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i looked in the NIV and it has the same meaning as the KJV and the NWT at genesis 3;19, so i am a bit confused why you say it reads differant in your bible ? yes you are right the new testament is written in the Greek , but what i meant was, the teaching of the churches of christendom have taken on the Greek teachings of plato philosophy about immortality of the human soul , which is not a bible teaching but a teaching of plato. its good to know that the bible promises a new heaven and a new earth 2 peter 3;13 ....rev 21;1....Isaiah 65;17.... it is my belief that the hope for most of christians is a resurrection into a paradise earth if we die , but the 144,000 that the bible speaks about in revelation , will be resurrected from death to be with Jesus in the heavens and rule as kings and preists in the heavenly kingdom goverment. and these 144,000 will be resurrected with a spiritual body as flesh and blood cannot live in heaven . but i do not believe that they possess a thing inside them but Jehovah gives them a body to live in heaventruthseeker said:God breathed life breath into Adam, which I believe is the Spirit. I believe the soul is the medium of flesh and spirit. The Spirit is the shadowy thing that goes back to God when the flesh has had it's run.
Unfortunately, I only have access to an NIV at this time. I will bring a KJV tomorrow.
The whole New Testament is Greek teaching. Do you discount that as well?
Earth is a physical realm. God set this up to run its course, however long that is. Because God has set it up to operate in a particular way, I assume that God will not defy his own laws. God has set man up to operate independantly so in that I believe that 'evil' always has the possibly to exist (of course that depends on what you view as evil as well). For evil to be done away with, God would have to destroy the earth, those functions of the earth that He created in the 6 days that Genesis describes, and mankind as well. For God to reestablish mankind in the flesh would be a set up for the original sin scenario again. For us to be 100% obedient to the will of God for certainty, for eternity, it couldn't be in the physical realm. God has tried that. It doesn't work. Sounds like a spiritual resurrection to me.
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