Michellekabod1:
Healing
I have battled with a chronic illness since birth that scientifically have no cure.

Michellekabod1:
I have been prayed for the umpteenth time by men of God, prayer warriors, infact i even had the handkerchief blessed by a VERY POPULAR MAN OF GOD in Nigeria placed on me. My health got no better at all.

Michellekabod1:
Saying i had faith more than a mountain is an understatement, so why wasnt i healed?

Michellekabod1:
My health hindered me from studying medicine abroad when I secured two admissions to study in Europe.
Also, I realised I never knew anybody personally that got healed of any ailment. Nah! It nevers exceeds the television. I have known people with ailments that are christians and born agains despite a devotion to God. I often wondered why what I saw in the TV never occurred to those I knew personally

Michellekabod1:
Sexual Assault
That is a part of my life i dodge, it still haunts me. The wound very much fresh.
Guess what? It was a born again married boss! We said prayers every morning at work and fasted once a week (all directed by him)...
I had to take to my heels despite the pay was mouth watery.

Michellekabod1:
But the question has not left me; WHY ME?

MuttleyLaff:
"I dont see a lesbian, I see a strong woman.
I see a "woman, where are those thine accusers? Has no one condemned you?" woman"
- by MuttleyLaff: 10:22am On Dec 29, 2018

I am not trying to make light of the ordeal or commonize it nor being insensitive to the pain and wound that's still very much fresh but honestly, c'est la vie. It is sad, we don't all take personal responsibility for ourselves and it is doubly sad when we are taken advantage of

Sexual assault, as we all know it, is unwanted and unlawful sexual intercourse period. In the case of adults, it is any sexual contact with someone, when a person, male or female, touches another person sexually without their consent, and touching can be done with any part of the body or with an object. It essentially is, when a person is coerced or physically forced to engage in sex against their will. I remember on Dec 29, 2018, as clear as day, saying, I see you as a strong woman that you are and that's was from knowing that you are a beautiful, fearless, feisty, tough and strong survivor.

"Listen! I am sending you out just like sheep to a pack of wolves.
You must be as cautious as snakes and as gentle as doves."
- Matthew 10:16

Most people, really aren't who they say they are and that's why I wish people look like their true personalities because, take for example, the "born again married boss" that is a wolf among sheep. He didn't appear as a wolf in wolf's clothing but came as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Now blaming the wolf isnt going to help the sheep much. The sheep taking cognizance of Matthew 10:16 above, must learn not to fall into the clutches of the wolf

"Every test that you have experienced is the kind that normally comes to people.
But God keeps his promise, and He will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm;
at the time you are put to the test, He will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out."
- 1 Corinthians 10:13

Is this a rhetorical question?

If we are to ask, "why me?" about bad things, then we equally, should also ask, "why me?" about the good things that's happened over, in our lives, so if to counter "WHY ME?" with WHY NOT YOU?, then obviously, it's purely because as in 1 Corinthians 10:13 above, you could handle it.

Michellekabod1:

Happy sunday

Ihedinobi3:
Hi Michellekabod1.

I've read all your posts on the thread. I was wondering if you still have more to say. I may have an answer when you are done. Please confirm.

Ranchhoddas:
[s]I've never seen anyone as adept in turning the Bible on its head as Muttleylaff.[/s]

Suddenly a mustard seed is hyperbole. How on earth can that be.
What Jesus was saying was that you can achieve great things little faith.

Any other explanation is just...

Michellekabod1:

Please do answer me asap....thank you

MuttleyLaff:
I am beginning to be on the verge of nursing the thought of you not anymore being worthy to respond to Ranchhoddas.

Have you ever seen or heard anyone physically and/or directly move a mountain from here to there Ranchhoddas?

Of course, because of a faith as small the size of mustard seed, the Wright Brothers persisted in their little faith, now because of that we now defy the law of gravity and enjoy being thousand miles in the air, without risk of plummeting to down to earth and our death.

is because someone's faith that started as small as a mustard seed size and the invention that came out of that faith, made it possible to move a mountain from here to there with invented massive earthmoving machines or explosives.

Now tell me Ranchhoddas, if I say, I am so hungry, I can eat a whole horse. Is that a fact and truth, or is it a hyperbole and exaggeration?

Would you also say, where Jesus recommended cutting off one's hand to prevent sinning is not a hyperbole?

Did you not read where and when I said, "... used extreme exaggeration to make a point and show emphasis". Emphasis on what? Faith!

You're beginning to fall from my hand. Ranchhoddas, I've asked you to go list everywhere in the bible where abomination is mentioned and what it is mentioned with (e.g. abomination verse Leviticus 11:12 mentioned with or about lobsters, shrimps, crab etctera) but what have you done except other than procrastination.

I am OK with enemies slapping me in the front & on my face, but hey dear friend Ranchhoddas, here's your knife back, pulled it out of my back

Ihedinobi3:

It has been my experience (and the Bible itself said as much) that those who forsake faith in Jesus Christ after believing for a while are usually those who

1. never went far enough as to really understand what faith in Jesus Christ is about, and

2. suffered difficulties which they blamed on God or their faith in God and subsequently got upset about.

Your story (as not a few others here that I have seen) exemplifies both of these conditions.

I am not actually looking to persuade you of anything. My answer here is purely to testify to the Truth in the hope that if you are pleased to respond in an agreeable manner to it, you will be able to do so as well as possible and also to help other believers who are wrestling with similar issues and are willing to heed the Truth. So, I don't promise that you will like my answer. But I can promise you that it will be true.

First of all, faith in Jesus Christ is primarily to save us from eternal condemnation under which all human beings necessarily are because of our rebellion against God. This rebellion is due to our actual sins, that is, what we have done and continue to do, say and think that God disapproves of. It is not due, for example, to Adam's and Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden. We are only responsible for the sins we ourselves commit. The trouble is that because of Adam's and Eve's sin, every human being comes into the world in a body that is corrupted with evil preferences so that we tend to sin right from birth. Not a single human being except Jesus Christ has ever been able to avoid sinning completely. So, we are all guilty before God.

But when the Lord Jesus Christ died spiritually on the Cross nearly two thousand years ago, He paid for every sin ever committed, is being committed or will ever be committed by human beings. Because of that, all anyone needs to do now to escape God's Condemnation is to believe in the Lord Jesus. Analogous to that is getting into a boat to ferry over dangerous waters. The boat does all the work. You just stay in it. Although we ought to take the effort to clean up our act when we believe in Jesus Christ, sinning does not mean that anyone will go to Hell anymore. We clean up our act out of love for the One Who saved us and to honor and show our respect for the God Who is so Holy and yet Who forgives us.

This is the foundation of Christianity. This is the point of the Gospel. Of course there is so much more, but this is the Core.

Second. Prophecies, dreams, signs and wonders done by believers all ceased as soon as the Bible was completed by the apostles and their special associates. There has never been any of that again in the centuries since. So, these things really have nothing to do with the faith right now. It is because of the errors taught by the Pentecostal Movement that began not very long ago (about 200 years, in fact) that many people imagine that the Truth of the Gospel is intimately connected with such things. So, when believers fail to really study this Jesus Christ Whom they have chosen to believe, such lies may deceive them into giving up their Faith. But these things truly have nothing to do with believing in Jesus Christ.

Third. Religious feeling is not the same as Faith. Faith is a response of the human will to God. We choose whether to believe and trust God or not to. This has nothing to do with how we feel. So, lukewarmness has nothing to do feeling. It has everything instead to do with a lack of willingness to pay attention to the Truth of the Bible. This is a far more rampant situation today than it has ever been in human history. The vast majority of Christians have never had as much access to God's Truth than we have today but there has never been less interest in it than now. So, your previous lukewarmness was not just that you didn't or couldn't "feel it" but that you really couldn't be bothered to find out what the Bible really has to say. That always puts the believer in a position of serious vulnerability to apostasy. You apostatised because the Truth did not penetrate deeply enough into your heart to help you through the myriad questions and temptations and trials of this life.

Fourth. Troubles come to every single person in this world. We all suffer unjustly. We all go through hard times, experience disappointments and more. This is because of creature rebellion against God. Satan rebelled against God with a third of the angels and promptly began to ruin creation with them. They began to forcefully take possession of the bodies of the animals in that world ruining them in the process. And they only grew worse and worse eventually trying to create bodies of their own to suit their lusts. Other angels who did not join them in there rebellion could not have been very happy with the way that things were so ruined. But that too was their test. They could either wait patiently for God to do something about it or else they could take matters into their own hands and soon find themselves in rebellion too. Those who stayed faithful right until God stepped in and summarily ended that ruination won incredible rewards for it. The same is promised to believers today.

The difference here is that unlike the angels, human beings can be physically harmed since we have physical bodies that have not yet been resurrected. So, it is not just that rebels can damage the otherwise beautiful creation that God made, it is also that they can actively harm us because we are different from them. This is a test for all human beings. If we trust God to keep His Word, then no pain we suffer in this life will be enough to make us change in our devotion to Him. We will know that every injustice we suffer will eventually be answered by Him at the last Day. We will know that all the pain we suffer now will be more than fully compensated when the Lord Jesus returns and rewards us for our faithfulness to Him. So, we will not be offended by the existence of trouble in this life. Rather, we will steel ourselves for it and bear it because we have a confident hope concerning the future just like the farmer who sows seed and looks forward to a harvest.

Fifth. The behavior of professed Christians. Not only are there people who pretend to be what they are not; not only are there true Christians who do not act true to their Faith; one person's choices really have nothing to do with the next person's. That is, if someone is misrepresenting what they are preaching, that is something for which they will answer to God. It certainly is not an excuse for us to reject the Truth. The Truth is the Truth independent of what those who talk about it or may preach it may choose to do. We are not expected to respond to people's behaviors. Rather, we are to make our choices about God. If someone is misrepresenting God, then we should ignore them and deal directly with God.

Now, all the above is part of the Christian belief. But much of it is not even known in nearly all the churches most believers commit themselves to. And because they don't take the trouble to seek it out, many of them remain vulnerable to apostasy.

Now, you spoke of fear. This is one major theme in apostasy: the rejection of the fear of God. Many apostates consider Christianity a lie used to control people's behavior. But isn't that at least a little weird? Why would people seek out fear? Is it not more natural to human nature to bury our heads in the sand and pretend that what we fear is not real? Isn't that how we can function in life at all given the many physical dangers we face daily? Human nature tends to mute and ignore real dangers. How much more "imagined" ones like hell fire? It would seem that the fact that the vast majority of human beings believe in some version of hell fire (in fact, all human beings except the mentally disadvantaged do by default until they reject such a belief) should suggest instead that there is something to that fear. The fear can certainly be muted and ignored like any other, but just like other real ones, pretending that it is not real does not make it cease to exist.

Atheism has consistently been demonstrated by its proponents and evangelists to be little more than an excuse to indulge in what preferred moral impropriety that the atheist has without any fear of consequence than any true description of reality. So, compared to Christianity, it is actually foolishness or insanity. The fact that atheists view Christianity the same way is only further proof of how completely opposed in outlook they are to each other. This is also why it is impossible to persuade the atheist that the Bible tells the Truth. He would not consider himself as gaining anything by believing, rather he would have to give up his freedom to act as he pleases without fear of consequence. But, a lukewarm Christian already has one foot outside of the faith and will step out completely given the right incentive.

I edited this to account for your last post.

Ranchhoddas:
Fair enough.

Ranchhoddas:
He was using metaphors.

Ranchhoddas:
Why you think this is a suitable analogy is beyond me. It's exactly the same thing as your "god of Nairaland" example; just terrible in the context. And this is what Jesus meant? Gosh. Remember He cursed the fig tree before he said that. What rule did he obey then. With what rule did he raise the dead?

Ranchhoddas:
He could turn water to wine. Did he go through the steps with which breweries turn water to wine today. If Jesus said that, then I'll take Him at His word. When he needed money, he commanded people to get a coin from the belly of a fish. Which rule did he obey then?

Ranchhoddas:
I'll take Him at his word. If you cut off your hand to escape hell assuming that the place is all it's cracked up to be, then it wouldn't be too much of a sacrifice would it?

Ranchhoddas:
The words of Jesus should be taken literally. He multiplied food literally. How do you decide which is hyperbole and which is not. If you were present when he wanted to turn five loaves and two fish to food for thousands, you would have claimed it was exaggeration then wouldn't you?

Ranchhoddas:
The Bible is not my creed for all the reverence I have for it. I expect straight answers from people when I ask questions, not assignments.

Ranchhoddas:
Have you been able to convince anyone that homosexuality is approved in the Bible?

Ranchhoddas:
You must be the only person on the planet with this view.

Ranchhoddas:
Kikikikikiki. You are a strange fella...

Michellekabod1:

Thank you and have a nice day

Michellekabod1:
[bProphecy][/b]
since i remember being alive i have not seen any woman as beautiful as my aunty. Many called her mammy water,and her beauty frightened suitors. She died of AIDs after being deported back from Italy where she worked as...
Fast forward in 2017 my cousin was missing,we all panicked and a pastor was informed. He prayed and informed us that she had been trafficked. We were scared to the bone marrow hoping that the earlier scenario not reoccur.
Unbeknowst to us she was in lagos working as an event planner;making cool cash. She just wanted to be away from family and relatives....

LordReed:


LoL!

Michellekabod1:

Mind you this are not fictious

Michellekabod1:
My dreams of Jesus.
When i was a kid i had a dream of Jesus standing before me an admonishing me to stop some habits. Sounds cool right? Until i realised that it was the image of the normal picture of jesus circulated throughout the world. The picture of Jesus definitely cant be the real jesus image,his image had to be different from it,so why was it the face of Jesus who appeared to me in my dream ?

Michellekabod1:
Prophecy
since i remember being alive i have not seen any woman as beautiful as my aunty. Many called her mammy water,and her beauty frightened suitors. She died of AIDs after being deported back from Italy where she worked as...
Fast forward in 2017 my cousin was missing,we all panicked and a pastor was informed. He prayed and informed us that she had been trafficked. We were scared to the bone marrow hoping that the earlier scenario not reoccur.
Unbeknowst to us she was in lagos working as an event planner;making cool cash. She just wanted to be away from family and relatives....