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Dear All,
I've tried to read through various pages on this great tread.
However, I'm still confused on either to do ECA on my M.Sc. & B.Sc. or only on M.Sc. being my highest qualification.
This is because, while some people advised to do ECA on highest qualification for Canadian EE, especially for the speed of one over two certificate, others advised doing also for B.Sc. probably because of Provincial Nomination.
Please can someone help clarify if doing on M.Sc. alone can also qualify me for Provincial Nomination etc. or must I do on B.Sc. too?
Also would doing on both increase my score?
Thanks in advance

The atheist, Thomas Hobbies, said in his dying hour, “I am taking a fearful leap into the dark”. Cromwell said, “The devil is ready to seduce us, and I have been seduced”.

@OP and everyone,
Who are u to question the Almighty God your maker? Or find a fault with this faultless & blameless being Note, whatever anyone says or think does not alter anything about God's Omnipresent, Omniscient & Omnipotent nature! These His 3 attributes are sure, undeniable & eternal!!!
Will a man be more righteous than God or will a mortal man be more just than His maker - let him that reproveth God answer me!
Have you taken a verse of the Bible in isolation and not compare scripture with scriptures to have a balance and perfect understanding of the Word of life?
I've realized that many people in this world are more concerned with 'how many people will be saved' in the last day but unfortunately are less concern with their personal relationship with the Lord and how to make their individual ways right with God, but keep thinking what'll happen to others in total neglet of their never dying soul.
Beloved, what can more comforting than these words as declared by the Almighty God Himself --- Ezekiel 33: "14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;[s] 15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live."!!!
AND
Ezekiel 18:"23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?" - God is talking..., behold Christ is also knocking at the door of your heart right now, I say right now, if you listen carefully you'll hear Him and your name will be written in the book of life! Will you, brother, sister, will you open the door of your heart to Him?
Please be sober, repent, forsake your sins, accept Christ's salvation and rejoice in the Lord Jesus Christ, for there's hope for us in Christ both in this world and hereafter, only be holy and pure & we'll definately see God and be with Him forevermore ...
God bless
Bro. Sam.

Voltaire made himself a bitter enemy of Christ through his entire life. But at his death, he sent for the priest to get reconciled with the Church. When the infidel friends who had respected him as their hero tried to stop him, he repeatedly and loudly exclaimed, “Begone! It is you who begone!”. Hoping to be relieved of his pain and anguish of heart by a written confession, he had it prepared, signed it, but it was all unavailing. At last he cried, “O Christ! O Lord Jesus! I must die-abandoned of God and of men!”. His nurse was so terrified that she said, “For all the wealth of Europe, I would never see another infidel die. It was a scene of horror that lies beyond all exaggeration”.
Brethren, why not consider your end today and give Christ a chance in your heart today. Look at Him now how He said, "behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." You'll never regret you did - I honestly assure you!!!

Lord Orochimaru: Based on the sermon on the mount, which Jesus preached, I begin to wonder if atheists and traditionalists who have a pure heart and do not believe in God will enter Heaven..

You're certainly missing something - you can't be pure in heart without believing in God(Jesus), for He is the One that doth makes your heart pure.
Purity of heart is gotten only by God's grace through faith in the atoning BLOOD of Jesus.

Kindly surrender your totality to Christ to make this experience a reality in your life and most importantly for you to see God at the time you bid farewell to this world.

Frosbel, you've been deceived by the spirits of the last days. I pray God deliver you in Jesus name.

“Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his” (Num. 23:10). But he who lives a Christless life can only die the death of the wicked. How did they die? Open the pages of history and let’s hear…
Tom Paine was born at Thedford, England in 1737. He had opportunity to live in the period of revivals by George Whitefield and John Wesley. He lived a life against God and wrote against the Almighty, drawing hearts away from Christ. An eye-witness of his death said, “He is truly to be pitied”. Tom Paine’s cries at the hour of death were: “O Lord, help me! God help me! Jesus Christ, help me! O, God! What have I done to suffer so much!”. Then shortly after, he said: “but there is no God!”. And then again, “Yet, if there be, what would become of me hereafter?”. As the elderly woman who was his attendant left the room, Tom Paine said, “Stay with me, for God’s sake! For I cannot bear to be left alone. It is hell to be left alone”. In terror and agony his very last words recorded in history were, “My God, my God, why has Thou forsaken me?”.

Brethren, for those who thought they could cheat God by living a Christless life now hoping to repent at the hour of death will be grossly disappointed. They'll have themselves only to blame! Just imagine someone whose pain at the point of death was so much, that he thought repentance towards God may alleviate the horrible pains he was already going through but unfortunately for Tom Paine, it was too late. He had hardened himself so much in sin that his conscience is now dead to his destruction, that he did not only doubted after he attempted to plead for God's mercy and help, but went as far as saying "but there's no God!" “Yet, if there be, what would become of me hereafter?”...only to breath his last and saw the Almighty, the Great and Terrible, the consuming Fire and the Judge of the whole earth. He didn't want to be left alone while alive but he died abandoned of God and His holy Angels. He had lived Christlessly on earth, only to die and to go where the ungodly goes.
Brethren, please repent now if at all you're interested in eternal life and "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Is. 55:6" 'cos there's a time when you seek Him that He may not be found or you call but He is not near. Let not your cup of indignation be filled b4 calling on Him, perharps you might even have crossed yonder b4 realizing it's too late! Come to Jesus, I beg you, please come...when you still have your strenght b/c the dark night is coming soon when it will be too late to right your wrongs!
Stay blessed.

Stephen was sure of where he was going when he uttered his last words: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit”. Paul had no doubt at the time of his departure; “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness”. Stephen saw a vision of God and Jesus Christ and fell asleep. Jacob and David prophesied and blessed their children in their dying hours and died peacefully.
Blessed hope! Wonderful departing!

We have others at their dying hour saying “They sing! The angels sing!”. “Is this dying? No, it is sweet living”. “I am not afraid to look death in the face”. “I see Jesus”. “I will soon be gone, but do not weep for me, I am going home to glory”. “I have no desire to recover – I would rather depart and be with Christ”. “Eternity rolls up before me like a sea of glory, and so near”. “The sun is setting, mine is rising, I go from this bed to a crown. Farewell”.

Like a cloud of many witnesses we have many others, at their dying hour, joyously saying these words: “How bright the room! How full of angels!”. “Oh that I could tell what joy I possess! I am full of rapture. The Lord doth shine with such power upon my soul. He is come”. “I shall soon be with Jesus. Perhaps I am too anxious. Can this be death? Why, it’s better than living! Tell them I die happy in Jesus”. “Rest, happiness and peace forever”. “It is sweet to die”. “Glory to God I see the heavens open before me”. “What shall I say? Christ is altogether lovely; His glorious angels are come for me”. “My mansion is all ready, now I go home into paradise”.

Wherever he opened in the Holy Bible, John Wesley’s message always inspired his hearers to holy living. From 1738 when the grace of God strangely warned his heart till the time of his death, multitudes were brought into the experience of sanctification and holiness. His last words as he left to meet the Rewarder of those that diligently seek Him were: “The best of all is, God is with us… We thank Thee, o Lord… The clouds drop fatness. The Lord is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge”.

The best part of Matthew Henry’s life was devoted to writing the devotional commentary on the whole Bible. On his death-bed, he said, “A life spent in the service of God and communion with Him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that one can live in the present world”.

‘Rock of Ages cleft for me, let me hid myself in Thee’ sang Augustus M. Toplady, the song writer. Leaping out of the world into the great beyond, he said: “O what delights! Who can fathom the joys of the third heaven? What a bright sunshine has been spread around me! I have not words to express it. I know it cannot be long now till my Saviour will come for me, for surely no mortal man can live (then bursting into flood of tears, he continued) after glories that God has manifested to my soul. All is light, light, light – the brightness of His glory. O come, Lord Jesus, come quickly”.
...brethren, that's how to die!

solidbroda: If heaven/ hell truly exist, I want God to appear and tell us. Or jesus should appear to everyone and tell us. When Paul( then saul) was on his was to Damascus, he had the privilege to see Jesus one on one. Not in a dream, or vision or some rachet pastors telling him what Jesus said, but Jesus was real according to the bible. So, if God loves us like he claimed, and doesn't want everybody to go to hell, let everybody see him, or at least 7 of his best angels. No more confusion about this or that.
However, no heaven no hell as far as I know.

Rom. 3: "3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar;"
Our believe or disbelive doesn't affect reality. For instance, if you tell someone in the remotest locality that Obama is currently the U.S. president and the person says he doesn't believe, does his disbelive remove Obama from the throne? - absolutelute not! How much more when God's word declares that Heeaven and hell is real!!! Isn't it ridiculous for frail, mortal & finite man like u and I to say we don't believe Please, let's leave childishness and hold firm to the truth as we have no continuing stay here 'cos our time on earth will soon expire, but we should with all courage and firmness hold unto the Lord and reverence His word while obeying His instructions/commandment either or not we visions/dreams/revelations or physically.
John 9: 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

FOLYKAZE: Yes it exist....only in the mind of people that believe in it

Bro, not so. Our believe or disbelieve does not in any affect/alter the reality. Moreover, the Creator's word says it EXISTS:
In Rev. 20:
"11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."
Also, in Rev. 21:
"1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."
Thus God's word has SAID IT ALL, please Accept, Believe, Confess, Repent and Forsake your sins/past to have your names written in the BOOK of life.
God bless

*Kails*:
who knows?

Beloved, both are real. We'll see the reality of both on this tread reading through people's confession at their last minutes on earth. I pray we take an ernest heed b4 the curtain of our life is drawn!

Evang. Olu:
Yes! Lets keep it up.


Nairaland for Christ by God grace whether the devil likes it or not. The KINGDOM of GOD MUST increase and the kingdom of the devil MUST decrease.
We are on the winning side and "One with God is majority"

Amen! God bless u all!

Still on "HEAVEN OR HELL......Which is real"

On her last day on earth, as Frances E. Willard walked through the valley of the shadow of death, she said: “I have crept in with Mother and it is the same beautiful world and the same people…how beautiful it is to be with God”.

Isaiah 64:4 - "For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside Thee,
what He hath prepared for him that waiteth for Him."
Count me worthy of thy eternal home o Lord, my God!

Policarp was another of John’s disciples. During Nero’s rule, Policarp’s holy life and godly influence attracted the attention of the persecutors. He was arrested and taken to court where he was told to deny Christ to save his life. He replied, “eighty and four years have I served Christ who never and did me any injury. How can I blaspheme my King and Saviour”? He was burnt alive. His last words were: “O Lord, Father of Thy beloved Son, Jesus Christ, I thank Thee that Thou has graciously this day and this hour allotted me a portion amongst the number of martyrs”.

@Billyonaire, your assertion below is incorrect.
In Gen. 2:7, the Bible says "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Thus the soul was created by the blast of the breath of life from the only living God(our Maker;as all others are dead/works of man's hand & no god at all) into man's nostrils and not 'just a spark of energy' as you claimed below. And the same scriptures provides an answer to what transpires at death as we read in Eccl. 12:7 "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it" apparently to give an account of what he lived for while on earth.
Hence, the deads are not here as you claimed but has gone at their last breath on earth to their Maker to receive the just recompense for their stewardship as declared in Heb. 9:27 "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment".
Also note that either you believed in God or not, you will meet the same God @ death but beloved, what account will you give before Him in the land where there'll be no more mercy but the way you lived your life on earth will dictate your eternal destination?
In Dan. 12:2, we read "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." My beloved billyonaire and others reading this post, which do you choose as the choice is totally yours depending on the kind of life you decides to live here on earth, but please I implore you all to chose Jesus that it may be well with your soul in the live beyond the grave where it will be too late to right your wrongs neither again can you repent! This is what the Lord Jesus thought of when He asked the question in Matt. 16:26 "For what is a man profited, if he SHALL gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
Please think on these things, God bless u.

HEAVEN OR HELL……Which is real

Is it real? Is there life beyond the grave? Does man cease to exist as death? Are the wicked forgotten after death? Do all people continue to live throughout eternity? Is Heaven material or mystic? Is it a fact or fiction that there is hell? Are there proofs of the existence of either or both? Can anyone be sure? History has a lot to say, let’s listen:

Ignatius was sentenced to die by throwing him to the lions about 100 A.D. He was a bishop of the church of Antioch. He has been a disciple of John the beloved. As he faced death from the hands of his persecutors, he said, “I thank Thee O Lord, that Thou has honoured me with thy word. Praise God”. He had such peace at the hour of death. What a marvelous God we serve!

Frosbel, You're highly O.Y.O on these your contradictory messages...

The questions are often asked, “Who is a Christian? How do I know a Christian if I meet one? Does Matthew, Luke, or John pass for a Christian? Is everyone who raises up his hand in response to a preacher’s call to repentance a Christian? Does everyone who passes through the church isle to the altar pass for a Christian? Are all those in church pews during church services Christians? Who is a Christian? Finally you may ask, “Am I a Christian?”
A soul winner on evangelism met a drunk drifting down a lane. In his attempt to help him discover the true purpose of living’ he asked, “Are you a Christian?” The answer came quick and sharp “What do you think I am? A Pagan?” This is a pitiful point.
A brilliant preacher full of energy and zeal got the pass mark of his congregation. But his life at home showed a pattern of pride and jealousy found in the fallen angel - Lucifer.
A gifted and talented lady-soloist sings like an angel and prays like a prophet but she talks and acts with thunder and volcano in her voice. Her red-hot temper, contentiousness and confusion are marks of her presence at home or at work. Are these Christians? A ‘Niagara’ of stormy words is an indication of the absence of Christ in the heart.
Being a Christian is not a new label: It is a new life. The word ‘Christian’ first occurred in the New Testament. It was not in the Old Testament. “The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch” (Acts11: 26). From the first use of a word, the true meaning and significance of the word become clear. Disciples were called Christians.
‘Disciple’ is a prominent word in the New Testament. It did not have any place in the Jewish Religion. One of the disciples in Antioch referred to as a Christian was in Jewish religion (Galatians 1:13) before he became a Christian. Living by the Mosiac code of “ordinance, touch not, taste not, handle not,” the ceremonial washing in holy water is ignorance of true discipleship and Christianity. Christianity centres on Jesus Christ - His love, life and light. A Christian therefore is the person who lives the life of Christ as revealed in the New Testament.
The New Testament opens with Jesus Christ who saves from sin (Matthew 1:21) and closes with Jesus Christ, the King who will come quickly - Revelation 22:20. Christ died to make you a Christian. He did not have to die to make you a churchgoer; you can do that on your own. But you cannot overcome sin in your natural human nature. Christ died to suffer for you-through Christ’s merit. If you confess your sins and ask for pardon and grace you will be forgiven. Peace and joy will come into your heart. You will never be the same again. Christ died to make you live
- through definite faith in His precious Blood; your heart and life are changed. Christ died to reconcile you to God. Through His meritorious sacrifice, a love relationship is established between you and God. Christ died to give you a new heart and life like His. You can only enjoy a new heart at the expense of another.
The Christian life radiates the beauty of Christ’s lifestyle - humility, obedience, love, integrity and newness of life. Check up if you are a Christian. If not, why not? “Be not deceived: God is not mocked: For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Galatians 6:7). Remember that “not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven: but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in Heaven.”
You can decide to confess your sins to God today and repent - make a wholehearted change of life. Ask for pardon from God in the Name of Jesus, the only one Mediator between God and man (1 Timothy 2:5). Believe God for His mercy. Changed and transformed, begin to live a Christian life.
1. Pray everyday especially before you go out in the morning and before you sleep in the evening.
2. Read the Bible everyday especially in the morning before you begin the day and before you sleep in the evening.
3. Fellowship with Bible-believing Christians.
4. Be conscious of the presence of Jesus EVERY TIME; therefore, don't do whatever will displease Him.
5. Share your testimonies with your friends and tell others about Jesus.
Remain blessed!

If your answer to the first post is no or you can't say, I implore you by the mercies of God to immediately surrender your life and totality to Jesus who died that u might have eternal live. 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. "

Between Religion And Morality: Which One Can Take You To Heaven?
No one! Neither religion nor morality will take anyone to heaven but Christlikeness. It's the life you live that will judge u(justified or damned). You need to acknowledge your sins before God, repent and forsake them and u trust in the atoning blood of Jesus for your cleasing and justification before one can make heaven.
You'll need to be pure in heart to see God else, all efforts(morality), religion and self rigteousness will be vain and lands someone in no other place than the eternal lake.
Concerning those who died before Christ, they'll be judged by the law of conscience. The Almighty says in Jer. 31:33 "But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people."
You can see that the merciful God who is also a consuming fire makes adequate provision for all ages. Remember, Enouch lived in an age where idolaterous worship was so prevalent that the knowledge of the true God was almost 'non-existence' and he has no Bible, nor pastor, no preacher nor prophet, not even a fellow believer or someone to look up to in the faith, yet "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God."
Does the life you currently live please God? Do u live a victorious daily life of dying to self, satan and sin? Do u have a pure motive, pure intentions, a pure conscience? Do you have the witness of the spirit in you assuring you of heaven should the curtain of your life be drawn NOW? ... These are the things that will take us to heaven which is only made possible through grace that comes from Christ redemtive blood shed for the remission of our sins and raised for our justification. If anyone irrespective of religion, race or sex cannot provide the right answer to these, he's already on his way to HELL.

True talk bro. There's no truth outside the TRUTH - THE BIBLE.

Due. 7: 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
If anyone truly fear the Lord and belongs to Him, he will keep His commandments to observe and to do them that he/she may live in the life after now!

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us. - 1 John 5:14.
Now, note that when we asked something from the Lord, we must commend ourselves to His mercy, we cannot demand it as a debt, but we must humbly request it as a favour: "Lord if thou wilt". I throw myself at your feet and if I perish, I will perish there Est. 4:16.
Let's be mindful to know God's will for us at every situation in life and we'll do ourselves good if we submit to His supreme will.

@ OP,
Verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
Why not set aside unprofitable reasoning/questions and do what will profit your soul in eternity. The Lord is still calling pple today: "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. John 3:16"
...He that hath an ear, let him hear...

Yes, Lord Jesus is the only way to eternal life. The Scripture confirm this when He said " Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" Acts 4:12.
And may I tell you, you have only life to live and that will soon be gone, only what's done for Christ will last. Please be wise and live for the Saviour who loves and died for you, 'cos if you miss heaven, you will cry! So be wise not to miss eternal life which is only by Jesus, through Him and for Him.

@ MRbro , the Word of God say "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." (Matthew 7:13-14).
The word of God is infallible! So the fact that every one does something which the Bible pronunced sinful does not make that thing clean. The way of destruction is always wide for every one to tow that path. Listen to this : "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." (Proverbs 16:25).
There4, I urge you to live your life in reverence to God your maker who created you for His own glory.
Consider and see the folly of living christlessly i.e. enjoying the pleasure of sin which is just but for a moment (max. a man lives for say 130years) compared to spending eternity in the burning lake, in the blackness of darkness for ever and ever. My brother, you better be wise!

"For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? " (Matthew 16:26).[b][/b]
Where do you plan to spend eternity. Heaven is real, likewise hell! Which course/path are treading? Some even argued about the existence of God. However, as for me, I'll rather leave my life on earth as if there's God to die and found out there isn't, than to leave a life against God on earth only to die and found out He is when it will be too late to right my wrong. Make a wise choice today! Decide for Jesus and you'll have eternal life!