Not Your Body, Not Your Life, Not Your Choice
God made man in His image, as a triune being. Like God, man is a trinity, one person composed of a body, soul, and spirit. The soul gives life to the body. The spirit is the element that gives to man a free will. It is essentially the person himself.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 (KJV) ¶ And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Humans are stewards, not owners, of their body. The soul is an eternal entity that is temporarily given to a man and will be reclaimed by God who gave it. When the soul leaves the body, man dies. The spirit also leaves and will return to God as well.
God made man with a free will and man is 100% autonomous. Mankind has the ability and freedom to make his own decisions and act on them. However, mankind is depraved and God gave commandments that restrict the choices that man is allowed to make.
It's Not Your Body
Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost and doesn't belong to you. It is on loan to you from God. Your body belongs to God.
- God has the authority to tell you what you may or may not do with your body.
- God even has the authority to tell you what you may or may not do with someone else's body.
That's why He gave us the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments is God exercising His authority and right to tell man what he can and cannot do. Although you have the ability to do as you choose, you do not have the right to act against God's commandments.
1 Corinthians 6:19 (KJV) What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians 6:20 (KJV) For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
It's Not Your Life (Soul)
You are going to die, 100% for certain. Death is God taking back the soul that was given on loan to you. Then, God will require that you give an account of what you did with the life that you were given.
Luke 12:20 (KJV) But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
It's Not Your Choice (Spirit)
God gave you a body, soul, and spirit. Your body will go back to the dust from whence it came. Your soul (that gave your body life) and spirit (that allows you to have a free will) will return back to God. God is going to take back the spirit that makes you you.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 (KJV) Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
The spirit that God has given you provides you the ability but not the right to disobey his commands. If you choose to reject God's authority over you and do your own thing, then you will pay the price for it.
Free Will Exists, You Have The Ability To Choose To Sin
The entire story of the Bible is about the spirit of man exercising his free will and violating the commands that God gave him. Because you are 100% autonomous, totally capable of making your own decisions and governing yourself, after you die you will be held accountable for the choices that you make.
However, You Don't Have The Right To Sin
God has also given man commandments that prohibit man from doing the wicked, evil, sinful things that man desires to do. God has the right to tell you what to do with your body, your life, and your choices. Your body, soul, and spirit belong to God and after you die you will stand in judgment before Him. It's not your body, it's not your life, and it's not your choice to make.
"My Body, My Choice" Is A Lie!
Your body, soul, and spirit all belong to God.
Nobody Has The Right To Make A Sinful Choice. God has provided everyone with a free will and the ability to choose to do evil. However, God never gave man permission to do evil. Throughout the Bible we see man constantly turning their back on God and falling into sin. Then we see God constantly trying to get man to turn from his wicked ways.
You Are Going To Die!
You Can't Stop It From Happening! Mankind does not have power over their soul or spirit, either to retain them in their body, or to bring them back from heaven or hell. If the breath was life, then you could pump air back into those lungs and bring that person back to life. If the blood was life, you could pump blood through the veins and bring the person back to life.
But the sad fact is, once the soul and the spirit are gone there is nothing that you can do to bring that person back to life (to bring that persons soul and spirit back into his body). Pump oxygen into his lungs, pump blood through his veins... breathing and blood flowing through the veins are signs of life... but they are not the life... the spirit has returned to God and can't be taken back.
Ecclesiastes 8:8 (KJV) There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
You Will Be Judged By God For Your Choices
Because you have a freewill you are responsible for the choices that you make. After you die God will hold you accountable for what you have done in your life and with your life.
Hebrews 9:27 (KJV) And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
At The Judgment Seat Of Christ
After you die you will stand before Jesus Christ (God) and be judged for the way you lived your life on earth. Jesus Christ created the universe, died for mankind, and will be the one judging mankind.
2 Corinthians 5:10 (KJV) For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
2 Timothy 4:1 (KJV) ¶ I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Judged According To Their Works
God is going to use the morality that He defined in the Bible to judge your works. He gave us Ten Commandments by which to live. Whether you agree with God's commandments or not, your opinion about what is right or wrong won't matter, you won't be asked to share it. Only God's opinion will matter and you can find His opinion in the Bible. If you, while you are alive on this earth, don't like the commands of God that are found in the Bible, after you die your soul will be thrown into the lake of fire for eternity.
Revelation 20:12 (KJV) And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Revelation 20:13 (KJV) And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Murderers And Whoremongers Will End Up In The Lake Of Fire
1 Corinthians 6:9 (KJV) ¶ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1 Corinthians 6:10 (KJV) Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Revelation 21:8 (KJV) But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Who Can Make It Into Heaven?
Since everyone has lived an immoral life and God is going to punish all sins, how can anyone make it into heaven? Follow the link to find out: The Five Steps Of Salvation.