₦airaland Forum

Gaddafi1:
Necessity as they say is the mother of invention. The recent closure of the broader will make Nigerians go into large scale and mechanized farming to cash in on the high cost of these products.
This will eventually bring the price down and make them available. I support closure of the boarder.

Wrong! Some farmers may increase their output slightly but hardly will we see any real changes.

The idea of being able to create something made me mess with it.

She backed her story with evidence and that makes any digging on her dead on arrival.

God permitted evil to drive home His points to us but doesn't permit evil beyond those. God doesn't tempt.

I have never encountered any of those preachers in such actions in my life. I only hear of them.

UceeGod:
No where in the Bible did Christ ask His desciples to preach about material prosperity. No where did Christ tell His desciples to organise church and mandate people to pay tithes.
The only gospel Christ commisioned His desciples to preach is about His Kingdom - Matthew 4:23, 9:35, Mark 16:15, Luke 9:6
The gospel of the Kingdom of God is about freedom from the dominion of Sin, peace in this troublesome world and Life in eternity. The gospel is often accompanied by signs of healing anf deliverance from demonic possession. The gospel of Christ's Kingdom never promises material wealth but God blesses anyone He deems fit according to His purpose, even unbelievers.
Success and prosperity in God's Kingdom is not ideally the same with that of the world. Unfortunately, prosperity and success is now seen in "churches" today just the way the world sees them. Prosperity in Christ's descipleship are the spiritual blessings that come with a heart and soul devoted entirely to Christ - giving the best of what you are and what you have to God's purpose regardless of the obstacles, which also includes your money (not necessarily 10%).

Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Sharing republic.

Tithe isn't charity. The way I understand financial seed is this, we are to give out or sow seeds as tithe(10% of gain), offering, voluntary church project offering or seed, seed to needy (charity), to parents, to spiritual parents ( Philippians 4:19), or to nations ("...thou shall lend unto nations...".

That's 7 category of givings.

Accountability will always be a good idea. The problem is speculative folks of modern times who like to assume whatever suites their narrative.
I support accountability of churches and leadership.

Wasn't tithe in existence before the law was given? Na wah oh...

MrSix:
Story short

You're not an Atheist nor Agnostic, so please exit.

That's your perspective. In reality, I am helping to attract them here by reminding them atheism isn't all about opposing Christianity alone.

MrSix:
Chai... Lols
You alright?

Read my question again.

Before I read your question again, read it for the first time yourself and read my reply again.

MrSix:
Still doesn't mean.

So if I call on thieves and they don't show up, you'd show up? What does that make you?

A man after thieves.

Thanks for the correction @helinues. But no clash yet, why ?

MrSix:
Oga, take the road you used in coming in. You're no Atheist nor Agnostic, why are you here?

I am here because the known atheists refuse to show up.

xerxes456:
Mr. CodeTemplar, I went through this thread and all the comments made so far, the statements by most of the members that have posted here, would have been enough to convince you about the tithing issue and Christianity, but your replies have given you away as someone who just want to post for the purpose of arguments, without coming to an agreement. what I mean is you know what you want and you have chosen to believe what you want to believe.

Just for your info. when Jesus was a kid he followed his parents to the tabernacle for the Passover feast( Luke 2:41-52), does this mean as Christians we are to go over to Jerusalem every year for the Passover? Moreover, Jesus adjusted the Passover ceremony before his death to the Communion we now practice, it was held in Jerusalem too, So I ask are we to visit Jerusalem every time we want to do the Holy communion? do read and understand, don't take everything your pastor preach hook line and sinker, read and understand.

We are Christians, we follow Christ, so I ask, did Jesus Christ ask his disciples to pay tithe to him, or is there any record of the disciples paying tithe to Christ? after His resurrection and ascension, is there any record of the Apostles paying tithe or asking the Christians to pay tithe, is there any record of any of his disciples asking or stating that Christians should pay tithe?

Tithe is not for Christians, Christians are to give "Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver." - 2 Corinthians 9:7. Shikenna. there are even so many scriptures covering this.

Christians are not Jews, the old testament is there to show you how God moved in times past, as Paul would say in Colossians 2 "Ït was a shadow of things to come." Christ has come and has fulfilled all those Laws. we live in Christ and we do not live by those Laws.

If you want to tithe like Abraham, it's your business, but make sure you make it clear that it's not your all you are giving, so you dont get punished like Ananias and Saphira.

Peace be unto you as you go and read the bible prayerfully to find answers for yourself.

Irrelevant facts mixed with bias is all you have up here.
You skillfully avoided the words of Jesus in Mathew 23:23 regarding tithe in your bid to mix thing up purposefully.
I have read my bible and expect you to read yours, plus when you think you have a point finally, back it up with scriptures and stop the emotional part of your rants that gives you up.

Always recycling old strides as news. APC is 95% packaging and 5% change. . . lol.

Their regular trademark...

Nothing strange here. As long as we support use of public funds to buy salah ram and build mosques, our leaders will continue to equally use public fund for their own private use and the masses will always be exposed to situations like this.

UceeGod:
2 Peter 1 : 20 - knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation
You twisted this passage my friend
Pray that God gives you understanding, you need it urgently. Plus you should try to know the meaning of prophecy, compare with what Jesus said in Matthew 23v23 and see who is twisting the Bible

How I
was the passage twisted? You used a blind accusation to bail out.

99.9% of them are only after Christianity and non of the other 6000 religions or gods on earth.

Before the thread is derailed by a misconception of the relationship of repentance to 'salvation', what is salvation?
Salvation means to be turned away from destruction or preservation from danger.

helinues:
Old age is really affecting Sir Bode

So how about Coca Cola, Guinness, Budweiser spending millions if not billions of dollars on adverts world wide?

Politics is totally different from Business . There are so many potentials and opportunities in advertising with international media

30 seconds advert on CNN should be from $5,000-$8,000 depends on the Prime Time..

Modified:
To those who quoted and who might intend to quote, are you guys saying a Chinese man coming to Nigeria for the first time and saw Zenith bank adverts on CNN wont first check the banks out upon reaching Nigeria?

Or probably Dangote only limited his business partnership strictly to Only Nigerians or perhaps Africa.

Is like questioning a Nigerian why buying Facebook likes.. Btw 100k likes on Facebook should cost like $5,000.

This is business and not meant for local business man that cant afford it

what's the total coverage of all the Nigeria media?

u goofed.

internationalman:
what are you saying..

How can a computer science students not know how to operate a computer

Must a mechanical engineering grad know how to drive a car or a vehicle ( truck, bike, tricycle etc) for him to be considered competent as a graduate? No. Computer science is different from MIS (Management and Info Systems) and even at that MIS isn't about computer operation.
As I speak to you, new programs are being written in unique ways in their thousands and it will be gross ignorance for you to on expect a grad of 4-5 years ago to know what is being produced today.

Even old software like Windows OSes and Co get updated often and there is no course like computer operation in a university system for this simple reason. Please stop basing your points or expectation on empty ideas.
What you suggesting is like making operations of machines a course for Mech Engrs. How will they adapt when new machines with different controls get churned out after their graduation? You goofed.

internationalman:
Engineering is almost about computer hardwares while science is about software...

But both of them are scam.

Some computer science students can't even operate a computer.

Operation of a computer isn't in anyway related to computer science. You goofed.

dre11:
https://www.thecable.ng/extra-borno-secretly-recruits-1000-ninja-hunters-‎with-powers-to-disappear

That's like state police. I laugh.

naijaguy123456:
The British want to destroy our top educational institution. The British have done nothing positive for this country. If Unilag had made a major breakthrough in research would the BBC publish or run documentary on it ? Go to Uk universities and your white professors will be telling you that you can’t graduate here with first class because you’re black! They should run documentaries on those .

Stockholm syndrome dey worry u. You are in love with your captors and will even repel any form of help. Get well soon!

1shortblackboy:
Why did it have to take BBC to come and investigate this matter for us what are our journalists doing

10 likes.

And they will make a private uni grad feel bad by parading themselves as superior irrespective of grades.

Iniquity includes the perversion of God's word also. Any man who says some part of the Holy Spirit inspired scriptures are erroneous is a worker of iniquity. Great iniquity.

pocohantas:
What Nigerians call smartness, would most times turn out to be total disresgard for the next person, basic etiquette, moral values, laws or rules and regulations.

A Nigerian will drive one way, get to the front- return to the correct lane and feel like a sharp guy.

A Nigerian will jump the queue, luckily they get attended to by whoever after dropping N200. They come back to you that is standing on the queue like a sane human being and tell you that you are not STREET SMART. So, you fit sleep here today o...Truly you might sleep there.


Na this kind smartness we dey exhibit most times. Majority of us are guilty of one or more. Not our fault sha, it is the kind of smartness you need to survive in a third world country, where everything-including the government is working against you.

The people that are BOOK SMART (we call them efiko and even demonise them), we stereotype them as clumsy and timid- NOT STREET SMART. The ones going about their businesses jejely are not left out from the above stereotype.

That is why when we go to countries where normal humans are, we complain it is slow, boring...etc. We have to relearn to live, because we have only been existing/surviving in the jungle we hopped on the plane from.

Our own smartness is that of shortcut. That explains why south Africans are chasing us out. We go there hoping to sell the Nigerian idea of smartness to them but they sense where it is going to lead them to on time and put us where we belong.

How many Nigerian multinational are in South Africa the way MTN and ShopRite is in Nigeria? Our own kind of smartness is centered around selfishness and shortsightedness. We do drugs mostly and cut corners then go on to live lavish and call it smartness. That's lawlessness and not smartness.

I wonder if people who see error in Apostle Paul's epistles are doers of iniquity also.
Just thinking aloud.