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To: unlearner

There is nothing in your quotes about the population of heaven and, while hell may never be full, there will - following that broad condemation of human behavior - be an awlful lot of us there.

Going to heaven requires only 2 things: faith and belief in G_D. The rest is fixable.


11 posted on 12/06/2015 12:09:53 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

The quote about the house being full is a parable clearly referencing Heaven. God will keep adding citizens to Heaven until it is full. Here is the full passage of that parable:

Luke 14:15-24
Now when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, “Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!”
Then He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many, and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, ‘Come, for all things are now ready.’ But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’ Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.’ And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’ Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’”

There is a set number of people who will be in Heaven, which is a number only God knows or can count.

Revelation 7:9
After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb...

No more room in Heaven:

Revelation 12:7-9
And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.


God has invited us to Heaven. Most will make excuses for not accepting the invitation. He will keep the door open until Heaven is full. Then the door will be closed.


Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.


18 posted on 12/06/2015 1:18:08 PM PST by unlearner (RIP America, 7/4/1776 - 6/26/2015, "Only God can judge us now." - Claus Von Stauffenberg / Valkyrie)
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