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 Christianity Etc › Re: Man Sent Out Of Palm Sunday Mass In Delta State by budaatum: 12:28am On Apr 15, 2019 |
SoNature:Obedience to church, pastor, or God? |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Man Sent Out Of Palm Sunday Mass In Delta State by budaatum: 12:27am On Apr 15, 2019 |
meobizy:Christ. And salvation. And probably a change of heart and job. In the right church. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Plea For A Christian Moderator For A Christianity Section by budaatum: 9:45pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
asuustrike1:What wrong? 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Plea For A Christian Moderator For A Christianity Section by budaatum: 9:03pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
asuustrike1:Yes. No weapon (not that Islam is a weapon or the enemy), fashioned against me prospers. It's not allegiance and I don't even have to write or read what we're talking about here. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Daddy Freeze: Proverbs, Psalms Not Written By Christians, Not Good For Doctrine by budaatum: 8:20pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
I recently had a discussion with a group of friends about how they don’t exactly believe every story in the bible. And often times, I totally agree. I mean Noah and his fancy Ark don’t exactly coincide with my engineering degree. But they also expressed that doubting God is a sin, and it sort of took me aback that Christians believe their relationship with God can’t be questioned. We have all experienced moments in our life where we doubt God, whether it be His actions or His existence altogether. So I wanted to spend a few days on the book of Habakkuk, which is concerned with the Chaldeans humiliating the Israelites to lead them to repentance. Habakkuk, a representative of all of us, enters a frank debate with God about why He is allowing Israel to suffer tribulation under the hand of a wicked and pagan people. Why are good people suffering? What I really want to get out of this book is that a relationship with God isn’t one-sided: It is not about us listening to commandments, but about a two-way dialogue. It is okay to doubt and question God, as exemplified by Habakkuk, a true wrestler of the faith, and using this place of doubt to work towards a place of absolute trust in God. We start in chapter 1 where Habakkuk opens the book by questioning God. God? Are you there? 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Trump Knew Wikileaks Until He Didn’t by budaatum(op): 7:50pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
President Trump, asked if he still “loves” WikiLeaks: "I know nothing about WikiLeaks. It’s not my thing". THE FACTS: WikiLeaks was very much Trump’s thing in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, when candidate Trump showered praise on the anti-secrecy organization night after night. On the same October day that the “Access Hollywood” tape emerged, revealing that Trump had bragged in 2005 about groping women, WikiLeaks began releasing damaging emails from Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. Trump and his allies seized on the dumps and weaponized them. “WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks,” Trump said in Pennsylvania. “This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove,” Trump said in Michigan. “Boy, I love reading WikiLeaks,” Trump said in Ohio. All told, Trump extolled WikiLeaks more than 100 times, and a poster of Assange hung backstage at the Republican’s debate war room. At no point from a rally stage did Trump express any misgivings about how WikiLeaks obtained the emails from the Clinton campaign or about the accusations of stealing sensitive U.S. government information, which led to the charges against Assange on Thursday. The U.S. is seeking Assange’s extradition from Britain. https://www.snopes.com/ap/2019/04/13/trump-knew-wikileaks-until-he-didnt/ |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Daddy Freeze: Proverbs, Psalms Not Written By Christians, Not Good For Doctrine by budaatum: 6:10pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
NotComplaining:The Bible does actually, "feel God is speaking to one directly". Though I admit, being its an evolved understanding of what Christ understood in a different time, the Quran moreso. Especially since all the prehistory which puts it into context, but without which the Quran would make little sense, is tucked away in the convenient Holy Bible. I suggest a reading of both. The other, if just to know your neighbour. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Daddy Freeze: Proverbs, Psalms Not Written By Christians, Not Good For Doctrine by budaatum: 5:59pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
Teespice:It is The Way, and definitely a truth. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Daddy Freeze: Proverbs, Psalms Not Written By Christians, Not Good For Doctrine by budaatum: 5:56pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
djon78:Name just one intellectual who has led Nigeria or anywhere in Africa please. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Daddy Freeze Hails Pastor Abel Damina For Saying Women Can Wear Trousers by budaatum: 5:53pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
Trike:You must have seen Nobody on here. We find we hear them no more. They are people who are no more because they ran out of pearls or they would still be here casting them with no care where they fall. Some need not bother about swines eating their pearls. The worst that could happens is the swine's belly full of pearls and swine just dies. Pearls that are pearls are as many as seeds. One falls on good soil and multiplies a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty. That is pearls that moths can't get at if securely stored. 2 Likes |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Beans Is Not Beans! by budaatum(op): 5:27pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
”Your Beans is Not My Beans!" Daddy Freeze tells Pastor Adeboye Controversial leader of the Free Nation movement, Daddy Freeze is in the news again. He has tackled the General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye over his statement that God would remove all problems in the lives of Christians. Adeboye had during his sermon on GoldMyne TV said “In the name of the one who is called the Word, all your problems will be no more.” Reacting on his Instagram page, Freeze said the statement was grossly misleading, as there was no such promise to believers in the Bible. “All your problems? This is grossly misleading, as there is no such promise to believers in the scriptures that Christ or God will remove ‘ALL’ their problems. “The disciples were often homeless, hungry and dressed in rags, Paul also had a thorn in his flesh that was never removed, let’s always keep these at the back of our minds before we allow ourselves to submit to inaccurate doctrines,” he said. Freeze then quoted from 1 Corinthians 4:11 to back up his assertion. The New International Version of the text reads: “To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.” He also quoted the New Living Translation of 2 Corinthians 12:7, which said “Even though I have received such wonderful revelations from God. So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud.” Adeboye’s statement that God will remove all believers’ problems misleading -Daddy Freeze 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Daddy Freeze: Proverbs, Psalms Not Written By Christians, Not Good For Doctrine by budaatum: 5:14pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
Bridget95:In fact he will make many more pick up their own Bible and read it themselves. It will be like everyone bearing their own cross instead of going 'Here it is,' or 'There it is' in a mog because they'd know the KoG. I know those who don't read think evolve means they are apes. They are correct. They are apes! The unevolved enslaved in some archaic past thinking. You, however, are evolving people into whom [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+21%3A1-9&version=KJV]Jesus rode his ass on Palm Sunday[/url] with minds and numerous abilities with which you reason and build up powerful people. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Daddy Freeze: Proverbs, Psalms Not Written By Christians, Not Good For Doctrine by budaatum: 4:44pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
djon78:I did not know intellectuals led Nigeria and Africa. Name one! 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Beans Is Not Beans! by budaatum(op): 2:56pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
A Nice Knock-Down Argument by Peter Williams (after Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the Looking Glass’) The notion of ‘language-games’, often cited and discussed in my lectures at University, has become something of a pet hate with me. The concept comes originally from Wittgenstein, who asked us to “think of words as instruments characterised by their use.” The general idea is that the meaning of language is dependent upon the user, and words only have meaning within a particular context of use called a ‘language-game’. Some have argued that religious language, for example, should be recognised as a distinctive language-game. This implies that philosophical questions about religious matters, or matters in any ‘language-game’, should be restricted to questions about the role played by words in that particular game; philosophy is prevented from saying anything about the validity of the game itself. I have no problem with the concept of ‘language-games’ as ‘universes of discourse’ where words are used in a particular context, but I do hold serious objections to the thesis that such universes of discourse are distinct from each other and to the relativistic idea that meaning can be wholly private and purely subjective. Words do not mean certain things because of the way in which they are used; words are used because they mean certain things. Any new or ‘invented’ term must be defined by pre-existing and meaningful terms. In the hope of explaining myself in an engaging style, and engendering some debate upon the hot potatoes of languagegames and of relativism, I offer the following fable… “There’s glory for you.” “I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’,” Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t – till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’” “But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” Alice considered a little. “But surely,” she said in a sudden flash of inspiration, “you simply have to agree with me that ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’, it means ‘glory’.” “Not in the slightest bit,” humphed Humpty Dumpty, “I disagree with you totally.” “Ah,” replied Alice cunningly, “so you do agree with me, for when I hear someone say ‘I disagree with you’, I think they mean ‘I agree with you totally’, don’t you? When I hear a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – nothing more nor less.” “It is a most provoking thing,” Humpty Dumpty cried, breaking into a sudden passion, “when little girls make it impossible to disagree with them.” “So,” said Alice, “now you do agree with me that ‘glory’ means ‘glory’.” “Wrong!” Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly, “it would be alright for me to say that ‘I disagree with you’ meant ‘I agree with you’, because I believe in that sort of thing; but you don’t, or you wouldn’t be being so awkward about it! You can’t go using other people’s arguments against themselves, that’s plagiarism!” (“He talks about it just as if it was a game!” thought Alice.) Trying hard to conceal her vexation with the phantasmagorical egg, Alice delivered her coup de grâce : “I’m afraid that you can’t get out of it like that Mr. Dumpty, it just won’t do at all. You think that words mean whatever you choose them to mean, but in order to say that I disagree with you, you have to agree with, or understand, my use of words; and if you agree with me, then you can’t disagree!” “It’s very provoking,” Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke. “I’d rather see that done on paper.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so little.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “who is to be master – that’s all.” Alice waited to see if he would speak again, but as he never opened his eyes or took any further notice of her, she said “Good-bye.” and quietly walked away: but she couldn’t help saying to herself as she went, “Of all the unsatisfactory people I ever met –” She never finished the sentence, for at that moment a heavy crash shook the forest from end to end. Further reading The Wittgenstein Reader ed. by A. Kenny (Blackwell) Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (Pan Macmillan Children’s Books) 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Daddy Freeze: Proverbs, Psalms Not Written By Christians, Not Good For Doctrine by budaatum: 1:36pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
zlantanfan:There aren't many Rational Christians on here! Most just believe like the devil also does and call it a virtue. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Daddy Freeze: Proverbs, Psalms Not Written By Christians, Not Good For Doctrine by budaatum: 1:22pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
FreelanceRebel:Look in a mirror and you'd see that the fact you ask for "pictural evidence" sic, is evidence you worship that which you see and not that which you see not. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Man Sent Out Of Palm Sunday Mass In Delta State by budaatum: 12:51pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
peterveo:I think I would have got up and left too, though, I'd probable get kicked out for telling the pastor off! 6 Likes |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Daddy Freeze: Proverbs, Psalms Not Written By Christians, Not Good For Doctrine by budaatum: 12:48pm On Apr 14, 2019 |
zlantanfan:Some people worship their Bible and not God. They prefer the 'image' they see to the God they can't see. |
| Politics › Re: Excess Crude Acct: IMF Recants, Issues Clarification On Nigeria Sovereign Wealth by budaatum: 1:15am On Apr 14, 2019 |
jayfolarin:Reminds metheThe colonised have now become like us, knowing good and evil. They must not be allowed to reach out their hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove them out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life." Thanks |
| Politics › Re: Excess Crude Acct: IMF Recants, Issues Clarification On Nigeria Sovereign Wealth by budaatum: 12:22am On Apr 14, 2019 |
The IMF is not coming to Nigeria with viable macroeconomic policies to increase domestic productivity and thus, enhance the capacity of Nigerians and their businesses to pay tax. It’s not enough to just sloganeer that a people that pay tax get to own their government; they must first make the money. In her many interferences into the economy of Nigeria, Madam Lagarde never offered whatever the IMF could do to help revive Nigeria’s moribund real sector. The service sectors, like telecommunications, where the West has profitable investments, are doing just okay anyway. Despite admitting, just two weeks ago, that Greece that took the title of ‘Sick Man of Europe’ from Portugal and that it remains a country confronted by “elevated vulnerabilities and weak payment discipline,” the IMF merely recommended that Greece should find ways to “help employers more easily adjust to changing market conditions… and lower tax rates, (while) still boost revenue!” The same IMF is now making fiscal interventions to increase the tax burden of Nigerians, yet it famously fails to give macroeconomic suggestions to halt Nigeria’s compulsive importation of consumer goods. Obviously what is good for the Western Greek goose is not good for the South’s Nigerian gander. With friends like the IMF, Nigeria will have no further need for enemies. It looks like the IMF wants to permanently sink Nigeria into the Misery Index compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Steve Hanke, who rates Nigerians the sixth most miserable people in the world Another hoax by IMF 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Medical Science As The Provision Of God For Healing. by budaatum: 11:52pm On Apr 13, 2019 |
LordReed:So your issue, my Lord, is you can not accept that I may not have a clue how I was healed when I fell ill and into the hands of a good doctor who went against what could have been selfish interest to fleece me dry but sent me home; the fact that my body held together through a 4 hour drive to the airport and a seven hour flight to UK and a two hour drive home when it had for days been failing every half hour; that I just about managed to get to the hospital before my legs gave way; that specialists, my family, my friends, the porter, the crane, the picture of lavender on the wall, diagnosed my illness and put buda back together again, and so therefore, "thank God"? I guess I'm not used to stars lining up on my behalf or I'd be like you my Lord, moving stars at my will with the fingers on my hands. My will (or faith), could not have moved that mountain of illness out the way, yet move it surely did. It was not instant however. I was an atheist all through my being ill and for three years after, but I cannot deny those stars lined up through no effort on my part except my faith which I always had even as an atheist. I willed by so little faith that I never once thought of feeling the need to pray asking to be healed. And I personally thanked everyone who assisted with my getting well. But I still find reason to extend my gratitude far beyond them because I just do not consider anything I am or have done makes me deserving of the care I got. And since I don't know wherefore it came (though I do but have no intersubjective words with which to describe it), what better name it give than God which fits the gap for now until I get a better understanding of how to put it? Hence by the Grace of God is buda grateful for the wisdom and the talent of everyone through whom stars moved mountains to put buda back together again. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Medical Science As The Provision Of God For Healing. by budaatum: 10:47pm On Apr 13, 2019 |
Martinez39:I see you've resorted to your usual strategy of calling buda a liar just because I refuse to allow you impose your doctrine on me. Just listen to yourself with your "facts are facts", when it is the understanding and implication of facts that are at issue. You probably think Jesus lied too when he is said to have said "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours". Here's Mark, KJV. Remember he had cursed a fig tree. 20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. 21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. 22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. 23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. 24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. 25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. 26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. I bet if I told you the text is teaching me not to curse you but to forgive you and forgive you and forgive you and forgive you for saying buda is "disgusting," "dishonest", "kidding", "stupid", and one day you'd learn the errors of your ways and stop being rude to buda and reason instead like a person with a brain, you'd say buda is a liar, when the truth is beans is just not beans and some people see the evidence and you are blind and cannot see. Trust me, 39, I see you. And I have faith in you. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: I Have Performed More Miracles Than Jesus Christ - Bishop Obinim by budaatum: 10:00pm On Apr 13, 2019 |
GidiWoodsMan:If this pastor had a discerning spirit he wouldn't falsely glorify himself. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: I Have Performed More Miracles Than Jesus Christ - Bishop Obinim by budaatum: 9:59pm On Apr 13, 2019 |
IamD18:That's not so, unless we mean different things by "religion". Mere reading the religious book will make one a lot more wiser than not reading it. And by reading, I mean, properly, starting at page 1 and working through page by page to the end and not the jumping about most do on Sunday. A lot wiser in fact. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: I Have Performed More Miracles Than Jesus Christ - Bishop Obinim by budaatum: 9:55pm On Apr 13, 2019 |
PhenomenalMorgan:It helps, in fact. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Medical Science As The Provision Of God For Healing. by budaatum: 5:58pm On Apr 13, 2019 |
Martinez39:Your literalism astounds me! You must think "faith" is something one has in things one does not see. But I blame you not. It is an extant doctrine. You likely have not read what Jesus said when he was asked to move an [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+4%3A1-11&version=NIV]ordinary stone[/url], and you want me to go about moving mountains! Where to, I wonder. In to your head? Have you read buda's toe? It ends: "buda had met the most wonderful caring people which instilled buda with faith that toes will move, and toes moved." That "faith" is in the people, the hospitals, doctors, nurses, my family, the picture on the wall, the crane out the window, the clerk who moved my file about, those who served me food and many more whom I cannot name. And it's not as if I was so much more worthy of being cared for but by grace, as they say. My cousin, whom I left in Nigeria and who prays morning and night which I never did, died two weeks after I done my Buhari. Faith does not mean sitting on your ass praying, 39. Some pray by reading, studying, storing wealth where moths can't get at it, and the faith and trust they have in the work they have done to acquire that wealth of knowledge is what we trust and have faith will cure us which is what happened in my case where a mountain moved. I can't argue your doctrine with you 39. Not when you have an idea in your head of what my doctrine must be. I would advise you learn more about a person's beans before saying its the same as your beans though. If one tests ones faith by moving mountains, the mountain moved or one has not got faith, understanding, in the wisdom and the knowledge one has. Otherwise, they'd be using their faith to [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+22%3A36-40&version=KJV]love their neighbours[/url] by [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+21%3A15-17&version=KJV]healing and prolonging life[/url] because that is the doctrine of Christ. I apologise that many don't appear to have adopted this doctrine, but we look to the face of the Lord and tarry not that you too may comprehend. 1 Like |
| Romance › Re: Help! See How My Girlfriend Behaves And Think... by budaatum: 5:03pm On Apr 13, 2019 |
Chemist009:Are you sure your main concern is not you're jealous? |
| Politics › Re: BREAKING!!! US Blacklists Nigeria 40 Days After Buhari’s Re-election by budaatum: 4:57pm On Apr 13, 2019 |
Op why you de lie na? Na so you dislike your country Nigeria? The following is dated 13 Feb 2019. * The European Union has identified 23 states that pose money laundering and terror financing risks. * Saudi Arabia, Panama, Nigeria and four U.S. territories were added to the bloc's financial blacklist. * Britain has said the list could cause trouble for companies. The European Commission added Saudi Arabia, Panama, Nigeria and other jurisdictions to a blacklist of nations seen as posing a threat because of lax controls on terrorism financing and money laundering, the E.U. executive said on Wednesday. The move is part of a crackdown on money laundering after several scandals at E.U. banks but has been criticized by several E.U. countries including Britain worried about their economic relations with the listed states, notably Saudi Arabia. The EU's 'dirty-money' blacklist now includes Saudi Arabia and some US territories 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Medical Science As The Provision Of God For Healing. by budaatum: 4:47pm On Apr 13, 2019 |
Funaki:You obviously have your own 'doctrines' too, as in, your own opinion about what God is or should do, but why do you assume your 'doctrine' is everyone else's doctrine and understanding? Is your beans my beans perhaps, according to you, so you need not bother asking about my beans? All books are written by human beings, but reading it is not "what they told you", since what you understand depends on your ability to comprehend and understand which is the reason people of the same religion have different doctrines. I admit, most Christians, will indeed tell you their doctrines, which they'll claim is not a religion but a way of life, are the only God pleasing doctrines and they got them from the Bible, but if you indeed read the book yourself and understand you'd know the blind were not cured of lameness nor did the deaf receive sight, the lame were not cleaned, and the leper did not receive the cure of blindness. Each received what they came looking for. Then some poor lot got "taught" (and not indoctrinated, according to your 'doctrine'), and were blessed. If you understand, Funaki, you too will be [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+4%3A6-7&version=KJV]favoured by the Lord[/url]. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Medical Science As The Provision Of God For Healing. by budaatum: 4:07pm On Apr 13, 2019 |
Martinez39:And since they have "asked in faith" , according to you, they should be healed by the "supernatural healing power from the suffering". 1. Have they asked in faith? 2. Which faith meter did you measure their faith with? 3. Are none ever healed? P.s. I love my doctor. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Medical Science As The Provision Of God For Healing. by budaatum: 4:01pm On Apr 13, 2019*. Modified: 9:32pm On Apr 13, 2019 |
Funaki:Why limit yourself to "what you already know", or what "Men of different culture" told you? Can you not read the book? Oh! I get it. It's a big book. Then some ignorant 'Christians' will be arguing with a fool. I shake my head at you 'Christians'. I shake my head at you. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Daddy Freeze Hails Pastor Abel Damina For Saying Women Can Wear Trousers by budaatum: 2:13pm On Apr 13, 2019 |
alBHAGDADI:You just see what's been shown to you already and learn please. Your brain and mind is needed. 2 Likes |
How was truth made clear to those destined eternally to hell, not in His Books? Gods' Books are His debates, when reading them, one should feel God is speaking to him directly. I know the bible doesnt offer that luxury because
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