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I can tell when she's about to tell a lie

Abeg, you cannot tell when a woman wants to lie. It's only a woman who will tell a lie, and still remember it in 100 years to come, well organized, and even referencing future discussion to the narrative in the lie to look truthful. She will be like: “you remember about 200 years ago when I told you I was going to see Mary..right? That was the day I knew you were for me.” And it was the same day she went to ..you know.

Now you, mumu pro max will be like.. “wow, this lady is truthful. She still remembered that thing. So truthful loving lady.”

Women are more organized than men when they lie! Men lie a lot and tend to forget lines hence they are prone to switch verses in lies. Women are not that way.

We were both good and at least 80% faithful to each other

What does this mean? You cheated too!

we went from calling each like 4 times a day to not hearing from each other for a whole day to weeks

Giving too much attention to sb sometimes is not good. They'll feel so bored and begin to hunt for sb who they need their attention.

Mehnn I was hurting badly, found out she was now dating a new guy, was broken tbh,

Awww.

I tried everything I possibly could to salvage the relationship but the more I tried, the worse it got and more hurt I was becoming, I begged, did lots of funny things to get my woman back, at this point I was slowly dying inside, my studies was greatly affected, my productivity dropped, was no longer going to the library, was eating less.

I do one thing in my life: I never accept a cheat. I let vomit remain vomit. However, you can still forgive her if you wish.

I'm glad you learnt your lessons.

In Nigeria, hello?


Lecturer don announce to you already say A is for God.

B is for him.

C is for serious students and those available for sexually transmitted grades...all other persons can go to hell.

Dear Cultists,

If you are reading this and all you do is pierce all parts of your body, dress crazily all in the name of fashion, create unrest for people, live irresponsibly to maintain the ruggedity clamour..yet you have no home, no house, no wife/husband, no children, no nothing let alone writing it home... I ask you... WHO REALLY GOES YOU!

Not all...

It's the person, not the profession.

abobote:
It's just fashion, before I thought it was fettish, but now I like it on my girl anytime we are in the other room

Man, I also love when your sister, Toyosi, wears it in the Oza room. Man, the man wey go marry am go try o.

I'll scale it for you:

50% of the girls worldwide wear it for fashion or part of tradition...mostly Asians.

30% of Nigerian girls wear it to copy another person. Most of them have worn it until red has turned to weak purple.

10% na unto kanayo-o-kanayo way.

10% lie it's to check size.

richmond500:
lolz, nairaland ona no go kee person, which one is "englishes" again

It's not incorrect, uncle.

itzmarvyx:
Lol.. I disagree sha.. Don't generalize. I met ladies that changed my mentality in school. One of them got married last month a virgin. No jokes. But na strong church girl with values sha

Yeah, that's because you didn't know she left her boyfriend at home.

Taliban has spoken.

Bukie2000:
Nairalanders please help me. Am feeling depressed and suicidal thoughts is coming to my mind. How do i overcome dis

Nothing is worth taking your life.

Anything you take your life for will continue to live.

Perhaps, if you give it a second chance, you'll realise the woman you'll become; one of virtue.

Are you available for lunch?

I suspect the pastor.

I have my reasons..

There's another meaning given to peacefully. People always pretending to the media to be happy..later sb will die.

I hate it when you want to help me and you are telling me it's an agency without any relevant details like what they produce and all that.

I have seen numerous people enter into wrong hands because their sponsors sensed desperation in their tone.

And if you have a connection with the agency, why do I live all my life paying debts? Please help me out na, not frustrate me.

They were only attracted to them, not love. Two different words often mistaken. Love is not selfish.

No,

But my wife, I'll kiss her for a living anywhere.

Another brolosho don drop motivation.

Nonsense and ingredients.

I noticed sth: his DSS, PSC, FSS, BSC (Hons)...are useless now. Solomon was right.


Here's another guide for humility.

I hope the man also values the woman after she has become all this for him.

Wow

We need to learn the TRUTH to be set FREE.

UndauntedYOCA:
With technology and societal changes and people wanting to to show off, we're almost tempted to tell people about what we have going on in our lives which is quite bad because not everything you have going on should be told to people, not everyone is happy for you and some of you jinx yourselves when you tell people everything .
Here's a video on why you should learn to move in silence.
Hope you watch and possibly subscribe.
Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zERC18r_igU

I've just subscribed to your channel. I'm interested in the elegance and informative parts.

UndauntedYOCA:
Na you Sabi that one.
Don't Goan be toasting girls there o. Face the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ well.
It's actually nice to know you're a Bible student.

The only thing I toast is bread. I cross my heart. I have not even reached the age to date.

UndauntedYOCA:
Apostle Chantinent wehdon sah!
This your epistle no be here o.

I'm not an apostle. I'm a bible student.

Who is Jess Christmas?

I don't understand you.

I think you need to get a Bible with a new-word translation. It is tasking to understand the old Englishes, you know.

By the way, in anything you are doing, your mentality should begin from knowing Jesus is not God.

What Did Jesus Teach About Hell?

“If your eye causes you to sin,” said Jesus, “get rid of it. You would be better off to go into God’s kingdom with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell. The worms there never die, and the fire never stops burning.”​—MARK 9:47, 48, Contemporary English Version.

On another occasion, Jesus spoke of a judgment period when he would say to the wicked: “Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” He also said that these ones will “go off to eternal punishment.”​—MATTHEW 25:41, 46, The New American Bible.

AT FIRST glance, the above words of Jesus may seem to promote the teaching of hellfire. Obviously, Jesus did not intend to contradict God’s Word, which clearly states: “The dead no longer know anything.”​—Ecclesiastes 9:5, NAB.

To what, then, was Jesus referring when he spoke of a person’s being thrown “into hell”?
Is “the eternal fire” Jesus warned of literal or symbolic? In what sense do the wicked “go off to eternal punishment”? Let us examine these questions one at a time.

To what was Jesus referring when he spoke of a person’s being thrown “into hell”?
The original Greek word translated “hell” at Mark 9:47 is Geʹen·na. This word comes from the Hebrew Geh Hin·nomʹ, meaning “Valley of Hinnom.” The Valley of Hinnom hugged the outskirts of ancient Jerusalem. In the days of the Israelite kings, it was used for child sacrifice​—a disgusting practice that God condemned. God said that he would execute those who performed such an act of false worship. The Valley of Hinnom would then be called “the valley of slaughter,” where “the carcases of this people” would lie unburied. (Jeremiah 7:30-34, King James Version) Jehovah thus foretold that the Valley of Hinnom would become a place, not for the torture of live victims, but for the mass disposal of dead bodies.

In Jesus’ day, the inhabitants of Jerusalem used the Valley of Hinnom as a garbage dump. They threw the bodies of some vile criminals into this dump and kept a fire constantly burning there to dispose of the refuse and the carcasses.

When Jesus spoke of the undying worms and unquenchable fire, he was apparently alluding to Isaiah 66:24. Regarding “the carcases of the men that have transgressed against [God],” Isaiah says that “their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched.” (KJ) Jesus and his listeners knew that these words in Isaiah referred to the treatment of the carcasses of those not deserving a burial.

Therefore, Jesus used the Valley of Hinnom, or Gehenna, as a fitting symbol of death without hope of a resurrection. He drove this point home when he warned that God “can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.” (Matthew 10:28, NAB) Gehenna is a symbol of eternal death, not eternal torture.

Is “the eternal fire” Jesus warned of literal or symbolic? Note that “the eternal fire” mentioned by Jesus and recorded at Matthew 25:41 was prepared “for the devil and his angels.” Do you think that literal fire can burn spirit creatures? Or was Jesus using the term “fire” symbolically? Certainly “the sheep” and “the goats” mentioned in the same discourse are not literal; they are word pictures that represent two types of people. (Matthew 25:32, 33) The eternal fire that Jesus spoke of completely burns up the wicked in a figurative sense.

In what sense do the wicked “go off to eternal punishment”? Although most translations use the word “punishment” at Matthew 25:46, the basic meaning of the Greek word koʹla·sin is “checking the growth of trees,” or pruning, cutting off needless branches. So while the sheeplike ones receive everlasting life, the unrepentant goatlike ones suffer “eternal punishment,” being forever cut off from life.

What Do You Think?

Jesus never taught that humans have an immortal soul. However, he often did teach about the resurrection of the dead. (Luke 14:13, 14; John 5:25-29; 11:25) Why would Jesus say that the dead would be resurrected if he believed that their souls had not died?

Jesus did not teach that God would maliciously torture the wicked forever. Rather, Jesus said: “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” (John 3:16, NAB) Why would Jesus imply that those who did not believe in him would die? If he really meant that they would live forever, suffering misery in a fiery hell, would he not have said so?

The doctrine that hell is a place of torment is not based on the Bible. Rather, it is a pagan belief masquerading as a Christian teaching. No, God does not torture people eternally in hell. How can learning the truth about hell affect your attitude toward God?


A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELL

ROOTS IN PAGAN BELIEFS: The ancient Egyptians believed in a fiery hell. The Book Ȧm-Ṭuat, dated 1375 B.C.E., speaks of those who “shall be cast down headlong into the pits of fire; and . . . shall not escape therefrom, and . . . shall not be able to flee from the flames.” Greek philosopher Plutarch (c.46-120 C.E.) wrote of those in the world below: “[They] raised a cry of wailing as they underwent fearful torments and ignominious and excruciating chastisements.”

SECTS OF JUDAISM ARE INFECTED: The historian Josephus (37-c.100 C.E.) reported that the Essenes, a Jewish sect, believed that “the souls are immortal, and continue forever.” He added: “This is like the opinion of the Greeks . . . They allot to bad souls a dark and tempestuous den, full of never-ceasing punishments.”

INTRODUCED INTO “CHRISTIANITY”: In the second century C.E., the apocryphal book Apocalypse of Peter said of the wicked: “There is spread out for them unquenchable fire.” It also stated: “Ezrael, the angel of wrath, brings men and women with the half of their bodies burning and casts them into a place of darkness, the hell of men; and a spirit of wrath chastises them.” During the same time period, writer Theophilus of Antioch quotes the Greek prophetess Sibyl as foretelling the punishments of the wicked: “Upon you burning fire shall come, and ever ye shall daily burn in flames.” These are among the words that Theophilus says are “true, and useful, and just, and profitable to all men.”

HELLFIRE USED TO JUSTIFY VIOLENCE IN THE MIDDLE AGES: Mary I, queen of England (1553-1558), known as “Bloody Mary” for burning nearly 300 Protestants at the stake, reportedly said: “As the souls of heretics are hereafter to be eternally burning in hell, there can be nothing more proper than for me to imitate the Divine vengeance by burning them on earth.”

A RECENT DEFINITION: In recent years, some denominations have revised their teaching about hell. For example, the Doctrine Commission of the Church of England said in 1995: “Hell is not eternal torment, but it is the final and irrevocable choosing of that which is opposed to God so completely and so absolutely that the only end is total non-being.”

WHAT IS “THE LAKE OF FIRE”?

Revelation 20:10 says that the Devil will be cast into “the lake of fire” and “tormented day and night for ever and ever.” (King James Version) If the Devil were to be tortured for all eternity, God would have to preserve him alive, but the Bible says that Jesus will “destroy him.” (Hebrews 2:14, KJ) The symbolic fiery lake represents “the second death.” (Revelation 21: This is not the death first mentioned in the Bible​—death because of Adam’s sin—​death from which one may be released by a resurrection. (1 Corinthians 15:21, 22) Because the Bible does not say that “the lake of fire” would release those in it, “the second death” must mean another kind of death, an irreversible one.

In what sense are those in “the lake of fire” tormented eternally? At times, “to torment” can mean “to restrain” someone. Once when Jesus confronted the demons, they cried out: “Art thou come hither to torment us [restrain us in the abyss] before the time?” (Matthew 8:29; Luke 8:30, 31; KJ) So all of those in “the lake” will suffer the “torment” of everlasting restraint, or “the second death.”

Thanks.

Hello,

You made mention of three different things: hell, hellfire, and polygamy. I'll take my time to analyse the three.

1. Hellfire.
Most Christian believers in the idea of Hellfire will tell you that it’s a place of punishment for sinners and evildoers. But does that idea have a scriptural basis?

According to Romans 6:7, “he that is dead is freed from sin.” So if a person’s sins are cleared with his or her death, then what’s with the additional punishment of Hell? Doesn't it also contradict the Bible in Genesis that sinners would die..if Hellfire candidates live forever in a torment?

Well, Romans 6:23 goes on to state that “the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Note that there is no mention of sinners being condemned to everlasting torture, they simply don’t get the reward for living a righteous life.

Is the wages of sin now hellfire?

Similarly, 2 Thessalonians 1:9 says that the punishment for those deemed wicked is not fiery torture, but destruction, “shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.”

When it comes to misconceptions about Hell, the popular 17th-century King James Version (KJV) of the Bible has a lot to answer for. For example, in the KJV, the prophet Jonah was in the “belly of Hell,” while David bafflingly insists that God would be with him even in Hell. Even Jesus pops down to Hell after his death on the stake.

Hello? Does this translation verse make any sense? Look it up.

In the story, a wealthy man lives it up while ignoring a beggar named Lazarus. But the pair experience a dramatic role reversal after their deaths, a change of circumstances.

Even at the very start of the Bible, in Genesis 2:16-17 and 3:19, Adam and Eve’s punishment for breaking God’s instructions and eating the forbidden fruit was not the threat of hellfire, but rather a promise that they will eventually die, “for dust you are and to dust you will return.” If Adam and Eve were at risk of being tormented forever, wouldn’t they have been warned of that? Would God lie and tell them they were going back to the dust if his plan was really to lock them in a furnace?

Big question: why did Adam and Eve not go to hellfire? Aren't they the original sinners?

History:
Since many hold the early church fathers as the authority on matters of faith and doctrine, many would find it surprising that even they couldn’t agree if Hellfire existed and, if so, what it actually was.

Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, and Cyprian were among those that held that Hellfire was a literal place of fiery torment. Origen and Gregory of Nyssa disagreed, countering that Hell was simply separation from God. While the idea of eternal fiery damnation can be found as early as the apocryphal second-century Apocalypse of Peter, it doesn’t seem to have become dominant in Christian thinking until around the fifth century AD.

Ironically, this view was heavily inspired by a non-Christian, the Greek philosopher and mathematician Plato, whom the French historian Georges Minois credited with “the greatest influence on traditional views of Hell” of all the early philosophers.

Plato’s Story of Er features an afterlife in which sinners are punished or rewarded in proportion to their misdeeds in life. Whatever your views on Hell’s existence, Plato’s sin-specific punishments definitely have no Biblical support, but the philosopher’s ideas can still be detected in many popular versions of the Christian afterlife, most notably Dante’s Inferno.

In modern times, many Christian denominations have moved away from Saint Augustine’s conception of Hell as a physical place beneath the Earth. Even the venerable Catholic Church has apparently decided to go with the flow, with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, approved by Pope John Paul II in 1992, declaring that Hell is simply a state of “definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed.”
Plato might have had the greatest role, but non-Abrahamic influences on Hell date back a long way before the Greeks pioneered philosophy. The Ancient Egyptian religion, for example, featured a cavern containing a “lake of fire” where the souls of the wicked were punished for their transgressions. The early Mesopotamians also believed that the underworld lay underground, although it was more dim and miserable than a place of eternal punishment.A particularly interesting comparison can be made between the popular idea of Hell and Zoroastrianism, an ancient religion originating in what is now Iran. In the earliest Zoroastrian texts, the souls of the sinful are judged after death and condemned to eternal punishment in the underworld, which the Book Of Arda Viraf describes as a pit full of fire, “smoke, stench and demons.” The souls are tortured according to the severity of their sins in life and the whole thing is presided over by Angra Mainyu, the great evil spirit, “who ever ridiculed and mocked the wicked in hell” for following him instead of their creator god.That sounds remarkably like the Hell of modern pop culture. And what’s just as remarkable is how many of those details have no basis in the Bible. Zoroastrian hell is staffed by demons and ruled by a devil figure, whereas the Christian Devil and his followers have no role in the afterlife and are the one group clearly stated to be destined for punishment in “Tartarus.” There’s certainly no reason to believe that a Christian hell would make the punishment fit the crime, whereas the demons of Zoroastrianism seem to delight in devising inventive tortures for each particular sin. In fact, the Book Of Arda Viraf is distinctly reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno.


It cannot be denied that, throughout history, the idea of Hell has been used as a scare tactic to keep people in line. Should we not love God because we want to rather than obeying him for the fear of living forever being tormented?

2. Hell.
Some Bible translations use the word “hell” for the Hebrew word “Sheol” and the matching Greek word “Hades,” both of which refer to the common grave of mankind. (Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:​27) Many people believe in a fiery hell, as shown in the religious artworks. However, the Bible teaches otherwise.

- Those in hell are unconscious and so cannot feel pain. “There is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol.”​—Ecclesiastes 9:​10.

- Good people go to hell. The faithful men Jacob and Job expected to go there.​—Genesis 37:35; Job 14:13.

- Death, not torment in a fiery hell, is the penalty for sin. “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin.”​—Romans 6:7.

- Eternal torment would violate God’s justice. (Deuteronomy 32:4) When the first man, Adam, sinned, God told him that his punishment would simply be to pass out of existence: “Dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:​19) God would have been lying if he were actually sending Adam to a fiery hell.

- God does not even contemplate eternal torment. The idea that he would punish people in hellfire is contrary to the Bible’s teaching that “God is love.”​—⁠1 John 4:8; Jeremiah 7:​31.

Hell is the common grave of mankind.


3. Polygamy

Does God Approve of Polygamy?

No; the standard God set in Eden with the first marriage was that of monogamy. Jesus Christ later reaffirmed that standard for his followers.​—Genesis 2:18-24; Matthew 19:4-6.

Did not such men as Abraham, Jacob, David, and Solomon of pre-Christian times have more than one wife?
Yes, but how does the Bible portray that arrangement? It reveals the friction and strife that arose in the families of Abraham and Jacob as a result of the practice. (Genesis 16:1-4; 29:18–30:24) Later, God’s Law included this directive to each king: “He should . . . not multiply wives for himself, that his heart may not turn aside.” (Deuteronomy 17:15, 17) Solomon disregarded that statute by marrying over 700 wives! Tragically, Solomon’s heart did indeed turn aside from Jehovah God because of the bad influence of his many wives. (1 Kings 11:1-4)

Clearly, the Bible paints a negative picture of polygamy.

Still, some might wonder why God chose to tolerate polygamy among his people.

Consider: Have you ever temporarily tolerated a piece of furniture though it needed to be replaced, perhaps reasoning that it would prove impractical or disruptive to remove it for now?

Of course, God’s ways and thoughts are higher than our own. (Isaiah 55:8, 9) Yet, we may discern some practical reasons why he tolerated polygamy for a time.

Remember that in Eden, Jehovah God promised a “seed” who would ultimately destroy Satan. Later, Abraham was told that he would father a great nation and that the foretold Seed would come from his family line. (Genesis 3:15; 22:18) Satan was determined to prevent that Seed from arriving. He was thus bent on destroying that ancient nation of Israel. He often seduced Israel into sin so that the nation would lose God’s favor and protection.

To counter the attacks, God repeatedly sent his prophets to warn his people when they veered from righteous standards. However, he knew in advance that his people would often fail to obey even the most basic of commands, such as the one against idolatry. (Exodus 32:9)

If they would struggle to obey so basic a law, how would they fare with a law against polygamy? With his perfect grasp of human nature, God saw that it was not yet the time to forbid that practice, which was already long-established in those days. Had he done so, Satan would have found a very easy means of seducing Israel into sin.

God’s temporary toleration of polygamy had other advantages. It helped the nation to grow rapidly. The larger population helped to ensure the nation’s survival until the time of the Messiah. Polygamy may also have provided a measure of protection for some women, giving them shelter and a household in dangerous times.

Keep in mind, though, that God did not originate this practice. He tolerated it for a limited time, while strictly regulating it to prevent abuses. (Exodus 21:10, 11; Deuteronomy 21:15-17)

When God chose to end the practice of polygamy among his worshippers, he used his own Son to reaffirm the marital standard set in Eden. Jesus thus forbade polygamy among his followers. (Mark 10: Then, this truth became even clearer: The Law of Moses was fine in its time, but “the law of the Christ” is even better.​—Galatians 6:2.

Thank you.

Beebah2000:
he is fine

All right, dear. Say me well to him,

Goodnight, Oluwajobaninuogbagethsemanemi.

Of corpse, she has a paused brain.


I hope this doesn't become a trend cos if my bribe tries this, I'll have to undertake and marry her bridesmaid.

Beebah2000:

How is your boyfriend, Babangida?