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chyke27:
Sometimes,I hear believers and unbelievers alike argue about the churches doing the will of God and those who have derailed. The truth is,only one church is right before God and that church in itself is neither denominational nor congregational. It is the church,within the church and its membership spans every tribe,tongue,people and land.
"For you have come to mount zion,the city of the living God,and thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly and to the church of the first born,whose names are written in heaven,to God,the judge of all and to the spirit of righteous men made perfect,and to Jesus Christ,the mediator of the new convenant and the sprinkled blood that speaks better things than the blood of Abel"-Heb 12:22-24.
From the scriptures,we can see that the church as known and recognised by God comprises of men and women on earth whose names are written in heaven. It also comprises of the elders who have gone to be with the Lord,now waiting for us to overcome and come into heaven. From the foregoing,it is obvious that whichever congregation you belong to or doctrine,you defend,the most important question you should ask yourself is "is my name written in heaven?" Are you sure your name is written in heaven? If it is then you are blessed indeed for that is true blessing. One falsehood
Preached by so-called men of God in churches today is the equation of material and financial acquisition to blessing and giving men impression that God is happy with them because of physical endowment. There are many going about playing church,bearing pastor,bearing anglican,redeemer,winner etc. But the truth is,your physical church is not what God recognizes, but the church within your church comprising people whose names are written in heaven. They may be two,ten or a hundred in number even if nominally,you have fifty thousand as membership. [size=15pt][s]The sad thing about the church is that there are many whose names have been removed from the records of heaven and on the broad road to hell and yet,they do not know it.[/s][/size] It is the tragedy of creation that today,the world,all the world is condemned before God,yet many that think they are part of the church stand condemned with the world because of sin."Don't you know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God, " Do not be decieved my friend,ask Jesus to open your eyes,the eye of your spirit to know the truth,if you gain this understanding by knowing the word of God for yourself and not because someone is telling you about Him,then are you blessed. You must know Jesus for yourself. For a man to be part of the church within the church,such must be born again and, hold it! being born again is just the beginning not an end in itself,for without holiness,no eye shall see the Lord.
Peace!

I read thru your post until the striked write up for which i queried it. Are you sure that God can "REMOVE" a persons name and is it scriptural? pls kindly show such a scripture. thanks

Toa!! me oh am still on the fence with the various revelation which least of them is
[size=15pt]GEJ+BODe george(ex-con) vs Buhari+Hammel(ex-con)[/size]

thanks for this revelations

@all
am one that is among [size=15pt]the undecided[/size] on who to vote but i must say i appreciate the discussion so far at least am learning from people's views.

thanks

[s]Jesus 'healed using cannabis'


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jan/06/science.religion

Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles

The Guardian, UK

Monday 6 January 2003 10.19 GMT

Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study of scriptural texts published this month. The study suggests that Jesus and his disciples used the drug to carry out miraculous healings. The anointing oil used by Jesus and his disciples contained an ingredient called kaneh-bosem which has since been identified as cannabis extract, according to an article by Chris Bennett in the drugs magazine, High Times, entitled Was Jesus a Stoner? The incense used by Jesus in ceremonies also contained a cannabis extract, suggests Mr Bennett, who quotes scholars to back his claims.

"There can be little doubt about a role for cannabis in Judaic religion," Carl Ruck, professor of classical mythology at Boston University said.

Referring to the existence of cannabis in anointing oils used in ceremonies, he added: "Obviously the easy availability and long-established tradition of cannabis in early Judaism _ would inevitably have included it in the [Christian] mixtures."

Mr Bennett suggests those anointed with the oils used by Jesus were "literally drenched in this potent mixture _ Although most modern people choose to smoke or eat pot, when its active ingredients are transferred into an oil-based carrier, it can also be absorbed through the skin".
Quoting the New Testament, Mr Bennett argues that Jesus anointed his disciples with the oil and encouraged them to do the same with other followers. This could have been responsible for healing eye and skin diseases referred to in the Gospels.

"If cannabis was one of the main ingredients of the ancient anointing oil _ and receiving this oil is what made Jesus the Christ and his followers Christians, then persecuting those who use cannabis could be considered anti-Christ," Mr Bennett concludes.
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Msheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwww

well SALT was one film i was intrigued and full of suspense and betrayal.

i appreciate it.

@kcjazz
[size=15pt]To answer your question, what is the difference between education,schooling and learning?[/size]

Truely u touched something but u did not explain the difference between the 3.

Education is acquiring [b]just [/b]knowledge
schooling is [b]going thru [/b]school
learning is knowing + [b]able [/b]to apply

hope it makes sense!!!

hmmmm!!!

quite an interesting piece of advice dashed out by those that have tasted nigerian system and gone abroad. i must say thanks to all asundry.
my questions are

Currently ETF are about to sponsor a few of my colleagues to do thier masters (1 year), will 3 million naira be really convenient for this folks or must they combine with work?

i have not seen any thread yet that is dedicated to OPEN university (NOUN) where the merits/demerits of attending such cos i intend to pursue my pgd in the NOUN.
question
If u have or currently are studying in NOUN PGD, how efficient is the programme?

thanks to all

[quote author=Rhino.5dm link=topic=621550.msg7896444#msg7896444 date=1299933702]At least they should have anticipated such since they are 100% sure that all events must have a scientific backup.

I can only imagine large gruops of atheist screaming God Richard Dawkins come and help us after seeing the hit! lol[/quote]

rasputinn:
Dawkins that has not been able to help himself.
Sincerely,of all men on earth,Dawkins is the one I pity the most;he is a fool(scripture says only a fool says in his heart that there's no God),plus he is so incapacitated you wonder why he makes so much noise about there not being any God.

Well,this incident goes to show that despite what man may think of himself,he is still no match for the smallest manifestation of God's power,man is simply clueless

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! deep talk!!!

it is impossible to take over the land of the Dea.d men!
but they have been awaken, unfortunate for those
that arouse them;
they come with the fu.ry of the dea.d souls seeking
for warm bl.ood and surely they are having it.
d.ead men for live,

@poster

reading thru ur post has made me to sobberly consider the intricacy of A WOMAN's mind.
it has a lot of combination, intrigues etc and i am wondering if i am reLLY PREPared ready
for the lady i hope to marry. just today i came across a teaching my Miles Monroe on the
benefit of being single and i hope to create a link so that both single m/f will hear and
learn to appreciate em selves no that they are single etc

but in any case, my lil advice is God's grace is available even now, pls just let not your heart be troubled
and neither let it be afraid! pls try this since u have tried a lot of tips, kindly try this one.

CC your advice has been quite inspiring. thanks

Thanks but what YOU think i may be smoking is irelevant becos it is such unbelief that has made the wright brothers fly when it was tot impossible. but impossible is a word (tot spoken) by those who belief in what they can see ONLY.
MARK THIS DAY!!!

Travelling has from the ancient times been the regular from using the humans (slaves),
animals and in today's period is era, we have cars, aeroplane etc. But i was musing and
i am of the opinon that the regular means of transportation with its attendant limitation,
cant be the only means of mobility.
some might say this is queer or watching too much movies (eg X-men etc) has made me to believe
in the possiblity of transportation witout the use of regular means. currently, i am trained in that
means of transport and sooner than later, anywhere i wish to be to achieve my purpose, am there!
So wishing you (mortals) all a blessed new year!

Hi

Praise the Lord! i found the answer to my question and it is on this site http://www.codrington.biz/papers/miracles.htm take your time to read it and you will be blessed.

I now know that the reason we dont see genuine miracles etc but counterfeit ones is because Jesus Christ and His message has not been glorified. well this is my conviction. but u can go and read more of the reasons.

stay blessed.

hem

rip bawomolo

i am curious, a post by tudor says he was shot 6 times in january and then in nov 2010 he was declared killed

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-374355.0.html#msg5228117

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-560180.0.html#msg7249813


pls someone clarify this for me, was he shot 6times and did not die then in november 2010 he was shot THEN he died?

any way rip

Ps Aio

thanks for doing some english analysis of IF.

May the Lord open your eyes to see through it.

thanks ps AIO, it nice for u to reply

Pastor AIO:
That is a very interesting and novel definition of christian that you have there.  Well I don't know whether there are many kinds of followers of christ, some following according to one thing and others following according to another thing, but what I do know is what Christ is recorded as saying.  You are either going to accept christ's teaching or you are going to reject them.  Your choice is yours.  This is what christ has to say about that, in the same passages.

Who are the people that call him Lord lord?  Who are the people that are seeking to enter into the kingdom? 

Answer: 1) There are many who call him lord lord, and as you have rightly pointed out they can be sorted according to orishirishi.  2) The people he was talking to were people he was instructing on how to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, whether you want to call them christians according to your definition or not is your business.

But the entire sermon ends with a wonderful conclusion.  Please read carefully:
If you like, theorize and gymnasticize your theology till you're blue in the face but this is the solid foundation without which all your complicated 'new covenant/old covenant' yemeyeme is nothing but foolishness.  Reject this and you are the Foolish man, and great will be your fall!!

from ur simple post, u have agreed that there is a posssibility of DOING all the SAYINGS of Christ LITERALLY? well permit me to take some few of His sayings and kindly point out if u are on the SOLID ROCK by practicing it.

matt 5:
29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. {offend, : or, do cause thee to offend}
30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

i have not yet seen any CHRISTIAN who has literarily done the above yet and to u, pls can u be honest to say that ur eyes/hand ever offended u and if yes, why is it still on your shoulders? and remember what he stated in those verse are LITERAL except u want to say it is figurative.

well lets say (assumption) from your post that it was christians He (Blessed forever) was speaking to. to that i will say its a no no becos He has not shade His precious blood yet. therefore it wouldnt be christians He was speaking to in mat 5,6,7.

Pastor AIO:
That depends on what you mean by christian. [b]Jesus was talking to people who came to him for instruction seeking the Kingdom of Heaven. [/b]Does that make them christians?

[b]You seem to be making a distinction between christians and Jews. [/b]Did Jesus or any of his disciples set out to create a new religion called christianity, did they convert people to christianity or did they convert people to Judaism? Till the end of the first century christians considered themselves to be Jews, they went to synagogue and celebrated the Jewish festivals with the other Jews. It was until the end of the first century that christians were kicked out of the synagogues.

thanks aio
but the question is WERE THEY CHRISTIANS OR NOT, or put it the other way, WERE [b]THEY [/b]FOLLOWS OF CHRIST ACCORDING TO THE NEW COVENANT?
simply answering will help. thanks once again!

sarmy:
Yes

thanks for replying. lets rephrase it, was Christ speaking to christians?
thanks

Flee fornication!
but how do you interprete this in your mind "as law or as grace"?

sarmy:
Why is Christianity imposible?

Can you list some of the things that make christianity impossible, we can go from there. I personally think it's possible.

Thks

Thanks. First of all do you believe that mat 5,6,7 was directed at christians to keep?
the answer will help.

sarmy:
You are right, but we really need the true message of Christ more than ever before.

May be we need new awakening, kind of a new movement

NEW awakening/movement? personally i will never wish for that. . . every awakening/movement always end up COLD after the mover does it.

Pastor AIO:
I would recommend a thorough reading and application of Christ's sermon on the Mount. These are Jesus own teachings on how to live and practice religion in an everyday way. It is not about ideology, or dogma, or some intellectual construct that some clever demagogue has fashioned to tickle the minds of equally intellectual followers. It is about living and how to live as citizens and subjects of the Kingdom of Heaven.

You can find it in Matthew chapters 5, 6 and 7.

hi pastor,

reading the context of the above chapters, was Christ speaking to christians? that will help u understand why it is difficult to preach talk less of doing them.

thehomer:
Is that all? I really don't think one can realistically follow Christ's words or actions.
I think anyone who does or tries to may just find themselves in a hospital or jail.

Hi all
well said, do we really think that it is possible based on the various analysis of what it means to be "PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY"?

I AGREE with homer that Christianity is not just difficult but IMPOSSIBLE at best.

now you may think this is never a christian. . . no am d righteousness of God! and i agree that its IMPOSSBLE. Period!!! Lets stop deceiving ourselves that it is possible.

though i am not out to defend anyone but to allow all of us see things at least from another side. i came across this interesting article from nature journal website

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7076/full/439520a.html

[b]Should journals police scientific fraud?

Emma Marris
Top of page
Abstract

Editors don't expect peer review to catch deliberate fakers. But recent scandals mean that journals are looking at other ways to detect fabricated papers. Emma Marris investigates.

The scientific community is sunk in one of its periodic bouts of angst over research fraud. After the Korean researcher Woo Suk Hwang's cloning work turned out to be spectacularly false, recent weeks have brought revelations that range from spurious Norwegians in a cancer study to doubts over RNA work in Japan (see page 514).

With high-profile cases putting the reputations of journals — and science as a whole — on the line, is there more that editors can or should do to prevent such embarrassments?

Whenever a published paper is exposed as a fake, editors are wont to repeat that peer review is not capable of catching fraudulent science. After a Norwegian study published in The Lancet was found to be based on imaginary patients (see Nature 439, 248–249; 2006), the journal's editor, Richard Horton, pointed out: "Short of me flying to Oslo and checking out every entry on the computer, there is really no way for me to detect the fraud."

And other groups seem to agree that the primary responsibility for determining whether a paper ought to be shelved in fiction or non-fiction should not rest with journals. This opinion is based partly on the patchy staffing and funding of most journals, which are volunteer-run society publications. "Journals don't have the resources or the expertise," says Mary Scheetz, director of extramural research at the Maryland-based Office of Research Integrity, which investigates ethical violations in work funded by the US National Institutes of Health.

In addition, journals have very little disciplinary power — the worst they can do is refuse to publish work, or publish a retraction. The responsibility for investigating allegations lies mainly with institutions and funding agencies that pay for the work, points out James Kroll, who examines misconduct at the US National Science Foundation.

But in the past few years, journal editors have been taking a more proactive approach to dealing with fraud, and exploring what they can do with the resources they have.

Examining every paper submitted for fabrication would be pretty much impossible. "It would be an astronomically expensive and difficult thing," says Drummond Rennie, deputy editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. "It would take months; we are talking hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions of dollars."

Stephen Evans, a statistician at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, occasionally analyses papers in which the raw data are suspect. Tricks include looking for 'digit preference', the tendency of humans to round towards 0s and 5s, or the amount of variance in the data. "It is very difficult to invent data that has the right variability," says Evans. But he agrees that the time and expense make checking every study "totally impractical".

Instead, journals are investigating the potential of automated computer searches on submitted data, which could be incorporated into the review process with minimal time and effort. One idea catching hold is the introduction of screens to catch unacceptable image manipulation (see 'Forensic software traces tweaks to images'). Editors are also exploring text-comparison software to help pick up plagiarism (see Nature 435, 258–259; 2005).
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ALAMY

Paper trail: statistical tests may detect fake data, but checking every submission is impractical.

"As information technology becomes more sophisticated, I think you are going to see more journals adding new tools to their screening processes," says Scheetz.

Another shift is that journal editors are now more likely to challenge papers that they think are suspicious, rather than quietly rejecting them. According to Harvey Marcovitch, head of the London-based Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the old way was to "find some excuse not to publish it". But the 200 or so journals that have signed up to COPE's code of conduct are now committed to going further. "Even if you wouldn't accept a paper if it was completely clean, you have an absolute duty to inquire," says Marcovitch. "If you are not satisfied with the authors' responses, you have an absolute duty to go to the institution and ask them to investigate it."

Testing every submission would be astronomically expensive.

Most would agree with that sentiment, but there are practical problems. In Britain, for example, editors are particularly loath to accuse anyone of fraud because the country's tough libel laws mean that they risk being taken to court. "Often what you do is ask for more and more clarification in the hope that something will turn up," says Marcovitch. A common step is to request the raw data, although this can be a headache for journals. "What do you do if you are suspicious about a paper, you ask to see the data and you get 25 cardboard boxes, 4 CDs and would have to hire a biostatistician for three months?" asks Marcovitch.

One simple step — which Scheetz says is taken surprisingly seldom — is to include misconduct policies in a journal's instructions to authors. "If something is suspicious, it puts the journal in a stronger position. Editors can request the raw data if it says they can in the instructions to authors," she explains.

Journals are also starting to request that researchers carry out their own checks before even submitting a paper. Nature now advises authors to include independent verification for certain cloning papers, for example. And the Journal of the American Medical Association requires that industry-funded trials go through independent data analysis.

Journals are increasingly developing policies together, through programmes such as COPE, or using common policies drafted by groups such as the World Association of Medical Editors, based in Chicago, Illinois. The US Council of Science Editors, in Reston, Virginia, is currently working on a report on publication ethics. And Nature, Science and Cell are thinking about working up policies between them, according to Linda Miller, US executive editor of Nature.

Ultimately, if a journal does uncover evidence of fraud, it has to rely on the researchers' institution or funding agency to investigate fully. But this depends on such bodies having the will and authority to do so. When the British Medical Journal tried to get someone to investigate the work of cardiologist Ram Singh of Haldberg Hospital and Research Institute in Moradabad, India, for example, no institution or scientific body could be persuaded to make a judgment on the case. Singh went on to publish similar work in The Lancet. In the end, both journals published expressions of concern, but did not feel able to retract the papers. And in an ongoing case involving RNA researcher Kazunari Taira, the University of Tokyo seems unlikely to get to the bottom of whether suspicious data were faked, because it does not have the authority to make a full inquiry.[/b]

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@ Maitama
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@ Asokoro
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woodland:
This is to let you know that l am into recycling and l buy a lot of pure water wastes and other types of dirty or clean nylon on a daily basis. Let me know what u have and l promise l can take all you have in stock.

Thanks
Woodland

hi woodland now you are talking so what is the minimum amount of nylon waste you would accept for purchase.

[quote author=Rhino.3dm link=topic=490399.msg6507169#msg6507169 date=1280886042]^^^ its a good move. Last time in check, thunder storm strike and destroyed the statue of "king of kings".     [/quote]becos the statue is man made not [b]the Person [/b]they assume to represent. do you wonder why there were no cameras to image Him. Moulding Him will make Him like mortal men that needs to have a picture/image of him remembered thereby breaking the 1st commandment. I wish that the statues of "jesus" be destroyed and all those assumed picture of him be burned by earthquake,thunder etc.

what a great misrepresentation.

[quote author=Rhino.3dm link=topic=490399.msg6507169#msg6507169 date=1280886042]^^^ its a good move. Last time in check, thunder storm strike and destroyed the statue of "king of kings". [/quote]becos the statue is man made not [b]the Person [/b]they assume to represent. do you wonder why there were no cameras to image Him. Moulding Him will make Him like mortal men that needs to have a picture/image of him remembered thereby breaking the 1st commandment. I wish that the statues of "jesus" be destroyed and all those assumed picture of him be burned by earthquake,thunder etc.

what a great misrepresentation.

Praise God this is the great falling away that was stated in Thessalonica by Paul before the manifest of the man of sin appears.

Glory to God! Lets not worry, sigh but praise Him for His awesome wisdom.