#preservation of the saints

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

the idea that Christians bought and paid for by the blood of Jesus Christ can still, through some gymnastic of free will, end up in Hell is one of the evilest doctrines the devil ever peddled

[redwinterroses]

Skizz for Hermit red yarn pins:

1. Mumbo's comment on his last HCs9 video, stating "no word on new members! ☺️" <- weak, but implies that new members are a possibility. Also smilie face is sus

2. Skizz being part of the Guess the Build challenges, along with relatively big names in MCYT

3. Skizz being invited to the server to play Decked Out -- yes, along with other people ("hermit hbomb" red yarn trails off to a separate board here) but he was the first confirmed and the first discussed.

4. The entire OlympZITS event with Zed, Impulse, Tango, Skizz, False, Doc, Joe, Beef, and Cleo

a) Zed: "Have we got all the hermits on? I think we're still gathering people together at the moment. We've got Impulse, Skizz, and Tango there..." b) Tango stream VOD titled "OlypZITS Mini Games with EIGHT Hermits!" and summary: "8 Hermits meet up on Zedaph's patreon server" c) VintageBeef: ""I had a team mate, his name was Impulse, and we were taking on... six- no, SEVEN, other hermits..." d) Doc's offer to give Skizz redstone lessons "soon"

5. Scar's comment about not wanting to give spoilers, implying there's something to spoil

6. Skizz continually talking about how "it's gonna be a big year for the Skizz" and how he and his wife agree that he can't keep doing full time dayjob and MCYT at the same time

tbh point 4b is the nail in the coffin for me, but all this adds up to SKIZZ HERMIT REAL for season 10 and if I'm wrong and my wall of red yarn and pins is a lie I'll find a hat and eat it.

[sneezyguppy]

Someone mentioned they thought it was hot that I used this term, and ever since, I have not been able to stop thinking about it...

Having your nose feathered...

Just having someone stroke a feather all around your itchy, twitching nose... they're gonna make you sneeze, sure enough, but first they're gonna tease you... they're gonna run the silky blade of that feather under your nostrils, flick the tip back and forth over your septum, and maybe even twirl it across your cupid's bow before they finally give you what you want... what you need... slipping it inside each nostril in turn until they find that ticklish spot, then holding you still so they can tickle it gently, but mercilessly... maybe they even tease you a bit more at this point, waiting until you hitch a few times, before stopping... letting you hang on the precipice of release just long enough for the urge to die down... then they start again, tickling and feathering away, the fiendishly soft tip teasing that sweet spot... until they finally let you discharge that huge sneeze they've been building up for you... bringing shuddering relief from that terrible, allergic itch you've had all day. It is spring, after all... you sniffle as they wipe your flushed nose, saying, "Goodness, bless you! Well now, don't you feel better? Let's get you cleaned up." 💙

[silverskye13]

In which a challenge is overcome

[try-set-me-on-fire]

bring them here to shelter in your soft-structured parking lot

[gryphoneer]

i've seen talk about how to communicate progressive ideas to evangelicals. you know, things like citing deuteronomy 15, the bible passage that mandates the periodic forgiveness of all debt after 7 year intervals. and i'm like...

that's now how evangelicals (or other flavors of reactionary christians) work.

in the liberal imagination, evangelicals are people who believe in every word of the bible in a literal sense. in that conception, you could conceivably argue with them inside this framework. but that's wrong, isn't it? in reality, evangelicals are people who believe exclusively in the regressive parts of the bible and ignore the parts that contradict them. liberals try to beat someone with chess moves who's actually playing tic-tac-toe.

this is just the same old shit aaron sorkin did with president bartlet on west wing. that character had a minor in theology and was constantly Epically Owning evangelicals on the show by quoting scripture at them. well! in the real world, that had been bill clinton's move. and then evangelicals bombed abortion clinics across the country, while congressional repubs protected them and dems stood by idly. that should've been the ultimate proof that ploy Does Not Work, yet here we are 30 years later.

[gavinom123]

assorted sketches

[wiirocku]

Psalm 37:28 (NKJV) - For the LORD loves justice, And does not forsake His saints; They are preserved forever, But the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

[cosmicnovaflare]

Archbishop Rhea from Fire Emblem Three Houses

[leier-coyol]

I redrew Nesso to be a blade champion

A quick sketch of him with my felinid Catnip, she's 5'1

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: Din Djarin. Warrior. Father. Mando'ad. Luke Skywalker. Farm boy. Devoted. Jedi. Two different devotions that mix like oil and water. Stuck in the layer between is the Child, and both want him for their own. The Jedi and the Mandalorian, both vying for their son. In order to fulfill their wants, they must learn to coexist, to learn each other's way of life and maybe, in the end, more about each other. (a religion-centric coparenting fic where luke is too entrenched in his religion, and din has a broken relationship with his.)

Author: @locallmann

Note from submitter: BY FAR one of my top five dinluke fics, if not top three. there is something so beautiful about two people who are hurting in parallel ways, finding the strength to help one another as well as the next generation. no parent wants their kid to hurt like they do. there is so much interesting philosophy at play here, i am amazed, impressed, and occasionally brought to tears

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

That verse in 2 Peter is about false teachers who have an intellectual knowledge of Christianity, and are thus held to higher account for their deliberate rejection of it.

Jesus and John make it very clear that Christ preserves his true people, and those who are not preserved never had the Holy Spirit to begin with:

Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me, but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand." John 10:25-29

and

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. 1 John 2:19

It is far more dangerous to tell Christians that He who began a good work in them is unable to bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:6). Because they didn't "cooperate" with his grace (you know, that free & unmerited thing God bestows upon the undeserving by definition).

Would like to reiterate that Christians cannot be possessed.

Christians receive the Holy Spirit based on the finished work of Christ alone.

This means the Holy Spirit never leaves us.

Not even when we go astray and get involved in things Christians shouldn't. Not even when we sin in a big way. I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Thank you.

[fuckmeyer]

Hiii

Is By starlight going to be the last book or do you plan on doing a fourth?

there will be another fic after By Starlight. it's in early development. i hope #4 will be the last one. we'll see. my objective is to tell the story i want to tell while fixing smeyer's horribly fucked-up pacing, but i have a very clear idea of where this is going and where my endpoint is. tl;dr whatever happens i am committed to doing what the story requires of me

[explorerspack]

hi guys i'm posting again. as much as i love playing characters who have a self-preservation instinct it's so much EASIER to play characters who do not have one even at all especially in situations Like This

[ceo-of-stealing-ur-fucking-teeth]

Something that’s always been wild to me is how my mother didn’t understand my obsession with death and gore. But dragged me to a church every week, sometimes multiple times, to a place with giant statue of a man in agonizing pain, covered in blood, right in the center.

And read me stories about people dying horrible, awful, brutal deaths with a tone of reverence.

But had the audacity to be uncomfortable when I started drawing creepy ass half dead things. Like, okay, make up your mind. I thought this was a good thing?’

[didsomeonesayventus]

One day im going to fuss out the theological like. Assignments structure whatever of the emblems in the divine dragon church (i guess like sorts of guardian spirits or angels or some sort of equivalent that i dont have the vocab for) and also fuss out how at least the royals end up when folded into the faith as saints, part of a semi-desperate bid by alear to immortalize what he can of his friends

(it only partly works because in canonizing them they are forever part of the faith but they are aggrandized and sanctified and thus stripped of some of the human flaws and quirks that made alear so fall in love with them in the first place and so their memory is forever and forever it is tainted)