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Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by KAHNUL(m): 8:31am On Dec 11, 2016
ITS BEEN MONTHS SINCE I LAST WENT TO CHURCH. TO ME ALL PASTORS ARE GREEDY THIEVES THAT WANT RICHES AND LUXURY, AND A USELESS CONTINENT LIKE AFRICA WITH LOTS OF BRAINLESS GULLIBLE HEADS IS WHERE THEY SUCCEED. JUSUS OWNED NOTHING BUT PASTORS THESE DAYS OWN BILLIONS WHEN MANY POOR MEMBERS ROT IN ABJECT POVERTY. IN AFRICA, WE SERVE PASTORS AND SEEK MIRACLE AND HEALINGS RATHER THAN GOD. A PASTOR OWNS 5 PRIVATE JETS YET SOME STUPID MEMBERS GIVE HIM 10% OF THIER EARNINGS. I CAN NEVER PAY TITHE TO ANY CRIMINAL, I'LL RATHER GIVE IT TO A BEGGER ON THE STREET....AM NOT A FOOL

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Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by lacruz12(m): 8:36am On Dec 11, 2016
If it's not money then it's not making sense
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by sesaan(m): 8:38am On Dec 11, 2016
God exist in Ur brain,, The whiteman has fooled you all with his story book the Bible & no right thinking pet see on would read the quaran..

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Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by zeestone99(m): 8:39am On Dec 11, 2016
But why jst two likes for the op, wel I forgot this is nt tonto dike's new shoes topic.
Op spot on, I stil can't fathom where we al got it wrong, why shud we even have more than one church, some call themselves pentecostal, odas cele, and some Catholic etc. preaching from jst one holy book (Bible),and we expect no confusion and competition. SMH undecided
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by KAHNUL(m): 8:40am On Dec 11, 2016
JUST LOOK AT HOW PPL WERE RIPPED APART IN CHURCH AT AKWA IBOM, WOULDN'T IT BE BETTER THEY STAYED AT HOME HAVING SEX OR EVEN MASTURBATING. THE PAINFUL THING IS THAT THE PASTOR THEY WENT TO SEE HIS ORDINATION DID NOT DIE, HE'S PROBABLY WITH HIS FAMILY IN AN EXOTIC HOUSE CHILLING. WHEN WILL NIGERIANS BE CIVILISED. STOP ENRICHING YOUR FELLOW MAN, CREATING A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR HIS KIDS AND GENERATION

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Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by Yeligray(m): 8:43am On Dec 11, 2016
Zenlife:

Do kindly share with us your experiences in the 'real' heaven and 'real' hell. Enquiring minds will like to know. Thanks.
when you go to hell you ask satan if hell z real.
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by xolomonstrides(m): 8:44am On Dec 11, 2016
Most people who are commenting know absolutely nothing about the Christianity they are explaining. Acts 2.47. Immediately after the first preaching and conversion after Christ, the bible said " and the lord added to his church daily those that were saved"
You cannot imagine what Christianity is from your head but from the scripture. The bible also tells us not to forsake the assembly of ourselves together. The church is the body of Christ(eph.5:23)). And once you become born again you are added to his body(1cor. 12: 12, 27)(gal. 3 : 27),(ROM.6:3, 7:4) (col, 3:15) aSo being born again and added to his body are simultaneous actions. Once you are truly born again then you are a member of his church. And a true Christian obeys the scripture which says "do not forsake the assembly" the church is not the building it is the collection of Christians (true Christians)

So if you are going to say church does not matter then say it as if it is God that is saying it not from your head.
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by Yeligray(m): 8:44am On Dec 11, 2016
Uyi168:
..oga,nothing like judgement day,nothing like hell..u go wait taya..
thats what i'm saying when you go to hell ask satan if hell z real.
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by hotspec(m): 8:45am On Dec 11, 2016
zeestone99:
But why jst two likes for the op, wel I forgot this is nt tonto dike's new shoes topic.
Op spot on, I stil can't fathom where we al got it wrong, why shud we even have more than one church, some call themselves pentecostal, odas cele, and some Catholic etc. preaching from jst one holy book (Bible),and we expect no confusion and competition. SMH undecided
Thumb's up for u. The confusion and competition among them strictly for "resource" control. The kind of politics going on in CAN and PFN chapters are even worse than APC - PDP issue. All upon money and material things. They even fight for slots from govt to attend Jerusalem.

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Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by Uyi168: 8:47am On Dec 11, 2016
Yeligray:
thats what i'm saying when you go to hell ask satan if hell z real.
..So u'ue been to hell.?
i just dy shame for u
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by xolomonstrides(m): 8:50am On Dec 11, 2016
UuzbaGuuzba:
I know this article was written because you want comments. What you do about the comments is what matters most. You are right now in a situation of feeling lost. Fear not. You have done well to look into the Bible to see the origins of the church. You have done well to notice the lapses of some pastors. You have one more task. You need to pray to God. Ask Jesus to show you what Church he actually instituted. There is only 1. The gates of hell shall not prevail it. Consider it to be the oldest and most consistent most orderly, not flashy, most rigid. Ask and you shall recieve. Seek and you shall find. I pray for you.
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Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by xolomonstrides(m): 9:03am On Dec 11, 2016
The problem is that most people believe that they must give their monies to one greedy person who calls himself a pastor. If you fee you are hurting your conscience by giving them simple don't give , the bible says giving is free will no compulsion.

There are truly so many deceivers out there, that is why we must always be in search for the truth. Once we find it by God's will we would know. Your conviction would make you worship. It would come automatically. Wherever you go, let it be because of your search for the truth that saves the soul.
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by fromnigeria(m): 9:09am On Dec 11, 2016
OlajumokeBread:

God is a scam
Jesus Christ is a scam
Religion is the biggest scam in the history of humanity
Bible (story book) is a scam
Heaven is a scam
Hell is a scam
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by Rick9(m): 9:10am On Dec 11, 2016
... And Jesus Christ was feeding thousands, healing the sick, giving hope to the sinners, showing mercies to the sinners, doing so many good deeds and he never collected a Penny from anyone.

Jesus cared so much about the people he understood their plights as they were wandering like sheep's without a shepherd, Jesus was always there for them,

Any Christian that want to be serious with God, follow the teachings of Christ act like him and be happy.

My own little contribution

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Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by MisterKings(m): 9:25am On Dec 11, 2016
We are in the age of aquarius, the age of enlightenment. Everyone knows now what he would normally not know before. Everyday we discover new truths everything seems overt now.

Religion is the worst, i repeat the worst thing u can get involved with. At the death of Jesus the curtain in the temple was torn in two.... Signifying the fact that we now have access to God without the need of any one or entity.

People lock themselves in the name of I AM A CHRISTIAN they wear a holy make up with oversized suits claiming that makes them holy and deep inside they are dirty as pigs.

They judge and condemn people in the same church and still claim righteous.....hmmm pity them i do.

You alone know ur connection with God. You alone know what's right and whats wrong. Deep inside u know, u don't need any self proclaimed righteous pastor to tell u and u don't need brother or sister HOLIER THAN ALL to make u feel u are unworthy cos Jesus no dey send all that one and like he said THESE PEOPLE WORSHIP ME WITH THEIR LIPS BUT THEIR HEARTS ARE FAR FROM ME.
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by nwakaibeya1: 9:59am On Dec 11, 2016
John 5,30 Do you know that Today is Yet another Sunday of history and geography teaching and fashion sermons,stories upon stories that don't empower humanbeigns spiritually by comedy, story telling pastors&prophets for spiritualy blind bornagain followers and church goers?bornagains and church goers enjoy it and continue to shout prophesy, pastor ride on and still remain in evil family&occult wickedness and evil marine bondages and can't sleep at night and witches and wizards feast on them without mercy and pastors and prophets and apostles continue to use bornagains and church goers to make merchandise of their bellies without giving them empowerment and liberation and most importantly give followers PEACE ,Jesus Christ promised to give to those who come to him?Again see Jeremiah 5.21,22 Jeremiah 12 10 you must help yourself and Seek for unbeleivable power and recieve it, which is LIGHT,MANTLE and THE POWER THAT BE and this is available only if you believe there is >many just claim bornagain without spiritual wisdom and spiritual eyes and unbelievable power and they hate change and new truth&revelation of real JESUSCHRIST even when they read that God will do a new Thing in the Bible but they still question the same God why he is doing a new Thing? What a disaster humanbeings of the world.BEHOLD kingdom of God ofJesus Christ is not for everyone,neither is heaven for everyone, devil has his own children always and devils children hate change,especially the ones masquerading as BORNAGAINS who hate truth and good change with passion and pretend, they are those we call CHAMELEONS,we have spoken again and those who have ear let them hear and investigate from JESUSCHRIST if indeed they know JESUSCHRIST #who can battle with God of justice and the power that be?remember this is authority and truth&revelation and power that is unbelievable to humanbeigns so it's not compulsory that you must embrace and believe us but only time will tell who is telling the truth or not as this is not like conventional bornagain and bornagain in vogue #NO and NEVER, Our own is accept the truth or perish we dont beg human beigns to accept our truth and revelation because almost every one is claiming BORN AGAIN#remember #Jesuschrist did not beg human beigns to be bornagain he said go and sin no more and come to me all ye that are tired of carrying heavy evil loads, so it means you must meet a condition before you come to him Jesus Christ and not as they are begging you to come and be bornagain, what nonsense that some one should be begged to worship his creator or send a bus to carry you to come and worship he that created you and created heaven and earth? What a great disrespect to God and preference for man made agenda for human beings or did Jesus Christ send vehicles to carry people to him when he came before?you must rise up and be wise if you will and only if you reason and think well>this is the time to help yourself there is no more time,do not say you where not told and for you know who is coming for revenge and if Jesus Christ is comming for revenge will he pet or beg you as they are petting you in so called churches? never will it be,but they pet you in churches because they need your money why not be WISE. The spiritual is the ultimate place, seek the spiritual much as we told you that it is at night that we know who is who and no matter what anyone claims to be in the day before SPIRITUALY blind people .Night is the ultimate place of exposure no pretenses there, so be wise and think.we have spoken again to the whole world for them to look into what we speak.Authority has come back to the earth and because almost everyone claims to be wise and knowledgeable is reason we tell whoever to investigate this never heard before unbelievable truth&revelation #Be wise ,look before you leap

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Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by jmann2(m): 11:04am On Dec 11, 2016
What a great work you have done.
So concise, truthful and direct.
Something urgently need to be done about this.
Many have stopped attending church because no one is concerned about them . The pastor is more concerned about what is in your pocket than where you spend eternity.
I left Christ embassy few years ago because of their financial demand was becoming more burdensome day after day.
Who will deliver us from the hand of these usurpers?

COME O LORD
MARANATHA

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Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by Neozy(m): 11:20am On Dec 11, 2016
OlajumokeBread:

God is a scam
Jesus Christ is a scam
Religion is the biggest scam in the history of humanity
Bible (story book) is a scam
Heaven is a scam
Hell is a scam
You Are The Greatest Scam
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by superbouck(m): 11:22am On Dec 11, 2016
why do we have so many pastors in Nigeria
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by CXLVII: 11:26am On Dec 11, 2016
Liveair:
Essence of all Religion is for Mental Control of People by Authorities.


You Nailed it Boss!

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Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by orisa37: 11:29am On Dec 11, 2016
Please try to know the full meanings of Church and Christianity, then you'll know the Essence.
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by DedeNkem: 11:29am On Dec 11, 2016
The essence of the Church and Christianity is power and wealth.

Religion is all about having unchallenged, unquestioned control over weak people who can't think for themselves, and to amass wealth through their congregations.

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Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by Zenlife: 11:42am On Dec 11, 2016
Yeligray:
when you go to hell you ask satan if hell z real.

Thank you for letting us know where you are and the question you asked. Hope you were answered and are having a fiery blast.
Kudos to you.
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by Zenlife: 11:44am On Dec 11, 2016
superbouck:
why do we have so many pastors in Nigeria

Unemployment!
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by TonyRoland(m): 1:13pm On Dec 11, 2016
@olajumokebread u are d greatest fool dat has ever existed,if u don't knw what to say must u comment, ur generation are scam.
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by Jimmyo3(m): 2:50pm On Dec 11, 2016
One of the greatest gift God gave to humanity is FAITH. it is free, it is no respecter of your personality, status,level,etc. it works for everyone not minding weather you are a sinner or not. All that is required of you is your ability to firmly believe and see things working for you, weather righteous or a sinner just believe without an iota of doubt and see it working in your favour. Yeah!! it sounds like magic but that it a secret,this is what the greatest men of God use...they've all mastered FAITH. As a human you should seek FAITH mastery, if you can master FAITH then you become like gods.....
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by FMCASH(m): 3:14pm On Dec 11, 2016
Uyi168:
..oga,nothing like judgement day,nothing like hell..u go wait taya..
You funny kwa, let wait and see.
Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by KingSango(m): 3:43pm On Dec 11, 2016
mykeljosef:
christianity and. CHURCHTIANITY are different

They are one in the same demon.

There's no defending it when you realize that Christians are the dirty Freemasons that run the underworld known as the Illuminati. This also includes the Muslims who also have this crazy notion of a Christ called the Mahdi or Caliphate. The Bible stories are fake and each time the Quran mentions these stories they are lying too! Just look at the steps of Freemason it includes Christians and Muslim symbolism. There is no African traditional symbolism in Freemasonry even though the Illuminati knowledge comes from Kemet. Or should I say stolen from Kemet and being misused for evil. Ase.

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Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by nurusystem(m): 4:10pm On Dec 11, 2016
OlajumokeBread:

God is a scam
Jesus Christ is a scam
Religion is the biggest scam in the history of humanity
Bible (story book) is a scam
Heaven is a scam
Hell is a scam
you are a lier God Exist.
Hebrews 3:4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
quran 112 1vs4 In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. Say: He is Allah, the One! Allah, the eternally Besought of all! He begetteth not nor was begotten. And there is none comparable unto Him.
deutonomy 6 vs 4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!

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Re: What is The Essence Of The Church And Christianity? by FMCASH(m): 4:12pm On Dec 11, 2016
What is kemet

KingSango:


They are one in the same demon.

There's no defending it when you realize that Christians are the dirty Freemasons that run the underworld known as the Illuminati. This also includes the Muslims who also have this crazy notion of a Christ called the Mahdi or Caliphate. The Bible stories are fake and each time the Quran mentions these stories they are lying too! Just look at the steps of Freemason it includes Christians and Muslim symbolism. There is no African traditional symbolism in Freemasonry even though the Illuminati knowledge comes from Kemet. Or should I say stolen from Kemet and being misused for evil. Ase.

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