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frank317:
If God expect is to love him, pray to him, be in a relationship with him and worship him by faith without even revealing himself to us for once after taking his time to create us and claiming to love us dearly, then it shouldnt be to much to ask questions regarding to meaningless thing he did since the creation of man.
Or did he make mistake in giving us brain to use to reason some things out?,

If God reveals himself to you that way you want to, you may not survive it. God is a spirit. If you want to know him you have to allow the holy spirit into your life. You can't know God by mere typing it on NL, seek him and he will reveal himself to you in a manner only you will understand but I'd you keep waiting for him to show you himself as a movie, you might as well become a spirit and leave your human nature to behold that since you are too eager to see him with your physical eyes.

music4me:
So are U saying GOD allows d devil to afflict man with evil.Does HE not have power ova all HE created?
Can GOD who created man allow d devil to just kill him?
I tot GOD had d appointed time for every man to die?
So how can d devil kill man when GOD already said HE control life n death...

Sir, you are mixing the whole thing up. Evil arose from the actions that the creations of God choose to engage in eg disobedience. God has total control over everything because he is the master planner of the universe. If you know what you ought to know in Christ, devil won't harm you, because he is powerless. The devil seeks for your cooperation before he does any harm to you. That's why the bible says he seeks for whom to devour... and you give him your cooperation in many ways even as you are doing now, attributing evil to God, he has gotten your consent because he has succeeded in making you see God as evil and not himself the devil as evil. James 4; 7 says resist the devil and he will flee from you. It's all about you knowing the truth, you shall be set free. Your choice can either lead you to self destruct or lead you to life, God wants you to choose life and devil wants you to choose death. Did you check out the verses I showed you earlier sir? Yes God has appointed time for us to die if we are doing the Will of God, but that dosent mean that everyone that dies was God's appointed time for the person to die. If you take off from a 10 storey building and crash land to death, is that God's appointed time for you? No. You killed yourself by listening to whatever that told you to take off from that high building and it's not God's fault. A lot of deaths today are as a result of humans leading themselves tip self destruct by their decisions and also by cooperating with devil.
Please just change your belief about God, have nothing to loose but everything to gain. I haven't arrived but I have lived and I know that with my little humble knowledge from being a student of the bible, i know the truth and it has really set me free from religious doctrines and wiles of the devil.
God is a good God sir.... I can say it anywhere! Remain blessed

music4me:
GOD created all things,both Good and Evil alike.Thats d main reason why he is GOD.
HE use this 2 things as HE likes,whoever HE wished to bless he blesses n whoever he wished he afflict HE afflict.Atimes GOD use evil as a ladder for us to attain good.HE kills anyone HE feels like killing and spare d life of anyone HE feels like sparing except U wanna tell me that it satan that kills ppl.

God dosent afflict anyone with anything. That's pure religious doctrine. Why would you wanna worship someone that will afflict you with diseases?? That's why atheist are holding sway because Christians portray God as an angry God. And honestly they make more sense than most Christians today. Read James 1vs 13, 14 and 17. Let no Man say he is tempted of God for God cannot be tempted with evil neither tempteth he any man.
It's God's will that all man be saved but is everyone gonna be saved? No
If it's God that control your sickness, why do you go and seek for medical help since it is God that inflicted that sickness on you?? Why will you want to go out of the sickness 'God willed' for you?
If it's not Satan that kills then why does the bible call him the destroyer and the devourer?
Sir, God is a good God!!!
His will for us is of God and not of evil to give us an expected end.
Stop seeing God from what religion tells you about him, know God for yourself.

Lol.... Religious doctrines!
You wanna go to hell? Don't believe in Jesus and the sacrifice he made for you. Simple

Shall two work together except if they agree?? God is a rewarder of those that DILIGENTLY seek him. Seek him and you shall find him.

Reprobate minds.... wanting to prove God with your mere peanut brains yet you haven't figured out how to do millions of things yet in this world.
Jesus died for your type too.
Happy Sunday

Goodboiyy:
my dear pls read ur bible well.

God is the creator of everything, I.e Good or evil, read Isaiah 45:7 in the King James Version reads, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”

Perhaps a further illustration will help. If a person is asked,
“Does cold exist?” the answer would likely be “yes.”
However, this is incorrect. Cold does not exist. Cold is the
absence of heat. Similarly, darkness does not exist; it is
the absence of light. Evil is the absence of good, or better,
evil is the absence of God. God did not have to create evil,
but rather only allow for the absence of good.

Sir, God created everything including Satan who disobeyed the authority of God and was dethroned. Satan knows that his punishment is coming and that's why he is moving around like a roaring lion seeking for whom to devour and drag down to hell with him. God didn't create EVIL as he created the heavens and the earth or his other creations. Genesis 1 vs 31; and God saw everything that he had made and behold it was good. I believe Evil came out of actions and choices just as good. We should stop attributing evil to God na, if God is the author of evil, then what is the devils work again? C'omon, our God is a good God. Simple.

Freemanan:
MEANING GOD HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THE DEVIL? OR THAT GOD IS NOT AS POWERFUL AND OMNISCIENT AS YOU CLAIM HE IS.

AND HOW CAN A GOOD GOD ALLOW MAN TL BE FREE TO CAUSE GREAT PAIN ON OTHERS?

God's sovereignty is often misinterpreted even by Christians. God is omniscient and all sovereign yes, that's to say that God is the highest in terms of hierarchy and power, you can say he is on top of the food chain, but if you say God has a hand in the evils that are happening, you are wrong. He gave man freewill why? If you love someone so much e.g. a lady even to the point that you are ready to die for her, but the lady in question dosent love you back that much and you still go ahead and forcefully marry her, do you think she will respect you and love you back equally? No. She will only fear you but not love you because you forced her into the relationship. That's exactly how it is with us and God. He has the power to do anything even to make the entire humanity to be saying ' God I worship you' once we wake up every morning, but is that pure? It will simply look as if we are under spell, that's why he gave us that freewill to choose to love him or not. You either obey him as the ultimate or not obey him, simple. That's your freewill and choice. But in other to bring justice, and order to his subordinates, he Will punish evil someday. Just ask yourself, can you do anyhow at your place of work and get away with it and not punished? No. Then how much more disobeying God. Man disobeyed God in the garden of Eden and brought destruction upon himself, it's not your fault that the world is what it is today, a man like you and I took a self willed decision by listening to the devil rather than obeying God and look at where if landed us, it changed everything. Evil came into this world through that act but yet God out of his love for man gave us another redemption after looking for a way to reconcile us to that freewill relationship with him were you will love him for who he is and not fear him for the power he wields. He did that through Jesus, who came and paid for all our evil that whosoever that believe in him is free from the judgement of God because it will come someday sometime, make no mistake about that.
God allows only what you allow, if you decide to go out right now and kill the next person you see, you will do it, is it God's fault? No. It's your choice that made that evil to occur and so is it with most evils that happen today. God still remains God, he will surely fully interfere with the affairs of men someday and when that happens, Judgement begins. So live the way you like and I live the way I like, but remember, it dosent end here.... God loves you despite who you think you are or what you have done, the question is are you ready to accept him willingly and experience his supernatural love? I tell you, only a few have discovered that relationship with God even among the billions of Christians in the world today. God is a good God, anyday anytime. Now that's awesome! Happy Sunday sir.

You are not paying your tithe to please God, whether you pay your tithe or not, God will still love you unconditionally, you are paying tithe because of what you stand to gain from it and not what God will gain from it. Don't think that God will hate you or deny you anything because you refuse to donate for him so to say as most Christians make it look so... lol. naah, but you stand to gain a lot if you really understand what tithing is all about. Malachai 3 will help you and also Matthew 13 vs 1-22. Happy Sunday

The reason you asked this question is because you are looking for comfort in what you believe in, I totally respect whatever you believe in but if you think you can calculate God with your peanut brain, then that's pure arrogance and not being smart. Man is not done with even discovering all the planets in this universe that God created, nor the hidden secrets scattered all over the earth, you want to know is how spirits exists and want God to explain to you why he drove Satan down to earth. Sir, focus more on discovering your true nature and why you are here on earth, when we die finally, we will discover more mysteries more than we can ever imagine. But hey, you can start knowing the truth if you freely decide to while still here on earth by seeking to know God in spirit and in truth not with your mere 5 senses of what you can see, touch, hear, feel or smell. Your bible is always there. Happy Sunday.

God is not the author of evil, he is not associated with evil, evil exists because of the author of evil the devil himself. He uses man's freewill to manipulate him into taking decisions that will self destruct man. God's intention is to one day punish evil and all those who gave in to reprobate minds. God is a good God.

That's pure religious doctrine... it neither moves the holy spirit nor does anything to the devil.

Awesome!

Joy83:
Job test... I will be out of this stage of life very soon.

It is not easy after spending on job test and interview, all you get in return is "regret email" without any compensation.

Have you considered companies that you can do internship with, the probability of getting the job permanently is greater compared to applying as a job seeker. That's what secured me my current job despite the fact that I failed the interview, I reapplied for internship and the rest is history.

The only thing i can see in this post is the gun in that pics. Awesome

Andrew Wommack is a rare preacher in this our generation, God had really used him to reveal his supernatural love and power to me. I have lots of his teachings like A better way to pray, Knowing God, Grace and faith, Limiting God etc. and the intimacy I have come to develope with Jesus ever since is my greatest treasure now and I wouldn't trade it for anything on this earth. It's been awesome
God is truly love and he is good God.

God's judgement day will be awesome! Religion has done more harm than good to most people, it only allows your eyes to see what services it. Quit practicing religion and be imitators of Christ.

Religion only allows you to see only what services it, that's all I can say.

MadCow1:
Popes.. Forgiving sins without dying or shedding thier blood since 01 A.D..




Even Jesus sef go dey wonder why ehn bother to die..

Awesome reply!! You couldn't have said it better

Op, if you trust God, you will look back at this incident and thank him for making you voice out..... I hope you did not do that out of your selfish desires tho

Those of you shouting God save us from these happenings, do you think that God for once turned his back on these ones that died or what
God has saved everyone that needed to be saved before they were born, it's we humans that lead ourselves to self destruct by the choices we make and it has nothing to do with ember months, it's our mentality in ember months that is killing many during this period. Drive carefully and speed only to the extent that you can control!! It's better to be late than to be the late.
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That's not love in any sense of it, that's preference. Love is not partial or selective. Any parents that does not prefer his or her children equally lacks the knowledge of what love is all about.

TheNextAce:
It is cool to see a celebrity show off fleet of cars but a pastor that has more than one car would probably be regarded as stealing church money. How ironical

God bless you sir, that's the highest level of hypocrisy in the body of Christ today.

What's so spectacular about fleet of cars? People get that these days with less stress... this is one of the things that makes youth wanna make money by all means so as to live flashy lives.
Well good for him and those who wish to be like him, but if only cars, houses and money are the only thing he can point to looking at his music career, then it's a pity.

Don't be moved by what you see, what should bother you at all is what was in their heart while doing all those things.

Op God has not failed anyone in the past and your own case shouldn't be different, God has provided everything that you will ever need even before you were born according to his will for you, the problem is not in God answering your prayers but in you receiving what has been provided for you already with faith by teaching out and grabbing what his grace has already made available. What you need is the knowledge of how these things work, like someone suggested getting some books and reading them. I wish there is a way I could help you with Andrew Wommack teachings on faith, it will help you a lot. But on your own you can still change your attitude towards God and see your life turn around for good. Romans 10:17 is a nice place to start. God have never stopped loving you.

Thank God you said religious people....religion has nothing to do with my love for Jesus.

Jesus died even for people like them.....

God is not silent, he answers all our prayers even before we ask, problem is in we receiving it. The problem is unbelief.
Build your faith in God by having a one on one relationship with him and watch how your prayer life will change from petitions and complaints and despair to gratitude and thanksgiving all the time. And how does faith come? It's in Romans 10; 17.
God is a good God.

aaronson:
Christianity is no religion but a way of life,the only way of life that was ever taught in school was culture and if I could think back,Christianity is the jewish culture you adopted prior to colonization despite the fact that you had your own way of life so I agree with you on. that,Christianity isn't religion. Secondly,I like the fact that you said,billions of years has gone by but I tell you what? Christianity is barely 2000years old,how do you reconcile that?
I challenge you to figure out what science hasn't unravel,let me explain it to you extensively and comprehensively.
If you say god gave man freewill,then why would he wanna send me to hell if I don't wanna worship him since I got freewill?

Bro, you are beginning to sound naive with your posts, so if I adopt a particular way of life it becomes a culture? Seriously?
Coming to the age of Christianity and comparing it to billions if years gone by, the question you should be asking if you are willing to look at things from other perspective and not only from what you yourself think, feel, heard, seen or tasted is what came about Christianity at that particular point in time. The answer is this, ever since man disobeyed God and brought evil upon the earth and himself in the days of Adam, God have been looking for a way to reconcile man to himself in such a way that after he had done so man will still have his freewill in tact and not feel coerced to love him. Take for instance marrying someone you love forcefully without allowing that person too accept you, I tell you that person will not have a good relationship with you no matter how you shower her with love, that is how it is between us and God. It's not as if God can't make all men love him but they will end up being like people under spell. So in attempt to get that perfect reconciliation, God over the years tried with his commandments, prophets, signs and wonders, outright punishment once you break that commandment as can be found in the old testament of the bible, yet man still rebelled against God and was still misled by the devil the author of evil. All these happened until God finally gave his son to come and pay that perfect sacrifice of forgiveness and reconciliation on the cross of Calvary for our sins, God poured his wrath and judgement over sin on Jesus once and for all for our sake out of the love he has for us. And that settled everything, that anyone who believes in Jesus should not perish again but have eternal life and the meaning of that eternal life can be found in John 17vs 3 which says 'And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.' It's not your fault that the world is what it is today, it was never God's intention, man through Adam brought sin and death upon himself out of choice found in that same freewill you are talking about as a result of disobedience, through another man Jesus, redemption and reconciliation was made. The truth is that God is not ticked off anymore, he ain't in a bad mood, God is happy, his wrath was poured out on his son Jesus and he ain't angry with people anymore, he loves humanity, he loves You and will continue to. You know people think that they are gonna go to hell because they are homosexuals or becus they smoke or steal or because of this sin and that one, that's not true, there is justice for sure, what's gonna send you to he'll is if one dosent accept that offer the and payment for your own sins. The question that God is gonna ask you on judgement day is simply: what have you done with Jesus? Now those that rejected that ultimate prize will be held accountable for their actions and be judged by them. Everything revolves around Jesus. The devil knows all these things that's why he is deceiving people with many antics and manipulations like putting in their heart that there is no God, sickness, afflictions etc so that they will turn away from God and even go ahead and blame God for the evil that he the devil himself causes in our world today.
On what science haven't discovered yet, bro seriously? I can shut down nairaland listing them. lol.. let's start with these:
has science discovered how to bring back human beings back to life after they must have died?
Has science discovered how to create human beings 100% as the way a baby is born despite knowing all the nitty gritty involved in pregnancy and formation of baby, don't tell us about cloning please.
Has science unraveled how to put life in another planet and sustain it?
Has science discovered all the planetary bodies which God created in the entire universe? when I was in secondary school we were taught that we have 9 planets only but before i graduated from the university the figure have doubled miraculously and is still increasing, i think they now even have one named after Cristiano Ronaldo CR7. The list is endless...

aaronson:
You use to be logical with me but this your latest post is full of contradictions,here are the contradictions as follows....
1-You wrote we have different believes and see life differently and my question to this is,There many religion belief out there,over 5000 gods and more from different countries and religion so how do you know your amongst others seems to be the best? And Will others who believes in different god go to your own god hell fire?

2-As per who created god,you don't know-Now,I don't know is a place holder for christians/theists who haven't studied facts, history and research as regard their existence,rather,they live off what they was socialized with,which is an extra terrestrial called god.
Now,according to RON PAUL,he said "Truth is treason in the empire of lies" again, universal truth is not measure in mass appeal,that the mass of peoples say there is god might no be true and sometimes the 'M' might be silence in the mass people making them look AZZ just like the 3rd world nation who holds religion high esteem and still have the most problems.

3-You said Science can't solve the mystery-i tell you what,science is life long process of researches and objective emperical facts I can beat my chest and tell you,As am typing this,scientist are still on the research of discovering why is life only on earth and not other planets,however,No scientist and I repeat,No scientist makes research to know god's origin,biography or mysticism because god was only believed to be only in medieval era before the emergence of science but after the industrial revolution and the emergence of science,god was debunked as the creator of earth,man used science and technology to reshape the world and today the world is a global village,thanks to science.Now who were the people who kick started the pre-enlightenment era of science, scientists and where are they at the moment? First world countries.

4-god takes care of animals in his own special way---so logically,if he takes care of animals In his own special way,why did he allow the snake he created to go tempt eve or did he loose control of creation and let the devil have control?

Christianity is not a religion sir, it's a way of life. It a pity that humans out of their quest to suit themselves and do things that are convenient for them, they carved out different doctrines and beliefs that suits them most and religion only permits one to see only what services it. The history of Christianity which am sure you are aware of started in Antioch, and why did people call those disciples Christians then? It was because they were living out a Christ-like life as Jesus Christ did when he was on earth and hence the name Christians. So don't misconstrue the two of them please.
The truth about knowing God, you are only living in dreamland if you think that science will unravel fully beyond any reasonable doubt about the mystery of the creation of the universe. Think of it, billions of years have gone and yet the highest that science can boast of is their theories upon assumptions upon hypothesis upon etc. If science was that precise and accurate as ya all claim,why has it taken it so long to unravel more than what it has done so far? Dosent that tell you that something somewhere is protecting his works from man's full knowledge? And i can bet you a dollar Bill that neither you nor any scientist can unravel that mystery in this lifetime even if God allows you to live till he comes again in his glory, we will only come to that full knowledge when we stand before the throne of the creator of the entire universe, The almighty and all knowing God. Lemme shock you, uncountable discoveries are still to be made on this earth because the creator hid them all across the universe and man don't have the capacity to unravel all not to talk of knowing distinctively about God. If God shouldjust open our spiritual eyes today to that extent that will make us be like him, brother you will go and create another universe on your own as you are reading this post, but our peanut brain can't do that not until we see him on that last day.
As per your 4th question, God gave man a choice of freewill simple. So that you will get to know him outta your own obedience willingness and decision. God was waiting to see if man will understand the concept of authority in the garden of Eden, he gave Adam and eve instruction in Genesis that of all the trees in the garden you can eat thereof but for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they shouldn't eat because they shall die the day they do so.. but man gave into temptation and ate the fruit out of choice, but did man die? No. But man from that day unlocked a knowledge of moral consciousness that God never wanted him to have, that was the point they knew that they have been naked since God moulded them. Yes the devil manipulated the serpent because it was the craftiest of Gods creation, and the devil being a fallen angel had already rebelled against God at the inception of the world and was still fighting God's authority, and also darkness has since been upon the face of the deep. I can go on and on on this but gat works to do bro. God is real bro that's all I can say.

aaronson:
Sir,I don't see no difference between you and me,rather I see a difference between us and the animals and the only difference is we think but animals uses instinct,now if their being isn't by faith and they no bothered,don't you think the reason man bothers is becasue he thinks and since he didn't know how,he resorted to faith just like your opinion,but me as an individual,I'm trryna tell you,your existence on earth was conceived by the same earth you in with no creator,okay,to further buttress this point, think about this,If a god created you,then who created the god,if truly our existence was predetermined?

No bro, there is a whole lot of difference here sir, because we have different believes and we see life differently. As per who created God, I can't tell you that because we can't solve that mystery either with science or with our peanut brain, and that is why science will keep on probing but you know what they can't figure out who God truly is or 1/10th of all his creations even in the next infinite years. What I can tell you is that I see his hands daily in my life, he is alive to me and that's why nothing about this earth really matters to me because to live is for Christ and to die is gain. I have not arrived, but I have lived. As per the animals, God created us differently from them in the sense that we are created in his own image and likeness and he gave a soul(spirit man) which is where we connect with him when we believe in him. Animals are just additional creatures of the almighty just like the plants so as to make the world more beautiful and he kept all these things under man's dominion, yet God takes care of them even to the least of them in his own specially designed way.