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Christianity Etc › Re: This Carnivorous Plant Is Enough To Change The Mind Of An Atheist by budaatum: 11:44pm On Oct 03, 2019
Abdulgaffar22:
Your friend, Ketamine9000mg

"Atheists do say this "if the carnivorous flower was designed by a mind and not by chance, can the mind complex enough to design such a flower exist by chance or created by another higher mind?"
Quote him here so I can read it in context.
Christianity Etc › Re: This Carnivorous Plant Is Enough To Change The Mind Of An Atheist by budaatum: 11:40pm On Oct 03, 2019
EmperorHarry:
I keep wondering Abdul,why your hellbent on convincing the atheists.It only leaves you jumping on the slightest signs of supposed proof and leaves you dangerously susceptible to confirmation bias.Try to learn without filtering for evidence to "convince the atheists".
It's actually a good thing that he does as he is practicing how to reason, but he can't hear himself, which makes him unreasonable, but still, let me try.

Abdulgaffar22:
(a) For a "change" to occur, a "cause" is required.
Time always passes. It is a change and can also be a cause of change.

Abdulgaffar22:
(b) Popping of SOMETHING into existence from absolutely NOTHING is a "change" which therefore require a "cause".
Portraying others in this false caricature is dishonest.

No one says "Popping of SOMETHING into existence from absolutely NOTHING". But if you think carefully enough, it is the claim of some theists, unless your position is the Word is something.

Abdulgaffar22:
(c) But there is no any "cause" present in an absolutely nothing.
There is nothing called "absolute nothing"!
Christianity Etc › Re: This Carnivorous Plant Is Enough To Change The Mind Of An Atheist by budaatum: 11:21pm On Oct 03, 2019
Abdulgaffar22:
Therefore, if there is absolutely 'NOTHING' in the long past, then there is no way we can have 'SOMETHING' at this present time because something can NEVER come out from absolutely nothing.
Who said there was "absolutely 'NOTHING' in the long past"?
Politics › Nigeria: 20 Years Ago by budaatum(op): 11:14pm On Oct 03, 2019
Nigeria: Hope after 40 years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/949021.stm
Sunday, 1 October, 2000, 07:04 GMT 08:04 UK

Voters with polling cards for elections in 1999
Voters in 1999 wanted a new start for Nigeria
By regional analyst Karl Maier

Forty years after independence from Britain, Nigeria is struggling with its 300 ethnic groups and competing religious traditions of Islam, Christianity and traditional African beliefs

When Nigeria's last military leader, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, relinquished power on 29 May, 1999 to Nigeria's first civilian president in 16 years, Olusegun Obasanjo, he described the day as ranking second in importance to independence on 1 October, 1960.

Obasanjo's inauguration represented another chance to discard the bonds of oppression, though this time not of British imperialism, but of a sort of internal colonialism imposed by a series of military dictatorships.

'Second independence'

They brought the economy to its knees, fostered a pervasive system of corruption, loaded down the country with a $30bn foreign debt, and left the majority of Nigerians poorer today than they were at independence.

Former Nigerian military leader, Sani Abacha
General Abacha: The worst of all the dictators
Much of the $300bn Nigeria has earned in oil exports has been squandered.

Claude Ake, the eminent Nigerian social scientist who died tragically in a 1996 plane crash, once argued that what was happening in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa was that the lower classes that form the vast majority were searching for a 'second independence', not from European colonial rule but from their own leaders.

But today, as it was when the British lowered the Union Jack and freed a land they had ruled for less than a century, Nigeria is once again in the spotlight.

Hope

There is optimism that as a powerful emerging nation it can lead the rest of West Africa into the promised land of peace, democratic government and economic development.

Nigeria's Assembly building
Nigerian MPs have failed to deliver any change
That is the hope, but reaching that goal will require a herculean effort and a great deal of time.

During Obasanjo's brief time in office, Nigeria has lost several thousand lives in violence over divisive issues, such as the imposition of Islamic law, or Sharia, in eight northern states, the ongoing conflict in the oil-rich Niger River delta between and among the ethnic minorities and the government and multinational oil companies, and the growing demand among Yoruba militants in the south west for greater autonomy.

The nation's infrastructure - water supplies, electricity, health facilities and schools - is a shambles.

Once proud universities are shells.

The majority of Nigerians survive on the equivalent of $1 a day.

Transparency International rates Nigeria as the most corrupt nation on earth.

Crossroads

Having by sheer resilience survived six successful coups and four failed ones, the Biafran civil war that claimed up to one million lives, and in all 30 years of army rule, Nigerians stand at a crossroads.

Just over two years after the sudden death of Nigeria's most ruthless dictator, Sani Abacha, Nigeria now has an elected president and national assembly and loads of international goodwill.

The Obasanjo administration has vowed to tackle corruption, reform the economy along private sector lines, and broaden Nigeria's diplomatic and military role in peacekeeping operations in West Africa and the rest of the continent.

Nigeria has the resources to turn its situation around. Its oil and natural gas reserves are some of the most plentiful in the world.

But for that to happen, Nigerians must learn from the past.
Christianity Etc › Re: This Carnivorous Plant Is Enough To Change The Mind Of An Atheist by budaatum: 10:52pm On Oct 03, 2019
Abdulgaffar22:
This cosmic mind is what many people portrayed as God.
Why did "This cosmic mind is what many people portrayed as God" create the venus flytrap?
Christianity Etc › Re: When I Come In My Glory, I Shall Reward Every Man According To His Works - Jesus by budaatum: 10:24pm On Oct 03, 2019
Not, according to your "belief" or "God's Grace", as some claim.

Christianity Etc › Re: Why Was The Book Of Enoch Removed From The Bible? by budaatum: 10:16pm On Oct 03, 2019
Christianity Etc › Re: Nephilim And Sons Of God: Who Are They? by budaatum: 10:06pm On Oct 03, 2019
EMILO2STAY:
I can't believe what am what you just typed are you actually a grown man?.
Good question!

https://www.nairaland.com/5448144/book-enoch-reveals-much-unbelievable#82813216
Politics › Re: EFCC Arraigns Buhari’s Ex-adviser For Diverting N974m by budaatum: 9:11pm On Oct 03, 2019
Sai bubu!
Politics › Re: The Inefficiency Of Govt Selling Us To Edc's by budaatum: 9:01pm On Oct 03, 2019
No, this did not "happen because Nigerian Govt sold us to the disco's" ! It is happening because your street is too timid to go and fight for its rights!

Please come back and tell us what you did about it so others can learn.
Christianity Etc › Re: Who Created God? by budaatum: 8:53pm On Oct 03, 2019
shadeyinka:
In your case, it may be your conscience touched by God as you studied more.
God touched my intellectual understanding.
Christianity Etc › Re: The Paranoia Of Christianity by budaatum: 8:28pm On Oct 03, 2019
Edybleketara:
fear of the unknown has really blinded the religious folks, they can't even ask questions about their beliefs for fear of losing their 'faith'.
Christ said, "Seek. For only then can you know". Yet, some believe without seeking.

Christianity Etc › Re: Book Of Enoch Reveals So Much. It's So Unbelievable! by budaatum: 8:20pm On Oct 03, 2019
MuttleyLaff:
budaatum contextually what is that Jude letter all about, hmm?
Jude was warning about individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago who have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.

He quotes from the Book of Enoch, the seventh from Adam who prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

I have given evidence for Enoch in the commentary link. He is born in [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+5%3A4-20&version=NKJV]Genesis 5:4-20[/url] before the flood and referenced in [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+11%3A5&version=KJV]Hebrews 11:5[/url] afterwards as the sort of faith one should have long before Jude quotes him to justify his condemnation of those who even Jesus said were broods of vipers and [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A15&version=KJV]wolfs in sheeps clothing[/url] who give stones for bread and [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A15-20&version=ESV]lead themselves and others astray[/url].

[url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+23%3A13-39&version=NIV]Woe to them[/url], Christ said, as Enoch said before him and Jude here afterwards and in his time.

A mere read of the beginning of the book should enlighten you, perhaps.

BOOK OF ENOCH CHAPTER 1

I-V. Parable of Enoch on the Future Lot of the Wicked and the Righteous
I.
1. The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect ⌈⌈and⌉⌉ righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked ⌈⌈and godless⌉⌉ are to be removed.
Christianity Etc › Re: Book Of Enoch Reveals So Much. It's So Unbelievable! by budaatum: 6:55pm On Oct 03, 2019
MuttleyLaff:
If you really know what you are talking about and understand, contextually and all, what that verse is saying, please bring it on and lay it down, let's see what you come up with, hmmm?
You go first muttley. What you claim about Jude is the opposite of what Jude is claiming as can be seen by anyone who reads it.

Here is commentary on Jude 14-15
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 6:50pm On Oct 03, 2019
coluka:
Joe Biden is not above the law,
And neither is Potus, if there is a law against asking for foreign assistance for electoral gain.
Christianity Etc › Re: Who Created God? by budaatum: 6:48pm On Oct 03, 2019
Anything I come up with about a 1D world is pure speculation and hypothesis, is my point here, and it would be very silly of me to insist that what I think is true would prevail in a 1D world. It would be equally stupid of me to make claims about any other world apart from the one I live in and have experienced with my own senses.

Hear Christ warning me to give Caesar his due and limit myself to what I sense instead of idle speculating on the insignificant and irrelevant.

Christianity Etc › Re: Book Of Enoch Reveals So Much. It's So Unbelievable! by budaatum: 6:37pm On Oct 03, 2019
MuttleyLaff:
FYI, OpenYourEyes1, that Jude 1:14-15, is one where Jude was denouncing the Book of Enoch .
No he wasn't! He was denouncing those Enoch prophesied about and denounced!

Christianity Etc › Re: Who Created God? by budaatum: 6:31pm On Oct 03, 2019
shadeyinka:
Evidence for believe is by grace. Not everyone is privileged to have it.
Well, this is completely contradictory to the use of the senses. Why, for instances would those who have not been given the grace, believe it?

shadeyinka:
There had been Atheists who converted because they had a compelling NDE experience. Some experienced a miracle while for others, they had the Holy Spirit convince them directly through their conscience.

And sometimes, God leaves the man who had shut his eyes to the truth to his own folly.

I'm the world where knowledge has increased, it's natural for the love of many (even believers) to go cold!
You left out atheist converts like me. The increase in my knowledge is what makes me a theist, and not the lack of it as you suggest.

Ignorance, cannot be the evidence for an Almighty God, and if ignorance ever does become the evidence for God, then those worshipping it need to read their Bible and reconsider.

Christianity Etc › Re: Who Created God? by budaatum: 6:09pm On Oct 03, 2019
shadeyinka:
I just decided to go with the prevailing theory : my other option would have been to say
"In the Begining, God created the Heavens and the Earth..."

This your people will then ask for my evidence (of which the Bible is out of it) and then accuse me of being unscientific, illogical and nonsesical in believing what science has not proven. Don't forget that many atheist take theories to be scientific facts (Evolution, Big bang, NDE etc)
And you know your people, they want SCIENCE and LOGIC and DEDUCTIONS etc. So, I am only dancing according to their kind of music.
My own position is that Biblical Creationism is ancient science and anyone who accepts it as a literally true today is very unscientific indeed by todays standard, for they completely disregard with their senses, all discoveries made since "In the beginning" was written.

It is not sensible to argue against science (the use of the senses) with "beliefs". People who use their god given senses will find it impossible to believe unless evidence for the belief is provided.
Christianity Etc › Re: Who Created God? by budaatum: 6:01pm On Oct 03, 2019
I think you are simply imagining living in a 1D world and inferring what a 2D world might seem like, and which you yourself said might be difficult, and which I said might not be believed unless evidence were provided.

How for instance does a 1D world imply "thinking one is alone", or "move in a straight line"? Do you not think this because of your own assumptions about what a 1D world might seem like?

Others might assume different, is my point.


shadeyinka:
Not quite:
If we live in a 1D world, a number of inferences can be obtained
i. Each person will think he is alone in this world
ii. Each person can move ONLY in a straight line
iii. When another "line crosses" our line (from their own 1D space), we will see such as a "dot" on our line and well still think we are alone
Because of these:
i. 2D will sound illogical because, wel not be alone in the world
ii. 2D will sound illogical because it assumes we can move in every complex directions in the 2D world
iii. 2D will sound illogical because we cant imagine that other 1D spaces can exist other than our own.

(Please take a peace of paper and check this out)

However, we in 3D can perfectly comprehend this.

The Implication:
Science had assumed that there exist only Energy/Mass, Space and Time. If just one more dimension other than defined by these three exist, it would be impossible to use our knowledge o science to unravel it. The fact that we cant prove it does not mean another dimension doesn't exist.

The bible had always spoken about the Spiritual Dimension: thus the understandable problem of those who reject its possibility as a valid conclusion from their observation.

So the question is, what would be a sufficient evidence for a person who lives in a 1D world to believe that a 2D world exist.
Now if he concludes that his judgemt is correct based on his observation ,would that make his judgement correct?
Christianity Etc › Re: Who Created God? by budaatum: 5:45pm On Oct 03, 2019
shadeyinka:
The claim of science is that the universe started expanding from an infinitely dense gravitational singleton almost 14 billion years away.
At least we have a starting point (Gravitational singleton)
I am certain scientists state this as an hypothesis, and not as a theory, since they usually qualify it with, "as far as we can tell". Theists might hear this as the equivalent of their belief in creationism, which it is not.

No one knows what happened 14billion years ago Shade, and even the 14billion is a work in progress, as in humans using our God given senses to do science to acquire better understandings.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 5:34pm On Oct 03, 2019
China too?

Christianity Etc › Re: Why Heaven Is No Longer My Target by budaatum: 5:29pm On Oct 03, 2019
MuttleyLaff:
Plus respect for the divinity of our Lord, God, Jesus Christ, and the wholesome believe in the resurrection of Jesus, the son of God.
See them twist the Word of God to suit their own limited understanding!

Christianity Etc › Re: Who Created God? by budaatum: 5:23pm On Oct 03, 2019
shadeyinka:
That is the only saving grace for atheists for they can claim that the universe was just an extension of the gravitational singleton.

If it occurred spontaneously, we have to account for the force that gathered/forged it into a gravitational singleton.
If it had always existed, we have to account for the force that changed the state of the gravitational singleton into expanding.
I do not understand this. Is it not the truth that no one really knows anything preceding the big bang, and that even the big bang itself is as mythical as "God said"?
Christianity Etc › Re: T by budaatum: 5:20pm On Oct 03, 2019
Yawn.
Christianity Etc › Re: Who Created God? by budaatum: 5:17pm On Oct 03, 2019
shadeyinka:
I perfectly agree with you.
Science is the intelligence God gave man with which to subdue the earth.
Unfortunately, sometimes a man replaces God with science (knowingly or unknowingly)

Ive asked people on this thread several times:
"If we live in a 1D world, would we be able to comprehend/describe living in 2D world?"
"If we cant, can we use our result as a proof that a 2D world is impossible?"

No one has dared answer the question.
Shalom
One may very well comprehend, or at least, form some sort of idea about the 2D world, we humans being so imaginative. But you'd need evidence for a 2D world before forming rules by which to live in it. It might de rather detrimental after all, trying to live by 2D world rules in a 1D world.

I think it is the theist who knowingly or unknowingly think some replace God with science. Science is simply the use of the senses, and not just believing, and might be the issue here as the mere fact one believes means they have not used their senses.

Surely you need evidence before you can consider a thing to be valid. Just imagine someone preaching, "believe" to you and you might get the point.
Christianity Etc › Re: Book Of Enoch Reveals So Much. It's So Unbelievable! by budaatum:
See them make out they know what an "ancient ell" is!

I wonder, if by muttley logic, the much younger contradictory New Testament is more "fake news book of slanders and over imaginative fantasies"?

The older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) of the text are estimated to date from about 300–200 BCE, and the latest part (Book of Parables) probably to the 100 BCE.

Various Aramaic fragments found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as Koine Greek and Latin fragments were proof that The Book of Enoch was known by early Jews and Christians. This book was also quoted by some 1st and 2nd century authors as in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. Authors of the New Testament were also familiar with some content of the story. A short section of 1 Enoch (1:9) is cited in the New Testament, Epistle of Jude, Jude 1:14–15, and is attributed there to "Enoch the Seventh from Adam" (1 En 60: 8 ), although this section of 1 Enoch is a midrash on Deuteronomy 33:2. Several copies of the earlier sections of 1 Enoch were preserved among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Christianity Etc › Re: T by budaatum: 4:39pm On Oct 03, 2019
MuttleyLaff:
[s]Piss off baba slash mama, go find better work for your idle mind and hand please[/s].
Christianity Etc › Re: The Allegory In The Garden Of Eden Account Of The Fall Of Man By Reno Omokri by budaatum: 4:38pm On Oct 03, 2019
Amujale:
The so-called Allegory in the Garden of Eden isnt a natural one, it was an invention of the author of that specific chapter.

Furthermore, the importance of the so-called allegory being discussed here is ineffective due to the fact that the Garden of Eden storyline is false.
"Allegory", you said, "invented" too, so not necessarily "false" if you deallegorise it and know what is being said.

What is being allegorised, Amu?
Christianity Etc › Re: T by budaatum: 4:34pm On Oct 03, 2019
MuttleyLaff:
[s]Why don't you take your shitty diarrhoea head out of comments addressed to me please. Thank you but no thanks angry angry angry[/s]

Christianity Etc › Re: Who Created God? by budaatum: 4:30pm On Oct 03, 2019
shadeyinka:
The universe must have existed before the Big Bang ( as a point dense gravitational singleton) i.e the universe had always existed.
It must have? How do you know this?
Christianity Etc › Re: Who Created God? by budaatum: 4:28pm On Oct 03, 2019
shadeyinka:
I understand you very well. Each one can only really speak truly from his/her experiences with respect to the Divine. Science isn't necessarily nor expedient for finding God (intact not a requirement). We know God by grace and the fact that we choose to know the Truth and stand by it wherever it leads us.
The Grace in knowing God is in the fact that God made some people make huge sacrifices to ensure you know God. If they hadn't, you'd have no Scripture today.

'Science', which is the use of your God given senses, is very necessary for understanding God, for one of those senses is your mind, which if not used would find satan and mistake it for God. Do note how many times Christ healed the sense of seeing to understand how important their use is.

A person who does not use their senses cannot truly speak about their experiences as they neither have the senses to fully comprehend their experience, nor the mind to process it and put it into meaningful words that properly reflect what actually happened which might be very different to what they experienced.

Besides, without Science you cannot possibly perform the very first duty God assigned to humans which is: "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

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