<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I've heard Revelation 12:4 used to identify the percent of angels who followed Lucifer into rebellion against God, i.e. one third. But I've never heard it used in connection with the percentage of persons who make it to Heaven.<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT color=#007f40 size=4 face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG><EM>Art Kelly</EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #006600; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2><STRONG>Turris Fortis Mihi Deus</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></STRONG></DIV><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 4/21/11, Stuart D. Gathman <I><stuart@bmsi.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Apologetics] Dave Armstrong on Robert Sungensis<BR>To: "Art Kelly" <arthurkelly@yahoo.com><BR>Cc: "Apologetics Group" <apologetics@gathman.org>, "Dave Armstrong" <apologistdave@gmail.com>, "Jimmy Murphy" <jmurf80@gmail.com><BR>Date: Thursday, April 21, 2011, 10:37 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Art Kelly wrote:<BR><BR>> Your understanding is right on target. See Dominus Iesus at<BR>> <A href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfa" target=_blank>http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfa</A><BR>> ith_doc_20000806_dominus-iesus_en.html<BR><BR>So once again, Sungenis attacks a straw man. That isn't universalism,<BR>just hoping for a better percentage. Seems consistent with "God is not<BR>willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."<BR>On the other side though, you have "narrow is the way that leads to life, and<BR>few there be that find it."<BR><BR>I talked to one guy who was sure that 66% would be saved. Proof text:<BR>Revelation 12:4 "And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,..."<BR><BR>--<BR> Stuart D. Gathman
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