very very few are saved, most of us are going to hell

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Student09 said:
Despair is a sin. Presumption (assuming that you will be saved without having to do anything for God) is also a sin.

I agree that it is very frightening. It is terrible. At the same time, when we look around at the way people behave and how many of them seem to simply hate God, it is difficult to draw a different conclusion. We should all be praying very hard for ourselves and for those around us, and trusting in God’s mercy.
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“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it" - Matthew 7:13-14

“Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of man comes.” - Matthew 25:13
 
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We are not supposed to do that.
 
God condemns no one to hell. He doesn’t want anyone to be there. God is love and has created us for Himself, for love.
God gave us free will to choose Him or to reject him… Some have decided to reject Him. Thus, they condemn themselves to hell. Even if Jesus went to hell to extend His mercy to them, they would still reject Him. There is no remorse in hell. They WANT to be there.
Fear of God is healthy. It is the “beginning” of wisdom. That is, it is a good thing to be scared of hell and turn to God out of a healthy sense of fear of rejecting God. However, while such fear and avoidance of hell can save you, it is not what God ultimately calls us to. “Perfect love casts out fear.” The more we learn to love God, the less we fear, and the more we come to know Him as love and mercy.
I simply cannot believe, myself, that “very few are saved” and “most are going to hell.” This is a wrathful Calvinist God, not the loving and merciful God I know and believe in. Although we see much sin and evil around us, the culpability for sin states that one must know it is a sin (ie gravely wrong) and willfully choose it. Only God knows who meets these criteria for sin and who does not. Many today have no well developed sense of morality at all, and for many this is not necessarily their fault. For all people, God gives the necessary graces for them to achieve salvation. Some will reject these graces. But even if it looks “to me” like someone has rejected them, I am never allowed to make a judgement about whether that person will be saved or not. I suspect all sorts of interesting things happen in secret between people and God at the moment of their deaths.
 
As a tourist, I went to the Muslim country for the first time in my life, and it accidentally happened for the month of fasting Ramadan.
For me it was a shock therapy.
I saw huge crowds of people bowing in prayer a few times a day.
I saw women in burqa going with children and sometimes with big bags.
I saw throughout the day owners of cafes and grocery stores that for all days long did not allow themselves to eat or to drink water, because of the fast Ramadan. The same could be said about those who work all day physically in the sun.
I could be awakened in the evening by the prayer of the muezzin, and in the morning I was definitely waked up for the prayer by the loudspeaker of the muezzin.
Of course, with such a reminder I said a prayer to my but I came up with the idea that to many superficial сold or very warm Christians their faith is like a heroism, аs some kind of righteousness for which they think that the Lord will receive them in the first ranks in heaven, but if we try to compare to weigh our righteousness by means of some comparisons, Then it may turn out that cold, warm, superficial Christians are worse than atheists.
 
Joe147 said:
I came accross this blog with many quotes about how few will be saved.
should I despair now, and prepare myself for the flames of hell??

This is the most terrifying thing I have ever read!!!

catholicquotations.blogspot.com/2008/07/greater-part-of-men-choose-to-be-damned.html

are these quotes real? these are the Church fathers, popes, the great saints…what a terror!

“The greater number of Christians today are damned. The destiny of those dying on one day is that very few - not as many as ten - went strait to Heaven; many remained in Purgatory; and those cast into Hell were as numerous as snowflakes in mid-winter.”
-Blessed Anna Maria Taigi
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Do you know where all those quotes REALLY come from?

All emphasis mine

Matthew 7:13-14 ,

13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy,[a] that leads to destruction, ἀπώλεια, ] and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few."

Luke 13:23-28 ,
23 And some one said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, 24 “Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 When once the householder has risen up and shut the door, you will begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us.’ He will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity!’ 28 There you will weep and gnash your teeth",

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Jesus, the one who will judge all souls, living and dead, is telling us in advance what will happen in the end.
 
steve_b said:
Do you know where all those quotes REALLY come from?
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Joe147 hasn’t logged in for 7.5 years.

People really need to stop reading just the first post and responding without reading the most recent posts.

I’m going to report this thread for the moderators to lock down.
 
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