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What will be more populated, Heaven or Hell?

Greatest I am

Greatest I am

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MidnightBlue said:
Christians are always telling us that a fertilized egg is a person with a soul. About half of these fail to implant in uterus. Of those that implant, a substantial number are miscarried or aborted. Those of us who are actually born are in the minority, so if all those zygotes, embryos, and fetuses go to heaven, heaven will obviously be more populous than hell, even if (as we are told) all but a small minority of those who are born will be consigned to hell.
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There are more that do not follow Jesus than do so so I'm not sure I agree with you. Then again I don't believe the follow Jesus thing.

Regards
DL
 
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rstrats

Active Member
Francine,

re: "Nowhere does the bible say disembodied spirits go to heaven."


Ecclesiastes 12:7 comes close - "Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it."
 
Francine

Francine

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rstrats said:
Ecclesiastes 12:7 comes close - "Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it."
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That spirit is the "breath of life" and it does not have the imprint of identity that was stamped out during one's life.
 
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w00t

Active Member
This discussion is similar in stupidity to how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and just as enlightening!:sarcastic
 
Francine

Francine

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w00t said:
This discussion is similar in stupidity to how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and just as enlightening!:sarcastic
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That answer to that of course is ω, the first countable infinity. You can assign a natural number to each angel. The infinity of real numbers is much higher, because each real number is itself its own infinity. Cantor's diagonal proof shows that you cannot assign a natural number to each real number.
 
Francine

Francine

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Katzpur said:
I agree, but I'm wondering where you believe they do go?
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Are you familiar with the doctrine that is most associated with the Seventh Day Adventist Church, and called "soul sleep" ? In my philosophy, it is not possible to have pure intelligence without something physical for that intelligence to be expressed in. Minds always have bodies. The exception to this is God himself, who is the "Matrix". In God we live and move and have our being, so God retains the memory of who we were when we die, and on the last day we are restored to perfection...with new bodies. From our point of view, no time elapses from the moment we die to the general resurrection.
 
Greatest I am

Greatest I am

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Francine said:
Are you familiar with the doctrine that is most associated with the Seventh Day Adventist Church, and called "soul sleep" ? In my philosophy, it is not possible to have pure intelligence without something physical for that intelligence to be expressed in. Minds always have bodies. The exception to this is God himself, who is the "Matrix". In God we live and move and have our being, so God retains the memory of who we were when we die, and on the last day we are restored to perfection...with new bodies. From our point of view, no time elapses from the moment we die to the general resurrection.
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Interesting language.

If at death we are downloaded into this matrix, what makes you think that God has no use for us?
I agree with your idea but think we are useful to this matrix. We all become part of the software, not a dead file.

Regards
DL
 
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