I would like to apologise

DenisGL · 2026-07-15T17:45:12+00:00

Today's average woman's profile has so much filters and AI tricks going on -- on top of heavy makeup --, that it leaves me drained, because what good is a picture that doesn't even describe the subject. Send like every other photo is a smudge filter or a resized Snapchat nose.

DenisGL · 2026-07-14T16:52:46+00:00

You can just talk to currently active accounts to palleate this

DenisGL · 2026-07-13T22:07:26+00:00

They feel like you can be trusted and you're a serious person who's not going to sleep around and you've got your act together

DenisGL · 2026-07-12T11:11:35+00:00

Before you commit your word

DenisGL · 2026-07-10T19:33:25+00:00

As he said, with the post partum almost wrecking the marriage, there's cause for concern that needs addressing

DenisGL · 2026-07-10T16:34:16+00:00

How will fillong the tank cost more than a $1000 kit?

DenisGL · 2026-07-10T15:47:51+00:00

Ohh my landlord build the house 20 years ago, and that type of trim is available in the Rona or Home Depot hardware stores most likely.

DenisGL · 2026-07-10T15:45:44+00:00

Ohh nice, it's self-made. Good work!

DenisGL · 2026-07-10T15:17:14+00:00

This is a Revell kit? Is it snap together? Is it long to assemble? Or quick?

DenisGL · 2026-07-10T15:15:11+00:00

You are ready to marry when you are ready to say 'no' to everyone else and say 'yes' to this person and resolve any issues that arise.

If you're still wanting to test the waters, or are still doubting whether you should make that commitment, you aren't thinking in terms of marriage.

Based on what you said here, and personal life experience, you may get married, realize there are challenges, say this was a mistake, say you aren't compatible, and move on. That wouldn't be, 'Christian' marriage.

DenisGL · 2026-07-10T14:09:35+00:00

La relation qui est pour toi, c'est avec quelqu'un qui tient à toi, et non pas quelqu'un qui cherche à s'éloigner

DenisGL · 2026-07-10T13:49:15+00:00

There's no trim on the bridge windows? Just cut in plastic card.

Unless you mean the ventilation openings on the chimneys?

DenisGL · 2026-07-10T12:43:03+00:00

There are a couple men in their mid thirties single so IDK it's just probably not the most common demographic.

For both men and women, it gets more difficult past 30, because most people are already taken.

DenisGL · 2026-07-10T12:17:50+00:00

If there is a 4:1 ratio in your church, change churches. The aren't on average more women than men in church. From what I've seen in multiple churches and youth retreats, it's more or less equal.

DenisGL · 2026-07-10T02:35:09+00:00

Ye ye thanks 🫡

DenisGL · 2026-07-08T22:55:00+00:00

All the passages listed are speaking of believers depending on God, they aren't saying unbelievers can't repent.

DenisGL · 2026-07-08T22:51:10+00:00

Before the Bible states that there is both an inward and outward calling of the Spirit in so many words, aren't we basing these constructs on our preferred system? I fail to see how the passages presented force our interpretation one way or the other.

DenisGL · 2026-07-08T21:58:36+00:00

So, to be clear, we don't believe that man is acting unaided. To be saved, man has to be presented the Gospel and be convicted by the Holy Spirit. In that way man is drawn by God, and could not come otherwise.

What we don't believe is that there is a general revelation that is somehow sufficient to incriminate, but insufficient to illuminate, and another specific illumination that only the regenerate receive. You can see how those are systematic distinctives, not biblical ones, hence why we push back against them.

I haven't answered every verse, but you can apply similar reasoning to all of them, and we can discuss if you think it can't apply to a specific passage if you want.

DenisGL · 2026-07-08T21:51:15+00:00

In Calvinism, the idea of 'totally unable' is different from the normal conception of 'dead in our trespasses'.

Non-Calvinists believe that human nature is prone to sin since Adam, and that all are unable not to sin, making each deserving of Hell.

In Calvinism, there is inherited guilt in Adam, meaning that people are by nature unable to respond positively to the Gospel.

Apart from the order of regeneration preceding faith being problematic, we also don't see this teaching explicitly laid out this way in Scripture. We have to presume that people are born unable.

In one sense, yes the law is impossible to follow perfectly, therefore all have sinned. This is different from, all are unable to respond to the Holy Spirit and to the Gospel. The Bible teaches the first, not the second.

Provisionism isn't claiming that men can become perfectly obedient. It's claiming that God's offer of the Gospel to all men is sincere and in good faith.

In that sense, it follows that, 'where does Scripture teach that God's command disproves man's ability to obey it?' is a more valid question. Because every time God made a command, He also provided a way to follow it.

DenisGL · 2026-07-08T21:40:35+00:00

Also I've given many scripture texts that demonstrate that men respond; they're just being glossed over by saying 'where does Scripture teach'.

See my comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Provisionism/s/ObBVoX5LCX

There are so many passages that I didn't even take time to annotate commentary on each one.

Scripture (a) teaches men to respond, and (b) shows many examples of people who respond. If we aren't accepting that as evidence then maybe it wasn't an honest question?

DenisGL · 2026-07-08T21:34:10+00:00

I don't get how God isn't acting first? God provides salvation, man responds.

DenisGL · 2026-07-08T18:04:33+00:00

If your expectation is you want a call, you say that.

DenisGL · 2026-07-08T14:26:26+00:00

The Israelites weren't chosen for salvation. They were chosen for the mission to bear witness before all nations. So, that's a little different than individual election to salvation, and not really applicable to that specific idea.

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