BTW what passage of your Bible did you read that Apollos was Paul's Jewish convert? 0I hope you don't mind pointing out that relevant portion of the Bible to me

The churches founded by the apostles existed as one church irrespective of whoever Was The bishop.The church never existed separately under their respective founder's as exhibited by today's Pentecostals

Anas09:

Sir, the dead saints you worship are a replacement of these demons hiding behind people's names. Repent Jesus is at the threshold.

Sorry Catholic Saints are not dead like Pentecostal scammers looking for the next victims to scam of tithes or first fruits

Anas09:

Hahahahahahahahaha. Pls go back and read Acts of the Apostles before you have discussion with me. Those churches you mentioned where planted by Apostle Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles. Peter was the Apostle to the Jews.
Stop disgracing yourself in public. Paul planted and Apollos watered. Does planting and watering mean the same to you?

Who was Apollos? Paul's Greek convert.

You are the one disgracing yourself here. You know absolutely nothing about church history. Even the book of acts you mentioned here you don't even have any idea about it's author. There are more to church history then the book of acts. There is even no where in the book of acts we were told churches were solely planted by Paul. Luke the writer of the book of acts was with Paul and covered most of his missionary exploits. Not much was reported in that book about the activities of the other apostles. Peter was the first Bishop of Antioch as well as the first Bishop of Rome. The apostles visited virtually all the churches in Jerusalem, Greek and Turkey. Your ignorance is nauseating


Here is the complete quotation I referenced earlier 1 correct 3:1-8

3 Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. 3 You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere human beings?

5 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. 7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.

Where exactly did Paul claim to have planted all the churches. You Pentecostals are sick. Paul was preaching against today's one man churches. He saw the Church as one with different people doing different tasks for the growth of the church

Anas09:

This Catholic church must be YHWH who through His Spirit inspired the writing of the Bible.

Sir, i will have to leave you yo your self deceit at this point.
Good night and goodbye.

You are the one wallowing in self deceit. The Bible was canonised by the Catholic Church through a series of church councils most notably council of Rome 382CE, Synod of hippo 393CE, council of Carthage 397CE and 419CE. Prior to these church councils the Bible simply didn't exist .This is a historical fact

Anas09:

What did he tell these other churches?

He wrote to all these other Churches which were set up by Apostle Paul, (not Peter) converting them to Catholic Church and instructing them to depart from the scriptures to uphold the Hellenistic doctrines which Jesus Christ wrote through Apostle John condemning?

Do you know what you are talking about?

my dear cure your ignorance. If you want to know what he wrote to the other churches google is your answer BTW what do you mean churches set up by apostle Paul and not Peter? The Church was set up by the entirety of the 12 apostles, Paul and others and not one single person.The church is not a one man's property like you Pentecostals has turned it into. Paul himself used this words "Paul planted, Apollos watered ".The Catholic Church was founded by the apostles with Apostle Peter as the first Bishop of Antioch and later Rome from where his successors had presided over the church.

Anas09:

Mary== Prima Dona (Queen of Heaven, a demon, for starters). Worshipping of the heavenly bodies and venerating dead people and turning them to super heroes.

Do you know Zeus, Achilles Thor, and all those deities that are been worshipped now lived as normal men?

That is Hellenism in Catholic church. in order to keep worshipping the masquerading demons, names of Bible characters were picked and replaced with the Greek gods.

Babylon the Great, the mother of all Harlots, is the Catholic Church.

Who are those worshipping Zeus, Achilles and Thor? You mean that's what you worship in your church? You worship Greek gods in your church? That is so sick

Anas09:

The Letter killed, but the Spirit giveth life, for the word which i speak unto you are spirits and they are life.


I was never referring to the letter of the Word, but the Spirit. the collection of the book gives no one salvation, it is the spirit which quickeneth.

You guys are holding unto a book which can not help you but neglect the Holy Spirit who convicts the hearts and converts the souls.

when you stand before Jesus very soon, you shall not stand holding a copy of the Bible to proof that you belonged to the catholic church which compiled it. That same Bible shall be opened and from it questions will be asked you. 'I said thou shall not, did you?'. I said love, did you? i said forgive, did you!

Killing yourself trying to proof who compiled the Bible will be futile when you meet the Lord. Isn't it funny, that those who compiled the Word don't know what the Word says?

All you wrote here is gibberish. You go about quoting scriptures from the same bible the organization you called the LovePeddler of Babylon canonised. How come you do not quote other scriptures that was not canonised by the Catholic Church

Anas09:

Was it the Church in Smyrna he called the Catholic Church or he included the Ephesian, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicean Churches? Was Ignatius a Bishop in all these Churches or only in the Smyrnean Church?

To cure your ignorance St Ignatius wrote to most of the churches you mentioned. They were all Catholic churches with their respective bishops. St Ignatius himself was the third Bishop of Antioch after The apostle Peter and his immediate successor St Evodius

Anas09:

Do you know what Hellenism is, and what the Hellenists worship? Check inside the Catholic Church and you'd see everything in there

Of course I know what Hellenism is. You are the ignoramus here. What part of Catholic worship is Hellenistic?

Anas09:

So the Word of God did not exist until the 4th Century?

Yes i know the Apostles were catholics just like they were they were Muslims too.

Bros the scriptures are not same thing as the Bible. Scriptures has been existing even before Jesus was born but the Bible as a collection of canonised scriptures was created by the Catholic Church.

RIP Obinna nwa Awkuzu!! What a horrible way to die

sarrki:


The real people on ground

Not paid online agents

People that believes in development they can visibly see

Codeine at work

sarrki:


You remember one of my early post on Nairaland?

That southeast will be at the forefront campaigning for Pmb in 2019 ?

It’s happening already

You will also campaign for Pmb fully before election

how exactly is it happening? What percentage of SE people support Buhari?

transformed:
you failed to mention that RCCG is actually making church more appealing to a lot of other denominations you mentioned that attend church service once in a quarter...infact some only answer Anglican because they were born there, they never attended any church in their formative years, some of them are now devoted redeemed workers in their late 40s. What about those that refuse to follow their parents to church back in their villages, that are now redeemed pastors in the city...Had Church of England had a church like redeemed their cathedrals in Birmingham UK wouldn't be occupied by Moslems as it is now

Is RCCG even amongst the top 20 Pentecostal churches in the Europe ? That is exactly the question you people should be asking. I wonder where you people get the overbloated impression of your church.Penrecostalism as a whole still has an insignificant population in Europe let alone an obscure RCCG mainly attended by Nigerian immigrants

Omooba77:


I Corinthias 7:17-20, we are not doing competition; all is to God's Glory. No church in Heaven; only Saints

How does making a false claim relate to this? Where exactly did BBC claim RCCG is the fastest growing church in the world? You lied and you know it

Kennydoc:


There is a difference between fastest growing and largest. Remember that in 2014, Nigeria's economy was projected to be one of the fastest growing.

of course I know the difference and even at that the RCCG is still not even close to the fastest growing church in the world.By percentage Is definitely not RCCG. and in terms of absolute numbers it is still the Catholic Church

Kennydoc:


He said FASTEST GROWING church not largest church. Catholic Church is almost not growing again. Anglican Church is dwindling. RCCG is the hope of Christianity in Europe esp in the UK.

RCCG the hope of Christianity in Europe? You people will have to tell me that sort of goof you have been smoking. Pentecostalism is hardly existent in Europe let alone one unknown RCCG. Even amongst the Pentecostal churches in Europe what proportion even attends the RCCG.How many members does the RCCG have in Europe compared to the European population? You are not even up to 0.001 % of the European population

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oyeludef:
the Catholic Church is separate from the protestant churches, why bring them together? Why bring people who are not subject to the pope under same roof as catholic. Ur assertion dat catholic is 50% of Christian population needs to be backed with data, secondly, do u realize dat for hundreds of years it was only the Catholic Church existing? How come they have now dropped from 100% to 50% as asserted by you? Is that progress or retrogression?

How exactly did I bring Catholics together with protestants? I don't understand you bro. Go and study church history, there was never any time the Catholic Church was the only Christian congregation in the world. Right from the first century we have had the others Marcionists,Arians,nicolaitans etc . Kindly study. As for your data see it below

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity

oyeludef:
catholic church is living on past glory. Put the protestants as one, can u compare their number with urs? How many ppl around you do u know of who recently left their religion to become catholics?

Bros the Catholic Church is still over 50% of the world Christian population.Together with the orthodox church it is almost 70% of the global Christian population

Tundeobama:

You just mentioned my former church Bro you wrong assemblies of God don't even have presence of church like winners talk less of bigger Rccg .If you have worshipped in rccg in central London,Sweden Canada and some states in USA you will know why BBC brought down their official team to do some recording.
AG crises affected à lot.God bless Bro the body of Christ is Same one love.bye

Are you for real? AG? AG is the largest Pentecostal church in the world and more than 5 Times the population of the RCCG

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assemblies_of_God

Half of the Christian Church in Pakistan are Catholic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Pakistan

RCCG g has the highest numbers of convert from Muslim to Christian especially Nigeria and Pakistan

When it comes to making dubious claims one will have to give it to you Pentecostals. How exactly did you arrive at this claim?

Tundeobama:

catholic is not a church to compare because it has existed for many centuries even Christians calls it MOthere church.
fastest growing tell me any church in the world established just RCCG was founded in 1952 by Rev. Josiah
Olufemi Akindayom and has grown to such feet in the world like rccg.Remember this church was started in Africa.No church from Africa has reach Rccg feet.

I don't have any issue with RCCG, I only detest people making false claims. The RCCG is growing but it is not the fastest growing church in the world. I Hope you know even amongst the Pentecostal denominations the assemblies of God is larger than the RCCG?

Tundeobama:
carefully observing Rccg is the fastest growing church in the world if you have visit 15 contries in the past 10yrs let's argue you stay in your room you think you have statistics than BBC.Catholic is a church that have existed for centuries so you forcefully comparing them with a new pentecostal it shows deep you heart you knew Rccg is fast growing.Catholic has even drop in number.50years ago when catholic in Rccg was just starting for a young church like that to have presence in 197 plus countries each country with more than 10 parishes poo.Rccg was established by a black man and it attain that feet.
I expect more evil people to criticize Adeboye as a true man of God he has taking Rccg to a feet no blackman has attained in Christiandom in Africa a priest is not appreciated in his home town.
Your hate words can't do appreciating Rccg is moving forward daily.God bless.

Can you please show me where BBC claimed RCCG was the fastest growing church in the world? Where did you see that? The OP just made a dubious claim and you are here blabbing.50 years ago the population of the Catholic Church was 700million. Today it is 1.3billion.That is why I said The Catholic Church is the fastest growing church in terms of absolute numbers. Even by percentage RCCG cannot be the fastest growing church in the world

oyeludef:
why so much hate in ur voice? Simply English, "fastest growing". Islam is said to be the fastest growing religion in Europe, it does not mean there are more Muslim than Christians in Europe but simply that more people are changing their religion to Islam than the Christian. Do u think bbc made d statistics up or wat

RCCG is not the fastest growing church in the world and BBC will not be stupid to tag them as such. BTW how exactly do you people claim RCCG is the fastest growing church in the world? Is it in terms of percentage or absolute numbers? Because I know the Roman Catholic Church is the fastest growing church in terms of absolute numbers

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obailala:
And how exactly is this your picture with an arrow to an unknown thug's head an EVIDENCE that Omo-agege was responsible for the thugs?

Or maybe the word "omo-agege" is written on the thug's face but only you with spiritual eyes can see it.

you didn't see Omo-Agege leading the thugs into the Senate chamber? Do you have sight challenge?

Goodness4525:
Please don't complicates matters here by comparing rccg to Catholic Church, the head line says fastest growing Church,there is a difference btw growing and grown up,,,. rccg is growing,while Catholic has already grown

Even amongst the growing churches RCCG is not the fastest growing church in the world

mathinips:


Take note of this "fastest growing". Let me ask u this question "Is Catholic Church growing?" In your parish, How many convert do u have on the average per week?

For me I am not border about growth between churches, if Catholic are growing am happy, if it's Anglican am Happy, if it's RCCG am happy. What am after is for growth of God's kingdom and decrease in the devil camp.

converts indeed. Most Pentecostals keep jumping from one church to another Evey weekend. Are those the sort of people you refer to as converts? There are "converted " from one church to another even within their Pentecostal denominations

Ali Ndume is obviously heading to another suspension

No wonder Omo-Age refused showing up today. He knew what was waiting for him

HigherEd:

You seem not to comprehend the difference between "fastest growing" and "largest". Rccg is easily the fastest growing church in the world. However the Catholics are the largest.

RCCG are not the fastest growing church in the world. Enough with your lies