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Image123:
Next is for you to answer the question yourself. By now, you should know the answer if not for the unfortunate indoctrination received at the sad hall.

Ok. Next?

Image123:
Again?? Don't JWICKEDNESS people get tired of sounding like broken records?

Okay. Next?

HISSCRIBE1995:
We are talking unity you talking church.

Do they (killer herdsmen) ask which church does their victims belong before they kill them?

The answer is NO!

Then why are you talking church sir?

Please we need unity not division.

I don't care what ethnic group runs a church, we should go to church with the purpose of
fellowshiping, and not to belong .

Unite ho ye South!!!

Don't get me wrong.


We are united in mine, nationwide, earth wide.

TO ANSWER this question, certain Bible facts must first be considered. Among them are these:

Through his manifestation upon earth nineteen centuries ago, the Son of God “shed light upon life and incorruption through the good news.” (2 Tim. 1:10) Through him God gave to many persons “a new birth to a living hope . . . to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance . . . reserved in the heavens.” (1 Pet. 1:3, 4) Jesus Christ himself was the first person resurrected to fullness of life, the first to be resurrected to heaven.​—Rev. 1:5.



Jesus was therefore the “forerunner” of those receiving life in heaven. The inspired Christian writer said of the heavenly hope: “This hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both sure and firm, and it enters in within the curtain [into the Most Holy of the temple, representing God’s own heavenly dwelling place], where a forerunner has entered in our behalf, Jesus who has become a high priest according to the manner of Melchizedek forever.” (Heb. 6:19, 20) The same writer shows that the curtain to the Most Holy compartment of the wilderness tabernacle represented Jesus’ flesh. (Heb. 10:20; compare Exodus 26:1, 31, 33.) As long as Jesus was in the flesh, he could not go into heaven, for “flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom.” (1 Cor. 15:50) By his giving up his flesh, which he gave “in behalf of the life of the world,” and by his being resurrected “in the spirit,” the way was opened for those who would be invited to the kingdom of the heavens.​—John 6:51; 1 Pet. 3:18.


Furthermore, Christ’s resurrection is said to be “a guarantee to all men” that God will resurrect others. (Acts 17:31; 24:15) This would not be true if God had been resurrecting righteous men to heaven all through the preceding centuries.


How, then, are we to understand the Bible account about the prophet Elijah, which reads: “As they [Elijah and Elisha] were walking along, speaking as they walked, why, look! a fiery war chariot and fiery horses, and they proceeded to make a separation between them both; and Elijah went ascending in the windstorm to the heavens.” (2 Ki. 2:11) Did Elijah actually go into the heavens of God? Or did he die?


We have the words of God’s greatest prophet, Jesus Christ, who resided in the heavens with his Father for untold centuries prior to his coming to earth. He said: “No man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man.” (John 3:13) Speaking of John the Baptist, Jesus said: “Among those born of women there has not been raised up a greater than John the Baptist; but a person that is a lesser one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is.” (Matt. 11:11) Accordingly, Elijah, not being greater than John, could not be in heaven.

What, then, were the “heavens” into which Elijah was taken by the windstorm? These were the physical heavens, the atmosphere, the “expanse,” also called “Heaven” at Genesis 1:6-8. A windstorm could exist only in this atmospheric expanse, not in the spirit realm of Jehovah’s heavenly presence. Elijah was carried up out of Elisha’s sight by the windstorm.

The Bible does not say that Elijah died on that occasion. As a matter of fact, Elijah was still alive and active as a prophet at least five years later, apparently over in the territory of Judah. The Bible tells us: “Eventually there came a writing to [Jehoram, king of Judah] from Elijah the prophet.” This letter foretold the sickness and death of Jehoram because of his wrong, idolatrous course. (2 Chron. 21:12-15) A further evidence that Elijah did not die at the time of being taken into the “heavens” is that his servant and successor Elisha did not then hold the customary period of mourning for his master.​—Compare 2 Samuel 19:1; 1 Chronicles 7:22; 2 Chronicles 35:24.

What about Enoch, the seventh in line from Adam? Of him, the Bible says: “Enoch kept walking with the true God. Then he was no more, for God took him.” (Gen. 5:24) Enoch as a prophet of Jehovah foretold God’s coming with his myriads of angels to execute judgment against the ungodly. (Jude 14, 15) Persecution was likely brought against him because of his prophesying. However, God did not permit his opposers to kill Enoch. Instead God “took him,” evidently meaning that He cut short Enoch’s life at an age far below that of most of his contemporaries. It appears that, as in the case of Moses’ body, Jehovah disposed of Enoch’s body, for “he was nowhere to be found.”​—Heb. 11:5; Deut. 34:5, 6; Jude 9.

So, in view of Jesus’ clear statement at John 3:13, Enoch was not taken to the heaven of God’s residence. He died, as the apostle Paul, after naming Enoch and other ancient faithful witnesses of God, makes clear in saying: “In faith all these died, although they did not get the fulfillment of the promises, but they saw them afar off and welcomed them and publicly declared that they were strangers and temporary residents in the land.” (Heb. 11:13) These men knew that their reward was far in the future. The prophets of old knew that their Messianic prophecies did not apply to themselves, but had fulfillment later on. Hence, the apostle Peter says to those who are footstep followers of Jesus Christ the heavenly Forerunner: “Concerning this very salvation [promised to Christ’s joint heirs and being a heavenly hope] a diligent inquiry and a careful search were made by the prophets [including Enoch and Elijah] who prophesied about the undeserved kindness meant for you. They kept on investigating what particular season or what sort of season the spirit in them was indicating concerning Christ when it was bearing witness beforehand about the sufferings for Christ and about the glories to follow these. It was revealed to them that, not to themselves, but to you, they were ministering the things that have now been announced to you through those who have declared the good news to you.”​—1 Pet. 1:10-12.

Peter, speaking to the assembled Jews on the day of Pentecost, shortly after Jesus’ resurrection, said of the faithful King David, “a man agreeable to [Jehovah’s] heart”: “Actually David did not ascend to the heavens, but he himself says, ‘Jehovah said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet.””’ (Acts 13:22; 2:34, 35) Likewise, Elijah and Enoch, along with others, are in the grave, awaiting the Lord Jesus Christ’s action in putting his enemies under his feet by destroying them. (Acts 2:29) The glorious enthroned Christ will then resurrect these faithful men from the dead, making them “princes in all the earth.” (Ps. 45:16; Rev. 20:11-13) These trustworthy men will work well with the heavenly King to administer righteousness and justice in the earth.

I don't think I like it although I have nothing against those who wear it.

Emary:
So the plan is to sell this man our crude at cheap rates, only for him to resell the refined products to us at even higher rates than importers currently do? Real monopoly. Well, at least after this, we should hear no more about subsidy.

The plan is to sell to themselves at cheap rates so they can resell to us, and export at a good rate.


The name Dangote is a haven for all political fraud.


They make up Dangote. Dangote is just a name.

Smiles.



It depends on the church.

If Jesus is God,



When Jesus had just gotten baptized in the Jordan, who made the statement: “this is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased?”


Please support your answers with biblical backup.

heendrix:
Lol at the 4th picture

Smiles.



All those parades are for tithes and offerings.


An apostle who walks with heavily armed security but tells the gullible folks to pray for God to guide them.


A billionaire and private jet owner who will help you only if you type some hashtags publicly and like some beer company on Twitter.


Did he actually lie down and told the cameraman “you can now snap”?


Such an irony of life.


I remember the video he threatened James which he denied. Even if it wasn't directed to James as he debunked, who was he telling “I am a dangerous man, don't try me. I will off you”?


To the vulnerable, continue being misled.

You type like a Watchman.


Tell me, are you?

jantman:
The best picture of the Trinity is like the picture of the Sun. We have the Sun which can represent the Father God, the light which represents Jesus Christ and the heat (radiation) which represents the Holy Spirit. The Father God represents the Source of the Godhead, the Lord Jesus Christ represents the form and visibility of the Godhead and the Holy Spirit represents the energy emanations from the Godhead. Thus God is actually one God-person having three God-attributes: the Father as the source attribute of God outside of space, time and dimension, the Lord Jesus Christ as the “shape-form” attribute of God revealed to all creation, the Holy Spirit as the energy-emanation attribute of God throughout all creation. (Remembering that one God-person can be omnipresent simultaneously in various forms emanating through all space and time – which to humans look like multi-persons but is actually only one God-person). He who has seen Jesus Christ has seen the Father (John 14:8, 9). In Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Colossians 2:8-10).
In an extremely very, very rough comparison (and potentially highly not very accurate comparison as it is extremely limiting to the Godhead), the one God-person of God is comparable to the spirit, soul and body of a human (made in the image of God): the Father God being the Spirit Being of God, the Holy Spirit being the Soul Being of God and the Lord Jesus Christ being the Body-form of God. All these are extremely rough and only 1% accurately in speaking of our great Almighty God but it helps get some measure of understanding across to the limited human mind.


Another way of understanding the one person of the Trinity is as follows (this description probably is more accurate up to 30%). Imagine that it was possible to invent a time machine and I use the time machine to bring the Peter of 1997 to this year 2007; and also bring the Peter of 2017 to the present. Suddenly standing before you are three Peters: one Peter 1997, another Peter 2007 and a third Peter 2017. At this point I ask you a question, “Are there three different separate persons or is there just the same one person Peter from three time dimensions: past, present and future?” The latter answer would be closer to the truth. Now imagine that there are three God-dimensions (for lack of a better word) but one God-person spread across these three dimensions in order to relate to us: God the Father dimension, God the Word dimension and God the Spirit dimension but all the same one God-person. Not one God in three persons but one God in three God-dimensions. It is important to understand that God is one God and one God-person.

Unfortunately, you ended up confusing yourself.


I hope you know that Jesus was created?

If the OP was trying to be frank, wouldn't he have compared this statement to other churches?



Of course, he wouldn't.

Other churches have a timetable for offering accompanied with the offering dance, and even with threats to go to hell if tithes aren't paid.


Such a biased enemy!

What is the name of Allah?

I guess, you mean speaking in ecstatic speech as clergymen do today?



Believe, they speak rubbish! Totally.
They themselves know they speak rubbish. The same thing that motivates a madman to operate in a clean refuse dump tells them it's a divine push that's bringing those words to their tongue.

Read my topics, I addressed this.

What is done today wasn't what was done.

What they do today is the generic modus operandi to exhort.

Many people don't know that Dangote is just an umbrella for every political malpractice.


Whatever they do to Dangote is paramount to benefiting themselves.

It's like saying Nigeria has never experienced power outage.



Both are correct.

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kowasco:
be serious na
I need serious answers please

I have just giving you the perfect course.


Even if you study Looking, with that you'll excel in Nigeria.

The difference between the total and released persons are fair.


Kogi still remains stagnant since they criticized the government for bloating figures.


Food for thought.

Shameless and unprofessional.



Buhari ruling by silent decrees and edicts under the veil of democracy.

Same people you said were destroyed?

Shame.

Connection engineering.

Hi,

Did you recently download any antivirus or WiFi app?

Just sell it.


When Xiaomi develops an issue, it gives birth to many issues.


And its parts are expensive.

I lost mine of two months like that.

I understand that Tecno and its likes are inferior but man, always buy a phone you can easily see its parts near you whether or not it's inferior.

All na for call, sms, and internet. They aren't paradise passport.

Old Roger with youngies.

The internet never forgets.


Smiles.

Four unwise people.

kingdman:
my wonderful pastor ride on, you are blessed!

One of them.

Prints hugely from their blindfold of ignorance.

Does it mean about 15 buses passed checkpoints without being checked?

I also have a feeling $0.00 is greater than ₦0.00

Leave any org the salary schedule is stagnant.