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Will there be more people in Heaven than in hell?

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Spurgeon taught so. Is he correct? I mean, do we really think Christ has failed in his mission to save the Elect sinners? When asked the question Jesus refused to answer it so it remains a mystery but don't we all think we will be surprised when we get to heaven at the sheer number of saved people? It's a number no man can count. You can't tell me that he'll is also a number no man can count. Especially when scripture is silent on the number of the lost. (Yes I realize Jesus said many will go to hell but he also said many will be saved as well).
 

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In Matt 7 Jesus said the "many" go to hell and only the "few" go to heaven.

Yet Jesus "draws ALL mankind unto Him" John 12:32. He is not willing that any should perish 2 Peter 3 --yet the "many" in fact do perish.
 
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For me the logic of Matthew 7:13 seems clear: fewer will enter by the narrow gate than by the wide. But this may well describe the ratio of entry, not necessarily the final number. By Judgement there may well be effectively countless numbers in both Heaven and Hell.
 
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Brother-Mike said:
For me the logic of Matthew 7:13 seems clear: fewer will enter by the narrow gate than by the wide. But this may well describe the ratio of entry, not necessarily the final number.
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In the statement the only way to a good ending according to Christ -- is entry through that one gate. People who do not enter through it don't get a good outcome according to Matt 7.

What is more "the many" are further shown to fail in vs 21 -23 in the final judgment.

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13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is constricted that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

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21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
 
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Many will be in Hell, few in Heaven

Luke 13:23-24 Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
 
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You have thought about it, that's a start that many are too afraid to approach.

If few in every generation will see the pearly gates, and they are said to be too numerous to count toward the end, then the general population of the human species ever created would then be suffering in torment, a sort of reality that can be very conflicting to swallow for a believer who is investigating the full implications of certain statements made in the scriptures. Spurgeon understood the implications, but refused to believe it, idealistically, in the same way that most Reformed confessions state that there is such a thing as an "elect infant," though the scriptures say nothing about it. It is based on the silence of early childhood death in light of original sin. Again, the full implications can be conflicting.
 
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Jonaitis said:
If few in every generation will see the pearly gates, and they are said to be too numerous to count toward the end, then the general population of the human species ever created would then be suffering in torment, .
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Only if Rev 20 were in our past instead of in our future. What the other Bible writers call hell - John calls the "lake of fire and brimstone"
 
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Narrow is the gate and few find it.
 
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BobRyan said:
Only if Rev 20 were in our past instead of in our future. What the other Bible writers call hell - John calls the "lake of fire and brimstone"
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The word hell didn’t exist when the scriptures were written. It was added in the 16th century.
 
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