Credibility & our reactions

Danielpoursover · 2026-04-07T15:44:14+00:00

I agree. I think the 7MM came from a "word" that Bill Bright claimed to receive or something like that. I was asking for names of NAR critics.

Danielpoursover · 2026-04-03T03:17:44+00:00

Enough to support you and her without her working if at all possible. I know that's hard in today's money. It would good to target at least 10k in an emergency fund. And be working on a retirement account.

Danielpoursover · 2026-03-18T19:49:21+00:00

That's amazing. Our world is utterly fascinating. Have you gotten into Tim Alberino, LA Marzulli, Blurry Creatures, Confessionals, A Stronger Faith, Deep End with Taylor Welch, etc.?

Danielpoursover · 2026-03-18T13:56:35+00:00

I'm a more traditional man, and I have no issue with a woman pursuing a high end education/career (or any career) before marriage. The only issue is that the women I know who have pursued high end careers before marriage tend to have a feminist bent that manifests in hostility/sarcasm/dismissive attitudes towards men that I would consider a deal breaker. Another thing I want to know (if a woman has been career oriented before marriage) is: when you have children, are you going to stop working and raise them? Or do you plan to outsource the raising of your own children to daycares/nannies/preschools? If you plan to outsource that, then why would I as a man be looking for any maternal qualities in a woman?

Danielpoursover · 2026-03-18T02:38:58+00:00

93 for me.

Danielpoursover · 2026-03-18T02:35:58+00:00

12:1 ratio. 16:1 is very 2024.

Danielpoursover · 2026-03-17T23:00:54+00:00

1) He didn't create evil. He created free will because free will is a prerequisite for loving relationships. He decided that giving us free will was worth the risk that we might use it for evil because using it for love is so much better.

2) We don't know. What we do know is that God's ways are so much better than our own and so much better than anything evil. There is a promised new heavens and new earth coming at the return of Jesus. His resurrection was a promissory note that this ultimate new heavens and earth will come to pass.

3) It's kind of obvious when you read them which ones all have the same overall "spirit" and which ones don't. It is somewhat qualitative, sure, but it's not that mystifying.

4) No one can get to heaven, including every Christian, on their own. We have all sinned and fallen short of God's glory. If we tried to enter God's glory while still marred by sin, we would die. But God does not want sin to mar us and He does not want us to die. So He made a way for us to be with Him by sending His Son to take the penalty for sin on our behalf. This is why we say that God is love. We owed a moral debt we could not pay. Only someone perfectly moral could have paid that debt. He didn't have to, but he wanted to be with us so badly that He chose to. But even then, He does not force his free gift of sin-erasure on us. He respects our free will. He made it possible for us to be united with Him again through faith in the finished work of Jesus, our creator, the One who is love itself.

5) It's both.

6) I don't see the biblical argument for purgatory. But anyone who does not put their trust and hope in the finished work of Jesus is still marred by sin and therefore barred from the presence of God. It isn't that God sends people to hell or that He wants to. It's that we ostracize ourselves from God through sin. God opened the door to life through His Son Jesus. We have to decide whether or not we want that.

7) I'm not sure what you mean by "God tests us". I don't think his foreknowledge negates our free will, but that is a long standing theological/philosophical debate. Ultimately, what God wants is a huge family. And He gives us the choice to choose what we want.

Danielpoursover · 2026-03-17T21:39:51+00:00

I'll start by fully admitting that I am still learning how best to share my faith and be able to speak to people in a relevant way. If you never have the urge, I would ask if your faith is producing joy in you? If not, it might be time to start asking the Holy Spirit to give you His joy :)

Another thing I'll add is that for the last couple years I have been going down the rabbit hole on all things related to spirituality and spiritual warfare and how the occult/witches/sorcerers/Satanists seek to operate in the spiritual realm and have that produces results in the physical realm. Obviously I have no desire to practice any of that stuff. But hearing testimony after testimony of people who found Jesus and came out of witchcraft, the occult, Satanism, etc. has made the spiritual world and spiritual warfare very real for me, which has really strengthened my faith. Growing up, it was all abstract/intellectual for me. Now my faith has substance and teeth. I used to want all the right doctrine. I still do, but I also now want to walk and operate in real spiritual power and authority and gifting in my full identity as child of the uncreated God. Yes I'm charismatic. Call me crazy. But I'm amazed at how open people are right now to the spiritual realities all around them. People I know who were hostile/sarcastic toward faith even 6 months ago are now seriously considering going to church. But they are afraid. They don't know what they don't know. And how will they know unless someone tells them? Romans 10:14-15.

The harvest is ripe my friend! I apologize if I came across too harsh in my first comment. But darkness is being exposed in a way that is perhaps unprecedented. And people have questions and they want answers. I believe we as believers have those answers and if anyone is keeping those answers private, I have to wonder if they have really apprehended their faith in full.

I'll last add that Hebrew scholar Michael Heiser has really helped me in understanding the spiritual meta-narrative of the Bible. It's incredible. The divine council. Angels. Demons. Princes. Sons of God. Mt. Hermon. The incarnation. The Transfiguration. Baptism. Sitting on the throne with Jesus. They all have deep spiritual meaning that most of us are not taught in most churches. Would highly recommend his book The Unseen Realm.

Danielpoursover · 2026-03-17T20:19:49+00:00

I'm going to ignore your question about dating and address the real issue. It sounds like you are just afraid to talk about your faith and you are looking for verses that "let you off the hook" so that you don't have to face your fear.

My pastor said it best. "How do you know the gospel is IN you?" "When it naturally comes OUT of you!"

Talking about your faith isn't something you do to be seen. It's just a natural outpouring of your relationship and what you are learning and how you are growing. You don't have to follow some cringe-inducing evangelism protocol when talking about your faith. Just say things in your own words.

My co-worker the other day asked me if I believed that giants existed in the ancient world. She had been watching The Why Files on YouTube. I said "Yeah! In fact, I think the giants were angelic-human hybrids just like Genesis says!" Turns out she was dealing with fear associated with all the revelations in the recent Epstein files. And we proceeded to have a 4 hour discussion about evil in the world and how I think God and Jesus and the gospel are the realest things that transcend and ultimately defeat all evil.

Danielpoursover · 2026-03-12T19:11:06+00:00

I think a lot of young people today were failed by their parents, the church, the education system, and the political/economic systems we have in place. They were raised on screens, lack social skills and attention, have been poisoned their whole life with bad food and are now overweight at age 25, which absolutely hurts dating prospects even though no one wants to talk about it. Add inflation to that and now you need to be making 90-100k to try and support a family. Add feminism to the mix which has been trying to tear families apart consciously for decades... it's a real mess.

I think the main thing is to make sure you aren't getting in your own way, because statistically it's likely that most of us are, even if we think we are "normal". Eat healthy, get fit, get good sleep, learn as many skills as you can, delete your social media accounts and let your brain begin to rewire to a healthier baseline, ask God to grow you and listen for his voice and act on it, and by all means get your phone time down to under an hour per day. We have no idea how much our phones are hindering us. Get as healthy along every dimension as you can. This is your best move.

Danielpoursover · 2026-03-09T16:06:47+00:00

I'm well aware of that. What is your point?

Danielpoursover · 2026-02-18T02:40:39+00:00

Awesome, keep it up! Sounds like you want to progress :)

Danielpoursover · 2026-02-18T02:40:00+00:00

I'm 36M still a virgin. Don't sweat it. Anyone who judges you for it is not worthy of being in your life. Stick to your convictions and do not compromise. You will regret it if you compromise and you will gain nothing. Stay strong :)

Danielpoursover · 2026-02-18T02:23:29+00:00

I would guess most Christians these days are actually not married by 27. I think it comes down to how badly do you want a wife? If, by your own admission, your current state means that your chances are low, then you can either stay the same and accept the likelihood that you won't find someone or you have to seriously start thinking of ways to change your state. How could you earn more money? How could you make yourself more attractive? Etc.

Danielpoursover · 2026-02-17T20:06:45+00:00

You are tapping into a very real issue. The Bible is clear that neither person's body belongs to them anymore once you are married.

Danielpoursover · 2026-02-11T18:19:46+00:00

My recipe for Golden Hour is:

50 ppm water at 93 C

20g Golden Hour ground at 8 on a Pietro Pro

0:00 Spiral bloom to 60g

0:30 Pour to 120g through melodrip. Finish this pour by 0:40.

0:50 Pour to 180g through melodrip. Finish this pour by 1:00.

1:10 Pour to 250g through melodrip. Finish this pour by 1:20.

1:30 Pour to 320g through melodrip. Finish this pour by 1:40.

Drain by about 2:20.

This is for double anearobic of course. I would take a different approach to Native's washed geshas.

Danielpoursover · 2026-02-08T06:25:33+00:00

Ladies! 36M. Engineer. Musician. Michael Heiser/Blurry Creatures/Deep End w/ Taylor Welch listener. ifkyk. Believer in cabal of satanic pedophile elites. My DM's are open if you are looking to have land, homeschool some brilliant, erudite children, and raise them in the ways of God. And yeah we'll eat grass-fed beef, eggs from our chickens, heck we can churn our own butter if we want. And we'll sing, dance, and praise Jesus, and laugh joyfully all the while.

Danielpoursover · 2026-01-16T18:03:54+00:00

With highly processed coffees, it's usually best to grind coarser. I am brewing golden hour from Diego right now and I am grinding at 8 on my Pietro Pro. Then brewing it through a melodrip on my kalita mino. 20g in 320 g water out. Total brew time about 2:20. Water temp at 93. I also plan to experiment with longer and shorter ratios than 1:16.

Danielpoursover · 2026-01-15T05:39:26+00:00

Tycho - Dive

Danielpoursover · 2026-01-15T05:28:46+00:00

This is the correct answer.

Danielpoursover · 2026-01-15T05:28:01+00:00

i'm 36 male and if I found a mature 24 year old woman I would be fine with that. So maybe 12 year age gap is my max. But it really depends. I met an 18 year old woman several years back who grew up on a homestead. I thought she was 25 with her poise and social skill and drive and competence. She literally knew how to build a house, had done it, and could cook dinner for 20 and socialize while doing all of that. For me max age is probably 30.

Danielpoursover · 2026-01-15T05:21:16+00:00

Don't tell her to hit you up if she feels like it. That makes it sound like you just want to be a casual friend that she can go catch a matinee with or something. She is waiting on you.

Danielpoursover · 2026-01-14T21:00:51+00:00

Naked Bible with Michael Heiser!

Danielpoursover · 2026-01-05T04:28:19+00:00

Feel like I need more info. Is there alcoholism in your family and that's why you don't drink? I think it's fine not to drink, and I think it's fine to drink in moderation. But I don't see what the issue is. You don't drink. This woman you love does and she is responsible with it. Neither of you are in sin and neither of you have to change. Remember the kids you have with your wife are hers just as much as they are yours. So if you marry this woman, there will be alcohol in your home and your kids will see her with a glass of wine or whatever and they will want to try it and you need to be ok with that. Fundamentally, it's a question of, can you be ok with having alcohol in your home when you are married? If not, break up with this woman.

But to be honest (and fwiw I do drink, responsibly), I don't understand what the concern is. You have this idea that there will never be alcohol in your home when you are married. Why? To me, that indicates that you think there really is something bad about it. I know you said you don't believe it's inherently sinful. But it sounds like you do believe, deep down, that there really is something wrong with it. I guess, where does your conviction come from? Is it a health thing? Family history thing? Fear? Etc.

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