Does the majority really necessarily indicate the true belief?

Does the majority really necessarily indicate the true belief?

Did the vast majority of Jewish priests, Sadducees, Pharisees, and others deeply trained in Jewish religion at the time of Christ, believe that Jesus was the Messiah (or believed much of what he taught)?

Were the vast majority of Christians (including the finest scholars of Christendom available from about 400 A.D. until 1600 A.D.) correct in believing and teaching that 'saints' could be appointed by men and prayed to?

Was this vast majority correct in believing and teaching that God's name in the Old Testament Hebrew manuscripts could be falsified in translations?

Was this vast majority correct in believing and teaching of the immaculate conception of Mary?

Were they correct in believing and teaching of the transubstantiation (eating Jesus' LITERAL flesh and drinking his LITERAL blood in the Celebration of the Eucharist)?

Were they correct in believing and teaching that Mary is the mediator (Mediatrix) between God and men and is also to be prayed to?

Were they correct in believing and teaching of Hades being a place where God has sinners tortured for all eternity?

Were they correct in believing and teaching that Purgatory is a place of torment for sinners which they will eventually escape from when their punishment is complete?

Was this vast majority correct in believing and teaching that the punishment of loved ones in purgatory will be lessened and shortened by the works (often including payment of money to priests - indulgences) of those still alive?
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“Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew YOU! Get away from me, YOU workers of lawlessness." (Mt. 7:21-230

"Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones (even) finding it." (Mt. 7:13,14)


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