") may bless you before I die"
"That my soul (nehphesh–a "living being") may
bless thee before I die" King James Version. How would Isaac's
son know if he were blessed by an "immaterial invisible" no
substance something that he could not see? By this time, hundreds of years
after Genesis 1:1, the King James translators must have been desperate to be
able to put "soul" into the Bible.
"So that I (nehphesh–a "living being") may
bless you before I die" Revised Standard Version, New Revised
Standard Version.
"So that I (nehphesh–a "living being") may
give you my blessing before I die" New International Version.
"So that I (nehphesh–a "living being") may
give you my blessing before I die" Revised English Bible.
"To give
you my (nehphesh–a "living
being") blessing before I die" Amplified Bible.
"That I (nehphesh–a "living being") may
give you my special blessing before I die" New American Bible.
"Then I (nehphesh–a "living being") will
bless you before I die" New Century Version.
"Then I (nehphesh–a "living being") will
pronounce the blessing that belongs to you, my firstborn son, before I
die" New Living Translation.
"I (nehphesh–a "living being") want
to eat it once more and give you my blessing before I die" Contemporary
English Version.
"That I (nehphesh–a "living being") may
eat of it, (preparatory) to giving you (as my first–born) my
blessing before I die"Amplified Bible.
Up to Genesis 27:4 for hundreds of years nehphesh is translated soul,
Only four times out of twenty-two in the King James Version.
Only one time out of twenty-two in the New King James
Version.
None in The New International Version and many other translations.
Nehphesh has been used 22 times
before the New King James Version translated it "soul" for the first
time, but even then the translators of many versions have chosen not to
translate it "soul." In Genesis "nehphesh" is not
an immortal "immaterial, invisible part of man, but it is the
life, living creature, living being, any living thing, whether animals, fish,
or man, all mortal beings are a nehphesh. If the translators had continued to
translate nehphesh as life, living creature, living being, or person, as they
did in most of the first twenty-two times it is used, there may not be the
divisions there are today. Why did they not translate nehphesh into soul in the
first part of the Bible that covers hundreds of years? Maybe because they
thought it would have made animals have souls, and they did not believe animals
could have souls. I find it difficult to see how anyone could not call
their honesty into question for it is undeniable that they put their belief
over the word of God, and they deliberately hid the truth from their readers;
they deliberately hid the truth from you.
(23) Genesis 32:30, "My LIFE (nehphesh–"living
beings") is preserved King James Version. Most
translations use "life" in this passage for the translators believed
an immortal soul could not perish and would not need to be preserved.
(24) Genesis 34:3
1. "His soul (nehphesh) clave unto Dinah" King
James Version. With the meaning soul now has, if this translation is not
saying an immaterial immortal soul clave unto a material mortal being, then
what is it saying?
2. "His HEART (nehphesh) was drawn to Dinah" New
International Version.
3. "He
was deeply attracted (nehphesh) to
Dinah" New American Standard Version.
(25) Genesis 34:8
1. "The soul (nehphesh) of
my son Shechem longeth for your daughter" King James Version. How
did the translators think the father could know what an invisible, immaterial
something that was in his son was longing for? Did they think an immortal no
substance soul was in love with a mortal person?
2. "My son Shechem has his HEART (nehphesh) on your daughter" New
International Version.
3. "My son Shechem is in love (nehphesh) with this girl" Revised English
Bible.
4. "The heart (nehphesh) of my son Shechem longs for your
daughter" New Revised Standard Version.
(26) Genesis 35:18
1. "As
her SOUL (nehphesh) was
departing (for she died)" King James Version.
2. "As she breathed (nehphesh) her last–for she was dying" New
International Version.
3. "Then with her last breath, (nehphesh) as she was dying" Revised
English Bible.
4. With Rachels last breath (nehphesh) (for she died) The Living Bible.
5. With her last breath (nehphesh) for she was at the point of death New
American Bible, Catholic.
6. Rachel was about to die, but with her
last breath (nehphesh) New Living
Bible.
(27) Genesis 36:6, "All the PERSONS (nehpheshs–mortal
beings) of his house" King James Version.
(28) Genesis 37:21, "Let us not kill HIM (nehphesh–a
mortal being)" King James Version. It was obvious to the translators that
they could not translate this nehphesh into soul, after all an immortal soul
could not be killed.
(29) Exodus 12:16, Except what must be eaten by every PERSON (nehpheshs–mortal
beings). A soul as was believed in by the translators could not eat,
therefore; they would not translate nehphesh into soul.
(30) Job 12:10, "In whose hand is the SOUL (nehpheshs–mortal
being, used referring to animals) of every living thing,
and the breath of all mankind." Is it not strange that the King
James Version gives animals souls, but other translations took their souls away
from them? The life of
every living thing" New American Standard Bible.
(31) Job 41:21, His breath (nehphesh–a
mortal being, used referring to an animal, possibly a
crocodile).
(32) Isaiah 19:10, "All that make sluices and ponds
for FISH (nehpheshs–mortal beings, used referring
to animals, fish)" King James Version. Although nehphesh is in
the Hebrew, many translations seems not to know what to do with it, and just
took it out, or completely changed it for they did not want a soul to be in a
pond.
(33)
Jeremiah 2:24, "A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffed up
the wind in HER (nehphesh–a mortal being, used
referring to an animal) desire."
(34 and 35) Proverbs 27:7, The full SOUL (nehphesh–a
mortal being) loathes an honeycomb; but to the hungry SOUL (nehphesh–a
mortal being) ever bitter thing is sweet. How could the translators
think an immaterial something could be full, or that a soul could be hungry for
honey?
1. A
sated MAN (nehphesh) loathes honey, but to a famished MAN (nehphesh) any
bitter thing
is sweet New American Standard Bible.
2. HE (nehphesh) who is full loathes honey, but to the hungry
even what is bitter
tastes sweet New International Version. Nehphesh is in the Hebrew two times,
but
one of the two times nehphesh was left out in the New
International Version.
(36) Numbers 31:28, "And levy a tribute unto the Lord
of the men of war which went out to battle: one SOUL (nehphesh–mortal
being–used referring to both persons and animals) of
five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses and of
the sheep." Of about 870 times nehphesh is in the Old Testament
Numbers 31:28 and Job 12:10 are the only two passages where the King James
translators translated nehphesh as soul when it has reference to animals,
and it maybe that the only reason they did this these two times is that it has
equal reference to people as it does to animals and they had no choice. Their
usual substitutes failed to work; living creatures or person would
not work for them in these two passages as nehphesh has reference to both man
and animals.
DAVID J. HEINIZMAN, "So
carefully has the translation of nehphesh been guarded in relation to animals
as 'souls,' that we can't help but wonder if it were not done intentionally to
conceal the fact that animals are souls as well as men." "Man Became
A Living Soul."
(37) Proverbs 12:10: A righteous man has regard for the LIFE (nehphesh) of his
beast.
The translators made this one word (nehphesh) to be,
1. Any earthly being.
Before
God breathed the breath of life into the body of a person or a beast.
While
they had the breath of life.
And
the dead body after the breath of life of the person or beast was gone.
2. The life in any earthly being only while they have the breath
of life in them.
3. The pagan immaterial, invisible, no substance, deathless being
that many believe lives after the person it was in is dead, but this deathless
being is not believed to be in any beast.
Do you wonder, as I do, how they
came up with three meaning of this one word when the three meaning are nothing
alike, and how they knew when this word was a mortal living thing that could
not keep from dying, and when the same word was a immortal living thing that is
in a person that could not die?
(38 to 870) It would be to long to quote all the 870 times the
Hebrew word nehphesh is in the Old Testament with just over one-half being
translated "soul," about 473 times in King James
Version. Nehphesh in the New International Version Old Testament is
translated soul only 72 times out of the 870 times it is used, according to the
this translation, 798 times nehphesh was not a soul. Not once dose any of the
870 imply anything about any life beyond the grave, or about there being a
immortal soul in a mortal person.
A nehphesh
could be
1. Saved (Genesis 19:19; 1 Samuel 19:11; 2 Samuel 19:5)
2. Killed (Numbers 35:11; 35:15; 35:30)
3. Ransomed (Exodus 21:30)
4. Destroyed (Leviticus 23:30; Joshua 11:11)
5. Delivered (Joshua 2:13)
6. Sought to be killed (Judges 18:25)
7. Taken (Deuteronomy 19:21)
8. Forfeited (Joshua 2:14)
9. Risked (Judges 12:3; 1 Samuel 28:21)
10. Lost (Judges 1:25)
11. Jeopardized (Judges 5:18; 1 Samuel 19:50
All 870 times have one thing in
common, they are all associated with the activity of a living being including
dying, and nehphesh never implies anything about any life after the death of
the living being, all the 870 are all speaking of living beings that will die,
or that are already dead. None of the 870 times are an
immortal deathless being that is in a person; they are all a mortal living
being that can die, be killed, or be dead, whether the living being
is a person, animal or fish. Nehphesh never implies anything about any life
beyond the grave. IT IS NEVER TRANSLATED "SPIRIT" Although nehphesh–Strongs
Hebrew word #5315–a breathing creature is translated into about
forty words, thirty-nine of the forty all have reference only to mortal beings,
animal, or that does not have breath, and that will not die in only one (soul) of
the forty words? Is it because this is the only word that they could
use to put the Pagan immortal soul into the Bible by mistranslating, but were
not able to mistranslate it into an immortal invisible deathless something most
of the times it was used?
Can one word be rightly translated
this way? No one reading some of the English translations of the Bible
would not have any way of knowing that all the forty words which nehphesh is
translated into are translations (or mistranslations) of only one word. Did
the translators do so because they wanted to make a person be an "immortal
being," and more than a "living creatures?" In almost one half
of the times nehphesh is used in the Old Testament, even the King James
translators could not translate it "soul." When the all-knowing God
used just one word, why did the translators used forty words and change it as
they wished to, changed it from a noun to many pronouns, changed from a
noun to many verbs, changed from a noun to many adjectives, changed from a noun
to many adverbs, etc.? Did they think that for all the years from Adam unto
Christ? God people could understand the one word God used, which was always a
noun, but now many words that are not always a noun are needed to translate
that one word? If one word were all that was needed from Adam unto the
translation of the King James Version in 1611, why would God's one word not be
enough today? Do the translators think they have improved the Hebrew Old
Testament by changing the one word that God used into about forty words, and
changing this noun into about all parts of speech? The use of many words came
when the Roman Catholic Church brought in unconditional immortality, and they
had to get it into the Bible. The Hebrew manuscripts still have just one
word–nehphesh, which was the one word God inspired. Were the translators
inspired to change it to many words? And changed from one part of speech into
many parts of speech?
Nehphesh is translated soul far
fewer times in the New American Standard Version, and in most other
translations, including the New King James Version, than it is in the King
James Version. Were they going as far as they dared to in correcting the King
James Version?
The way soul is
understood and used today in English (an undying living something that is in a
person) makes putting the word soul in a translation for the
English people today be a false and deliberately misleading translation, for it
makes it where today's English reader cannot know what God said, and
will understand only what the prejudiced outlook the translators wanted their
readers to understand when they knew that most that read it would understand
the word soul only as it is used in todays English. Without much study of
Bible words, which most Bible reader will never do, they cannot know what God
said to them when they read the word soul, and they will think
that the somewhat prejudice outlook of the translator is the word of God. God's
word has been deliberately replaced with the teaching of man (Matthew 15:9) in
a way that will have more influence on our conception of what our nature is and
the nature of all living beings than any other question.
THE SOUL AND EATING
OF BLOOD
Is the
immortal "soul" (nehphesh) in the blood? Is a
part of a person that many say it lives after the death of the body, that a
soul is in the blood of both men and animals? In Leviticus 17:10-15, in only
six verses nehphesh is used ten times but the translators concealed this from
their readers by translating nehphesh as both life and soul, always life the
four times it was speaking of animals, and soul the six times it was speaking
of a person; does this not show their reluctance to let us see what God said to
us?
The
vanishing use of soul in Leviticus 17:10-15
1. In the King James Version nehphesh is
translated "soul" six of the ten times it is used.
2, The New King James Version used
"soul" only two of the ten times.
3, "Soul" is not used in the (1) New
Revised Standard Version, (2) New International Version, (3) The New American
Bible, (4) and many others.
Leviticus
17:10-15 King James Version
1. Used referring to animals four times–nehphesh translated
life four times.
2, Used referring to man six times–nehphesh translated soul
six times.
"I will even set
my face against that SOUL (person–nehphesh, used referring to man) that
eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the LIFE (soul–nehphesh,
used referring to animals that are being eat) of the flesh is in
the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for
your SOULS, (nehphesh, used referring to man) for
it is the blood that makes an atonement for a SOUL (nehphesh,
used referring to man). Therefore I said unto the children of Israel,
no SOUL (nehphesh, used referring to man) of you shall
eat blood...For it is the LIFE (soul–nehphesh,
used referring to animals) of all flesh; the blood of it is for
the LIFE (soul–nehphesh, used referring to
animals) thereof; therefore I said unto the children of Israel, no SOUL (nehphesh, used referring to
man) shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the LIFE (soul-nehphesh, used
referring to animals) of all flesh is the blood thereof; whosoever
eats it shall be cut off. And every SOUL (nehphesh, used
referring to man) that eats that which died of itself...he shall wash
his clothes, and bath himself in water." In this passage, the
King James Version translated the same word "soul" all six times when
it used referring to man, and "life" all four times when it used
referring to animals. Can anyone not see how the translators picked when
they wanted "nehphesh" to be an immortal "soul," and when
they wanted "nehphesh" to be only mortal "life"? They could
not let an immortal soul be in the blood, nor could they let animals have an
immortal soul in them. Their theology said a man had to have a soul in him, but
an animal could not have one, and they were not willing that their reader see
that the word "nehphesh" is used referring to both, and that both do
not have a soul but both are a soul.
Leviticus
17:10-15 New Revised Standard Version
1. Used referring to animals five times–nehphesh translated
life five times.
2. Used
referring to man five times–nehphesh translated lives one time,
translated person four times. A soul could not eat blood; therefore, none of
the five are mistranslated soul.
"If
anyone of the house of Israel or of the aliens who reside among them eats any
blood, I will set my face against that PERSON (nehphesh) who
eats blood, and will cut that PERSON (nehphesh) off
from the people. For the LIFE (nehphesh-animals) of
the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you for making atonement for
your LIVES (nehphesh-persons) on
the altar, for, as LIFE, (nehphesh-animals) it
is the blood that makes atonement. Therefore I have said to the people of
Israel, No PERSON (nehphesh) among
you shall eat blood...For the LIFE (nehphesh-animals) of
every creature–its blood is its LIFE; (nehphesh-animals)
therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the
blood of any creature, for the LIFE (nehphesh-animals) of
every creature is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off. ALL PERSONS, (nehphesh) citizens
or aliens, who eat what dies of itself...shall wash their clothes, and bathe
themselves in water."
Leviticus
17:10-15 New International Version
1. Used referring to animals three times–nehphesh translated
life three times.
2. Used
referring to man six times–nehphesh translated person, him, yourselves,
life, you, and anyone.
"Any
Israelite or any alien living among them who eats any blood–I will
set my face against that PERSON (nehphesh) who
eats blood and will cut HIM (nehphesh-person) off
from his people. For the LIFE (nehphesh-animals) of
a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement
for YOURSELVES (nehphesh-persons) on the altar; it
is the blood that makes atonements for one's LIFE (nehphesh-person).
Therefore I say to the Israelites, 'None of YOU (nehphesh-persons) may
eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood'...because the Life (nehphesh-animals) of
every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, You
must not eat the blood of any creature, because the LIFE (nehphesh-animals) of
every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off. ANYONE (nehphesh-persons),
whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by
wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water.'"
1, "No soul (nehphesh) shall
eat blood" Leviticus 17:12. No person shall eat blood–can an
immortal, immaterial soul eat material blood?
2. "The life (nehphesh) of all flesh is the blood" Leviticus
17:11. They would not translate it to say, The soul of all flesh is in the
blood.
3. "No dead body (nehphesh)" A dead
immortal soul? The same word that is translated soul and life is
translated dead body (Numbers 6:6, also Numbers 5:2; 6:11; 9:6;
9:10). These passages would make no sense if nehphesh were a no substance,
immortal something in a person that cannot be dead. It would also make animals
have the same no substance, immortal, deathless something in them. It is the
life of a parson or animal that is in the blood, not an immortal, immaterial,
invisible soul in the blood as the word "soul" is used today.
Nehphesh is translated dead body thirteen times in the King James Version, not
as a dead soul.
THE DYING
USE OF "SOUL" IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
In translations that were made by
those who believe a person has an immortal soul, why is the use of the word
"soul" becoming used less? The dying use of soul in the newer
translations and the growing use of life "person," "heart,"
or pronouns that are related to a person in the place of soul is
strongly objected to by many that believe there is an immortal soul that will
live on after the person is dead; that believe Satans lie, You surely
shall not dieyou will be like God (Genesis 3:5), but only after they
change the you to a soul that is in you surely shall not dieit is as
immortal God.
Nehphesh is
used in the Old Testament 870 times
NEHPHESH TRANSLATED
SOUL
443
times out of 870 times–King James Version in 1611.
289
times out of 870 times–New King James Version in 1982. Soul is
used 154 times less in the Old Testament than it is in the King James Version.
111 times out of 870 times–Amplified Bible in 1954.
142 times out of 870 times–The Message in 1993.
111 times out of 870 times–New American Standard Bible in
1960.
188 times out of 870 times–Revised Standard Version in 1946.
144 times out of 870 times–New Revised Standard Version
in1989.
115 times out of 870 times–New International Version in
1973.
95 times out of 870 times–New International Version in 2011
update.
96 times out of 870 times–New International Reader's Version
in 1996.
44 times out of 870 times–New Living Translation in 1996.
0 times out of 870 times–New Century Version in 2005.
5 times out of 878 times–Common English Bible in 2011.
When nehphesh was not translated
"soul" it was translated "life," "person,"
"heart," or the noun was changed to many pronouns (he, him, she, her,
etc.) that is related to a person, and has no reference to an immortal being
that is in a person.
THE DYING
USE OF "SOUL" IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
The Greek word translated soul
(psukee) is used 106 times.
IT IS TRANSLATED SOUL ONLY,
55 times out of 106 times in the King James Version in
1611.
52 times out of 106 times in the New King James Version in
1982.
41 times out of 106 times–Revised Standard Version in 1946.
31 times out of 106 times–New Revised Standard Version
in1989.
41 times out of 106 times–New International Version in 1971.
23 times out of 106 times–New International Version in 2011
update.
29 times out of 106 times–New Living Translation in 1996.
21 times out of 106 times–New International Reader's Version
in 1996.
25 times out of 106 times–New Century Version in 2005.
3 times out of 106 times–Common English Bible in 2011.
0 times out of 106 times–Christian Bible in 1991.
THE DYING
USE OF "SOUL" IN BOTH
THE OLD AND
NEW TESTAMENT
The Hebrew word nehphesh, some of
the time translated soul is used over 870 times in the Old Treatment, and the
Greek word psukee, sometimes translated soul is used 106 times, both
together about 976 times. TOGETHER BOTH NEHPHESH AND PSUKEE ARE TRANSLATED
SOUL ONLY,
498 times out of 976 times–King James Version in 1611.
341
times out of 976 times–New King James Version in 1982. Soul is
used 157 times less in the New King James Version than it is in the King James
Version.
111 times out of 976 times–Amplified Bible in 1954.
190 times out of 976 times–New American Standard Bible in
1960.
229 times out of 976 times–Revised Standard Version in 1946.
175 times out of 976 times–New Revised Standard Version in
1989.
229 times out of 976 times–New International Version in
1971.
136
times out of 976 times–New International Version in 1984.
118 times out of 976 times–New International Version in 2011
update.
41 times out of 976 times–New International Reader's Version
in 1996.
177 times out of 976 times–The Message in 1993.
73 times out of 976 times–New Living Translation in 1996.
35 times out of 870
times–New Century Version in 2005.
8 times out of 976 times–Common English Bible in 2011.
0 times out of 106 times–Christian Bible in 1991.
Most, if not all these translators
believe in an immortal soul, but have been reducing the times this Hebrew word
nehphesh, and the Greek word psukee are translated "soul" and
replacing then with "life," "person," "heart," or
changed them to pronouns that are related to a person. The way soul has
been mostly removed in most translations, and replaced with life or person, the
translators are saying soul is not a true translation of neither the
Hebrew, nor the Greek.
WHY THE USE
OF SOUL IS DYING?
In many passages the psukee does
thing that only this earthly body can do, things that an immortal soul that has
no substance could not do. And He told them a parable, saying,
"The land of a rich man was very productive. And he began reasoning
to himself, saying, 'What shall I do, since I have no place to store my
crops?' Then he said, 'this is what I will do, I will tear down my barns
and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my
goods. And I will say to my soul
(psukee), soul (psukee), you
have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and
be merry. But God said to him, You fool! This very night your soul (psukee) is
required of you'" Luke 12:19-21. That which the rich man
laid up for his soul(psukee) in verse 19 is said to be laid up
for himself in verse 21 making both psukee and himself be
the same thing. The New International Version removed soul. And I'll
say to myself (Greek psukee–life), you (Greek
psukee–life) have plenty of good things laid up for
many years. Take life easy; eat drink and be merry. But, God said to him,
You fool! This very night your life (Greek–psukee) will
be demanded from you.
It is obvious that an immaterial,
invisible, no substance soul would have no use for the things the rich man
stored in his barns, a soul would not be able to eat and drink the thing stored
in barns, that this was not speaking of an immaterial soul without any
substance, but was speaking of an earthly person that can eat and drink of
the substance that was stored, and a person would be able to use the
things stored; it was life that would be required of the earthly person, not life
from an immortal soul that could not die; when a persons life was required who
would use the things he had stored?
It is those who are members of
churches that believe a person has an immortal soul that are little by little
taking the word "soul" out of the Bible. Why is soul being
used less in the newer translations? These translators knew it is not a
translation of nehphesh or psukee; as
they were used at the time the Old or New Testament was written, neither
nehphesh nor psukee had the meaning that the English word soul has today.
A few of the many examples that show
why the numbers above are difficult in difficult translations.
Numbers
29:7
"Ye shall afflict your souls (nehphesh)" King James Version.
"You shall humble yourselves (nehphesh)" New American Standard.
Joshua
11:11
"They smote all the souls (nehphesh)" King James Version.
"Not sparing anything that breathed (nehphesh)" New
International Version.
Judges
16:16
"His soul (nehphesh) was
vexed unto death" King James Version.
"Unto he (nehphesh) was
tired to death" New International Version.
Numbers
30:2
"To bind his soul (nehphesh) with a bond" King James Version.
"To bind himself (nehphesh) with a binding obligation" New
American Standard Version.
Numbers
15:30
"That soul (nehphesh) shall be cut off" King
James Version.
"That person (nehphesh) shall be cut off" New American
Standard Version.
Acts 15:24-26 is an example of how
the translation of psukee was changed even in the same passage by the
translators when it would not fit in with their belief about an immortal
soul. Since we have heard that some of our number to whom we gave no
instruction have disturbed you with their words, unsettling your souls (psukee), it
seemed good to us, having become of one mind, to select men to send to you with
our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives (psukee) for
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. The psukee–life they risked
was their earthly life, not a deathless soul.
1. Certain persons who have gone out from us, though with no
instruction from us, have said things to disturb you and have unsettled your minds (psukee)who has risked their
lives (psukee) New Revised Standard Version.
2. And disturbed you, troubling your minds (psukee) by what they saidmen who
have risked their lives (psukee) for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ New
International Version.
3. We have heard that some of our group have come to you and said
things that trouble and upset you (psukee)people who have
given their lives (psukee) to serve our Lord New Century
Version.
AARON ELLIS, It is plain from
history, that our first transcribers and translators were Romanish priests, who
were interested in sustaining the profitable corruptions of the separate
existence of the soul in purgatory, and the endless misery of the wicked. Every
English translation made prior to the 18th century, has but too
clearly copied from the Vulgate, and the translators were not able, as McKnight
has fully prove, to translate the whole Bible from the original tongues, and
the various editions only profess to be compared with the
original. King James, who died a Papist, gave strict orders to translators of
our common version, not to deviate widely from the Bishops Bible, to be
followed, and as little altered as the original will permit. Bible Vs.
Tradition, page 6, 1853.
The Hebrew noun,
nehphesh, has been changed by the translators into many different
pronouns, but all the pronouns they changed have a reference to an earthly
being, none to Platos no substance soul. Nehphesh did not mean
an immaterial invisible something in a person that was not the person in the
Old Testament; how could the translators think it was right to change one noun
into many pronouns, into many verbs, into many adjectives, into many adverbs, etc.?
The Hebrew people in the Old
Testament that were reading their Scriptures would have had no way to make a
distinction in the life (soul–nehphesh) of animals or men for Moses made
no distinction. Even today in the Hebrew Old Testament there is no distinction
between a person or an animal being a soul–a living creature, but
translators have changed this. Only in the English translations, not in the
Hebrew, is there a distinction, and this distinction is because man has
changed God's word. God used the same word to describe both persons
and animals. If this one word proves anyone now has an immortal soul, it would
prove both man and animals now have an immortal soul. Man says
animals do not have a soul that lives in them unto their
death, but there is a soul that is living in people. God says both people
and animals are a soul.
In many passages nehphesh is rightly
translated persons, not souls. Soul as it is used today is a completely
difference thing than person, but the translators in trying to put soul
into the Bible translated both from the same Hebrew word just as they
translated the same word into life and many other words in many passages
where they did not think they could change nehphesh a mortal being into an
immortal soul.
1.
Give me the persons (nehphesh) (Genesis 17:14).
2.All
the persons (nehphesh) (Genesis 37:31).
3.
The persons (nehphesh) shall be for the Lord (Leviticus
26:29).
4.
And that person (nehphesh) be guilty (Numbers 5:2).
5.
Body of any man (nehphesh) (Numbers 19:11).
6.
The dead body of any man (nehphesh) (Numbers 19:13).
7.
The person (nehphesh) that was there (Numbers 19:18).
8.
Killed any person (nehphesh) (Numbers 31:19).
9.
Two thousand persons (nehphesh) (Numbers 31:35).
19.
And sixteen thousands persons (nehphesh) (Numbers 31:46).
11.
Which killed any person (nehphesh) (Numbers 35:11).
12.
That killed any person (nehphesh) (Numbers 35:30).
13.
An innocent person (nehphesh) (Deuteronomy 27:25).
14.
That killeth any person (nehphesh) (Joshua 20:3).
15.
God respect any person (nehphesh) (2 Samuel 14:14).
16.
They had decreed for themselves (nehphesh) (Esther
9:31).
17.
He teareth himself (nehphesh) (Job 18:4).
18.
He justified himself (nehphesh) (Job 32:2).
19.
I have behaved and quieted myself (nehphesh) (Psalms 132:2).
20.
The blood of any person (nehphesh) (Proverbs 28:17).
21.
Has enlarged herself (nehphesh) (Isaiah 5:14).
22.
Shall not deliver themselves (nehphesh) (Isaiah 47:14).
23.
Whom any man (nehphesh) despiseth (Isaiah 49:7).
24.
Has justified herself (nehphesh) (Jeremiah 3:11).
25.
Take heed to yourselves (nehphesh) (Jeremiah 17:21).
26.
Deceive not yourselves (nehphesh) (Jeremiah 37:9).
27.
Every person (nehphesh) (Jeremiah 43:6).
28.
Sworn by himself (nehphesh) (Jeremiah 51:14).
29.
Two persons (nehphesh) (Jeremiah 52:29).
30.
And five persons (nehphesh) (Jeremiah 52:30).
31.
The loathing of thy person (nehphesh) (Ezekiel 16:5).
32.
Cut off many persons (nehphesh) (Ezekiel 17:17).
33.
They traded the persons (nehphesh) of man (Ezekiel
27:13).
34.
Take any person (nehphesh) (Ezekiel 33:6).
35. The mighty
deliver himself (nehphesh) (Amos 2:14).
36.
Deliver himself (nehphesh) (Amos 2:15).
37.
God hath sworn by himself (nehphesh) (Amos 6:8).
38.
A dead body (nehphesh) (Haggai 2:13).
40. If
any one (nehphesh) (Leviticus 4:27).
41. Any
living thing (nehphesh) (Leviticus 11:10) .
42. And
slayeth him (nehphesh) (Deuteronomy 22:26).
43. Setteth his (nehphesh) heart (Deuteronomy
24:15).
44. At
thine (nehphesh)
own pleasure (Deuteronomy
23:24).
45. Whosoever
killeth any person (nehphesh) (Joshua
20:9).
46. All
the persons (nehphesh) (I Samuel
23:22).
47. All
that thine (nehphesh) heart (2 Samuel 3:21).
48.
Every man (nehphesh) (2 Kings 12:4).
49.
They (nehphesh) die in youth (Job 36:14).
50. Of
his hearts (nehphesh) desire (Psalms
10:3).
51.
My deadly (nehphesh) enemies (Psalms
17:9).
52. Unto
to the will (nehphesh) of (Psalms
27:12).
53.
So would we (nehphesh) have it (Psalms
35:25).
54. Unto
to the will (nehphesh) of his enemies (Psalms
35:41).
55.
Why are you (nehphesh) cast down (Psalms
42:5, 42:11, 45:5).
56. Asking
meat for their (nehphesh) lust (Psalms
78:18).
57. He (nehphesh) was
laid in iron (Psalms105:18).
58. I
have behaved and quieted myself (nehphesh) (Psalms
131:2).
59. Knows his (nehphesh) own
bitterness (Proverbs 14:10).
60. As
he thinketh in his (nehphesh) heart (Proverbs
23:7).
61. At her (nehphesh) pleasure
(Jeremiah 2:24).
62. At their (nehphesh) pleasure
(Jeremiah 34:16).
63. Should
he slay you (nehphesh) (Jeremiah 40:15).
64. With
a despiteful heart (nehphesh) (Ezekiel 25:15).
65. With
a bitterness of heart (nehphesh) (Ezekiel 27:31).
Nehphesh is translated mind 15 times.
Nehphesh is translated life and lives many
times referring to both mortal persons and animals.
Summary. About
one-third of the words translated soul from nehphesh in the Old Testament, and
from psukee in the New Testament, are associated with the destruction
and death of a soul (life, nehphesh). This is an insoluble problem for those
that believe today's theology, which says a soul cannot die.
Since the word soul has a meaning
in English that is not in the Hebrew word nehphesh or the Greek word psuche
the question is, Is soul a true translation, or was it the translators putting
their Platonic and Hellenized philosophy into the Bible? The doctrine of an
immortal soul did not exist when the Old Testament was written, and nehphesh
would not have been understood to be a soul, not unto the Greek doctrine was
brought into the church by some of the so called church fathers, and by the Dark
Age Catholic Church; they were not called church fathers in their day, but
were called this by the Catholic Church, probably to justify the use of
father the way Catholics use it, and to make the writing of the church
fathers have more authority. The translators of the King James Version still
believed this pagan doctrine and they changed the word of God in this and many
places, but think goodness most translations have now partly corrected this
change.
NEW KING JAMES VERSION STUDY EDITION
1990, page 935. The Hebrew word for soul has many meanings and seldom
(some would say never) equals what English-speaking Christians man mean by the
term. Most Christians under stand soul to be an immaterial,
deathless something in a person that will forever fly away from the person it
was in at their death.
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA,
"Not, however, to dwell on the fact that many peoples have no clear
conception of an immaterial 'soul' in the modern sense (the Egyptians,
e. g. distinguished several parts, the Ka, the Ba, etc., which survived death; often
the surviving self is simply a ghostly resemblance of the earthly self,
nourished with food, offerings, etc.), there is the more serious consideration
that the state into which the surviving part is supposed to enter at death is
anything but a state which can be described as 'life,' or worthy to be
dignified with the name 'immortality.' It is a state peculiar to 'death;' in
most cases, shadowy, inert, feeble, dependent, joyless; a state to be dreaded
and shrunk from, not one to be hoped for. If, on the other hand, as in the hope
of immortality among the nobler heathen, it is conceived of, as for some, a
state of happiness–the clog of the body being shaken off–this
yields the idea, which has passed into so much of our modern thinking, of an
'immortality of the soul,' of an imperishableness of the spiritual part,
sometimes supposed to extend backward as well as forward; an inherent
indestructibility." From the article "Immortal; Immortality."
Also from the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, "We are
influenced always more or less by the Greek, Platonic idea that the body dies,
yet the soul is immortal. Such an idea is utterly contrary to the Israelite
consciousness and is nowhere found in the Old Testament." From
the article "Death," page 812. "Soul, like spirit, has various
shades of meaning in the O.T., which may be summarized as follows, 'Soul,'
'living being,' 'life,' 'self,' 'person,' 'desire,' 'appetite,' 'emotion' and
'passion'...NEHPHESH OR SOUL, CAN ONLY DENOTE THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE WITH A MATERIAL
ORGANIZATION OR BODY." Page 2837. "For the Hebrews a
person was a unity, not to be divided into body, soul, and spirit as the Greeks
did." Page 592.
JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA, "The
belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body
is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation rather than of simple
faith, AND IS ACCORDINGLY, NOWHERE TAUGHT IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURE...The belief in
the immortality of the soul came to the Jews from contact with Greek thought
and chiefly through the philosophy of Plato, its principal exponent, who was
led to it through Orphic and Dleusinian mysteries in which Babylonian and
Egyptian views were strangely blended." Article-"Immortality
of the Soul," 1925.
The
concept of punishment after death is not in the Old Testament. The Law given
through Moses deals only with punishment in this life and has no provisions for
punishment after death. From their contact with pagan philosophy, the pagan
immortal soul teaching had made some inroads with some Jews by the time of
Christ. Paul warned about this Philosophy (Colossians 2:8).
C. R. GRESHAM commenting on 1
Corinthians 15:51-52. "Paul is pointing out that the resurrection
truth which he is revealing was partially, if not wholly, hidden to past
generations. We must take this seriously and not read New Testament revelation
back into the Old Testament accountsIt is generally conceived that there is
little about resurrection or after-life in what the Jews called the Torah...and
the Former Prophets...Death is seen as the end, the destruction of human
existence," page 25. "Man's soul is primarily his vitality,
his life, not some separate part of a person that has independent existence and
an immortal nature, God's spirit (His breath, His power) creates and sustains
all living things (Ps 33:6; 104:29-30), even the human spirit (Zech
12:1), but never is man's soul or spirit seen as an immortal part of
man surviving death." Page 40. "The widespread
misunderstanding that the New Testament teaches the immortality of the
soul...If one recognizes that death and eternal life in the New Testament are
always bound up the Christ-event, then it becomes clear that for the first
Christians the soul is not intrinsically immortal, but rather became so only
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ." "What The Bible Says About
Resurrection," page 275, The College Press, 1983, (Christian Church).
INTERPRETERS DICTIONARY OF THE
BIBLE, No biblical text authorizes the statement that the soul is separated
from the body at the moment of death. Volume 1, Article Death, page 802,
1960. The word soul in Englishcoming from philosophical Greek (Platonism)In
the OT it never means the immortal soul, but it is essentially the life
principle, or the living being, or the self as the subject of appetite, and
emotion. Volume 4, Article Soul, 1960.
The belief of Socrates and Plato was
that when a soul is freed from the person it was in, that freed soul would live
forever without the person that it had been imprisoned in. If, as Plato taught,
a soul is a separate being from the person it is in, then it would
make it unjust for a soul to be tormented for what the person did. It would be
like making Bill be judged and punished for what John did.
This Greek philosophy, that a soul
was imprisoned in the body of a person unto the death of the person, was what some
of the church fathers had been taught and believed, the background from which
they came. Tertullian, one of the first of the church fathers to teach this
philosophy was truthful about from where he had learned it. He said, "For
some things are known even by nature, the immortality of the soul, for
instance, is held by many...I may use, therefore, the opinion of a Plato, when
he declares, 'Every soul is immortal.'" Ante–Nicene Fathers, Volume
3, page 1916. By the time of the translation of the King James Version this
heathen doctrine was by the Roman Catholic Church and most Protestants, but had
been changed from Platos belief that all souls are freed and go on to a much
better place to only a few souls go to a better place, but most souls, after
being freed from the persons they were in by the death of the persons, will go
to eternal torment in Hell; the Hell part had to be added by the Catholic
Church to what was taught by Plato, it was changed from what was believed by
Plato, that after the death of the persons all souls that was trapped in then
would have gone to the same place.
Neither nehphesh nor psuche are
used with the qualifying words aionios, immoral, undying, endless, or
everlasting, but in todays preaching these words are continually added to
soul.
The Egyptians might have been the
first to believe in the dual nature of a person. They believed that death was a
door to a new form of life for a soul, which may be higher or lower, depending
on how good or bad a person was that a soul had been in. They believed the body
was evil and a prison to a soul. They built the pyramids and other tombs and
put the things in them they thought would be needed by a soul after the death
of the person. Death was a friend to them that freed a soul from the evil body
it was in; but it was the Greeks (Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato) who adopted this
Egyptian belief of the dual nature of a person and father developed the
philosophy of the immortal soul. Some of the church fathers were schooled in
and believed in this Greek philosophy, and were only partly converted. They,
after greatly expanding on the teaching of Plato, brought the Greek philosophy
into the church, which led to the apostasy in the Dark Age. Unconditional
immortality is the foundation of the doctrine of Hell. If a person had an
unseen immortal soul in them that would not die when the person died, there had
to be a place to put the evil souls after they were freed from the persons they
had imprisoned been in; therefore, the doctrine of a soul going to Heaven or
Hell immediately after the person died came into being without a resurrection
or a judgment, and the New Testament teaching of the resurrection of the dead
became unneeded and of little or no importance.
In the Greek philosophy a soul never
dies; only the body dies, freeing a soul from the person to live a higher life.
Christ taught the resurrection of man, not the Greek "immaterial,
invisible part of man" (W. E. Vine) that never dies. The Greeks did
not believe in or need a resurrection, or a savior, or a redeemer; these would
not fit into their belief. They believed in an immortal soul; therefore, there
could be no death for any soul. The Greek philosophy of an immortal soul is
opposed and opposite to the teaching of Christ on the resurrection. The
immortal soul doctrine was believed
by most pagan religions in the time of Paul, and when he was before Agrippa, he
asked, "Why is it considered
incredible among you people if God does raise the dead?" (Acts
26:8). To Plato and Agrippa, the resurrection of the dead would have been a
step backward. It would put a soul that was freed from its imprisonment in a
body back into the prison it had been freed from.
The Greek and heathen
belief that the immortal soul is indestructible, demands that a soul cannot
die, but must be alive forever somewhere.
The resurrection as
taught by Christ demands that a person be dead, if not, there cannot be a
resurrection.
The resurrection is a calling back
to life of the whole person God created, not a calling back to life of a
deathless something that is a difference being than the person that it had been
imprisoned in. If the Greek doctrine of an immortal soul that cannot die, which
is believed by many today were true, then the resurrection of Christ and our
resurrection would be pointless even if it were possible to raise a dead a soul
that is not dead.
SOCRATES
and PLATO -- versus - CHRIST
Immortality ---------
versus - A resurrection to life
Death a friend ------
versus - Death is "the last enemy"
Plato, A soul is immortal| If there is no
resurrection
therefore only
it | death is the end of all
is alive after
death | life 1 Corinthians 15:14-23
Plato, Only the body dies| "Then
they also that are
freeing a soul to higher | fallen
asleep in Christ
life without a
body | have perished" 1
Cor. 15:18
Only some inter something| A person who in
Christ
that is in person
is | will put on immortality,
immortal, not the person |
not something in a person
Souls that were in all | Christ
is "the first
the dead are now alive | born from the dead"
Souls cannot
perish | Souls (psukee) will perish
Souls cannot be destroyed|
in Gehenna Matthew 10:28
Plato's immortal
soul and Christ's resurrection are not compatible, both cannot be. One can be
true, but not both; they are alien and complete opposite to each other. The immortal soul
doctrine of Plato is a total rejection of the teaching of Christ on the
resurrection of a person to life at the second coming of Christ. To believe
Plato is to reject Christ.
Plato argued for an
immortal, immaterial soul that was better off after the death of the person it
had been imprisoned in.
Paul taught the
resurrection of the dead person.
The two are completely incompatible;
it is difficult to understand why many that say they believe the Bible choose
Platos pagan philosophy over the Bible.
Paul and Plato used the same Greek
words, but not in the same way. Immortal, immortality, indestructible,
never dying was used by Plato, and are used by many today to describe a soul
that exist after the death of the person it once was in, but in the Old or New
Testament these words are never used referring to any lost person, or to
anything that had been in a person. The expression "immortal soul" is
very common in the writing of the pagan philosophers and by today's preachers,
but is not found in the Bible.
PAUL USED |PLATO
AND MANY TODAY SAY
Die |an
immortal soul cannot die
Death |no
death for a immortal soul
Destroyed |an
immortal soul cannot be destroyed
Corruption |all souls are
now incorruptible
Mortal |all
souls are now immortal
Perish |a soul cannot perish
What Plato and the Greeks thought
about there being a soul in a person, and that soul would exist with some kind
of life when the person it was in died, is not the word of God; to those that
believe the Bible, the Greek immortal soul that has some kind of life after the
death of the person it had been in is not any part of the Christian faith.
HENRY CONSTABLE, "In the very
terms in which the punishment of the wicked is asserted in the New Testament.
1) Where the
latter says the soul shall die, Plato says it shall not die;
2) Where the latter says it shall be destroyed,
Plato says it shall not be destroyed;
3) Where the latter says it shall perish and suffer
corruption, Plato says it shall not perish and is incorruptible
But the discussion of the question was not confined to the school
of Plato or to his times. Every school of philosophy took it up, whether to
confirm Plato's view, or to deny it, or to heap ridicule upon it. All the
phrases we have been discussing from the New Testament had been explained,
turned over and over, handled with all the power of the masters of language,
presented in every phase, so that of their sense there could be no doubt, nor
could there be any one ignorant of their sense before Jesus spoke, or an
Evangelist or Apostle wrote. The subject had not died out before the days of
Christ. It never could and never will die out. In every city of the Roman world
were schools of Grecian taught in the days of the Apostles. In every school the
question before us was discussed in the phrases and language of the New
Testament. "Duration and Nature of Future Punishment," 1871.
CATHOLIC
ENCYCLOPEDIA, "Plato established the basic Western tradition on this
topic by defining the soul as the spiritual part of the human that survived
death." 1991.
OSCR CULLMANN, He (Christ) must indeed be the very one who in His death
conquers death itself. He cannot obtain this victory by simply living on as an
immortal soul, thus fundamentally not dying. He can conquer death only by
actually dying, by betaking Himself to the sphere of death, the destroyer of
lifeWhoever wants to conquer death must die, he must really cease to
live–not simply live on as an immortal soulFor Socrates and Platothe
body is indeed bad and should not live on. And that part, which is to live on,
the soul, does not die at all therefore it is deathwhich must be
conquered by the resurrection the whole thinking of the New Testament is
governed by the belief in the resurrection. Belief in the immortality of the
soul is not belief in a revolutionary event. Immortality, in fact, is only a
negative assertion, the soul does not die, but simply lives on. Resurrection is
a positive assertion, the whole man, who has really died, is recalled to
lifeThe Greek doctrine of immortality and the Christian hope in the
resurrection differ so radically because Greek thought has such and entirely
different interpretation of creation. Immortality Of The Soul Or Resurrection
Of The Dead? 1958.
Some believe that in the afterlife
there will be nothing more than a collection of disembodied spirits or souls
that will be just as alive and just the same from the day of birth of the
persons these soul were in as these souls will be after they leave the person
after the persons death. Death and the resurrection are out of step with the
belief of Plato.
That there is something in a person
and that something being deathless is a philosophy of man that Paul warned
about (Colossians 2:8). An immortal soul was copied from heathen philosophy and
superstition. Those who believe we now have "an immortal soul" get
their belief from Greek philosophy, but are inconstant and self-contradicting;
they say a soul cannot die, but it needs a Savior anyway. If we were born with
an immortal soul, it would have no need for Christ to save it from the death it
cannot die. Christianity did not destroy the pagan doctrine of Egypt
and Greece; in the Dark Age it adopted it and made it the teaching of the Roman
Church.
IF THERE IS
NO RESURRECTION
1. If
a soul is immortal (deathless) then Christ has not been raised, 1 Corinthians
15:13-15.
2. If
a soul is immortal (deathless) we are false witnesses, the dead have not be
raised, 1 Corinthians 15:15.
3. If
a soul is immortal (deathless) our faith is vain and we are yet in our sins, 1
Corinthians 15:17.
4. If a
soul is immortal (deathless) no Christians will be raised from the dead,
dead persons are dead forever, 1 Corinthians 15:18-19.
Death is the enemy (1 Corinthians
15:26). It is the destruction of the life given by God. It is not the liberator
of an immortal soul, as Plato believed it to be. It is death, which must be
conquered by the resurrection. When we understand that death is really
death, not another kind of life for an immortal living something that has no
substance that is in a person, the resurrection is all-important. Without a
resurrection we can do what we want for this life is all there is (1
Corinthians 15:32). Our only hope is the resurrection, and without it there
will be no life of any kind for us after death. Plato's immortal, deathless soul
needs no resurrection; A DEATHLESS SOUL CANNOT BE RESURRECTED.
1. "Set your hope
perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of
Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 1:12). It is at the resurrection that we "shall
receive the crown of glory that fades not away" (1 Peter 5:4).
2. "Be patient;
therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord (James 4:7-8). As the farmer
is patient unto the harvest to receive his reward, the believers are to be
patient unto the coming of Christ to receive their reward.
3. "It is sown a
natural body; it is raised a spiritual body" (1 Corinthians 15:43);
it is not the natural body that will be raised. It is not a spiritual body that
is now in a natural body that will go to Heaven at the death of the natural
body. "We (persons, not souls) shall all be
changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible. Dead
persons will be raised from the dead with a completely new body, not already
living souls that have no bodies raised from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:52).
4. "Beloved, now
are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest
what we shall be. We know that, when he shall
be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall
see him even as he is" (1 John 3:2). Every one knows what kind of body we now have,
but no one knows what we shall be after the resurrection; it is we (persons)
that do not know what we shall be after we are resurrected; if there were a soul now in a person, that
soul would be the same while the person was alive, the same after the person
was dead, the same after the coming of Christ; how could a soul not know what
it shall be?
The wrath of God will be "in
the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God" (Romans
2:5), not wrath at death before the Judgment Day, and not eternal wrath after
the Judgment Day is over. On that day, it will be rendered "to them that
by patience in well doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal
life (Romans 2:8), not to souls that now have eternal life that are
believed to be in all that will be given eternal life. The judgment will be
"in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men" (Romans
2:16), not at death. It is the Judgment Day when "we (not
souls) shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God" (Romans
14:10). It is the day that the Lord will judge all. "Wherefore
judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to
light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the
hearts" (1 Corinthians 4:5, also, Ephesians 4:30).
1. "And to wait
for his Son from heaven" (1 Thessalonians 1:10). Death will not take anyone to Heaven
without waiting for the second coming of Jesus.
2. When the Lord shall
descend from Heaven, them that have fallen asleep in Jesus, "the
dead in Christ shall rise first; then we that are alive,
that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with
the Lord" (1 Thessalonians 4:17). Our hope is to be raised from
our sleep at the coming of Christ, not come back from living in Heaven or
Abraham's bosom.
3. Paul says he will
receive a "crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that
have loved his appearing." (2 Timothy 4:8).
The Bible speaks of us, we, and
you that shall be with the Lord after the Judgment Day, the person will be
resurrected, not a soul that once was in a person that has already gone on to
be with the Lord, both without the person, and without the resurrection.
The Bible teaching, "The
wages of sin is death" leaves no lost souls alive after the
judgment and second death to be put anywhere. The teaching of Christ,
that life (everlasting life or immortality) will be given only to those who
obey Him, makes Hell impossible. Unless Christ gives eternal life (immortality)
to the lost, they cannot live forever anywhere. The Greek teaching of
an immortal soul must be made to stand, and the teaching of Christ that He will
give life only to those who come to Him must be removed from the Bible, or
there cannot be a Hell.
Socrates drinks hemlock and died
with a smile on his face because he thought he was freeing a soul to leave his
body and live with the gods, for a soul that was in him to live free of being
in him. Christ "sweats as it was great drops of blood" (Luke
22:44). Death is the enemy of man; it destroys him, and only the resurrection
frees us from death, and gives us back the life death takes. In death there is
no life in Heaven, or no life in any other place for us before the
resurrection. The resurrection is not deathless souls coming back from Heaven
and Hell to be judged and then going back to Heaven and Hell, it is our only
hope of life after our death. Without the resurrection "then they also
that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished" (1 Corinthians
15:18). The Greek philosophy that found its way into the Church says souls that
have left the persons they were in have not perished, but that souls have some
kind of life without the need of a resurrection; if there were an immortal soul
that cannot perish then those who are fallen asleep in Christ have
forever perished, but souls that were in them cannot perish; how could Paul
have been so wrong?
For since by MAN came death, by
a MAN also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also
in Christ all shall be made alive (1 Corinthians 15:21-22). If, as we are
told, a soul is the only thing that will ever be immortal, and that a soul is
already immortal and cannot die, it cannot be made alive. The
pagan deathless soul doctrine makes this passage be total nonsense.
By man came deathin Adam all die (1 Corinthians
15:21-22).
By
man came the resurrection of the deadin Christ all shall be made alive (1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
By Adam death came to all
persons, all literally die. By Christ the same all that are dead will be
made alive by the resurrection of the dead; neither persons or souls that are
not dead could not be resurrected, could not be raised from the dead.
As the results of the pagan immortal
soul doctrine there came into existent many other false doctrines, Hellfire,
Purgatory, worship of Mary and saints, etc. The Protestant Reformation was
largely a reaction to medieval superstitious beliefs, and to Purgatory that is
an intermediate state of temporal punishment where souls that were not good
enough to go to Heaven, and not bad enough to go to Hell; in the Church in the
Dark Age this was believed to be almost all souls that had left the dead
persons that they had been in. The priests would have the loved ones pay for
souls to shorten the time souls that had been in the dead persons were in
Purgatory. Selling indulgences and paying to reduce the time deathless souls
that had left the dead loved ones would spend in Purgatory was rejected by the Reformation,
as was many other beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church; but both the Greek dual
nature of a person and the doctrine of Hell that were brought in by the
Catholic Church were both retained. Calvin believed a soul did not sleep, but a
soul went to Heaven or Hell as soon as it left the person.
The Westminster Confession says,
"Souls of the righteous...are received unto the highest heavens...soul of
the wicked are cast into Hell."
Different characteristics of
a person, not different parts of a person that one part can live without any
other part; a person looked at from different points of view.
1. BODY, Flesh and
blood.
2. SOUL, A person is a living being, the
body plus the breath of life is a soul, a living being.
3. MIND, If the intellectual part of a
person is his mind, does a soul as it is used in today's theology have its
own mind? Does a soul have any thoughts that our mind does not have? If not,
according to today's theology, the only thing that will be in Heaven will have
no thoughts.
4. HEART, The most commonly used
characteristic of a person. (Genesis 6:5; Judges; 16:15, 17, 18, 20; Matthew
5:8; Luke 12:34; Romans 10:10; Hebrews 3:10). The heart is used in the place of
the mind for the thing that the mind does, the seat of, intellect, affection,
understanding and will, not the part of the body that pumps blood. (Matthew
13:15; 15:19; Mark 7:19; Luke 6:45; 9:47; Acts 8:21; 8:37; 28:27; Romans 10:9;
10:10; 1 Corinthians 2:9; 7:37; Hebrews 3:10; 4:12; 1 John 3:20-21). Has not
the things said about the heart been transferred to a soul by those who believe
a soul is an immaterial, immortal being that has no substance?
The whole person dies, the whole
person is buried, the whole person is resurrected for judgment, and the whole
resurrected person that is in Christ will live with Christ.
(1). The whole person dies and the whole person is buried.
1. Aaron died and there he was buried (Deuteronomy
10:6).
2.
There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac (Genesis 49:31).
3.
David that he both died and was buried and his tomb is with us to this day (Acts 2:29). David
himself, not a part of David, is dead and in his tomb, and many others where
the whole person died and was buried.
(2). It is because the whole person is asleep, because the whole
person is actually dead that the whole person must be resurrected and judged,
not just an undead, immaterial something that had been in a person unto the
death of the person.
Stephen fell asleep (Acts 7:59).
David slept with his fathers and was buried (1 Kings 2:10).
(3). The whole person will be raised and live with Christ, not
Platos pagan soul that will never be dead, that will never be in the tombs or
graves (plural graves), or will never be raised from the dead.
1.
ALL that are in the TOMBS shall hear his voice,
and shall come forth (John 6:28-29). Graves (plural,
many graves) in King James Version, but we are told by those that believe in
souls that souls are never in graves.
2.
And I will raise HIM up at the last day (John 6:54), not will
raise it.
ASHLEY S. JOHNSON, founder and
president of the Johnson Bible College, Generally the word soul in the
ordinary version should be life. The Resurrection And The Future Life, page
336, Knoxville, Lithographing Company, 1913.
"MAN BECAME A LIVING
BEING" Genesis 1:26. "Then God said, 'Let Us
make MAN in Our image,'" not, "Let Us make
a soul in Our Image and put this soul in MAN unto the death of
the MAN it is in;" it is MAN that is in the image of God, nothing is said about the image of
a soul. Genesis 2:7 "Then the Lord formed MAN of
dust from the ground and breathed into HIS nostrils the breath
of life; (not breathed into the body an immortal undying no substance
soul, but breathed into man the breath of life, which both men and animals
have), and MAN became a living being. Not a body
plus an immortal soul, but "a living being." Not two
beings, a body being (a person) with an invisible soul being living in the
person. How can the breath of life in your nose (breathing) be an immortal
something that dose not breathe? The same man that was
created in the image of God is the same man that
breathes. It is not an immaterial something in man that
does not breathe that is in the image of God.
The body of dust plus the breath of
life = a living soul (a living being–nehphesh), Genesis 2:7. The breath of
life without the body would not be a person or animal; it would not be an
immortal living being, not a nehphesh. ALL living
creatures, whether they are animals or sea-dwelling creatures are souls
(nehpheshs–living beings). All life comes from God and returns to God.
The body plus the breath of life makes a living being (a nehpheshs), makes a
living person or animal.
DEATH OF
MANKIND–CREATION IN REVERSE
Creation–body made of dust–breath of life from God = a living
person (a nehpheshs) (Genesis 2:7).
Death–breath of life returns to God–body returns to dust =
a dead person (a nehpheshs) (Ecclesiastes 12:7).
Genesis
2:7
1. Body
formed of the dust from the ground.
2. Breathed
into the nostrils of the body the breath of life.
Psalm
104:29
1. God
takes away their breath.
2.
They return to the earth.
Psalm
146:29
1. God
takes away the breath.
2. He
returns to the earth.
God formed MAN, not merely the body of
man; it was MAN that was formed from the dust of the ground.
It is MAN, not an invisible something that was put in the MAN but
that something is not the MAN, not something that has no substance
that is in the image of God. After Adam was put out of the garden he was still
in the image of God, mankind is still in the image of God. If Adam was created
innate immortal, then what was the purpose of the tree of life? If there was an
immortal soul that was in Adam and that soul was created not subject to death,
then the tree of life could have had no purpose; an immortal soul that cannot
die would live forever with or without the tree of life; if there was a
deathless soul that was in Adam, that deathless soul would not have died if it
did eat, or did not eat of the tree of life; it was Adam that could and did die
for eating of the forbidden fruit, not a deathless soul that could not die; an
immaterial soul could not eat of the forbidden fruit, or die for eating of the
forbidden fruit which a soul could not eat.
Summary - The Bible says, Man BECAME a living soul is
changed to, Man had a soul put in him. There is a world of difference in (1)
a person being a BEING a
soul, (2) and a person HAVING a
soul put in them; it is two difference gospels. Both man and animals ARE a living soul, neither
one HAVE a soul
that is living in them. If the breath of life in his nostrils in Genesis 2:7
makes a person have something that is immortal (soul) living in him or her that
cannot die, then "all in whose nostrils was the breath of the
spirit of life" in Genesis 7:22 would also prove all beasts,
birds, and fish have the same immortal something in them that cannot die, but
both persons (nehphesh) and beasts (nehphesh) died in the flood.
GOD IS A
LIVING BEING (Not God has a soul in Him)
Moreover, I will
make My dwelling among you, and My soul (nehphesh) will
not reject you (Leviticus 26:11).
I then will destroy your high
places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains
of your idols; for My soul (nehphesh) shall abhor you (Leviticus
26:30).
I know of no one that believes God
has an invisible, no substance something in Him that can exist apart from
Him. His soul (nehphesh) is His person, His being–life,
not an immortal soul living in the immortal God, just as a soul of a person or
animal is the life (the living being) of the person or animal, not an immortal
being in them.
ANIMALS ARE "SOULS"
Nehphesh–a living
creature–animals are a living being, not animals HAVE souls. They
do not HAVE an immaterial, invisible, or a no substance, deathless something
living in them; they ARE a living being. In Genesis 1:20; 1:21;
1:24; 1:30, most translations try to hide this. WHY? Why is the same word
translated "living creature" when used referring to
animals, and the same word is changed and translated "soul" when
used referring to a person? There is no excuse or defense for it; it is a
deliberate attempt by the translators, who did not believe God's word as it is,
to mislead their readers; all Bible teachers should point this out to all they
teach (James 3:1). If "the living soul" (nehphesh)
is an immortal living something that is in a person, then bugs, all sea
creatures, all birds, and all animals have an immortal soul. In Genesis "Living
soul" is used much more of these creatures than it is of man.
Passages in which soul
(nehphesh) is speaking of animals being souls, but it is deliberately hid from the English readers that the word
nehphesh–the word that they mistranslated souls is used.
1. Genesis
1:20, Then God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls (nehpheshs, used referring
to animals)
2. Genesis
1:21, And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living soul (nehphesh, used referring
to animals) that moved wherewith the waters swarmed.
3. Genesis
1:24, And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls (nehpheshs, used referring
to animals) after their kind, cattle, and creeping things,
and beasts of the earth after their kind.
4. Genesis
2:19, And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the
field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he
would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature (nehpheshs,
used referring to animals), that was its name.
5. Genesis
1:30, And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and
to every thing that moves on the earth which has life (nehphesh,
used referring to animals).
6. Genesis
9:10, "And with ever living creature (nehpheshs,
used referring to animals) that
is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with
you."
7. Genesis 9:12, This
is the covenant which I am making between Me and you and ever living
creature (nehpheshs, used referring to animals) that is with you.
8. Genesis
9:15, And I will remember My covenant, which is between Me
and you and ever living creature (nehpheshs, used
referring to both man and animals) of all flesh.
9. Genesis
9:16, When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to
remember the everlasting covenant between God and ever living creature (nehpheshs,
used referring to both man and animals) of all flesh that
is on the earth.
10 Leviticus
11:10, But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers, that do not have
fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all
the living creatures (nehpheshs, referring to animals) that
are in the water, they are detestable things to you.
11. Leviticus 11:46, This is the
law regarding the animal, and the bird, and every living thing (nehpheshs,
used referring to animals) that swarms on the earth.
12. Leviticus
17:11, For the life (nehphesh, used referring to
an animal) of the flesh is in the
blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls (lives–nehpheshs, used
referring to men); for it is the blood by reason of the life
(nehphesh, used referring to animals) that makes
atonement. The exact same word in the same sentence in the Hebrew
(nehphesh) is translated life two times when referring to
animals and is translated soul only when it is referring
to mankind!
13. Leviticus
22:11, But if the priest buy any souls (nehpheshs,
used referring to animals that are to be used as food) with
his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house, they shall eat
of his meat King James Version.
14. Leviticus
24:18, And the one who takes the life (nehphesh,
used referring to animals) of
an animal shall make it good, life (nehphesh, used
referring to animals) for life (soul–nehphesh,
used referring to animals). And he that killest a beast
(nehphesh) shall make it good, beast (soul–nehphesh) for beast (soul–nehphesh),
King James Version.
15. Numbers
31:28, "One soul (nehphesh life, used
referring to both man and animals) of five hundred, of the
persons and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep."
16. Job
41:1, Leviathan, (nehphesh, used referring to
an animal) is used six times in the Bible, probably a crocodile
(Job 41:21). From over 870 times nehphesh is used, this is the only time
nehphesh is translated breath in the Kings James Version.
After all, they could not have a crocodile, a sea monster, or whatever this
nehphesh was having an "immortal soul" for then they would have to
put its soul in Heaven or Hell for a soul in an immortal crocodile could never
die, and, according to the theology of many, this soul of a crocodile would
have to be somewhere for all eternity.
17. Ezekiel 47:9, And
it will come about that every living creature (nehpheshs, used
referring to animals) which swarms in every place where the
river goes.
18. Leviticus
17:14, Genesis 9:4 "For the life (nehphesh,
used referring to man and to animals) of every creature is
the blood of it."
19. Deuteronomy
12:23, Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is
the life (nehphesh, used
referring to animals), and you shall not eat the life (soul–nehphesh,
used referring to animals) with the flesh.
20. Job
12:10, "In whose hand is the life (nehphesh,
used referring to man and to animals) of every living thing, and
the breath of all mankind?"
21. Proverbs
12:10, "A righteous man has regard for the life (nehphesh,
used referring to animals) of his beast."
22. And
many more, but if this does not convict anyone that all living being are a soul
nothing will. Notices how the translators tried to hide this from their
readers.
Many believe, "The
living soul" in Genesis 2:7 is the one distinctive thing that
makes a person different from an animal, but if this makes a person have an
immortal soul in them, there is no way around all living things having immortal
souls in them. In the above twenty-two passages bugs, birds, fish,
persons, are all nehpheshs, all are "living beings," not a deathless,
immaterial something.
ERDMANN DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE,
"Far from referring simply to one aspect of a person, 'soul' refers to the
whole person." Page 1245.
HOLMAN BIBLE DICTIONARY, "A
human being is a totality of being, not a combination of various parts and
impulses. According to the Old Testament understanding, a person is not
a body, which happens to possess a soul. Instead, a person is a living soul...Because
of God's breath of life; the man became 'a living being' (Gen. 2:7).
A person thus is a complete totality, made up of human flesh, spirit (best
understood as "the life-force'), and nephesh (best understood as "the
total self' but often translated as 'soul')." Page 61.
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE
ENCYCLOPEDIA, "There is not dualism in the sense of separation, as though
there could be full man either as body alone or as soul alone...together they
make up the one man." Volume 1, page 134.
HASTINGS BIBLE DICTIONARY, Soul is
throughout the great part of the Bible simply the equivalent of life embodied
in living creature.
PARKHURSTS LEXICON, As a noun
nephesh has been supposed to signify the spiritual part of man, or what we
commonly call his soul. I must for myself confess that I can find no passages
where it has undoubtedly this meaning. Parkhurst was a highly regarded person
that believed in an immortal soul, but confessed that he was unable to find his
belief in the Old Testament.
T. PIERCE BROWN, "A
consideration of EVERY passage in which these terms are used leads us to the
consideration that the term 'soul' is a term that was applied in the
Bible to every being that normally has sensory capacities (life), whether
or not they have that capacity when the term is used referring to them. For
example, one might see a body of a dead person and say, 'That poor soul is
dead.' The Bible uses the term that way, even as we do, and it has nothing at
all to do with the immorality or mortality of a soul. It simply means that the
PERSON (the one who HAD life–soul–sensory capacity) is dead."
Soul and Spirit" Gospel Advocate, June 14, 1979.
(1). Nehphesh (soul), When
nehphesh is used referring only to animals, it
is translated nine different ways in the King James Version.
1).
Creature (nehphesh)
Genesis 1:21; 1:24; 2:19; 9:10; 2:12; Leviticus 11:46.
2).
Thing (nehphesh)
Leviticus 11:10. Ezekiel 47:9.
3).
Life (nehphesh)
Genesis 1:20; 1:30; Leviticus 17:10-14—2 times.
4).
The life (nehphesh)
Genesis 9:4; Deuteronomy 12:23; Proverbs 12:10.
5).
Beast (nehphesh)
Leviticus 24:18.
6).
Soul (nehphesh)
Job 12:10.
7). Breath (nehphesh) Job 41:21.
8).
A fish (nehphesh)
Isaiah 19:10.
9).
Her (nehphesh)
Jeremiah 2:24.
(2). Nehphesh (soul), When
it is used referring to BOTH Animals and Man, it
is translated in three different ways.
1).
Creature (nehphesh)
Genesis 9:15; 9:16.
2).
The life (nehphesh)
Leviticus 17:11; 17:14.
3).
Soul (nehphesh)
Numbers 31:28.
(3).
Nehphesh (soul), When it has the animal appetites and desires
of Man, when the material nature of a person is being referred
to, nehphesh is translated in five different ways, (1) pleasure, (2) lust, (3)
appetite, (4) greedy (5) and soul.
1). Pleasure (nehphesh)
Deuteronomy 23:24.
2). Lust (nehphesh)
Psalm 78:18.
3). Appetite (nehphesh)
Proverbs 23:2; Ecclesiastes 6:7.
4). Greedy (nehphesh)
Isaiah 56:11.
5). Soul (Nehphesh).
Fifteen material–physical
things a "soul–person–nehphesh" does.
1). A
soul dried away Numbers 11:6.
2). A
soul can be utterly destroyed Joshua 10:28.
3). A
soul can be saved from physical danger by fleeing (running
away from danger) Jeremiah 51:6.
4). A
soul can be kept back from the pit–grave (for a short
time) Job 33:18.
5). A
soul can be deliver from death Psalm 33:10.
6). A
soul can longs to eat flesh Deuteronomy 12:20; a soul can
be hunger Proverbs 19:15; Proverbs 6:30; a soul can eat Leviticus
7:25.
7). A
soul can lusts Deuteronomy 12:15; 12:21; 14:26. Lusts
after Deuteronomy 12:20.
8). A
soul can desires Deuteronomy 14:26; 1 Samuel 2:16. Can desired
figs Micah 7:1.
9). A
soul can loathes Deuteronomy 21:5; Proverbs 27:7.
10). A
soul can abhorred Job 33:20; Psalm 107:18.
12). A
soul can breaths 1 Kings 20:32.
13). A
soul can be bought and sold with money Leviticus 22:11;
Ezekiel 27:13.
14). A
soul can touch unclean things and be unclean, can touch bodies of
dead persons, dead beast, creeping thing, Leviticus 5:2.
15). A
soul can refused to touch Job 6:7.
16). A
soul can be dead, a dead soul can be touched by living persons Numbers
19:11.
A SOUL
(PERSON–NEHPHESH) CAN BE HUNGRY
CAN HAVE
AN APPETITE, BE THIRSTY, EAT MEAT
"Men do
not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself (nehphesh–living
being) when he is hungry" (Proverbs 6:30). An example of
how well the translators hid the fact that this is the same word that they
translated soul in other places when they did not want you to see it.
"I will set my face against
that soul (nehphesh–living being) that eats
blood, and will cut him off from among his people"(Leviticus 17:10).
"And you shall say, I will eat
flesh, because your soul (nehphesh–living
being) desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the desire of
your soul (nehphesh–living
being)" (Deuteronomy 12:20). An immaterial something eating material
flesh!
"And it shall be as when a
hungry man dreams and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul (nehphesh–living
being) is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he
drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul (nehphesh–living
being) has appetite" (Isaiah 29:8).
SOUL IS THE
LIFE, NOT AN IMMORTAL SOMETHING
You shall not eat flesh with its life (nehphesh–living
being) (Genesis 9:4).
For the life (nehphesh–living
being) of the flesh (Leviticus 17:11; 17:14).
Those who seek my life (nehphesh–living
being) (Psalm 38:12).
For those who sought the Childs life (psukee) are
dead (Matthew 2:20).
There are many more passages that
show that both nehphesh and psukee are the life of the person or animal, not an
immortal something that has its own life and lives after the person is dead.
SOULS CAN
DIE, SOULS CAN BE DEAD
SOULS CAN BE
KILLED, SOULS CAN BE MURDERED
IF A SOUL CAN DIE THEN IT CANNOT
BE IMMORTAL. Although it is often hid in many translations, the Bible says over
320 times that a nehphesh (soul). 1). Souls can die. 2). Souls can
be killed by man. 3). Or that souls are already dead.
If a soul can die, then whatever
"nehphesh" is translated into something that can die. If the
many words that "nehphesh" is translated into is something that can
die, then a soul cannot be immortal, and a soul can die. To say that
"nehphesh" is a soul that is immortal and it cannot die makes the
Bible be wrong repeatedly. If a nehphesh is
something that is immortal and cannot die, the writers of the
Bible did not know it.
(1). Souls (nehpheshs) can
die Numbers 23:10, Ezekiel 18:4, 20, Joshua 11:11.
They
smote (killed) all
the souls (nehphesh) King James Version.
And
they struck every person (nehpheshs) who was in it with the edge
of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was no one left who breathed New
American Standard Bible.
An
immortal soul can die or be utterly destroy. Not only does the Bible
not say a soul is immortal, it denies it by saying often that a soul can die,
can be killed, or a soul is already dead.
(2). Souls (nehpheshs) can
be murdered. Deuteronomy 12:23; Numbers 35:11-15.
(3). Souls (nehpheshs) can
be killed Leviticus 24:17. An immortal soul can be killed? "Kills
any person" (soul-nehphesh) Numbers 35:11, 15, 30,
31.
(4). Souls (nehpheshs) can
be smote with the sword and utterly destroyed Joshua 11:11. Can
a immortal soul be killed by the sword?
(5). Souls (nehpheshs) can
be slain. Can an immortal soul be slain? Deuteronomy 27:25.
(6). Souls (nehpheshs) can
be destroyed. Can an immortal soul be destroyed Leviticus 23:30?
(7). Souls (nehpheshs) can
be taken away 1 Kings 19:4.
(8). Souls (nehpheshs) can
be sought to kill it Jeremiah 44:30.
(9). Souls (nehpheshs) cannot
be kept alive. An immortal soul that cannot die, but it cannot be kept
alive? Psalm 22:29.
(10). Souls (nehpheshs) have
blood and can bleed. "The blood of the souls (nehpheshes) of the poor" Jeremiah
2:34.
A FEW OF THE
MANY PASSAGES
IN THE KING
JAMES VERSION
THAT HID THE
FACT THAT A SOUL CAN AND DOES DIE
(1). Let
us not kill him (soul–nehphesh). Let us
not take his life (soul–nehphesh) New American
Standard, Genesis 37:21.
(2). "Life (soul–nehphesh) for life (soul–nehphesh).
Immortal soul for immortal soul?" Exodus 21:23.
(3). "Any dead body (soul–nehphesh)"
Leviticus 21:11. Any dead soul? Nehphesh is translated dead
body thirteen times in the King James Version.
(4). And
he that killeth a beast shall make it good beast (soul-nephesh) for beast (soul–nehphesh) Leviticus
24:17 King James Version, Life (soul–nehphesh) for life (soul–nehphesh)
(soul for soul?)"
(5). Whosoever
is defiled by the dead (soul–nehphesh)"
Numbers 5:2. Defiled by a dead soul?
(6). He shall
come at no dead body (soul–nehphesh)" Numbers
6:6 King James Version. "He shall not go near to a dead person
(soul-nehphesh).
(7). And
he that killeth any man (soul–nehphesh) shall
surely be put to death. And he that killeth a beast shall make it good beast
(soul–nehphesh) for beast (soul–nehphesh) (soul
for soul?) Leviticus 24:17-18 King James Version. "And if a
man takes the life (soul–nehphesh) of
any human being." Does anyone believe a person can take the life
of an immortal, immaterial, deathless soul?
(8). "Because
of a dead person (soul–nehphesh)"
Numbers 6:11.
(9). "Defiled
by the dead body of a man (soul–nehphesh)"
Numbers 9:6- 7.
(10). "Unclean
by reason of a dead body (soul–nehphesh)"
Numbers 9:10.
(11). "He
that toucheth the dead body of any man (soul–nehphesh)
Numbers 19:11. Whoever touches a human corpse
(soul–nehphesh)" (New International Version).
(12). Whosoever
toucheth the dead body (soul–nehphesh) of
any man that is dead Numbers 19:13 King James Version. "Anyone
who touches a corpse, the body (soul–nehphesh) of
a man who has died. How could anyone touch the corpse of something
that has no substance and cannot die? By todays definition of soul this says
an immaterial deathless something is dead, and this immaterial something is
touched by man. Why did they not translate this soul? If they had it would
have destroyed their pagan belief.
(13). "Whosoever
has killed any person (soul–nehphesh)"
Numbers 31:19.
(14). Which
killeth any person (soul–nehphesh)" Numbers
35:11.
(15). "Everyone
that kills any person (soul–nehphesh) " Numbers
35:15.
(16). "Whoso
kills any person (soul–nehphesh)" Numbers
35:30.
(17). And
slay him (soul–nehphesh) Deuteronomy 19:6.
KJV. "And take his life (soul–nehphesh)."
(18). "And
strikes him so that he (soul–nehphesh) dies" Deuteronomy
19:11.
(19). "Life (soul–nehphesh) for life (soul–nehphesh), eye
for eye, tooth for tooth Deuteronomy 19:21.
(20). "A
man rises against his neighbor and murders him (soul–nehphesh)"
Deuteronomy 22:26.
(21). "Cursed
be he who takes a bride to slay an innocent person (soul–nehphesh)"
Deuteronomy 27:25.
(23). "And deliver our lives (souls–nehpheshs) from
death" Joshua 2:13. Not, Save our immortal, deathless
souls from death.
(24). "Who kills any person (soul–nehphesh)"
Joshua 20:9. Not, Who kills any immortal soul that cannot be killed.
(25). "That kills any person (soul–nehphesh)"
Joshua 20:3.
(26). "Let me (soul–nehphesh) die" Judges
16:30. Not "Let my soul that cannot die, die anyway?"
(27). "And
you lose your life (soul–nehphesh), with
the lives (souls–nehpheshs) of your
household" Judges 18:25.
(28). "If
you do not save your life (soul–nehphesh) tonight" 1
Samuel 19:11.
(29). "The death
of all the persons (souls–nehpheshs) of
your father's house" 1 Samuel 22:22.
(30). "He
that seeks my life (soul–nehphesh) seeks
your life (soul–nehphesh)" 1 Samuel 22:23.
(31). "He
is seeking my life (soul–nehphesh)"
1 Samuel 20:1.
(32). "And
David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life (soul–nehphesh)"
1 Samuel 23:15.
(33). "Deliver
him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life (soul–nehphesh) of
his brother whom he slew" 2 Samuel 14:7.
(34). "Who
today have saved your life (soul–nehphesh) and
the lives (souls–nehpheshs of your sons and
daughter, the lives (souls–nehpheshs) of your
wives, and the lives (souls–nehpheshs) of
your concubines" 2 Samuel 19:5.
(35). "Have
you asked for the life (soul–nehphesh) of
your enemies" 1 Kings 3:11.
(36). "Prolong
my life (soul–nehphesh)" Job 6:11. Not Prolong
the life of an immortal, deathless soul?
(37). "For
himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O
Lord, take my life (soul–nehphesh)" 1 Kings 19:4.
(38). "A
man that dose violence to the blood of any person (soul–nehphesh) shall
flee unto the pit; let no man stay him" Proverbs 28:17. A person
has blood; if there were an immaterial soul it would have no blood.
(39). "Ammon
has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life (soul–nehphesh)...wherefore
should he take your life (soul–nehphesh)"
Jeremiah 40:14-15.
(40). "By
shedding blood and destroying lives (nehpheshs–living
beings)" Ezekiel 22:27.
PASSAGES IN
THE KING JAMES VERSION THAT CLEARLY
SAYS A SOUL
CAN DIE, OR THAT A SOUL ALREADY DEAD
The same word (nehphesh) that
many times was translated life or person that will die, or is already dead is
also translated into an immortal, deathless soul (nehphesh)
that many tell us is in a person (nehphesh) unto the persons (nehphesh)
death, but it (nehphesh) is not the person (nehphesh); nevertheless, according to the King James
Version, that deathless, immortal soul (nehphesh) will die
just as the mortal person (nehphesh)
that it (nehphesh) is in will die, or that it (nehphesh) is already dead.
(1). Whatsoever soul (life–nehphesh) it
be that doest any work in the same day, the same soul (life–nehphesh) will
I destroy" Leviticus 23:30 King James Version. That person (nehphesh) will
I destroy."
(2). "And
they smote all the souls (persons–nehpheshs) that
were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there
were none left that breathed" Joshua 11:11.
(3). "He utterly
destroyed them and all the souls (persons–nehpheshs) that
were therein; he left none remaining" Joshua 10:28.
(4). "And
he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls (persons–nehpheshs) that were therein; he
left none remaining in it" Joshua 10:30.
(5). "And
all the souls (persons–nehpheshs) that were
therein" Joshua 10:32.
(6). "And
all the souls (persons–nehpheshs) that were
therein he utterly destroyed that day" Joshua
10:35.
(7). "But
he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls (persons–nehpheshs) that
were therein Joshua 10:37.
(8). "And
he captured it and its king and all its cities, and they smote them with the
edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls (persons–nehpheshs) that
were therein Joshua 10:39. Can immortal souls be utterly destroyed
with the sword?
(9). "That
his soul (person–nehphesh) was vexed
to death" Judges 16:16. "Annoyed to
death" New American Standard Version. We say, "He
worried me to dead."
(10). Yet
thou huntest my soul (life–nehphesh) 1
Samuel 24:11 KJV. "You are lying in wait for my soul (life–nehphesh) to
take it" New KJV, American Standard Version.
(11). "To
pursue you and to seek your soul (life–nehphesh)
1 Samuel 25:29. Note, sometimes nehphesh was translated seek
your soul, and sometimes the same word was
translated seek your life. See 12-21 below. Did
they think the Hebrew word nehphesh (1) is a mortal person that both can and
will die, (2) or an immortal soul that cannot die?
1. Which sought your life (nehphesh) 2 Samuel 4:8.
2. Seeking my life (nehphesh) 2 Samuel 16:11.
3. Take away my life (nehphesh) 1.
Kings 19:10.
4. They seek my life, (nehphesh) to take it
away 1 Kings19:14.
5. Seek after my soul (nehphesh) Psalm
35:4.
6. Seek after my life (nehphesh) Psalm
38:12.
7. Seek after my soul (nehphesh) Psalm
40:14.
8. Let all those that seek thee (nehphesh) Psalm 40:16.
9. To slay thee (nehphesh) Jeremiah 40:14.
(12). "The blood
of the souls (persons–nehpheshs) of the
innocent poor" Jeremiah 2:34. Dose an immaterial, invisible soul
that is in a person have no substance, but it has blood!
(13). "To
slay the souls (persons–nehpheshs) that
should not die and to save the souls
(persons–nehpheshs) alive that should not live" Ezekiel
13:19. If a soul were something that is immortal and cannot die, this passage
is completely nonsense.
(14). He
spared not their soul (nehphesh–life) from
death (Psalms 78:50).
(15). "Like
a roaring lion ravening the prey, they have devoured souls (nehpheshs–living
beings)" Ezekiel 22:25.
(16) The soul (nehphesh–life) of
every living thing King James Version (Job 12:10). In
whose hand is the life (nehphesh) of every living
thing."
(17). "He
did not spare their soul (nehphesh–living
being) from death, but gave over their life to the plague, and smote
all the firstborn in Egypt" (Psalm 78:50).
(18). "The soul (person–nehphesh) who
sins will die" Ezekiel 18:4.
(19). Ezekiel
18:20
1. "The SOUL (person–nehphesh) that sins, IT SHALL DIE" King
James Version.
2. "The PERSON (nehphesh) who sins SHALL DIE" New
Revised Standard Version.
3. "The PERSON (nehphesh) who sins WILL DIE" New
American Standard Version, and New Revised English Bible.
4. It is the PERSON (nehphesh) who sins that WILL DIE The
Revised English Bible.
5. "The PERSON (nehphesh) who sins is the one who WILL DIE" New
Century Version, Holman, and Christian Standard Bible.
6. It is for a MANS (nehphesh) own sins that he WILL DIE The
Living Bible.
7. The PERSON (nehphesh) who sins will be the one who DIES New
Living Translation.
8. Only THOSE (persons–nehphesh) who sin will be PUT TO
DEATH Contemporary English Version.
9. Only THE ONE (person–nehphesh) who sins SHALL DIE The
New American Bible (Catholic), and Today's New
International Version.
10. The PERSON (nehphesh) who sins WILL DIE God
Word Translation.
12. PEOPLE (nehphesh) WILL DIE because of their own sins New
International Reader's Version.
Ezekiel 18:20 is a person dying
(being put to death) for a sin under the Old Testament Law, but by those who
believe there is a soul that will not die when the person it was in dies this
passage is almost always changed to be referring to something that cannot
die. When this is misapply, as it often is, to some immaterial
something that is believed to be in a person; this is an undeniable statement
that the immortal something that they say cannot die will die, that if there
were a soul it would not have everlasting life with torment. This is
definitely not what they wanted, but what they made in their attempt to make
there be a soul that is immortal. If "soul" means
"an immortal something that cannot die," then James said, "Shall
save from death an immortal something that cannot die" James 5:20. This
theology makes nonsense of the Bible.
The divine sentence, "The
soul that sins, it shall die" has been revised to say, "The
soul that sins, it shall live eternally in torment." Not only must "die"
be changed to "eternal life" but after making the change then
torment, which is not in Ezekiel 18:20 must be added to it; changed to a soul
that sins, it shall live forever being eternally torment by God. To make it
teach what many want it to teach, first, God's word must be changed, and then
added to.
Shall die in Ezekiel
18:4 is in contrast to shall surely live in Ezekiel 18:9. It
is life or death of a living person under the Law that is being spoken of, not
two kinds of life after death; if death is only a separation of soul and body
as men teach, what is the death of a soul; how can a soul that is alive but
separated from God be dead?
(20). IN OVER 320, over one-third of the about 870 times that nehphesh,
the Hebrew word that is translated or mistranslated soul, is used
1. A soul (nehphesh) is already dead.
2. A soul (nehphesh) can die, and can be killed.
3. A soul (nehphesh) can be buried.
4. A soul (nehphesh) can be sought to be killed.
5. A soul (nehphesh) can be murdered.
6. A soul (nehphesh) can be delivered from death.
7. A soul (nehphesh) can be smote (killed).
8. A soul (nehphesh) can be affected.
9. A soul (nehphesh) can be cut off.
In most of these passages the
translators of the King James and other translations have hidden from the
readers that the very thing they believe to be immortal and cannot die, that it
can and does die. By picking when they translated nehphesh into soul and
picking when to translate "nehphesh" into "life,"
"person" and many other words; can such hiding have been anything
more then a deliberate deceiving because they wanted to teach Platos Greek
philosophy of a deathless souls in place of the resurrection of dead persons,
but even in the King James Version there are many passages which says that
souls (nehpheshs) can and do die, or that souls are already dead. The nehphesh
(that is often mistranslated into the pagan Greek deathless, no subjects
soul) is a physical person or animal, whether they are living or dead.
SOULS CAN BE
KILLED BY OTHERS
(1). "We
feared greatly for our soul (nehphesh–life, living
being) because of you (Joshua 9:24). They feared
for their life, not for a deathless being that was in them.
(2). "All
the men who were seeking your soul (nehphesh–life) are
dead (Exodus 4:19).
(3). Saul
had come out to seek his life (nehphesh–life, living
being) while David was in the wilderness (1 Samuel 23:15).
(4). They
had to flee to save their souls (nehpheshs–lives, living
beings) (2 King 7:7), their lives (nehphesh–living
being) would be utterly destroyed "with the edge of the
sword" or other weapons (Joshua 10:27; 10:30; 10:32; 10:35,
10:37; 10:39).
(5). And
deliver our lives (nehpheshs–living beings) from
death (Joshua 2:13).
SOULS CAN
DIE FOR LACK OF FOOD
Not only could souls
(nehpheshs–living beings) be killed by their enemies, but souls
(nehpheshs–living beings) could also die for lack of food (Lamentations
1:11; Numbers 11:6).
SOULS CAN
EAT FOOD
Leviticus 7:18; 7:20; 7:25;
7:27; also, Genesis 9:4; 9:5; 12:13; 17:14; 19:17; 19:19; 19:20; 32:30; 32:31;
35:18; 37:21; Exodus 21:23; 30:12; 30:15; 31:14; Leviticus 7:21; 17:11; 17:12;
17:14; 19:8; 21:1; 21:11; 22:3; 24:17; 24:18; Numbers 5:2; 6:6; 9:6; 9:7; 9:10;
9:18; 19:11; 19:13; 19:20; 23:10; 31:19; 35:11; 35:15; 35:30; 35:31;
Deuteronomy 12:23; Joshua 11:11; 20:3; 20:9; Judges 5:28; 12:3; 16:16; 18:25;
Ruth 4:15; 1 Samuel 1:19; 1:20; 1:23; 23:15; 23:20; 25:29; 28:9; 28:21; 2
Samuel 4:8; 14:7; 16:11; 19:5; 19:6; 1 Kings 1:12; 1:29; 3:11; 17:21; 17:22;
19:10; 19:14; 20:32; 2 Kings 1:13; 19:24; 1 Chronicles 11:19; 2 Chronicles
11:11; Esther 7:7; Job 13:14; 30:16; 33:18; 33:22; 36:14; Psalm 7:2; 17:13;
22:20; 22:21; 22:29; 22:30; 31:13; 33:19; 35:4; 35:17; 38:12; 38:13; 70:2;
70:3; 71:10; Proverbs 1:19; 7:23; 12:10; 13:3; 23:14; Isaiah 10:18; 43:4;
Jeremiah 2:34; 4:30; 34:20-21; 38:2; 38:16; 39:18; 40:15; 44:30; 45:5; 49:37;
Ezekiel 17:17; 18:4; 18:20; 18:27; 22:25; 22:27; Jonah 4:3; 4:6.
Summary - The "nehphesh
(soul)" of the Old Testament is an earthly being, man, animal, or sea
creature; souls (nehpheshs) can be either living souls or dead souls (dead
persons or animals). The "nehphesh (soul)" can die, it can be dead,
be killed, be sought to kill, be smote, die from a lack of food or water, be
cut off, be murdered, be delivered from death, be born, live, sorrow, eat,
drink water, desire, be discontented, be grieved, be bound with a bond, be
affected, loathes, lust, have anguish, etc. Not one of the about 870 times that
nehphesh is used it does not have reference to an invisible, immaterial
something in a person that has no substance and cannot die. Nehphesh
in the Old Testament and psukee in the New Testament are together used about
967 times with over one-third being associated with the death of a soul
(person). Some (nehpheshs–souls) are dead. Some souls are dying.
Some souls are in fear of death. Some souls have those who are trying to kill
them. Some souls are saved from death, etc. On the other hand, in the
976 times soul is used, not one time is a soul said to be deathless or immortal.
In about thirty-two passages souls (nehpheshs) are
spoken of as being killed by man And he that kills any man (nehphesh) shall
surely be put to death. And he that kills a beast (nehphesh) shall
make it good; beast (nehphesh) for beast (nehphesh) Leviticus
24:17-18. In this passage hehphesh is used four times in the Hebrew, but
because of the bias of the translators not one time is it translated soul in
the King James Version. They changed nehphesh into both man and beast to
deliberately hide from their readers that animals, the same as men, are
souls–that both are living beings that can and do die. (See Joshua
10:28; 30; 32; 35; 37; 39; Deuteronomy 27:25; Leviticus 24:17-18).
THE WAY THE
FOUR TIMES NEHPHESH
IS
TRANSLATED IN LEVITICUS 24:17-18
As it
is in the Hebrew
And
he that kills any NEHPHESH shall surely be put to death. And
he that kills a NEHPHESH shall make it good; NEHPHESH for NEHPHESH.
As it
is in the King James Version
And
he that kills any MAN shall surely be put to death. And
he that kills a BEAST shall make it good; BEAST for BEAST.
As it
is in the New American Standard Bible
And
if a man takes the LIFE of any human being, he shall surely be
put to death. And the one who takes the LIFE of an animal
shall make it good, LIFE for LIFE.
In about thirteen passages
souls (nehpheshs) of men are said to be actually dead (see
Numbers 6:6; Leviticus 21:11). In many of these passages, the King James
Version and others translated nehphesh as life or body; and the English reader
cannot see that animals are souls (are living beings), and
that man kills souls of both men and animals, and sometimes souls are actually
dead. Under the Law anyone that touched a dead body was unclean. Dead
body (nehphesh) Leviticus 21:11 Dead body (nehphesh) Numbers 6:6.
Corpses are dead souls, and anyone (any living souls) who came in contact with
a dead soul (corpses, dead body) was unclean.
This clearly shows that the meaning
of the Hebrew word nehphesh is something that is not immortal, and that it can
die, or that it can be already dead, and that it can be touched when it is
dead. There is no other word in the
Bible that could be translated into Plato's immortal soul; therefore, the
translators had to use this word and hide, the best they could, the fact that a
nehphesh can and does die.
Of the hundreds of times Nehphesh is
used in the Old Testament only five are used in the same passage as sheol.
Of these five in the Kings James Version sheol is translated Hell
three times (Psalm 16:10; 86:13; Proverbs 23:14). The other two they had to
translate it grave (Psalm 30:3; 89:48).
In most translations nehphesh is
sometimes translated to be immortal, sometime as mortal, often in the same
passages. How could it be known when the same word is something that is mortal
and when it is something that is immortal? The only answer is that the
translators were trying to put Platos immortal soul in the Bible by
mistranslating when they could, but many times found nehphesh would not make
sense if translated into something immortal and deathless.
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The Companion Bible, Appendix 13 says nehphesh (life–soul)
is used
1. Of the lower animals (nehpheshs–souls) in 22 passages.
2. Of the lower animals and man (nehpheshs–souls) in 7
passages.
3. Of man (nehphesh–soul) as an individual person in 53
passages.
4. Of man (nehphesh–soul) as exercising certain powers or
performing certain acts in 96 passages.
5. Of man (nehphesh–soul) as possessing animal appetites and
desires in 92 passages.
6. Of man (nehphesh–soul) as exercising mental faculties and
manifesting certain feelings, affection and passions in 231 passages.
7. Of man (nehphesh–soul) being cut off by God and as being
killed or slain by man in 54 passages.
8. Of man (nehphesh–soul) as being mortal, subject to death
of various kinds, from which it can be saved and delivered and life prolonged
in 243 passages.
9. Of man (nehphesh–soul) as actually dead in 13 passages.
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Just one of the many examples of the
absurdity of the translations of nehphesh in the King James Version with the
meaning of "soul" as it is used today, an invisible, no substance
something that is in a person that no one has ever seen, that no one can see
this immortal something that cannot be seen. "For mine enemies
speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul (nehphesh) take
counsel together" (Psalm 71:10). How could anyone lay in wait
(ambush) for an undying invisible something that is now in a person that no one
can see? How could anyone kill something that cannot die even if they could see
it?
"Deliver my soul" (nehphesh)
Psalm 17:13 in today's English would be "Save my life" (nehphesh).
"They also
that seek after my life" (soul–nehphesh) Psalm 38:12. "That seeks
after my soul" (nehphesh) Psalm 40:14. Both soul and life are
from the same word (nehphesh). Why were the translators so inconsistent; life
and soul, according to the theology
they believed, are two completely different things, yet they translated both
from the same Hebrew word many times.
"They smote all
the souls (nehpheshs)" Joshua
11:11 in today's English would be, "They killed all the
people." "Whosoever kills any person" (soul–nehphesh)
Joshua 20:9. Again, both soul and person are translated from the same Hebrew
word; they could smite (kill) all the persons, but to smite (kill) all the
deathless souls would be completely impossible, but the King James Version says
they did the impossible.
"They that lay
wait for my soul" (nehphesh) in
today's English would be, "They that are waiting in ambush for my life"
Psalm 70:10.
Many more times "soul" (nehphesh)
would only make sense if translated "life." To apply
today's meaning, "An undying invisible something that is now in a
person" makes many passages be total nonsense. Today's meaning of "soul" is
very different from the meaning of nehphesh in Biblical times, which
makes "soul" be a mistranslation every time they
changed nehphesh to soul. When anyone reads the Bible, and reads "soul," and
knows only what the word "soul" means today, they
cannot understand what God said. Many English translations use "soul" and "person" interchangeable.
The Revised Standard used "person" frequently where the
King James used "soul." The problem is that most English
readers would not know that when the translators said a "person" died,
that the translators are hiding the fact that person (soul–nehphesh) is the same word that is translated soul (something that they believed
cannot die) in many places. Why did some translators do this? Was it because
they believed an immortal "soul" cannot die, but a person
can die? If a soul (nehphesh) dies, it would not be immortal; therefore, they
were forced to use "person" or "life" in
many places to hide the fact from you that a nehphesh can die. The truth is
that they were trying to put "soul" with today's meaning in the Bible
despite the fact that it is not there. If they had been consistent in
translating, they would not have been able to add the doctrine of an undying
soul in the Bible.
"The Lord of hosts has sworn by Himself (soul–nehphesh)"
(Jeremiah 51:14). By His own being or person. God "could swear by
no one greater, He swore by Himself (psukee–soul)" (Hebrews
6:13). Not even the King James translators wanted God to have an invisible
something in Him that would live after He was dead. God's nehphesh and man's
nehphesh are their being, person, not an invisible something that is in God or
in a person.
All the Old Testament words, which
are translated life, spirit, breath, or soul, are all used referring to both
persons and animals. Every word that is used to prove a person has an immortal
soul or an immortal spirit would also prove all breathing creatures have an
immortal soul or an immortal spirit if they proved a person does.
(1) NEHPHESH/SOUL–LIFE–LIVING
BEING is used to describe all living beings.
Animal, birds,
reptiles, and insects have this same nehphesh
(soul–life) that a person has. Sea creatures, birds (Genesis 1:20), every
living creature that moves in water or on land are a living soul (Genesis
1:21). Every beast, bird, and insect is a nehphesh, is a living being.
"Man became
a living being" Genesis 2:7. See Genesis
2:19; 9:4; 9:10; 9:12; 9:15-16.
(2) NSHAHMAH–BREATH is also used to
describe all living being/breath of life; all living things that
breathes (Used 24 times in the Hebrew Old Testament).
Used to
describe man, "Breathed into his nostrils the BREATH of
life" Genesis 2:7; 1 Kings 17:17; Job 27:3.
Used to describe man
and animals,
both man and animals have the same nshahmah (breath of life–spirit).
1."All in whose
nostrils was the BREATH (nshahmah) of the spirit of life, of all that was on the
dry land, died" Genesis 7:22. All living being, man, and animals
died.
2. "But of the
cities of these peoples, that Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance,
you shall save alive nothing that BREATHS (nshahmah)" Deuteronomy
20:16. All living being, both man and animals that breathed.
3. "So Joshua
smote all the land, the hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and
all their kings, he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that
BREATHED (nshahmah)" Joshua 10:40. All living being, both man and
animals that had life, that breathed (nshahmah) were killed.
4. "And they
smote all the souls (nehpheshs) that were therein with the edge of the sword,
utterly destroying them; there were none left that BREATHED (nshahmah)"
Joshua 11:11. All living being, both man and animals that breathed were killed.
5. Also, Joshua 11:14;
1 Kings 15:29; Job 34:14; Psalm 150:6.
NSHAHMAH
Nshahmah is used 24 times, not one of the
24 says anything about anything that is immortal. Nshahmah as it is
translated in the New International Version.
1. Genesis 2:7, Breathed
into his nostrils the breath (nshahmah) of life.
2. Genesis 7:22, Everything
on dry land that had the breath of life (nshahmah) in
its nostrils died.
3. Deuteronomy 20:16, Do
not leave alive anything that that breathes
(nshahmah).
4. Joshua 10:40, He
totally destroyed all who breathed (nshahmah).
5. Joshua 11:11, They
totally destroyed them, not sparing anything that breathed (nshahmah).
6. Joshua 11:14, But all the people they put to the sword
until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed (nshahmah).
7. 2 Samuel 22:16, At
the blast of breath (nshahmah) from his nostrils.
8. 1 Kings 15:29 He
did not leave Jeroboam anyone that breathed (nshahmah), but
destroyed them all.
9. 1 Kings 17:17, He
grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing
(nshahmah).
10. Job 4:9, (Hebrew dualism
in Job–the same thing said in two different ways).
At the breath (ruach) of God they are destroyed:
At the blast (nshahmah) of his anger they perish.
11. Job 26:4
Who has helped you utter these words?
And whose spirit (nshahmah) spoke from your mouth?
12. Job 27:3
As long as I have life (ruach) within me,
The breath (nshahmah) of God in my nostrils.
13. Job 32:8
But it is the spirit (ruach) in a man,
The breath (nshahmah) of the Almighty.
14. Job 33:4
The Spirit (ruach) of God made me;
The breath (nshahmah) of the
Almighty gives me life.
15. Job 34:14-15 If
it was his intention and he withdrew his spirit (ruach) and breath (nshahmah).
All mankind would perish together,
And man would return to the dust.
16. Job 37:10
The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving
winds.
The breath (nshahmah) of God produces ice, and the broad waters
become frozen.
17. Psalm 18:15, O
Lord, at the blast (nshahmah) of breath from your
nostrils.
18. Psalm 150:6, Let
everything that has breath (nshahmah)
praise the Lord.
19. Proverbs 20:27, The
lamp of the Lord searches the spirit
(nshahmah) of a man; it searches out his inmost being.
20. Isaiah 2:22, Stop
trusting in man, who has but a breath
(nshahmah) in his nostrils.
21. Isaiah 30:33, The breath (nshahmah) of
the Lord, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
22. Isaiah 42:5, Who
gives breath (nshahmah) to its people, and life to
those who walk on it.
23. Isaiah 57:16, The breath (nshahmah) of
man that I have created. Spirit of man in King James
Version.
24. Daniel 10:17,
My strength is gone and I can hardly breathe
(nshahmah).
Of
the twenty-four times nshahmah is in the Hebrew, it is translated soul only one
time in the King James Version, (Isaiah 57:16); none in New American Standard
Version, New International Version, many others. Nahahmah is the breath of life
that comes from God in both mankind and animals; it is not an immortal soul.
(3) Ruach/spirit–breath, Is used of,
1. God (Exodus 15:8; 2 Samuel 22:16;
Isaiah 4:4)
2. Spirit of
the Lord (Zephaniah
4:6)
3. Heavenly
being (Psalm
104:4)
4. All flesh, birds, cattle,
beasts, and every creeping thing–all have the same spirit (ruach) as man (Genesis 7:22).
5. Man and beasts, "I am
bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in
which is the BREATH (ruach) of
life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall
perish" (Genesis 6:17). Also Ecclesiastes 3:19
6. Man (Ecclesiastes
12:5-7; Psalm 104:29) See Genesis 6:17; 7:15; 54:27; Job 4:9
Both ruach and nshahmah have very near if not the same
meaning.
All in whose nostrils was the breath (nshahmah) of
the spirit of life, died (Genesis 7:22).
"To destroy all flesh in which is the breath (ruach) of
life" (Genesis 6:17).
Both ruach and nshahmah are used in Hebrew dualism in Job
three times as two ways of saying the same thing (Job 4:9; 27:3; 32:8).
1. Job 4:9
a.
By the breath (ruach) of God
they perish,
b.
And by the blast (nshahmah) of His
anger they come to an end
2. Job 27:3
a.
All the while my breath (nshahmah) is
in me,
b.
And the spirit (ruach) of God is in
my nostrils.
3. Job 32:8
a.
But it is a spirit (ruach) in
man,
b.
And the breath (nshahmah) of the Almighty gives them understanding.
The
above is an example of the many times ruach and nshahmah seem to be used
interchangeable; they are both the breath, both are the life of a living being
(man or beast). Nshahmah is limited to the air or breath of the mouth of any
breathing being; ruach also means any breathing being, but has a mush broader
use in that it is also used of wind and any air movement. Neither the
breath (nshahmah) of a person, or the breath (ruach) of a person is
not an immortal entity added to the person that has life in itself apart from
the life of the person any more then the breath (nshahmah) of God, or
the breath (ruach) of God is an entity that has life in itself apart from God.
RUACH IS TRANSLATED SIXTEEN
DIFFERENT WAYS IN THE KING JAMES VERSION. Of about 389 times
ruach is used in the Old Testament it is translated wind about 90 times, breath
28 times, blast 4 times, air, windy, tempest, whirlwind, and tempest. Both
ruach and nshahmah are basically translated with the same words, both have something
to do with the breath or air without which there would be no life; in Genesis
2:7 it was when God breathed into Adams nostrils the breath of life
(nshahmah) that Adam became a living being.
There is no suggestion in any one of
the many times ruach is used referring both to mankind and to animals that
ruach is an immaterial, immortal something that has its own life and will live
after the death of the person or animal that it is in.
(1) Ruach translated BREATH of man and
beast (ruach–spirit).
1. All in whose nostrils was the BREATH (ruach)
of life (Genesis 6:17; 7:15).
2. "By the BREATH (ruach) of his mouth" (Genesis 6:17; Psalm
104:29, Job 15:30).
3. "By the BREATH (ruach) of his mouth" (Job 15:30).
4. "All in whose nostrils was the BREATH (ruach) of life" (Genesis 7:22).
5. "To destroy all flesh in which is the BREATH (ruach) of life (Genesis 6:17).
6. "So they went into the ark to Noah, by
twos of all flesh in which was the BREATH (ruach) of
life" (Genesis 7:15).
7. "No BREATH (ruach) in them" (Jeremiah 10:14). Why
not, "No SPIRIT (ruach) in them" or "Takes away their SPIRIT (ruach)" (Psalm 104:29)? How did the
translators know when the same word was wind, breath, spirit, blast, air, mind,
courage, cool, or anger? In English the meaning of some of these words are
not even close to being the same; how are those who read their translation to
know that these are all translated from the same word in the Hebrew? Idols
are described as not having breath (ruach) (Habakkuk 2:19) which means idols
have no life just as a person without breath has no life.
8. "Every goldsmith...his molten images are
deceitful, and there is no BREATH (ruach)
in them" (Jeremiah 51:17).
9. "Takes away their BREATH (ruach), they expire, and return to their dust" (Psalm
104:29).
10. There is no advantage for man over beast (Ecclesiastes 3:19).
(2) Ruach translated WIND (ruach)
1. "God made a WIND (ruach) to pass over" (Genesis 8:1).
2. "Like the chaff, which the WIND (ruach) drives" (Psalm 1:4).
3. "You did blow with your WIND (ruach)" (Exodus 15:10).
4. "Clouds and WIND (ruach) without rain" (Proverbs
25:14).
5. "My escape from the WINDY (ruach) storm" (Psalm 55:8).
6. "A destroying WIND (ruach)" (Jeremiah 51:1).
7. "A strong WIND (ruach)" (Job 8:2).
8. "You shall scatter in the WIND (ruach)" (Ezekiel 5:2).
9. "An east WIND (ruach)" (Exodus 10:13).
10. "A mighty strong west WIND (ruach)" (Exodus 10:19).
11. Also Psalm 1:4 and Exodus 15:10.
(3) Ruach translated BLAST.
1. And at the BLAST (ruach)" of
Thy (Gods) nostrils (a blast of air) the
waters were piled up (Exodus 15:8).
2. Also 2 Samuel 22:6.
(4)
Ruach translated WINDY My escape from the WINDY (ruach) storm (Psalm 55:8).
(5)
Ruach translated WHIRLWIND A WHIRLWIND (ruach) came out of the
north" (Ezekiel 1:4).
(6)
Ruach translated TEMPEST An horrible TEMPEST (ruach)" (Psalm 11:6).
(7)
Ruach translated AIR "That no AIR (ruach) can come
between them" (Job 41:16; 41:8).
(8)
Ruach translated MIND "A grief of MIND (ruach) (Genesis
26:35, Proverbs 29:11).
(9)
Ruach translated COURAGE "Neither did there remain any more COURAGE (ruach) in
them" (Joshua 5:1).
(10)
Ruach translated COOL "Walking in the garden in the COOL (ruach) of
the day" (Genesis 3:8).
(11)
Ruach translated ANGER "Their ANGER (ruach) was abated"
(Judges 8:3).
(12)
Ruach translated SIDE (Jeremiah 52:23; Ezekiel 42:16; 42:17; 42:18; 42:19; side
wind in footnote).
(13)
Ruach translated QUARTERS (ruach) (1 Chronicles 9:24).
(14)
Ruach translated SPIRITUAL (ruach) (Hosea 9:7).
(15)
Ruach translated VAIN (ruach) (Job 15:2;
16:3).
(16)
Ruach translated SPIRIT (ruach) (Job 27:3).
An
example of how other translations differ on the sixteen different ways (above)
ruach is translated in the King James Version.
| King |New |
New Revised | The |
| James |International|
Standard | Living |
| Version |Version |
Version | Bible |
1 Genesis
6:17 | breath |
breath |
breath | breath |
2 Genesis
8:1 | wind |
wind |
wind |
wind |
3 Psalm
55:8 | windy |
tempest | raging wind |
storm |
4 Ezekiel
1:4 | whirlwind | windstorm | stormy
wind | storm |
5 Psalm
11:6 | tempest |
wind |
wind |
wind |
6 2 Samuel 22:16 |
blast |
blast |
blast |
blast |
7 Job
41:16 |
air |
air |
air |
air |
8 Genesis
26:35 | mind |
grief | better life |
bitter |
9 Joshua
5:1 | courage |
courage | spirit |
courage |
10 Genesis
3:8 | cool |
cool |
cool | |
11 Judge
8:3 | anger |
resentment | anger |calmed
down|
12 Jeremiah 52:23|
side | side |
side |
side |
13 1 Chron. 9:24 |
quarters | side |
side |
side |
14 Hosea
9:7 | spiritual |
inspired | spirit |
inspired |
15 Job
15:2 |
vain |
winded |
windy | windbag |
16 Job
27:3 | spirit |
east wind | breath |
breath |
Why was the same word
translated By the BREATH (ruach) of his
mouth (Job 15:30), and then translated And the SPIRIT (ruach) of
God in my nostrils (Job 27:3)? Many of the sixteen different ways
ruach is translated have nothing in common; their meanings are not even close
to being the same; yet they are the same word in the Hebrew. There is no way
that ruach could have had all these meaning.
Were they saying God has an immaterial
invisible (E. W. Vine) something in Him that can exist after His death, as we
are told that mankind has? There is no possible way that the
translators could have known.
(1) When (ruach) was breath of any mortal being.
(2)
And when the same word was an immortal deathless something that does not
breathe air.
The two meaning are nothing
alike. You take away their breath
(ruach), they die, and return to their dust. You send
forth your spirit (ruach), they are created,
and you renew the face of the earth (Psalm 105:29-30).
1. When God take away ruach (breath) they die.
2. When God sends ruach (breath), they live.
The spirit as it is used today
cannot die; therefore, this word (ruach) could not be translated spirit, but when
the earth is renewed by new life, the translators give this new life a spirit
(ruach), not just breath (ruach).
(1).
HOLMAN CHRISTIAN STANDARD BIBLE, When You hide Your face,
they are terrified; When You take away their breath (ruach),
they die and return to the dust. When You send Your breath (ruach),
they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.
(2).
AMPLIFIED BIBLE, When You hide Your face, they are troubled
and dismayed; when You take away their breath (ruach),
they die and return to their dust. When You send forth Your Spirit and
give them breath (ruach),
they are created, and You replenish the face of the ground.
(3).
COMMON ENGLISH BIBLE, But when you hide your face, they are terrified;
when you take away their breath (ruach), they
die and return to dust. When you let loose your breath (ruach),
they are created, and you make the surface of the ground brand-new again.
(4),
NEW CENTURY VERSION, When you turn away from them, they become
frightened. When you take away their breath (ruach),
they die and turn to dust. When you breathe (ruach) on
them, they are created, and you make the land new again.
(5).
HOLMAN CHRISTIAN STANDARD BIBLE, When You hide Your face,
they are terrified; when You take away their breath (ruach),
they die and return to the dust. When You send Your breath (ruach),
they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.
Does the number of times ruach is translated spirit in the
difference translations show the scholars that translated them were easing away
from the King James Version?
Spirit 236 times in King
James Version
Spirit 221 times in New
American Standard Bible
Spirit 193 times in New
International Version
Spirit 167 times in New
Living Translation
Spirit 131 times in The
Message
Spirit 79 times in Contemporary English
Version
1. And the SPIRIT (ruach) of God in my
nostrils (Job 27:3)
2. "SPIRIT (ruach) of God" (Genesis 1:2)
3. "And the SPIRIT (ruach) shall return
unto God" (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
4. "And the SPIRIT (ruach) of the beast that goes downward (Ecclesiastes
3:21)
SPIRIT (ruach) in passages that has reference to attitude,
behavior, thinking, disposition, mood, or temperament. As A happy
disposition, good attitude or bad mood. None of these passages are speaking
of an immortal, no substance something that has it own life that it will live
even after the person it is in is dead; the teaching of Plato says a soul will
live without a resurrection, that a soul will live freed from the person it was
trapped in.
1.
"A lying SPIRIT (ruach)" (1 Kings 22:23)
2. "The SPIRIT (ruach) of
jealousy came" (Genesis 1:2; 41:8, Numbers 5:14; 5:30)
3. The SPIRIT (ruach) of
heaviness (Isaiah 61:3)
4.
"The SPIRIT (ruach) of jealousy came" (Numbers
5:30)
5.
"Because he had
another SPIRIT (ruach)" (Numbers 14:24)
6.
"The SPIRIT (ruach) entered into me" (Ezekiel 2:2;
3:24)
7.
Neither was there
SPIRIT (ruach) in them (Joshua
5:1). No soul in them?
8.
"And a new SPIRIT (ruach) will I put within you" (Ezekiel
36:26). A new soul put in them?
9.
"God hardened his
SPIRIT (ruach)" (Deuteronomy 2:30)
10.
"Anguish of SPIRIT (ruach)" (Exodus 6:9)
11.
"SPIRIT (ruach) of wisdom" (Exodus 28:3)
12.
"Joshua...was
filled with the SPIRIT (ruach) of
wisdom (Deuteronomy 34:9)
13.
"Sorrowful SPIRIT (ruach)" (2 Samuel 1:15)
14.
"Why is your SPIRIT (ruach) so sad" (1 Kings 21:5)
15.
"SPIRIT (ruach) was troubled" (Genesis 41:8)
16.
"The sacrifices of
God are a broken SPIRIT (ruach)"
(Psalm 51:7)
17.
"Hasty of SPIRIT (ruach)" (Proverbs 14.29)
18.
By sorrow of the heart
the SPIRIT (ruach) is
broken (Proverbs 15:13)
19.
"An haughty SPIRIT (ruach)" (Proverbs 16:18)
20.
"An humble SPIRIT (Proverbs 16:19)
W. E. Vine, Vines Complete
Expository Dictionary, pages 240–241 gives nine ways spirit–ruach
is used in the Old Testament.
(1). First, this word means breath.
(2). Second, this word can be used with emphasis on the invisible,
intangible, fleeting quality of air.
(3). Third, ruach can mean, wind.
(4). Fourth, the wind represents direction.
(5). Fifth, ruach frequently represents the element of life in a
man, his natural spirit, And all flesh died that moved upon the earthAll
in whose nostrils was the breath of life. (Gen. 7:21–22). In
these verses the animals have spirit (cf. Ps. 104:29).
(6). Sixth, ruach is often used of
1. A mans mind–set, disposition, or
temper, Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not
iniquity, and in whose spirit (ruach) there is no guile (Ps.
32:2). In Ezek. 13:3 the word is used of ones mind or thinking, Woe unto
the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit (ruach), and
have seen nothing (cf. Prov. 29:11).
2. Ruach can represent particular dispositions, as it does
in Josh. 2:11, And as soon as we had heard this things, our hearts did
melt, neither did there remain any more courage (ruach–spirit in
King James) in any man, because of you (cf. Josh. 5:1; Job
15:12).
Another disposition represented by this word is temper, If the
spirit (temper) of the ruler rise up against thee, leave
not thy place (Eccl. 10:4). David prayed that God would restore
unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with the free Spirit (Ps.
51:12). In this verse joy of salvation and free
Spirit are parallel and; therefore, synonymous terms.
Therefore, spirit refers to ones inner disposition, just
as joy refers to an inner emotion.
(7). Seventh, the Bible often speaks of Gods Spirit.
(8). Eight, angels in heaven are sometimes called spirits.
(9). Nine, the spirit may also be used of that
which enables a man to do a particular job of that which represents the essence
of a quality of man.
Just
as in the New Testament, when spirit is used in reference to a person, it is
the disposition of the persons mind or thinking.
Why
did the translators translate the word "ruach" into "spirit" in
one place, and "blast" or "wind" in
others? The meaning of "spirit" as it was
used in 1611 and as it is used today, an immortality no substance something in
a person is not a thirty-first cousin to wind
or breath, etc., yet the
translators, at will, translated the same word into many words, into things
that have meaning that are worlds apart. If the same word has many
completely different meanings:
1). One meaning that had reference to the mortal person or animal.
2). And another meaning of the same word that would have had
reference to a immortal living being that is in a person unto the death of the
person that animals do not have.
Ruach,
is it mortal or immortal? If ruach is the immortal something that is in a
person, then how is ruach also something that is in both a person and in an
animal that is mortal?
Then how could the Hebrew people know when it was speaking of a
mortal person, or when it was actual speaking of something in the person that
is immortal; how could they know that when the same word was speaking of an
animal that it was speaking of something in the animal that was not immortal?
How could the translators know? They could not. The translators had
to put their theology into the Bible, even if they could not be consistent. How
could anyone read the Kings James Version and know that anger, cool, courage,
air, mind, breath, wind, blast, and spirit are the same thing? Most English
reader today would not know that "wind" and "spirit" are
indiscriminately translated both from the same word, and that almost without
exception today's reader would understand "spirit" to
be an immortal soul, but would never understand "wind" to
be an immortal soul. Those who do not read Hebrew are misled by such
indiscriminately translations.
Summary - Nehphesh, nshahmah, and
ruach are something that both a person and an animal have in common, and all
three are something that can and does die. Both an animal and a
man are a soul, a living being of this earth. Animals or
people do not have a soul, do not have a pagan immortal
something imprisoned in them that cannot die that when is freed it will live
after the death of the animal or person it was in.
How nehphesh and psukee are translated in seven
different versions, and in different verses.
| K.J.V. | N.K.J.V. | N.A.S.V. | R.S.V. |
Gen. 1:20 |
creatures | creatures |
creatures | creatures |
Gen. 2:7 |
soul | living being| living
being| living
being|
Gen. 9:5 |
life |
life |
life | life |
Mt 16:25-26|life &
soul | life & soul | life & soul | life 4 times|
Acts 3:23 |
soul |
soul |
soul | soul |
1 Cor15:45 |
soul | living being|
soul | living being|
1 Pet 3:20 |
souls |
soul |
persons | persons |
Rev. 16:3 |
soul |
creature | living thing| living thing|
-----------------------------------------------------
| N.R.S.V. | N.I.V. |Robert
Young|
Gen. 1:20 |
creatures | creatures |
creature |
Gen. 2:7 |
living being| living being |living being-creature|
Gen. 9:5 |
life |
life |
life |
Mt 16:25-26| life 4 times|
life & soul | soul |
Acts 3:23 | everyone |
anyone |
soul |
1 Cor15:45 | living
being| living being | creature |
1 Pet 3:20 |
persons |
people |
soul |
Rev. 16:3 |
living thing| living thing | soul |
Of the
105 times psukee is used in the Greek it is translated soul
(1) King James only 58
times.
(2) New Revised Standard
only 33 times.
(3) American Standard only
56 times.
(4) New International
(2011) only 24 times.
A bird's eye view (below) of the way
psukee is translated all 105 times it is used in the New Testament in four
versions shows that a psukee is a living being, not an immortal no substance
something. The translators wanted to put their immortal soul in the Bible, but
they had a problem for if they had uniformly translated psukee into "soul,"
in some passages their immortal soul would have been subject to death and in
other passages it would be dead.
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4)
Matthew
2:20 | LIFE | LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Matthew
6:25 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Matthew
6:25 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Matthew
10:28 | soul | soul |
soul | soul
Matthew
10:28 | soul | soul |
soul | soul
Matthew
10:39 | LIFE | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE
Matthew
10:39 | LIFE | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE
Matthew
11:29 | souls | souls |
souls | souls
Matthew
12:18 | soul | soul |
soul | I
Matthew
16:25 | LIFE | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE
Matthew
16:25 | LIFE | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE
Matthew
16:26 | soul | LIFE | LIFE |
soul
Matthew
16:26 | soul | LIFE |
LIFE | soul
Matthew
20:28 | LIFE | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE
Matthew
22:37 | soul | soul |
soul | soul
Matthew
26:38 | soul |
I | soul | soul
Mark
3:4 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Mark
8:35 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Mark
8:35 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Mark
8:36 | soul |
LIFE | LIFE | soul
Mark
8:37 | soul |
LIFE | LIFE | soul
Mark
10:45 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Mark
12:30 | soul |
soul | soul | soul
Mark
12:33 | soul |
HEART | HEART | HEART
Mark
14:34 | soul |
I | soul | soul
Luke
1:46 | soul |
soul | soul | soul
Luke
2:35 | soul |
soul | soul | soul
Luke
6:9 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Luke
9:24 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Luke
9:24 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Luke
9:56 |
LIVES | | |
LIFE
Luke
10:27 | soul |
soul | soul | soul
Luke
12:19 | soul |
soul | soul | MYSELF
Luke
12:19 | soul |
soul | soul | LIFE
Luke
12:20 | soul |
LIFE | soul | LIFE
Luke
12:22 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Luke
12:23 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Luke
14:26 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Luke
17:33 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Luke
21:19 | soul |
souls | souls | YOURSELVES
John
10:11 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
John
10:15 | LIFE | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE
John
10:17 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
John
10:24 | US |
US | US | US
John
12:25 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
John
12"25 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
John
12:27 | soul | soul |
soul | HEART
John
13:37 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
John
13:38 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
John
15:13 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Acts
2:27 | soul |
soul | soul | ME
Acts
2:31 | soul | FLESH |
FLESH | BODY
Acts
2:41 | souls | PERSONS |
souls | .
Acts
2:43 | soul |
EVERYONE| soul | EVERYONE
Acts
3:23 | soul |
EVERYONE| soul | ANYONE
Acts
4:32 | soul |
soul | soul | MIND
Acts
7:14 | souls |
ALL | souls | ALL
Acts
14:2 | MINDS |
MINDS | souls | MINDS
Acts
14:22 | souls |
souls | souls | DISCIPLES
Acts
15:24 | souls |
MINDS | souls | MINDS
Acts
15:26 | LIVES |
LIVES | LIVES | LIVES
Acts 20:10 |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE |
ALIVE
Acts
20:24 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Acts
27:10 | LIVES |
LIVES | LIVES | LIVES
Acts
27:22 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | YOU
Acts
27:37 | souls | PERSONS |
souls | US
Romans 2:9 |
soul | EVERYONE| soul | BEING
Romans
11:3 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | ME
Romans
13:1 | soul | PERSON |
soul | EVERYONE
Romans
16:4 | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE | LIVES
1 Cor.
15:45 | soul | BEING |
soul | BEING
2 Cor.
1:23 | soul |
ME |
soul | .
2 Cor.
12:15 | YOU |
YOU | souls | YOU
Ephesians
6:6 | HEART | HEAT |
HEART | HEART
Philippians 1:27|
MIND | MIND | soul |
MEN
Philippians 2:30|
LIFE | LIFE | LIFE |
LIFE
Colossians 3:23
|HEARTILY|YOURSELVES|HEARTILY|HEART
1 Thess.
2:8 | souls | SELVES |
souls | LIVES
1 Thess.
5:23 | soul | soul |
soul | soul
Hebrews 4
12 | soul |
soul | soul | soul
Hebrews
6:19 | soul |
soul | soul | soul
Hebrews
10:38 | soul | soul |
soul | I
Hebrews
10:39 | soul | SAVED |
soul | SAVED
Hebrews
12:3 | MINDS | HEART |
souls | HEART
Hebrews
13:17 | souls | souls |
souls | YOU
James
1:21 | souls |
souls | souls | YOU
James
5:20 | soul |
soul | soul | HIM
1 Peter
1:9 | souls | souls |
souls | souls
1 Peter
1:22 | souls | souls |
souls | YOURSELVES
1 Peter
2:11 | soul |
soul | soul | soul
1 Peter
2:25 | souls | souls |
souls | souls
1 Peter
3:20 | souls | PERSONS | souls |
PEOPLE
1 Peter
4:19 | souls |THEMSELVES |souls | THEMSELVES
2 Peter
2:8 | soul |
soul | soul | soul
2 Peter
2:14 | souls | souls |
souls | UNSTABLE
1 John
3:16 | LIFE | LIFE |
LIFE | LIFE
1 John
3:16 | LIVES | LIVES |
LIVES | LIVES
3 John
2 | soul |
soul | soul | soul
Revelation 6:9 |
souls | souls | souls | souls
Revelation 8:9 |
LIFE |CREATURES| LIFE | CREATURES
Revelation 12:11|
LIVES | LIFE | LIFE | LIFE
Revelation 16:3 |
soul | THING | soul | THING
Revelation 18:13|
souls |HUMAN LIVES |souls| HUMAN BEINGS
Revelation 18:14|
soul | soul | soul |
YOU
Revelation 20:4 |
souls | souls | souls | souls
All these words that are translated
from one word, psukee, in the four translations (life, lives, yourself,
yourselves, us, mind, minds, you, him, heart, heartily, everyone, persons,
disciples, creatures, all, me, I, man, flesh, being, anyone, alive, human
lives, body, and human beings), all have a reference to the human
person, not to a no substance immaterial living something that is in a person.
SOUL
(PSUKEE) IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
Psukee is used about 105 times, and
it is the only word that is translated soul in the New Testament (translated
soul only 58 of the 105 times in the King James Version), and psukee is the
same word in Greek as nehphesh is in Hebrew. Both can and do die.
1. The
same word (psukee) is translated soul that many believe cannot die about 58
times.
2. The
same word is translated life, an animal type of life in both people and
animals that must die about 40 times.
How
could the translators know when the same word was (1) something that could not
die, or (2) something that could not keep from dying? None of the many
translations of the Bible agree on,
1. When
psukee should be translated a soul that cannot die.
2. And when psukee should be translated life
of a person or animal that cannot keep from dying.
"Lose
his life (psukee)" Matthew 10:39.
"Shall
save a soul (psukee) from death" James 5:20, King James
Version.
Will
save him (psukee) from death James 5:20, New
International Version. Salvation is from death for the person, not from Hell
for a soul.
"To
save life (psukee) or to destroy it" James 4:12.
In Old English, soul, like ghost and
charity, may have been an acceptable translation then, but not today. Most of
the times nehphesh and psukee are translated "soul," even
those who believe a person is two beings in one have to admit it is referring
only to the earthly person, earthly life, or earthly being; but today the
English word "soul" has come to mean an unseen
deathless something that is in a person, something that will live after the
person is dead. Therefore, when those who believe a soul is a deathless
something in a person, they are misled when psukee is translated soul.
1. "For those who sought the
Child's life (psukee–life,
not soul)" Matthew 2:20.
2. "But rather fear Him who is able
to destroy both soul (psukee–life, not soul) and body" Matthew
10:28.
3. "And he who has lost his life (psukee–life, not soul) for My sake shall find
it" Matthew 10:39, also Matthew 16:25, Mark 8:35. Lost his
soul for My sake" in King James Version. In todays
theology the only way to lose your soul is by sinning; does this translation
not make Christ be saying that if we sin and lose our soul for Him we will save
our soul? This translation is both false and unacceptable.
4. "And to give His life (psukee–life, not soul) a ransom for many Matthew 20:28.
5. "To save a life (psukee–life, not soul), or destroy it" Luke
6:9.
6. "And I lay down my life (psukee–life, not soul) for the sheep" John
10:15.
"Men who have risked their lives (psukee–life, not soul) for the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ" Acts 15:26.
7. "And they are seeking my life (psukee–life, not soul Romans 11:3.
8. "Will save his soul (life–psukee, not soul) from death" James
5:20.
Which one is it, a mortal being that
will die, or an immortal being that cannot die? If there were a soul that could
not die, it is strange that both the Old and New Testament repeatedly speak of
the death of this deathless soul that cannot die.
Psukee is translated "soul" and "life" interchangeably,
and sometimes in the same verse; Matthew 16:25-26 where the same word (psukee)
is inconsistently translated two times "soul," and
two times "life" in the same passage in the King
James Version; but corrected in the American Standard Version and most other
versions where all four times the same word is translated "life.
"In exchange for his life." The parallel passage
in Luke 9:25 says,
"And
lose or forfeit his own self" American Standard
Version.
"Yet
lose...his very self" New International Version.
"Lose...themselves" New Revised Standard
Version.
Human language could not be any
clearer that Christ is speaking of the whole person, and not some internal
unseen something that is in a person. If the immortal soul doctrine were true,
a person could not lose a soul that can never die; when the person dies, if a
soul will live on then it is a soul that will lose the person it is in.
This passage is about losing our
physical life and not having the life that we now have, not having life or not
having life after the resurrection. It is not about losing a soul with the
meaning that soul has today, an immortal something in you; a meaning psukee did
not have when the New Testament was written.
In the King James Version in the
same sentence the same word (psukee) is translated into two words that have
completely different meaning (Matt. 16:25-26).
1. Life
(psukee) the physical life of a person that will die.
2. Soul
(psukee) the Platonic beliefs of the translators that an immortal soul cannot
die.
Also in Luke 12:19-23 the same word
(psukee) in the same passage is translated both
1. Psukee
is translated three times something that is immortal and cannot die.
2. Psukee
is translated two times something that is mortal and cannot keep from
dying.
How could the translators of the
King James Version know the same word in the same sentence has two completely
different and opposite meaning? It was nothing more than a determination at any
cost to put their Platonic theology into the Bible where it was not, even to
put it into the mouth of Christ. In Mark 3:4 Jesus asked the Pharisees, Is
it lawfulto save a psukee, or to kill? The psukee is
(1) something that can be saved from death, (2) and it is something that can be
killed, not an immortal something that is deathless and cannot be killed; they
did not dare translate psukee soul in this passage.
HENRY CONSTABLE, A.M., There are
instances in which this is done of so flagrant a character that we venture to
say that no scholar will now stand up and defend themTo save a soul is, with
them to turn from sin to God and avoid the punishment of helltheir own theory
forbids them to translate it by life in verse 26 of Matthew 16 (as they had
in verse 25) for so translated, their theory would be
contradicted. Hades or The Intermediate State of Man, page 46-47,
1873, public
domain.
The immortality doctrine makes the
Bible contradict itself, for the Bible says repeatedly that the nehphesh (Old
Testament), psukee (New Testament) both can and does die, and never says a person
has a deathless, immortal something in them that is called "soul." Christ "laid
down His LIFE (psukee–life, not a soul) for us, and we ought
to lay down our LIFE LIVES (psukee–life, not a soul) for
the brethren" 1 John 3:16. "To give His (psukee–life,
not a soul) a ransom for many" Matthew 20:28; if a
psukee cannot die, Christ could not have "laid down His SOUL (psukee)
or "give His SOUL" (psukee), and we could not "lay
down our SOULS" (psukee).
1. If the
psukee were something that cannot die, Christ did not die. He could not have
been raised from the dead for He was never dead.
2. If the
psukee were something that cannot die, God would be telling us to do that which
we cannot do, "lay down our soul–psukee for the
brethren." There would be no possible way to lay down our
immortal soul for the brethren. To put a soul, an immaterial, immortal;
therefore deathless, something in a person, in this passage makes it total
nonsense.
1. James 5:20 "Shall
save a SOUL (psukee–life, not a soul) FROM
DEATH" King James Version. If a person has a "SOUL
that cannot die, how can it be saved from death?
2. James 5:20 "Will save HIM (psukee–life,
not a soul) FROM DEATH New International Version.
PSUKEE, A
MORTAL BEING, OR AN IMMORTAL BEING?
Psukee is translated life, strength,
he, heart, heartily, you, mind, and us. These all have a reference to this
life, to a person, and not to a soul that has no substance. How could the same
word mean both (1) a mortal being that cannot keep from dying, (2) and an immortal
being that cannot die?
Psukee (life) is the natural life
from Adam. "The first man Adam become a living soul (psukee–living
being), the last Adam became a life-giving spirit" (1
Corinthians 15:45). All living being have psukee life, it is the physical life
common to all living creatures; it is never said to be eternal. All living
creatures (animals, fish, man) by natural birth have psukee (life) from birth
to death. It is never coupled with the adjective eternal or everlasting. Even
in the King James Version psukee is the only word that is translated soul in
the New Testament, but it is translated soul only about one-half of the times
it is used. Psukee is applied to the life of animals two times in the
New Testament.
1. And there
died the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, even they that
had life (psukee) (Revelation 8:9).
2. And the
second poured out his bowl into the sea; and it became blood as of a dead man;
and every living soul (psukee) died, even
the things that were in the sea (Revelation 16:3).
In one passage psukee
is translated life, in the other psukee is translated soul; if psukee did mean
a soul, than in both passages a soul does die. But many churches tell us, No,
to die is not to die, to die is to have eternal life being tormented by
God.
PASSAGES IN
THE NEW TESTAMENT
THAT HAS
"PSUKEE" IN THEN
The many words the translators used
to translate "psukee" are both nouns and pronouns, it refer to (1)
God (2) to a person (3) or to an animal; not to an immortal no substance
something in God, not to an immortal no substance something in a person, not to
an immortal no substance something in an animal. The person or animal is
sometimes dying, and is sometimes dead. This one word, which is a common
noun, but it is translated into many nouns, it is changed into a
proper noun, and often is changed to a pronoun, then translated by many
pronouns just as "nehphesh" is in the Old Testament. The different
translations do not agree on when it should be changed from a common to a
proper noun, or changed to a pronoun.
(1) IN
FIFTY-ONE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SIX TIMES
IN WHICH
PSUKEE (soul) IS TRANSLATED LIFE
AND (like
the Nehphesh of the Old Testament)
IT CAN DIE,
BE KILLED, PERISH, OR BE DESTROYED
(1). Matthew 2:20, "Arise
and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for
they are dead that sought the young childs LIFE (psukee–life,
not sought a deathless soul)." There is no doubt that they wanted to kill
the child's body, not something in him. There is no deathless immortal
"soul" that cannot be killed
in this passage.
(2-3). Matthew 6:25, "Therefore,
I say unto you, be not anxious for your LIFE (psukee–life), what
you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall
put on. Is not the LIFE (psukee–life) more
than the food, and the body than the raiment?" It is the earthly
person (psukee) that is in the image of Adam that eats and drinks, it is not an
immortal soul that is in a person that is in the image of Adam.
1. Be not anxious for your LIFE (psukee–life), what
you shall eat. It is the body that eats, not an immaterial soul.
2. Is not the LIFE (psukee–life) more than the
food, and the body than the raiment?" It is the body that puts on
clothing, not an immaterial soul.
It is
our lives that need food, our bodies that need cloths to be warm; an immortal
soul could not use either one.
(4-5). Matthew 10:28, "And
be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul (psukee–life),
but rather fear him who is able to destroy (apollumi) both soul (psukee–life) and
body in hell-Gehenna. Psuhee is translated soul two times and life two
times in this discourse of Christ to the twelve (Matthew 19:5-42); what was the
reason for translating the same word into two words that are nothing alike? See
notes on this in chapter four. The young child to destroy (apollumi) him (Matthew
2:12); is there anyone that doubts that Herod was going to kill (apollumi) the
child, not torment the child?
If psukee were an immortal
soul, then God can destroy this immortal soul; there is no stronger way
in which to say God can and will destroy it. He is to be feared by those of
the world because He will; there would be no reason to fear Him if He could
not, or if He will not destroy life-psukee. I find it strange that one
of the most used passages, as it is translated in the King James Version, is
used to prove a soul cannot be destroyed says a soul (psukee–life) can be
destroy in the valley of Gehenna. See
Matthew 10:28, Luke 12:5, See God is able to destroy
(Apollumi) both psukee–life and body in Gehenna in chapter four, and
"Proves more than they want" also in chapter four. (1) It there was a
soul that is deathless and not even God could destroy this immortal thing
that could never die, for if God did destroy this living being that is in a
person that cannot be destroyed, then it would not be immortal and it could
die. (2) When Gehenna is changed to Hell, is there anyone that believes that
God is literally going the take earthly bodies from earth to Hell and destroy
them? But we are told, No, only the soul will be tormented in Hell, not the
body. Whatever anyone believes a soul to be, I do not believe they believe
a deathless soul is cast into Gehenna the trash dump. Only after the words of
Christ are changed from a psukee being cast into Gehenna to a soul being cast
into Hell can this passage be used to teach the doctrine of God tormenting this
something, whatever a soul is, in Hell even despite the fact that Hell is
an English word, and there was no such word as Hell in the Greek at the time of
Christ. Then, Who is able to destroy BOTH psukee and body
in Gehenna, must also be changed to only the body can be destroyed in
Gehenna, but, according to the belief of many, psukee (translated both life and
soul in King James Version) cannot ever be destroyed even by God; therefore,
both body and psukee are tormented in Hell; (Gehenna) both go to the same
place. Theology cannot separate them and destroy one in one place, and have God
torment the other in another place because todays theology says a soul cannot
be destroyed.
If, as many affirm, that there is a
soul that is indestructible, where is even one scripture that teaches there is
an indestructible or deathless soul; that there is a soul that will be alive in
Heaven or alive any place before the Resurrection? Is not this saying God
is not able to reduce something He created back to it original state of
non-existences, or that God was able to create a soul, but God is not able to
destroy a soul, not able to uncrate that which He created; if He had created a
soul and is now unable to destroy it, then He is not omnipotent, not all
powerful.
1. Christ is telling
the apostles, Fear him who is able to destroy both your life
(psukee) and your body in Gehenna.
2. Man says Christ was
telling the apostles, Fear Him that
can torment your soul and your body in Hell but cannot destroy them.
(6-7-8-9). Matthew 10:39, "For
whosoever would save his LIFE (psukee) shall
lose it, and whosoever shall lose his LIFE (psukee) for
my sake shall find it. For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the
whole world, and forfeit his LIFE (psukee)? Or
what shall a man give in exchange for his LIFE (psukee)?" The
King James Version has the same word (psukee) translated "life" two
times, and "soul" two times. What made the translators think Christ
used the same word in the same sentence with two completed different meaning?
In today's English, the meaning of "soul" and "life" are
not even close to being the same, yet they were translated from the same Greek
word in the same sentence.
Matthew 10:39, Lose
his life (Greek–psukee) must be changed to a deathless
soul losing its reward, not losing its life, changed to mean an everlasting
life of torment for a soul that can never be lost, can never end, can never be
destroyed (Matthew 10:39). The earthly life that is saved from death
by a denial of Christ is the same life that is lost by martyrdom of those that
confess Christ; it is this earthly life that both the lost and saved have in
common.
Lose in Matthew 10:39 and
Luke 9:24 is translated from apollumi.
1. He who has found his life shall lose (apollumi) it (Matthew
19:39).
2. Able to save and to destroy (apollumi) (James
1:11).
3. How they might destroy (apollumi) him (Matthew
12:14).
4. People sought to destroy (apollumi) him (Luke
19:47).
5. Come and destroy (apollumi) these
husbandmen (Luke 20:16).
6. Destroy (apollumi) not him with your meat (Romans 14:15).
7. I will destroy (apollumi) the
wisdom of the wise (1 Corinthians 1:19).
8. And were destroyed (apollumi) of serpents (1
Corinthians 10:9).
If
there is no resurrection, Then those also who have fallen asleep in
Christ have perished (apollumi) (1
Corinthians 15:18). Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ
have are destroyed (apollumi) American Standard Version.
THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENS TO A
SOUL ALSO HAPPENS TO THE BODY, BOTH ARE DESTROYED. Will
the body of a person suffer eternal life in endless misery? Is it not
unreasonable to say destroying a soul means eternal life in endless misery
beings tormented by God, but destroying the body means death of the person a
soul was in?
WHAT DOSE THIS PASSAGE SAY?
1. "He who
finds his life–shall lose it."
2. "He who loses his life–shall
find it." Life is translated from psukee, the same Greek word
that is translated soul in Matthew 10:28.
The person who saves his life by
denying Christ will lose life at the judgment. The person that loses his life
because he is a Christian and will not deny Christ will find life at the
judgment. There is no way Christ could have said it any clearer or plainer. It
is THE "LIFE" of a person that is
being spoken of, not some deathless something in a person that has life and
cannot lose it. There is not a word said about eternal life with torment for a
deathless soul in this passage.
"He who finds his
life (psukee–not find his soul) shall lose it," (not
lose a soul). The person who saves his life (psukee) by
denying Christ will lose his life
(psukee) at the judgment. He who finds his life is one who puts this life ahead
of Christ, but he will "lose it" lose life at the
judgment, not have an everlasting life with torment.
1 "The
wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23).
2. "A
certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries" (Hebrews 10:27).
3. "The
day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men" (2 Peter 3:7).
4. "And
forfeit his life" (psukee) (Mark 8:36).
5. "And
lose himself" (Luke 9:25).
Luke used the pronoun "himself" in
the place of "psukee–life where Matthew and Luke are
making (1) LIFE (psukee) in Matthew and (2) HIMSELF in
Luke both be the same thing. It is the life of
the person or himself that will be lost or saved, not an
invisible soul that has no substance that is in person, not just something
inside of a person that no one can tell us what it really is. The teaching
today is that this no substance soul that is in a person cannot be lost, but
will just change its address to Heaven or Hell when death makes the person it
is now in to no longer exist. An immortal soul had to be put in the Bible, but
to do so, the translators had to throw away the whole person we now are to make
only an immaterial, invisible something they believed to be in a person be
immortal, and only this "invisible part of man" will
have eternal life in Heaven. Those who do not obey Christ shall lose
the very thing that is saved by those who do obey Him–life; the
lost shall die and the saved shall live. "But the righteous
shall go into eternal life" (Matthew 25:46), it
is LIFE that is lost or found. Many are saying, "Not so Lord, these
souls 'shall not lose life,' for the immaterial, invisible soul shall have
eternal life in Hell"; if this is not what they say, than what are they
saying? It is life that is being spoken of as being saved or
lost, nothing more, not an immortal soul that can never lose its life being
saved from eternal torment by God. There is not a word said about Hell,
torment, or an immortal, immaterial, invisible soul; it takes much twisting to
make lose life mean a soul have endless life being tormented by
God.
"He who loses his life (psukee) shall
find it." How could Christ have said it any clearer that the
person that loses his life (psukee), his earthly life because he is
a Christian and will not deny Christ that will find life at
the judgment? If "lose his life"(psukee) is
to lose his life (psukee) for being a Christian, them "lose
his life (psukee)" cannot be to have an everlasting
life with torment that cannot be lost. The same thing that is saved is the
same thing that will be lost.
1. The
person who saves his life by denying Christ.
2. Will
lose the same thing, his life at the judgment. It is not a soul that will be lost
at the judgment, but the life of a person.
3. John
12:25 say the same "He that loves his life (psukee–not
he that loves his soul) shall lose it; and he that hates his life (psukee–not
he that hates his soul) in this world, shall keep it unto life eternal.
In this passage it is lose life or keep life. Losing
life is the opposite of keeping life, losing life is to not have life; death is
not another kind of life.
When save and lose in Matthew
10:39 are applied to an immaterial soul that cannot die as it is used in
today's theology it makes nonsense.
1. To save ones soul means to save that soul
from Hell, according to today's theology.
2. To lose ones soul means for that soul to go
to Hell forever, according to today's theology. When "shall lose it" is
made mean going to Hell then "lose his life (psukee)" for
Christ mean gong to Hell for Christ.
3. He that finds his soul (psukee–saves his soul from Hell according to todays
theology) shall lose it (shall lose his soul in
Hell–losing one's soul in today's theology is to go to Hell) and
he that loses his soul for my sake (he that goes to Hell for my
sake) shall find it (shall save his soul from
Hell)." Today's theology makes utter nonsense of the Bible.
Finding life and losing life are
not an everlasting life of torment separated from God. (1) "He
that finds his life shall lose it" by some kind of magic charm losing
life has been turns into eternal life in Hell that can never be lost. "Shall
lose it (his life)" is made to mean an eternal life of
torment in Hell, not torment for the person that loses life, but torment for a
soul that was in the person. How could anyone know this? (2) "He
that loses his life for my sake shall find it." Losing the life
of the body–being put to death for believing in Christ, also by some kind
of magic has been turned into eternal life for an "immaterial, invisible
something that is in a person" at the death of the person it was in even
though we are repeatedly told this deathless something already had eternal life
even when the person it was in was alive. To make psukee be an "immaterial
invisible, immortal part of man" that cannot die makes it be
nonsense. Nothing in the Bible is more plain than the loss of LIFE in this
passage is the lost of our earthly LIFE because of being faithful to
Christ, (it is not speaking of eternal life with torment for a soul
that had been in a sinner); finding LIFE is for a person is to find endless
LIFE at the judgment, and it is just as plain that the person that saves his
earthly LIFE (psukee) by denying Christ, that person will lose his
resurrected LIFE at the judgment.
1. John 12:25, "He
that loves his life (psukee) loses it; and he that
hates his life (psukee) in
this world shall keep it unto life eternal."
2. Matthew 16:25-26, "For
whosoever would save his life
(psukee) shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life (psukee) for
my sake shall find it. For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the
whole world (become very rich in this life), and forfeit his life (psukee)? Or
what shall a man give in exchange for his life
(psukee)?" (American Standard Version).
3. Mark 8:35-36, "For
whosoever would save his life (psukee) shall lose
it; and whosoever shall lose his life (psukee) for
my sake and the gospel's shall save it. For what do it profit a man, to gain
the whole world, and forfeit his life (psukee)? For
what should a man give in exchange for his life (psukee)?"
4. Luke 9:24-25, "For
whosoever would save his life (psukee) shall lose
it; but whosoever shall lose his life (psukee) for
my sake, the same shall save it. For what is a man profited, if he gain the
whole world, and lost of forfeit his own self?"
5. Matthew 19:39, He
that finds his life (psukee) shall lose it; and he
that loses his life (psukee) for my sake shall
find it.
6. Luke 17:33,"Whosoever
shall seek to gain his life (psukee) shall lose
it, but whosoever shall lose his life (psukee) shall
preserve it."
(10-11-12-13). Mark 8:35-37, "For
whosoever would save his LIFE (psukee–not
save or lose a soul that is in him or her) shall lose it; and whosoever
shall lose his LIFE (psukee) for my sake and the
gospel's shall save it. For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world,
and forfeit his life (psukee)? For
what should a man give in exchange for his LIFE
(psukee)? The life that is
prolonged for a little while by denying Christ that will be lost, but the life
that is loss by being faithful to Christ will be saved at the judgment. In the
King James Version the same word is inconsistently translated "soul" two
times, and "life" two times, but corrected in the American Standard
Version and most others where all four times the same word (psukee) is
translated "life." "In exchange for his
life," not in exchange for his soul. If there were a deathless
soul a person could not exchange (trade) it for anything.
(14-15). Luke 9:24-25, "For
whosoever would save his life (psukee) shall lose it; but whosoever
shall lose his LIFE (psukee) for my sake, the
same shall save it. For what is a man profited, if he gains the whole world,
and lose or forfeit his own self? "Psukee is translated
"soul" and "life" interchangeably in the Bible, and
sometimes in the same verse.
1.
"And lose or forfeit his own self" American Standard
Version.
2, "Yet
lose...his very self" New International Version.
3.
"Lose...themselves?" New Revised Standard Version.
Christ is speaking of the life of a
person, and not of some unseen deathless something that is in a person that
cannot lose life. Luke avoids using the word psukee in Luke 12:4-5.
Why? His Gentile readers might have understood the word the way it was used by
the Greeks of that time; therefore, he used a word that means the whole person,
and not the Greek soul that many of the Greeks of that time believed would be
reincarnated.
(16). Matthew 20:28, "Even
as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to
give his LIFE (psukee–not a deathless soul) a
ransom for many." Mark 10:45, "For the Son of man
also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his
LIFE (psukee) a ransom for many."
(17). Mark 3:4, "And he
said unto them, is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do
harm? To save a LIFE (psukee), or to
kill? But they held their peace. "Who can kill a soul?
(18). Luke 6:9 "And
Jesus said unto them, I ask you, Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to
do harm? To save a LIFE (psukee), or to destroy
it?" "Kill" and "destroy" are used
interchangeably. The translators would not translate psukee into
"soul" in this passage for it would then say a soul could be killed.
(19). Luke 9:56, "For
the Son of man is not come to destroy men's LIVES (psukee), but
to save them" King James Version. This is not in the American
Standard Version, and not in most others translations for it is not
in many of the Greek Manuscripts, but there is nothing about an immortal soul
being in a person in it.
(20-21-22-23), Luke 12:19-23 "And
I will say to my soul (psukee), soul (psukee), you have much goods laid up for
many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry. But God said unto him, You
foolish one, this night is your soul (psukee) required
of you; and the things which you have prepared, whose shall they be? So is he
that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. And he said unto
his disciples, therefore, I say unto you, be not anxious for your LIFE (psukee), what
you shall eat; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. For the LIFE (psukee) is more than
the food, and the body than the raiment." In this passage they
found it necessary to translate psukee into both soul and life, for a soul
cannot eat or use a raiment. "You fool! This very night
your LIFE (psukee) is being demanded of you" New
Revised Standard Version. His life (psukee) was
demanded; he would lose his life, he would die. "So it is with
those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward
God." It will be their life (psukee) that will
be demanded of them at the judgment. Nothing is said about an immortal soul
that will be forever tormented. In this passage psukee does the things that
only this earthly body can do, things that an immortal no substance soul could
not do. "And I will say to my soul (psukee),
soul (psukee), you have much
goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink (Luke
12:19). An immortal no substance soul could not use the much earthly goods laid
up for many years, could not eat, drink. Can anyone not see
how foolish this passage would be if it were speaking of an immortal soul that
has no body and no substance, but that no substance soul was using the earthly
goods it has laid up? Can a soul that has no earthly body eat, drink, or use
any earthly goods?
1. "And
I'll say to myself (psukee), 'You (psukee) have
plenty of good things laid up for many years'" New International
Version.
2.
"I will say to myself (psukee), 'You (psukee) have
plenty of good things laid by'" The Revised English Bible.
3.
Then I can say to myself (psukee), 'I (psukee) have
enough good things stored'" New Century Version.
(24). Luke 14:26, "If
any man comes unto me, and hate not his own father, and mother, and wife, and
children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own LIFE (psukee) also,
he cannot be my disciple." If this was speaking of a soul it
would be saying if you do not hate an immortal soul that is in you, you cannot
be His disciple. Hate is used in the sense of thinking less of. If you
do not think less of your life than you think of Christ you cannot be His
disciple. Christ must be first over all things and all persons.
(25-26). Luke 17:33, "Whosoever
shall seek to gain his LIFE (psukee–not a soul) shall
lose it, but whosoever shall lose his LIFE (psukee) shall
preserve it."
(27-28-29). John 10:11-17, "I
am the good shepherd, the good shepherd lays down his LIFE (psukee) for
the sheep. He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are
not, beholds the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees, and the wolf
snatches them, and scatters (them), because he is a hireling, and cares not for
the sheep. I am the good shepherd; and I know mine own, and mine own know me,
even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my
LIFE (psukee–not lay down a soul) for the sheep. And
other sheep I have, which are not of this fold, them also I must bring, and
they shall hear my voice, and they shall become one flock, one shepherd.
Therefore, the Father loves me, because I lay down my LIFE (psukee), that
I may take it again." An immortal soul, as taught today, cannot
die; therefore, the translators could not say Christ gave up His immortal soul;
He gives His life, not an immortal soul.
1. Jesus gives His LIFE (psukee) for the
sheep John 10:11-17.
2. Jesus
gives His LIFE (psukee) as a ransom for many Matthew
20:28. He gave His LIFE for us, not an immortal soul that
could not die; it is by His blood shed in His death that we are saved (Hebrews
9:22).
3. Jesus lay down his LIFE (psukee) for
his friends" John 15:13.
It
was not a deathless soul that died for us; it was Jesus that gave His LIFE for
us.
(30-31). John 12:25, "He
that loves his LIFE (psukee) shall lose it; and he
that hates his LIFE (psukee) in this world shall
keep it unto life eternal. The person who puts this life first shall lose
his life, but who ever put God first shall live after the judgment. Those who
do not put God first will lose their psukee (life). If psukee is an
immortal soul that can never die, it could not be lost.
(32). John 15:13, "Greater
love has no man than this, that a man lay down his LIFE (psukee) for
his friends." Not even those who believe there is an
immortal soul in a person believe Christ lay down a immoral soul, they do
not believe an immoral soul can be dead. He did lay down His life for us.
(33-34). John 13:37-38, "Peter
said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow you even now? I will lay down my LIFE (psukee) for
you. Jesus answered, will you lay down your LIFE (psukee) for
me? Verily, verily, I say unto you, the cock shall not crow, till you have
denied me thrice." "Lay
down" means "to give up," "to die." It was
Peter that said he would give up his life (psukee), he would die for Christ, he
did not say he would give up an immortal deathless soul that was in him; Peter
said he would give up his life for Christ.
(35). Acts 3:23, "And
it shall be, that every soul (psukee–person) that
shall not hearken to that prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the
people." An immortal soul utterly destroyed! How could God say
any stronger that whatever the psukee is (life–soul–person)
it can and will be UTTERLY DESTROYED? If destroyed did
mean torment then it would be saying, Every soul (psukee–person) would
be utterly tormented from among the people.
1. "And it will be that everyone (psukee)" New
Revised Standard Version.
2. "Anyone (psukee) who does not listen to
him" New International Version.
3. "Anyone (psukee) who refuses to listen to that prophet"
Revised English Bible.
(36). Acts 15:24, "Forasmuch
as we have heard that certain who went out from us have troubled you with
words, subverting your souls (life–psukee)."
1. "Your minds (lives–psukee)" New
Revised Standard Version.
2. Troubling your minds (lives–psukee)"
New International Version.
3. "Unsettled your minds (lives–psukee)" The
Revised English Bible.
(37). Acts 15:26, "Men
that have hazarded their LIVES (psukee) for the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ." An immortal part of a person that
could not die could not be hazarded. How could they hazard their souls if to
be absent from the body means their souls would be present with the Lord at
the moment of death?
(38). Acts 20:9-10, "And
there sat in the window a certain young man named Eutychus, borne down with
deep sleep; and as Paul discoursed yet longer, being borne down by his sleep he
fell down from the third story, and was taken up DEAD. And Paul went down, and
fell on him, and embracing him said, Make you no ado; for his LIFE (psukee) is
in him." He was dead, but Paul restored his earthly life that was
dead from the fall, not restored an immortal soul that the fall could not have
killed.
(39). Acts 20:24, "But
I hold not my LIFE (psukee) of any account
as dear unto myself." The translators would not say he held his
immortal soul to be of no account. To use soul in this passage would not teach
what they believed; therefore, they did not use it.
(40). Acts 27:10, "And
said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much
loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our LIVES (psukee)." No
one will lose an immortal soul in a shipwreck. It can be seen how the
translators picked when they wanted psukee to be a soul, and when they had no
choice but to translate it life.
(41). Acts 27:22, "And
now I exhort you to be of good cheer; for there shall be no loss of LIFE (psukee) among
you, but only of the ship." This could not be translated souls
for then souls would have been lost just as the ship was lost by a storm, and
we are told by those who believe we have an immortal soul that souls are lost
by sin, and they do not believe souls can be lost by a storm. Both their life
and the ship could have been lost in this storm, but not an immortal soul if
there were one.
1. But also of our lives (Greek–psukee)
Acts 27:10).
2. There shall be no lost of life (Greek–psukee)
Acts 27:22).
3.
And we were in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls (Greek–psukee) Acts
27:37). Two hundred and seventy six persons (Greek–psukee) New
American Standard Bible and most others.
Why
was the same word in the same sentence translated life and soul when nether the translators nor those
that believe we now have an immoral soul do not believe life and soul to
be the same?
(42). Romans 16:4, "Who
for my LIFE (psukee) laid down their own
necks."
(43). Romans 11:3, "Lord,
they have killed your prophets, they have dug down your altars; and I am left
alone, and they seek my LIFE (psukee). They were seeking his
earthly life to kill him, just as they had killed the prophets, not something
that did not have any substance, not something that they could not see or kill.
(44). Philippians 1:27, "With
one MIND (psukee) striving
together for the faith." Striving together with one immortal
soul?
(45). Philippians 2:30, "Because
for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his LIFE (psukee) to
supply that which was lacking in your service toward me." Did he
hazard his immortal soul; and his soul, which cannot die came nigh unto death
even if it could not die?
(46). 1 Thessalonians 2:8, "We
were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our
own souls (psukee–life)." They were pleased to
impart the gospel to them even at the cost of their own lives, not impart the
gospel to them even at the cost of souls that could not die.
1. But also our own souls (psukee)
King James Version.
2. But
also our own selves (psukee)" New Revised Standard Version.
3. "But
our lives (psukee) as well" New
International Version.
4. "Our
very lives (psukee)" The New American Bible.
5. "Our
very selves (psukee)" The Revised English Bible.
6. "Our
own lives (psukee)" New Century Version.
(47). 1 Peter 2:11, "Beloved,
I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which
war against the soul (psukee–life)."
(48). Hebrews 10:39, "But
we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith
unto the saving of the soul (psukee–your
life)."
1. We
have the faith to preserve our life (psukee)" The
Revised English Bible.
2. "But
among those who have faith and so are saved (psukee)" New Revised
Standard Version.
3. "But
of those who believe and are saved (psukee)" New
International Version.
(49). James 5:19-20, "My
brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one converts him; let him
know, that he who converts a sinner from the error of his way shall save
a soul (psukee–life) from death, and
shall cover a multitude of sins." If the sinner is not converted,
his life (psukee), not a soul, will not be saved from death. Many read
"Hell" ("shall save a soul from Hell") in the place of
"death." The only way to get "save a soul from Hell" into
the Bible is by changing the Bible.
"Will save him (psukee) from
death" New International Version. The whole person will be saved
from death, not an immortal living something that is in person that could not
be dead, but it will be saved from death even if it could not be dead.
(50-51). 1 John 3:16, "Hereby
know we love, because he laid down his LIFE (psukee) for
us, and we should lay down our LIVES (psukee) for
the brethren." Can we lay down an immortal soul for
the brethren? Christ lay down His life for us, and we should be willing to
lay down our life for our brethren. If this were a deathless something that is
in a person, we would be being told to do something that it would not be
possible for us to do.
(52). Revelation 6:9, "Souls (psukee–lives)...slain."
(53). Revelation 8:9, "And
there died the third part...that had LIFE (psukee).
(54). Revelation 12:11, "Loved
not their LIFE (psukee) even unto death."
(55). Revelation 16:3, "Every
living soul (psukee–living being) died (In the sea, all fish died). Can
anyone tell me why the translators, who believed a soul could not die and do
not believe fish have a soul, puts "ever living soul died" in
this passage?
"And every living thing (psukee) in the
sea died" New American Standard Bible.
(56). Revelation 20:4, "The souls (psukee–lives) of
them that had been beheaded."
(2) PASSAGES
WITH PSUKEE USED
REFERRING TO
PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY
PASSAGES IN
WHICH SPIRIT (pnuma) IS THE HUMAN MIND
(1). Acts 14:2 "And
made their minds (psukee) evil
affected" King James Version. The Gentiles were turned against
the brothers in this life, not against immortal souls that were in the
brothers.
"And poisoned their minds (psukee) against the
brothers" New International Version.
(2). "But my mind (pnuma) could
not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there" (2
Corinthians 2:13) New Revised Standard Version.
(3).
Hebrews 12:3, "Lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds (psukee–life)"
King James Version.