Christianity Etc › Re: Help!!! I'm Fast Becoming An Atheist by chemystery: 11:03am On Jul 23, 2018 |
Shelumiel: Ah! So you are among those who say there is no God but cannot completely disprove the existence of one . Lol... Yes because there are those like you who first claimed there is god but can't prove it. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Help!!! I'm Fast Becoming An Atheist by chemystery: 10:59am On Jul 23, 2018 |
Shelumiel: Why not read them and find out . And making that statement implies you have read both and discovered Koran isn't from God but the bible. So why jump into conclusion that the Koran isn't from god when you can't even justify it? |
Christianity Etc › Re: Help!!! I'm Fast Becoming An Atheist by chemystery: 10:26am On Jul 23, 2018 |
Shelumiel: Brother, the Koran speaks about God , but is it from God ? No ! The Koran and Bible claimed to come from God. What makes one false and the other true? |
Christianity Etc › Re: Help!!! I'm Fast Becoming An Atheist by chemystery: 10:25am On Jul 23, 2018 |
Shelumiel: I am sorry to say , but your post does not make sense. Yeah, I initially thought I got better option for you but unfortunately, hopefulLandlord blocked that side. So unfortunate. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Help!!! I'm Fast Becoming An Atheist by chemystery: 10:20am On Jul 23, 2018 |
hopefulLandlord: If he holds on to every religion as true he would end up in hell if some specific religions happen to be true
For instance holding Yahweh - the Jewish mythical god - as true while holding Vishnu of the Indian myth too as true would still land you in hell if Yahweh is true cuz Yahweh said you shouldn't have any other god aside from him
Also Allah of the middle eastern Arabic mythology has the same orientation as Yahweh (some say they're the same)
In a nutshell, there's no surefire way of gaming Pascal's wager Na wa o! This is the thing with all this religion sh!t. The more you try to force it to work, the more things get messier. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Help!!! I'm Fast Becoming An Atheist by chemystery: 10:04am On Jul 23, 2018 |
Shelumiel: My Brother , our life here will come to an end one day ;this something the Christian, Muslim and the atheist acknowledge. And what lies after that ,we do not know. So here is my advice : hold unto the words of the Bible; just take it for what it is (this is called faith ) . If in the end , it turns out that the Bible and the information in it was wrong , you have nothing to loose . But if it turns out to be true , then you would have saved yourself from something far worse than unbelief Shalom . It's very stupid to go that way bro. There are thousands of religions and the best bet would be to hold unto the beliefs of all these religions. That way, you will not come short of any eternal goodies if any one of these beliefs happens to be the true one. There will also be nothing to loose if they all happen to be false. Just do that and thank me later. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Was There Something To Believe In. by chemystery: 6:27pm On Jul 22, 2018 |
LIES bro. They're all BIG FAT LIES. Those who invented those stories knew no one would believe them if they don't include benefits and detriments for not believing. In essence, they saw the need to peg believing in Jesus to having everlasting life so that not believing entails being deprived of these benefits. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Does God Feels Remorse For His Actions? by chemystery: 12:20pm On Jul 22, 2018 |
The earlier Christians begin to take the bible for the fairytale it is, the better for them. If you look at our world today, you'll realise even the god promises are all fake because lives and properties are still being destroyed by flood till date.
In fact, in reality, no christian associates the rainbow today for what it use to be in the past or for what it is suppose to be according to biblical fairytale - a reminder of god's fake promise not to flood the earth again.
Human intelligence has evolved to realise that rainbow is caused by refraction of light rays on tiny water droplets, yet I wonder why many of us are still finding it difficult to do away with fairy books that claims otherwise. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Part Of The Bible Where Man Was Smarter Than God by chemystery: 10:25am On Jul 22, 2018 |
enilove: The spiritual knowledge is that God can decide to forgive and manage a disobedient person and can also decide not to forgive but replace the disobedience man. No, i'm only interested about the spiritual knowledge of god dumping his perfect decision for an imperfect one. That's what you said in your first post. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Part Of The Bible Where Man Was Smarter Than God by chemystery: 10:21am On Jul 22, 2018 |
Topmaike007: for the fact that God is merciful,when you tender a good reason before him he will change his mind, let's take the case of Hezekiah for instance, he was meant to die that day, but because of the good work he has done, and the one he is currently doing he was able to convince God not to take his life. and Isaiah the prophet was still at the palace premises when God told him to tell Hezekiah that he has added more 15 yrs to his years on earth..
sir I refuse to agree with you You're just being verbose about all I said. You have to give god good reasons to change his mind and show mercy on you. How come he doesn't know those reasons until you bring it to his knowledge? |
Christianity Etc › Re: Part Of The Bible Where Man Was Smarter Than God by chemystery: 9:14am On Jul 22, 2018 |
enilove: Op , you lack spiritual knowledge.
There is no decision that God takes that would amount to imperfections.
The fact that God listened to the plea of Moses does not mean it was the best decision. God can bring out good from evil and what seems right in our own sight might not be right before God.
God destroyed the world b4 during the time of Noah . If he had destroyed the Israelites and left Moses alone , maybe the Israelites would have been better people than what they are now. Hahahahahaha! And the spiritual knowledge is that god dumped his own perfect decision for an imperfect one.  |
Christianity Etc › Re: Part Of The Bible Where Man Was Smarter Than God by chemystery: 9:08am On Jul 22, 2018 |
Topmaike007: we can never be smarter than God,instead we should give God genuine reason why he has to change his mind, if he want to take action..
Hezekiah did it and he got free 15 years in advance. Samson did it and he got his power back.
Abraham did it and he saved his nephew Lot,not that Lot merit been alive because he chose Sodom and Gomorrah for his greediness..
and lot more....
happy sunday. And giving god reasons to change his mind implies god couldn't figure it out on his own. Hahahahaha. Stop making silly excuses for god |
Islam › Re: Atheists, Allah is Your Creator. Repent, Bow And Stop Being Like Shaitan by chemystery: 8:07am On Jul 20, 2018 |
Lol. OP trying to share with us some 2000 year old Arab folktales. It's just that I can't remember those tortoise stories I was told when I was a kid else I'd have shared with you too. Tarok folktales use to be my best those days  |
Christianity Etc › Re: Explaining The Animosity Between Atheists And Theists by chemystery: 4:54pm On Jul 13, 2018 |
michaelwestern: Giving you free will doesn't mean that there are no consequences to your actions. With free will comes the responsibility of making the right choices. And the Holy Spirits always convicts sinners whenever the gospel is preached, so deciding to ignore the conviction of Spirit leaves you without excuse. And when you take it as a responsibility to punish those whom you have given free will just for not making the choice that you yourself want, will you still term that as free will? There is a wide difference between "consequence of making the wrong choice" and "punishment from making the wrong choice". The latter and "free will" should not even by any means be mentioned in the same sentence, paragraph or even page. Take You for example, you have the opportunity of avoiding eternal torture simply by accepting Jesus Christ, no money or work involved but you choose to be arguing about free will and pharoah. Also take for example, if a robber comes to your house and says "Hey, your life or you money", then in the processes of arguing with the robber, he shut you dead. But when arraigned before court, the judge gave his final ruling that you were given free choice to obey the robber and live, or disobey him and die. That in fact, the robber didn't murder you but you have on your own chosen to die. Now this is exactly how your god has packaged the gift of freewill for you. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Explaining The Animosity Between Atheists And Theists by chemystery: 2:16pm On Jul 13, 2018 |
michaelwestern: It doesn't mean that God cannot change the minds of people forcefully but He who chooses to give everybody a free will. So God doesn't relate to us as robots. Is your god different from the one that hardened Pharaoh's mind so that he can go about on killing rampage? Also, does your god send people to a place of eternal torture for using the gift of freewill? If Yes, then that's not free will! |
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Men Are Shy To Dance In Church Unlike Women? by chemystery: 12:30pm On Jul 08, 2018 |
luvmijeje: Am I speaking in French? I wasn't sure of God, so their arguments seems convincing. With what I've now know, I'll crush every single of their foolish argument. Who said you are speaking French? Don't get emotional yet. It seems you are just about winning arguments starting from when you said you will use a more convincing truth to crush their convincing truth (which is now foolish argument). The truth is that if there is god, he wouldn't be needing you to do all the crushing of argument. Its just like the earth and the sun needs no one to help them argue about their existence because they do exists. No one would on any day find the argument that the earth doesn't exist convincing just like you once found the argument about god's nonexistence convincing. Think about that |
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Men Are Shy To Dance In Church Unlike Women? by chemystery: 12:02pm On Jul 08, 2018 |
luvmijeje: I was telling you my past. It was when I've not yet known God. OK, when you haven't known god, atheists were convincing but when you knew god, atheists became unconvincing? |
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Men Are Shy To Dance In Church Unlike Women? by chemystery: 11:49am On Jul 08, 2018 |
luvmijeje: You have answered the question. The best way to attack their truth is to be more convincing than them. And the best way to be more convincing is to point out the flaws in their own truth. Because it's not the truth, there will be flaw. The truth has no flaw. How do you know you are more convincing when you have already admitted your opponent is convincing? It's like trying hard to be truer than the truth even after admitting to have been presented with the truth |
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Men Are Shy To Dance In Church Unlike Women? by chemystery: 11:40am On Jul 08, 2018 |
luvmijeje: It's their truth and not the truth. It's their opinion and not the truth. OK! And you want to attack their truth because you have your own truth or because your own truth is truer than theirs or something? You even made mention in another post that their truth is convincing. Isn't yours convincing enough to make theirs non-convincing? |
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Men Are Shy To Dance In Church Unlike Women? by chemystery: 11:26am On Jul 08, 2018 |
luvmijeje: I think that's a wrong strategy. Do you know many people became an Atheist because of what they read online. In the upcoming days, one on one Evangelism will become moot because the online Evangelism is taking over. And if you are not ready to attack their truth then you are not ready to expand and you should get ready to lose members to them. So why will you want to attack the truth? |
Christianity Etc › Re: N2000 Handshake: Pastor Tony Boateng Asks Nigerians To Pay To Shake Him by chemystery: 9:12pm On Jul 07, 2018 |
hopefulLandlord: Christians should be very watchful of their utterances against Pastor Tony Boateng as Yahweh works in mysterious ways and his wisdom looks like foolishness unto man.
Yahweh once told the Israelites to kill all midianites but keep young virgin girls as war booty. This sounds wrong to us but whatever Yahweh commands is wise even if it looks wrong in our limited knowledge he has his reasons
Yahweh figuratively destroyed Saul for not totally destroying the Amalekites
Yahweh once told Ezekiel to eat bread baked with human shiit
Same way Yahweh sent lying spirits to Ahab's prophets. This also sounds wrong to us but he has his reasons we aren't privy to and he answers to no one
Yahweh also hardened Pharaoh's heart while using that as opportunity to send more plagues and kill innocent people until all firstborn sons of the Egyptians are dead. This also sounds cruel but that's Yahweh showing us his loving power and nobody should question him
Yahweh struck Onan dead for refusing to cum into his brother's wife's vagyna
its possible Yahweh instructed Pastor Tony Boateng to do what he did and he might have his reasons so we should not use our limited knowledge to judge what a man talking to a being of unlimited knowledge does. Beware not to bring a curse upon your lives and future generations by attacking a true men of Yahweh
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Christianity Etc › Re: From Atheism To Christianity: A Personal Journey Of Philip Vander Elst by chemystery: 12:08pm On Jul 07, 2018 |
Butterflyleo: How would people "research for God and reason out God"?
How did you research and reason him out? Oh sorry. I forgot. It has always been by gullibility and blind faith that people find Gods. My bad |
Christianity Etc › Re: From Atheism To Christianity: A Personal Journey Of Philip Vander Elst by chemystery: 9:51am On Jul 07, 2018 |
Truth is that many people don't know what atheism is. Some think that being a christian whilst not going to church and living a wayward life equates to atheism. That is why you see some Christians tell atheists that they were once like them, and that they are sure that one day they (atheists) will come back to Christ like they too did after leaving atheism.
I have encountered many situation where Christians who know I'm an atheist still get shocked when I proclaim I'm not a christian. They be like "Really? You don't believe in Jesus Christ? You don't believe he died for your sins?". I'll be like, So what was this one thinking all these while? That I don't believe in God yet somehow, I believe he has a son who died for our sins. I really don't get it!
There are also Christians who dump god after going through great pain which may have resulted from disappointment from a nonexisting god. A case like praying for god to heal your dying mum or loved one, but all call for help fell on deaf ears. That is why many Christians assume you atheist must have gone through hard times to have made you reject god. Now, this category of "atheists" rejected god from emotions instead of researching and going through reasoning.
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Christianity Etc › Re: Hopefullandlord And Co, I Need You Guys Take On This Issue. by chemystery: 9:50pm On Jun 24, 2018 |
Coming out as an atheist is something that goes with perfection. I mean you have to aim close to perfection in whatever you do. If you are a student, you have to be at the top of your game. If you are a business person, you ought to make sure your customers naturally can't do without your products or services irrespective of your religious affiliation. In general, you ought to strive to excel in whatever you do - no excuses!
For me, I keep my atheism to myself but don't find it hard to let anyone know if they happen to bring up religious discussion or ask me religion related questions like: why I don't go to church or where I worship. I work with a multinational company, and all my bosses and other colleagues know I'm an atheist. And it has never changed the way they see me or hindered my promotion or cause them to appraise me poorly. I do my job excellently and the result speaks for me so no one can witch-hunt me because I'm an atheist. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Explaining The Animosity Between Atheists And Theists by chemystery: 2:26pm On Jun 13, 2018 |
Primesky: Hahaha... and how do you know that God hasn't spoken to me before?. God's standards never change. His yes in the time of Adam is yes now, so He basically repeats those things He has once told men of old. He never contradicts himself, however, if I don't understand a thing, I ask Him and He answers me.
Why do you think it's difficult for God to speak to man?, look, I am a child of God, and my Father speaks to me always. I am not a bastard, as a matter of fact, God always longs to fellowship with His children, that's why He made us, to have a dynamic relationship with Him. To get to that point, you must accept what He says, correct the errors He has pointed out, which is that you repent and accept His Holy son Jesus Christ and live in a godly way of love and faith.
Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
You can't call on the one you don't love, trust or believe, because there's no relationship between you both. Does that then mean it doesn't exist with others?.
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Now that you don't believe in Jesus neither do you love Him yet, how can He abide with you to relate and fellowship with you?.
There are alot I can show you. If you don't know, you don't know. You have no idea what you're missing I tell you.
Is it the sweet time of personal fellowship I enjoy with Him or the moments of prayer that appears as if it should never end?. What pleasure in this world can compare?. But like I said, if you don't know, you don't know. But you see, in my Father's kingdom of love and light, we're not stingy, so we share this love and excitement for all who care to come. It's free and open to all to enjoy
Jesus Christ is the sweetest thing that can happen to any soul. Ah! If only you know  You are only lying to convince yourself you haven't been deceived. Saying God speaks to you is self deceit of the highest order. To prove you have been lying to yourself, try and record god's voice next time he speaks to you and see if you can |
Christianity Etc › Re: Explaining The Animosity Between Atheists And Theists by chemystery: 12:38pm On Jun 13, 2018 |
winner01: Why are you on a religious section arguing with religious people? I saw you post in celebrity section. What are you doing there when you're not a celebrity? |
Christianity Etc › Re: Explaining The Animosity Between Atheists And Theists by chemystery: 9:05am On Jun 13, 2018 |
M0ron: You can’t see it?
What makes you imagine that the theist is unthinking,and in need of thinking classes? OK, where is did I mention "stupid" there? And what makes you think an adult who believes in talking animals doesn't need to be taught how to think? |
Christianity Etc › Re: Explaining The Animosity Between Atheists And Theists by chemystery: 6:10am On Jun 13, 2018 |
M0ron: Calling Theists stupid means you are smarter And where have I done that? |
Christianity Etc › Re: Explaining The Animosity Between Atheists And Theists by chemystery: 7:50pm On Jun 12, 2018 |
bloodofthelamb: You are the lord of your own mind. God cannot manipulate you. Bro, you are the ignorant one here. Lol. He even knows what god can do and what god can't. How sweet! First christian to be honest enough to admit there is something god can't do. That's a good start man. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Explaining The Animosity Between Atheists And Theists by chemystery: 5:12pm On Jun 12, 2018*. Modified: 6:54pm On Jun 12, 2018 |
Primesky: It's OK, at least you have heard and read the message. You have right of choice to either reject or accept. I will not argue or quarrel with you about that.
For the avoidance of doubt, the truth and the fact here is that Jesus the Son of God came to the world, paid the price and penalty of our sins. Whosoever believes in Him by repenting of his/her sins and accepting Him, will be saved!.
This is the verdict of the Lord:
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
This is the whole matter in summary. Whatever you choose to do, say, think and believe, is totally your choice, but the truth cannot be altered. May the light of God shine on you. Shalom. Jesus or Yahweh have not spoken to you before. You only came to the world and met a book claimed to have been inspired by Yahweh. Even as there is no evidence that this is true, you still believed it because those who gave birth to you believed it and told you they were true. Is this not evident that you really don't believe in Yahweh but in men who told you in writings that they were inspired by Yahweh, as well as men who propagated it to reach you? How come you trust these men you never met so much that you believed they weren't telling lies? These men were the ones who Yahweh spoke to and therefore the ones who we would say believed (or should believe) in Yahweh. And now, all you are left with is to believe these men who claimed to hear from Yahweh are telling the truth, and at the end, you say you believe in Yahweh. No you don't! You only believe and trust that the authors of the bible books weren't telling lies. Shalom! |
Christianity Etc › Re: Explaining The Animosity Between Atheists And Theists by chemystery: 4:00pm On Jun 12, 2018 |
Primesky: Were you in Nigeria when the Federal government granted amnesty to some militants?. What would have happened if they had refused to accept the offer?.
Was it the government that literally forced them into militancy?. Was their action a contravention of the laws of the nation?. Was there any consequences for contravening those laws?. Will it be good for the government to allow them continue their destructive action forever without striking them down?.
So if the government gives a period of grace and says, repent, and you will be pardoned or else, you will be taken down, and the militants refuse, will you call the government evil and wicked?. This is not politics section. We are talking about religion here and about a supposed omnipotent and omniscient god, an all-loving and all-forgiving god. Now you want to use an entity with limitations to qualify another entity without limitations just to relief burden off your imaginary entity without limitations. Let me show you example by making the government omnipotent: Won't an omnipotent government just reset the minds of all the militants? Way easier for it than the whole amnesty drama. So that's a false analogy. My dear, repent and accept God's amnesty through Christ Jesus now, so that you can be saved. Do so before it's too late. I know you may want to argue and say, for what crime?. Well, so some militants asked as well and paid for it.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Jesus Christ saves!. Someone in chains wishes I get saved. Funny! Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but yourself can free you. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Explaining The Animosity Between Atheists And Theists by chemystery: 3:33pm On Jun 12, 2018 |
M0ron: This is a huge assumption of atheists,especially new atheists. They imagine they have discovered the art and science of thinking. Atheism is simply a different worldview,not any smarter than theism Read through the post you just quoted again. Point out where I have written that atheist are smarter than theists? Meanwhile, there is nothing smart about believing snake or donkeys talk (as recorded in the bible) or believing ants talk (as recorded in the Quran). Anyone who believes this need to be taught certain facet of thinking. |