loveformercy:
God didn't shift from His throne!! You can say whatever you like, it is your business. God no shake one bit, & your anger does not remove hell or heaven.....If you are strong enough, just die & your doubts will be cleared

Do you know that you used the word "Throne" only because the bible was written during the time of kings? if it was written now, i guess you would have used words like The Oval Office, Presidential villa, Aso Rock, White house etc. Which weapon do you think Angel Michael would be depicted to use if the bible was written in the modern era? definitely not a sword. probably an AK47 commando style.

damosky12:



LOL. Find a good church sir.

Paul, the Apostle was called personally by Jesus. He didn't act or write His epistles outside the leading of the Holy Spirit.

More than half of the new testament books came through his exegesis. Many practices of the church were taught by Him.

Peter acknowledged that...

2 Peter 3:15
[15]... even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

To doubt Paul's letters or practices is to doubt Christianity.

You can't separate the sayings of Jesus from Paul. Paul was His Apostle.


Besides, Apostle John who was with Jesus also presented Himself as a father.

1 John 2:1
[1]My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not....


The issue lies in the misinterpretation of Matthew 23:10.

Thats why I took time to explain the context.

Long story sha!
How comes Jesus Christ commanded his followers NEVER to call other followers their Fathers yet 'Inspired' Paul to call himself father of other christians

Before I answer this question, I will like you to know that I believe that humans subconsciously do good things selfishly either to make other people see them as good or to clear their conscience. i will respond using my conscience as the major factor

Ia. I will save the child because the child's life obviously lies in my hand and if i WATCH him drown, then my conscience will judge me for a long time.
1b. I am not morally obligated to save the child firstly because I cant SEE the child dying and his fate lies in other peoples hand too such as the doctors who refuse to treat him unless i fore go buying my suit and other rich men planning to buy expensive ferraris

2a and b- I will do nothing in both instances and let the train take its course. This will leave me with a clear conscience knowing it's not my fault.

So the case here is that Jesus Christ CLEARLY stated that a Christian MUST not call another Christian father and Paul CLEARLY called himself the father of other Christians probably because he was not there where Jesus Christ told his disciples that. Now who shall you believe? Jesus Christ or Paul?

F

Butterflyleo:


Perhaps not. If you had read the story well you would see that it is fully decorated with love as the reason behind her conversion.

Such Love as found from Christ isn't found in Mohammed or Islam. So I would conclude that you are wrong with your assertion.

Perhaps if you had read the story well instead of copying and pasting then you wouldnt have missed this part

' This is why apologetics, in my opinion, are hugely
unconvincing. (Dallas Willard, for the record, never
debated unbelievers.) No one could have in a
billion years of their gripping testimony or by
showing me a radiant life of good deeds or
through song or even the most beautiful of books
brought me to Christ. I had to be tapped on the
shoulder. I had to be taken to a place where
books about God were something I could
experience without distance. It was alchemical '

she converted because she was exposed to christian books at a time when she was facing challenges and the books probably made her feel purposeful. If she had been exposed to Islamic teaching at that that time she would have been a muslim convert now

Faniliar story. please tag me when Hopefullandlord, Dalaman, Johnnydon22 or or any atheist i am familiar with converts to christianity.
BTW if instead of Utah she had moved to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia she would have become a muslim convert now. Allahu Akbar

CAPSLOCKED:





I THOUGHT I WAS MAD TO QUESTION RELIGION. UNTIL I FOUND OTHERS ON THE INTERNET IN 2016.

I remember reading an article on the internet titled "How to loose your religion without loosing your mind," I really needed it at time because i was worse than a Mad man. I hated myself, hated my thinking faculty and was faced with the white bear paradox. I wonder where I would have been without the Internet because it has become my church, my sanctuary.

joseph1013:
ISAAC NEWTON WAS A CHRISTIAN

I recently read stephen hawking's A brief history of time. At the end of the book he wrote about some prominent scientists such as Einstein, Galileo and Isaac Newton, What he wrote about newton was bad it makes me wonder why christians see him as their scientist hero.

Here is what he wrote:



ISAAC NEWTON
Isaac Newton was not a pleasant man. His relations with other academics were notorious, with most of his later
life spent embroiled in heated disputes. Following publication of Principia Mathematica – surely the most
influential book ever written in physics – Newton had risen rapidly into public prominence. He was appointed
president of the Royal Society and became the first scientist ever to be knighted.
Newton soon clashed with the Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, who had earlier provided Newton with
much-needed data for Principia, but was now withholding information that Newton wanted. Newton would not
take no for an answer: he had himself appointed to the governing body of the Royal Observatory and then tried
to force immediate publication of the data. Eventually he arranged for Flamsteed’s work to be seized and
prepared for publication by Flamsteed’s mortal enemy, Edmond Halley. But Flamsteed took the case to court
and, in the nick of time, won a court order preventing distribution of the stolen work. Newton was incensed and
sought his revenge by systematically deleting all references to Flamsteed in later editions of Principia.
A more serious dispute arose with the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz. Both Leibniz and Newton had
independently developed a branch of mathematics called calculus, which underlies most of modern physics.
Although we now know that Newton discovered calculus years before Leibniz, he published his work much
later. A major row ensued over who had been first, with scientists vigorously defending both contenders. It is
remarkable, however, that most of the articles appearing in defense of Newton were originally written by his
own hand – and only published in the name of friends! As the row grew, Leibniz made the mistake of appealing
to the Royal Society to resolve the dispute. Newton, as president, appointed an “impartial” committee to
investigate, coincidentally consisting entirely of Newton’s friends! But that was not all: Newton then wrote the
committee’s report himself and had the Royal Society publish it, officially accusing Leibniz of plagiarism. Still
unsatisfied, he then wrote an anonymous review of the report in the Royal Society’s own periodical. Following
the death of Leibniz, Newton is reported to have declared that he had taken great satisfaction in “breaking
Leibniz’s heart.”
During the period of these two disputes, Newton had already left Cambridge and academe. He had been active
in anti-Catholic politics at Cambridge, and later in Parliament, and was rewarded eventually with the lucrative
post of Warden of the Royal Mint. Here he used his talents for deviousness and vitriol in a more socially
acceptable way, successfully conducting a major campaign against counterfeiting, even sending several men to
their death on the gallows.

AmunaNo1:


I was just like you a very long time ago. When you are ready for truth you will probably look for this article and not find it. Good luck anyways bro

so tell me sire, What is this truth?

AmunaNo1:


What powers the pre-frontal cortex? How was it discovered that this portion of the brain affects these behaviors? Why will nature create something contrary to its own objectives? What is the purpose of the pre-frontal cortex from your reductionist perspective? Humans are not the only social creatures on earth. How do these creatures behave in comparison?

Think outside the box. Science produces successful theories not true ones.

Oh! I see that you are not a fan of science. I guess this is where I am suppose to stop replying to your posts but for the sake of others reading lets continue.
You can check up all of the above questions online. Medical experts and psychologists have teamed up over the years to give us a lot of information about the functions of different part of the brain. Please dont undermine the sweat of these hardworking and honest people.

The prefrontal cortex does not work against natures objectives i will explain why if you ask me.

I owe you a medal because "Science produces successful theories not true ones" is the lamest sentence I have heard this year. congrats.

AmunaNo1:

In conclusion, it can be said that the function of our physical bodies is to survive and reproduce as you have mentioned. However, our ability to act beyond this primal desires is proof that they are not the paramount purpose, a monk can stay celibate for life, activists can go on hunger strike for weeks, people put themselves in harms way and deprive themselves of physical gratification all the time for intangible, immaterial ideas. Why? The reason is simple, we are more than just a clump of cells, we are much more than our physical bodies. We think and we feel, we are human.

Well this is possible because of a part of the brain called prefrontal cortex which evolved quite recently. It is the seat of our will power and self awareness which helps us function better as social beings. It is the prefrontal cortex that makes me not to steal my neighbours food even though I am very hungry because I know that stealing has social consequences. it is also the prefrontal cortex that makes me not to sleep with my neighbors wife even though i want to reproduce because i know that it also has social consequences.

Fortunately we can develop our prefrontal cortices through meditation and other exercises. That is why some people can remain celibates and others can go on hunger strike.

In summary, our instincts as living things is to survive and reproduce. but as social beings, we are able to control these urges thanks to the prefrontal cortex in our brains, in order to avoid social disasters.

A person whose prefrontal cortex is damaged cannot be celibate or go on hunger strike. you can google up effects of damaged prefrontal cortex when you have the time.

mtcheew, I thought you wanted to lie that he accepted christ as his lord and personal savior before dying. let me come and go.

What i posted above doesnt answer the question "What is the meaning of life?" it instead tell us what our function is in life. I will give you an example of why it is meaningless to seek for the meaning of life.

There are 37.2 trillion cells in the human body. Each cell is specialized for its purpose i.e the cells in the heart are different from the cells in the skin which are also different from the blood cells. Most of the cells dont even know about the existence of other cells in the body. They just perform their functions which like you also include to survive and reproduce via meiosis or mitosis.

Now suppose a particular cell becomes philosophical lets call him cellcrates and starts asking the questions "What is the meaning of life?" do you think that he will ever realize that the meaning of his life is to keep a young man who lives in a country called nigeria and whose moniker on nairaland is adoyi8 alive. Never those things are beyond its scope.

And so is our predicament in this wide universe with 8 planets revolving around our star, billions of stars in our galaxy and billions of galaxies in the universe. we can never reach the other end of the universe because we cant move faster than the speed of light which is not also fast enough. We cant know the meaning of our lives but we can know our functions which are to survive and reproduce.

when you want to give life a meaning, the meaning should encompass all life i.e Humans, animals, plants, bacterial etc Our problem with defining the meaning of life comes from the fact that we are anthropocentric, that is we only consider our existence as humans and that is why we create gods that look like us,dress like us, think like us and talk like us.

But look at this way, There are more than 80 organs in the human and each organ(except maybe the vestigial ones) help us to do one of these two things: survive and reproduce. so that is your function in life just like any other animal, plant bacterial etc. and its as simple as that. You reproduce because you cant survive forever and life wants to continue even without you. This explains why the two things that occupy our minds most of the time are food (for survival) and sex(for reproduction).

Our lives become complex because we live in a complex society which we created to help us survive better. learning to live with other humans makes life difficult. The internal competition which was supposed to help us grow makes life difficult and causes depression to those that cant keep up.

Is he saying that if I attack him I will get a visa to the USA?

lightblazingnow:


I pray you become very seriously with your heart and mouth

I pray you start proofreading your posts before hitting the submit button.

Is it still the book of life? I thought that it has been updated to "Website of life".

Then if it doesnt work you will say that it is because he didnt have faith

lol. The funny thing is that I am in the middle of a Stephen Hawkings book right now titled the great design.

loveDcross:
. You dont have any idea of God. God destroys whom he would destroy and saves whom he would save. There were many pregnant women in sodom and gomorrah that were destroyed by brimstones and fire and also in the days of Noah that were destroyed. My advice to you is God is the only One that is Good. No man is Good except Almighty God.

You don't have any idea of morality. imagining defending a morally corrupt god like this.

The greatest sin in the Bible was in 1st Samuel 15 : 3 When God Commanded Saul to kill suckling Infants for something they did not know about. I cant stop imagining Isrealite soldiers snatching babies from their mothers breasts and piercing their hearts with daggars on the commandment of "GOD".

China turned her back on God.

of course a man born in Europe in the middle ages will believe in God but I tell you it will be difficult to mention an English scientist today that is a theist.

Olumba Olumba reborn

clear your mind

atheist dont hate god, they just hate the fact that an hypothesis for the origin and purpose of life is taken too serious

ysyowel:

oh yes God didn't complained because
Elijah is a Prophet of God, but you are an atheise why should you test God? anyway your amswers are coming to you very soon

The prophets of Baal tested him and he didnt complain why not an atheist. Why didnt God tell you my details since 10 days. Keep praying to your God, maybe he is sleeping or may be he has gone on a journey. Stop giving excuses like the prophets of Baal.

Better late than never.

Amberon11:
God does not answer to foolish requests nor anything that is not for edification.

God didnt complain when Elijah and the prophets of Baal put him to test so what are you saying?

emmanuel1990:
atleast one week l...

hello mr. Emmanuel, Has God told you my full name and account number yet?

ysyowel:

foolish atheist thou shall not put the LORD my God to test
i know you are once a christian without a PERSONAL ENCOUNTER (true encounter). you hate God because of what you read/heard and your personal canal experiences, you are born and brought up in the North, now serving the nation.

anybody that has read my posts knows these. Ask God to tell you my name and account number. Dont bring up the issue of not testing God, Elijah and the prophets of baal tested him and he didnt complain.