{"id":383,"date":"2004-09-04T19:49:44","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T19:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=383"},"modified":"2004-09-04T19:49:44","modified_gmt":"2004-09-04T19:49:44","slug":"heaven_or_hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Heaven or hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking along the boardwalk and ocean at Coney Island today.  There were hoards of people enjoying the day, the water, the music, and one another.  As I walked along the shore I couldn&#8217;t help but watch the joy of the children as they played, and their parents, too.<br \/>\nIf what is traditionally emphasized within Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism is true, that those who do not make a specific decision to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and then live a life that proves their decision will end up in Hell for all eternity, then the vast majority of God&#8217;s creation will end up burning for all eternity.<br \/>\nI just don&#8217;t know.  I don\u00e7\u00a8\u0161 remember the theologian or pastor who offered this theory, but it is appealing:  as moral free-agents, God will abide by our decision.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking along the boardwalk and ocean at Coney Island today. There were hoards of people enjoying the day, the water, the music, and one another. As I walked along the shore I couldn&#8217;t help but watch the joy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=383\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}