Hell's Population Crunch

[kwikphilly]

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So, if a child dies before the age of accountability do you suggest that the child is saved?                              Reformed Baptist

Yes I am,more than "suggesting",I believe that with all of my heart because I know my Loving,Compassionate,Merciful,Just & Loving Vindicator,my Heavenly Father.He is not a cruel & heartless god who desires the blood of innocent babies for sacrifice like a demon god.....He is Creator God Who gave His Life for each man to be with Him Eternally.....

God Almighty gave every single person a "measure of faith"

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King James Bible
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.                    Romans 12:3

That measure of FAITH is how Gods Glory is seen by us in all of His Creation,it is what draws us to Him,even a little child knows He is real before the age of accountabilty

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Luke 12:47-48 

And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

If the servant who deserved a beating only gets a light beating because he DID NOT KNOW,do you really think an innocent child would get any punishment at all?

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Acts 17:30

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"Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,

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Jeremiah 17:10 - I the LORD search the heart, try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.

 

Little children that are too young to CHOOSE Jesus,to know Him,you can even consider them as under  the Law if you like,they have not broken any Law,they are too young to know the difference,they too are Saved by their little measure of FAITH,Gods Gift-His Grace BEFORE the age of accountability

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 I have a real problem - do I allow my children to go on living beyond that 'age' so that they loose that default status they are born into -    Reformed Baptist

You do have a real problem if you think your children will go to hell before they are accountable for themselves & also if you think you could prevent them from coming into the age of accountabilty,there comes a time for each individual to mature & this is just part of life.......teach them well,teach them young so they will not depart from Gods Way,that is an earthly parents assignment ,they are Gods children and we pray they will remain His children when the times comes for them to be held accountable                                                                                                                                                                     With love-in Christ,Kwik 

 

[Ezra]

On 8/4/2016 at 8:09 PM, WebersHome said:

If traditional Christianity's perception of Jesus Christ and the hereafter is correct; then it's apparent that souls never stop cascading into the abyss...

It is not just *traditional Christianity* that believes in a literal Hell, but it is the clear teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ -- who is God -- and who Himself created Hell for the devil and his angels.  And people do not go to the Lake of Fire directly. 

Those who attack the doctrine of Hell rarely mention the Gospel and the fact that NO ONE NEEDS TO GO TO HELL.

[WebersHome]

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Through me; the way to the eternal city.

Through me; the way to eternal sadness.

Through me; the way to lost people.

 

Justice moved my supreme maker:

I was shaped by divine power,

By highest wisdom, and by primal love.

 

Before me, nothing was created

That is not eternal: and eternally I endure.

Abandon all hope, you that enter here.

 

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

Inferno: canto 3, v.1-9

 

Dante's Divine Comedy is called a comedy because it has a happy ending as opposed to a tragedy; at least for Dante anyway. The souls he and Virgil pass along the way through the Inferno portion of Dante's odyssey will never, nor anon, have a happy ending; hence the sign above the entrance to the netherworld: "Abandon all hope, you that enter here."

 

Webster's defines "despair' as: to no longer have any hope or belief that a situation will improve or change. Well; down in the Inferno section of Dante's concept of the netherworld, despair is a way of life.

 

CRUNCH UPDATE: 6 days have elapsed since beginning the thread. If the figures in post #1 are within reason, then something like 334,860 new arrivals have checked into the fiery sector of hades since Aug 4, 2016.

 

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[WebersHome]

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● Luke 13:4-5 . . And what about the eighteen men who died when a tower of Siloam fell on them? Were they the worst sinners in Jerusalem? No, and I tell you again that unless you repent, you will likewise perish.

 

The koiné Greek word for "tower" in that passage is purgos (poor'-gos) which is an ambiguous word that can mean not only an isolated structure like a skyscraper; but also a special battlement which protrudes from the face of a castle's curtain wall-- consisting of crenellations, merlons, and machicolations --providing occupants a tactical advantage for observing and defending the curtain wall's exterior face. Sometimes though, purgos were simply architectural facades that made otherwise insipid stone walls aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

 

In the days prior to steel reinforcing bar and structural steel beams, purgos (which were often constructed of either stones or bricks or wood) weren't all that stable, and sometimes crumbled; thus detaching themselves from the curtain wall like an old swallow's nest; resulting in pieces raining down on whoever happened to be standing below. The tower depicted in Luke was possibly a decorative part of an architectural enclosure surrounding the pool of Siloam. (cf. John 9:7)

 

The people who were killed when that tower collapsed, weren't killed by the hand of God. No, they were just simply in the wrong place at the wrong time; viz: it was just dumb luck. It's like when people plan all month for a camping trip in the mountains. Upon arrival, they set up camp; and after lunch, walk a hiking trail. Just then, a tree limb, that's been silently growing in the forest for who knows how many years, suddenly decides to snap off and fall to earth right then; subsequently killing one of the campers just as they walk under it.

 

One minute earlier and it would have missed. One minute later and it would have missed. But no, the limb falls right on cue as if the forces of nature conspired to hold that tree limb in place till just the right moment; waiting for that one specific person to walk under it.

 

In a similar incident Friday, Feb 19, 2010 --a centuries-old Mosque minaret in Meknes Morocco collapsed and fell into a crowd of worshippers during prayer time, killing 41.

 

Saturday, June 27, 2010, a 6-month-old baby girl was killed and her mother seriously injured when the pair were struck by a falling tree branch in New York City's Central Park Zoo. The girl's father was taking their picture near the sea lion exhibit when a branch above them suddenly snapped off and fell.

 

On Tuesday, July 3, 2007; nineteen year-old Ramiro Gonzalez was returning home to Nyssa Oregon from a week-end honeymoon in northern California with his bride Idalia asleep in the back seat when their 1997 Pontiac Grand Am hit a cow twenty miles east of Burns. The Pontiac went off the road, through a fence, and burst into flames. Idalia escaped with only minor injuries, but Ramiro died at the Ste. Charles Medical Center in Bend the very next day.

 

Ramiro and his bride didn't get to live in a home of their own for even one single minute of their marriage-- never had a baby, never joined the PTA, never saved for college, never went to ballet lessons, nor to soccer or little league, never went on family picnics, never took home movies and photos at Christmas, Easter, or birthdays, never went to the beach and built sand castles --no, their entire future, and all their dreams of family life, were shattered in an instant by a lame-brained bovine; and Ramiro wasn't even 20 years old yet.

 

March 20, 2008; fifty-seven year old Judy Kay Zagorski, of Pigeon, Michigan, was sitting in the front seat of her father's boat going 25 knots on the Atlantic Ocean side of Vaca Key in Florida, when a Spotted Eagle Ray, with a wingspan of 5 to 6 feet; leaped up out of the water-- for who knows what reason --and collided with Zagorski, knocking her backwards onto the deck of the boat. She died from the impact. Judy's sister, standing next to her, was not injured.

 

On a November morning in 1998, Alan Pakula climbed into his Volvo station wagon and began the 100-mile drive from Manhattan to his Long Island house. The acclaimed movie director of Sophie's Choice, All The President's Men, and The Pelican Brief, had made that trip countless times with no incident.

 

As the 70 year-old Pakula neared exit 49 on the Long Island Expressway just before noon, the tires of a vehicle ahead of him flipped a 7-foot piece of steel rod into the air. Within seconds, the rod shot through Pakula's windshield, smashing into his forehead, killing him almost instantly.

 

Death often comes when people least expect it. As a rule, they don't usually get up in the morning planning it to be their last day on earth. The 169,752 killed, and 127,294 listed as missing in more than eleven countries by the tsunami of 2004, were taken by surprise, and given no warning it was to be their last day on earth.

 

The 2,829 people who perished in a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and the 189 who died in the Pentagon, didn't go in to work expecting their lives to end before lunch that day. No, people's lives often end while they still have obligations and commitments, aspirations, things to do, places to go, and people to see; when a car accident, train wreck, act of nature, plane crash, crime, heart attack, or stroke puts an abrupt end to every plan they ever made.

 

Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010, a 7.0 earthquake struck Port au Prince Haiti right out of the blue subsequently causing the loss of more than 200,000 lives. A similar act of nature on March 11, 2011, left 25,000 dead and/or missing in Japan.

 

Okeechobee woman Dawn Johnston, 38, was killed Wednesday June 30, 2010 after part of a portable toilet crashed through her car's windshield. Dawn was driving south on SR 15 shortly after 11 a.m. when two portable toilets fell from the trailer of a pickup truck traveling north. The portable toilets shattered when they hit the road, and a piece of one of them crashed through the woman's windshield, striking her. Johnston's car then veered off the road and collided with a tree.

 

A rain-saturated hillside above the Stillaguamish River on the outskirts of the rural town of Oso in the State of Washington gave way March 22, 2014 leaving behind a current death toll of 41 souls. The landslide happened to suddenly and so rapidly that nobody saw it coming and/or had the slightest chance of getting out of the way. Listed among the dead and missing was a four-month old infant.

 

Freak incidents like those listed above can happen to anybody in the form of a stray bullet from a drive-by, lightening strike, gas explosion, choking on a piece of meat, electrocution, earthquake, a drunk driver, a fall in the bath tub; bricks dropped from an overpass, or any number of out-of-the-blue surprises. I don't think Christ was saying that repentance will protect people from dying in an unexpected incident, but rather, that if they don't start thinking about the afterlife now, while they have the chance; then they risk being caught off guard by sudden death where there will be no time to think; and they'll find themselves suddenly thrust into the afterlife a lot sooner than they ever expected.

 

I was taught in catechism that repentance always means sorrow and regret for one's sins; but I don't think that's what Christ was getting at.

 

The koiné Greek word for "repent" in his statement is metanoeo (met-an-o-eh'-o) which means: to think differently; viz: to reconsider-- in other words: to change one's mind and/or change one's direction.

 

I was also taught in catechism that repentance and confession of one's sins are joined at the hip; so to speak. But confession of sins is not the emphasis in Luke 13:4-5; metanoeo is the emphasis.

 

Christ preceded the statement recorded in Luke 13:4-5 with another like it.

 

● Luke 13:1-3 . .There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answered and said to them: Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.

 

The record doesn't explain why Pilate executed those men in particular; nor even where the executions took place. But just for brevity's sake, I'll assume for now that those particular men were known insurrectionists, and the executions took place on the grounds of the Temple compound in Jerusalem while the men were there to worship. In other words: the men were pounced upon in a place they would never suspect; and Pilate's soldiers sprung on the Galileans so suddenly and so efficiently that the men had no chance to either escape or to defend themselves.

 

It's at a time like that when your religion of choice had better be the right one because you'll have neither time nor opportunity to reconsider and switch to another.

 

● Ecc 9:10-12 . . For the time of mischance comes to all. And a man cannot even know his time. As fishes are enmeshed in a fatal net, and as birds are trapped in a snare, so men are caught at the time of calamity, when it comes upon them without warning.

 

CRUNCH UPDATE: 8 days have elapsed since beginning the thread. If the figures in post #1 are within reason, then something like 446,480 new arrivals have checked into the fiery sector of hades since Aug 4, 2016.

 

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Edited August 12, 2016 by WebersHome

[Flsnookman]

Instead of focusing on hell (which Jesus never did) we should imho stay focused on God and Heaven. If Jesus is your Lord and Savior you will not be going to hell you will be Heaven bound. Contrary to certain churches teachings, sin,repent,repeat is NOT what God wants for us. Instead He wants us to come to realize our true identities in Him. Once we come to believe we are who God says we are we realize hell is of no concern to us at all.  Our old sinful self was crucified with Christ and our new righteous selves were raised up with Him. We are told time and again to have faith and stay focused on God, don't let something you will never experience anyway cloud your focus.

[missmuffet]

19 minutes ago, Flsnookman said:

Instead of focusing on hell (which Jesus never did) we should imho stay focused on God and Heaven. If Jesus is your Lord and Savior you will not be going to hell you will be Heaven bound. Contrary to certain churches teachings, sin,repent,repeat is NOT what God wants for us. Instead He wants us to come to realize our true identities in Him. Once we come to believe we are who God says we are we realize hell is of no concern to us at all.  Our old sinful self was crucified with Christ and our new righteous selves were raised up with Him. We are told time and again to have faith and stay focused on God, don't let something you will never experience anyway cloud your focus.

I agree Jesus did not focus on hell but there are many references in the Holy Bible regarding hell. I think Pastors need to do at least one really good informational sermon on hell to their congregation.

[Behold]

On 8/4/2016 at 9:09 PM, WebersHome said:

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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 are not reconciled to God by a gate, you are reconciled to God by a savior dying on a Cross.

So, what you are teaching is basic "works to be saved",  that has nothing to do with Salvation or Eternal life, or "The Gospel".

You are teaching Galatians 1:8

So, Once you get the CROSS into your theology, then you will be on the right PATH, but until you do, you are heading in the wrong direction.

[Flsnookman]

2 hours ago, Davida said:

Jesus taught alot about hell.

Where exactly? 

[Flsnookman]

OK, in Matthew we who are saved are not on the left. In Mark Jesus is using these examples to show a need for a savior. Look, hell is obviously bad but Jesus message was not one of fear in fact it was and is the opposite. We who are saved are told the we may have boldness in the day of judgement (1 John 4:17) and that we face no condemnation (Romans 8:1). God doesn't want to scare us into believing. 2 Timothy 1:7  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Fear frees no one but John 8:36  If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed

I am not cherry picking certain verses but rather I am referring to the gospel of Jesus Christ and it is one of healing and faith not fear and damnation.

[WebersHome]

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"Right Back Atcha"

 

I once heard President Obama reply to criticism with almost those exact same words; viz: he didn't deny the truth of the criticism, but instead employed the age-old tactic of accusing his critic of the very same things; which, I guess in his mind; somehow mitigated his own culpability; but the honorable response would have been for him to man-up and admit his conduct was unbecoming rather than stoop to recriminations.

 

It's very common for people to respond to criticism the same way Mr. Obama did. It's all the same as saying: Who are you to talk? Well; regardless of who someone is to talk, if the criticism is true; then it stands; viz: recriminations are futile. All they do is pull someone down with you so you don't go down alone.

 

I predict there's going to be a quite a bit of resentment and indignation at the great white throne event depicted at Rev 20:11-15 when the dead see people in white who they know to be guilty of the very same things for which they will be sentenced to the reservoir of brimstone.

 

Human nature is funny. If I criticize a tree, it doesn't react. If I criticize a spider; it doesn't react. If I criticize a Guinea pig, it doesn't react. If I criticize a parakeet, it doesn't react. But if I criticize an h.sapiens; it bristles and becomes defensive. It's a curious behavior.

 

So; how might I describe human nature? I think I could accurately describe it as both judgmental and defensive.

 

● Rom 2:15 . .Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.

 

CRUNCH UPDATE: 10 days have elapsed since beginning the thread. If the figures in post #1 are within reason, then something like 558,100 new arrivals have checked into the fiery sector of hades since Aug 4, 2016.

 

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