There is no commonality.

When you think of human nature and human desire I bet you would think that there is great commonality among the human race. I am writing this not out of a sense of rage but out of the commonality of the true human race. I want to ask you a question, Do we all die together? The answer to that question is no. But I know what you would say, we are so common as human beings that we all end up in the same place after we die. You my friend are a universalist. Your pride and your ego have lead you to believe that there is no Heaven and there is no hell. I personally believe that hell will be as populated as ten earths, and that is a light assessment. If you think that just because you are a good person and because you think that life has been kind to you by giving you an exulted ego and intelligence you are wrongly mistaken. The bible calls you proud, and just because you were given everything your heart desired doesn't mean that you were blessed by God, (read the story of the rich man and Lazarus.

Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendour every day (italics mine). And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich mans table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.

In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.' But Abraham said, 'Child remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.

'And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'

And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father's house--for I have five brothers--in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.' But Abraham said,' They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.' But he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent! But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.'

There is a hell and most of the world is already there or is going there, but you don't have to.

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