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Seun:
If bad things never happened to Christians, the whole world would have noticed it and converted to Christianity. That would have been boring, so God decided to spice things up by allowing Christians to experience misfortunes randomly, just like non-Christians.

Good sarcasm there. You should however know, that not everything that appears bad is truly bad. if you were raw gold, and a goldsmith subjects you to intense heat for long, it may appear to some, and even yourself, that he is putting you through the worst experience ever, whereas in the real sense of things, he is actually refining you for utter brilliance.

As a Christian, God never allows bad things happen to you. Apart from salvation that Jesus came for, he also came to guarantee all other forms of well-being for us as Christians. So every and all things WORK TOGETHER FOR OUR GOOD AS CHRISTIANS.

Hope your day went great.

TONY56:
I beg to differ with the interviewee.
I heard him say that "if you bid for TB at 14% and the stop rate is 17%, you will eventually get 17% also.

That is not true. If you are successful, you will get the rate you bidded for. If what he said is true, then why does some banks like Stanbic and First buy at better rates than others?

To me, the man has confused issues about it entirely. CBN may announce the average bid rate of all the investors but does not sell at average bid rate. You can't ask to buy TB at 10% for example and get it at 9 or 11%.

What he told his viewers on that programme to me is absolutely not correct. I humbly stand to be corrected.

You're right sir. I guess Ugo got that mixed up with the workings of a bond auction. He carries info about several investment vehicles on his fine head though, so I'll cut him a slack if he mixes things up sometimes.

AnonyNymous:
This is very easy to type and harder to do but if you think you can so be it Its also very interesting how you think that your god will do something miraculous to save you when millions of honest Christians die in the hands of evil people all over the world in cases where a slight touch from the master of the universe could've saved them. (maybe because you're a better Christian than all of them and they all weren't sincere, or because it was their appointed time to die- and somehow, you're so sure that its not your daughters' time to die).

You may want to reread my post. it's modified. our faith is largely based on the experience we've had. what I wrote, I am so very fully convinced and certain of- More certain than I am of the fact that water contains oxygen.

AnonyNymous:
The year is 1943. . .you live in Nazi Germany, and Hitler has demanded that all female children be slaughtered. You/your wife have three kids (all girls) including a baby girl you just had. However, you didn't get the memo on time, so you couldn't escape. So you hide your kids in the basement. Some war-weary Nazi soldiers storm your house. . .but they're visibly too tired to search around. So they ask, "Do you have any female children? Tell us where they are and let's get this over with. Yes or No??"

Bear in mind that if you convincingly tell them no, they'll leave you alone, and you can plot/plan your escape.

(You're not allowed to lie by omission or twist the question/your answer. Just a straightforward yes or no)

That's quite easy, I'll tell them Yes, and my daughters will surely live. Fear is overrated.
By the way, what's more likely is that I would have God's sure covering over me, which would imply either of these three things:
1. He will instruct me beforehand to leave that environment with my daughters as He told Joseph to do with Jesus;
2. Should those people come to my neighbourhood while I am still there with my family, there will be a disruption that prevents them from reaching my own home. Could be anything from them just not noticing my house, to them getting an emergency call to return to base, to a natural mild storm. People have testimonies of being in buses or houses which robbers raid, but they and their stuffs get spared. I've heard it quite well.
3. Finally, should we get to the part where they ask the question, I'll answer yes, and I bet the devil's life that my lovely kids will surely live. God will either just touch the hearts of those soldiers-which He has access to, or they will be confused as per their choice of method to use in killing those beautiful girls, such that they choose an option which those girls will survive, or in the extreme and rare case of things we'll witness a manifestation of God's move which will get those men into anything from blindless to paralysis to mental derailment such as it was with Lot in Gen 19, and Elisha in 2Kings 6.
In any case, what I am utterly certain about is the fact that I'll answer Yes, and my girls will live.
I basically live a life wherein it seems in many cases that speaking the truth will cost me so much, but in each of those cases, I choose to speak the truth, and it pays off way more than telling a lie would have.
I remember one job interview I had with a multinational. It was for two days. first day I was the last to get there and I was about 40mins late that was an assessment day, and I didn't quite do so well. I stammered when I had to talk, I didn't have a pen when we had to write a report, and other silly stuffs like that. The next day was for interview with very senior managers-Executive directors, I yet got there about 30-40 mins late, and I was as well the last to arrive. The interview was already underway. Eventually when my turn came to get interviewed, one of the directors, a Dutch, asked- after some earlier questions- how long I had been waiting. I told Him in the presence of the other Nigerian managers that I arrived at 9:15am. Interview started at about 8:30am. In the end, one could tell that I had what would be judged the best performance among all 14 of us. The Dutch was so impressed that he asked that I'd be taken to the head of the department where he thought I'd fit, for another interview. There too a manager was so impressed at the things he heard from my really young self that he asked "where's all this coming from?"
Eventually I got called about the success, and even though I could have assumed speaking the truth would cost me the wonderful opportunity of the job, I spoke the truth, and things turned out awesome.

Seun:
My definition of sin is "something that is not allowed in a particular religion". Drinking alcohol in moderation is allowed in biblical Christianity.


I don't encourage or discourage sin. Some biblical sins, like murder and adultery and fraud, are wrong. Others, like telling lies to save someone's life, and safe sex in a monogamous relationship, are highly recommended. I try to encourage beneficial acts, and discourage harmful acts.

I wouldn't encourage anyone to take alcohol. I don't take it myself because soft drinks taste and smell better and are cheaper and less harmful.

As much as I know about the Christian faith, alcohol consumption is largely prohibited.
There usually isn't any justification for telling lies. Give me a situation where you have to tell a lie to save someone's life, and I'll give you a way out of the situation without the need for lies.

Monogamous or not, Sex before marriage should not be encouraged. And I put it to you, that wanting premarital sex, and being able to keep a monogamous relationship over the long term are for most peeps quite mutually exclusive basically cos whatever pressurizes you into not being able to wait till you get married to the particular lady, will likely pressurize you into wanting it so badly with someone else. Having an early marriage would be a better fix to this. If the funds for your dream wedding aren't yet available, you can just sign the papers, and hold the party much later.

Now, you should know that there's no Christian standard that you can find fault with really, basically cos they are all instituted by the author of the ideal pattern of the human existence.

Hope you're having a wonderful day. God bless you.

Seun:
Nonsense. Moderate drinking is not a sin; Jesus drank wine. If you re addicted to alcohol (you can't do without it) then it's a medical condition.

Since it's a work free day, and you won't go to Church, I would expect that your posts today be not just few.
Now, you may not be right in thinking that the word "Wine" was used to refer to an alcoholic beverage in every context of its use in the Scriptures. It may mostly have referred to non-alcoholic beverages which due to translations issues may not have had a different word for their reference.
You are not meant to just read and follow the letter in the scriptures. You're supposed to get the spirit, life are power that are therein. Only then will its use add meaning and benefit to your life.

Now, on your statement "Moderate drinking is not a sin; Jesus drank wine." Why would you believe in sin or no sin, since it's all a "fantasy"? And why will you give anything Jesus did or didn't do a place for setting standards since to you, the very idea of Him represents utter deception?
Perhaps you're just trying so hard to see who gets to join you in becoming an atheist, and if it's being so hard to achieve that in a person, you're planning to settle for the other option of encouraging them to live in sin.
Now, I should add this, just in case your mind might be open to learning about the Christian faith. The standards are simple, yet so awesome that eating rice could be sinful, whereas there are instances-albeit very few- when consuming alcohol may be alright.

haibe:
Thanks i will reach them. Do they work weekends.

Not sure. But you should dial the line to see if you get a response. I however remember there were instances when I spoke with them at times later than 7pm. So I suppose their support centre could be the 24/7 type.

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RealityShot:
baba done come! Hurray!

Many thanks boss for the warm gesture. God bless.

haibe:
Thats SIAML number right? I still spoke with them today, they claimed they didnt get the fund. GtB claims the fund left my account. Later on they said the problem might be with interswitch. Now i have no other number to call, i definitely do not have any business with interswitch.

Dear sir, You may definitely have a business with Inter switch if you carried out the transaction through the Quicktellar platform, which is likely.
In January 2017, I also transferred a somewhat huge sum on an ATM from my Stanbic to my Zenith account. The response from the machine after the transaction was something like "...issuer or switch inoperative" or so. The former account was debited, but the latter wasn't credited. Long story short, it was by contacting Interswitch that I got to find that the fund was successfully transferred to Zenith, but their own network issue at the time caused the hang. They also followed up with the transaction by sending E-mails and reminder E-mails to Zenith, copying me each time. Eventually after about 84 hours after my very first complaint to Stanbic, the zenith guys credited my account.
Reach Interswitch on +234 700 906 5000. You can also use Google to get their other contacts and E-mail address.

Seun:
Okay, I guess I am not 100% sure.


Not true, but go on...


What are some of those issues that you feel you can pray to God about without any doubt?


Let’s pick one example. Millions of Christians have prayed for the total eradication of Boko Haram and ISIS. Why has this prayer failed?

From my experience of walking with God, I've come to learn that sometimes you pray for some specific things, and it appears God didn't answer, but if you don't waver in faith and you wait patiently, you get to find that God works to meet the very purpose for which you've asked Him for that thing. For instance, after college, I asked God for a good job, but it never came. Instead, God helped me build a great business which I really love. It gives me the financial comfort which I wanted in a job, plus the added benefit of flexibility and time luxury that I may not have gotten from the job.
Prayers about Boko Haram? There are a number of things:
1. First, you can't be sure that things would not have gotten much worse without people's prayers.
2. If as a Christian living in that region, you've prayed in faith for things to change and they refuse to, Just know then that there is more to the situation than you know and be sure that God will either instruct you to leave as He told Lot, or He will guarantee maximum security for you and your family even if thousands fall by your side.
3. God didn't say the world we live in will be totally blissful always. As a matter of fact, there are prophecies that speak of tribulations at the end time, so it may not be productive to be too specific while praying some prayers. So for BOKO HARAM, pray about it, and like I do, leave God to decide the time and specifics of how it winds up.

While I was a corp member in a local community in Bayelsa, moving round the community, one would see marks on buildings which indicated how high around those buildings the flood rose in the previous year. Then in that current year, there were meteorological forecasts which most people-including the government- held on to that the flood would be worse. I knew I couldn't leave the town, cos I planned to not travel throughout the service year. So I just declared in the presence of some of the community guys, while they talked about the flood. I declared that for as long as I was in that town there would never be a flood. They thought I was just... But when the time came for the flood to arrive, the river around the community actually went further down when it should have risen way up, and that created a positive impression on one of those guys.

Things I can pray about without any doubt? one would certainly be life assurance for me and my family. I mean I'm more than certain nobody can just die anyhow. Health, Prosperity, eternal life, academic success, etc are some others.

So Seun, like I said, your faith will be reinforced by the experience you have walking with God. By the way, if something has been true in 9 out of 9 times, what is the probability of it being true once more?

Seun:
Religious faith is a choice. You choose to believe something in spite of the lack of evidence. You immerse yourself in experiences that would strengthen your faith e.g Going to church, reading only religious books, listening to only religious songs, making friends with only Christians. You avoid situations that might weaken your faith such as talking to atheists, studying evolution and the Big Bang theory, reading articles that criticize ‘men of God’, etc.

And since I've been following up your atheistic posts, how much weakening would you say it has brought to my faith? I tell you it's been no more than what the impact of a raw egg would be on a building column cast with 20mm rods.

Big Bang, the very imagination of the slimmest chance of a possibility of that is to me the height of foolishness and human degradation. What is the evidence that there was a bang, where are your clips of when the bang happened, or why can't life be produced in the labs purely from another bang? if you think two elements in their random combination started it all, why can't you bring those two elements together again to create even the simplest life form. I think a man's mind would either need to be clouded by the devil, or lose a huge portion of its sanity, before it can even consider, let alone believe such silly opinion.

And as for your quest for evidence of God's existence, one way to start making a headway is to revisit your fundamental ideologies on whom you think God is. He is a spirit being, and so, you cannot see Him by your physical means-satellite telescopes and all. Should He even decide to appear in physical form, you literally cannot behold His appearance and survive. You don't have to believe that now, while on earth, but you will surely more than believe it when you leave.

Now an ignoramus who thinks he knows all about waves can start saying something like when waves are produced in a plucked string we see it, and for ripples on water, we see them, but since we cannot see radio waves, then they surely don't exist. He may makes sense to fools like himself, but that's not to say he is right. The evidence of the existence of radio waves-which are not visible to the human eye- is in the works they perform on our transistor radio sets, TVs, mobile phones and all.
So it is with God, if you pay close sensible attention to the happenings around you, it won't be difficult to see the outstanding and undeniable works of God-in people's lives and in our environment- which prove his existence well beyond every reasonable doubt.

Seun:
This is a great excuse for unanswered prayers, since there is no way to prove that someone whose prayer was not answered had faith. And frankly, nobody is totally free of doubt, so when your prayers fail, that microscopic sanity-induced speck of doubt that inevitably exists in your mind takes the blame.

How can you be sure nobody can be totally free of doubt? Don't say if you don't know. Your faith in an entity is reinforced by the experience you have with them. When I approach my bankers to make a withdrawal, I believe without any ounce of doubt, that I'll get the funds, because my past experience with them implies that I do. Mathematically, if something has been true in 9 out of 9 times, the probability that it'll be true once more is 100%. I have experienced God's faithfulness in ways that can only mean that I trust Him more, so there are issues I can pray to Him about, without any ounce of doubt.
And your faith doesn't need to be completely doubt-free before it becomes effective, all it has to be is as much as the size of a mustard seed. God knows the nature he put in you, so he didn't say you'd need a mountain-size faith to move a mustard seed, rather, with a mustard-seed-size faith, he has assured that you could move a mountain.

If any man's prayer 'fails', it's often due to ignorance, which peeps like yourself possess but hardly recognize or admit.

Seun:
How can the enjoyment of a place that none of the people who told you about it had ever actually experienced be described as real?

All the biblical writers believed that heaven was in the sky. That’s why Jesus is said to have ascended into heaven instead of just teleporting. Space exploration has shown that this is wrong. Why should we trust the other things that these people wrote about heaven?

Who says Jesus had to reach space by the same means defined by your so called space explorers? By walking on water, did he not suspend the law of floatation? By the way? if heaven couldn't be up there, why do rockets launch upwards? you should try not forming know it all in matters about which you yet should learn.

Seun:
Your heart needs to chill out and enjoy real life to the fullest while you still can!

And in what ways exactly does one's expectation of Christ's coming prevent him from fully enjoying real life? Come off your prejudice about the Christian faith bro. I put it to you that you CAN NEVER live fully,meaningfully, or satisfactorily without living by faith. That's why in your world, happiness remains a perpetual pursuit, whereas for us who are wise enough, The Joy of the LORD is our perpetual strength.

Seun:
If the idea that we exist without having been created by a person implies that our existence is by accident, then the idea that God exists without having been created by a person implies that God’s existence is by accident too

The fact that Someone created something doesn't imply He Himself was created. If it did, then why would you still doubt that man who creates several things from phones to airplanes to robots and super computer has a Creator.

God is the creator of mankind. it's His creative nature that men manifest when they build and develop stuffs. However, He Himself has no creator. If you could imagine someone who would be His creator, that person will yet be Him-God. He and He alone is the very very very very beginning of all things and he himself has no beginning. It may be difficult for you to fathom how Someone could possibly exist without a beginning, but when you leave this earthly realm, you will understand better. You know, there are things in the civilized world for instance, that would be difficult for a human who lives in one of the most primitive african villages to imagine, because the realm he lives in does largely limit his imaginations.

Seun:
If we are too complex to exist by accident, then surely God is also too complex to exist by accident.

Who says God's existence is by accident. He alone is the beginning of all things in all realms, and by Him and for Him were all things made. He created the universe by His will and might, and chose to place us humans on one of its planets, what He does with the others, I'll know soon-when I get to ask Him face to face.

Seun:
Why can’t Jesus just take a deep breath and speak loudly? This works for me when people can’t hear me.

Works for you. That's no reason everyone else should adopt the style.

Seun:
It’s been 2000 years bro. 50 generations of Christians including the first converts of the apostles thought Jesus would return within their lifetimes and were disappointed. It is presumptuous to believe that he will return in your lifetime. Jesus is as likely to return as any other dead person.

You are sacrificing the full enjoyment of the life you know for an afterlife that is described in a book collection that is internally inconsistent and riddled with scientific and logical errors, just because you happen to have been raised to believe in it. Please be advised that this is not wise. A bird in hand (real life) is worth more than a story about two thousand birds in the bush (eternal life).

Seun, what exactly do you think is depriving in living a Christian life. I have lived outside of it, I live it now, and it's a no brainer that my former life is actually vain and empty. Now to imagine the human existence without an afterlife is the worst tragedy possible. plus without an afterlife, the human life is not worth so much more than an ape's. The most superior quality of the human existence is that it's eternal. That's what really makes it worthwhile. Now what if in believing in an afterlife, I'm wrong, what's there to lose? but if on the other hand you're the one who's wrong in believing there's no afterlife, wouldn't your loss be unthinkable?
Let's even say there's some discomfort in living as a Christian as you wrongly believe, would it be any thing compared to an eternal discomfort. When you see how perfect the human body, and the environment he's been placed to live in are, it would only be tantamount to utter foolishness to think it could ever in any wild imagination be a coincidence. So brother, Accepting Jesus is a risk worth taking. if you end up being wrong, you've got nothing to lose, not to mention the numerous blessings you'll enjoy if you choose Him. by the way the life you're even trying to enjoy maximally, who guarantees for you that it'll be for as long as you'd want it. if you're not covered, it could just be only a few more years/months longer, what then becomes your gain? plus common sense already limits how much of this enjoyment you can really have. If you choose to disobey the instruction to not indulge in sexual immorality, as a sane person, you still can't have sex with everyone with whom you feel like it. And to not tell lies is something everyone who is mature and mindful of their integrity considers a necessity. Tithe? if you're pained by it, it will be like me complaining so bitterly about why you spend part of your money on drinks because I feel you're just enriching the guys at Guinness, because they've gotten you for you gullibility. I hope you come down from your elevated mindset, and try to learn about the Christian faith with a humble and an open mind. God bless you.

I was at FBN today. These were the rates on offer:

short
14 days @ 12.5%

49 days @ 10.5%

84 days @ 10%

98 days @ 12%


longer
238 days @ 13%

245 days @ 14%

294 days @ 14.2%

6 days to the next auction, I am optimistic.

Seun:
You should pray long enough to say each prayer just once. If God exists, he has a very good memory, so you don’t need to repeat yourself.

Good afternoon Seun, you know if you were to teach on prayer, that's exactly what God would have you say-except for the "if God exists" part. God bless you dear brother.

Seun:
Happy Boxing Day to you too!

God bless you Seun, in this new year, His blessings will abound to you, and He will grant every desire of your heart including those that may not yet be well defined to you. I love you, God does more.

harlee:
aint good with bonds,stock or mmf.am familiar with tbills

MMF is similar to T-bills, It's perhaps even simpler. Read up here:
https://www.nairaland.com/1912965/mutual-funds/50
Being able to get bonds with less than 50m is the issue. otherwise, it's as easy as instructing your dealer.
Try stocks only when you have become versed enough about its workings. If you must do stocks, however with limited knowledge, then buy a good equities mutual fund, or maybe an exchange traded fund- whichever has good enough performance.

zamirikpo:
Oh. Thanks my oga. I trade the us equities already I just wanted ur insight /analysis on possible plays for 2018.

Then I should be the one learning from you. A scan through results for double digit EPS growth, or maybe a balance of Buffet's picks with yours.

zamirikpo:
Awesome
U r really awesome with ur analysis. First, merry Christmas and a prosperous New year.

Then have u any info. On trading the United States equities.
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Not anything out of the ordinary, but in my opinion, the returns on NYSE can be quite modest compared to the NSE when it's having its bulls but having assets in the world's most significant currency sparkles.

perhaps you can google search this book. "how to make money in stocks-A winning strategy in good times or bad" by William J O'Neill. McGraw-Hill.
He covered everything from finding the right broker to picking winning stocks that could forever change one's fortunes.

harlee:
first of all,merry Xmas and God bless.being realistic about option one, what investment do you advice on a capital of 1m and what if the capital is up to 5m

Except you're exceptionally good with the stock market, 1m should be split between MMF and T-bills. 5m would allow more rooms for bonds and stocks. That's my take.

New year's resolutions are typical for this period. As investors, for us, the typical would be new financial goals as well as new strategies of achieving them.
So, I'd like to drop some tips, please pick whatever makes sense to you, it'd be alright to ignore whichever.

1. If you've set a goal of financial independence, set a figure to it. $1mn, #100mn, whatever does it for you. Then know what percentage you're starting the year at, and which you wanna end it at. With 100mn, and a great investment plan, you can have a passive monthly income of about 1.2mn, and with $1mn, it'd be up to 4.2mn monthly.

2. Any investment portfolio in excess of 5m could use some diversification. But place a cap on your exposure to volatile assets. 20% in a bull market is fine for the average person. 80% may however be pretty safe and healthy if you're that kind of person. If the bears are here to stay, 0% may be necessary. Cash is king, capital preservation is Bliss. If yours is a smaller portfolio, and you're not a full time investor, you may yet stick to the money market. 20% of such portfolio may not be much anyways.

3. Watch out for bulls that may be nearing their end. A coin moved from about $1000 to $16000 in 2017, That's a 1500% increase. Could it move from 16000 to 256000 in 2018? if 24,000 is more like it, you can determine the attractiveness, and if you're into a HYIP that's based on it, you'd expect lower returns or a much reduced chance of sustainability compared to 2017.
Same goes for stocks, some which had up to 150% YTD some days in 2017, may be so close to the ceiling already, that you can at best make a 20% off them in the coming year.

4. Based on an elderly man's words, I have come to notice that "2^10" has a significance. The man said if you could double whatever money you had repeatedly for 20 cycles, #1,000 would become #1bn, I checked, it was true. By the same token I realized one could turn #1 mn to #1 trn.

But the issue is, the first few cycles are often easy, but afterwards, getting that next double may take just so long. So I figured since "2^10" =1024, it will only take 10 cycles to turn #100,000 to #100mn, and #1mn to # 1 bn. With God's help 10 cycles could happen for someone in 2,5,0r 10 years.

The man also mentioned that around '09/10, he lost about 11mn to the stock market and another 5m to Forex. That's not to say there aren't several peeps who make fortunes from these vehicles. It's just to highlight the need for caution.

5. In investment, percentage is one really important term in which you'll have to put things into perspectives.


6. Bears present great entry opportunities for most investments, but a better entry time would be just at the start of the bulls or soon afterwards. James O'Neill said if you believe in the long term potential of a company(he didn't mean start ups), you don't have to tie your money down on them, you'd still be able to get in just when things start to blossom.

7. A successful investment strategy does not lack simplicity. what make the difference are the right balance, and the perfect timing.

Finally, it's not just in knowing these thing. There are things that'll always be beyond our control in life, and those we could normally control may a times get out of control. Now God can help us handle them all, but we'll have to ask Him, and ask Him right.

It's 9 days to the next auction. 364day discount won't fall below 14%. That'll keep yields above 16%



MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

ichuka:
Thanks bro
Seun is just fighting a lost battle.
I believe he's Called,and he likes it or not he will definitely acknowledge Christ.

That to me will be a source of eternal joy. Merry Christmas to you.

Seun:
It depends on the shortcoming. If you learned that Aliko tried to slaughter his own son with a knife and burn his body for a ritual, and slept with an underaged house girl and got her pregnant because he was desperate for a heir, and after his wife also had a son and got jealous, he sent the house girl and the son she bore him, his own blood, away to live as beggars and likely die of starvation or rape and murder on the streets, would you still see him as a role model?

Obviously not, but these things you've mentioned are only your own twist to the story. And you know it's not so hard to see that it's such a wrong twist, because given what we know of the human nature, except for mental instability, it is impossible to find any man that'll be willing to murder his own child, let alone an only child, an heir which you also mentioned that he so desperately wanted. Most folks wouldn't even do it even if their life at over 100 depended on it. So you see for this twist of yours to hold any water, you have to prove that Abraham either doesn't have a human nature, or he was mentally unstable, otherwise, it doesn't add up psychologically.

Under aged? Where did you get that from?

Seun, what if the reason you're so angry at God who so dearly loves you is because you have things about Faith that you don't understand at all or fully, or what if you're just confused because you had the scriptures wrongly interpreted to you by yourself or someone else. If you'd keep an open mind, I promise you, all that will end, because like it or not, God is real, and so is the experience people have of Him, which reinforces their faith. If it wasn't working, trust me, I would have left long ago.

Seun:
I’m very sorry to have to say the following on this thread:
“The Abraham character of Genesis lied that his wife was his sister and allowed other men to take her to their homes as their wife twice. He thought God wanted him to slaughter his son like a ram and roast his body as a human sacrifice to God, and was ready to do it. He had sex with his female slave and made her a baby mama, then he sent her away with their innocent son to die in the hot desert when his wife got jealous. You should think twice about promoting such a character as a role model.”

Why do you always form conclusions based on just half info you make reference to in the Bible. Is it not written in the same bible that Abraham said that Sarah was indeed his sister, and so he never lied about that.
About Isaac, to you, the crux of the story is Abraham's willingness to just murder his only son, but that's merely your opinion. Those who see the light in the scriptures know better. His willingness to sacrifice something that'd be the most costly to him, as well as his faith in the fact that God could later raise up Isaac are the things the scriptures portray with the story. if you want to choose another interpretation, suit yourself.
Abraham didn't "have sex" as you're trying to make it sound.
it was like trying to take the slave as a second wife, which the culture allowed at the time. He truly may not have handled the Hagar's situation perfectly but that's just cos being human, he never claimed to be perfect. He remains the greatest model of faith. If you find one shortcoming on Aliko's part, does that change the fact that he remains one of the greatest business minds Africa has ever had?