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Do more people go to heaven or hell?

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Emmy

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Dear SomeonePleaseHelpMe. I know that God is Love, and God wants us all back to live with Him. Sadly, not everyone does. I know that the people who do not want to return to God, will end up without God`s Love or Light, God will not force us one way or another. Jesus told us in Matthew 22: 35-40:
" The first and great Commandment is: Love God with all our hearts, with all our souls, and with all our minds. The second is like it: Love our neighbour as we love ourselves." That is straightforward and easy to remember. God wants our Love, freely given and NO conditions asked, Jesus also told us:
" On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."
What do we do now? In Matthew 7: 7-10: we are told: " Ask and ye shall receive," then we thank God, and share all Love and Joy with all around us.
We keep asking God and thanking God, then share all Love and Joy with all we know and all we meet, friends or not friends. God will see our sincere efforts, and God will Bless us. We might stumble and forget at times, but then we ask God to forgive us, and carry on Loving and Caring.
A Christian`s great weapon is Love, with love we can overcome all enmity and wrong behaviour, also Love will change us gradually into the men and women, which God wants us to become.
The Bible tells us to " Repent," and also " To Be Born Again." The time will come when we have become very used to loving and caring, and we have lost
our selfish and unloving character completely. Jesus our Saviour will help and guide us all the way: JESUS IS THE WAY. We also have time on our side,
and we will find that people will treat us the same way as we treat people,
Love is very catching. By the time we will be ready to leave this Earth, we will
be well on the way to being, as our Heavenly Father wants us to be.
I sincerely believe that Most people will go to Heaven. I say this with love,
SomeonePleaseHelpMe. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ.
 
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My friend, you ask a lot of Qs and that is fine. But...there is a source of information that is better than the posters here, however much wisdom some may have. It's called the Bible. It seems you are not reading it. May I suggest you start doing so? You can even listen online, if you prefer, while doing housework or whatever. This will bring you many blessings.

The Bible tells us clearly about people going to Heaven and hell in Matthew 7:


13 Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it.

14 But the gate is narrow (contracted [k]by pressure) and the way is straitened and compressed that leads away to life, and few are those who find it.


"Life" refers to eternal life in Heaven. Destruction refers to hell. Sadly, we are being told that only a few will go to Heaven and most will go to hell. This is from the lips of Messiah. He should know. He doesn't tell us the percentages on both sides.

Anyone can say they have a revelation from Heaven. People frequently do say that. Sometimes they actually do have such a revelation. Too commonly though, they are not having one at all. Messiah has told you what you need to know for now.


Btw I do not believe that the Bible is saying, when analyzed correctly, that hell is forever. The 2nd death, for those who go to hell, is forever, though. But that's another story.

Praying for you to study the Bible all your life and to learn why so many love, and are fascinated by, it.
 
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[QUOBeloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the worldTE=SomeonePleaseHelpMe;65285948]I was watching this youtube video and this guy in it says that he died and went to heaven and hell, and was brought back to life. He said that the majority of people are in hell, the ratio was 1:1000. Do you think this is true ???

There is a war going on in heaven for the souls of men and women and God wins. We all know this, so if He wins, then there has to be more souls in heaven. This is what I believe to be true!! I watched the beginning of the video and stopped when he said that the children that died before the age of accountability had no homes in heaven because they had not built up their rewards in heaven. Does that sound like Jesus? Jesus had such great love for children, but in heaven there homeless? NEVER!! John 14:2, "My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?' Your mansion isn't built on what you've done, it's built by Jesus on what He has done:amen:

1 John 4:1, "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world."
 
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Here's another way of looking at the answer to that question. The OP seems to have been written with Christians in mind, or at least people we know. But IF Faith in Christ is the determiner of salvation, most of the people who have ever lived, anywhere at any time, without knowing Christ, probably would number a thousand times more than those who both have heard AND accepted the Gospel. Just saying the idea isn't all that absurd or impossible.

As for this person's claim about having died himself and then visited both heaven and hell, that doesn't make sense, even as "near death experiences" go.
 
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I don't know, but I hope it's 1000:1 in the other direction or higher. I don't approach that question as something we can know, but pondering it can check our perspectives.

1 Corinthians 3:10-15 describes a process by which a person's bad works can be "burned up" upon entering Heaven, though he/she is still saved. The thief on the cross may have lived a life of sin, but Jesus promised that he would be with Him in paradise.

I'm not saying that God will save everyone. The Bible appears to indicate otherwise, but as long as sin no longer exists in Heaven, I think it's OK to hope for as many as possible...
 
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Well, the Bible does say that the road to damnation is wide and we'll travelled. And narrow is the path that leads to life.. now, some translations say perdition, and some say he'll in place of dam nation. . But, we get the idea...
I am pretty sure that this person on YouTube is embellishing just a smidge... I mean, Heaven and then he'll, and then back again.. sure...
Why would God allow someone that He intends to go to he'll, to even get a glimpse of Heaven.. much less let them enter it.. does the Lord not say in scripture that they will never enter His rest.. well, this guy says that he did for a brief time..
This guy isn't even a good story teller.. He should have researched the Scriptures first..
 
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