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Talk:Mystery:What Percentage Go To Hell? (view source)
Revision as of 21:06, September 21, 2011
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:Please edit as you think best.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 13:27, 21 September 2011 (EDT)
:Please edit as you think best.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 13:27, 21 September 2011 (EDT)
::I suppose it depends on one's view of salvation.
*If one is an Episcopalian, standards are far more lenient, and even non-Christians are seen as viable candidates for heaven. Calvinists, however, believe most people are predestined for Hell.
*Mormons do not necessarily have a Hell, but (from what my Mormon friends have told me) several tiers of exaltation, the bottom two being one plane meant to teach wayward souls about God, and the Outer Darkness: reserved for the very worst apostates.
*Catholicism has [[Limbo]] and [[Purgatory]] for those that don't quite deserve Hell, but don't deserve Heaven either (is Heaven capitalized?). And purgatory is often a step to Heaven.
*Many Protestants believe that the only those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their lord and savior (in whatever fashion they might interpret this concept- [[Jack Chick]], for example, excludes Catholics and anyone else he doesn't like) can go to Heaven, and the rest go to Hell and sometimes eventually the "lake of fire" (I had a friend which said this was oblivion).
::Also, is this the percentage of people ''today'' that are headed for damnation, or people in general? The poster below me factors in the 100 billion people assumed to have ever lived on Earth. If that is so, then can it safely be assumed that everyone before Jesus Christ except for devout Jews are currently in Hell? What about uncontacted peoples?
::In which Christian cosmologies do Jews go to Heaven? Some seem to assume that being Jewish is as good as being Christian, while others see the Jews as totally damned. And if Jews go to Heaven, what about [[Samaritans]]?
::If we have a sufficiently dedicated mathematician among us, perhaps they can create an algorithm to generate estimates based on all of these unknowns.--[[User:CamilleT|CamilleT]] 17:06, 21 September 2011 (EDT)
== A mathematical approach ==
== A mathematical approach ==