₦airaland Forum

TomHagen:
Yimu

Weah96:
Responding? Did the OP ask a question?

winner01:
Yes oo my sister.

Btw, i like your first post. its quite revealing.
Catholicism has always had an agenda.

Stelvin101:
Keep on deceiving urself. Christ was prepared to die to save humanity. Muslim are not prepared to butcher Christians like Ram and Annihilate us from the surface of this world. There is nothing in being alive, grow old and die and still walk the path Christ too. If u don't value ur life, u can go to Sokoto or Kano and preach at night, dat way I will understand all you just said.

winner01:
I want to believe atheists dont read as much as christians do, cos their posts reeks of intellectuals repression.

gypsey:
no wahala!, my own parent thinks i am talking like the so called evil spirit have possesed me the way i am sounding and my believes but it didn't stop them from moving into the big house i built for them in nigeria with evil money, hyporcrisy or what? same with their fellow christian believers who are just interested only in my evil acquired money according to them. It's been fascinating rubbing minds with you. Good luck to you too, lastly, try thinking rationally some times i will do your Mind and brains Good, ask questions were and on things you do not understand do not just believe because you have to or because your pastor said so or because every one else believes.

gypsey:
wow! People are been murdered, and you are talking about denieng christ, these murderers needs to be rounded up and sent to jail, besides what kinda Christ lets his people been killed? While he stands and watch and do not hi ing, he (christ) is not protecting his people is he? it boggles the mind

Alexandro15:
Good day house.
Please I have a little question of no great importance, but it's bothering me. Am addicted to reading the harry potter books series, over and over and over again. Once when I was browsing I saw a site where people said it opens way for demonic possession. Ever since, I have been afraid of reading it. Though the interest is still there because it's a good read.
I wish to know if reading it has any bad spiritual significance or leads to possession.

CharlyG1, Anas09, Oyeludef, Goodmuyis, Hananhezron, Nnamdiosu, lamasta and all, please clarify me.

TomHagen:
It actually is. You claim that atheists are are atheists until they face crises, this means that your faith helps in times of crises. Coping mechanism I tell you.

honourhim:
He has no defence. The truth of OP's submission has hit him like a thunder bolt and here he is trying to play a diversionary tactics. True to what the op said about them.
Useless people.

KingEbukaNaija:
These atheists love sexual perversion that make me cringe . It was incest and now animals ?

TomHagen:
You have just admitted that faith is a coping mechanism. This is what I've been trying to tell Winner all the while.

TomHagen:
Hypocrite. Atheists are foolish but you spend more time talking about atheists than your God. How many hours of your day do you spend thinking about atheism?

Weah96:
You speak to the creator of the universe who has shown you proof that he really did create the universe. This creator tells you that he has cameras everywhere.

But you still commit crimes with the creator watching.?

Why? Do you just like the smell of your own corpse roasting?

winner01:
This lady describes my problem with atheism

Weah96:
Did you guys commit sin today? Do you sin because you are unafraid of your fake Jew creator or because you can recite words to remove the sin from your ledger? I really want to know.

How can you communicate with a creator, verify his creator status, and still be brave enough to commit DAILY crimes while being observed closely by the creator's camera? Either you are telling lies or you are a psychopath who doesn't fear authority, even if the authority figure happens to be the creator of time, space, and matter.

Is that what you're telling me, that you sin daily because you are too weak to keep yourselves away from a blazing fire?

KingEbukaNaija:
As in eh ....

1. Study the argument by the Christian . Can I counter it ? No , its too tenable . What do I do ?

2. Create a strawman . This makes it convenient .

3. Declare yourself to be intellectually superior when the Christian points out your strawman .

4. Mock the Christian to appear intelligent . But if the Christian makes it too obvious what should I do

5. Abandon thread .

KingEbukaNaija:
Don't forget their sexual attraction to animals bro

winner01:
Well, on a lighter mood, we can thank atheists for thrilling us with their omni-knowest skills and abilities . Below summarizes (as far as i can remember)the A-Z of atheists on nairaland especially in the religion section.


1. Let God and religion fill your heart to an extent that you just cant stop talking about him.
Yeah that's right, some of these young atheist fellaz might not sleep well if they do not talk about God. They look for the slightest opportunity to tell you how wicked, irrational, evil and negative the Creator is. But bear in mind that there is not right or wrong for the atheist - no evil, no good. So how can atheists come to this conclusion ... Beats me too. Tell me again how atheism is not confusion.




2. Claim to lack a belief in God. But constantly launch attacks on christianity to convince themselves that they really lack a belief. Why will a person attack something he does not believe?
Okay let us even break down the word "lack". "Lack" could be a noun or a verb. Atheists use the word as a verb.
The cambridge english dictionary defines the word as: /læk/
to not have any or enough of something, esp. something necessary, needed or wanted:
From this definition, we can see that God is needed. So what could this mean for the atheists?
Could it mean that they lack other necessary or needed items of life?
Cos if you ask me, lack can fuel anger and thus hatred .




3. Scavenge the religion section for harmless christian topics such as a believer thanking God for sparing his life. and dehumanize him.
I mean, if you open a thread with a simple title like "God I thank You for the gift of life", some atheist will be like "So how about those that are dying?" "So your God is picky and selfish".
But notice one thing. If you give an atheist a gift, he may thank you. He most certainly wont tell you that you are picky and selfish or ask about those who need the gift more. Atheists don't really know what to say, do they




4. Google search "bad stuffs in the bible" and post some verses taken out of context here, and instantly they become a bible scholar.
This one is very common, they can take a verse like: I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.-Psalm 118:17
And then tell you that the writer was high and silly, and that people die in reality. Seriously , have atheists ever heard of the word "context". I don't think so.




5. Claim to be a former christian but have little to zero understanding of the very basics of christianity.
You can only wonder what type of christian someone is or was when he asks such questions like: "Why did Jesus die and rise again, why didn't he stay dead?", 'Why did Jesus weep when Lazarus died?", "Why do believers suffer?".
Well, at least we now know those who were force-fed christianity by their parents or whoever.




6. Realize that Christ lived a perfect life and that christians look up to Christ, and so discard the teachings of Christ and focus more on the historical record of Israelites under the dispensation of the law (Sin and Death).
This point is a bit connected to point 5, cos one needs to understand the laws and dispensations.
-The law of Sin and death and,
-The new law of the Spirit of life in Jesus (grace)
What does Romans 8:2 tell us: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death.




7. Deceptively ask christians for answers as if they really seek answers, while in reality they want to make a mockery of whatever answers they give.
They can ask questions like "why is there so much suffering in the world"?, and then you give an answer like "God did not promise us a rosy world but promised to walk through life with us if we allow Him and also, the existence of evil is corroborates the truth of scriptures"...
You may need to brace yourself after giving such a reply . A typical atheist may say "Shut up you fool, your God is wicked, selfish, vindictive and ......"



8. Preach to people that God does not exist, but say repeatedly that God is evil for allowing evil to exist.
Point no. 7 corroborates this. Pain may be too much for some people to handle. Nairaland is how some atheists deal with their pain.
(Ronald Inglehart (2010) confirms that religious people are usually happier than nonreligious people.

"Faith and Freedom: Traditional and Modern Ways to Happiness". In Ed Diener, John F. Helliwell, Daniel Kahneman. International Differences in Well-Being. Oxford University Press. pp. 378–385. ISBN 978-0-19-973273-9




9. Be historically illiterate about how religion especially christianity helped to usher in democracy in several parts of our world but dwell on the bad side of religion.
At the same time be historically illiterate about how the atheist countries that have ever existed have repressed democracy.




10. Mock christianity especially as dishonestly as possible.




11. Claim to be humanist but ignore the hundreds of lives lost daily to Islamic terror and focus on rubbishing the good news of Christ.
Should we talk about the actions of islam in recent times on France, Germany, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Northern Nigeria e.t.c.
Naah, atheists are less concerned with people who are easily radicalized on a daily basis to be murderers, they focus more on someone thanking God for his life.
Phew', At least we now know who really cares about humans. If christianity was as totalitarian as islam or atheist states, atheists voices wont be heard in the first place.




12. Appear to be open-minded to deceive the feeble-minded when in reality all your questions or arguments are put forth with a pre-conception of anti-religion.
An atheist could ask: "[i]Did Jesus really rise from the dead". I could almost be sure that this question is an attempt to mock the christian faith no matter how open-minded the op seems to be.
From my little stay on Nairaland, I can safely conclude that atheists here do not need any answers. They only want atheism to be true. at all cost




13. Reapeatedly advocate for the eradication of religion from the face of the earth but be historically illiterate that this same idea caused the deaths of over 260 million lives in the past 100 years alone.




14. Demonize the raising up of children in the way of the Lord, but turn a blind eye to their increasing access to nudity, alcoholism, indecency, hard drugs, thuggery e.t.c.




15. Claim to want to save the world and free humanity from the virus of religion but leave their family and friends to wallow in this so called "delusion".
It is pitiable that these atheists find solace only on nairaland. At home, they are as meek and timid as a cat and would prefer not to show their homies this newly struck gold. I put it to atheists that they are wicked and heartless to let their homies continue in their "delusions"




16. Say that religion is the cause of Nigeria's every problem but forget to mention other great religious countries and how religion especially christianity helped to usher in civilization. Atheists are quick to tell you that "Just look at Nigeria, our problem is religion"...
They like to capitalize on the current state of Nigeria .
Lol, we can laugh at them, because we know that China has a christian population of more than 1,349,585,838, U.S.A (316, 668,567), Nigeria (174,507,539), Russia (142,500,482), Japan (127,253,075). e.t.c
It doesn't really matter to the atheist. Religion (especially christianity) is the source of Nigeria's problems




17. Constantly tell us that we are products of meaninglessness and purposelessness but desperately want people to embrace such hopelessness.
Well, you can leave us the feck alone...What reality has continued to show is that every single item on earth serves a purpose. Don't try to dumb us down.




18. Open meaningless threads and threads based on mockery and mock christians who do not take them seriously.
This happens here all the time.




19. Join atheism because of unfortunate happenings in their lives and desperately want to impose their woes on others.
You lost a dear person and i'm sorry about your loss, I've lost too. But don't force force the effects it had on you on others. Good and bad happens all the time, ain't no need to impress your emotions on people's lives.




20. Deliberately create a non-existent gulf between christianity and science as if atheism had the sort of impact religion has had on science.
Well, thank God for some eye-opening threads that have shown us how christians propelled science and how atheists are desperately trying to hijack science. Atheists could almost tell you that "atheism=science".




21. Downplay the relief and outreach provided by religion to the less privileged. You may wanna go to camps of internally displaced persons, orphanages, prisons, hospital beds, poverty stricken parts of Africa. Here, you will find religious people from parts of the world lending help to the helpless.




22. Dishonestly downplay whatever evidence, fact or explanation given by a christian as lies so far it negates the stand of atheism.
Trust out atheist brothers and sisters on this




23. Dishonestly disregard scientific work done which proves that:

religion is a part of the human nature
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386533/Belief-religion-simply-universal-human-nature.html
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/12/religious-belief-is-human-nature-huge-new-study-claims/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8510711/Belief-in-God-is-part-of-human-nature-Oxford-study.html

education positively affects religious participation and devotional activities in daily life
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13644-011-0007-4

Church attendance has a positive effect on the grade point average
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/34099196/going-church-helps-students-grades

Religious involvement and spirituality are associated with better health outcomes, including greater longevity, coping skills, and health-related quality of life (even during terminal illness) and less anxiety, depression, and suicide"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11761504

Lower blood pressures observed among those who frequently prayed or studied the Bible (daily or more often)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9724889


Religiousity and its influence on immune system
http://www.dukehealth.org/health_library/news/663
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9565726

Religion and its effect on lifetime impulsivity, aggression, and substance use
American Psychiatric Association: http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspxVolume=161&page=2303&journalID=13

Religious people and charity
http://www.pewforum.org/Religion-News/Religious-people-make-better-citizens-study-says.aspx
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun/16/local/me-beliefs16

And other research studies...

Even after all these, our atheist brothers will still demonize religion without conducting any research to reach such conclusion.




24. Dishonestly claim that Jesus Christ is a myth like zeus, horus, and co. even in the face of proof.
Well, we know it will be irrational for you to dismiss the obvious if Jesus ever existed. . So its better to reject outrightly the fact that He ever existed.




25. Claim to be the all-rational, all-logical, all-knowing, all-intellectual, all-reasonable, all-wetin again.


Abeg make i drop my pen.


Atheists I hail ooo.



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Great0:
Just have little difficult with my browsing instruments.
But God is good.

vislabraye:
You are missing the point. He's not saying Christians should not be persecuted but when theres institutionalized killing, we shouldn't be quiet. Even in the bible, the apostles and prophets of old challenged the authority. Jesus called Herod, "that old fox."
We don't live in the stone ages again. This is civilization. The question you should ask yourself is, " is it it acceptable to kill or destroy properties ?" If not, then Christians should not be killed. Even apostle Paul challenged the Jews who flogged him that he was a Roman citizen.

Stelvin101:
Shey the Bible says Prayer without works is dead? In as much as they are praying, their voice is also needed because secretly Muslim are building a big cage around Christians in Nigeria and waiting for the right time to strike!

blackfase:
http://dailypost.ng/2016/07/29/primate-ayodele-blasts-adeboye-oyedepo-kumuyi-silence-killings-christians/

FreeSpirited:
i broke or impressed your heart?

HananHezron:
hellooo

sonofthunder:
His grace is sufficient unto you... Lol.

CharlyG1:
Hello Analice..
This faint tingling on your palm could be anything. When does it actually occur?

I sometimes have this faint tingling on my palm when i'm engaged in warfare prayers. Sometimes as I pray, God would open my eyes on the spot and show me what's going on in the kingdom of darkness as I pray. This tingling on my hand will now become very warm as I grew deeper in prayers.

Sometimes it occurs on my left leg. It gets very warm as I pray deeper. It doesn't occur all the time though, and it goes away as soon as I stop praying.
I can never know what yours is exactly. Overtime you'll get to know for yourself.


My father usually had this warm tingling on his palm whenever a huge profit(money) was about to come into his business. And it always happened that the same week, he would receive a huge business contract.


So it could be anything dear.. It could be a spiritual gift related to healing. It could be that something good/bad is going on at that time etc.


But take it up unto the Lord and overtime you will discover what this sign means.


God bless you dear

FreeSpirited:
if they sleep with animals or not is not my business.....i'm only speaking from medical point of view........being an authority, u just have to believe me.

Blackfire:
*faints*

Generals03:
Brethren I need a brief exposition on 2 issues.

1. Gal 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Galatians, etc.

How can a christain expel completely/deal with all or any of these works of the flesh still manisfested in his/her life? Are there in all cases (or only some?) spirits behind these habits that should be dealt with?

I believe the goal of every believer is to be spotless and free of blemishes both in charater, thought and words.



2. What are your views on this issue of using attachments, jewelries, make up, etc by christain ladies as regard requirements for excelling in spiritual warfare and making heaven.
Thanks and God bless.


CC Oyeludef, temi4fash,lamasta, charlyg1, anas09, hananhezron, nnamdiosu

sonofthunder:
lemme go and prepare tea against pages 140 & 141...
meanwhile... Viewing this topic: JMG1 ,
abisola192 ( f), Anas09

Lamasta:
I always love to be present where saints in Christ are gathered.......
I started feeling the PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT in my life when I was younger around either 9 or 10. I remember one night my mum was cooking at the passage of our house and am inside our room sleeping on the long chair expecting my mum to call me anytime to bring something or whatever she needs inside, so as I just relax on this chair I notice that PHCN were just flashing light i.e on and off as they use to do so this continued for some time something just told me immediately to read Psalm 24 as I was reading this Psalm at the middle I began to say LET THE LIGHT ON AND NEVER GO OFF AGAIN and immediately its asive my voice was heard by the officer in the control room of PHCN and the controller on the light immediately swithched on the light and the light did not go off again throughout that night.....Never knew my Mum was experiencing what I was doing as I look at her face she began to smile and call me Pastor for the first time.
Also remember this day sometime last year or early this year can`t really recall there was this friend of mine that came to my place to stay cos He want to write post utme in my school after he came 2 of his friends later joined him in my house together we were four, so the morning we were to go to school together so they can go and write there post utme exam as we were about to leave the room the HOLY SPIRIT just told me to PROPHESY into there life concerning the admission they were seeking for as the Holy Spirit directed immediately I called them to enter the room again and I slam the door and told one of them to lead in praise and worship after that I led them into personal prayer before I now prayed together with them and then PROPHESIED that all of them will get that admission and this year will not pass them they all shouted AMEN and we left off....
After I slammed my door and padlocked it 20 metre from where I stay I just noticed one of them picked up his phone to check the school he had earlier written post utme to see if he was admitted low and behold he saw his name on the merit list and immediately he bust out into laughter and praise and his second too that they came together too checked his own too he too was admitted in the same school (EKSU) to study INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY so the JOY they had made them to not take the post utme of my sch they came for serious again even though they did the exam but this my friend was feeling a bit afraid and intimidated and I told him that my school will admit him when they release the list of successful candidate and lo and behold he was admitted he too into INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY and me too that HOLY SPIRIT told to PROPHESY into there life am studying INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY after everything I keep thanking God for his Holy Spirit in my life though it has not been easy but God has been FAITHFUL......
PLS BRETHREN NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.......
IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN AND YOU ARE NOT INFLUENCING OTHERS AROUND YOU YOU HAVE NOT STARTED THE WORK AT ALL COS WHERE I STAY PRESENTLY I TURNED EVERYBODY IN MY HOUSE TO SINGERS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS HEAR WHEN I SING AND PRAISE GOD AND IT ROB OFF ON THEM THAT I TELL MYSELF EVERYDAY TO BE CAREFUL COS AM IMPACTING LIFE POSITIVELY WITHOUT ME EVEN KNOWING LIKEWISE WE THAT ARE HERE TOO WE ARE TOUCHING LIVES.....BRO CHARLYG1, OYELUDE, ANAS09 DAZZLE101 AND OTHER KEEP THE FLAG FLYING WE HAVE OVERCOME IN THE NAME OF JESUS....