Will most people go to hell?

stanshall · May 7, 2025

Jesus states that few will find the narrow gate and Peter likewise states that the saints will scarcely be saved. This suggests a very difficult holy life to live in a dark satanic world.
So does this mean that most of the church members who pursue a that pursue an easy gospel - once saved always saved, Sinners Prayer- are destined for eternal hell fire?

KingJ · May 8, 2025

stanshall said:
Jesus states that few will find the narrow gate and Peter likewise states that the saints will scarcely be saved.

Peter does not say 'saints', he says 'the righteous' are barely saved.

stanshall said:
This suggests a very difficult holy life to live in a dark satanic world.

A difficult life in hell is an assumption. Scripture is crystal clear that God is good (Psalm 136:1), just (Job 34:12) and will punish according to crimes committed (Rom 2:6). Scripture paints a picture of the period of suffering for your crimes being unpleasant. But outside of that, let's not make assumptions about hell. It is a place a good God has created. We can expect the most sane form of prison housing what are effectively criminals / unrepentant sinners.

stanshall said:
So does this mean that most of the church members who pursue a that pursue an easy gospel - once saved always saved, Sinners Prayer- are destined for eternal hell fire?

Don't mock once saved always saved. The point you alluding to has absolutely nothing to do with OSAS. OSAS has to do with God not abandoning His saints in the mission field who have already been judged and grafted into His family.

Your point relates to 'Christians so called'. People thinking that saying some magical words, mustering up faith in Jesus, attending the right denominational church, operating in the gifts of the spirit or feeding the occasional poor person will guarantee them a seat in heaven.

Please read the OP of these two threads to understand why OSAS is true and what it takes to be a Christian.

Thread 'What is a Christian and how do you become one?'

Nov 15, 2022

A Christian is best defined by John 3:16

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

A Christian is the 'whomsoever' will believe in Jesus. Now, nobody can believe a man who walked the earth 2000 years ago is the Messiah, God of the universe Isa 9:6, without some help. The bible tells us in Matt 16:16-17 and 1 Cor 12:3, that a revelation from above / the Holy Spirit is necessary. It is completely impossible to believe Jesus is Lord without a revelation from the Holy Spirit 1...

Thread 'So tired of Christians not knowing what a Christian is!'

Oct 29, 2024

This OP consists of:

Section 1 - Venting
Section 2 - Explaining what a Christian is
Section 3 - Concluding argument

Section 1 - Venting:

I am so tired of Christians not knowing what a Christian is! It has been suggested that Judas was a Christian. That a Christian can lose their salvation if they make mistakes just before they die. Or that God cherry picks some humans and makes them Christians.

When these statements are made it is crystal clear to me that A - The individual has no clue as to what a Christian is and B - The individual has no clue as to who God is.

Now, none of...

stanshall said:
Will most people go to hell?

Yes, scripture is quite clear on that.

Matt 7:13-143 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Garee · May 8, 2025

KingJ said:
A difficult life in hell is an assumption. Scripture is crystal clear that God is good (Psalm 136:1), just (Job 34:12) and will punish according to crimes committed (Rom 2:6). Scripture paints a picture of the period of suffering for your crimes being unpleasant. But outside of that, let's not make assumptions about hell. It is a place a good God has created. We can expect the most sane form of prison housing what are effectively criminals / unrepentant sinners.

Hell. . . Living in earthen bodies of death that are appointed to die once . Death. . according to the letter or scripture .The do not eat or in dying you will come to the end of the breath of life.

Believers are experiencing hell called suffering . Yoked with Christ our daily burden can be lighter if one does not harden their own heart .

Eternal suffering (Limbo) is needed in the graceless teaching of a queen mother of heaven teaching she alone received the fulness of grace the complete cost of salvation.

The rest of the world an unknown amount of grace. They must continue in suffering wondering, suffer wonder in Limbo for the younger sinners and purgatory for the more mature sinner

Gothedral · May 8, 2025

stanshall said:
Jesus states that few will find the narrow gate and Peter likewise states that the saints will scarcely be saved.

Lol Forget about Hell. That's not our goal.

I prefer to see it this way; as in the case of God commanding the Prophet Jonah to warn the city of Nineveh that they would be utterly destroyed for their sins. The entire city of Nineveh was fine. Jonah for some reason stayed grumpy.

Our lot is to life a penitent life, knowing not to be in despair like the Apostle Judas, but to keep moving forward like the Apostle Paul, seeking the Lord's forgiveness. Or poor Moses, having to deal with the most fickle people ever, and keeping his faith and hope towards the Messiah in the future.

Christians are more concerned with Paradise, with Heaven, with the Atonement and Love of Christ.

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