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Christianity Etc › Re: If Nothing Can Exist Without A Creator, So What Created God? by budaatum: 5:42pm On Dec 08, 2020

Martian:
He and the early church were very much influenced by Plato, hence the logos in the theory of forms became Jesus etc. But how do you know he doesn't talk literally? Is his recounting of the Road to Damascus story literal or figurative?

The Bible is not literal and neither are Gods. I know because I have bothered to study widely to become intelligent enough to reason with my own brain and mind, I guess, and I bet you can too. Go on, try it with the mountain and see if you can't.

I mean, just read what you wrote above, showing an understanding that Plato's forms are not literal, hence your ability to see Jesus was a form of the Logos. Figuratively speaking, one could say if one does not learn to read and understand Logoi, one would fail, which in religiospeak could be "without Jesus one would go to hell", after all, its quite easy to see that overall, the uneducated suffer much more than those who have learnt to use their brains.

As for the Road to Damascus, even if he meant it literally, one can understand it figuratively, can't one?

Martian:
If that's your interpretation, what does it mean to behave as if God didn't exist and how do one behave like God exists?

No, Martian, it is not my interpretation, but my understanding.

The Bible, you see, is a very big book which one must take as a whole in order to understand it.

1 Corinthians 13, for instance, can be described as the Gospel of the Fruits of the Spirit, and is produced by those who have an understanding of that which is good.

It's like if I slap you and steal your money and rape your husband you will likely say I'm evil, but if I feed you when you are hungry, clothe you when you are naked, give you a job when you are unemployed and respect your wife and family and you, you are more likely to regard me highly and treat me respectfully unless you are insane, of course.

Those who endeavour to understand the difference between good and evil will see the fruits one produces to determine if God exists for the person or not.

By the way, you might be interested in my Fruits of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Investment › Re: 27-year-old Fresh Babcock Graduate Builds Multi-million Naiira Water Factory by budaatum: 5:05pm On Dec 08, 2020

Koulture:
Nice one.

~~Why are you ?~~

Since you changed it lol.

Crime › Re: Nigerian Embassy In Germany Fires Official Caught Demanding Sex For Passport Ren by budaatum: 5:00pm On Dec 08, 2020

Crime › Re: Youth Leader Mercilessly Flogged In Public For Raping A Young Girl In Delta(Pix) by budaatum: 4:59pm On Dec 08, 2020

WorkTheTalk:
Say no to rape

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 4:51pm On Dec 08, 2020

LordReed:
Bwahahahahaha! Probably thinks its molue standing. LMFAO!

Ono read the headlines but failed to go behind the paywall.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 4:45pm On Dec 08, 2020

PDPGuy:
Lol.
This case will be thrown out due to Texas’s lack of standing to bring the suit

Lol you, if you think ono knows what "standing" means.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/08/texas-sues-four-battleground-states-in-supreme-court-over-unlawful-election-results.html

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Christianity Etc › Re: Religious Intergrity Vs Parental Demands by budaatum: 4:43pm On Dec 08, 2020

If you had been "living a righteous life" as you claim, you would have been studying really hard for this exam and would not need to "engage in the act of cheating" to pass. So, my question to you is, were you "living a righteous life"?

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Car Talk › Re: Who Is Covered Under Third Party Motor Insurance Policy by budaatum: 4:40pm On Dec 08, 2020

Gaming › Re: Baba Ijebu by budaatum: 4:38pm On Dec 08, 2020

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Christianity Etc › Re: If Nothing Can Exist Without A Creator, So What Created God? by budaatum: 4:25pm On Dec 08, 2020

Do you not think it would be easier for you to get a response if you left out the needless words?

Martian:
"tongue of angels", what do you "understand" ~~,not "believe",~~ this to mean?

To speak wisely and intelligently.

Martian:
Gift of prophecy?

The ability to predict the future. I.e Dr Fauci stating, "if you do not keep distance, wear a mask etc, more will die of coronavirus", a prophecy some are discovering is true.

Martian:
Understands all mysteries?

As in, seek knowledge so as to understand, like a doctor who knows village people did not make ill the fool who drank polluted water.

Martian:
All knowledge? ****this guy is not lacking in self esteem"*****

You mean Paul was an arrogant fuq? I agree. He was very well learned and knew it. A more modest Paul would have said "know a lot", and not "all".

Martian:
Faith to remove mountains?!!!! Literally or figuratively?

Figuratively, of course, as in, overcome seemingly immovable objects. Like the Buhari regime overcoming the currently seemingly immovable boko haram.

Sports › Re: FORMULA ONE F1 Official SeasonThread - Revamped by budaatum: 4:11pm On Dec 08, 2020

FBS:
Sunday's race was also crazy. Russell was sooooooooo sooooo close. Mercedes messed up on that one but good they apologised to Russell.
Abeg what is going on with Bottas? Loss of confidence or just no motivation?

Mercedes seemed to have suffered from not having the Hamilton effect, which just goes to show how specially talented he is.

Bottas was the only lucky person in that race. If Russell had won it, Bottas would have had to go look for some other car to drive. I hear Volkswagen have a vacancy.

Christianity Etc › Re: Emancipate Yourself From The Slavery Of Ignorance! by budaatum(op): 4:07pm On Dec 08, 2020

Uyi168:
.
Ur wahala too much.
Lol

Yeah, I know.

Christianity Etc › Re: If Nothing Can Exist Without A Creator, So What Created God? by budaatum: 4:06pm On Dec 08, 2020

Martian:
Mr. Buda "who is not a believer but has read a book" Atum. May the bimbim of the Pixie be upon you.
A man from Tarsus wrote to some people in Corinth and claimed to speak with the "tongue of angels", what do you "understand" ,not "believe", this to mean?

Gift of prophecy?
Understands all mysteries?
All knowledge? ****this guy is not lacking in self esteem"*****
Faith to remove mountains?!!!! Literally or figuratively?

Paul usually does not talk literally, and is one of the more complex to understand being that he was highly classically educated as one can tell by his Plato quoting, amongst many others.

I understand him to mean that it's rather senseless and stupid and ignorant to claim or believe a God exists when one behaves as if that God didn't exist.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Joe Biden Transition Team Blocked From Pentagon by budaatum: 4:00pm On Dec 08, 2020

GreyLaw:
Please no need for conjectures or throwing insults obliquely. Wait till the inauguration day, 20th of January. In fact, no need to wait till then. 7th of January is good enough for me.

If Biden gets in as thy president even for a second please feel free to quote me and say all the irreverent things you wish to say. Some people know more than they let on. What I have said is enough. Just give it a little while.

I think an honourable person like you should quote me and accept how wrong you are since I would have most definitely moved on by then.

Foreign Affairs › Re: US Politics Today! by budaatum: 3:50pm On Dec 08, 2020

I know you'd still be ranting and raving come 2024 when Biden's time comes to an end. Thankfully, there'd be even fewer magas standing then.

DCatt:
Iddiot why not post the rest if it changes anything. That's how he also said they planned the biggest voters fraud in another video but you don't see anything wrong with it.

Biden said the secret plan in public and you had a crazy excuse for it. The swamp knows you the mouthbreathers are brainwashed and dumb so they do whatever they want.

Christianity Etc › Re: If Nothing Can Exist Without A Creator, So What Created God? by budaatum: 3:47pm On Dec 08, 2020

I find it a great pity that God exists in the mouths of some but God is crucified in their hearts.

If only they bothered to understand what they read instead of merely believing, their fruits might be as their words.

Foreign Affairs › Re: US Politics Today! by budaatum: 6:07am On Dec 08, 2020

DCatt:
OLAADEGBU where are you?

I think he might be trying to get over your loss.
It must be very painful.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: US Politics Today! by budaatum: 6:04am On Dec 08, 2020

[quote author=DCatt post=96842161]This is why you don't speak certain things in front of kids, Biden's mind is like that of a child now.

He said he will pretend to develop a disease as an excuse to resign.

I’m sorry, what @JoeBiden says that at his first major impasse with his Vice President, he will “develop an illness and resign.” pic.twitter.com/6fBcF3p6Ze
— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) December 4, 2020

you as usual failed to bother to understand what he was saying. Perhaps get the rest of his speech and be enlightened instead of being a lazy fuq.

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Christianity Etc › Re: If Nothing Can Exist Without A Creator, So What Created God? by budaatum: 5:56am On Dec 08, 2020

Martian:
Do you believe that the creator of the universe accompanied a particular ethnic group as they trekked through a wilderness, and that he fed them with food that fell from heaven?
Is heaven synonymous with the sky or is it different?

buda is not a believer. I have read a book about what you describe though.

Christianity Etc › The School That Chains Boys by budaatum(op): 1:07am On Dec 08, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhzbpuM9jYA

Christianity Etc › Re: If Nothing Can Exist Without A Creator, So What Created God? by budaatum: 1:03am On Dec 08, 2020

Dtruthspeaker:
I agree, but all the evils we have to overcome are in this world and not outside it.

And the knowledge and understanding for us to use to quash them all have also been supplied and put into this world.

"The knowledge and understanding for us to use to quash them all" may "have also been supplied and put into this world", but it is not like manna that just falls on one's head from heaven, which is why the Lord God Almighty put a brain in our heads and our loving parents invest a lot to ensure we acquire an education so that our God given brain is filled with knowledge and understanding.

Christianity Etc › Re: Emancipate Yourself From The Slavery Of Ignorance! by budaatum(op): 12:58am On Dec 08, 2020

Dtruthspeaker:
I was not insulting you, I was only pointing out the Difference in your own thinking vis-a-vis What The Lord Did!

If you say so, though I must wonder what Lord you speak of that makes you claim one is evil, rebellious and foolish like a phone.

Christianity Etc › Re: Emancipate Yourself From The Slavery Of Ignorance! by budaatum(op): 12:41am On Dec 08, 2020

Dtruthspeaker:
The Answer here is that "You are Evil because God is Good"! In that while you wish that the Fruit Be Like Sniper and Immediately Lethal, God Elected that they should not be immediately cut down as He has Continually shown.

Anyway, the Further Answer is that It Is At the Discretion of He who Retains the Life of Another to Either Terminate it immediately or Elongate it or May Even Refuse to Exercise Discretion by not Interfering with the life at All without question.

But All these options and more are at His Full Discretion and Power!

I do not know how to deal with your baseless assumptions and insults than to thank God that you live and hope you continue to be blessed. Amen

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Christianity Etc › Re: If Nothing Can Exist Without A Creator, So What Created God? by budaatum: 12:39am On Dec 08, 2020

Dtruthspeaker:
yes it is, but it is to seek those things which are needful and beneficial to you.

But surely I know that it is the desire of the Rebellious (and it is indeed beneficial for them to think so) to seek to discover the source of the All-Mighty in the Foolish Hope that they can uncover His Weakness, so that they could kill Him.

Oh what a great funny foolishness like your phone, car or even cutlass plotting to kill ya!

How laughable! man, una really know get sense oh!

Knowledge is beneficial to me because it increases my understanding and makes me wiser and more able to competently resist evil and worship the Lord my God.

Sports › Re: Mario Balotelli Joins Serie B Side Monza by budaatum: 12:35am On Dec 08, 2020

Your post made me read up about him. And, no, I'm not a football fan but do support Millwall because I can very almost see the Den from my window.

I could write a book of 200 pages of my two years at Inter with Mario, but the book would not be a drama – it would be a comedy. I remember one time when we went to play Kazan in the [2009–10] Champions League. In that match I had all my strikers injured... I was really in trouble and Mario was the only one. Mario got a yellow card in the 42nd [20th] minute, so when I got to the dressing room at half-time I spend about 14 minutes of the 15 available speaking only to Mario. I said to him: 'Mario, I cannot change you, I have no strikers on the bench, so don't touch anybody and play only with the ball. If we lose the ball no reaction. If someone provokes you, no reaction, if the referee makes a mistake, no reaction.' The 46th [60th] minute – red card!

—Mourinho recalls Balotelli's dismissal in October 2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Balotelli?wprov=sfla1

Christianity Etc › Re: If Nothing Can Exist Without A Creator, So What Created God? by budaatum: 11:54pm On Dec 07, 2020

Thankfully however, somewhere is it written that, thou shall find if thou seek.

Romance › Re: Nairalander Gay Trolling Me ( Screenshots) by budaatum: 11:44pm On Dec 07, 2020

Erojepromise:
lol funny I can't remember even hugging any male from Nairaland.

Guess you just need to understand that some will be jealous at your blessings.

Romance › Re: Nairalander Gay Trolling Me ( Screenshots) by budaatum: 11:27pm On Dec 07, 2020

Erojepromise:
I don't get you..

So, you and boxer007 and OscarJaden are hugging all the men!

Must be a reward for looking so cute.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 11:20pm On Dec 07, 2020

raumdeuter:
As a lawyer you can make a lot of money in your career and you can work till you are 80yrs, A lot of lawyers are millionaires and these costs are demand/Supply. More people want to study Law, So they charge more for it

There are more lawyers seeking work than get paid 80k and even more who are not millionaires. Most are not as lucky as Rudy who found himself a maga.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 11:18pm On Dec 07, 2020

raumdeuter:
There are many schools out there you can go to. And there are many courses you can do. If you want to study Butterfly science, why should tax payers some who didnt go to college pay for it? Its an investment in your future that will make you money so why dont you invest in it.
Study courses that pay more and make money

Well, seems to me you ignore the problem of the cost to taxpayers under the current loan system.

https://wolfstreet.com/2020/11/22/taxpayers-face-435-billion-in-student-loan-losses-already-baked-in-department-of-education-study/

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 11:14pm On Dec 07, 2020

Meanwhile!

fergie001:
The United States Government has added Nigeria to its blacklist as one of the countries that have engaged in “severe violations of religious freedom.”

The Trump administration had in December 2019, added Nigeria to a Special Watch List of countries tolerating violent crimes against religious freedom.

Today, the United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, had announced that Nigeria has been added to the "blacklist" on violations against religious freedom.

SecPompeo

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 11:06pm On Dec 07, 2020

raumdeuter:
I will think they should just use that energy for Obamacare and the Dreamers act. Leave Student Loans. Don't waste political goodwill on Student loans when more serious issues are pending

I don't agree that SL should be left alone because too many learning institutions are fleecing students, and taxpayers.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/09/the-law-school-scam/375069/

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