>>12416204I know it may seem far removed from your cushy 65-inch tv and couch, food-prepared, amenities-covered, air-conditioned sedentary world, but followers of Jesus were once tortured and brutalized for believing in the faith by the Roman government. For simply refusing to partake in eating foods sacrificed to idols or referring to the Emperor as 'God', Christians were arrested and tortured. They had the option to be let free by just publicly confessing to rejecting Jesus, but they didn't and were brutalized for it, sentenced to painful agonizing deaths. This went on for hundreds of years with the faith being largely underground.
You don't have to deal with that today. Your cushiony self-serving lifestyle dissuades you from truly following Jesus well enough and it's a simple thing for you to say "no, not today. i have video games to play or hentai to goon to."
Also feeling more included to be materialist over spiritual would naturally steer you towards atheism as a base: "there's more than likely nothing out there keeping track of my deeds and misdeeds, so I can do whatever I want."
But regardless, the point is that Jesus saying my reward is with me, I'll be here soon, is to comfort persecuted Christians going through struggle for merely believing and following the Lord. Many of these Christians didn't experience any respite of satisfaction in the lives after baptism and only had their afterlife and commemoration as saints to be their reward. That verse of Jesus saying that is at the very end of Revelation though. After the gates of New Jerusalem are closed. That very same last chapter also includes
"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."
So yes, by that phrasing, a majority do go to Hell.