MOST ARE DAMNED ACCORDING TO JESUS' PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE "GOSPEL"
Only a Few Will Go to Jesus' Heaven
The Bible, the book God supposedly wrote, says that
most people will go to the place of torment, Hell, that never ends when they die
and there is nothing they can do about it once they get there. Jesus wrote
nothing but commissioned others to write and said he would ensure it was the
truth. So if the apostles and New Testament say it is hard to go to Heaven
then that is true.
Some say today that Hell is empty or near-empty. This
does not fit St Paul's fear that having a clear conscience like him has nothing
at all to do with showing you are right with God and acquitted for sins.
You could have sins you do not see or maybe you do not see that your repentance
is fake. Paul feared being a reject.
Jesus when asked if many would be saved said that few are chosen for salvation though many are called. That was a way of saying no. The whole context of the Bible and the tradition he spoke in shows he meant it.
Paul says he aims to be all to all men to save some of them. Not all will be saved even if Paul preaches to all.
They say the Devil is there but nobody else but if
you read Revelation 20:10 and 20:15 it is clear that people were found to have
their names absent from the book of life and thus were thrown into Hell. Jesus
said in Matthew 10:28 that you must not fear those who can kill your body but
the one who can kill your body and soul in Hell. Is this him Satan? In
Matthew 10:25, 26 speaks of Satan and his demons and advises his disciples to
place no fear in them. God then is the one who kills body and soul in
Gehenna and is to be feared. With that picture of God, he might be capable
of throwing you in prison forever. The word apollumi means ruin or
lose but not necessarily extinction. In 2 Peter 3:6-9 it refers to the earth
being wrecked by the flood. That did not mean annihilation or anything like
that.
Most people will be damned forever for their sins.
This is hardly surprising when the book of Ecclesiastes says that laughing (2:1)
and everything we do below the sun is pointless and just vanity (1:2). Vanity is
a sin. The book does not mean that all human works are useless – even sin has
its uses - it means that they are nothing to be proud of in the final analysis
for there is no real goodness in them just pride. Even the humble person must be
proud of his humility.
The teaching of holiness has been abandoned by
virtually the entire Christian Church. Holy means separate – keeping away from
what or whoever is unclean and doing it for God. In the Jewish law, the Jews
were commanded to avoid unclean things no matter what. Jesus in Mark 7 said that
a man was made unclean by his intentions and his will. So you are not to have
anything to do with sinners. But we all do. We go to weddings of unrepentant
people who lived in sin first.
It is not surprising that the Bible says that the vast
majority of our works are sinful (Romans 3) and makes no distinction between
sins that deserve eternal punishing and those that don’t. Roman Catholicism has
made such a distinction but it is arbitrary and not in the Bible. The Bible
against Catholicism says that all sin merits the endless agonies of Hell. Thus
the Catholic Church is a dangerous form of Christianity in Bible eyes. Also, the
Bible says that nobody is perfectly righteous at any moment in this life and all
sin at some level (1 John 1:8). And it says that if you sin all your works will
be sins until you repent even if they are good works (James 3:9,12).
Paul said that many will receive the salvation won by
Jesus (Romans 5:15,19). But many can mean anything. If salvation is very
unlikely and a thousand make it that is many. It's as many as can be expected. He
didn’t say most and he didn’t say all. That is very important. We must not
forget that Paul didn’t have that many converts at that time and he was ready
for the second coming any minute. His many must be understood in that context.
He chose to use that word for he didn’t know what else to use. It was the most
neutral word he could use. Did he mean that many of his converts would be saved?
Then it follows that a small number would be saved.
Romans 8 says that anybody who has the spirit of God
is a son of God. This means Christians for there is no hint that it can be any
other kind of people. And the real Christians are as uncommon as papal
offspring. There are millions of Christian denominations and every one claims to
have the correct Christian faith and that every other group is in error. When
Paul said that even Christians will not be saved from sin and death if Jesus has
not risen he is saying that sincerity is no good at all and people have to have
the right gospel to be saved meaning that salvation is only for a handful.