"It is not possible for the soul, or spirit, to be destroyed."
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. The first paragraph was a quick copy of the first paragraph of the website I posted at the beginning & then I moved on. I didn't read it carefully before copying it. It wasn't my own words.
I apologize for not seeing the error there. I corrected it with you cannot kill the soul or the spirit but God can destroy both the resurrected body & the soul in Gehenna, the second death & everlasting hell.
Notice what Jesus actually taught there. When the person FIRST PHYSICALLY DIES, his body does indeed die but the soul cannot be killed at the time of the physical death of the physical body. That temporary, mortal body goes back to dust again from which it was made.
But then Jesus talks about what happens to a person AFTER physical death, after the soul has departed from the dead physical body. There is going to be a resurrection of ALL PEOPLE AFTER PHYSICAL DEATH. The soul & spirit will again enter back into this new, resurrected body to face God.
And how does Scripture describe this resurrected body that all people will have?
I Cor 15:35ff But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Jesus taught the resurrected body (the one that is immortal & incorruptible) will join the soul again & we are to fear the One, Who, after physical death, can cast the body & soul into Gehenna & destroy them (not annihilation of being but of well being of the person, brought to ruin & powerless).
The resurrected body CANNOT be annihilated or be brought to cessation because it is immortal & incorruptible. It will continue to exist forever, just like the spirit & the soul continue forever. Those who believe will continue forever in the presence of the Lord in our eternal home; those who believe not will continue forever in Gehenna, away from the presence of the Lord.
I will not go into a lengthy study on this word, destroy to show all this. One simple example will suffice: when Satan is thrown into the abyss, he is said to be DESTROYED (same exact word). Yet he is then let out of there & later deceives the whole world again. So it obviously can't mean annihilation or cessation of being but again of reducing one to a state of powerlessness & ruin.
To help you better & familiarize you with the actual Scriptures, here is what Jesus Himself taught. Jesus was the one who taught you CANNOT KILL THE SOUL.
Matt 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul & body in hell.
This is NOT some person of whatever Christian background they are, that is stating this. Your argument is with Jesus & if you persist in not believing what He wrote, you will as a soul apart from your body face Him after physical death, like everyone else, in a new immortal resurrected body.
Also, Jesus WENT TO HELL (sheol/hades). He should know. He was there. He conquered death in leaving there & all who believe in Him & what He taught (you cannot separate Jesus from what He taught!) can be delivered from there. Thank you, HTacianas, for pointing out about annihilationism.
I think I defined physical death as the separation of the spirit and soul from the physical body, like Jesus' example on the cross & like the Apostle James defines it. I alluded to various other verses that define physical death as the separation of the spirit & the soul from it. I also either gave Scripture or alluded to Scripture as to where the spirit goes and the soul goes & the physical body goes after physical death.
