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Christianity Etc › Re: Salvation In Christianity 101: by budaatum: 4:33pm On Dec 24, 2021
The Bible is the history of man. In its sixty-six books it describes in allegory, prophecy, epistle, parable, and poem, man's generation, degeneration, and regeneration. It has been preserved and prized beyond all other books because it teaches man how to develop the highest principle of his being, the spirit. As man is a threefold being, spirit, soul, and body, so the Bible is a trinity in unity. It is body as a book of history; soul as a teacher of morals; and spirit as a teacher of the mysteries of being.

The student of history finds the Bible interesting if not wholly accurate; the faithful good man finds in it that which strengthens his righteousness, and the overcomer with Christ finds it to be the greatest of all books as a guide to his spiritual unfoldment. But it must be read in the spirit if the reader is to get the lesson it teaches. The key to its spiritual meaning is that back of every mentioned thing is an idea.

Mysteries of Genesis By Charles Fillmore
Christianity Etc › Re: Salvation In Christianity 101: by budaatum: 4:05pm On Dec 24, 2021
sonmvayina:
Which part of the gospels or epistles did you get this idea from. Or is it a new age religion?

Because none of the plenty iteration of Christianity holds this view.

Enlighten me.
You are very much welcome to the product of buda using buda's own heart and soul and mind and all other senses to ask and knock and seek for buda's self instead of relying on "plenty iteration of Christianity".

Christianity Etc › Re: Virgin Birth: It’s Pagan. Get Over It. by budaatum: 4:01pm On Dec 24, 2021
sonmvayina:
How do these disprove the fact that the virgin birth of Jesus is not pagan in origin?
I am not trying to prove any fact whatsoever, son.

budaatum:
Egyptian Mystery School were a big thing. Newton's Apple fell from Egypt and I have discovered Einstein there too. Even Jesus had to be called out of Egypt.

Here's something about Ancient Isis, Osiris, and Horus.

Be delighted for the internet! Before it we relied on books!
Christianity Etc › Re: Virgin Birth: It’s Pagan. Get Over It. by budaatum: 3:56pm On Dec 24, 2021
sonmvayina:
I have found it and have been teaching you and MaxInDHouse about it , but you lot have been so blind and brainwashed that you can't even see.
If you had found it you'd know how to get past our "blind and brainwashed that you can't even see".

Christianity Etc › Re: Virgin Birth: It’s Pagan. Get Over It. by budaatum: 3:49pm On Dec 24, 2021
KnownUnknown:
First of all, there was no Nigeria then. Second of all some people did read, so how was it “almost”unheard of?
I don't think the people who occupied the area on a map of today known as Nigeria read much in say, the 1200s. We Yorubas didn't until Arabic arrived and Portuguese much later. If you mean Arabic/Islamic education, here's some very early Nigeria writing though.

Uthman Ibn Idris of Borno sent a letter to the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt in 1391-1392. The letter was one of a diplomatic nature, it also contained poetry and an erudite understanding of Islamic law. This letter contains the earliest extant indigenous written poem produced in Nigeria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_literature?wprov=sfla1
Below is Egyptian and Greek for comparison.

Ancient Egyptian writing is known as hieroglyphics ('sacred carvings') and developed at some point prior to the Early Dynastic Period (c. 3150 -2613 BCE). According to some scholars, the concept of the written word was first developed in Mesopotamia and came to Egypt through trade. While there certainly was cross-cultural exchange between the two regions, Egyptian hieroglyphics are completely Egyptian in origin; there is no evidence of early writings which describe non-Egyptian concepts, places, or objects, and early Egyptian pictographs have no correlation to early Mesopotamian signs.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Egyptian_Writing/
At the beginning of Greek literature stand the two monumental works of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.  The figure of Homer is shrouded in mystery. Although the works as they now stand are credited to him, it is certain that their roots reach far back before his time. The Iliad is a narrative of a single episode spanning over the course of a ten-day-period from near the end of the ten years of the Trojan War. It centers on the person of Achilles, who embodied the Greek heroic ideal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_literature?wprov=sfla1
Christianity Etc › Re: Virgin Birth: It’s Pagan. Get Over It. by budaatum: 12:51pm On Dec 24, 2021
KnownUnknown:
What do they give you in school that evolved out of Christianity?
An education. The ability to use the heart and soul and mind and all other senses to ask and knock and seek.
Christianity Etc › Re: Virgin Birth: It’s Pagan. Get Over It. by budaatum: 12:49pm On Dec 24, 2021
KnownUnknown:
Was reading unheard of before “Christian education”?
In Nigeria, almost yes, unless you read Arabic. Our forefathers did not read books. My own forefathers were divining Ifa. In most of Europe too, reading was by Christian education. The church needed preachers and bookkeepers so they educated.

Pre-Christian education of course existed. The Greeks and Romans had reading before Christianity, as did the Chinese, the Egyptians and lots of others who's education had nothing to do with Christianity before or after but it was mostly reserved for the few wherever it existed.

Christianity proselytised to the masses by teaching reading, especially the Protestants who by defeating the flaming swords of unreadable Latin that barred it from the masses, handed to us in our own tongues.

Us, Nigerians? God Jesus in our milk and often the sperm that made us unless its Allah or Ogun and Sango etc in some dying rare cases.
Christianity Etc › Re: Virgin Birth: It’s Pagan. Get Over It. by budaatum: 12:34pm On Dec 24, 2021
KnownUnknown:
What is Christian education?
Mostly, what they give you in school. It evolved out of Christianity.
Christianity Etc › Re: Salvation In Christianity 101: by budaatum: 12:31pm On Dec 24, 2021
sonmvayina:
Basically salvation in the Christian religion is believing that God the Father so love the world that he sent God the son so that man could shed God's pure blood as a sacrifice by God the son to appease God the Father , for God the Father to save man..


Did I miss any bit?
Yes. All of it. Perhaps you meant Christians that you know?

Christianity is about reading a book and exercising your mind so you grow and develop and evolve.

It is written that when you do exercise your mind so you grow and develop and evolve, greater things than he is written to have done would you do.
Christianity Etc › Re: Virgin Birth: It’s Pagan. Get Over It. by budaatum: 11:47am On Dec 24, 2021
sonmvayina:
The deep anxiety of Christians is often revealed in their desperation to convince themselves they aren’t just new-fangled pagans who stole everything from other religions.
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a person understands it, they hide it again, and then in their joy went and sold all they had and bought that field." Except in the days the Christian texts were written there was no copyright laws.

sonmvayina:
Naahhh, it's all roman/Greek mythology..
I wonder how many people would have heard of Roman/Greek mythology if not for their Christian education that taught them to read.

What do you think?
Family › Re: Nairaland Christmas Giveaway By Twaci (2021 Edition) by budaatum: 11:40am On Dec 24, 2021
Travel › Indigo Traveller Does Nigeria by budaatum(op): 12:37am On Dec 24, 2021
Lagos, Nigeria is Crazy (Largest City in Africa - 25 Million People)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZrYwuxThFA
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 11:54pm On Dec 23, 2021
I do not accept conditions from you nor care if you answer or not so long as you obviously get to think about it a little which you must.


basilico:
I would respond to you if you know what Operation Warp Speed is.
Who facilitated it.
Does a parent disown his baby?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 11:35pm On Dec 23, 2021
feedthenation:
Trump pushes back on Candace Owens: 'People aren't dying when they take the vaccine'

“Oh no, the vaccines work, but some people aren’t the ones. The ones who get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones that don’t take the vaccine. But it’s still their choice. And if you take the vaccine, you’re protected,” Trump told Owens.

“Look, the results of the vaccine are very good, and if you do get it, it’s a very minor form,” Trump continued. “People aren’t dying when they take the vaccine.”

Trump recently shared during a sit-down interview with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly that he has received his COVID-19 vaccine booster shot.

Basilico, I don't trust him neither.

Science/Technology › Re: Lioness Goes In For A HUG With Her Human Best Friend ( Pics, Video) by budaatum: 11:27pm On Dec 23, 2021
chatinent:
That lioness is not hugging him for friendship. You know that moment you check the fridge and see your food intact? That feeling? That is it.
Sounds like love to me. You enjoy its presense in the fridge instead of in your belly. That feeling, That is it.
Science/Technology › Re: Lioness Goes In For A HUG With Her Human Best Friend ( Pics, Video) by budaatum: 11:23pm On Dec 23, 2021
tonyson010:
Loving animals are better than neighbors, cos the evils in humans is so great.
I do not believe you.

You are human and I am your neighbor.
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Are Most Atheist Single? by budaatum: 4:45pm On Dec 23, 2021
Interfaith marriage in the UK Census

In the 2001 Census 20,635,298 were recorded as married
Of these 882,007 were in a mixed-marriage, in which both partners come from one of the following groups - no religion, and Christian or Muslim and Sikh
The most common combination by a long way was Christians married to those of no religion at 749,782
The next most common combination was Muslims married to Christians at 21,396
There were 13,457 Christians and Jews married, 336 Muslims and Jews
Figures for mixed-faith marriages have not been collated for the 2011 Census, though groups who support couples report anecdotal evidence of an increase
According to the 2011 Census four out of 10 people with no religion are aged under 25 and four in five are under the age of 50
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30708242
Christianity Etc › Re: American Summit For Democracy Of 9th And 10th December Is Peace And Safety by budaatum: 4:36pm On Dec 22, 2021
MrPresident1:
buda for eartum aka budaatum, I love democracy. buda for eartum aka budaatum, do you love democracy too?
Join the Nairaland Democratic Party and be the difference you want to see!
Romance › Re: A Let Down by budaatum: 4:32pm On Dec 22, 2021
azraeljaheel:
i cant access the link, thanks to my phone. Kindly edit that your post!
I should edit my post because of your phone?

Some people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_drowning_man?wprov=sfla1
Politics › Re: Do You Still Believe Nigeria Will Be Good In Your Lifetime? by budaatum: 4:29pm On Dec 22, 2021
gidgiddy:
We have no national philosophy, no cohesion, no commonality of purpose and no integrated value system. From this mountain of chaos, someone is hoping for a miracle to happen so that there will bring progress? Who is fooling who?
You, "have no national philosophy", it sounds like, "no commonality of purpose and no integrated values system". Some of us sang Arise O Compatriot, and are therefore rising to uphold our Pledge.

Many of us are in groups where we have "philosophies, and commonality of purpose and integrated values". In fact, there is no reason why we can't have that even here, on Nairaland, as a start, though we'd need to start by defining what we might mean by "philosophies, and commonality of purpose and integrated values" since we will not get them by miracles but by very hard work and dedication to the task.
Romance › Re: A Let Down by budaatum: 9:05pm On Dec 21, 2021
azraeljaheel:
Pastor of the church were i sleep keeps telling me you need forgivenes and righteousness too[righteousness2] to be among the heavenly explorers, but i telim for how long will i wait on God.
Parable of the drowning man

Romance › Re: A Let Down by budaatum: 6:30pm On Dec 21, 2021
azraeljaheel:
what the hell! Lies!? You should really take back your words! I in no way lied to you and i wasnt trying to conceal your nick!

you see the funny think is. I thought you saw the mention but ignored

too bad you jumped to conclusion.. I had no reason to be dishonest to you..

you just messed with my reputation..

pattymike
The following is a dishonest lie.

azraeljaheel:
Am faraway, butathome[budaatum] i dont think they care, they already labelled me a childofdoom. ..
I never labelled you, and buda does not put buda's money where buda does not care.
Romance › Re: A Let Down by budaatum: 6:10pm On Dec 21, 2021
This dishonest individual (who in mentioning me has done it in sneaky way so his lies do not come to my attention), is one of a very few I have paid money to do work for me. And the work was very simple as the lying individual can testify.

azraeljaheel:
Under the sky, dews rain on me like illicit substance. Maybe hardwork wouldnt take despain away, should i sell mysoul to thesourcerer. I find myself cursing at everything, my attitude makes people say, you being arrogantbro. Am faraway, butathome[budaatum] i dont think they care, they already labelled me a childofdoom. Pastor of the church were i sleep keeps telling me you need forgivenes and righteousness too[righteousness2] to be among the heavenly explorers, but i telim for how long will i wait on God.
everyday i go to bed for the past three month hoping i dont wake up the next day!! Lonely af ifind myself conversing with thedevil.. Thug of war in my head. Angels and demons fighting..
Christianity Etc › Re: American Summit For Democracy Of 9th And 10th December Is Peace And Safety by budaatum: 5:45pm On Dec 21, 2021
MrPresident1:
buda for eartum aka budaatum have you see this thread?
Are you against democracy or what?
Politics › Re: Do You Still Believe Nigeria Will Be Good In Your Lifetime? by budaatum: 5:42pm On Dec 21, 2021
Ttalk:
What more responsibility are you asking from the Nigerians when they practically provide everything without any input from the government.
Need I point out your, "level of killings" that you say has not yet been provided? You forget to note that you are complaining that everything is not provided and yet you claim "Nigerians ..... practically provide everything without any input from the government".

Ttalk:
What is essence of paying tax when it's not going to be put in proper use for the benefit of the people?
This hurts like you stuck a knife in me.

Nigeria is a blessed country, at the moment. Since its inception it has had this black thing in the ground it sells for dollars to fund everything so personal taxation hasn't exactly been a huge thing as every Nigerian knows or ought to, that the schools, the roads, hospitals, government salaries, the entire government budget, is funded by petrodollars and not by the tax we pay

Since Nigeria was not built with the tax we earned from the sweat of our brow, we do not monitor it and it does not benefit us. Some of us even want to destroy the little it has helped us build instead of investing our tax in its future improvement. And that's the pity. It like we got some other country we will call our own after we destroy the one we got.

Ttalk:
How do a sane person be comfortable with the level of killings going on and government can't come up with any means to address them when everyone knows that state police would at least reduce this madness in this country.
No one is "comfortable with the level of killings going on", that's why quite a lot of us don't live in those uncomfortable places, Ttalk. You hardly, after all, see as many threads from eyewitness accounts of "killings going on", or do you? But let me focus on your "state police", for now.

I'm from the State of Osun, as named by our past governor, Aregbe. When he came to power, he said the state was broke, and government workers were too many and he can not pay everyone so, "government workers, I have to sack half of you". NULGE, everyone, was up in arms. "You can't sack us! We are the sole providers in our families, what will our children eat"? But Aregbe said, "no money!"

It was finally agreed that he will pay half salary until things improved then he can pay what he owed. But things got worse! Petrodollars dropped from $150 a barrel to sub 30 and Nigeria earned lots less as did each state especially those like mine that borrowed on an income of $150 a barrel of crude and were now paying interest on an income of 30. Aregbe started paying half salary every other month. I better explain that last bit so you don't miss the point! A person on a salary of say, 10k a month was now being paid 5k every other month, thereby cutting their annual salary from 120k to 30k. And then it was cut to whenever he could pay.

Is that the same state governor that you think will provide you with "state police would at least reduce this madness in this country"?

Would police be on special state payroll and receive full pay when everyone else wasn't, or would their guns increase madness on the street?

Ttalk:
Sorry, you appear to be very selfish and parochial based on your comments so far on this topic. You want us all to be a good person when there's no system or structure to guide us, nothing happens by chance.
You do not need to apologise to me for your opinion of me. Its obvious you know nothing about buda and are apologising for your own parochialism.

Please know that I do not want us to be "good", though "good" is a good thing to be, as it is a requirement for being bold and brave and fearing no evil. I want me, us, to be better than "good. Much much better than "good". "Good", my black ass! As if "good" is what wins elections and puts in a "system or structure to guide us". In fact, the very best, is what I want from myself and for myself and from us and for us.

Responsibility, Ttalk, does not wait to be guided, for that is not responsibility but its exact opposite. Responsibility is knowing we are the "system", that we create our own "structure to guide" we ourselves, precisely because "nothing happens by chance" and nor will "system or structure to guide us" happen until we guide ourselves. Which brings me to my faith in Nigeria, or at least its future.

You, we, all are young with many years ahead of us. We look at the labours of our heros past in vain thinking they should have done better. And they might have should, though you need to recognise they were not "good", but were learning how to rule a nation they had no experience of ruling. We, however, are a new generation, one that has evolved from those so called heroes and who see the possibilities we can achieve.

Immense faith in us do I have.
Romance › Re: Devastated!! My Helper Wants To Get Intimate With Me! I Need Help On What To Do by budaatum: 4:18pm On Dec 21, 2021
azraeljaheel:
atum please edit your last sentence it sounds somehow lol
"Sounds somehow" how?
Romance › Re: Devastated!! My Helper Wants To Get Intimate With Me! I Need Help On What To Do by budaatum: 4:16pm On Dec 21, 2021
azraeljaheel:
i returned the money cheesy
What did the pastor say, and where do you sleep now?
Politics › Re: Do You Still Believe Nigeria Will Be Good In Your Lifetime? by budaatum: 3:58pm On Dec 21, 2021
Bantu10:
The guy u quoted is a habitual zombie and a northerner who must work hard to keep this contraption together
Superhuman me, single handedly keeping "this contraption together".

Just goes to show how much harder you must try to destroy this so called contraption I suppose, but I'm delighted at your woeful failure.
Politics › Re: Do You Still Believe Nigeria Will Be Good In Your Lifetime? by budaatum: 3:53pm On Dec 21, 2021
Ttalk:
What responsibility are you talking about.

Electricity- By myself
Water- By myself
Education- By myself
Health-By myself
Security-By myself

What more responsibility are you asking from the Nigerians when they practically provide everything without any input from the government. What is essence of paying tax when it's not going to be put in proper use for the benefit of the people?

How do a sane person be comfortable with the level of killings going on and government can't come up with any means to address them when everyone knows that state police would at least reduce this madness in this country.

Sorry, you appear to be very selfish and parochial based on your comments so far on this topic. You want us all to be a good person when there's no system or structure to guide us, nothing happens by chance
You forgot to add,

Killing - by ourselves
Corruption - by ourselves
Madness - by ourselves


And you seem to have forgotten the system is one we created, by ourselves.

If we become responsible for just these few things, I'm sure you'd moan less. After all, is that not the meaning of the Democracy we fought for, the right to rule ourselves?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 2:48pm On Dec 20, 2021
zendi:
Billionaire worked while leftard slept, and Billionaire got lucky;
Employs thousands and contributes $11b/yr to govt revenue.
Leftoid wakes and cries GREED, CHEATING, INEQUALITY;
Claims Billionaire has paid no tax;
Demands the whole money be handed over for equitable spending;
And cries, before going back to sleep :
"Billionaires Should Not Exist"

https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/musk-says-his-tax-bill-for-2021-was-over-11-billion
Who cares who's exploited?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelposner/2020/10/07/how-tesla-should-combat-child-labor-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo/?sh=5a0922df5cd0
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 2:46pm On Dec 20, 2021
basilico:
In other words, a dictator is needed.
China has lifted 600m people out of utter poverty, a benevolent dictator can do wonders especially if he is ñot after protecting his henchmen from serious crimes
When I says banana republic thats where America is headed, thanks to liberal voters.
The crypto world could not be more happier.
So, you would cancel the democratic voice so you can dictate?

And what would you then do if that dictator is a democrate imposing abortion and same gender toilets on you?
Romance › Re: Devastated!! My Helper Wants To Get Intimate With Me! I Need Help On What To Do by budaatum: 2:33pm On Dec 20, 2021
kkins25:
Pastor? im lost. is there some other tale I've missed?
azraeljaheel, tell kk about your pastor.

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