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Muafrika2:
True. We live in the most murderous, cold and conflict ridden society that ever lived. But it's all been normalized, and justified. Many people will wonder what am talking about here.

atleast someone understands the true nature of our world.
the world thinks they have got knowledge. truth have been subverted to lie, sex has now become a thing to have anyhow and way with whoever you like. painfully, mankind has been sold to the devil!

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The elite or rulers (in high places)of this world has divorced society from God, who is synonymous with absolute truth and justice. It has inundated us with pornography and mundane trivialities and it has debased culture and raped morals. It has poisoned the well of gender and degraded relations between men and women.
We live in a decadent, superficial, hypocritical society where people sell their souls for money and sex, and where mass media and education are devoted to pious propaganda and indoctrination. Denied the truth, we are kept in a state of arrested development, befitting children or "animals." believe it or not, THE WORLD HAS BEEN SUBVERTED by the devil and his minions, and we all are his victims. Only Jesus Christ can take you out from his claws of spiritual death. [We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers.....philipians 6 : 12]

yes: it's strange but in a good way (if she'snt't a freak). I wish there were girls like that in our social-media-obsessed society! ()

Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish custom of purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each. Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.” So they took it to him. When the headwaiter tasted the water which had become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom, and said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.” (2:6–10)
The stone waterpots were, as John explained for the benefit of his Gentile readers, used for the Jewish custom of purification. Ceremonial washings were an integral part of first-century Judaism: The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, thus observing the traditions of the elders; and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots. (Mark 7:3–4)The Jews used stone waterpots to hold the water used for ritual purification because they believed that, unlike earthenware pots (Lev. 11:33), they did not become unclean. Unlike the smaller one used by the Samaritan woman to draw water from a well (4:28), these were large pots, containing twenty or thirty gallons each . Such a large amount of water was needed not only to accommodate the guests, but also because the cooking and eating utensils had to be washed (Mark 7:4).
Mary’s faith and confidence in her Son were not misplaced. As she had foreseen, He responded by commanding the servants, “Fill the waterpots with water.” In response, they filled them up to the brim, either by topping them off, or by emptying and refilling them. This seemingly insignificant detail, that the water was up to the very top, shows that nothing was added to the water, and that what followed was indeed a transformation miracle. By ordering the jars to be completely filled before He transformed the water in them into wine, Jesus also displayed His magnanimous grace (cf. 1:14, 16–17). Such a large amount of wine (120 to 180 gallons) was more than enough to last for the rest of the celebration. Jesus not only rescued the bride and groom from an embarrassing situation, but the leftover wine also provided them with a generous wedding present.
After the pots were filled, Jesus instructed the servants to draw some out and take the instantly created wine to the headwaiter . Jewish sources do not make clear whether this individual was the head servant, or a guest chosen to preside over the banquet. That he summoned the groom and spoke to him as at least his equal (vv. 9–10) suggests the latter. In either case, he served as the master of ceremonies at the feast. Since he was responsible for making sure that the guests were supplied with food and drink, the servants took the wine to him .
To make sure it was acceptable, the headwaiter sampled the food and drink before it was served to the guests. Therefore after the servants brought it to him, he tasted the water which had become wine . Though he did not know where it came from (though of course the servants who had drawn the water did), he was astonished at the high quality of this new batch of wine. He called the bridegroom, and said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer wine.” There is some historical evidence that most hosts did, as the headwaiter suggested, serve the best wine first (D. A. Carson, The Gospel According to John, The Pillar New Testament Commentary [Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991], 174). In any case, it was only common sense to serve the good wine first and save the poorer wine for later when the people had
DRUNK FREELY . The verb methusko ( DRUNK FREELY ) literally means “TO BECOME DRUNK,” and is so translated in its only other appearances in the New Testament (Luke 12:45; Eph. 5:18; 1 Thess. 5:7;
Rev. 17:2). That does not mean, however, that this particular banquet had become a drunken orgy; the headwaiter was speaking from his own experience.
But much to his surprise (and no doubt the groom’s as well), it seemed that the groom had
kept the good wine until the last. Surely it was the sweetest, freshest wine ever tasted. This wine did not come from the normal process of fermentation, from grapes, vines, the and the sun. The Lord brought it into existence from nothing. Truly this was evidence that He is the Creator (John 1:1–4).

Happy new year to all! wishing ever one a prosperous 2018 [if you put God first and mind your business]

The Winter solstice was thought to occur on December 25. January 1 was new year day: the day was consecrated to Janus since it was the first of the new year and of the month (kalends) of Janus: the feria had an augural character as Romans believed the beginning of anything was an omen for the whole. Thus on that day it was customary to exchange cheerful words of good wishes.
For the same reason everybody devoted a short time to his usual business, exchanged dates, figs and honey as a token of well wishing and made gifts of coins called strenae. Cakes made of spelt (far) and salt were offered to the god and burnt on the altar. Ovid states that in most ancient times there were no animal sacrifices and gods were propitiated with offerings of spelt and pure salt. This libum was named ianual and it was probably correspondent to the summanal offered the day before the Summer solstice to god Summanus, which however was sweet being made with flour, honey and milk.
Shortly afterwards, on January 9, on the feria of the Agonium of January the rex sacrorum offered the sacrifice of a ram to Janus.

And do not fear those who kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (10:28) The second do not fear has to do with those who kill the body. The harm they do is only temporary. We should instead fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Fear is used here in two senses. The first has to do with fright and terror, while the second has to do with awe and veneration. Such people, however, and even Satan himself, are unable to kill the soul. Physical death is the full extent of the harm they can bring us; they cannot touch the soul, the eternal person. Even the bodies they destroy will one day be resurrected and become imperishable (1 Cor. 15:42). It should be made clear that destroy does not here mean annihilation. The lost will not cease to exist, but in their resurrected bodies “will go away into eternal punishment,” just as the saved in their resurrected bodies will go into “eternal life” (Matt. 25:46). The word behind destroy ( appolumi ) does not convey the notion of extinction but of great loss or ruin. Paul uses the same term in 2 Thessalonians 1:9, where he speaks of “eternal destruction”-a phrase that would not make sense if “destruction” meant annihilation, which by definition cannot be eternal. That which is annihilated ceases to exist. Jesus’ point here is that the only fear a believer should have is of Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell ; and only God can do that. In the last days Satan himself will be cast into hell, which is the Lord’s domain, not Satan’s. But this fear is not that of terror or fright, but of reverential awe and honor. It is not that a believer is in danger of having his soul and body cast into hell, because his eternal destiny is heaven. God’s ability to destroy both soul and body in hell is mentioned here only to contrast His unlimited and permanent power with Satan’s limited and temporary power. God is the only One who can determine and bring to pass the destiny of souls and bodies. Reverence of God in His sovereign majesty is a powerful motivation for Christians to serve Him and to be fearless of any earthly, physical consequences that service may bring. The power of human threats seems rather puny in comparison to the power of God’s promises.
Jesus’ warning in verse 28 may have been specially directed at Judas, as an early appeal for him to consider that the God he rejected was able to destroy both his soul and his body in hell. Beyond that, it stands as a continuing warning to the unbelieving Judases of all time.

See that you do not despise one of these little ones for I say to you, that their angels in heaven continually behold the face of My Father who is in heaven. (18:10) The expression I say to you is emphatic, pointing up the importance of what the Lord is about to say The idea is, “With all My authority I solemnly affirm to you.” He then gives the first compelling reason Christians should never despise other Christians: their relation to their angels in heaven . The writer of Hebrews explains that the holy, elect angels are “all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation” (Heb. 1:14). Their purpose is to serve God by attending to the care of His people. These angels in heaven live in the very presence of God, where they wait attentively for His commands to serve the people of His love. “They continually behold the face of My Father who is in heaven,” Jesus said. The implication is that the holy angels never take their eyes off God, lest they miss some direction from Him regarding a task they are to perform on behalf of a believer. Neither of these texts, however-nor any other Scripture-teaches the idea of an individual guardian angel for every believer, as Jewish tradition in Jesus’ day taught and as many people still believe and teach. When Peter knocked at the door of Mary’s house after he was miraculously released from prison, a servant girl named Rhoda answered. Upon seeing Peter she was so overjoyed she forgot to open the gate. When she reported his presence to the believers gathered inside, it was probably the notion of individual guardian angels that was behind their insistence that she had only seen “Peter’s angel” (Acts 12:12–15). But that superstitious belief is merely reflected in this text; it is neither taught nor substantiated here or anywhere else in Scripture. In Matthew 18:10 Jesus speaks of believers and their angels in a collective sense. These angels, whether a distinct group or the whole body of holy angels, are responsible for the care of God’s little ones , those who believe in His Son (v. 6). It is in part because of these angels who live in the presence of the Father who is in heaven that believers are warned not to despise one another. The fact that Almighty God is so concerned about the care of His beloved children that He has hosts of angels in His presence ready to be dispatched to their aid demonstrates dearly how valuable believers are and how unthinkably wicked it is to look with disdain on someone whom God so highly prizes.

Few biblical stories are as well known, yet so clouded by myth and tradition, as that of the magi , or wise men, mentioned by Matthew. During the Middle Ages legend developed that they were kings, that they were three in number, and that their names were Casper, Balthazar, and Melchior. Because they were thought to represent the three sons of Noah, one of them is often pictured as an Ethiopian. A twelfth-century bishop of Cologne even claimed to have found their skulls. The only legitimate facts we know about these particular magi are the few given by Matthew in the first twelve verses of chapter 2. We are not told their number, their names, their means of transportation to Palestine, or the specific country or countries from which they came. The fact that they came from the east would have been assumed by most people in New Testament times, because the magi were primarily known as the priestly-political class of the Parthians-who lived to the east of Palestine. The magi became skilled in astronomy and astrology (which, in that day, were closely associated) and had a sacrificial system that somewhat resembled the one God gave to Israel through Moses. They were involved in various occult practices, including sorcery, and were especially noted for their ability to interpret dreams. It is from their name that our words magic and magician are derived. A principle element of magian worship was fire, and on their primary altar burned a perpetual flame, which they claimed descended from heaven. The magi were monotheistic, believing in the existence of only one god. Because of their monotheism, it was easy for the magi to adapt to the teaching of the sixth-century b.c. Persian religious leader named Zoroaster, who believed in a single god, Ahura Mazda, and a cosmic struggle between good and evil. Darius the Great established Zoroastrianism as the state religion of Persia. Because of their combined knowledge of science, agriculture, mathematics, history, and the occult, their religious and political influence continued to grow until they became the most prominent and powerful group of advisors in the Medo-Persian and subsequently the Babylonian empire. It is not strange, therefore, that they often were referred to as “wise men.” It may be that “the law of the Medes and Persians” (see Dan. 6:8, 12, 15; Esther 1:19) was founded on the teachings of these magi. Historians tell us that no Persian was ever able to become king without mastering the scientific and religious disciplines of the magi and then being approved and crowned by them, and that this group also largely controlled judicial appointments (cf. Esther 1:13). Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, chief of the Babylonian magi, was with Nebuchadnezzar when he attacked and conquered Judah (Jer. 39:3). We learn from the book of Daniel that the magi were among the highest-ranking officials in Babylon. Because the Lord gave Daniel the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream-which none of the other court seers was able to do- Daniel was appointed as “ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon” (Dan. 2:48). Because of his great wisdom and because he had successfully pleaded for the lives of the wise men who had failed to interpret the king’s dream (Dan. 2:24), Daniel came to be highly regarded among the magi. The plot against Daniel that caused him to be thrown into the lions’ den was fomented by the jealous satraps and the other commissioners, not the magi (Dan. 6:4–9). Because of Daniel’s high position and great respect among them, it seems certain that the magi learned much from that prophet about the one true God, the God of Israel, and about His will and plans for His people through the coming glorious King. Because many Jews remained in Babylon after the Exile and intermarried with the people of the east, it is likely that Jewish messianic influence remained strong in that region even until New Testament times. During both the Greek and Roman empires the magi’s power and influence continued in the eastern provinces, particularly in Parthia. As mentioned above, it was the Parthians that Herod, in behalf of Rome, drove out of Palestine between 39 and 37 b.c., when his kingship of Judea began. Some magi-many of them probably outcasts or false practitioners-lived in various parts of the Roman Empire, including Palestine. Among them was Simon of Samaria (Acts 8:9), whom tradition and history have come to refer to as Simon Magus because of his “practicing magic” (Greek, mageuo , derived from the Babylonian magus, singular of magi). The Jewish false prophet Bar-Jesus was also a sorcerer, or “magician” (Greek, magos ). These magicians were despised by both Romans and Jews. Philo, a first-century b.c. Jewish philosopher from Alexandria, called them vipers and scorpions. The magi from the east (the word literally means “from the rising” of the sun, and refers to the orient) who came to see Jesus were of a completely different sort. Not only were they true magi, but they surely had been strongly influenced by Judaism, quite possibly even by some of the prophetic writings, especially that of Daniel. They appear to be among the many God- fearing Gentiles who lived at the time of Christ, a number of whom-such as Cornelius and Lydia (Acts 10:1–2; 16:14)-are mentioned in the New Testament.

If there's any passage in the bible that has often been misconstrued, it's this one “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of
heaven; and whatever you shall bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you shall
loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
(Matthew 16:19)
Jesus spoke about the authority of the church.
The Lord was addressing Peter as representative
of the Twelve, telling him that whatever you shall
bind , that is, FORBID, on earth shall be bound in
heaven and that whatever you shall loose, that is,
PERMIT, on earth shall be loosed in heaven . He
told Peter and the Twelve, and by extension all
other believers, that they had the astounding
authority to declare what is divinely forbidden or
permitted on earth!
Shortly after His resurrection Jesus told the
disciples, “IF FORGIVE THE SINS OF ANY, THEIR SINS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN THEM; IF YOU RETAIN THE SINS OF ANY, THEY HAVE BEEN RETAINED” (John 20:23). In
giving instruction for church discipline to all His
people, Jesus said that, if a sinning believer
refuses to turn from his sin after being counseled
privately and even after being rebuked by the
entire congregation, the church not only is
permitted but obligated to treat the unrepentant
member “as a Gentile and a tax-
gatherer” (Matt. 18:15–17). He then said to the
church as a whole what He earlier had said to
Peter and to the other apostles: “Truly I say to
you, whatever you shall bind on earth shall be
bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on
earth shall be loosed in heaven” (v. 18). In other
words, a duly constituted body of believers has
the right to tell an unrepentant brother that he is
out of line with God’s Word and has no right to
fellowship with God’s people.
Christians have such authority because they have
the truth of God’s authoritative Word by which to
judge. The source of the church’s authority is not
in itself, anymore than the source of the apostles’
authority was in themselves or even in their office,
exalted as it was. CHRISTIANS can AUTHORITATIVELY DECLARE WHAT is ACCEPTABLE to GOD or FORBIDDEN by HIM BECAUSE THEY HAVE HIS WORD. Christians do not determine what is right or wrong, forgiven or unforgiven. Rather, on the basis of God’s own Word, they recognize and proclaim what God has already determined to be right or wrong, forgiven
or unforgiven. When they judge on the basis of
God’s Word, they can be certain their judgment
corresponds with the judgment of heaven .
If a person declares himself to be an atheist, or
to be anything other than a believer in and lover
of the Lord Jesus Christ, Christians can say to
that person with absolute certainty, “You are
under God’s judgment and condemned to hell,”
because that is what Scripture teaches. If, on the
other hand, a person testifies that he has trusted
Christ as his saving Lord, Christians can say to
him with equal certainty, “If what you say is true,
then your sins are forgiven, you are a child of
God, and your eternal destiny is heaven” The
authority of the church lies in the fact that it has
heaven’s word on everything “pertaining to life
and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him
who called us by His own glory and
excellence” (2 Pet. 1:3). When believers are in
agreement with God’s Word, God is in agreement
with them. Believers can declare a person’s
spiritual state with divinely granted authority by
comparing that person to the Word of God.
So, are we binding and loosing Satan, Sin or Sinners?

[the parable of talents] Matthew 25:27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers (to loan), and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury (I.e INTEREST)." This passage of the bible, got to show that Christ isn't againt getting interest from loans (as long as both parties are in agreement). am pretty sure this passage is axiomatic. so the answer is NO.

Do not be anxious then, saying, “What shall we
eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “With what
shall we clothe ourselves?” For all these things
the Gentiles eagerly seek; for your heavenly
Father knows that you need all these things. But
seek first His kingdom and His righteousness;
and all these things shall be added to you.
(6:31–33). Worry is inconsistent with our faith in God and is therefore unreasonable as well as sinful. Worry is characteristic of unbelief. Those who have no hope in God naturally put their hope and
expectations in things they can enjoy now. They
have nothing to live for but the present, and their
materialism is perfectly consistent with their
religion. They have no God to supply their
physical or their spiritual needs, their present or
their eternal needs, so anything they get they
must get for themselves. They are ignorant of
God’s supply and have no claim on it. No
heavenly Father cares for them, so there is reason
to worry. To worry
about our physical welfare and our clothing is the
mark of a worldly mind, whether Christian or not.
When we think like the world and crave like the
world, we will worry like the world, because a
mind that is not centered on God is a mind that
has cause to worry. The faithful, trusting, and
reasonable Christian is “anxious for nothing, but
in everything by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving [lets his] requests be made known
to God” (Phil. 4:6). He refuses in any way to “be
conformed to this world” (Rom. 12:2).
Within this series of rebukes Jesus gives a
positive command coupled with a beautiful
promise: But seek first His kingdom and His
righteousness; and all these things shall be
added to you. The cause of WORRY is SEEKING THE things of this WORLD, and the cause of
CONTENTMENT is SEEKING the THINGS of GOD’s
KINGDOM and HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS .
Jesus says, “focus your attention and hopes on
the things of the Lord and He will take care of all
your needs.”
Out of all the options that we have, out of all the
things we can seek for and be occupied with, we
are to seek first the things of the One to whom
we belong. That is the Christian’s priority of
priorities, a divine priority composed of two parts:
God’s kingdom and God’s righteousness .
As we have seen in the discussion of the
Disciples’ Prayer (6:10), basileia ( kingdom ) does
not refer to a geographical territory but to a
dominion or rule. God’s kingdom is God’s
sovereign rule, and therefore to seek first His
kingdom is to seek first His rule, His will and His
authority.
Seeking God’s kingdom is losing ourselves in
obedience to the Lord to the extent that we can
say with Paul, “I do not consider my life of any
account as dear to myself, in order that I may
finish my course, and the ministry which I
received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly
of the gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24).
To seek first God’s kingdom is to pour out our
lives in the eternal work of our heavenly Father.
To seek God’s kingdom is seek to win people into
that kingdom, that they might be saved and God
might be glorified. It is to have our heavenly
Father’s own truth, love, and righteousness
manifest in our lives, and to have “peace and joy
in the Holy Spirit” (Rom. 14:17). We also seek
God’s kingdom when we yearn for the return of
the King in His millennial glory to establish His
kingdom on earth and usher in His eternal
kingdom. We not only are to have heavenly
expectations but holy lives (see Col. 3:2–3).
“Since all these things [the earth and its works, v.
10] are to be destroyed in this way,” Peter says,
“what sort of people ought you to be in holy
conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening
the coming of the day of God” (2 Pet. 3:11).

The Lords prayer was not meant to be repeated as a prayer itself is clear for several reasons. FIRST, in the present passage it is introduced with the words, Pray, then, in this way. In the account in Luke the disciples did not ask Jesus to teach them a prayer but to teach them how to pray (Luke 11:1). SECOND, Jesus had just warned His followers not to pray with “meaningless repetition” (v. 7). To then give a prayer whose primary purpose was to be recited verbatim would have been an obvious contradiction of Himself. THIRD, nowhere in the New Testament-gospels, Acts, or epistles-do we find an instance of that or any other prayer being repeated by anyone or used in a repetitious, ritualistic manner by a group. The Lord’s Prayer, or more accurately, the Disciples’ Prayer, is not a set group of words to repeat. It is fine to recite it, as we recite many parts of Scripture. It is certainly fine to memorize it and to rehearse it in our minds and meditate on it in our hearts. But it is not so much a prayer in itself as it is a skeleton which believers are to flesh out with their own words of praise, adoration, petitions, and so on. It is not a substitute for our own prayers but a guide for them. Another indication of the prayer’s divine comprehensiveness is seen in the seemingly endless schemes by which it can be outlined. When outlined from the perspective of our relationship to God, we see: OUR FATHER showing the father/child relationship; HALLOWED BE THY NAME , the deity/worshiper; THY KINGDOM COME, the sovereign/subject; THY WILL BE DONE, the master/servant; GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD , the benefactor/beneficiary; FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, the Savior/sinner; and DO NOT LEAD US INTO temptation , the guide/pilgrim. From the perspective of the attitude and spirit of prayer, Our reflects unselfishness; Father reflects family devotion; hallowed be Thy name , reverence; Thy kingdom come, loyalty; Thy will be done, submission; give us this day our daily bread , dependence; forgive us our debts , penitence; do not lead us into temptation , humility; Thine is the kingdom , triumph; and the glory , exultation; and forever , hope. Those are but a brief sampling of the ways in which Jesus’ magnificent diamond of prayer may be cut. Prayer is not trying to get God to agree with us or to provide for our selfish desires. Prayer is affirming God’s sovereignty, righteousness, and majesty and seeking to conform our desires and our purposes to His will and glory. [Note: prayer is man talking to God, while the Bible is God talking to man.]

olasaad:
Lol na everyone you wan resurrect

u no know how much I love my bro and sis

just curious, so I decided to ask. mine is: sterling - my mom first bank - my younger brother [shi shi no dey dis account......so no reason am abeg]

just came to my mind this question. so I decided to ask you guys. for me, is gona be:
my Granddad (never got to meet him)
my lil sister (lost her when she was just 2)
my lil bro (lost him when he was 4).

Pls, This is a lengthy writeup with full exposition on vitamins.
Types of vitamins
There are two types of vitamins:
water-soluble vitamins B and C
fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K.
Water-soluble vitamins cannot be stored in the body, so you need to get them from food every day. They can be destroyed by overcooking.
Vitamins and minerals are found in a wide variety of foods and a balanced diet should provide you with the quantities you need.
VITAMIN A (retinol)
This vitamin is essential for growth and healthy skin and hair.
It is a powerful antioxidant that plays a key role in the body's immune system.
Vitamin A is found in the following animal PRODUCTS:
milk, butter, cheese and eggs
chicken, kidney, liver, liver pate
fish oils, mackerel, trout, herring.
Another source of vitamin A is a substance called beta-carotene.
This is converted by the body into vitamin A. It is found in orange, yellow and green vegetables and fruits.
VITAMIN B complex
The complex of B vitamins includes the following group of substances:
B1 – thiamine
B2 – riboflavin
B3 – nicotinic acid
B6 – pyridoxine
B12 – cobalamin
folate – folic acid.
The body requires relatively small amounts of vitamins B1, B2 and B3.
Vitamins B6 and B12 help the body to use folic acid and are vital nutrients in a range of activities, such as cell repair, digestion, the production of energy and in the immune system.
Vitamin B12 is also needed for the breakdown of fat and carbohydrate.
Deficiency of either vitamin will result in anaemia .
VITAMIN B6 is found in most foods, so deficiency is rare.
Vegetarians and B12
Vegetarians who eat eggs and dairy produce will get enough B12.
VITAMIN B12 deficiency can occur in vegans because all dietary sources are animal in origin.
The British Vegan Society recommends foods fortified with vitamin B12, such as:
breakfast cereals
yeast extract
margarine
soya powder and milk
Plamil products
soya mince or chunks.
The best dietary sources of the B vitamins, especially B12, are:
animal products (meat, poultry)
yeast extracts (brewers' yeast, Marmite).
Other good sources include:
asparagus, broccoli, spinach, bananas, potatoes
dried apricots, dates and figs
milk, eggs, cheese, yoghurt
nuts and pulses
fish
brown rice, wheat germ, wholegrain cereals.
Dietary sources of vitamin B6 are similar to those for vitamin B12 and also include avocado, herring, salmon, sunflower seeds and walnuts.
Folic acid (folate)
Folic acid works closely in the body with vitamin B12. It is vital for the production of healthy blood cells.
Lack of folic acid is one of the main causes of anaemia, particularly in people whose diet is generally poor.
Vitamins B6 and B12 help the body use folate, so are often given alongside folic acid supplements.
In pregnancy, low folate levels increase the risk of the baby's spinal cord system not developing completely (spina bifida).
All women are now advised to take folic acid supplements in the first three months of pregnancy and ideally before conception occurs.
Folate occurs naturally in most foods but often in small amounts.
Many food manufacturers now fortify white flour, cereals, bread, corn, rice and noodle products with folic acid.
One serving of each enriched product will contribute about 10 per cent of the RDA for folic acid.
Wholegrain products are not enriched because they already contain natural folate.
Liver contains the greatest amount of folic acid, with lower levels found in beef, lamb and pork and a range of green vegetables and citrus fruits.
Other sources of folate are dried beans, fresh orange juice, tomatoes, wheat germ (wholemeal bread and cereal) and wholegrain products (pasta and brown rice).
Table 1 :Folate content of foods – an adult needs 200mcg a day.
VITAMIN C
Vitamin C is one of the most potent antioxidant vitamins.
We need vitamin C for growth, healthy body tissue, wound repair and an efficient immune system.
In addition, it also helps with the normal function of blood vessels and helps you absorb iron from plant sources as opposed to the iron in red meat.
Did you know?
Frozen and tinned produce count towards your
five-a-day .
Fresh fruit and vegetables are the main source of vitamin C – eating your five a day will easily meet the body's needs.
Too much vitamin C can result in a sensitive, irritable stomach and mouth ulcers.
Also, too much of a good thing can be dangerous; the upper daily limit is currently 1g.
More than this safe level of vitamin C has been linked to damage of the inner lining of arteries, predisposing to the formation of cholesterol plaques and heart disease.
Table 2: Vitamin C content of foods – an adult needs 60mg a day.
VITAMIN D (calciferol)
Vitamin D is essential for healthy bones and teeth. It helps the body to absorb calcium.
The action of sunlight on the skin enables the body to manufacture vitamin D – even on a cloudy day. For this reason, most people will get enough vitamin D through their everyday activities. However, there are some groups of people who are at risk of vitamin D deficiency and the Department of Health recommends that the following people take a daily vitamin D supplement:
pregnant and breastfeeding women
infants and children under five years old
people over 65 years old
people who have very little sun exposure, for example people who cover their skin for cultural reasons and people who are housebound or have to stay indoors for long periods of time
people who have darker skin and so are not able to make as much vitamin D, for instance people of African, African-Caribbean or South Asian origin.
Your doctor or pharmacist can give you advice on suitable supplements.
Foods rich in vitamin D are oily fish, liver, cod liver oil and dairy products.
Many foods are also 'fortified' with low levels of vitamin D, such as margarine and breakfast cereals.
However, it is very difficult to get the recommended daily amount of vitamin D through diet alone and an increasing amount of vitamin D deficiency is being detected with more frequent blood testing of susceptible or symptomatic people.
VITAMIN E
Vitamin E is important in cell maintenance and also plays an active role in the maintenance of a healthy heart, blood and circulation. It is one of the body's main antioxidants.
Deficiency only occurs in cases of severe malabsorption or certain rare genetic disorders.
The following foods are rich in vitamin E:
avocados, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, spinach, watercress, brussels sprouts
blackberries, mangoes
corn oil, olive oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil
mackerel, salmon
nuts, wholemeal and wholegrain products.

VITAMIN K
Vitamin K is involved in the blood clotting process and in the maintenance of strong bones. It is found in small quantities in meat, most vegetables and wholegrain cereals.
Your body also makes vitamin K in the large intestine, through the activity of 'healthy bacteria'. For this reason, there is no recommended daily amount.
These bacteria are also referred to as the gut flora. They form part of our defence against more harmful organisms.
Diets rich in fatty and sugary foods can adversely change the balance of the gut flora, as can the additives and pesticides that are often a part of modern food production.

EmekaBlue:
Breakfast- Dry gin
Lunch- Akpu/Semovita and Egusi soup
Dinner- My neigbour's kitchen aroma
Not easy to be bachelor that dont cook

Dry gin? na libation? I forget to put my own morn: bean cake and pap aka akara and akamu lunch: anything I see dinner: semovita and vegetable soup aka tuwo and karikashi...

Morning guys. somehow, the propensity of some fellas not having their breakfast before zooming off to work, almost trumps the number of people having their breakfast. This might be as a result of some unprecedented or inexorable reasons. nevertheless, it is good to appease your stomach before leaving the house to your various destinations.
So guys, what are you having for breakfast?
[lunch and dinner if you feel like].

I think the python is just trying to play with something (d man's dick) that looks much like itself. cos python as big as dis would have had a large chunk of that guys kpekus in its mouth.
modified: lalasticlala will not like this!

nairalanders una no dey sleep? I thought I was d only one who couldn't catch some zs.

Saverin:
Adeling
Well, Seun come and close religious thread cause we have our answers here.

hahaha! I heard seun is an atheist. don't know if it's true.

EmperorHarry:
So your trying to justify the reason for damning billons of people to a fate that they didn't sign up for... To walk a very thin thread in order to make it to heaven...dude are you even listening to yourself "So he can properly be glorified"
Funny thing Christians don't realise and something I'm gonna address at some point is the fact that the bible clearly stated that gospel was for the Jews and not the gentiles which is equals anybody that is not a Jew
Which means that God didn't give a damn about every other person who died without knowing the "truth"...so please don't come and be justifying anything for me

Adeling:
for Him to be properly glorified. would you've understood righteousness without unrighteousness?
Bro, all you ask is in this write up. I know a lot of folks would really love to read it to the end but stop in between. but the only way u can totally get a grasp on WHY EVIL EXIST, is to read to the end.
I plan on posting more unanswered questions every sunday. (its kind of a research work I'm doing as a Christian)

funny! you really think I would justify a supreme being who created me and ORDAIN the oozing out effect of evil that just keep floating in every corner of the world? really? you think I would justify amos 3:6 or Romans 9:13 - 23? (just read up). I feel the way you feel...trust me. but at the end, it is written "it is not he that willeth nor him that worketh but Him that showeth mercy"
as regards the issue of "jews giving the scriptures and not the gentiles" (I really don't want to dive into this) just scoop out for yourself romans 9:24 "Even us, whom He hath called, NOT of the JEWs only, but also of the GENTILES?" read to 25, and tell me before u create a topic on this, if God is for the Jews only and not for the gentiles.
have a great sunday my brother!

EmperorHarry:
Dude this is a really long write up, didn't read it completely cos it's way too long
Question tho...Why would God create the world when he knew that everything would get to this point where innocent humans are suffering, i mean nobody ever asked to be brought into this world,so why dafuq should i have to suffer cos somebody somewhere has a "bigger" plan
I believe evil exist cos for good to exist evil must exist... That's how the world works
Darkness exists, light must exist... Otherwise the world would be without balance..

for Him to be properly glorified. would you've understood righteousness without unrighteousness?
Bro, all you ask is in this write up. I know a lot of folks would really love to read it to the end but stop in between. but the only way u can totally get a grasp on WHY EVIL EXIST, is to read to the end.
I plan on posting more unanswered questions every sunday. (its kind of a research work I'm doing as a Christian)

"Oh well, he came from...oh, he came from heaven, didn't he?"
So where did evil originate? Evil originated where? In heaven? Yes, evil originated in heaven in an angelic rebellion right under the nose of God. You think that was a shock? Then you don't have a God who is absolutely omniscient. You think God couldn't stop it once it got going? Couldn't put an end to it right on the spot? Then you have a God who is not all powerful. No matter how you deal with it, if you sustain the biblical doctrine of God, God becomes ultimately responsible for the existence of evil.
Now when you boil all this down, there are a number of categories in which theodicies can be created. The first category is metaphysical. That is to say evil is inevitable. It is a corollary of good. It is necessary. It's a necessary opposite of one thing that exists by the very metaphysics of its existence, the opposite can exist as well. It is not that God created evil. It is not that God ordained evil. It is that evil is because good is. It is simply a negation. It is simply a privation. It is the absence of the opposite of. If you have an infinity, you have a finitude. If you have a good, you have an evil.
There's some truth in that to some limited degree metaphysically. There is also the more theological approach to that metaphysical idea and it is this, that because God created humanity good, the potential for evil existed within that creation and man exercising his will chose the evil. So it didn't really come from God, it came from man. It didn't really come from God, it came from Lucifer who made the same choice in heaven. That was strongly the argument of Augustine and Aquinas in ancient times. And there is truth in that. There is the holiness of God and there is the sinfulness of the creature. But it leaves too much to metaphysical inevitability and it asks the question...if because good exists and evil then must exist, is that perpetually true? And when we get to heaven and the new heaven and the new earth because that is eternal and perfect good, will we always be staring down the barrel of potential evil again because it's a metaphysical necessity?
There's a second kind of theodicy. the autonomous theodicy, or theodicies. A number of people come into this category to develop their theodicies. This is the category that suggests the cause of evil is the abuse of free will. And again we're back to our Arminian friends. This is the abuse of free will. And this basically says the highest good to God is free will. Free will trumps everything on God's scale, even evil. God could have prevented evil, but He wanted free will to exist and when He allowed free will to exist, therefore evil exists because those free and autonomous creatures choose evil. And because free will was more important as a reality than eliminating evil, evil exists. Evil exists because God exalts free will. Free will trumps evil on God's value scale so that God had to allow for the possibility of evil in order to preserve the more highly prized autonomy that protects Him from injustice. Again, the bottom line is you can't make God responsible for anything, so the greatest good in the creation is free will...angels have a free will, at least initially, humans have a free will, they make choices, that's the greater good, that's the higher value to God even if it means sin and evil exist. Humans must have the self determined freedom to act. If God acts as a primary cause for people's choices, they would not be free. If God decided they would be coerced and compelled and that would violate their will and we should have a completely free will. That's the highest good. This gets God off the hook again, at least it appears to on a shallow level. But again, it requires reinventing a God...listen to this...who values your will over His own. This is inventing a God who values everybody's over His own and that's not the God in the Scripture.
And anyway, IF GOD KNEW PEOPLE WOULD CHOOSE SIN and HE'LL, WHY did HE GO AHEAD and CREATE them anyway? And why did He design free will? He could decide what the noblest of all virtues was, why make it free will if it's going to end up like this and you're going to have to go to Plan B just to recover from the exercise of these myriad free wills?
If God is not in total control of evil, if He has not ordained it, and if He does not have it under complete control at every millisecond of history, then this universe is out of control at the most crucial point. If God is not in control of this completely, then how and when will He get the knowledge and the power to get it under control? And I would ask you this. Would you rather have a God trying to get control of evil, or a God completely in control of it? Take your choice. But the God of the Bible is complete control of evil for His own purposes. It is really heresy to say that the world is full of evil apart from a predetermined plan and purpose by God that is far above the willy-nilly choices of people.
So what do we know up to now? Evil exists. God exists. God wills evil to exist. He did not create it. He could not create it. But HE DID not PREVENT it. HE ORDAINED it. HE WILLED it. BECAUSE HE HAD A PURPOSE FOR IT... This is critical. He had a purpose for evil.
The REASON FOR GOD ORDAINING EVIL is for the PRAISE OF HIS GLORY (shocking?). Let me ask you a simple question to help you answer the question...the bigger question. Is God more glorious because of sin existing or less glorious? Pretty easy question to answer, isn't it? That really is the ultimate question.
Turn to Romans 3 verse 5 "But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say?"
Grab that phrase. Our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of GOD. It is a verb that means to disclose, to reveal, to put on display, to show. Our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God. Another way to say that would be, "WOULD YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND the RIGHTEOUSNESS of GOD IF YOU didn't UNDERSTAND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS?" Isn't there something to be gained by the contrast? Paul has been showing that God is faithful to His promises to Israel and their sin and unbelief cannot alter God's covenant, cannot alter God's faithfulness. God is righteous. God will do what He said for Israel and even Israel's unrighteousness cannot cancel God's righteousness, but rather gives Him opportunity to demonstrate that righteousness. Even Israel's departure from the truth does no damage to God's truth or God's glory, Paul shows. So in a particular case with regard to Israel, their unrighteousness only made God's righteousness all the more glorious. And in general, unrighteousness only makes righteousness the more wondrous. And so God by allowing unrighteousness is demonstrating righteousness.
Turn to chapter 5 verse 8. "But God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Would we understand righteousness without unrighteousness? Would we understand love without sin? Would we understand the love of God in Christ to us if we did not understand how sinful and undeserving and wretched we are? Would we understand the significance of the sufferings of Jesus Christ on the cross for us? Not at all. The cross is the greatest display of the love of God, it is a massive display of the love of God against the backdrop of sin. Our being sinners, our being enemies allows God to put His love on open display.
So, Paul says God demonstrates His righteousness in a context of unrighteousness. God demonstrates His love in a context of hate among enemies. Turn to chapter 9:22 "What if God determining to demonstrate, to display, to openly show His wrath and make His power known endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?" Listen to this. God allowed evil to put His righteousness on display. God allowed evil to put His love on display. And God allowed evil to put His wrath on display. That's verse 22, to demonstrate His wrath. And by doing that, He put His holiness on display.
Would we know God the way we know God without sin? Of course not. We wouldn't know that He is as righteous as He is, as loving as He is, and as holy as He is. God allowed sin so that He could display His wrath. His holy anger over sin, His judgment on sinners...no sin, no display of righteousness, no display of love and no display of holiness. God endured sin. "He endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction." It was a thing that God had to endure. His holy nature had to endure it. He endured it patiently so that in the end He could display His wrath and its full eternal power.
But not just His wrath. Verse 23, "And He did so in order that He might make known," we could translate this demonstrate as well, "The riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy." To display His mercy. God also willed to make known, gnorizo, to...to display His mercy on the vessels which He had prepared beforehand for glory, that's election. No sin, no mercy...no grace, no forgiveness. No salvation. But it is God's nature to manifest His righteousness and to display and manifest His love, and to display and manifest His wrath, and to display and manifest His grace and His holiness. Listen, the WHOLE REASON GOD ORDAINED EVIL to EXIST WAS FOR HIS OWN GLORY SAKE, so that forever and ever holy angels and redeemed saints would give Him glory in full comprehension of all His attributes. Prior to sin God was not worshiped fully for His righteousness against the background of unrighteousness. He was not worshiped nor could be fully for His love until He demonstrated the kind of love that loves enemy, rebel sinners. He was not worshiped fully for His holiness until His wrath displayed how He hated sin. And He was not worshiped for His grace until He displayed forgiveness and mercy on the elect. In every case there is this great disclosure of the nature of God. Why? To display His glory.
Paul gives us a demonstration of this. go back to verse 17, an illustration and he draws it from Exodus chapter 9 and verse 16. "For THE SCRIPTURE says to PHARAOH...here's a perfect illustration...FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP." Wow, God raised up Pharaoh? God was in charge of Pharaoh being born, growing up in a royal family, ascending to the throne of Egypt? And then being the ruler over the exiled children of Israel, and then making life unbearable for them and then all the plagues, and then all the rest that followed, and the exodus and the drowning of Pharaoh and his entire army? You mean God raised him up? Yes, "For this purpose I raised you up," and here comes our word again, to do what? "To DEMONSTRATE My POWER in YOU." And it was the power of judgment and it was the power of salvation, Passover, the slain lamb, the blood on the doorposts, that is the greatest Old Testament symbol of salvation, is it not? I raised you up to display My wrath and to display My grace.
Why, God? End of verse 17, "THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH." In the end, God does everything for His own glory and He has been glorified throughout the whole earth by His people and He will be in the millennial earth and in the new heaven and the new earth. The greatest good, dear ones, is God's glory. The greatest good is God's glory. And if you don't understand that, then you don't have a God-centered world view.
So how do we respond to that? Go back to verse 15...or, 14. Are you struggling with that? Are you saying it doesn't seem fair? Verse 14, "What shall we say? There's no injustice with God, is there?" No, no, no, no. We can't accuse God of being unrighteous. He has a right to do what He wants. I'll have mercy on whom I have mercy. I'll have compassion on whom I have compassion. It doesn't depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. Verse 18, "So then He has mercy on whom He desires. He hardens whom He desires. You will to me...you will say to me then, why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?" Are you going to argue with God. Are you going to debate the point that God did what He wanted to do? And he reaches right back to what we read earlier, verse 21 from the Psalms, "Does not the potter have a right over the clay to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?" Are you forgetting who's in charge?
"And He did it all," verse 23, "that He might make known the riches of His glory." There's no other explanation. It reminds me of Job, doesn't it you? Job has all that trouble that God allowed to come into his life. Satan comes down, kills everybody in his family except his wife who was a pain. Told him to curse God and die. Takes away everything he owns. Gives him all kinds of illnesses. He's trying to sort out what's going on. And he wants an answer from God. It doesn't seem right. Doesn't seem fair. And God finally speaks to him in Job 38, "The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind," Job 38, "'Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? "Gird up your loins like a man and I'll ask you, you instruct Me. 'Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?'" That is to say, "If I needed advice from you, I'd have gotten it. I created everything without you. Tell Me if you have understanding. Who said it was measurements since you know? Who stretched the line on it? Where were its bases sunk? Who laid the cornerstone when the morning star sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Who enclosed the sea with doors and bursting forth it went out from the womb and I made a cloud its garment, thick darkness its swaddling band." The language is just rich. Verse 12, "Have you ever in your life commanded the morning? Have you ever caused the dawn to know its place, Job? Have you ever entered into the springs of the sea, verse 16, or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deep darkness? Have you understood the expanse of the earth? Tell Me, if you know so much."
You have no right to question Me. Chapter 40 verse 1, "The Lord said to Job, 'Will the fault finder content with the Almighty?'" In verse 4, "Okay, Job says to the Lord, 'I'm insignificant, what can I reply to You? I lay my hand on my mouth.'" He's done. Tough talk is I do what I do because I'm God. I do what I do for My glory. And Job got it. Chapter 42, and you have to...you have to get the end of it, verse 1, "Job answered the Lord, said, 'I know You can do all things.'" I affirm that You're the God that Scripture says You are and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted. Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have declared that which I do not understand, things too wonderful for me which I didn't know. This is the right response, I don't even know what I'm talking about. Hear now and I'll speak, I'll ask you and do you instruct me?
Job buckles and says "God, I have no right to question You, You are God and You have every right to put Your glory on full display." And evil makes that happen. We will spend forever and ever in the presence of God extolling Him in ways that never would be possible had He not allowed and ordained without ever creating or being the source of it the evil that temporarily dominates the creation. And in His perfect timing, it will all be over and He will destroy this entire universe in a holocaust described by Peter as the elements melting with fervent heat and the creation of a new heaven and a new earth in which only eternal righteousness exists, but we will forever worship with an understanding of the full display of His glory.
HAPPY SUNDAY TO ALL!

Hello everyone. Today, We're going to plunge into the the depths of one of the most intermittently asked questions: WHY DOES EVIL EXIST? I oblige everyone (believers..bibles in hand and non) to read meticulously, to get a grip on what is going on.
[pls, don't mind the epistlelistic explanation... even after alot of editing!]
Why did God allow evil in the world? You could frame the question a number of ways. If the Creator God is so good, why is there so much evil in the world? In fact, the reality of evil in the world is one of the favorite justifications of those who reject the God of the Bible. They're eager to ask those questions in a myriad of different ways...how can God be holy and allow His creation to be dominated by unholiness? How can God be perfectly righteous and ordain the presence of unrighteousness? There are a number of ways that this particular idea is effectively communicated. One is a syllogism, a series of logical steps such as the biblical God is loving...the biblical God is all-knowing, the biblical God is all powerful, yet massive evil exists in the world therefore the biblical God does not exist. That is to say that whoever allows this evil cannot be loving, or cannot be holy, or cannot be all powerful and still allow evil.
In the minds of many (especially atheist), this backs Christians up into an impossible corner. And there are many Christians who would agree with that and they would grab Deuteronomy 29:29, "The secret things belong to the Lord," and punt that into the opposition's territory as far as they can. Is that the best we can do when pressed against our own theological end zone, is to punt
Deuteronomy 29:29? Isn't there anything better than that in the divine play book? Isn't there some kind of long pass we can complete, something that will not only allow us to escape from defeat, but guarantee victory?
I believe there is. I believe that Scripture gives us an answer and without hesitation we can know that answer, we can understand that answer, and we can find eminent satisfaction in that answer. It is not enough to simply say the secret things belong to the Lord, which is to say we don't know, God doesn't tell us. God did not tell Adam and Eve why He let that snake in the garden and gave that snake the ability to talk. Nor did God tell Job why He unleashed calamity, disease, disaster and death and Satan into his life. So isn't that the best approach, to just say we really don't know, Scripture doesn't tell us? That would be the best answer if Scripture didn't tell us. If that was honestly the case and we said that we have no scriptural answer, that's fine. But we do have a scriptural answer.
And this opens up to our thinking a whole category of theological truth that goes under the name of theodicy. It comes from two Greek words, theos
meaning God, and dikē which is the root of the words that mean righteousness or righteous, or just, or justice. A theodicy is an explanation of how God can be just, or how God can be righteous. It is a defense of God's righteousness in the face of the presence of pervasive sin. And so I want to give you what I believe is a biblical theodicy, a biblical defense of why God who is holy, who is loving, who is all-knowing, who is all-powerful has allowed evil to dominate His creation?
. Number one, evil exists. This is without serious argument. It is incontrovertible unless you are a Christian science advocate.
The answer is not to play some ridiculous metaphysical game to say something doesn't exist that clearly does exist. Evil exists. It exists apparently, manifestly, massively, dominantly in our world. And there are a number of categories in which evil exists.
There is natural evil. That is impersonal, external, physical, temporal evil in the form of diseases, disasters, catastrophes, the kinds of things that come from the physical world, the cursed creation from tiny bacteria to tidal waves, from viruses to volcanoes. The whole natural world is blighted by bad things, things that make you sick, things that injure you, things that kill you. And humans since the Fall have lived at the mercy of the physical corruption. All you have to do is go back to the book of Genesis and not long after the Fall comes the Flood which basically is a massive natural disaster ordained and authored and executed by God Himself which drowns the entire human race with the exception of eight people. There is natural evil beyond the Flood even to this very day, rarely does a day go by when we don't hear of someone somewhere dying in some kind of natural disaster, or some plague, or some illness sweeping through the lives of people.
Secondly, there's moral evil. Moral evil is personal as opposed to natural evil which is impersonal. It is internal, it is spiritual. It is wickedness, sin, transgression, iniquity. it is a disposition. It is an attitude, it is a course of thinking, speaking and conduct which dominates the human race so that Scripture says, "No one is good, not even one." Scripture says, "All the thoughts of the human heart are only evil continually." Scripture says that it is out of the heart that lust conceives and produces sin and from that sin comes death. The Bible tells us that society is dominated by corruption. And it is not a disaster that kills us. A disaster may kill us, but if we miss all the disasters and all the diseases, we will still die because the waves of sin is death. The corruption comes to every human being. It impacts every life, every relationship. All of humanity is made up of sinners, no one is exempt. And all the immoral sinners collide with each other in malfunctioning families and friendships and rivalries and associations and nations. The collision of wicked, selfish, immoral hearts fills the world with one disaster after another.
Then thirdly there is supernatural evil. This is the evil that is basically perpetrated by demons, fallen angels, the associates of Satan, the number of the angels that fell from heaven with Satan as indicated in Revelation 12 to be a third of the angels, leaving two thirds remaining as holy angels, one third are fallen. Satan is one of those and the whole world,
1 John 5:20 says, lies in the lap of the evil one. These vile beings are as old as creation. They are unmitigatedly wicked. There is nothing in them that is good at all. They ply their wickedness on an angelic level and also on a human level. It will get worse in the future when God casts them all into the earth in the future time of Tribulation. Satan who leads them is for this time given TEMPORAL AUTHORITY over the world system. He has a temporary and delegated sovereignty in this world so that even as believers we are not wrestling against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and the rulers of the darkness and authorities in high places that are wicked. There is a massive, spiritual struggle going on in this world system effected by demons. They have the power to seduce and deceive humanity against God and against the gospel and against Scripture and to draw them deeper and deeper into immorality and iniquity.
And then there is another category of evil, eternal evil. In a word, hell. People who go to hell, the majority of the human race, will be forever evil. The worm will not die. The fire will not be quenched. The remorse will not end. The judgment will not cease. The punishment will not be mitigated.
Yes there is evil. And there is not marginal evil and there is not minimal evil, there is pervasive, dominant evil. And I guess you could say that evil has a kind of secondary dominance in the whole of creation. It effects everything. It effects the natural creation, the supernatural creation and the human and personal creation.
So we start with the obvious. We admit it. We don't deny it. Anybody who denies it is an absolute fool. Evil is massive, evil is out of control, evil is ingrained, it is systemic, it is everywhere all the time manifest in every one.
Now let's move to the next factor in our reasoning. First, evil exists. second, God exist. And only one God exists and He is the God revealed in Scripture, the one, true and only living God, the God of the Bible. He is as the Revelation of Scripture describes Him. He is all-powerful, He is all-knowing, He is loving, and He is absolutely holy. He controls absolutely everything. The Bible tells us that GOD EXIST and that NOTHING EXIST THAT HE DOES NOT ORDAIN. Everything is designed by, ordained by, and controlled by God. That is the biblical testimony.
Let me remind you of it. Psalm 115:3, "Our God is in the heavens, He has done whatever He pleased."
Daniel 4:35, "He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay His hand or say unto Him, 'What are you doing?'" Scripture repeatedly affirms the sovereignty of God over everything. God's sovereignty is absolute, irresistible and infinite.
When we say that God is sovereign, we simply mean He has a right to be in charge of absolutely everything because He, in fact, is in charge of absolutely everything. That is why 1 Timothy 6:15 says, "He is the only potentate, or ruler. He is the only sovereign, the only monarch." In
Revelation 4:11 we read, "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for You have created all things and for Your pleasure they are and were created." "All things" is the operative phrase. Everything fits into God's pleasure. Everything is to please God.
Proverbs 16:4, "The Lord has made all things for Himself, even the wicked for the day of evil."
read Deut 32:39. "See now that I, I am He...says God...and there is no God beside Me, it is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded. It is I who heal and there is no one who can deliver from My hand." Or Exodus 4:11, "The Lord said to Moses, 'Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I the Lord?'" Or
Psalm 105:16, "He called for a famine upon the land." Or 2 Kings 17:25, "They did not fear the Lord, therefore the Lord sent lions which killed some of them." Scripture is very clear that GOD IS BEHIND what we would classify as GOOD things and EVIL things, or bad things. God created out of His own free choice, uninfluenced, God created everything that is, ordained everything that is. And in
2 Samuel 10:12 it says, "The Lord does what seems to Him good."
read Isaiah 46:9 and 10, "Remember the former things of old, for I am God, there is none else, I am God. There is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times to things that are not yet done, saying My counsel shall stand, I will do all My pleasure." 1Samuel 2:6 to 8, "The Lord kills and makes alive. He brings down to the grave, and brings up. He makes poor and makes rich. He brings low and lifts up." Or Amos 3:6, "IF there is a CALAMITY in the city, WILL NOT THE LORD HAVE DONE IT?"
God controls absolutely everything. There is no evil outside His plan. There is no evil outside His purpose. He knows everything that can be known, that is knowable. He has comprehensive power to do everything that can be done that is possible. That is what the Bible says about God. And in that perfect knowledge, and in that perfect power, and with perfect holiness, and expressing His perfect love, God ordains everything.
That leads us to a third conclusion. Evil exists, God exists, and this is the only God who exists, thirdly, GOD WILLS EVIL TO EXIST. It is inescapable.
Turn in your Bible for a moment to Isaiah 45:5. "I am the Lord, there is no other. Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you though you have not known Me that men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun that there is no one besides Me. I am the Lord, there is no other." That's fairly well established in those two verses. "I am the One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being and creating calamity. I am the Lord who does all these." Go down to verse 9. "Woe to the one who quarrels with His maker. An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth? Will the clay say to the potter, 'What are you doing?' Or the things you are making say, 'He has no hands.' Woe to him who says to a father, 'What are you begetting?' Or to a woman, 'To what are you giving birth?' No pot can tell the potter what to do. No born child can tell his parents to give birth or not give birth. Nor can you question what God does." And God clearly has ordained evil.
Now at this point panic strikes the heart of hyper religious "Christians". They become short of breath here. What? God has ordained evil? They don't deny God's power, They don't even deny that God should be glorified in saving sinners. But the panic attack hits them because they cannot let God be held responsible for evil. If you want to drive Arminian theology, or the opposite of Reformed theology, or the opposite of Calvinism, that kind of theology that denies that God is sovereign and that regeneration is fully a work of God, that kind of theology that says man is sovereign, he's responsible for his own life, he makes his own choices and he becomes a sinner on his own, and he believes on his own and he exercises faith on his own, and he is saved by pulling himself up by his own bootstrap, that is to accommodate the idea that is behind that whole system, and that is we can't make God responsible for evil.
why did GOD CREATE CREATURES WHO WOULD be RESPONSIBLE for EVIL KNOWING WHAT THEY WOULD DO? Just backs the responsibility back to Him. The popular way nowadays that people in that category who don't want God to be responsible for evil in the world is to say that either He didn't have the knowledge that evil was coming, or He doesn't have the power to deal with it. One of the two. Either He in His creation made everything perfect and didn't know about evil's future existence, and so it caught Him off guard. Or He knew but He didn't have the power to stop it. Or He purposely limited His power to stop it for some higher value. Now those are the kinds of things you have to deal with in this argument. Either God didn't know, didn't have the power, chose not to use the power because He had something even more important than evil, something of higher value in view. These kinds of criticisms are supposed to get God off the hook. But what they do is reinvent God.
There are people actually who aren't even that sophisticated, they're just short answer folks. We hinted at them earlier. You say, "Where did evil come from?" And they'll say, "Oh it came from Adam and Eve." Really? How did it get introduced to Adam and Eve? "Well, oh yeah, that's right, it came from the snake." how did the snake get to a place where he could be embodied by Satan and how did Satan get to be Satan in which he was tempting people to do evil? "Oh well, he came
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and 127gazillion to political-crime....

12. too much wanking.
seriously, sex has been over rated in our sex ridden culture. Is sex here sex there. sufficeth to say, sex is the biggest notinig in the world that has become even more famous than Christ in our god forsaken soceity. spits!

moseph:
How about baked garri and coconut or baked garri and fried egg.

saymax:
Cabin biscuit inside ewedu mixed wit milo n milk

and someone said no lying....Aba ladie!

you know what they say 'different strokes for different folks'. somehow we are what we eat. we all know about the nifty combo we do to give a balanced diet; like corn and beans (succotash) celebrated with a lot of fish flushed down with fruit juice....toothsome! yeah, I know. now lets come down to some strange fusion some folks do; heard of garri and pineapple (wath the h..) but some1 said it's a delectable meal. to cut the long epistle short, I for 1 have merged potato and bread, beans-rice-egg-fish-bread-butter-tea (not cooked together but eaten togetter all at one). So now what's yours. pls no lying.

just like HIV too bitter abeg. u be read my lips......M.U.M.U

[b][/b]@2buffagain... meant to quote that olodo kashy baby