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Democracy, as in, rulers elected by the people to serve for a definite time, is very good for Nigeria. It allows us to chose our rulers and change them if they do not perform. The alternative is to have rulers chosen for us, and perhaps without a term. If they are chosen for us, they have no need to pander to our desires and can do whatever pleases those who do appoint them. And if for an indefinite period, we'd have to bear whatever they inflict on us till they are done. That's not to say democracy is perfect, but we at least have a say in the whole affair.

Records, by the way, would show that our brutal dictators killed too, and of massobism and boko haramism began way before independence. They just didn't have the prominence modern media allows us to have today.

Hakeem12:
Even the Jesus story in itself is just pathetic. I didn't ask him to die for my sins. He didn't ask my permission before he died. He will even burn me for not acknowledging that he died for me. Now all these happened in the middle east 2000 or so years ago, not even here in Nigeria. That don't make no sense at all. Roman mythology = mythology, Egyptian mythology = mythology, African mythology = mythology, now Jewish mythology = the truth, Arabian mythology = the truth. Hypocrites and senseless people everywhere. The same hypocrites that condemn masquerade festivals in their country and celebrate Halloween. Miserable illiterates who have abandoned the use of their brains.

It's like asking you to pay back a loan you never took out which was spent on your behalf though you never benefitted, and with interest!

blueAgent:
Aleast it was never your Church that insistuted the first Church or Christainity.

I don't have a church dude.

joseph1013:
And any atheist who conclusively tells you god does not exist is deluded. I have not heard an atheist say that. Where do you find your own atheists?

Gods do not exist outside the minds of those in whom they are created.

You've heard it now, and I have held this view whilst living in Nigeria, and in fact, developed it there through extensive research. If gods do exist, people wouldn't claim to believe they did, they would know they did, but I'm sure you'd have realised most people believe gods exist without actually knowing.

LordReed:
LoL. So this video was posted in 2012, and a cursory internet search shows no result for a woman paralyzed 25 years healed in russia that corroborates the story. Must be god working his mysterious ways of blocking out information from the internet.

And then. And then.

Don't you know the internet is a tool of the devil.

And then!

Mindfulness:
But where is the caravan now?

The might have turned back when they didn't see a blue enough wave.

Who touched whom?

Depends who's side one's on, it seems.

obixcel:
Jim Acosta finally gets the boot as White House suspends his Press Pass.
The White House on Wednesday evening suspended CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s White House press room pass after a combative exchange with President Trump in which he refused to give up the microphone and wrangled with a female intern trying to take it back.

alBHAGDADI:
I believe it because that's what the Bible says. You my friend hasn't been able to use Bible verses to back your stance. You are just dishing out words of your own understanding.

Yes, when we are saved, we manifest it's fruits which are works. But those works are not what saves us, because we are saved already. Those works only show we are saved. Even if we do not works, we are still saved because we are righteous for having faith in Jesus.

Romans 4:5
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

When you have Jesus in you you would find no need to worry about righteousness or salvation, which is a worry of the damned, and not a worry for those who are much more important than the birds and the bees! Those with Jesus would be going forth "doing my will" "caring for my sheep" and "feeding my lambs". But here you are claiming righteousness whilst (unintentionally, I contend), giving stones and calling it bread! Is it not true that “the servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready [work] or does not do what the master wants [work] will be beaten with many blows"? If you do no works, you are saltless salt, a hidden lamp, and no different to a person who hides his talent for fear of his master! Even the righteousness such people have would be eaten by moths and they would weep and gnash their teeth!

But I know you do do works alBHAGDADI. When you read your Bible, you work to improve yourself! When you write on here, you work to improve others and to improve yourself! Even by engaging with others you work to understand! And all this, you desire to do specifically to the glory of your God! So stop misleading others and preach what you do. Faith without works is death. For faith, itself, is power to do work, just as the seed produces fruits!

P.s. If you work a tinsy bit harder, you would notice that I do reference the Bible. To be rather specific, I buda, "pick up some mud, spit on it, and rub it in your eyes"! You just need to "lean not on your own understanding" and become as a newborn child. If you allow the Holy Spirit to work in you, you would see!

alBHAGDADI:
Jesus gave to beggars. He gave them something greater than money. He healed everyone that BEGGED him to heal them.

Your failure to give beggars means you have sinned. Yet you say you are sinless. This is against the Bible. which says "all have sinned". You are a liar.

I too give to beggars. When I walk past they receive. I am walking by here giving to you, and even whilst you disagree, you have received. I am not a liar. You just don't know you are a beggar.

But if I am a sinner, according to you, for not giving to beggars, then God too is a sinner, and a greater sinner than I am. I may see the beggars I walk by, but the Omniscient God sees all beggars. Yet the poor are still amongst us, while all God need do is look upon them and make them all rich!

Ogbeni, stop begging around with your illogical misunderstanding and receive the gift you are being given. There is power, they say, in the name of Jesus. Power is for work! Those who receive the gift of God would not be begging to begin with!

alBHAGDADI:
Accepting Jesus Christ without doing works still makes one a righteous man.

Romans 4:5
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

You believe that if it pleases you. Personally, anyone who claims to have accepted a single iota of what is Jesus into their life would manifest it through their works or the little they have would be taken from them and teeth gnashing would be their hobby.

alBHAGDADI:
Are you sure?

Have you ever seen a beggar and your mind told you to give him money but you failed to?

John 4:17
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

I've seen lots of beggars and not given them money and I do not consider it a sin. If it was, then even Jesus was a sinner since he did not go about giving every beggar money. Or would you claim there were no beggars in his time, or he did not see or know it was a sin? Makes me wonder if you know what sin is really!

But take what you quoted. Does one not have to do work in order to know? After all, if one bothered to do the work to ask the beggar about their needs one would know.

Accepting Jesus into one's life itself means work! Or what use is salt that has lost it's saltiness?

Can one be said to have accepted Jesus into one's life without doing the work of "do my will", and "love your neighbour", or even "going forth to preach the gospel", to mention a few? Or are these not required works, according to Christ?

alBHAGDADI:
You shouldn't be scared of quoting verses to buttress your point. What you will basically be doing henceforth is trying to convince me based on your own understanding, not the Bible's.

Me talking about terrible sin is not me shifting ground. Peter committed a terrible sin of denying Jesus Christ. He did so because he didn't have the Holy Spirit. Once you have the Holy Spirit, you will hardly commit such sins.

You are mistaken in thinking that sin, no matter how small or terrible, is what damns one to hell. That is why you are hell bent on Works to save yourself. Rejection of Jesus Christ is what damns one to hell, not sin as you see it. Once you accept Christ, your sins can never prevent you from eternal life because you believe in Jesus. But once you don't believe in Jesus as it suppose to be, the. you are doomed.

The moment you believe in Jesus, you have eternal life. No sin can take that away from you, or else the below verse will be false.

John 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

If you say one can lose his salvation for not doing works, then it means one can lose the eternal life given to him for believing in Jesus. That means the life was never eternal if it could be snatched from him for committing sin. You holding such believe means you have called God a liar for you reject the record He gave of His Son. This record says we have eternal life just for believing in Jesus. But you say we can lose it if we sin. That means you have stated that the life God gave us isn't eternal, doesn't last long, if we could lose it. You have called God a liar.

1 John 5:10-13

He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

alBHAGDADI:
Mention one person that lived or lives without sin. Your inability to provide an answer will show you that you have misunderstood Christ's words.

Me!

otuekong1:
those bmc zombies will avoid dis thread

But we APC supporters wouldn't!

Do note that all members investigating this governor are all APC members!

OLAADEGBU:
This guy get mouth, eh? It's good to know how you liberals cried yourself to sleep, licking your wounds when Donald Trump won the Presidential election.

Licking wounds? Sleep? You underestimate the pain dude. It was way more than could be licked in a lifetime, and the only thing more painful is if he gets two terms! That's why we're not sleeping now!

blueAgent:
Lie.

The Church foundation was laid in Judea by Jesus and was ushered in on the day of pentecost from there it spread to every part of the World.
What your Church did was to hijack what was already existing using their power from Rome to dictate and claim it was started by them.

Not, "started by them", more like, 'standing on the shoulders of predecessors'. Jesus Christ, after all, could be said to have "hijack[ed] what was already existing", taking extra care not to abolish, but to fulfil what already existed.

I wonder how much of this Jesus Christ you've actually read about, for you sound more like one of those who dips into the Jesus book randomly seeking "knowledge", and not like one who has started at the beginning and worked through to the end in order to gain 'understanding'. If you had read from the beginning, you'd of more likely have said the foundation was laid way back in the Garden of Eden or at least by Moses!

alBHAGDADI:
Can a man live without sin?

Yes, a person can live without sinning, or at least a woman can, or Jesus would have to have asked for the impossible when he said, "go, and sin no more".

You just have to work at it, harder, man.

Daviddson:
You're the one misunderstanding them or even outrightly turning them upside down to satisfy yourself! If you remove the place of sin and righteousness, what's there again to consider about repentance? Why should a murderer, fornicator, hard drug user, etc, repent if he'll continue doing the same things after verbally professing to have repented? Think about it, bro and get yourself from these bouts of heresy and pandering towards sin.

Even "repent", is work to "remove the place of sin and righteousness".

A "murderer, fornicator, hard drug user, etc", who does not work at repentance will simply remain a "murderer, fornicator, hard drug user, etc".

gesundheit:
Y'all colouring your ignorance so well, economic boom? Have you check the housing market and the stock market.

According to experts, the initial boom are on emotions and reality are falling fast and wild. How do you fix all the farmers running at unprecedented losses, auto companies are reeling on the iron and steel tariff.

When the policies of this administration start affecting the economy, I might have transfer to my firm branch in Europe or Asia. It's gonna make 08' look like a cake walk.

It's called a 'sugar boost'. It kind of makes you feel you're full when you ain't and it doesn't last long.

I reckon if Trump had sat in the White House and done absolutely nothing the economy would be much stronger for longer. But with his tariffs, he's probably truncated the growth that started under Obama.

Time, they say, will tell.

Seems the blues didn't castrate Trump in the end, which is a great pity, but at least he got circumcised and won't be swinging his dik like he would have liked to. Though, knowing Trump, he'd likely still be going around stating he got the biggest dik in town. The blues have a consolation all the same. 2 years ago, some of us went to bed in shock just about this time in the morning, hoping when we finally woke up we'd find we were just having a nightmare, only to find we were wide awake watching Trump become President of the USA. Least we know this is no dream! Got to say, he did just about as well as I thought he would but much better than I hoped. I'll be checking how the governors done when I wake up, but sounds like Gillum lost. Oh, and what's that about Romney? McCain resurrected, perhaps?

Here's to the next two years!

Anyone got a link to the banned Trump advert?

Appleyard:
We have eyes that look into the cosmic mirror...

I don't think elections in America are determined by "cosmic mirrors", though I might be wrong. We'll find out soon I guess.

I might need to listen to this guy more!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1HdDywCi6k

Abbeybailey:
Some of the crackpots here are talking about Republikkkans gaining 7 seats about elections that we are still voting on as I speak.

Oh, I get it. Tv polls!

Appleyard:
Instead of loosing the House, the Republicans just added another 7 seats...

Where did they add these seats please?

EZEBEL:
The only sensible Buharist i have seen in the past 4 years, i know you have really seen reasons to port just waiting for the right time.

It's about who I think is better. Atiku just does not cut it for me, and the rest don't seem to stand a chance.

If it turns out Buhari has been corrupt all along, I might run for President myself just so I can throw his ass in jail.

This election is going to be over by this time tomorrow I reckon, and I expect both sides to do a Biya and claim they won. So I'm going to state what a win is so no one plasters over their pain.

It's simple really. A minority in both the Senate and Representative is death to either side, and a majority in both is an outright win. Even if the Republicans lose a few seats along the way, it's no consolation to the Democrats.

A majority in either is acceptable for Democrats, though a majority in the Senate trumps the House, as in, "we lost, but it's not so bad since our position is improved". A loss of either is bad for Republicans however, though the loss of the Senate is worse than the House.

A Democrat majority in both though is an in your face dead Trump, which is what I'm hoping for as an antitrumpetan, except I don't get to vote.

Now no one is allowed to claim they won if they lost, right! Good luck to you all.

OfficialAPCNig:
Illiteracy is not good. Who told you all Isrealis are jews? Your Imam?

That's true. Some Israelis are Arabs. But these Biafrans claimed to be Zionists, and I do think that makes them Jewish (unless they are Zionist supporters, which isn't what they've called themselves).

Blakjewelry:
you no go school? biafrans said they are a lost tribe of Israel and all Israeli are what?

Japanese now!