Few will be saved

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All across the globe in the hundreds of religions on Earth, billions are being told and believe they are saved or going to a higher plain of existence. Even in the so called religions that claim to be Christian, about 2 billion told you are saved, IS IT TRUTH? Lets see what Jesus says'
Luke 17:26-- About these last days--He says they are just like Noah's day= 99.9% mislead to destruction. That is about 9 million maybe who get saved. Why Jesus taught-FEW will find the road that leads off into life( be saved)--Thus all those religions are false. The 1 that teaches about 9 million( a great crowd, yet FEW compared to the #,s on Earth) is the religion that listens to Jesus.
Why is the world rejecting it? This is Why-2Cor 4:4--2Cor 11:12-15)

Who will you believe?

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@kjw47,

I believe the overwhelming majority of scientists who understand that these are delusions based on myths and fairy stories.

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@kjw47,

Not you.

Eternity with Jehovah's Witnesses sounds like Hell.

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@izzythepush,

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Eternity with Jehovah's Witnesses sounds like Hell.

Revelation says that heaven is a place with unending praising of God and if that doesn't sound good to you then you don't belong in heaven. A word of caution though, hell is described as a place of "weeping and gnashing of teeth." Feel free to make your choice as we all have one.

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@Investigator,

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Feel free to make your choice as we all have one.

I choose to reject literal interpretations of ancient scripture.

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@hightor,

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I choose to reject literal interpretations of ancient scripture.

Not sure where your rejection comes from, but I did my homework in accordance with a dream I had that told me to read the word of God slowly and carefully and not to skip over any words because each word has been carefully documented. Then I read the words of Jesus in Mark 13:31 that state "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away." Like I said, I believe because I did my homework.

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@Investigator,

My rejection is based on your literal interpretation of figurative language transcribed by humans, based on oral tradition and subsequently copied, re-copied, edited, re-edited, translated, and re-translated multiple times many centuries ago.

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Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

A literal interpretation of this statement is meaningless. "Heaven" in this biblical sense is an imaginative conception which exists only in human minds. It will "pass away" when there are no longer humans to conceive of it, if not before that time if humans cease to believe in it.

"Earth" is made of matter and this matter, arranged in a vast and complex biological system sustains human minds. It's a generally accepted conjecture that the earth will not exist in this present state forever and when the material conditions can no longer support human life there will no longer be a biological host in which biblical "heaven" can exist.

The unsubstantiated claim traditionally attributed to Yeshua bin Yoseph is not to be understood literally because while matter cannot be destroyed, it may be changed or converted into energy and the notion of "words" surviving in this context is absurd.

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@hightor,

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My rejection is based on your literal interpretation of figurative language transcribed by humans, based on oral tradition and subsequently copied, re-copied, edited, re-edited, translated, and re-translated multiple times many centuries ago.

You making a claim that the word of God in the Bible is a "literal interpretation of figurative language," but that it merely your opinion given without any evidence to back it up. Oral tradition is not evidence either. In regards to translation issues I suggest you review the fifty plus English translations presented on Biblegateway.com to find just how close they are to each other. I'm betting you're politically a far left radical because you don't dig into the details on the Gospels so you likely don't research any of your other beliefs either.

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@Investigator,

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Oral tradition is not evidence either.

Right. So where do you think the earliest texts came from? They weren't written down as Yeshua bin Yoseph was speaking. The texts are derived from stories passed through word of mouth. Thanks for proving my point!

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In regards to translation issues I suggest you review the fifty plus English translations presented on Biblegateway.com to find just how close they are to each other.

You can say the same about the Iliad. That doesn't confer validity to the subject matter. So they accurately transcribed fiction. Big deal.

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...because you don't dig into the details on the Gospels so you likely don't research any of your other beliefs either.

On the contrary, I've read the NT and simply I don't find it convincing with regard to any literal truth. As a guide to human behavior it's okay but I find Stoicism and early Buddhism (they were roughly contemporaneous) more practical and considerably more insightful.

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@hightor,

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Right. So where do you think the earliest texts came from? They weren't written down as Yeshua bin Yoseph was speaking. The texts are derived from stories passed through word of mouth. Thanks for proving my point!

If you went to Mark 13:9-11 you would see how Jesus designated eyewitnesses. Then John 14:26 and 20:22 specified when they started documenting their testimony and they had God helping them get it just right.

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On the contrary, I've read the the NT and simply I don't find it convincing with regard to any literal truth. As a guide to human behavior it's okay but I find Stoicism and early Buddhism (they were roughly contemporaneous) more practical and considerably more insightful.

You might have read the NT but don't waste your time reading what Saul wrote because it's a bunch of nonsense. Focus on the words of Jesus and connect them to OT prophecy and you will get some answers.

BTW, Guides to human behavior are not the word of God.

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@Investigator,

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Guides to human behavior are not the word of God

Right, the "word of God" is a human attempt to guide social behavior.

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@hightor,

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Right, the "word of God" is a human attempt to guide social behavior.

Only for those who aren't searching for God because they already have the answers that makes them feel good about themselves.

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@Investigator,

I prefer asking questions to having answers. Answers are only temporary rungs on a rickety ladder of knowledge built on limited conclusions. Why even attempt to dispel doubt and surrender to the authority of belief?

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@Investigator,

Like you, you've twisted God into your own perverse, hateful bigoted self.

According to scripture there's a special place in Hell for your sort.

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@hightor,

Stoicism and Gnostic Christianity are very heavily linked.

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@izzythepush,

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Like you, you've twisted God into your own perverse, hateful bigoted self.

According to scripture there's a special place in Hell for your sort.

Apparently you don't like the written rulebook--the word of God, so you have made your own. It's a good thing that nobody has to worry about your judgement because it means nothing.

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@izzythepush,

And Cynicism, too (the classical form).

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@Investigator,

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So where do you think the earliest texts came from? They weren't written down as Yeshua bin Yoseph was speaking. The texts are derived from stories passed through word of mouth. Thanks for proving my point!

I want to correct this. Your statement doesn't prove my point; it just shows that you and I agree that "oral tradition is not evidence". Those are your words.

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I'm betting you're politically a far left radical because you don't dig into the details on the Gospels so you likely don't research any of your other beliefs either.

This statement demonstrates considerable ignorance. After all, it's right-wing ideologues who have consistently been shown to uphold mistaken beliefs, such as creationism and the effectiveness of intercessory prayer, and their rejection of climate science and thirty year campaign to stifle any moves to curtail carbon emissions has endangered the future of life on earth as we know it.

You might try to critique my perspective as that of a "believer", someone who embraces the "religion of science". But the difference between your biblical beliefs and my acceptance of a scientific worldview is that I am fully aware that I may need to alter my understanding of the world based on new discoveries that undermine previous paradigms. Science is a living body of knowledge which must account for mistaken predictions and failed hypotheses. Biblical literalism is a dead philosophy which simply picks over the ossified remnants of an alien culture which existed two thousand years ago and is incapable of adapting to the times. Living a good life based on a benign mythology is a worthy challenge but raking over fictitious texts in search of some kind of ultimate truth is a waste of time.

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