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nura_abi:
emmmmmmmmm
why are so angry

babs787:
@Deebrain


Stop deceiving yourself. I have tasted christianity, so you cannot befool me with that and my posts tells more. Do you care to tell me the missing facts and we look into the two books for facts?
Thanks

davidylan:
I'm not sure you understand what you talk about.

huxley:
Davidylan and Neotic both fear that if they take a wrong step, they may backslide, thus missing their salvation. They have admitted this on a separate thread . But the bible says anyone who backslides is not really a true Christians.  Given that Davidylan and Neotic know that they are at risk of backsliding, they CANNOT be true Christians.

So these self-professed Christians are simply fly-by-night hypocites.

amebo22:
Thanks you for the insight DeeBrain ,
you fail to recognise i did not publish the news and also the link is there for you to check it out. Are you discrediting online News from Nigeria or journalists, > This is not about the church or chris . I really dont care what he does but NL is a forum where you see an article and you bring out to the audience to talk about it. Thus it would be nice to direct you tots about the article and not at the poster. and we wonder what is wrong with nigeria.And if you have noting to say simply read the article and move on. abi na bi force. if you are a member of his church i then apologise but this is not the only news article i ve posted. I like to read the news and brainstorm with other intellectuals.That is y i posted it

HERO111:
Fellow Nairalnders, did u celebrate Val? if u did have u ever asked urself the origin of this so -called val day? i think that if we try to trace the origin of most events , we sure may not be a part of some.
pls go tru the following piece and see if it makes sense. ur contributions are wellcome. thnx


http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/tract6.html
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Be Nobody’s Valentine
Each year on February 14th countless millions of people celebrate a day known as “St. Valentine’s Day.” Millions of heart-shaped cards and boxes of chocolates are given as gifts, and even churches have Valentine parties on this so-called “Day of Love.” In schools, from pre-school and kindergarten on up, children draw names from a box and exchange heart-shapes notes which “pair off” the children and is said to be “all in fun.” People of all ages get into the act, and the words that are heard everywhere on that day are, “Be My Valentine.”
The sad fact is that most people never question the origin of the customs that they involve themselves with. Most people do not ask questions but do what everybody else does, never stopping to consider how the Almighty God of Heaven feels about their activities. When we consider that Valentine’s Day is a day of preoccupation with the heart, it is essential that we listen to the following words spoken by the Almighty, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his wages, and according to the fruit of his doings.” Jeremiah 17:9-10
Christians should be known by their discernment and should be asking questions regarding Valentine’s Day. What is the origin of this unusual day? Why is there a preoccupation with the color red? Where did the heart shape come from, and what does it mean? These and other questions will now be answered, as we examine the roots and pagan origin of this popular day.
In the days of the Roman Empire, the month of February was the last and shortest month of the year. February originally had 30 days, but when Julius Caesar named the month of July after himself, he decided to make that month longer and shortened February to 29 days while making July a month of 31 days. Later when Octavius Caesar, also known as Augustus, came to power, he named the month of August after himself, and not be outdone he also subtracted a day from February and gave the month of August 31 days. To this very day it remains that way. The ancient Romans believed that every month had a spirit that gained in strength and reached its peak or apex of power in the middle or ides of the month. This was usually the 15th day, and it was a day when witches and augurs, or soothsayers worked their magic. An augur was a person filled with a spirit of divination, and from the word augur we get the word “inaugurate”, which means to “take omens”. Since February had been robbed by Caesars and had only 28 days, the ides of February became the 14th day of that month. Since the Ides of a month was celebrated on the preceding eve, the month of February was unique, because it was the 13th day that became the eve of the Ides that month, and it became a very important pagan holiday in the Empire of Rome. The sacred day of February 14th was called “Lupercalia” or “day of the wolf.” This was a day that was sacred to the sexual frenzy of the goddess Juno. This day also honored the Roman gods, Lupercus and Faunus, as well as the legendary twin brothers, who supposedly founded Rome, Remus and Romulus. These two are said to have been suckled by wolves in a cave on Palatine Hill in Rome. The cave was called Lupercal and was the center of the celebrating on the eve of Lupercalia or February 14th. On this day, Lupercalia, which was later named Valentine’s Day, the Luperci or priests of Lupercus dressed in goatskins for a bloody ceremony. The priests of Lupercus, the wolf god, would sacrifice goats and a dog and then smear themselves with blood. These priests, made red with sacrificial blood, would run around Palatine Hill in a wild frenzy while carving a goatskin thong called a “februa.” Women would sit all around the hill, as the bloody priests would strike them with the goatskin thongs to make them fertile. The young women would then gather in the city and their names were put in boxes. These “love notes” were called “billets.” The men of Rome would draw a billet, and the woman whose name was on it became his sexual lust partner with whom he would fornicate until the next Lupercalia or February 14th.
Thus, February 14th became a day of unbridled sexual lust. The color “red” was sacred to that day because of the blood and the “heart shape” that is popular to this day. The heart-shape was not a representation of the human heart, which looks nothing like it. This shape represents the human female matrix or opening to the chamber of sacred copulation.
When the Gnostic Catholic Church began to get a foothold in Rome around the 3rd century A.D., they became known as Valentinians. The Catholic Valentinians retained the sexual license of the festival in what they called “angels in a nuptial chamber”, which was also called the “sacrament of copulation.” This was said to be an reenactment of the marriage of “Sophia and the Redeemer.” As the participants of the February 14th ritual began their sexual sacrament, presided over and watched by the priests known as Valentinians, the following literary was spoken: “Let the seed of light descend into thy bridal chamber, receive the bridegroom… open thine arms to embrace him. Behold, grace has descended upon thee.”
As time went on, the Orthodox Church suppressed the Gnostic Catholics and manufactured “St. Valentine”, whose day continues to be celebrated in these modern times.
It should be without saying that the Christians should avoid Valentine’s Day like a plague. In God’s eyes, it is still “Lupercalia”, the “Day Of The Wolf.” Men become wolves, as they carry on the Satanic rituals of fornication, which means sexual intercourse without marriage. We have heard of the “wolf whistle”, and we all know that wolves do not whistle. It is lustful men and women, who carry on Satan’s blasphemy to this very day.
In conclusion, we must ask ourselves, “Should a true Christian be associated in any way with this celebration of evil roots? Should we be doing what the heathen have done for so many years and try to justify it as love?” Romans 12:2 answers this very well, “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…”
The shocking information in this tract can be easily verified at any public library. If you want more information, please contact us at:
Last Trumpet Ministries International
PO Box 806
Beaver Dam, WI 53916
These tracts have been prayed over, and you will never be the same after reading this message. May our Lord Jesus Christ grant unto you a desire to walk in His truth.
Pastor David J. Meyer

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@St Paul
Are we reading the same Bible?Jesus said the antichrist will deceive the elect?Watching out for the antichrist is not found in the bible.Watch rather for the coming of Christ which will precede the revelation of the antichrist

rotimy:
My dear, even though God looks at the heart but man look at the outward apperarance. Someone with full rasta hairdo might not be accepted as a true preacher, same with a lady on mini skirt and a pastor with jerry curls!
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IF SUCH AS YOU MENTIONED IS NOT ACCEPTED AS A TRUE PREACHER, IT IS THE PROBLEM OF THE LISTENER AND NOT OF GOD!!
MORALITY IS SUBJECT TO HOW WE WERE RAISED.
IF YOU SAID IT WAS UN AFRICAN THEN I WOULD ACCEPT BUT THAT SHOULD NOT BE THE BASES FOR WHETHER GOD REGARDS THE PREACHER OR NOT,

AND WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT,OR ACCEPT OR NOT,GOD LOOKS AT THE HEART!!!