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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Caveatemptor(m): 9:23pm On Feb 11, 2016
dubylhover:
shikena....I've told people guardiola helped us by going to man city,if not we wud b stuck with lvg....at least when mou spends,we know that we wud see d result
Sticking with Van Gaal or appointing Giggs will keep United in a position of stagnation.
Except we are deceiving ourselves the only way forward isto appoint Mourinho or reappoint Alex Ferguson by luring him out of retirement.
It is not rocket science.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Caveatemptor(m): 8:12pm On Feb 11, 2016
Van Gaal was history the moment Manchester City announced Guardiola as their coach for next season. Keeping Van Gaal while Pep was at City wouldhave seen us fall further behind Cityin the pecking order. We needed to sign a strong personality ascoach and Mourinho is the onlyone that fits the bill. He will give Guardiola a run for his money and is in tune with modern coaching trends. He will not be intimidated by any coach and is theonly personality capable of winning the league with this present poor team except for the retired Sir Alex.
Giggsy should wait for his time because he os a future Manchester United coach but inexperienced. Going with Giggs would belike going back to the David Moyes era of trial by error.
I don't like or love Jose Mourinho but I feel he is the only one who can put Unitedback on the trophy trail for now. All I want fornow is to see United back on top. Jose is the man for the job.
Pets › Re: My Dog Is Going Blind :'( by Caveatemptor(m): 9:18pm On Feb 10, 2016
Eyop:
Well i have never had a dog and i don't think i will now or in future. I only admire them when very small but when they grow,i don't go close to them again except for one that was called PDP that i used to buy enough goodies for 2 yrs ago. Even with that,when it comes around jumping all over me,i was still not comfortable around it.
Dogs are a mans best friend and extremely intelligent.
When they jump all over you they are only showing love to you in the only way they know.
Just make sure you buy them as puppies and train them to know ypur dos and donts.
Never let them smell fear on you asthe owner/breeder and you are good to go.
Pets › Re: My Dog Is Going Blind :'( by Caveatemptor(m): 9:12pm On Feb 10, 2016
Ishilove:
Ikeja has a vet clinic? can you please direct me?
Ask any bike or cab to take you to-
Akinola cole crescent off Adeniyi Jones street in Ikeja.
Its expensive but they are very good.
Good luck.
Pets › Re: My Dog Is Going Blind :'( by Caveatemptor(m): 8:22pm On Feb 10, 2016
Ishilove:
I'm around Ikeja/Ogba

There is no good vet where I live, except that nasty executioner of dogs
Try Ikeja vetinary hospital.
Christianity Etc › Re: Fatoyinbo's Yacht Birthday Party In Dubai (Photos) by Caveatemptor(m): 9:55am On Feb 09, 2016
Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo Of COZA In Sex Scandal by Nobody:  On , 

WARNING!

This article contains stories that most ‘church people’ don’t want to address. So, if you are one of those living in denial and covering up crap going on in the church, this is where you should stop reading. Thanks for stopping by.

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Now, for the rest of us, please sit down and switch on your open mind. I want to talk about something I have kept bottled up inside for longer than necessary. I have also decided to use real names, as my defense for any accusation of slander is justification. I tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. However, feel free to throw your doubt around but know that I am past the shaming game (where victims of abuse are shot down by blame) I am no longer a victim but a survivor who is sharing her experience to help others caught in same web of abuse, guilt and shame. We only get to live once right? So here, it goes…

I recently came to know this event too was abuse (recently here means about 6 months ago). It has literally been eating me up having to drive by another billboard advertising preachers, or hearing his name, or even trying to ask about the validity of the entire salvation story and whether or not there is a God that truly watches over his people. That being said, I’m just going to say it as it is. This is a recap of my affair with Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of COZA (Common Wealth Of Zion Assembly) Abuja chapter. This affair I have come to know as a form of abuse as you would see the different elements of abuse very present.

I met Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo many years ago. I was getting bored of the church I was attending and someone suggested COZA. At the time, I had never heard about it. My friend said, go there, I’m sure you would enjoy the word. But he also gave me a strong warning. He said he would advice that I remain a member only and not join the workforce. I agreed. The first time I attended COZA, I felt it was my church and decided I was going to plant my ass there. About eleven months had gone by and I was still attending the services quietly and faithfully. I really did like the church. One day a worker in the church approached me that the senior pastor wanted to see me.

Me? I thought. Why would the senior pastor want to see me? Not the second man but the head nigga in charge? Ok na! I started to think my sin was oozing so bad the pastor could tell I needed Jesus. (Poor old me.) I saw him at the end of the second service (they had two services at the time) and he said to me that he would like me to work with him. I knew I had no intentions of becoming a pastor so I had to ask in what capacity. He said he’d like for me to join a department, preferably the Pastoral Care Unit (PCU).

A few weeks later, against my friend’s advice not to join the workforce, I was a PCU member. All of a sudden, I had some status in church. I was ‘somebody.’ Dress had to be on point, hair, shoes and what not… As workers, we were literally trying to outshine each other or so it seemed. Anyways, I felt like I was a privileged member of an elite circle. Hehehe. (It did feel good though, for the most part.)

About a year after joining the workforce, I was on my way to London for a Masters degree program that would last two years. As was the rule for workers travelling, I wrote to say I would be away for 2 years and Pastor Biodun Fotoyinbo asked that I keep in touch by sending him my number and email when I had settled in London so he “makes sure I continue in the faith” because according to him, people loose their faith when they leave home and he wanted to make sure I didn’t. So, on that note, as soon as I got a phone line in London, I was sure to call ‘my pastor’ to say I arrived safe, had settled in and also gave my phone number. 

We had spoken a few times especially when COZA started to stream online. I always watched and would give feedback on quality of production and share a little bit on the challenges I faced settling in a new land. One evening, Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo called me that he was coming to London and needed me to help him make some hotel bookings as the person who was meant to do it couldn’t get it done (this was rather strange as I had never been involved in his travel itinerary) Later that day, he said it had been sorted and my help would not be required but that he would like me to arrange a cab to pick him up from Heathrow. I was happy to help my pastor from Nigeria and even saw it as a privilege. (I would later come to learn that all of this was a calculated attempt to hatch a plan that I suspect was set in motion when I was asked to join the workforce.)

The cab guy was there to get him the next day and when he arrived, he called to ask why I didn’t accompany the cab to pick him up (again, this was strange but I stopped my mind from overanalyzing the situation as I knew I had no business with his visit to London) About two hours later, he called me and said he would like to see me. When I arrived his hotel, I called from the reception but he asked that I come upstairs. I got to the room and tried to stop my mind from thinking why I was going to his room. As he opened the door and invited me in, I had to speak to my heart to stop its palpitations. My better judgment asked me not to go into the room but the kind of reverence I had for Pasotr Biodun Fatoyinbo bordered on fear and I steeped into that room. 

“Care for a drink?” Asked Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo.

“No sir,” I said.

“You don’t have to be shy Ese, even if it’s alcohol, feel free and order what you want.” I wasn’t sure I heard my pastor asking me to order alcohol. I imagined it was a test and ignored the voice inside that was saying, “I’d have henny and coke please.” He proceeded to ask how I had been coping in London and if I was a committed member of any church. He also said he thought there was something special about me and wanted to know that I had not strayed from my faith. I really thought he had heard I was doing something I shouldn’t while in London but tried my best to focus on the conversation instead of my straying thoughts. He kept telling me to relax and feel comfortable with talking to him. After a few minutes, he asked that we go to the roof of the hotel as his room was a pent suit and had a connecting door to the roof.

While there, he sat on a reclining chair and asked me to come sit on his laps. This was a bit awkward for me and I froze for a moment as I asked why. He said he had told me to feel free with him and loosen up. I found myself strolling to sit on his laps. At that moment, I felt like a little girl who was experiencing something her mind couldn’t fathom. He asked me to kiss him and all I could think about was seeing him preach on the pulpit back in COZA Abuja, Nigeria, which was my home church. He again said ‘feel free Ese.’ And asked again, that I kiss him.

A few hours later, let’s just say, we were rolling under the sheets. It felt as though my mind had paused. I am not saying I was jazzed, (although it’s possible I was in some trancelike state and didn’t know it but I just was so afraid that I couldn’t say or think otherwise.) That was the beginning of this affair. A sexual affair that went on for a little over a week, DAILY!

I can hear somebody’s mind thinking, ‘well, you weren’t raped.” And I remember a pastor I opened up to when I couldn’t take all the mind games asking if I seduced him. No, I didn’t seduce him and no, I wasn’t raped but I felt trapped in this affair. Come to think of it, how could I have seduced him when I wanted nothing from him? I mean, I was too busy minding my business in London trying to get through with my masters program and I was overly comfortable. And even if I wanted to seduce anyone, it wouldn’t be a married man, not to mention a married pastor. 

What I couldn’t reconcile the whole time, was how the same person who preached against the very things we were doing (i.e drinking in pubs, fornicating, committing adultery) was the same person endorsing and encouraging it.

At some point, I got really confused about what Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo and I were doing that I had to ask how he handles it. I will never forget what he said to me. He said and I quote, “I will teach you a level of grace that you don’t understand.” My mind couldn’t fathom that somehow grace was enough covering for not just fornication on my path, adultery on his path and the many lies that was bound to follow what we were doing that was clearly abominable. I somehow dealt with the thoughts and fears that followed on my path. He had said to me that he wanted me to be his girlfriend and he would take me around the world and spoil me with money and things. Somehow, money had never been one of the things that motivated me (I am from a home where all my needs have been adequately met) In all my ‘badness’ through finding myself, I never did things I did for money but more of rebellion against rules and authority.

Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo also said to me that he had a dream where I exposed what was happening to the media. Said it was all over the place and that people were calling me the girl that caused chaos in COZA. He also said I should remember the bible said to “touch not God’s anointed.” I immediately started to rebuke the devil and said I could never do anything like that. I was almost swearing with my entire family as I thought really I had touched God’s anointed by submitting my body to be used. Little did I know at the time that all of these were ways to mess with my mind and even manipulate my thoughts.

Fast-forward a few months later, I was back in Nigeria and my church had become uncomfortable. Anytime I sat in church and listened to Pastor Biodun preach, I felt shame. I finally sent him a message saying I wasn’t comfortable anymore. I was confused and needed to talk about what had happened. He said I should meet him to talk and I did. It was a really weird meeting for me especially when he tried to kiss me at our meeting. I finally realized at this point that he couldn’t help me. I thought God was angry with me and I couldn’t pray so I decided to withdraw completely from COZA. This was the beginning of my mental torture. I couldn’t talk to my family because already, I was the only one attending a different church and somehow my mom never liked the idea. As the days went by I tried to use drinking and smoking to cover up the deep shame and guilt I was battling with. But as soon as the high was over, the thoughts came back and I felt stuck like I couldn’t move forward.

I felt I had to talk to someone and I decided to speak to my then good friend, Ernest Akale but unfortunately for me, Mr. Ernest did not have the capacity to hold what I said to him. He broke down completely the days that followed and I found myself having to pause how I was feeling and what I was struggling with to help my friend be strong. After a while, he withdrew from not just me but his then fiancé and friends. I had to then tell the fiancé what had caused it (she suspected we were having an affair so I had to clear the air) To my surprise she was a lot stronger than her man and told me to suck it up (I’m paraphrasing). She said if she were me, she wouldn’t leave the church but stay to torment Pastor Biodun and collect money from him. Ok! That sounded extreme for me, as my intention was not to blackmail but to heal my broken self. Anyways, I finally found the courage to speak to my then unit head who said he was going to talk to Pastor Biodun but didn’t have the liver to do so. Before long, the story was spreading and naturally getting twisted.

I went to a new church and it seemed like the COZA bug had chased me there. The pastor would always refer to COZA as some example and each time that was done, it seemed like a spear was thrust through my chest. One day, I broke down in the service and started crying uncontrollably, as I couldn’t take another mention of COZA and the pictures it painted in my head.

Very long, boring story cut short, for the last 5 months I gave the whole church thing a big space and break. I wasn’t sure I believed in God. I wasn’t sure I understood what it meant when people said ‘Jesus saves” and I definitely wasn’t sure how to deal with the mental torture that was affecting not just me but my relationships with family and friends. I was very unstable, fearful and worst of all guilty. I got a chance to talk to Pastor Folarin of COZA Lagos Chapter, popularly called Pastor flo about everything. I made an effort to reach out to him because I realized the right thing to do was talk to an elder in the church and seek some sort of remedy to a wrong I believed had been done me. Instead, Pastor Flo said, Pastor Biodun had confessed to him and they had ‘talked’ about it and somehow that was supposed to be Ok. He asked what it was I wanted coming to talk to him about it when I did, I told him I realized what happened between Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo and I was wrong and not just that I felt abused and manipulated. I also said I thought it was wrong for Pastor Biodun to go on preaching without taking time to deal with his personal character flaws. I said I thought he was danger to all the young women that attended the church. Come to think of it, maybe he meant if I wanted something monetary or material (as someone had suggested when I opened up to her) but the truth is, I never wanted his money (or is it the church member’s money.) All I wanted was to meet with him and have him accept that he misled me, betrayed his wife and the church he pastors. I wasn’t the only lady in COZA who had been a victim of his sexcapades and manipulative patterns but I was the one who could come back after months of struggle with not just my faith but also my affair with him. And I wanted to set things right. I wanted to talk to Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo maybe for closure and I felt like I needed an apology because he played the “touch not my anointed” card to keep me locked in guilt, shame and fear when all along it was a calculated plan and I dare say, it started when he asked me to join the workforce.

Not to mention the audacity to talk about teaching me a level of grace I didn’t understand. I had no intention of understanding a grace that would permit me to go on doing things that were wrong and what’s worse having to carry the burden for almost a year.

Different surprising advises came up in the weeks that followed the rumour making rounds. I was told to hush because Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo had been a cultist in the past and could send people to shut me up. All my so-called friends in COZA withdrew from me and treated me like I had the plaque. What was worse was Pastor Flo finally saw my then pastor to ‘talk’ about what had happened with Pastor Biodun and lied that it happened once and was a mistake. My question then became, ‘do these people even care how broken I had become?’ ’do they care about the emotional and spiritual welfare of the people they were pastoring?’ The sad answer was NO. Most of us old members of COZA kept leaving but they couldn’t care less. What was important was to keep growing the church and having more and more cars with stickers that read “More than enough.” Back then, I always felt horrible when I saw another car drive past me with the sticker. I was breaking, I was struggling but no one could help. All they could do was ask me to hide so Pastor Biodun’s goons don’t hurt me. And then the interesting one was if I had evidence to prove my claim. Let me just say here that, it isn’t a claim, it’s a confession to free me from all of the guilt and shame I have had to live with for no reason at all. (That being said, I have evidence to prove all I have said here, the latest being a 58 minutes recording of my meeting with Pastor Flo a few months back)

This is my confession and I cannot begin to describe how much weight has been lifted off of my shoulders just pouring the truth out about what went down. So, to all my ex COZA friends gossiping about me, get your facts right. To those who said they’d help me deal with the pain but didn’t, I forgive you, I have learnt how to deal with it and I am doing just fine. To those who fear for my safety saying Pastor Biodun would send people to shut me up, I really have gone past fearing for my life. To live is gain and to die is Christ (or how does Paul say it again?) And to the only person who ever supported me through it all, thank you, I am learning to be brave. Please don’t think I am perfect in all of this but in line with living my authentic life and putting all forms of abuse behind me, this is where I press the stop button and stop the bleeding. This is where I break the silence and call the church to stand up for what it has been commissioned to do. If you will not enter the Kingdom, please don’t stop others who are trying to enter.

I still remember when I used to nurse the idea of digging up emails, text messages, hotel billings (as once I used my card to pay for his room when his master card failed to work) to prove there was an affair. It was pathetic. Why for the love of heaven was I trying to dig up evidence? I am satisfied setting the record straight. I am ready for any shaming or bashing that would follow because the truth is, because of what I have suffered and come through, I am really not moved by what people say or think about me anymore. I am a stronger woman and a damn abuse survivor seeking to connect with other victims of abuse to show them how to deal with the shame, hurt and guilt and how to come out stronger. Turning their mess into their message.

I am Ese Walter and I have gone through all forms of abuse from family, boyfriends, my ex pastor and some strangers not to break me, but so I stand and so I qualify to help victims. My scars have qualified me and when all is said and done, I will still be standing. I AM WOMAN, I BEND, I DON’T BREAK!

Cheers to the freaking weekend!!!
Source: esewalter./2013/08/22/my-affair-with-pastor-biodun-fatoyinbo-of-coza/
Christianity Etc › Re: Fatoyinbo's Yacht Birthday Party In Dubai (Photos) by Caveatemptor(m): 9:36am On Feb 09, 2016
https://www.nairaland.com/1408143/pastor-biodun-fatoyinbo-coza-sex#17611270

huh
This pastorpreneur rocking the golden Versace tee shirt looks more like a rock star than a man of God.
By the way has he given the promised robust reply to the girl(Ese Walter) that he took to a London hotel for an or/gy of sex,champagne and drugs?
Religion is indeed the opium of the masses.
Pets › Re: My Dog Is Going Blind :'( by Caveatemptor(m): 9:34am On Feb 08, 2016
Ishilove:
Thanks. Can you please recommend any?
Where are you based?The secret is to locate a good qualified vet around where you live so that you can always get the pet to him quickly and easily.
Pets › Re: Pure Spectacular Neapolitan Mastiff Bonanza by Caveatemptor(m): 7:40pm On Feb 07, 2016
jendoakino:
thank u so much sir am very grateful
Sir,
Your type is rare.
We will do a lot of more business in future.
Please keep up the good work.
Pets › Re: My Dog Is Going Blind :'( by Caveatemptor(m): 7:33pm On Feb 07, 2016
Take him to a good vet.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Caveatemptor(m): 7:19pm On Feb 07, 2016
United drew this match because of the poor substitutions by Van Gaal. This is a match we could easily have won with a better coach.
I don't think the board members are fools. They have seen Manchester City make a move for Guardiola and they know they have to counter it with a bold statement by equally appointing a coach on tune with modern trends.
Something tells me the board have reached an agreement with a new coach.
Van Gaal should be history by the end of this season.
Pets › Re: Pure Spectacular Neapolitan Mastiff Bonanza by Caveatemptor(m): 3:16pm On Feb 06, 2016
Jendoakino is the MAN,you can quote me anywhere. I bought a Neopolitan from him in Jos and he sent to Lagos.
I never knew him from Adam but I paid a lot of money into his account and he did not fail me. I told him I needed a pure breed male black Neopolitan and he delivered just as he promised.
People like this should be commended.
Autos › Re: Case Of FRAUD Against Chucky234 by Caveatemptor(m): 10:13pm On Feb 05, 2016
This guy again.
A leopard can never change its spots.
Always do a quick history search on goggle of anyone you want to do business with on Nairaland. It will save you a lot of sorrow.
TV/Movies › Re: Subscriber Calls Out Startimes And Papilokanu On Twitter (Tweets) by Caveatemptor(m): 9:02pm On Feb 04, 2016
Subscribing to Startimes is a complete headache. Theysuck you in when you are a new subscriber and when you become an old subscriber they leave you up a creek without a paddle.
My decoder went off after I subscibed the third time and their customer care personel wereso rude.
I just abandoned the decoder after the fairy tales became unbearable.
While I agree that DSTV is a wee bit expensive,it is a better option in the long run.
It is the same way that HITV went off air back in the day with my almost one year subscription floating in the air till today.
Subsribers are taken for a ride in Nigeria.
Celebrities › Re: Krysten Enem Slams Burna Boy: "Your End Is Near" (photos) by Caveatemptor(m): 11:11am On Feb 04, 2016
First off I have been a subscriber to DSTV for over fifteen years and I have never heard of or stumbled on this Krysten Enem show. That out of the way even if her show is not popular she is a human being and a person and so should be treated with respect and dignity.
Burna Boy management team came across as very unprofessional and disorganised.
On the other hand Miss/Mrs Enem's expletive and curse filled rant,makes her come across as equally totally unprofessional and amateurish. She sounds like a FAN of Burna Boy,who expected to meet her hero and was badly disappointed by him.
She sounds like the character in the Eminem song -"Stan".
Politics › Re: A Night Of Darkness And The Law Of Karma by Femi Fani-kayode by Caveatemptor(m): 11:45am On Jan 27, 2016
Fani Kayode rather conveniently forgot to tell the story of what happened between his fathers house and Chief Akintolas house.
When the mutineers/soldiers got to Chief Fani Kayodes house,he came out with his hands in the air and knelt down before the soldiers like a coward and begged for his life. Fani Kayode offered the soldiers money which they refused out right and were about to kill him when he offered to lead the soldiers to Chief Akintolas house in exchange for his life.
In fact it was Fani Kayode who led the soldiers to Chief Akintolas house and he sat in the army land rover while Chief Akintola was slaughtered that night in exchange for Remi gani Kayodes life.
Treachery and betrayal has always ran in the Fani Kayode lineage.
Young people need to read books on the civil war.It is our history,we need to read it so we are not misled by charlatans like Femi Fani Kayode.
Celebrities › Re: Legendary Singer David Bowie Dies At 69 by Caveatemptor(m): 7:33pm On Jan 11, 2016
Lets dance by David Bowie.
Crazy jam.
Music/Radio › Re: Best Rap Song Ever Made by Caveatemptor(m): 7:28pm On Jan 11, 2016
Pdizzle:
Big L is good, i need to check that jam out.
Look for the Buckwild remix. So ill.
Big L was just so ahead of his time.
He was better than Jay z,2pac,Nas,Biggie and Eminem.
If he hadn't died in a hail of bullets he would have been awesome.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Caveatemptor(m): 8:35pm On Jan 09, 2016
I am happy we won and are through to the 4th round,but the way we won this game leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. ...
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Caveatemptor(m): 8:17pm On Jan 09, 2016
bigkesh:
I don't know what you guys are seeing but this game is interesting
huh
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Caveatemptor(m): 7:31pm On Jan 09, 2016
Hmmmmmm.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Caveatemptor(m): 7:19pm On Jan 09, 2016
Manchester United-0 Sheffield United-0.
Half time approaching.
Any well organised team can get a draw at Old Trafford now a days.
This type of play is completely irritating.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Caveatemptor(m): 7:05pm On Jan 09, 2016
Same-Same.
Even against Sheffield United.
Music/Radio › Re: Best Rap Song Ever Made by Caveatemptor(m):
Big L Corleone-Sliding.(who you sliding with?)
One of the most slept on rappers in the history of the game.
It's an old jam but I love playing this jam whenever I am driving to work in the morning.
Big L is the greatest hard core underground rapper ever.
RIP big hommie.
Music/Radio › Re: Best Rap Song Ever Made by Caveatemptor(m): 10:14pm On Jan 07, 2016
huh
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by Caveatemptor(m): 4:51pm On Dec 28, 2015
This game has a boring, depressing,drab draw written all over it in my opinion.
Family › Re: My Brother Is Like A Houseboy To His Wife by Caveatemptor(m): 10:42am On Dec 28, 2015
2sex:
As usual, when you talk about something like this, they tag you as jobless... they see nothing wrong in it for a man of the house to be sent on errands in his own house. grin
For your information that was a proverb,read carefully and comprehend. It means she is not married but is trying to teach a happily married couple how to run their home.
My friend the figures that come after figure 6 are more than 7. What works for each couple varies just like the weather. The OP should go and get married and then run her own home as she likes. In her brothers home she is an intruder. Simple.
Family › Re: My Brother Is Like A Houseboy To His Wife by Caveatemptor(m): 4:25am On Dec 28, 2015
I tell you,people like this OP has her mind made up and will never rest until she turns that happy home upside down.
She sounds like a broke jobless person trying to teach a rich,employed person how to make money.
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Was The Book Of Enoch Removed From The Bible? by Caveatemptor(m): 6:15pm On Dec 27, 2015
Question: "What occurred at the Council of Nicea?"

Answer: The Council of Nicea took place in AD 325 by order of the Roman Emperor Caesar Flavius Constantine. Nicea was located in Asia Minor, east of Constantinople. At the Council of Nicea, Emperor Constantine presided over a group of church bishops and other leaders with the purpose of defining the nature of God for all of Christianity and eliminating confusion, controversy, and contention within the church. The Council of Nicea overwhelmingly affirmed the deity and eternality of Jesus Christ and defined the relationship between the Father and the Son as “of one substance.” It also affirmed the Trinity—the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were listed as three co-equal and co-eternal Persons.

Constantine, who claimed conversion to Christianity, called for a meeting of bishops to be held in Nicea to resolve some escalating controversies among the church leadership. The issues being debated included the nature of Jesus Christ, the proper date to celebrate Easter, and other matters. The failing Roman Empire, now under Constantine’s rule, could not withstand the division caused by years of hard-fought, “out of hand” arguing over doctrinal differences. The emperor saw the quarrels within the church not only as a threat to Christianity but as a threat to society as well. Therefore, at the Council of Nicea, Constantine encouraged the church leaders to settle their internal disagreements and become Christlike agents who could bring new life to a troubled empire. Constantine felt “called” to use his authority to help bring about unity, peace, and love within the church.

The main theological issue had always been about Christ. Since the end of the apostolic age, Christians had begun debating these questions: Who is the Christ? Is He more divine than human or more human than divine? Was Jesus created or begotten? Being the Son of God, is He co-equal and co-eternal with the Father, or is He lower in status than the Father? Is the Father the one true God, or are the Father, Son, and Spirit the one true God?

A priest named Arius presented his argument that Jesus Christ was not an eternal being, that He was created at a certain point in time by the Father. Bishops such as Alexander and the deacon Athanasius argued the opposite position: that Jesus Christ is eternal, just like the Father is. It was an argument pitting trinitarianism against monarchianism.

Constantine prodded the 300 bishops in the council make a decision by majority vote defining who Jesus Christ is. The statement of doctrine they produced was one that all of Christianity would follow and obey, called the “Nicene Creed.” This creed was upheld by the church and enforced by the Emperor. The bishops at Nicea voted to make the full deity of Christ the accepted position of the church. The Council of Nicea upheld the doctrine of Christ’s true divinity, rejecting Arius’s heresy. The council did not invent this doctrine. Rather, it only recognized what the Bible already taught.

The New Testament teaches that Jesus the Messiah should be worshipped, which is to say He is co-equal with God. The New Testament forbids the worship of angels (Colossians 2:18; Revelation 22:8, 9) but commands worship of Jesus. The apostle Paul tells us that “in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form” (Colossians 2:9; 1:19). Paul declares Jesus as Lord and the One to whom a person must pray for salvation (Romans 10:9-13; cf. Joel 2:32). “Jesus is God overall” (Romans 9:5) and our God and Savior (Titus 2:13). Faith in Jesus’ deity is basic to Paul’s theology.

John’s Gospel declares Jesus to be the divine, eternal Logos, the agent of creation and source of life and light (John 1:1-5,9); "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" (John 14:6); our advocate with the Father (1 John 2:1-2); the Sovereign (Revelation 1:5); and the Son of God from the beginning to the end (Revelation 22:13). The author of Hebrews reveals the deity of Jesus through His perfection as the most high priest (Hebrews 1; Hebrews 7:1-3). The divine-human Savior is the Christian’s object of faith, hope, and love.

The Council of Nicea did not invent the doctrine of the deity of Christ. Rather, the Council of Nicea affirmed the apostles’ teaching of who Christ is—the one true God and the Second Person of the Trinity, with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Recommended Resources: Christianity Through the Centuries by Earle Cairns andLogos Bible Software.
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