{"id":1644,"date":"2026-02-02T19:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:41:27","slug":"has-eternal-conscious-torment-been-the-majority-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/has-eternal-conscious-torment-been-the-majority-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Eternal Conscious Torment in Hell Really Been the &#8220;Majority View&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something we hear continually in our journey in the belief in the <strong>Ultimate Reconciliation of All<\/strong> is that it goes against the &#8220;majority view&#8221; for at least the last 1500 years and some would even say that it has been the case from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>However, perhaps we can frame it this way: How is something that is held by the subjects of an oppressive authoritarian system <em><strong>in fear<\/strong> <\/em>be considered a true majority view? To put it another way: If folks are held by way of bondage to believe and confess the party line tenets of that system, by threat of being ostracized or ridiculed (or worse), is that truly a majority view? \u00a0If one is not free to believe or even question anything different from the view decreed from the top, is that an authentic position? We think not&#8230; What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something we hear continually in our journey in the belief in the Ultimate Reconciliation of All is that it goes against the &#8220;majority view&#8221; for at least the last 1500&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/has-eternal-conscious-torment-been-the-majority-view\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Has Eternal Conscious Torment in Hell Really Been the &#8220;Majority View&#8221;?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelical-universalism","excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godslovewins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}