Difference between EVERLASTING LIFE and IMMORTALITY?

Answer 1

To be immortal means one cannot be destroyed.
To have everlasting life means one can live forever,but can still be destroyed

Answer 2

Here is the key between the two: Everlasting Life is life in the spiritual sense, meaning that you will live forever but not as you know it now. Immortality is just not dying, staying alive forever on earth in your body as you now know it.

Basically when the Bible speaks about everlasting life it's talking about our spirits spending eternity with God in heaven.

Being immortal is what the myth of the vampire was, living through the ages in your body without dying, on this earth forever.

Answer 3

Everlasting Life is life after death, and Immortality is never dying.

Answer 4

Immortality simply means your spirit and body are inseperable.
If you return back to our Heavenly Father, that is eternal life. Everyone that was ever born gets immortality (1 Corinthians 15:20) which is the 1st death, or temporal (bodily) death. The 2nd death, or spiritual death, we must qualify for by obeying His commandments and enduring to the end (The Book of Mormon: Mosiah 15:22-23). And none of this is possible without the atonement of Jesus Christ.

Answer 5

Officially

The Slave states that human everlasting life and immortality for the anointed are different.
They are based on the premise that the spirit bodies of the anointed upon their resurrection are indestructible and self-sustaining will those who gain everlasting life on earth will still always have destructible bodies & will still depend on outside sources to stay alive.
Not even Jehovah God himself is able to destroy an anointed in heaven.--(w56 219)

Humans who pass the final test will, although receiving everlasting life, will not have inherently indestructible bodies. The reason being that Jehovah is not able to do so. This is due to the inherent limitations that exist within the makeup of our physical realm. In order words, it is impossible to make physical matter that is indestructible due to the second law of thermodynamics. --(w10 2/1 pg. 4 para. 4 & ct chpt. 2 pg. 24 under the subtitle "Law and Order." Compare kr chapt. 2 pgs. 26-27 under the subtitle "seat of gov't.")

So humans obviously can't be granted incorruptible bodies since that would require Jehovah to change the fundamental physics of our universe. Nor would he ever do so since this is the way that he wanted our physical universe to be. Genesis states that everything he has made is "very good" or to his satisfaction. So Jehovah can't give humans incorruptible bodies so instead he gives us an alternative, everlasting life, guaranteed.--(w95 11/15 pg. 19 para. 17)

However if our everlasting life is guaranteed after we pass the final test, why does the questions from readers on the w06 8/15 say that it is possible for Jehovah to destroy us even after the final test while so many of our publications seem to indicate otherwise?

Here's what the faithful and discreet slave teaches on the status of the 'other sheep' after they've passed the final test.

They can still sin and hence as a result be destroyed anytime after the final test, but the situation is highly unlikely--(w06 8/15 Questions From Readers)

And yet:

Their names in the book of life are permanent like the anointed.--(it-2 Life pgs. 250-251 & many other publications)

Their names in the book of life are indelible, which based on the definition of indelible means that it is absolutely impossible for Jehovah to remove their names at any point in time after the final test, like the anointed.--(re chapt. 11 pg. 58 para. 14, 15)

If Adam and Eve, willful sinners or not, where to have eaten from the tree of life, which symbolizes God's guarantee of everlasting life to them, then it would have been impossible for Jehovah to kill them afterwards.--(Gen. 3:22, nwt 1715; it-2 Sanctification-The garden of Eden, a sanctuary pg. 858.; g76 4/22 pg. 8 para. 1; hs chapt. 3 pg. 40 para. 11.)

Once Jehovah guarantees something, it's unchangeable, because God cannot lie.--(Heb. 6: 17, 18)

Everlasting life is permanent.--(w07 10/1 pg. 19 para. 12)

2nd death is "no threat" toward those who "everlastingly prove their loyalty" by passing the final test.--(w74 6/15 pg. 383 3rd from last paragraph)

Loyalty of 'other sheep' who passed the final test, unchangeable and unbreakable, forever.--w76 6/1 pgs. 345-347)

No official clarifications exists or has ever been stated in the publications. I think Jehovah at his own due time will clarify this matter, through the governing body, at some point in the future.







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Answer 6

I think everyone got it wrong.. Immortality comes to all of mankind. Because Christ lives we shall life also. Eternal live is life with God. Some will be raised for destruction others for life. Christians are alive in Christ now. We shall never know Spiritual Death. Those outside His grace (By their own choice) are now spiritually dead. They will never know life if they remain in their sin...Jim

Answer 7

everlasting life is an endurance or continuance of your life while immortality means your soul or your name/body/idea/mind will continue on forever as long as anyone will remember...(so philosophical!)

Answer 8

everlasting life means even if you die, your soul still lives and if you are a follower, you'll go to the kingdom of God..

immortality means you'll never die! you're body may be here but your soul isn't pure because of greed to live, unlike others dying to see God...

Answer 9

Immortality means you will never die. Each person is going to die a physical death. But our soul, if we are believers in Christ, will go to heaven. I'm sorry to say this, but if you are not a believer in Christ, that soul will go to hell.

Answer 10

immortality is everlasting life

when u become a christian u become immortal