As LDS we believe there are few who go to hell. The grand majority of all people who have ever lived will be saved in the kingdom of heaven. Of the few who are cast down to hell we read in our scriptures:
These sons of perdition will deny the gospel plan. They will reject Christ as their Savior after they have understood who he is and what he has done. They will not have the desire or inclination to repent. In such a state the Lord cannot further help them and they will be sent to outer darkness.
The late Avery Cardinal Dulles wrote a scholarly article in First Things on this topic concluding:
The answer is:So the majority of us believe that most will make it to heaven, of course not all but the majority.
Now then here is the dilemma, with approximately 1 billion Catholics and well even though there is a lot less, let’s just say 1 billion Protestants or other Christians, and assuming that all Christians as a whole get to heaven (which we know not all of us will) that leaves about 5 billion other people who either don’t believe in Christ or don’t know Him. How are they getting to heaven?
Spoiler alert!!!
I don’t have the answer, I’m hoping one of you guys can help me out with this…
We don't go to heaven, we grow to heaven.I would say by God’s grace they would go to purgatory.So the majority of us believe that most will make it to heaven, of course not all but the majority.
Now then here is the dilemma, with approximately 1 billion Catholics and well even though there is a lot less, let’s just say 1 billion Protestants or other Christians, and assuming that all Christians as a whole get to heaven (which we know not all of us will) that leaves about 5 billion other people who either don’t believe in Christ or don’t know Him. How are they getting to heaven?
Spoiler alert!!!
I don’t have the answer, I’m hoping one of you guys can help me out with this…
I have the link, but I don’t know if I can post it because Medjugorje has not been approved yet, but it says…" most people go to purgatory, the next greatest number go to Hell, and only a few go directly to Heaven".
I have read theologians who think similarly. They think that for every angel that fell a unique place in heaven’s hierarchy has a vacancy and will (and must) be filled by a human being because God created heaven in perfect order.
It then follows that there are twice as many angels ever created as there are humans ever created (and ever will be created). There’s mathematically no other way for this to work.
I realize in hindsight that I made an unwarranted assumption in my math. This only follows if God created every angel ever to exist prior to the fall of the 1/3. If He has been creating new angels ever since (and none of them have fallen. In other words the fall of the angels was a one time event in the history of eternity) then the only conclusion we can draw is that the increase in the number of angels since their fall cannot be any larger than 100%.It then follows that there are twice as many angels ever created as there are humans ever created (and ever will be created). There’s mathematically no other way for this to work.
Associating partners with God,
also known as Shirk, is when you worship something other than Allah or when you associate a Divine Attribute to something other than Allah. Worshiping a tree, or example, is Shirk. Another example is praying to something other than Allah; to do that, a person has to believe that that person they’re praying to is All-Hearing. Believing that a human is All-Hearing is Shirk, because Allah alone is As-Sami, the All-Hearing. There are 99 names of Allah and associating any of those names with a created being is Shirk.
That’s the main reason I reject the Shi’i faith – because it takes the attribute that God alone has [As-Sami] and applies it to their twelve imams.
Those who believe that Christ is God will not be saved, as it says in the passage I quoted earlier. I’ll quote the whole thing this time: “They have certainly disbelieved who say, ‘Allah is the Messiah, the son of Mary’ while the Messiah has said, ‘O Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord.’ Indeed, he who associates others with Allah – Allah has forbidden him Paradise, and his refuge is the Fire. And there are not for the wrongdoers any helpers” (surah 5:72)
If someone understands Islam and exits this life having rejected it, that person will fail to be saved; the Qur’an is full of examples of that. Pharaoh did that and not only was his plea rejected, he was also drowned.
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Explain how that works given the population explosion.
Agreed. And unhealthy, methinks.
Matthew 7:13-14 King James Version (KJV)
THAT dear friend is an EASY and VERY sad one to answer factually
This could mean that few go straight to Heaven when they die, many will be detained in Purgatory.
So you classify purgatory as “destruction”?
After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;
As for other people, I can’t say. Only God knows the hearts of others. As far as how I understand my faith in Christ, the fact that I was baptized and I am at every Communion table that is humanly possible for me to attend, I know that I will be in heaven. God gives us promises about this many times in Scripture: