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Do most People go to Hell?

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Luke 13:23 Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” So he said to them, 13:24 “Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

If this was the end of this story and Jesus is talking about the whole world, further more if Jesus is talking about literal Heaven & Hell in this story then Yes most human beings ever born go to Hell. If you connect this verse to John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” and interpret this in a Protestant way you can also exclude all Catholics and all other non Born Again believers.  How ever if any of these interpretive assumptions are wrong, then just maybe there is a wider hope then we have been lead to believe.

LUKE 13:25  Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him, ‘Lord, let us in!’ But he will answer you, ‘I don’t know where you come from.’

So which house are we talking about here, could it be the house of Israel?  In which case this section of scriptures scope would be restricted to the house of Israel.  Could Jesus be speaking of the end of one season and the beginning of another?  Do we have to understand this as an absolute and universal statement, or Particular and local?

Luke 13:26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’

This verse appears to be limiting this verse to a particular time as well as location.  I understand it so much easier to just understand this verse as absolute and universal but I would plead to you that is just not the case.

Luke 13:27  But he will reply, ‘I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’ 13:28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves thrown out.

Ok can you see these are people who are evil doers we have narrow the group Jesus is talking to even further. Wow could Jesus really be talking to a very select group of people and not the whole world.  Also is this story talking about Heaven or a coming Earthly Kingdom and did I miss something here or has Hell been mentioned?

Luke 13:29  Then people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and take their places at the banquet table in the kingdom of God. 13:30 But indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

So there is more people than just these evil doers who refuse the narrow gate, and that some who thought they where first or preferred will be last but not forgotten? These teachings of Jesus are much more hopeful than I was taught or lead to believe.  Could it be that Jesus is the savior of the world after all, and not the leader of a very small secret society.

ANZAHOLYMAN

Heaven’s Trap…

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HEAVEN'S TRAP

 

 

So Jesus was sent by the Father to teach us about getting to heaven or the coming kingdom of God, heaven for me is such a disconnect from the teachings of Jesus here on earth.  So why the obsession with Heaven and Hell in this so-called church age, in the churches desire to be superior to the Jew, they abandoned earth to will full religions while the people were trapped in a heavenly mind trap.  So the church used the tools of man, that is the tools of fear and violence, whether real or hell’s torment.  Becoming more powerful in this world while losing heavens desired spiritual influence, were God’s focus has always been “for God so loved the world.”  So in the Messiah’s first earthly visit those who should have embraced Him were bound to The Law and Temple which trapped and closed their minds.   We have become in my mind, equally trapped to the Doctrines of Men and the Dreams of Heaven, and earth be damned along with everyone you doesn’t adopt our interpretations.  Jesus has become the end all and be all, Father who? as we pray to Jesus or is it God? or does it matter? we are so confused but then maybe that was the plan all along.   If as Jesus taught the teachers of his day spoke with a voice that was not the Father’s, what makes us think we are immune from the same arrogance.  Which then confuses His great sacrifice and the Fathers great love for us through Him and by Him, towards Himself (The all in all Father God).  It further confuses our theology so that we in effect abandon the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob for a creation of a church that despised the faith of the Jews, for Popes, Calvin, Luther and the whole lot.   Look the middle wall of partition is down as the writer of Hebrews taught between Jew and Gentile, not so that we turn our backs on the Jewish voice but embrace it with the all the liberty grace gives us.  Heaven I am afraid has become “The Great Trap” and we are so busy looking for “The Great Escape” we are missing the Kingdom that is Coming and unfolding around us everyday.

ANZAHOLYMAN

“The kingdom of God has little in common with the world’s religions. God only reveals himself as the one, holy God through the deeds of the Spirit, which no
amount of piety or learning can replace. Our hope lies
in the fact that Jesus, the son of God, lives in the world,
not above it, even if he remains inconspicuous.
The Risen One wants to draw people to himself, and so propaganda for a particular confession of faith is no concern of his. You must stand up and represent the gospel that shines for all people, no matter who they are.”

ANZAHOLYMAN