Softmirror:
■ Firstly go and read the person's comment I quoted. That way you will understand the context of my response. As to the link. You mean that's a challenge for you?

OP posted a picture of bread that was shared at at least one of the polling booths/units in Edo on election day and in response to the following comment...

Samirana360:
Stewpid people said religion is our problem..... Now look at what our politicians ar doing... Do we even have sense in Africa

... you insisted that the same is obtainable in the U.S. and the U.K. I asked you for a source for the claim you made regarding the prime minister carrying out this act in the U.K. since I am very much aware that election campaigning of that kind is prohibited in all states on Election Day in the U.S. So how is that a challenge for Pete's sake?

You can find more precise rules regarding such practices here in the U.S. at the following link https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/electioneering-prohibitions

sweetrace:
■ Not exactly! The politicians are there to govern even though they are not doing their jobs. The kidnappers have debased humanity! People are scared to go to the farms. Women are raped and then killed. Ransoms are paid and yet victims are killed. These kidnappers go to communities and shoot as though there’s a war going on. They kill without any justification! Then they insult their victims by going online to do a giveaway??

I am afraid I still fail to see the difference between the two groups you describe there. Worse, some of your politicians have been tagged among those who directly sponsor the kidnappers and bandits while others have been fingered in funding them through payment of ransoms and whatnot. Whatever it is you are attempting to argue is lost to me. 🤔

Softmirror:
∆ He did that hours before the elections in Leeds.

And the election laws in Leeds allowed for him to campaign even on the day of the election? Who was this? Where is the news on this and what was the penalty, assuming it is illegal out there? Source please.

Assuming it is illegal in the UK --- it is illegal here in the US --- why would you think it makes sense to use an illegal act in the UK as justification for an illegality in Nigeria? Una dey oK at all? The electoral laws are clear in Nigeria that these acts are illegal. No campaigning on election day.

coolqayy:
■ In a blatant display of corruption, a political party distributed newly minted notes to buy votes from desperate voters. This event highlights the government's exploitation of economic hardship and hunger as a tool of control. By leveraging poverty, they manipulate vulnerable citizens, exchanging basic needs for political loyalty. The day after the election, the city became flooded with these notes as people rushed to spend them, underscoring the depth of economic despair and illustrating how short-term relief is used as a deceptive weapon.
This scenario reflects the rot of corrupt politicians who prioritize personal power over the well-being of their citizens. Rather than addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty, they perpetuate it, ensuring that people remain reliant on such handouts. This tactic not only undermines democracy but also deepens the economic divide, fostering a cycle of exploitation where the poor remain marginalized and the corrupt thrive. It is a tragic indictment of governance where the hungry are silenced, and integrity is sacrificed for political gain
COME AND SEE HOW NEW MONEY FULL EDO

You forgot to mention the rot of corrupt people who would sell the very futures of their own children, families, and communities for that new money and bread. Abi, no be people sell their votes to collect the money and snacks at the polling units?

thinkmoney:
■ Do they share these on Election Day. With people like you the country can’t go forward. Infact majority have your type of stinking mindset. Making excuses for sacrilegious things

No mind the atrocious examples of human beings who would try to justify the most absurd all for what... more hunger in the land.

Softmirror:
■ It is obtainable in the United States of America too. Example is Trump cookies baked specifically for his political campaign. That's just an example. There so many examples, another is U.K Prime minister. We learnt all these things from them.

On Election day? 🙄

Can you people stop being dubious for once? The bread shown by OP was shared on the very day of the election with people at the polling units. These were literally hungry voters being enticed to come vote instead for PDP or APC as the case may seem right there at the polling units. How does that compare to pre-election day campaign ideas in the U.K or U.S? 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Newlymarried:
■ Adejobi saw the post and deemed it fit to respond. See his response below

That is a bullsheet response made for the eyes of gullible Nigerians alone.🙄

How many times you don see APC in the middle of downtown Manhattan, yet those NYPD police officers work so many times more effectively than the Nigerian Police Force can ever boast of?

Ginomel:
■ I pity you .Don't die of frustration. I have been saved by the living God
■ and everything moves smoothly for me

What is the name of this living God that supposedly saved you?

2. What does it mean to say everything moves smoothly for me?

freemi:
so because politicians do same then it's now justified?

Take a look again at the conversation that came before and point out how exactly my response can be construed as an attempt to justify.

sweetrace:
He steals from people, and murders some and now thinks he has money. So he is doing giveaway with money that is not his. He should keep the money. People have been surviving and will still survive without it. His so-called give away will not give him a clean conscience or happiness.

...

That is pretty much the same thing your politicians do, isn't it?

Salt06:
■ So does this wrong justify the other wrong?

My comment was that these bandits are the same as your politicians. They are both of them wrong! So, where do you find this assumed attempt to justify a wrong by my person?

donforeign:
go apprehend am now then you will know he's more protected than you, govt pikin.. baba enter house 9ja dn finish

Consider what you said abeg!

donforeign:
He's not suspected..he's a bandit but more Nigerian than y'all .. nothing will happen.. so next..

Why did you conclude that he is more Nigerian than all?

donforeign:
He's not suspected..he's a bandit but more Nigerian than y'all .. nothing will happen.. so next..

How is he more Nigerian abeg? Help us understand!

Northernblood8:
Yoruba people future president

I no go surprise at all.

Bobloco:
■ But he was by far a better leader when you compare him with the current notorious narcotics drug trafficker, certificate forger, buccaneering power grabber engaging in criminal state capture who has only succeeded in inflicting premium pains, hunger, and starvation on the citizens. 

Why would it make sense to compare him to any of the current crop of criminals for Pete's sake?

Mrexcell:
All these atrocities uzodima has choosed to be committing against his own people I wonder where him and his generations intend to stay in imo after leaving office as governor?

Uzodinma did not show up at each polling boot to carry out these atrocities. He paid Imo state people to do it for him. Until Imolites stop hyperfocusing on Uzodinma, and instead go after the criminals among you who would take money from him to destroy your lives with, you will continue to be nothing but social media complainers. The same is true in every state in Nigeria. The criminal politicians use Nigerians against themselves.

jaephoenix:
■ Cherry-picking is a common vice for Christians. They pick out the goody stuffs in the OT like creation, 10 commandments, tithing etc, then ignore the baddies. If you ask why the ignore the baddies they tell you "Oh, its the OT, they contain the old order blah blah blah"

indeed!

Petalss:
■ I have come across varying interpretations of certain verses and statements in the Bible, which have led me to reflect on their meanings.
For instance, in one passage, it is clearly stated that Jesus was sent "only to the lost sheep of Israel." This seems quite straightforward, implying His mission was specifically directed to the people of Israel and not to other nations.
However, in another well-known verse, we read, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." This seems to imply that the term "world" refers to everyone, encompassing all nations and peoples, not just Israel. This raises an important question: Should we interpret "the world" in this context as the entire world, or could it have a more specific or nuanced meaning?
Note: I’m not attempting to start a debate or argument, but I’m genuinely curious about understanding the meaning from your perspective. How do you reconcile these two verses?

I already responded to this earlier on this same thread.

The contextual meaning of a word is always more important when attempting to comprehend writing than any other idea one may have in one's head. The key to understanding the world that Jesus Christ spoke of in John 3 vs 16 is given by Him in John 3 vs 14.

↪ While in the desert, the God of Israel sent snakes to kill the Israelites for complaining. And then the God of Israel told Moses to lift a bronze snake proclaiming that those of the people of Israel— no mention of the foreigners who lived among them in the entire tale— bitten by the snakes(condemned to die) who would choose to look up at the bronze statue would be saved from death(condemnation of death), a sentence inflicted on them by the God of Israel Himself.

4 The Israelites left Mount Hor and traveled on the road that goes to the Red Sea. They did this to go around the country of Edom. But the people became impatient.
5 They began complaining against God and Moses. The people said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt? We will die here in the desert! There is no bread and no water! And we hate this terrible food!”
6 So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people. The snakes bit the people, and many of the Israelites(not foreigners) died.
7 The people came to Moses and said, “We know that we sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord. Ask him to take away these snakes.” So Moses prayed for them.
8 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a bronze snake and put it on a pole. If anyone is bitten by a snake, that person should look at the bronze snake on the pole. Then that person will not die.”
9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. Then when a snake bit anyone, that person looked at the bronze snake on the pole and lived. - Numbers 21 vs 4 - 9

Recall that at this point in the journey, the Nation of Israel had not been constituted so the text majorly regarded the descendants of Jacob — Israelites— separate from the foreigners among them. Moses lifted the bronze snake, and those who looked at it lived.

↪ Jesus Christ, in John 3 vs 14, is written to have said that in much the same way that Moses lifted the snake in the desert for the people of Israel He too would be raised as a beacon for those among them — the people of Israel — who wished to live after having been condemned to die by God of Israel - Deuteronomy 28.

14 “Moses lifted up the snake in the desert. It is the same with the Son of Man. He must be lifted too.
15 Then everyone who believes in him can have eternal life.”
16 Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.
17 God sent his Son into the world. He did not send him to judge the world guilty but to save the world through him. - John 3 vs 14-16

Two things from all of this is
► God is responsible for condemning the Israelites to perish in the grave — lost. And He, God then also sent Jesus Christ to save the same people... Israel... after condemning them to die. Same as He did with the serpent back in the desert.
► The World that Jesus Christ was sent to is the same world that consists of those condemned of Israel aka the Lost sheep of Israel. Just as Jesus Christ made clear in Matthew 15 vs 21 - 28.

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When one completely disregards the contextual meaning of a word or term to apply in its place a meaning or definition removed from — foreign— the text itself, one is no longer attempting to comprehend the content of the text in question. Rather, it becomes an attempt to impose a meaning/understanding different from that contained within the text itself. This pretty much goes against every rule that guides human language comprehension.

This happens to be what those in religious sects including Christianity who brandish their many interpretations are ultimately guilty. Their various interpretations violate the very context and content of the texts they quote, texts all written by humans with human hands in human languages and ultimately broadcast for human consumption.

Petalss:
■ This is a teaching found in the Bible, yet it is important to note that there are various interpretations of its meaning...

Why these various interpretations? Where in the book is it stated that interpretations are allowed or to be considered to begin with? What particular author of what book in that entire compendium insists on the creation of these interpretations you speak of? Why must I debate these various interpretations rather than simply accept what is written in the book of Jesus Christ and this God of Israel? Of what value or meaning is any of that exercise?

Consider the following text.

Edet lives in Calabar. He is 8 years old. Every morning he goes to school. But in the afternoon, he stays at home. He likes to read. His mother buys him books from the bookstore.

What interpretations are necessary to simply comprehend the message being conveyed in the passage? How many of them? Why?

Emusan:
■ anytime you hear them saying Jesus must have lied, just know that they are the one actually saying Jesus lied. It's evident that you lied against Jesus as Jesus message is for THE WHOLE WORLD. So,are you of the blood of Jacob?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Keep telling yourself these things.

CyrusVI:
■ They dont directly rob or kill anyone Yes, they could be a link, but the emotional effects differs when its a direct attack on those people like the Bandits do Stop excusing one negative behaviour with another

So, all that money they embezzle, even money meant to go to feeding, security, and healthcare, is without consequence(direct or indirect) as far as the very lives of the people they steal from?

Emusan:
■ You lied against Jesus Christ because Jesus died for the WHOLE WORLD. Reason why He commanded His disciples to go and MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATION! Matt 28:19 Just answer the simple question, if your conscience isn't judging you already
You are lying against Jesus

I love the way you people like to think that using a translation of the text that suits your particular delusion means Jesus Christ must have lied when He said He was sent by His Father only to the Lost Sheep of Israel, a text equally found in the very same translation you use even here(NIV). 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

sweetrace:
He steals from people, and murders some and now thinks he has money. So he is doing giveaway with money that is not his. He should keep the money. People have been surviving and will still survive without it. His so-called give away will not give him a clean conscience or happiness.

That is pretty much the same thing your politicians do, isn't it?

Petalss:
■ Kobojunkie. I have been longing to ask you this question. Who is Jesus Christ and what is his relationship with God and to the world or the Israelites?

The details you seek are as written in the Book called the Bible or the Old Israelites texts. Jesus Christ is the Son of God — God's Constitutional Law in the Kingdom/Nation of God — and He was sent by God only to the Lost Sheep of Israel. These details are found in the book.

Emusan:
■Does my question sound that way? I only ask you, ARE YOU OF THE BLOOD OF JACOB? A simple yes or no question

You disregard Jesus Christ and His Truth, but you are mightily focused on the particulars of my bloodline as though it somehow colors the almost 2000-year-old facts of Jesus Christ. Of course, I want to understand how this detail of mine matters as far as the content of Scripture established almost 2000 years ago.

So, again, If I am not of the bloodline of Jacob, you mean I am not allowed to state the facts of Jesus Christ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Emusan:
■ Why are you avoiding that question Are you of the blood of Jacob?

Wait a second, so If I am not of the bloodline of Jacob, you mean I am not allowed to state the facts of Jesus Christ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Emusan:
■ Yes! But you can see clearly that God is after THE WORLD.Meanwhile, you have not answered my question and proved how Only Jacob's BLOOD will be saved. My question again, ARE YOU OF THE BLOOD OF JACOB?

Jesus Christ who reiterated that His Father, God, sent Him only to the Lost Sheep of Israel is merely a joker to you? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Abeg, waka pass me with your brain-damage o'jare! I don talk am say you religious nut-jobs don't have any regard for the person of Jesus Christ and His Gospel. You are more interested in the many lies of your scammers-in-the-lords, the ones you all would instead die for. 🙄

Melonsmasher:
THERE WAS NO ELECTION IN IMO STATE
And that's a 1000% fact cus that is where I reside, there were no ballots, there were no voters, the people have squarely given up on looters

Una too dey like to do nothing but complain.

Emusan:
■ No! It's not fact, reason why you can't answer that simple question and support your point with the scripture.
"For God so LOVE the WORLD that He gave His one and only Son, WHOSOEVER believe in him will not perish but have everlasting life"
So, tell if you have Jacob blood running in you and where God said ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE JACOB'S BLOOD will be saved.

Jesus Christ, the one who made the statement found in the passage instead insists that in much the same way God gave the Bronze snake to the Israelites in the desert as a path to redemption, He too was being given to the Israelites who were condemned of His time so that they no longer be condemned.

14 “Moses lifted up the snake in the desert.[a] It is the same with the Son of Man. He must be lifted up too.
15 Then everyone who believes in him can have eternal life.”
[b]16 Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life. - John 3 vs 14 - 16

For Pete's sake, the entire conversation Jesus had in John 3 beginning from verses 1 - 21 was with Nicodemus, a Pharisee of Israel. Jesus Christ was not foolish when He pointed out that He was sent to the same people who were condemned by God in the desert.

Note: God did not condemn the foreigners living among the Israelites even in the desert.

AbuTwins:
■ As usual, you'll divert to what you want to me to hear! But that is not what i asked you!
I just need the translation of the verse below as the people who you trust wrote them originally!
What's your correct translation of 1 Samuel 13:1 and what do you see to its representation in the Vulgate, the Hebrew, the Septuagint and also the Chaldee? There's also an Hexeplar version!

@AbuTwins , The one desperate to divert here is your person. You created this thread suggesting that the particulars of Joseph's life were vital to the grand scheme of things. Then you went ahead to suggest that the story told by Joseph's descendants and people was of no use. Then you conjure up by absurd by suggesting that a story that came almost 1000 years after the original story by a total foreigner who never even encountered the people of Joseph — his descendants — is the more accurate version of Joseph's life. And you take offense when our jaws drop at the absurdity of the claim you continue to make?

2. About 1 Samuel 13: 1 and the life of Joseph, these are just stories of men; accuracy of account does not and should not matter at all. Why? Because they were not gods but men. I know this may be much for you to understand(it is a thing religious folks seem to struggle with in their many tussles to claim supremacy over other religions)but it really matters little whether Saul wore green underwear or Joseph had a rainbow-colored coat. What instead matters is the Word of the God of Israel. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Beremx:
@✓ My kid brother lives at Enugu and he says he enjoys 22hrs of electricity. I can't remember the area he lives though.

Heathrow Airport alone generates 5000MW of electricity for its use. Compare that to an entire country of 200,000,000 people using only about the same amount of electricity each day and you realize how very funny that claim really is. In Nigeria, people seem to believe everything runs on Juju.

lexxwiz:
■ Stand your grounds oh Men!!! Money has destroyed a lot of families..
I can relate to your story, I have a sister who is stinkingly rich. Na so dem Dey worship am for the whole kingdred. I love my sister don’t worry but she started letting it get to her head. She built a house in my hometown and inscribed her name on it (very big) lol. I mean, you didn’t have to embarrass the men like that. Mind you, she’s married and she didn’t do that in her own husbands village. I confronted her and that’s how the wahala started till this moment. I just kuku focus on my own hustle make e no come be like envy.
■My brother, just focus on yourself and work towards your own progress. Forget about honest opinions from your siblings, na money driven siblings you get. Find money my brother!!!

You are kidding, right? You confronted your own sister for building a house in her own papa's village and putting her name on it. If it had been a brother of yours who had built that very house and inscribed his name on it the same would you have confronted him as well? What gives you the right to decide what she can or cannot do, where she can build a house or cannot build a house, and how large she can inscribe her name on it or not inscribe her name on it? Go and fking apologize to your sister for that disgusting attitude of yours abeg!

She isn't the reason you have yet to build a house of your own like hers in the village; hating on her for doing it first will not help you either. Jeez!

2. From your story, you are the one who seems money-driven... money-driven to act like a jerk towards your own sister. Even if she is indeed being a jerk about having more money, that doesn't excuse the fact that you were also a jerk to her in this.

danvon:
✓ He was poisoned...
He was too powerful, coups could not work for him, poison was the best bet, it also helped that he was a muslim.

Lies!