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LoJ:
I am not of the opinion that the man stumbled randomly on the treasure.

If the treasure here refers to the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, no one find that by random. it is a Dedicated search for knowledge and singleheartedness and determination.

The emphasis here is made on "someone" because many do seek, but only rare so find. I will come back to this verse to explain other deeper mysteries hidden therein, including the fact that it was actually a clue to a real treasure which existed and was found and was hid again. Till now people still search for it.

Stumble upon does not imply random. The man who found the treasure in the field would have to recognise treasure and where to look for it along with having the means to purchase it once found and this means he must be capable of finding it, as in recognising what he finds. After all, the field owner who most likely had been working his field for many years never knew there was treasure in his field. The fact remains that the man was walking around, likely looking for it and found it in an unexpected place, unless we wish to claim he knew where the treasure was before 'finding' it.

No one finds the Kingdom of God by random. the next parable clearly shows you have to be looking for it.

[url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+13%3A45-46&version=NIV]45[/url] “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. 46 When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

So it is a indeed a Dedicated search for knowledge with singleheartedness and determination, and through very many fields too, so many that you'd likely own many 'fields' thinking you'd found it. I bet if I looked on your bookshelves it is full of 'fields' you bought over time, and if there are no fields on your shelves anymore......................

bloodofthelamb:
You are the one that is slow of understanding. The "bone of contention" here is, why did God created things? Did He creat because he needed to meet His needs that was lacking? As if he was lacking anything before He created. This is my stand and will always be, "the will of God for creating was born out of love, and not of any need nor lack in His part."

So, according to you, God created Adam and Eve out of love but not to fulfil a need to express that love?

You do know that God specifically quality checked everything God created? Even acknowledging that "it was good" is the fulfilment of the act of creation, which is a need to express oneself. You, being in God's image, share this needy attitude. You state your position to affirm your opinion and thereby fulfil the need of self validation.

The need God had is not the sort you feel when you are starving and lack food or need oxygen, since God does not lack anything, but a need to burst forth and multiply as is God's nature to fill the earth it created and to dominate it.

LoJ:
This verse shows that Jesus very early understood that he had uncovered (a) great spiritual truth(s) and did not intend to share it with the common man, for fear it shall be trampled.

He instead chose to operate differently.

I wouldn't say the evidence supports this. If he intended to hide the treasure he could have just been a carpenter, or a fisherman. He in fact did share it with the common man and was trampled so one can't say he feared.

How did he operate differently?

LoJ:
Every significant religion follows more or less the same cycle and this gives room to only few variations.

Early Christians and possibly Jesus were very aware of it, and in order to save their sacred mystical teaching had to manoeuveur intelligently.

In the book of Mathew, their Modus operandi is stated out in a parable.

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field

Mathew 13:44

There are many esoteric level of meanings to this parable. We shall adress some deeper interpretation of this. For the time being suffice to say that it is curious that a man having found a great treasure, hid it again.

Why would he hide it again? Perhaps he knows that one should not "give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces"

This verse shows that Jesus very early understood that he had uncovered (a) great spiritual truth(s) and did not intend to share it with the common man, for fear it shall be trampled.

He instead chose to operate differently.

The man stumbled upon the treasure while walking in a field that belonged to someone else. He hid the treasure hoping no one knew it was there then arranged to buy the field off the none the wise field owner after which he dug up the treasure and was rich.

bloodofthelamb:
God was full of pleasure when he made all things, infact in his eternal pleasure he created all things that we might share in it.

"Pleasure" is precisely what is derived from the fulfilment of a need.

Do you not understand English at all!

bloodofthelamb:
I am good, not that I am born to be good or learn how to be good. This is who I am! Remember, we are talking about God here and who He is.

Have you read Exodus lately? God hardened Pharaoh's heart not to let the Egyptians go so many times just to demonstrate God’s power. That demonstration is the fulfilment of a need.

bloodofthelamb:
God need not to have a need to be who He is. Who God is, is the basics for all He does. "For God so love the world, that he gave ( John 3:16)." The love of God is a precursor to all that he does now and forever.

Do you not see a need in what you quoted? Love, is a need, but in case it's not clear enough, "because God so loved the world, God gave....".

bloodofthelamb:
You can simply say, "God was so full of love that he created things."

You can say that if that's what you think, but I'd rather say, "God was so full of love for what God created" since its what I think.

franciskaine:
Nigeria runs a market economy and it's normal to allow private investors establish businesses and make profit in the longrun.

Does a market economy give subsidies?

AirwavesReport:
Echoes and Lessons from the Kano and Oyo States’ Spirit…Fighting Corruption through the Electorate

Like we all know with the authentic facts and figures that the ancient city of Ibadan, South-West of Nigeria, and the most-populous Nigerian state by census, in the Northern region, Kano, are not just the largest cities in Nigeria, but are the most politically-advanced cities in Africa's most populous nation.
You may call them any name that pleases you but the truth is that they are more advanced in politics than any city in Nigeria. When it is time to retire their political leaders, these two cities, Ibadan and Kano, don’t throw up ethnic or tribal cards. See how they permanently retired two in-laws in politics.
When Governor Umar Ganduje and his in-law, Abiola Ajimobi lost their states, it was not because they performed poorly, compared to Udom Emmanuel, the so-called "Governor do Nothing" of Akwa Ibom State, Ben Ayade of Cross River or Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, who individually and severally have been re-elected for a second term in their respective states. Ajimobi and Ganduje didn't lose because the people of Ibadan and their brothers in Kano love the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, more than they love the All Progressives Congress, APC but their electoral woes went beyond love for parties.
Truth be told! The dollar saga and lack of respect for elders played major roles in what befell them at the polls and the Ajimobi's 'Constituted Authority' video and the viral video in which Governor Ganduje was seen collecting bribe from a certain contractor, generated unfavourable responses before the elections. None of them was able to explain exactly what led to the actions that were caught on tape to the people of their states, who they should have been accountable to in the first instance.
Instructively, the good people of Oyo and Kano States took offence at the obsessive tendencies of their governors. Though the governors seemed to have become immune to criticisms, the people made up their minds that they would not allow either of them to continue to serve them as their leaders.
While the people are celebrating in Uyo, Calabar and Umuahia over the re-election of their governors, who have seemingly done worse things in their states than taking bribes from contractors, the people of Ibadan and Kano demonstrated in unambiguous terms during the last election, of how the hydra-headed monster called corruption can be curbed in Nigeria. Ibadan and Kano have shown us all how to hold our leaders accountable.
They have shown that power truly belongs to the people and those who call Ibadan people illiterates and Kano voters Almajiris are senseless. You can only underestimate the voters at your peril. The illiterate and Almajiri voters who outright voted out Ajimobi and Ganduje because of corruption are 200 times better than the so-called educated illiterates in the South-South and South-East who vote and celebrate corrupt politicians, regardless of their level of education. We need to copy Ibadan and Kano voters if we are serious about moving Nigeria forward. I am an Ibadan man and very proud to be one at that.

Wole Arisekola, writes from Ibadan.

Thank you!

blackpanda:
God really loves this country o

Honestly, we are seriously blessed

Just imagine atiku won elections. By now all looters, thieves and corrupt greedy politicians would have reassembled back in Abuja to divide Nigeria's resources once more. Diezani would have received miraculous healing from cancer, saraki will be firmly on senate throne with his errand boy dino and nnpc would have changed their name to ANPC Atiku National Petroleum Corporation

Don't mind them! Praise God People!

DMerciful:
So why are your educational standards and level so poor?

Boko haram did not just start when you began hearing it on the news. Followers of Maitatsine had been promoting the "purification" of Islam which, according to them, was corrupted by the West and its modernising education from way back in the 70s. And even Maitatsine was building on shoulders of ideas that date back to the 1900s.

Because our start base was poor. Western school is new to the North at least for we masses.

ThothHermes:
This is a lazy and frankly irritating copout. Why not tell me yourself

You are requesting that I give you extremely valuable pearls with the most undeserving attitude and think I'd be foolish enough to just hand it over?

No. I'm not telling you anything Thoth Hermes!

ThothHermes:
I'm 100% sure it's not staged as some atheists would come and say now.

Stop insulting people and stop insulting 100% for Christ sake! I said you were blind, and you lied!

DMerciful:
Who vote help? They should improve their standard of living and embrace western education!

Vote help me, and us. Does your vote not help you?

We "improve our standard of living and embrace western education" by voting in leaders who steal less of our money and spend it on education instead!

ThothHermes:
I have seen Ibiyeomie do this several times. I don't know how he does it. I've also seen him do it with cash.
I've seen him draw and imaginary line and everyone who tried to cross the line fell to the ground.

You have not seen Ibiyeomie do anything several times! All you saw several times was people falling down as they approached an imaginary line which I'll let others tell you why.

Cantonese:
When in 2018 Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwanso decided he had seen enough of the APC he chose to return to his old and well known home and base, PDP. To the powers in charge within the APC it did not matter.

Having informed us all through his spokesman about his plan, he eventually decamped. One thing was very pronounced about the composure of Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwanso and that was his silence. Upon his decamping he promised to remove Ganduje from the governor's office. Ganduje told Kwankwanso that mathematically it would never happen. Ganduje was banking on the popularity of Buhari in the north west forgetting that Kwankwanso is an iroko tree. Kwankwanso kept his silence.

Kwankwanso planned to visit his own state, Kano, but the governor, Ganduje, claiming all sorts of negatives ensured that Kwankwanso remained in Abuja. Kwankwanso kept his silence and faced his work. Ganduje at all opportunities would tell us how he had worked so hard, how Kwankwanso had become nobody in Kano, how members of PDP had decamped to APC and how he single handedly would deliver 5 million votes to Buhari. Kwankwanso kept silent. Shekarau went back to APC along with Professor Hafiz, the deputy governor and others, Kwankwanso kept silent.

One day Kwakwanso visited Kano and the great Kwankwansiyya movement came alive again. Campaign also came and Ganduje saw the intimidating crowd. Ganduje said the crowd was fake! Kwankwanso kept silent.

Election came in Kano. Voters thumbprinted to Buhari. Ganduje's political blindness did not let him think about possibilities in his political future. He failed to read the political barometer. He thought that with what he saw during the presidential election, Kano state was already in the bag for APC. When Bola Tinubu was calling the different caucuses in the south west and compelling them to vote APC, we did not hear Kwankwanso's voice.

Governorship election came on the 9th of March and after counting of the votes we saw with Kwankwanso how it pays to know your group and work underground. PDP currently leads APC with roughly 26,000 votes. So far Kwankwanso has delivered over 1 million votes to PDP. Kwankwanso has still maintained his silence. Ganduje has failed to deliver 1 million votes at a time in the two elections so far.

Ganduje has been going to the press to say "no shaking". Ganduje should be reminded that " na like play butterfly dey enter bush". How can Ganduje overcome the margin now seeing that Kwankwansiyya movement will ensure that PDP get most of the votes with the clear and very honest CP in Kano state who has ensured fairness and equity.

Ganduje going...going!

Gone!

anochuko01:
youre right with all your statements but the smartness of the northern populace hasnt translated to much development...let them continue to hold their leaders more accountable and demand higher quality of life

They are holding their leaders very much more accountable and are demanding higher quality of life than they used to! Or do you just not know how oppressed they had been in the past and how many more schools and people they have in mainstream education today compared? Just imagine what you'd have said if gangan had won! Imagine if we Nigerians had let Atiku get his grubby fingers on our loot too - would that not be saying, "we want to suffer some more please, de one wey we suffer reach neva do"?

I'm delighted they kicked out gangan whatever the margin. It shows they got some brain, at least.

Oshigun:
@OP

Correct talk. Disregard all the wailers talking nonsense. Any Nigerian who is honest and knows what we went through with PDP for 16 years will praise God PDP are not back in power only 4 years after their ruination of Nigeria and this arrogantly unrepentant effort to come and repeat the same in 2019 through Atiku, Obigotry, Saraki, FFK, Fayose, Reno Omokri aka Wendel Simlin etal.

We thank God he provided PMB who is a man of destiny and with a good name PDP dollars could not soil or defeat. The PDP is now retrenched for good.

We must continue to be vigilant! And to be honest, we must all work as hard as possible every minute of everyday to make sure looters are permanently eliminated. I swear, if that is the only thing Buhari manages to leave in our minds Nigeria go better. But if we let them get their dirty hands on our loot again they will just sell us all as slaves for their ultimate looting! And beware! It's not just PDP is looters, APC is saints! We all know how good they are at jumping about, so use your heads people! We are arising, compatriots, be assured.

anochuko01:
which brain dey north?
they simply prefared a staunch muslim/northerner over a liberal atiku.
if they have brain, ganduje shouldnt have even gotten up to 10k votes....

It's politics. If me and ganduje is sharing his gandollars with 10k people, they would vote for him. Besides, isn't it unreasonable not to expect some people to be brainless anyway?

Perkins2018:
How many jobs did Jonathan create? What of obasanjo?

I think Obasanjo even tried, though he was fortunate to have taken over a repressed economy with lots of pent up demand. Just consider all the jobs created in telecoms during his time. And debt forgiveness made us rich. Jonathan though, just had to sit there and watch as $150 barrels of crude oil set the nation aflow with so much cash that people were storing it in shalangas and rented houses to store dollars stolen from the Nigerian purse. And then crude oil crashed and we all ran to Buhari to save us from pending doom!

I swear, people should have given Jonathan a second term. Dollar would be 2k by now, then they might have learned to appreciate some!

Quorax:
bros... I have never applied for job since I left school...

And u must be silly for saying Buhari is not responsible for providing jobs for our graduates... U must be an idiot for using that as a line of defence when Trump has created more jobs for his country than you will dream of till you die

Get out of my sight and don't ever quote me again if you don't want my venom...

Trump did not create any jobs for his country! The economy of America was improving under Obama with a trend of employment already established long before Trump became president, but I guess that would not suit the narrative you want to believe.

Please, sit there waiting for Buhari to hire you or for Atiku to come along and do it for you. Don't get off your ass and create a job please, after all, it's me who is the idiot whom you will kill with your venom.

Oh mein Gott, I think I just quoted Quorax!

Quorax:
Bros leave them. They still have food to eat. Wait until many of them lose their jobs.

Hungry people should work harder to feed themselves instead of waiting for handouts and subsidy. Buhari is not responsible for feeding you! And if you think Atiku was going to feed you you must be 5 years old!

solite3:
everlasting righteousness is a gift base on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross.

Moral righteousness is filthy rag before God.

Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

So, you should not bother about moral righteousness because it's a filthy rag before God, and "everlasting righteousness is gift based on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross"?

I wonder why moral righteousness is a requirement to dwell in the tabernacle of the Lord then.

Are these fruit of the Spirit which is "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control" not moral righteousness? Do they just fall on your head because Jesus was sacrificed on a cross?

shadeyinka:
And sometimes that empty Something is a virtual Something!

Virtual o, real o, it's still a something, and not a nothing.

solite3:
A believer doesn't lose his righteousness because he commit sin that is why it is called everlasting righgeousness

So a believer can go and commit any sin and still keep their righteousness?

I did not get the memo where righteousness stopped being the quality of being morally right and it don't matter what you do, once righteous, forever righteous!

asuustrike1:
Dr Okonjo Iweala said similar thing instead many Nigerians castigated her but now the truth is staring at your face

We should all write to tell Buhari to remove fuel subsidy. #Otogefuelsubsidy springs to my mind.

Can anyone think up a more catchy hashtag for it?

iammo:
How much was the global price during these periods



Nigeria pays the lowest tax, lowest electricity tarrifs lowest rent, lowest petroleum price, lowest tuition and school fees all because of Nigerdelta" oyel " money yet we complain the most

Lowest wages too!

valenu:
Not surprised. Continue to blame PDP while alleveryone wants to return back to PDP. APC and blame be like 5and6. It was PDP that chased investors out of Nigeria. I prefer criminal who knows how to grow the economy for everyone to enjoy

You mean you prefer criminals ruling this country so you too can steal!


Thank God and all the smart people who refused to let you by voting 4+4 Next Level Sai Bubu from Daura!

First thing Buhari should do is remove fuel subsidy and let market forces dictate the price. We need more energy but subsidy is keeping us on rations!

This Kano voted Sai Bubu but dumped Gandollar yet some people would claim there are no brains in the North.

cloudgoddess:
But you don't even need evidence to believe that a Jewish man died on a cross and ascended into heaven three days later, or that a talking snake caused the fall of mankind. You believe those things and many other questionable tidbits just because one dusty religious book (of many) says it happened. Who is truly the gullible one here?

Yeah, who?

shadeyinka:
You too.
But there is no nothing that is something! Not possible!

Peace!

Nothing cannot be something. But something has to have nothing in it for that something to be empty.