This is how the pagans started! They thought they were worshiping God through the statues!

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Wow cute jesus

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Pls APC supporters d statue wasn't built by Rocha's ooooooo....b4 Una go dey take d glory.....
at least did statue will stay for years....its better Dan dat Xmas tree dat can feed d whole state.....

Nina4u:
Leviticus 26:1King James Version (KJV)
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God...

not to whoship just to beautify his church and means of tourist for the state.

...at 9m, it can't be the tallest statue in Africa. Check the 48m tall African Renaissance Monument that Abdoulaye Wade wasted $28M on top in Dakar.

bronzegoddess:
All d people involved in this are maaaaadd!!! Statue?
Statue?!

And u'll soon see dem bowin for the statue dey use their tithe money to pay som1 to built for dem. #LordHaveMercy

Very good, imo state.

I hope the presence of this 'giant-size jesus' will remind SOME criminal-minded ones to steer clear off crime.

Because i know imolites to be very hard working and industious

God bless our honest hussle this year and beyond

NICE GOD FOGIVE DOS DAT SAYS IT IS AN IDOL

Only consolation is that the govt will be inclined to build better roads and facilities in the area with the level of global interest this has generated plus tourism

I foresee fireworks display at this location by the end of the year

OGHENE316:
NICE GOD FOGIVE DOS DAT SAYS IT IS AN IDOL

So what is it? GOD himself?

Nina4u:
Leviticus 26:1King James Version (KJV)
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God...

they are not bowing but unveiling. if u see them worshipped d image then they can be questioned

Not only is the statue a misplaced priority in the greater scheme of things; but the foreign looking figure does not look like 99% of the people in that community.

You guys mean this was actually in Nigeria?

I hail una flair for irrelevant tinz

Exactly wat i had in thought! The man may have a something good in doing this, but people bowing to this is An abomination to God. This is just stone nd nothing else. I won't b suprised to hear that they wake up one morning and see this stature broken to pieces

Nina4u:
Leviticus 26:1King James Version (KJV)
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God...

Phobia1:

And u'll soon see dem bowin for the statue dey use their tithe money to pay som1 to built for dem. #LordHaveMercy

Funny. If I hear sey I pay tithe for church.


Smh!!!

As The world's oldest surviving institution, the Catholic church knows what Jesus look like. As we know what His parents look like. So only with jealousy that this fact can be denied. Mary is pure Catholic.

Even the earlier apostles we know what they all look like and mind you drawing and painting are natural talent that predates Christ by hundreds of years. There were people moulding in the time of Moses.

Why would someone be shouting this is not Jesus when he or she acknowledge not to have seen Him?

So in conclusion, we saw our hero and moulded him because we want to be like him and be thinking about him always.

Jesus is not Mohammed, so you can sketch, draw and paint Him into the mind of his followers.

identify jesus in the image

dacovajnr:
ain't you a bronzegoddess yourself which qualifies you as a statue

Lol..no na. I'm just a heavenly being, dazall

Soon they will turn this one to god. I don't care whether it was commissioned by bishop or even the Pope. This is not Jesus Christ and shouldn't be compared to Jesus Christ. It doesn't even look like him

I tot dey said it was constructed by chinese.... China produced dey last

Phobia1:

And u'll soon see dem bowin for the statue dey use their tithe money to pay som1 to built for dem. #LordHaveMercy

Sheer bigotry have enveloped your eye
Please read and comprehend.

Of all the problems facing the imo people.. What a governor?

Jesus Wept.

Inb4 Reverend Mbaka comes to say the plotted for this to fall on Buhari's head.

I have observed dat here on Nairaland ppl talk any how,no caution no discipline .when u dn't ve anytin 2 say jst keep short cos u mustn't make comment on evrytin.

Catholic's at work

contactmorak:
Nigeria on Friday unveiled a nine-metre tall statue of Jesus Christ carved from white marble, thought to be the biggest of its kind in Africa.
Standing barefoot with arms outstretched, the "Jesus de Greatest" statue weighs in at 40 tonnes.


More than 100 priests and hundreds of Catholic worshippers attended the nine-metre (30-foot) statue's official unveiling in the village of Abajah in Imo state, Nigeria.

The statute was commissioned by Obinna Onuoha, a local businessman who hired a Chinese company to carve it. It was placed in the grounds of a 2000-capacity church that he built in 2012.


In his homily at a Mass before unveiling the statue, presiding bishop Augustine Tochukwu Okwuoma said it is a "very great symbol of faith" for Catholic worshippers and passers-by alike and remind them of the importance of Jesus Christ," The presiding Bishop blessed the statue after mass.

The cost of the statue has not been revealed.

The 43-year-old boss of an oil and gas service company timed the statue's unveiling to coincide with his parents' 50th wedding anniversary.


He said the idea of building a giant statue of Jesus came to him in a dream nearly 20 years ago.
And when his 68-year-old mother fell seriously ill a few years ago, she made him promise that he would build a church if she survived.

http://www.newseveryhour.com/2016/01/photos-from-unveiling-of-africas.html

Brazil in Nigeria live!