{"id":271,"date":"2008-09-04T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T13:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shieldsgroup.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2009-01-08T23:18:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T04:18:28","slug":"two-kinds-of-people-in-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/04\/two-kinds-of-people-in-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Two kinds of people, in the end&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone from C. S. Lewis to Rod Serling of <em>Twilight Zone<\/em> fame has conjectured that hell is nothing more than getting exactly what you wanted from God &#8211; to be left alone. Lewis said it like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, &#8216;Thy will be done.&#8217; And those to whom God says, &#8216;Thy will be done.&#8217; All that are in hell choose it. I believe the damned are successful rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked from the inside.&#8221; &#8212; <em>The Problem of Pain<\/em>, Chapter 8<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rod Serling&#8217;s portrayal of this is <a title=\"A Nice Place to Visit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fancast.com\/tv\/The-Twilight-Zone\/97525\/621916479\/The-Twilight-Zone-(12-hr)---A-Nice-Place-To-Visit\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone from C. S. Lewis to Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame has conjectured that hell is nothing more than getting exactly what you wanted from God &#8211; to be left alone. Lewis said it like this: &#8220;There are only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/04\/two-kinds-of-people-in-the-end\/\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[119,98,118,121,120],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-sermon-podcasts","tag-cs-lewis","tag-heaven","tag-hell","tag-rod-serling","tag-twilight-zone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-4n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}