Posted on 01/27/2024 1:24:30 PM PST by ebb tide
It looks like Pope Francis agrees with the bogus head priestess of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Elizabeth Eaton. “Hell is empty”.
....wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
you too? what i don’t understand is what they have against my horse...
I want it to be empty and I want to try and do my part to keep folks from choosing to go there. I also pray that those who seem to reject Christ , accept him in their final moments of life.
Fast pass for everyone.
Off topic, but still funny after all these years...
A second grade teacher in England told her class that the recently killed Lady Diana was in Hell because she had sex outside of marriage.
Many of the children started crying, and the teacher was instantly fired.
First:
Do you have any job openings for my particular resume, and what’s the pay. Always get the money going in. Any good contractor from Detroit knows that.
Second:
Can I work remote.
Working in Mississippi the last couple of years I have tired of the heat.
Some Eastern cultures have Karma.
It can be very nasty.
His fellow popes are down there waiting for him.
They should at least give former Popes discounted rent.
;-)
“For some people hell is here on earth in the form of physical and emotional pain.”
In a way it is because suffering on earth — if it is offered up as redemptive suffering — can offset some time in hell.
Wouldn’t hell be full of atheists, agnostics, animists, Pagans, Daoists, Confucianists, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, and non-Catholic Christians plus the wicked Catholics?
I.e. the vast majority of mankind?
"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions and illumined by the skulls of Bishops".
Most people fail to finish that quote.
No, no amount of suffering is redemptive. It has no bearing on the judgment to come.
Sure, God can use it, but redemption is SOLELY through the blood of Jesus Christ. That is the ONLY thing that redeems us. If that doesn’t do it because it’s not enough, then nothing is.
According to Jesus, more people will end up lost than saved.
What *many* and *few* amounts to, nobody knows the percentages, but clearly more people will be lost than saved.
Not responding to you but I meant “time in *purgatory*”, of course.
You would be one to know.
The fewness of the saved has long been a doctrine of the Faith.
I assume hell will remain empty until the Last Judgment. Once occupied, its residents will lock its gates from the inside.
Those who contend that hell will remain empty are blithely ignoring the entire point of this life: to identify with certainty those who want God to be their boss eternally. Most don’t.
About 16% of the global population is Catholic. That is probably as high a percentage as ever.
So something like 15% is probably a good upper bound on those going to heaven, and it is probably a lot lower than that.
After all, hell would contain all of the antediluvians drowned in the flood, and most of the other populations described in the Old Testament.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.