But, I was speaking of ‘your’ example (not to mention that 1/3 of 12 is 'simply' 4.0, but decimal places must be added to 1/3 of 2 = .666… 1/3 of 4 = 1.333… part of the problem is fractions and prime numbers, as in 3).⅓ can be ⅓ of 12 ----- It can be ⅓ of ANY number (Paidion)
So if 1/3 is .333… then 3/3 is 'also' .999… per your illustration. But your illustration only illustrates that fractions to decimals assume the closest number is higher in order to explain a whole number.
1= .999… only 'illustrates' (it could be even stated that it assumes) that 1 is the ‘closest’ number but it is still not the same, until you add infinity, which means you are no longer finite, and our existence is finite (which is why UR is ‘not’ consistent with the principle of mans mortality) Calculus isn’t always applicable to ‘finite structures’ because of the variables, and ‘infinite’ is an abstract principle in itself.
I thought we went through this under the thread; ‘Talbott's Presentation’ (Mar 27, pg4) note below, I wrote;
It's the old: if a snail is in a race and moves 1/2 the distance to the end point each day, he will never reach the end point. In reality of course, the snail dies.In abstract experiments; predictions may come true, but in physical forms predictions are not always true.
Results are not guaranteed by possibilities. It is a fallacy to say if A is possible then A will happen.
Also, you cannot presume any experiment will 'continue', as even math has variables.
In the created world the box might continue to shake, but it may not. Some discs may have glue on one side, but some may somehow get glue on both sides, etc.
The variables (and problems) in a real world begin to multiply by each other, the box may develop a hole, the discs could fall into more glue, the discs may become broken, the shaker might throw the whole box into the LOF, etc. Evolutionists use this same fallacy to ‘suppose the environment is guaranteed’ thus the experiment can go on indefinitely… And if we do study past results in Gods word it seems to predict what we expect – variables – and conditions! So Paidion’s experiment does not ‘prove’ any result ‘must’ happen, there are always variables, and hard evidence still shows that things naturally go from bad to worse.
Of course we still have the problem where man is not immortal of himself, God would have to continue to sustain the dead in hell, so then UR says in effect; they are immortal, only dead immortal. And what condition of mind and sense do the disembodied dead really have? It says believers will be raised clothed but it doesn’t tell us anything about the dead’s working existence other than that they will stand to be judged. Do we know they will have all faculties and senses to logically make a confession and express a devotion to God, while dead? We don't know, but UR insists they will.
What about the 'worm' that never dies, if he consistently eats for eternity wouldn’t he eventually consume the whole person?
God gave us 900 years here, then he cut it to 120, then 70 or whatever, if God felt we needed more time why does he cut this earthly existence short, isn’t a long earthly life more consistent with your idea that we need refining than simply being saved from hell? It would seem that a person in hell is more concerned with getting out of hell than trying to lead a Godly ‘life’, and leading a Godly 'life' (How would you 'demonstrate' your faith in hell?).
None of this seems consistent with mans immortality.
None of this seems consistent with the wedding feast, the doors being shut, the wedding accomplished, etc.
None of this seems consistent with God saying I have set a Day, a Day of Judgment.
None of this seems consistent with blotting a name out of the book of life.
None of this seems consistent with the fact that fire consumes.
None of this seems consistent with the idea of ‘I have come to test you to see if you will obey’
hell is not a test, it neither a place to demonstrate faithfulness, love, etc………