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chijokz:
How do you want her to tithe or sow seed when she's in desperate need of assistance?
As Christians, show me where Christ said it's "Very dangerous not to tithe"?
Any assistance she gets should be used to invest in a business venture that will yield profits to ultimately lead to taking care of her family. That's how her life will change.

Its good to give, there's no one who has nothing to give. What most Christians fail to realise is that God isn't interested in your money but your TIME. Throughout Scripture, whenever the people got captured or sent into slavery it wasn't because they stopped giving food or offerings but that they have turned away from him by not giving their TIME and attention to him. God seeks relationships with his people, it's a matter of knowing what God requires that we give.

BIBLESPEAKS:
The History of the development of the Trinity Doctrine.

It is certain that, in spite of the popularity of such concepts as Trinity in the false religions surrounding them, the faithful Jewish people and prophets of the Old Testament never accepted a three-in-one God. It is true that the unfaithful among the Israelites often borrowed pagan gods, pagan customs, and pagan concepts (including Baal and Astarte) and added them to their God-given religion. But there is no record (scriptural or secular) of a trinity concept even among them.

Faithful Israel had only one God and He was always a single individual named Jehovah (possibly pronounced "Yahweh" or "Yehowah" in Hebrew - see the PRONOUNCE study), their Father in heaven - (Deut. 6:4, 5; Is. 64:8; Ps. 83:16-18). That is the concept known as monotheism (meaning "one person alone is God".

"The religion of the [Old Testament] and Judaism is monotheistic and personal. 1. In the [Old Testament] the words el, eloah, and elohim , from related roots, are generic designations of God. Alongside and alternating with them stands the
individual, personal name Yahweh [Jehovah] ." -
The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology , vol. 2, p. 67.

Professor of ecclesiastical history L. L. Paine L. L. Paine, A Critical History Of The Evolution Of Trinitarianism , p. 4, tells us :
"The Old Testament is strictly monotheistic. God is a single personal being . The idea that a trinity is to be found there ... is utterly without foundation." [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ]
And Lohse states:
"From the very beginning, of course, Christians not only believed in God in the sense in which the Jews did , but they also believed in Jesus Christ ." - p. 38 , A Short History of Christian Doctrine , Bernard Lohse, 1985, Fortress Press.

This, then, was the faith that Jesus passed on to his Apostles. This is the truth that the Apostles passed on to their followers (who lived and taught this very same concept up to at least 150 A. D.).
"In this period [1st century A.D.] churches were still regarded as synagogues, whose members prayed three times a day and fasted twice a week like Jews... They professed monotheism in the same terms as did the Jews . .... Within individual congregations they continued to think, argue, and act like their Jewish counterparts." - pp. 121-122,
The Rise of Christianity, W. H. C. Frend (trinitarian), 1985, Fortress Press.

It was not until over 300 years after the death of Jesus that the trinity concept was fully developed, refined, and officially and finally accepted by Christendom through a decree by the Church at Rome.

" Speculative thought began to analyze the divine nature until in the 4th century an elaborate
theory of a threefoldness in God appears. In this Nicene or Athanasian form of thought God is said to consist of three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, all equally eternal, powerful and glorious." -
Encyclopedia Americana, 1944, v. 6, p. 619, "Christianity".

Yes, finally, by the end of the 4th century A.D., the trinity idea had been fully developed. The Roman Church had officially decreed the following points as being necessary for all Christians to believe:
There are said to be three divine persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit - in the
Godhead .
(1) Each of these separate persons is said to be
eternal, none coming before or after the other in time.
(2) Each is said to be almighty , with none greater or lesser than the other.
(3) Each is said to be omniscient , knowing all things.
(4) Each is said to be true God .
(5) However, it is said that there are not three Gods but only one God .

But we should understand that in the more than 2,000 years from Abraham to the death of the last Apostle, John, Judaeo-Christianity had only one God, Jehovah ("YHWH", the Father
alone . (Cf. Ps. 83:18, KJV , ASV; Is. 63:16, ASV;
and John 17:1, 3 - compare Jer.10:10, ASV).
But what about the powerful religious systems around them which controlled or profoundly influenced the entire known civilized world?

Babylon, Egypt, India, Greece etc. all had Trinitarian concepts in their worship of many Gods.

Jehovah is not the name of God. There's nowhere throughout history where God referred to himself as such. Before you quote me to defend yourself, make a research on it.

sysengr:
I used to tithe but stopped.
Have not heard of him but I will try to listen to his messages.
Thanks

Listen to Apostle Joshua Selman instead. I'm not his church member, never met him or know him in person but I can assure that he TEACHES the word of God and speaks of situations like yours and how to overcome it.

iSlayer2:
Those of you who are asking to be initiated into the occult don't know what you're getting into.




Flee!!!

I Pity them, they don't know what they are doing yet. There's no mercy, love, kindness, peace, joy etc on the other side because these are God's attributes and what's not of God cannot possess it.

Notyamate:
Going through this thread https://www.nairaland.com/5795526/how-found-out-hiv-positive/1 I went through comments and I laugh at the ignorance of some people on Nairaland. I'm sharing this story to people living with HIV reading this, you are not alone. Believe me there are many people out there with this disease, some happily married, growing old and having healthy kids.

On April 2013 my aunt got diagnosed with HIV at Catholic Hospital, Oluyoro. If you stay in Ibadan you'll know this hospital. She was 58 years at the time of her diagnosis. Before she was diagnosed she was getting sick and having symptoms like cold, head ache, sweating at night, and insomnia. We were worried because this is a person that hardly get sick, so we took her to a private hospital where the doctor told us she has typhoid. She was on drip for two days before discharge after that she was fine again. Not until 3 months later she started having those symptoms again, we didn't count it as anything and took her to that same hospital where she was given drips again. After the drips she was fine again.

The last straw was when she started vomiting and fainted on me, I was the only one at home that day. I performed CPR on her and then I decided to take her to a general hospital where proper medical examination can be done on her.

When we got there we queue, collect card and wait for doctor to attend to us. The doctor ask us some questions and the symptoms she has been having and for how long. After that the doctor directed us to where a nurse collected samples of her blood and we waited for the result.

When the doctor said she has HIV I couldn't believe my ears, all blood drained from my body and I was shaking. It was the last thing I expected because this was a person whose last born was 19years at the time. After she was diagnosed the doctor gave her drugs, she started explaining how to take the drug and how taking it everyday without missing a dose is important.

Our journey back home was quiet, I was thinking throughout, how did this happen? When we got home we meet my uncle (her husband) and we told her everything the doctor said. Everybody was just looking at one another, thinking 'we all don get HIV'.

The next morning my uncle took us all to the hospital to get tested and to know who and who have the disease. After going through the hospital routine our results came out. We were all tested negative including her husband, which brings all of us to ask, how did she get it? Till today no one knows. Her doctor says she has been living with it for over 5 years and none of us know including her.

My observations in her years of taking ARV drugs.

As I said earlier she was very sick when I took her to the hospital. Her CD4 count was 194, way too low. Normal CD4 count is from 500 to 1400. CD4 count is a test that measures how many CD4 cells you have in your blood. Low CD4 count means your body can't fight bacteria, viruses, and other invading germs.

Three months into the drugs she was tested again and her count was 242, another 3 months and it was 269.

She has been getting tested every six months and in the last five years her CD4 count has being between 340-390 and she hasn't suffer any illness whatsoever. Except for the drugs she's taken you won't know she has HIV.

How the drug is taken.

The drug is taken once in a day. It is left for you to decide when you want to take it but once you chose, you must be consistent with the time when you take the next dose so that it will be the exact time everyday. Doctors usually advise patients to take the drug at night because of the side effects which includes drowsiness and dizziness. The drug is taken 2 hrs after eating. When I asked the doctor why she said something about pepper and oil reacting with the drug.

The ARV drugs is free if you go to general hospital. The bottle contains 30 tablets to be complete in a month.

Important things you can do as an HIV person.

1. Avoid drinking alcohol/smoking as this can compromise your health condition. This is really very important.

2. Eat good and healthy food.

3. Exercise.

4. Eat a lot of fruit: her doctor emphasize on this. It doesn't have to be expensive, you can buy oranges, mangoes, bananas, watermelons and other cheap fruits.

5. Take your drug daily: This is very important even if you forget to take it at the usual time, just take it whenever you remember. Like let's say you normally take the drug at 9pm but then you forgot or you slept off. When you wake up just take it. DO NOT MISS A DOSE.

6. If you feel or have any changes in your body. Go to your doctor and explain to him/her. I'm saying this because after few months of taken her drug she was coughing persistently, her doctor had to give her some cough medicine. Although she's not using any cough medicine again as all symptoms has gone. Only the ARV drug and septrin.

The side effect of ARV drugs

The first month she started the drugs she complains of having nightmares, fatigue, headache, and dizziness but with time her body adapted to it and all the symptoms disappeared.

Having a strong immunity also plays important role in an HIV person. I think those with genotype AA tends to adapt well with HIV which explains why none of us know she has the virus in her body for over five years.

All I'm trying to get to is that having HIV is not the end of the world, it's not a death sentence. What kills most of these people is the fear and stigma from friends and family.

When people tell you they have HIV, do not run away from them like they are plague or some kind of viral infection. Love them, support them, play with them, laugh with them. You cannot contract the disease by playing with them, eating together, sharing cutleries, handshakes, hugs, etc.

In the end we are all going to die whether today or tomorrow, accident happens everyday. People slumps and die, people drown, fire accident happens, building collapse. I mean there are 1000 ways to die.

Those that you think they will die today, you may die before them. When it is your TIME, it is your TIME.

If she has had it for five years, how come the husband is negative? Just thinking out loud

megareal:
You know it is your type I would love to put in the same room with just one of my cousins who are leaders in the occult. Thirty minutes only, alone with one of them and this your supposed educated mentality will vamoose fiam. That is if your mouth will ever be able to say what you have seen. Or if your educated brain would even remain the same after the encounter.
You know why I know and believe God is real and I worship and serve Him? Because I have seen both worlds. The devil is very real too.

The greatest trick the devil played is to make people believe he doesn't exist. I Pity most of our people, what they call FATE, is someone's intentional manipulations

correctguy2010:
Okowa is a useless Governor, no doubt, but please don't mention APC. There's nothing good about APC.

I don't like them either but truth be told we need change in the state

When I said Okowa is useless and wicked on the other Delta thread, some animals started quoting me to say nonsense. He's the worst governor since the state was created, if the APC put their house in order by 2023, I see no reason why PDP would return to power.

Adaogwashi1:
Relocate to Lagos or any south west state you came from and stay out of Delta state because we love our governor






I still remain Ada ogwashi

Stupid Zombie! I'm a Deltan. Who are the we who love the moronic governor? Wake up and emancipate yourself from ethnic and political slavery, non of them will save you when the chips are down

Okowa is not just irresponsible and stupid, but also sick and wicked. There's nothing on ground to cushion the effects of the past 14 days and he has the audacity to open that rat mouth to extend the lock down. No hospital or medical facility to counter the virus, not even 1 in the state. I have never encountered a governor so useless as this guy

Erediauwa:
Your Dad is truly a G.O.A.T.... I mean, Greatest Of All Times.


He reminds me of Cristiano Ronaldo who was literally tired of Spain and it's frequent taxation and when the opportunity came, he ran to Italy to prove himself that he's still young at heart.


Your Dad has won so many "balloon D'or" at Spain and he thinks going for the beautiful tailor-made Italian League will offer him a great challenge and motivate him to win another balloon D'or.


Dear Op, you can't stop greatness.

You Don craze, I swear

holsconcept:
As usual, COVID 19 must be attached to the death to push up the figures. Kudos

Some of you are just stupid. It's reasons such as these that people are advised to stay at home, her immunity at the point of birth is very low and that of the baby also, she was a sitting duck for the disease.

Let him use the opportunity to give testimony, tell the people how God saved him from the spirit of fornication and how he intends to be an ambassador for chastity

The thing pain her, aswear

The Zoo is a joke, the one cup of rice and 5k election money never finish? Now the chicken has finally come home to roost

SearchingForSol:
I have no reason to lie. It is true, what do you suggest I do?

Isaiah 43:10
[10]“But you are my witnesses, O Israel!” says the lord.
    “You are my servant.
You have been chosen to know me, believe in me,
    and understand that I alone am God.
There is no other God—
    there never has been, and there never will be.

If you understand the gravity of these Scripture passage, you wouldn't have asked. You don't need a pastor or priest or alfa to help you, go on your knees and seek God's direction, everything you need is in Scripture, every covenant and blessings God has promised is there. Most people go to church gatherings but are not Christians, wake up and help yourself.

NAMYID:
I wish to request your humble opinion on this issue. The people involved are also on this platform and might see your views. It is a true life story.

My friend met this lovely, beautiful, nice, gentle and hard working lady. She works with investigation department of Nigeria Police. Before she accepted my friend's proposal, she told him she hates cheating and can't stand it. My friend promised not cheat on her for anything in the world. He also told her all about his past relationship and she accepted.

The relationship as lasted for close to 2years now with both parties been seriously committed and everything going fantastic.


Lately, my friend noticed that each time they have little misunderstanding or disagreement she tends to be physically. They recently had an arguement and he decided to walk out of the house to clear his head but the lady insisted no movement. Total lockdown!! Until they settle the matter. He was scared and had to accept her opinion before he could gain his freedom.

Now, he has distanced himself from her and as invited his ex for isolation period. Behold our detective has been monitoring his calls and social media accounts. She's aware that the guy is with someone else and has been issuing threats.

The guy is scared of going on with the relationship because he is forseeing himself beating her up someday. The lady as a small stature that he should be able to handle but he doesn't want to go physically with any woman.

He wants to end the relationship but the lady is saying no, we must marry I have been this committed to you, you can't leave me and go back to your ex. NEVER!!

The Lady has spent much on my friend since the relationship started. My friend fears the Lady could in future be having affairs with her boss to get promotion at work.


What should my friend do?

You, your friend and the lady are very stvpid. When he was eating her money, he did not realise that she was a control freak cum psychopath? After fvcking her for two years, it's now he realized that she could open legs for her bosses, my brother tell your friend say make e fear God, even if na small,what sort of lame excuse is that? As it stands, it's obvious he's not ready to marry her so I will advise he goes on the path of restitution, pay back the money that has been spent on him, No way that lady would loose on two ends, as my mama go talk, dem no dey fvck ashawo free Two times

fairfora:
You're not alone in this case. There are several people in your shoes. In fact, I was once in your shoes and I was the cause of my predicament. While serving in edo state as a corper I met a young girl who just completed her secondary school. Due to her height and level of maturity, hardly would one know she wasn't wayward.

I left her in Abudu orientation camp where she was assisting her sister sell food. After being posted out to my PPA, I got a room to stay because the principal of the school i was posted couldn't provide an accommodation. After settling down, I wrote to this girl in Benin. GSM was merely 3 months old in Benin that time...econet wireless to be precise so there was no means of phone communication. I took her address when I was leaving abudu camp so I wrote to her. She traced and located me. The night she came, I touched her and she told me she was a virgin. Her tighs were shaking. In short, she bled. She also told me she wasnt expecting her period but it came suddenly. I took good care of her and gave her enough money to return to Benin. I never knew that was the beginning of my predicament. I never set my eyes on her again. 3 months into the end of my programme I was falling ill . I went for series of tests, nothing was found. When I finished the scheme, i returned home. With prayers, my health was restored. I now began to look for jobs ooooo. Nearly all my friends had got fixed with good jobs but in my case, alas!

The major means of sending job applications then was by post. I'd trek 30 km from my house to the post office in dugbe ibadan and trek back home. I'd post all the job positions applied to, on guardian Tuesdays and Thursdays back then. Jobs are no longer being posted inside the newspaper again. Guardian used to be hot cake in those days, until the advent of affordable internet service providers.

To cut the long story shot, I became tired after posting over 200 applications. I spent the little I garnered from NYSC on job hunting. One day, my aunt came to our house and said, please can you accompany me for a church programme? Reluctantly, I followed her and after the programme, she urged me to see the pastor with her. When I got there, the man asked me to kneel down, as he was praying, he asked me to open my eyes. He asked sir, please who is Elisabeth(not her real name). I said she was my gf. He asked further, how many times did she come to see you? I said once...he said sir, you're under a bandage, because I entered into blood consonant with her and she sat on my glory. I was sweating. I said stubbornly, but i didn't drink her blood neither did she drink mine. He wanted to slap me and said, does it sound like I'm kidding? Did you not have an affair with her? She's a virgin and said whoever disvirgined her must be her husband in the spirit realm, that she's not an ordinary girl.

However, she said I should observe 3 days fasting and prayer which I did. On the 3rd day he asked me to see him which I did. He said he hasn't seen what he was looking for because he was still seeing traces. He said the 3rd prayer would have been answered but instead of watching a gospel music after I broke the fat, I was watching a hiphop song, which spoilt the 3rd prayer. He said i should go and repeat the 3rd one. Truly, after breaking the fast, I went to see my friend. He was playing an American collection of music on DVD. In short I repeated the 3rd prayer and went back to him. He prayed for me and said very soon, I'd see the hand of God. That was the beginning of my breakthrough. Barely 2 weeks after the prayer, the company I applied to in lagos sent me a letter of intervie. I got that job as the overall best when the result came out. My boss called me one day and said, do you know I had wanted to call you 6 months before you were employed? I didn't know what happened after shortlisting you and I kept your resume inside my pending tray. I just shook my head . Suddenly I burst into tears. He didn't know why but i did.

Its been smooth for me since that time, up till now. I've been all over the world. I've dined and wined with world leaders Including Barak Obama. Maybe you committed same atrocity out of ignorance with some girls. I strongly believe with deliverance, fasting and prayer, you'd come out of it. Your case isn't ordinary, just check yourself and trace back your path. I'm sure you would remember. God would deliver you as He did deliver me. Those men of God who collected money from you are evil. You could even seek God's face yourself and I'm sure He would speak to you on what to do. All the best

I'm in a situation like yours presently but I already know the solution to mine because God revealed it to me when I was praying.

I have been asking God for breakthrough for months now, until last week when my ex of ten years ago chatted me up on Facebook. I made some stupid promises to her and gave her a ring, thereby establishing a covenant with her after which. All of these happened ten years ago precisely and me Don forget about the whole thing sef. Though she's married now but she told me she still has the ring which God has asked me to retrieved and break it off.

Most of us are going through difficulties based on our own doing and also being victims of circumstances. God did not bring you into this world to struggle or suffer.

As for the op, all I can say is start praying if you haven't been doing so, what's bothering you is what's called a WANDERING Spirit, it prevents you from settling or establishing. You have to help yourself first and then seek help

SearchingForSol:
Good evening everyone. I don't know were to start from, what I'm passing through now is too long for me to write them all here. I don't know what is wrong with me, I have failed in practically everything I have lay my hands on. I failed academically, I try my hands on employment, I didn't last more than 2 months in any of the places I was employed. I tried my hands on handiwork. No money to start mine. Because I'm from a poor family. My parents are dead. I tried my hands on Yahoo Yahoo for good 3 years one single Kobo I didn't get from it. I have done all sorts of manure works to survive. Is this how I'm going to continue. I'm 30 years old. I haven't achieve one single thing in life I can be pride of. I once thought my problems were spiritual I went to several native doctors and prophets. They all took my money and yet nothing works. I'm tired of life and I don't know what else to do. How can I get out this?
Pleased i need the advice of everyone
@Admin please pardon me if this were posted in the wrong thread

You have been going to the wrong places but one thing I can assure you is that it's not ordinary if what you say is true

I will try it when hell freezes over. Moreover, The pussies ain't mine, just my turn

Godoverevery:
My fiancée sleep alot.....I have tried talking to her severally about it but she doesn't want to change.
since she got here on Thursday....all she does is wake up around 8 clean the house,cook,watch CNN ,eat and sleep from like 10am till 5pm....watch TV.....cook... sleep around 8 again till next morning....to make matter worst she using sleeping pill.
As am typing she is sleeping ... sleeping since around 11 till now.
like is really pissing me off.....I tried to engage her in different things to make things lively but she not interested...all she wants to do is sleep.

Note: she not pregnant neither am a boring person.....I just want to no if is normal and please if anyone is experiencing something similar can you share how you dealing and coping with this.

This could be the only period she has to rest. Prior to this encounter, has she been doing the same in the past? Taking sleeping pills could be a sign of insomnia, perhaps she's finding it difficult to go to sleep

spyglaxx:
Oga calm down with your reverse prejudice.
So Bonfre Joe could speak good english then abi? What of the chinese that are carting billions away inform of contracts?.Go and read their manuals on Alibaba you will see lots of grammatical haemorrage.

You will still deny a child's future cause of a 'p' in english and 'c' in maths, phy, chem, and bio.

With all your big grammar you still import young technical students from china to help mine quartz deposits in Calabar mountains.


And what is radiation in your mother tongue?

Will you keep quiet! This isn't about me, alibaba or the Chinese, stop defending the indefensible. She should simply have noted the correction and thanked him no matter how she might have felt about it, that's the hallmark of a scholar and an intelligent person. Learn to stop defending what's wrong, no one knows it all and people should be open to learn and be corrected. In fact her response was more appalling than the initial hostage situation, the truth is that the English Language is the official and most recognised means of communication in schools and on the street, how can a masters student come up with the excuse that she's in the sciences and that's why she's unable to speak or write in the proper grammar as though she is being taught in yoruba and you moronically put yourself forward as an advocate for stupid excuses, better wise up

Honeydenz:
Lol, I won't answer you Mr punctuation error judge. I hope you know there's what we call 'typing error'? Additionally, am a science student and not an English graduate. However, 100 of your miserable species combined can't stand me in spoken English. Idiot!

What do you mean by English graduate? Does that phrase make sense to you. You could have simply kept quiet and left us with some degree of doubt as to his claims but you had to just prove him right. It's a pity 300+ morons went on to assert such failure. People who are not open to corrections, egoistic and excuse driven are UNTEACHEABLE.

GeoAfrikana:
We can't survive a month of lockdown. Less than 48hrs and people are already complaining and sneaking to open their shops.

The reason isn't because we lack resources to lockdown for a month or more but because we lack compassion, selflessness and empathy.

I'm sure if I offer a giveaway of 2k here, some people with 10k in their account will still ask. Many wealthy people aren't encouraged to do charity because they're almost certain that it will end up in the hands of some unneedy but greedy and discontented people.

When God has blessed you, please bless yourself and stop hustling peanuts with poor people. Please learn to be contented.

Let the little drops of charity get to the real peasants.

I need money to fill gas o, that 2k will go a long way. 4331042301 Ecobank. Thanks in anticipation

Okowa is wicked! The two weeks he's asked us to stay indoors, there's no palliative or even one medical center with a working ventilator in the state

topsquino:
I've been on this platform since 2007. Thank you Seun for Nairaland.

I feel this is the right time to give back to the community.

I'm doing a 1 MILLION NAIRA giveaway today by 6pm

Please check my post today 6pm so that you won't miss out.

You can also check my profile to confirm my credibility.

I clean like slate and gentle like dove.

Everywhere dry, I need just 10k for that 1 million. Make I send you account number

OakConsultNG:
They seem to have lost relevance.. wrong move. Wrong timing..

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How much to register a church?

They just saved themselves by claiming to be a lesser evil, because na death sentence if dem agree to be kidnappers. For cultism at most 3 years sentence

Remijuice:
Please Forgive my Grammar.

A man and a woman living together as husband and wife with kid(s) but are not legally Married. That is, no Traditional or Court Wedding.

If one of them decides not interested in the Union, should he/she go to court before they are Separated?

Modified: If there is no Divorce Proceedings, what happens to the kids?

There's no marriage to start with. Them just dey do bf and gf

Let us simply revert to a regional system of government