What Does the Bible Really Say?
The Bible Does Not Say:	The Bible Does Say:
Man has or is an immortal soul (the words immortal and soul appear together nowhere in the Bible).	"The soul who sins shall die" (Ezekiel 18:4,20).
Heaven is the reward of the saved.	"No one has ascended to heaven" (John 3:13).
The Sabbath day is abolished, or Christians should regard Sunday as the Sabbath.	Both Jesus Christ and the apostle Paul customarily taught on the Sabbath day (Luke 4:16; Acts 17:2).
Sunday is "the Lord's day."	Jesus Christ is "Lord of the Sabbath" (Mark 2:28).
God will punish the wicked forever in an ever-burning hellfire.	The fate of the wicked is to be burned to ashes (Malachi 4:3).
God's law is abolished or annulled under the New Covenant.	Under the New Covenant, God writes His law on human hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:10).
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