Article: The View That Everyone Is Saved is Annihilated by the Book of Revelation. Can't Say Hell Will Be Empty

[mdgspencer]

see http://www.ncregister.com/blog/darmstrong/universalism-is-annihilated-by-the-book-of-revelation

“Explicit passages about judgment, such as Matthew 25, do not imply in the slightest (or so it seems to me, prima facie , anyway) that hell will be a lonely outpost with a few souls… I think folks can reasonably debate relative numbers of the saved/elect and the lost, or reprobate, or damned, but I don’t see how it’s biblically possible to posit that only a ‘few’ or ‘none’ are lost in fact.”

 

[Vico]

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“Explicit passages about judgment, such as Matthew 25, do not imply in the slightest (or so it seems to me, prima facie , anyway) that hell will be a lonely outpost with a few souls… I think folks can reasonably debate relative numbers of the saved/elect and the lost, or reprobate, or damned, but I don’t see how it’s biblically possible to posit that only a ‘few’ or ‘none’ are lost in fact.”

We were warned about presumption at the Council of Trent.

D - Denzinger, Sources of Catholic Dogma
Council of Trent, SESSION Vl, Canons On Justification
Chap. 12. Rash Presumption of Predestination is to be Avoided

805 No one moreover, so long as he lives in this mortal state, ought so far to presume concerning the secret mystery of divine predestination, as to decide for certain that he is assuredly in the number of the predestined [can. 15], as if it were true that he who is justified either cannot sin any more [can. 23], or if he shall have sinned, that he ought to promise himself an assured reformation. For except by special revelation, it cannot be known whom God has chosen for Himself [can. 16].

Canons

825 Can. 15. If anyone shall say that a man who is born again and justified is bound by faith to believe that he is assuredly in the number of the predestined: let him be anathema [cf. n. 805].

826 Can. 16. If anyone shall say that he will for certain with an absolute and infallible certainty have that great gift of perseverance up to the end, unless he shall have learned this by a special revelation: let him be anathema [cf. n.805ff.].

833 Can. 23. If anyone shall say that a man once justified can sin no more, nor lose grace, and that therefore he who falls and sins was never truly justified; or, on the contrary, that throughout his whole life he can avoid all sins even venial sins, except by a special privilege of God, as the Church holds in regard to the Blessed Virgin: let him be anathema [cf. n. 805, 810].

Council of Florence, Session 6, July 6,1439:

Moreover, the souls of those who depart in actual mortal sin or in original sin only, descend immediately into hell but to undergo punishments of different kinds.

See 693: Denzinger - English translation, older numbering