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Principal Point of Faith #3:
The Nature of Man
6. If someone comes to you and claims he/she is immortal or undying,
how can you be sure their claim is false?
(a) Remember the meaning of immortal: it is 'not subject to sickness, decay,
pain or death.' Can they honestly tell you they never get sick, never have a
pain, never get sick, never have a tooth cavity?
(b) Only God has the power to change a person to the immortal nature, and the
Bible tells us no one but Jesus has immortality today (1 Tim. 6:16; 1 Cor. 15:23).
(c) No one else will become immortal (undying) until Jesus comes back and
changes their mortal bodies to be like His "glorious body."
“But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.
Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished” (1 Cor. 15:13, 18).
“The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the
dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
And thus we shall always be with the Lord” (Eccl. 3:19).
“He will take these weak mortal bodies of ours and change
them into glorious bodies like his own” (Phil. 3:21 NLT).
 
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