Understanding God’s election

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Magenta

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You new panel is beautiful as always. The message on each one is always welcoming, reminding us of God's word to His people. In addition to that, I am always amazed with the eyes. They seem to look right through you.
I also have been curious with the name “Magenta”, did that come from your work in photography? I know it is one of the main filter colors when doing color photography.
Thank you so much BillyBob! I have switched to my phone to answer this because I am a 2 finger typist, and that can get to be quite laborious if I am making a longer post, which I rarely do, but I suspect this one may get a bit long because I'm going to explain a few things to you in order to answer your questions. Yes, magenta is one of the primary colors ... the opposite of green, being comprised of equal parts red and blue. The name Magenta was given to me many many years ago by a very good friend because I wore a lot of purple and pinkish purples, and magenta is actually a very pink color LOL and we never or rarely ever say purple at work when discussing the color of a print or what color we would like to add the filtration to neutralize it. That friend is someone I worked with for about 17 years (until she passed away) and she 12 stepped me into the program of Alcoholics Anonymous... I remember being invited to a cake or 2 of hers before I ever got clean and sober, and at 1 of those meetings I was asked to share, and I just I got up to the podium and I had no idea what to say and I certainly wasn't going to say I was an alcoholic LOL. But at some point I did start going to meetings on my own because I loved listening to people talk about the conditions of their life, especially while I was seemingly incapable of articulating the depth and source of my pain. I also loved listening to people's God stories. Anyway yes we worked together for many years and at some point she was pretty much the only person who could listen to what was going on in my life at the time because it was so bad nobody else wanted to hear it. I think there was an element of people thinking I should just be able to fix myself ha ha. And then she really showed up for me at the end of 1992 when someone that I was really very close to suddenly passed away, which was quite a shock to so many people, and yet within the depths of my own self I knew that that person had been a gift to me from God who I did not believe in... It was a year and a half later when I cried out to that God I did not believe in for help... oops I accidentally posted. Anyways, not asking for help to quite drinking and drugging but that was the outcome after 24 years of abuse, because withing days I was attending NA and lost the desire to use mind and mood altering substances.

Changing the eyes of a face is often one of the first things I do. They start as AI generations and then I overlay and blend in a real person's face and I often change their eyes... sometime the AI face is not too bad except for maybe the eyes so I will change them...
 

Magenta

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The original AI woman/image I generated

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I think I fashioned her after Natalie Portman? I had a document where I had recorded which woman was made to
look like in what series, as I generated and saved thousands of them, and did not want what was auto-generated...
but the document accidentally got overwritten (not by me).


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Colossians 1 verse 12; 1 John 1 verse 7 ~ The Father has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
 

Rufus

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The reason redemption is not universal is not God's fault per the 7 pearls
(1John 4:7-12, Rom. 5:8, Matt. 5:44&48, Gal. 5:6&14, Eph. 3:17b-19, Eph. 5:2, 1Tim. 2:3-4)
and the Roman road (Rom. 1:20, 2:7, 3:21-22, 4:16 & 5:8-19).
If God wanted to save each and every person on this planet, He could easily do so; for nothing is impossible with Him. But that was never his purpose. Never his plan. From the very beginning right after the Fall, we see Remnant Theology in action. He chose to save Eve; but let Adam remain a seed of the serpent.
 

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That is fascinating! Some really good thing will take place due to AI. I just hope the bad does not outweigh the good.
I don't know all the possibilities, but Randy Travis who had a stroke was able to sing again through the use of AI.
You might want to do a search on "Where That Came From" to hear it. They took voice sample
The original AI woman/image I generated

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I think I fashioned her after Natalie Portman? I had a document where I had recorded which woman was made to
look like in what series, as I generated and saved thousands of them, and did not want what was auto-generated...
but the document accidentally got overwritten (not by me).


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Colossians 1 verse 12; 1 John 1 verse 7 ~ The Father has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
That is fascinating! Some really good things will take place due to AI. I just hope the bad does not eventually outweigh the good.
I don't know all the possibilities, but Randy Travis who had a stroke, making it impossible to continue singing, was able to sing again through the use of AI.
You might want to do a search on "Where That Came From" to hear it. They took his voice samples from the past to make the recording.
 
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If God wanted to save each and every person on this planet, He could easily do so; for nothing is impossible with Him. But that was never his purpose. Never his plan. From the very beginning right after the Fall, we see Remnant Theology in action. He chose to save Eve; but let Adam remain a seed of the serpent.
Yes, but God wanted to save persons, not robots.
Any nerd can program a robot, but only God can create humans in His image/with MFW,
and thus the ability to love or hate--and not just AI imitations of the real thing.
 

Magenta

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That is fascinating! Some really good things will take place due to AI. I just hope the bad does not eventually outweigh the good.
I don't know all the possibilities, but Randy Travis who had a stroke, making it impossible to continue singing, was able to sing again through the use of AI.
You might want to do a search on "Where That Came From" to hear it. They took his voice samples from the past to make the recording.

Whoa, how sad, but wonderful and amazing at the same time! I read quite a few of the comments while
listening and everyone loved hearing him again; losing your voice to a stroke, the horror never ends!
Digital killed 80% of our industry, but we still survived and I am still working at 70, only 6 hours days
3 days a week but it keeps me active and getting out and about and helps heaps in this economy,
plus I have always loved what I do (it is the only thing I knew I wanted to do after discovering
my love of darkroom work in college after dropping out of high school). Country music has never
really been a favoured genre from me but I did enjoy hearing "his" voice, and the song, thank you!
 

Magenta

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Today at church, the sermon was from Isaiah 14:3-23. It was about PRIDE and how much God hates this sin. It sure made me look at myself, and I did not like what I saw. Hopefully it will cause me to interact better with those that I may not agree with.
I will not cease to provide my opinion on this site, but perhaps I can do it in a kinder manner!
BillyBob, you are already one of the kindest people on this site. If you get any better with the
gentleness and respect in how you respond to people, you will be rocketing into the stratosphere!
 

Cameron143

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BillyBob, you are already one of the kindest people on this site. If you get any better with the
gentleness and respect in how you respond to people, you will be rocketing into the stratosphere!
Careful...a bigger head for him just increases his eyes.