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hmmmmm.... here's some food for thought....

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http://www.prb.org/Articles/2002/How...edonEarth.aspx
Their estimate of total human population since the beginning of the "50,000 B.C. Big-Bang beginning" was in the ballpark of 106,456,367,669.

Percent of those ever born who are living in 2002: 5.8%

I'm willing to round that total down a few billion to adjust for the more accurate "Creation" beginning; how about 100,000,000,000.

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http://www.nrlc.org/news/2000/NRL02/how.html
The last AGI numbers are for 1996. Totaling all of AGI's figures 1973-1996, the number of abortions through 1996 is 35,316,203.

After 1999, I suppose that you could safely re-adjust your estimate to 50,000,000+ abortions in the US adding on the last 8 years of so. One has to also consider that these stats only reflect the US, with many more millions of abortions from the remaining countries of the world.

A comparison to United States casualties of war:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...ualties_of_war
US Wars ranked by deaths
Rank War Years Deaths
1 American Civil War 1861–1865 625,000
2 World War II 1941–1945 405,399
3 World War I 1917–1918 116,516
4 Vietnam War 1964–1973 58,151
5 Korean War 1950–1953 36,516
6 American Revolutionary War 1775–1783 25,000
7 War of 1812 1812–1815 20,000
8 Mexican War 1846–1848 13,283
9 Philippine War 1898–1902 4,196
10 Iraq War 2003–present 3,571

Another comparison to global casualties of war:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties
19,769,102 Estimated dead among all involved countries in WWI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
72,155,800 Estimated dead among all involved countries in WWII

If I had to personally speculate, I'd say less than 2 or 3 billion souls.... depending on how much longer till the Lord comes again....

I confess that the first speculation that came to my mind was under 1 billion souls; I hope that the above speculation is closer to reality.

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Originally Posted by CC1 (Post 174437)

Hmmmm..how many people in heaven.......this is easy!!

All I need to find out is the total size of Wholehearted's immediate family and I've got the number!!!

That was low, low low.... :)

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Originally Posted by Timmy (Post 174328)

Over in Deep Waters, there's a thread about birth control. It was explained that some types of birth control often result in the death of an embryo, the "pill" and IUDs being examples.

Also, many embryos simply fail to implant in the uterine wall, with no help from birth control. And, there are many miscarriages at various stages of pregnancy, not to mention abortions.

If life begins at conception, all these embryos had spirits that will have eternal life. Is that correct? And every one of them will be in Heaven, correct?

If this is correct so far, then I suspect that the vast majority of Heaven's population will consist of these souls that never saw life on Earth outside of the womb, and many babies and small children who died. Depending on how many adults do wind up there, the percentage could be upwards of 99.9%, maybe more! And the numbers could be in the hundreds of billions. Most of them will not see their parents there, of course, and most of the adults that get there by their salvation (Acts 2:38!) will find a lot more of their own children there than they may have expected!

OK, so, discuss! Will there be many billions of people in Heaven, or am I all wet?

Yes!

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Originally Posted by crakjak (Post 174517)

Yes!

Is that gonna be a party or what???

:party:party:slaphappy:party:party
:party:party:party:happydance:party
:bliss:party:party:party:party
:party:woot:party:party:party

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Originally Posted by Timmy (Post 174611)

Is that gonna be a party or what???

:party:party:slaphappy:party:party
:party:party:party:happydance:party
:bliss:party:party:party:party
:party:woot:party:party:party

God told Abraham that in his seed all the nations of the earth would be blessed, and that Abraham's seed would be as the "stars in the heavens. "

With the above in mind lets read Isaiah 40:26:

"Lift up your eyes on high
And see who has created these stars,
The One who leads forth their host by number.
He calls them all by name;
Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power.
Not one of them is missing."

Let him that has ears hear what the Spirit declared thru the prophet Isaiah!!!!

God will not lose one of His creation, He will eventually bring each one into right relationship with Himself. Then every knee will bow every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father, and then the whole earth will be filled with His glory, then none will say "know the Lord" for "ALL WILL KNOW HIM, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST." Then the glory of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the seas.

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Originally Posted by Praxeas (Post 174345)

The number is uncountable according to John and as numerous as the starts of the heaven according to God speaking to Abraham

How many oneness Apostolics are there?

11 i have not picked the other 10

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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea (Post 174708)

How many oneness Apostolics are there?

All, of them! According to Isaiah 40.26, not one is missing, by the greatest of His might and the strength of His power.

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Originally Posted by Ferd (Post 174713)

11 i have not picked the other 10

I haven't received notice from you of my being picked.:nah

Much less than will be in hell. There will even be some trying to get in and for some reason won't be able to.