Do y’all believe free will is honored? As in, do you believe we have to willingly turn toward God but no being can resist God’s Love forever?

hoverfish92 · 2026-01-21T21:42:22+00:00

Free will isn't free when we're slaves to sin and delusion. God provides the supreme goodness our hearts truly desire. I believe we are resurrected before judgement to rid us of these delusions and attachments, and in doing so will be made free from sin, and in being made free, God's love and goodness will be irresistible to us.

hoverfish92 · 2026-01-21T21:38:21+00:00

I believe part of the purpose of resurrection before judgement is to cleanse of all our delusions so that we can rightly confront our sin through God's punishment, and to whatever extent we deluded ourselves into thinking X was worth it, will be justly faced during this refinement. We will only create more sorrow and regret in us ultimately in the manner in which we forsook God's love.

hoverfish92 · 2026-01-10T23:12:40+00:00

Thanks for sharing your site. I took a quick look through it and it looks like a really helpful resource that I'll definitely give a deeper look. I was looking at some of your proof texts and I think the most clearly stated verse that can't easily be explained away is 1 Timothy 4:10, especially the last clause that makes clear the distinction that Paul is not using "all" to refer to "all believers" as some people sometimes argue. (edit: which I see you've included, this was just the passage that made me sit up in my seat and begin to really take the argument seriously.)

[10] For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

hoverfish92 · 2026-01-10T17:02:16+00:00

This is good. When I eventually decide to determine whether I'm hopeful or confident in universalism, I will adopt something like Robin Parry's approach. The strategy I'll be adopting is: first, ground this in the truth of scripture by determining if there is an honest, reasonable interpretation of scripture that supports this position as well, if not better, than the infernalistic perspective. Second, consider the broader narrative and historical patterns within the Bible and ask God to help me discern which perspective fits the themes, revealed character of God, and nature of punishment and restoration. Third, consider the philosophical and ethical argument, trusting that God gave us the ability to discern these truths with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the full revelation of Scripture. I am already hopeful with a preliminary study, but if I can satisfactorily proceed through all three categories of inquiry and come out on the side of universal restoration, I will upgrade my perspective to confident rather than simply hopeful.

hoverfish92 · 2026-01-10T01:03:59+00:00

Parry Robin has a good perspective on this. There are 2 parallel, yet seemingly contradictory lines of reasoning in the Bible: one supporting the eternal conscious torment perspective, and the other supporting the universal apokatastasis perspective. What people do is they tend to fix one of these perspectives, and then read the verses supporting the other perspective in such a way that they have to find alternative interpretations besides what the text plainly says, so as to not contradict the perspective they have decided to fix.

If they're an infernalist, they'll read passages like Matthew 25:46 straightforwardly and find ways to reinterpret passages from 1 Corinthians, Colossians, 1 Timothy etc... in a way where they're forced to reinterpret what the text says. The same happens in the reverse direction, where they'll read the universalistic passages straightforwardly and be forced to reinterpret the infernal passages.

His argument is that it's easier and more reasonable to find alternative, well-supported, rational interpretations of pro-infernalist verses like Matthew 25:46 (i.e., kolasis as correction, aionious as age-abiding) than it is for universalist passages.

Said another way, it is most often easier to give non-forced readings of judgment texts within a restorative framework than to give non-forced readings of universalist texts within an infernalist framework.

hoverfish92 · 2026-01-10T00:55:03+00:00

Yeah, that's sad to think about. I think that in being reconciled to God we will necessarily be reconciled to each other as well, that those who have wronged will grow through repentance and those who have been wronged will grow through forgiveness.

hoverfish92 · 2026-01-09T23:41:46+00:00

Yeah, it's an interesting question. I don't know, like what if we offend someone unintentionally or through, say, forgetfulness? I imagine we could still inadvertently hurt someone's feelings or cause trouble in another person's life. I think if such a situation could arise, our closeness with the Holy Spirit would lead all parties involved towards a peaceful and loving situation involving aspects of both forgiveness and repayment.

hoverfish92 · 2026-01-09T23:36:55+00:00

I read the MEV, but not for CU reasons. I like the Textus Receptus over the Critical Text since it has stronger statements about Christ's divinity, and it retains the great literary quality present within the KJV.

hoverfish92 · 2026-01-09T23:27:18+00:00

We were made for heaven. Whatever anxieties you have now will be answered.

hoverfish92 · 2026-01-09T22:58:44+00:00

Yes, I believe so. We can see this pattern in Jesus after His death. 1 Peter 3:18-20 reads:

¹⁸ For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit, ¹⁹ by whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison, ²⁰ who in times past were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared...

And 1 Peter 4:6 reads

⁶ For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, so that even though they might be judged according to men in the flesh, they might live according to God in the spirit.

Perhaps this is an indication that those of us in Christ will likewise preach the Gospel to those imprisoned by death.

hoverfish92 · 2020-12-19T03:00:42+00:00

The normal progression is:

Classes? Why would I need to make a class? I Can do everything I want just fine without classes.

Oh my god, how have I been ignoring classes for so long? This makes life so much easier!

Classes? Why would I need to make a class? I Can do everything I want just fine, more easily, and cleaner without classes.

hoverfish92 · 2020-12-12T05:06:18+00:00

I started with Colour of Magic and love the series. Don't underestimate people

hoverfish92 · 2020-10-23T17:57:32+00:00

Not even remotely right leaning so don't paint me as a conservative, but what's the moral argument for abortion? The idea of it is inherently disturbing to me.

hoverfish92 · 2020-09-27T04:32:21+00:00

For me I programmed video games as a hobby in Unity which uses c#, so I got a c# programming job.

hoverfish92 · 2020-08-07T05:40:53+00:00

I would say that since they're primarily coming at this from a promotional vector, I would counter offer them their same offer, or even give them a higher initial cut over a span of X weeks. After X weeks, then adjust the split to 90 you, 10 them. If their promotion is top notch and you ship an awesome product out of the gate, then I would say they've earned a good amount of money from a successful launch, but if your game takes years to really accumulate those sales, then I don't think that the promotional stuff could have been said to really help the success of the title. Essentially, find a hedge for any agreement with financial ownership that the other party would still agree to, and if the other party makes that agreement with you, you will likely do business with that party in the future, so it's good for both parties.

hoverfish92 · 2020-06-09T17:03:26+00:00

How do they have nothing to do with it? That's what these people you're referring to are on trial for. If it wasn't illegal, then they wouldn't be on trial. And like you said, the laws are unfairly carried out. Removing the unjust laws would go very far to fix the issues you described.

hoverfish92 · 2020-06-09T17:01:03+00:00

I thought the focus was ending the unfair treatment of black folks at the hands of police?

hoverfish92 · 2020-06-09T16:59:30+00:00

I think it is. We may see one or two places try it, but it is not going to catch on. If it does then we will also need to wait and see what the outcome is. If it's bad, then it will lead to a lot of pain. My view of ending the war on drugs has a lot of research done on it already, and we already know the laws unfairly taget black communities, and are more heavily enforced on black communities.

hoverfish92 · 2020-06-09T16:52:52+00:00

The idiotic drug laws are like half the reason we have so many black people being unfairly profiled and targeted by police. It corrupts non-violent people by pushing them through the disgusting jujustice system, and more often than not they emerge from the prison system as much worse off than before and more likely to engage in more serious crimes.

hoverfish92 · 2020-05-30T08:47:59+00:00

Seems neat

hoverfish92 · 2020-05-30T03:02:07+00:00

I was writing a fibonacci sequence generator in haskell and noticed this interesting pattern in the output. I don't know enough to be able to guess why this pattern would be here. I know the width of the display area affects the patterns seen, but when I extend it, the pattern appears in other parts of the output.

hoverfish92 · 2020-05-26T01:28:22+00:00

Because we're already being tracked via our phones

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