I'm saying that God is immortal, and that other beings are also immortal unless they sin.

I have posted multiple passages from the Bible and EGW speaking of God destroying. Which of them can you agree with?

I have posted multiple passages from the Bible and EGW speaking of God destroying. Which of them can you agree with?

APL,
Answer this part:

Blessings,
Green Cochoa.

When human beings destroy, they move toward the victim with deliberate intention to kill.
When God destroys, He moves away from the subject with no intention of killing.
When human beings destroy, they carry the weapons of death in their hands.
When God destroys, He carries no weapons but lays down control of the destructive powers.
When human beings destroy, they guide the sword to its target.
When God destroys, there is no personal administration of punishment. Whatever comes upon sinners is the outworking of the forces of death that they themselves have set in motion.
At this point two questions are apt to arise. The first is, what is the essential difference between the direct act of destroying or that of departing to leave the person to die? In both cases it is God’s action that brings about the destruction, and therefore, in each case, He is a destroyer.
This would be true if God’s withdrawal was His own act, but it is not. The fact is that He is driven away.
The truth of this is stated in a paragraph from Prophets and Kings.
Christ will never abandon those for whom He has died. We may leave Him and be overwhelmed with temptation, but Christ can never turn from one for whom He has paid the ransom of His own life (p. 176).
In view of the fact that Christ died for everyone, this statement is saying that it is impossible for Christ to turn away from anyone. People turn away from God. God cannot turn away from humanity. That is impossible.
The second question is this: If God does not in fact destroy, then why does He use this word to describe His actions? Does this not tend to make the Scriptures confusing?
Again, this is an excellent question. But this is the right word to use in describing God’s actions, for there is a deep and important sense in which it is true that He does destroy.
As the evidences gathered here unfold, it will be seen that God comes to humanity in one role only, which is as a Savior. But the effect of that effort is not always a saving one. With the majority, the effect is to harden them in rebellion and to cause them to withdraw themselves from the voice of loving entreaty. Thus God destroys by trying to save. The more He exerts His saving power, the more that people reject His offer, thus leading to destruction. It is in this sense that He destroys.
This principle of truth is spelled out with great clarity in the following statement:
It is not God that blinds the eyes of men or hardens their hearts. He sends them light to correct their errors, and to lead them in safe paths; it is by the rejection of this light that the eyes are blinded and the heart hardened. Often the process is gradual, and almost imperceptible. Light comes to the soul through God’s word, through His servants, or by the direct agency of His Spirit; but when one ray of light is disregarded, there is a partial benumbing of the spiritual perceptions, and the second revealing of light is less clearly discerned. So the darkness increases, until it is night in the soul. Thus it had been with these Jewish leaders. They were convinced that a divine power attended Christ, but in order to resist the truth, they attributed the work of the Holy Spirit to Satan. In doing this they deliberately chose deception; they yielded themselves to Satan, and henceforth they were controlled by his power (The Desire of Ages, pp. 322, 323).
It is not God that puts the blinder before the eyes of men or makes their hearts hard; it is the light which God sends to his people, to correct their errors, to lead them in safe paths, but which they refuse to accept,―it is this that blinds their minds and hardens their hearts (The Review and Herald, October 21, 1890).

Brothers Kland, APL and Johann, I know you all want to continue to argue that God is not in charge of the destruction of the wicked. This is obvious because every opportunity you have on every thread you all make this observation.

I will make this last point and I will not answer you again on this subject unless you tell me the answer to this riddle.

"The plea may be made that a loving Father would not see His children suffering the punishment of God by fire while He had the power to relieve them. But God would, for the good of His subjects and for their safety, punish the transgressor. God does not work on the plan of man. He can do infinite justice that man has no right to do before his fellow man. Noah would have displeased God to have drowned one of the scoffers and mockers that harassed him, but God drowned the vast world. Lot would have had no right to inflict punishment on his sons-in-law, but God would do it in strict justice." {LDE 241.2}

According to this statement, was it God who drowned the world. Was it God who rained fire on Sodom? Answer 'yes' or 'no' please. Thank you in Jesus' name amen.

I don't disagree with the passages you've quoted. I disagree with your interpretation of them.

So do other passages.

Regarding the fallen angels and mortality, how many of them do you know who have died? Are there funerals for them? Will fallen angels be resurrected to face judgment? They are only "mortal" because their punishment is sure. Until then, they do not die, nor will they die until then. Even at Jesus' coming, when His glory extinguishes all other sinners on this earth, they will not die. Isn't that interesting? Apparently, it will take them a much larger dose of God's glory to be fatal. Yet they have sinned much more than we have. Have you an explanation for this dichotomy?