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You're right: no one can convince you to have faith. And while it does take a certain amount of faith to believe, we don't have blind faith. There is plenty of evidence, both historical and archaeological, to support what is written in the Bible.

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I would suggest 4 things:

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• Read the Bible. God's Word is powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. Start with the Gospel of John and go forward from there, and when you get to the end then start with the Old Testament in Genesis. This will give you the best basis for discovering your faith.
  
  
• Pray and tell God how you feel. Tell Him you're not sure if He even exists, and ask Him to reveal Himself to you.
  
  
• Read The Case for Christ, which is the best breakdown of the evidence, by interviewed experts, that I've ever read. The author started out as an atheist who set out to disprove Christianity once and for all. He ended up becoming a believer through what he discovered.
  
  
• Understand the Gospel - this is where sinful man recognizes his need for God's forgiveness through what Jesus did on the cross. Most of us have heard the spiel many times before, but most have not heard it presented in this way. You may not believe it, but you will finally understand why God did it the way He did.
  
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  Feel free to ask questions if you like. My inbox is always open as well. May God bless you in your search to find Him and trust in Him!

The book is Thinner Leaner Stronger by Mike Matthews. My wife and some of her friends have followed the advise there to great effect; the example transformation pictures are definitely achievable. As for the “thinner” in the title, don’t worry about it. In the book he talks about bulking, which is what you need to be focused on.

Also, when you go to lift weights and want to know what proper form looks like check out Jeff Nippard’s videos on YouTube. He breaks it down extremely well with high quality video.

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> I will just end it nicely and talk to somebody else.

This is beta-speak for quitting as soon as you don't know what to say next. Lot of field reports of guys being boring, using corny lines, having too much space, not speaking, or taking fitness tests too seriously and quit at the first sign of resistance.


> I have no idea about IOI's or any of that stuff.

Keep reading more books. Until then, assume everything is an IOI and you are just irrationally and comically confident. That in itself can be deemed as being funny and attractive alone. Keep going.


These books are largely secular, so pick out the sin nature of some of the goals.

How to Win Friends and Influence People (general conversation) https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034

Book of Pook https://www.amazon.com/Book-Pook/dp/1980603154

Way of the Superior May https://www.amazon.com/Way-Superior-Man-Challenges-Anniversary/dp/1622038320

> First, you have no coherent soteriology (the "mechanism" by which Christ saves sinners). Check out The Sovereign Grace of God by Dr. James White. It is a straightforward read that sets a solid foundation for understanding this important aspect of Christian doctrine. Theological study can often be esoteric masturbation. I promise you this is not the case: you will never feel at peace with God unless you understand what it means to be redeemed. You have no peace and desperately need it.

What I believe about salvation is that it's conditional. I don't know everything and doubt myself, but free will exist in humans most of all for this reason. If salvation was unconditional then God has no standards for future behavior at all or free will in humans doesn't actually exist.

The following verse doesn't make much sense if salvation wasn't something a person could risk losing:

Hebrews 3:12-14 "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;"

I have no coherent model of salvation that explains how it works in every possible situation because none seems to exist. It's why there is such a huge debate on the subject in the first place. I've read a whole lot of websites and books on how different people believe salvation works. None of them were able to explain everything in a way that was perfectly coherent in logic under every situation. At least not to me, but the simple idea of abiding in Christ until the end is the most consistent with a Bible filled with warnings of not falling away, repenting of sin and enduring to the end instead of warning's all over the bible to make people sure they were saved in the first place.

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> Second, your worldview is a mess and that is reflected by your priorities. By worldview I mean: the network of beliefs in various areas (religion, politics, philosophy, history, etc). that together form the framework of your outlook and approach to the world around you. Odd as this may seem, your bizarre perversions just aren't that important in light of the fact that the civilized western world as we know it is falling apart and your fixation on yourself is just a demonstration of either ignorance or lack of concern. You are a casualty of globalhomo clown world, but you don't have to be.

I don't really understand this as I thought red pill was about fixing yourself and not women or the world. But I am not ignorant it's just there's no way to counter what the international elite world order is doing to western civilization. They own the corporate press and are making fast progress toward controlling the internet with AI powered by quantum computers. Morals are falling apart because no fault divorce blew up around half of family's and rewarded one gender for gaming the system to such an extreme that the other finds porn, one night stands and prostitution more appealing than marriage to a self righteous harpy that says things like "men are trash" everyday.