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noetic16:
What are u driving at?

Dont get jittery. Driving at a revelation?

I can open a fresh/new thread so as to not derail the original subject matter

noetic16:
^^^ True words u have spoken.

Love is ultimate and I can deduce this from my rel with people.

I am being led to accept people unconditionally for who they are . . . this is quite unlike the old me.

Love is a unique attribute of God which He wants all His sons to have.

Why did u leave [size=14pt]christianity[/size]?

Has anyone ever reflected or considered with thoroughness and care why Christianity and not Jesuity

- Mind you am not referring to Ignatius Loyola's Jesuit religious order

Why the body of Christ and not the body of Jesus . . .

Why particularly Christ and not Jesus . . .

Babaearly:
Though I love lady gagas music bt ive come to find out hidden messages in her songs and videos I think we shud know.

@Babaearly

Re: Demons Behind The Music Industry « #5 on: November 22, 2009, 10:59 AM »

Beyonce, Sasha Fierce, and Demon Possession

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-355631.0.html#msg4974413

Timpriye Sylva?

I remember this shameless display of living in opulence in midst of poverty

Glory Land Castle my foot . . .

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DslTiMDZcOA&hl=en_GB&fs=1&[/flash]

SOLA ADETUNJI:
A lot of your health related questions will be answered by this highly simplified book "Where There Is No Doctor"  .

[size=14pt]I am giving it out free[/size] as an attachment. [size=16pt](At least for now)[/size]

Make sure you have acrobat reader on your PC.

All I need is your thank you. You may write me directly at adetunjisol2003@yahoo.com or text 08033829376

". . . free . . . At least for now?"     

Budding "enterpreneur"?

Click on below [size=16pt]URL link to download[/size] (i.e. to save)

Where There Is No Doctor - a village healthcare handbook

http://www.hesperian.info/assets/WTND/WTND_Full_Book.pdf

  https://www.hesperian.org/mm5/graphics/00000001/WhereThereIsNoDoctor102.jpg

Download the entire book, updated 2009: Where There Is No Doctor (PDF).

    * Front matter: Cover, How to Use This Book, Acknowledgements
    * Table of Contents: Introduction, Note About This New Edition
    * Brown Pages: Words To The Village Health Worker
    * Chapter 1: Home Cures and Popular Beliefs
    * Chapter 2: Sicknesses that are Often Confused
    * Chapter 3: How to Examine a Sick Person
    * Chapter 4: How to Take Care of a Sick Person
    * Chapter 5: Healing Without Medicines
    * Chapter 6: Right and Wrong Use of Modern Medicines
    * Chapter 7: Antibiotics: What They Are and How To Use Them
    * Chapter 8: How To Measure and Give Medicine
    * Chapter 9: Instructions and Precautions for Injections
    * Chapter 10: First Aid
    * Chapter 11: Nutrition: What to Eat to Be Healthy
    * Chapter 12: Prevention: How to Avoid Many Sicknesses
    * Chapter 13: Some Very Common Sicknesses
    * Chapter 14: Serious Illnesses That Need Special Medical Attention
    * Chapter 15: Skin Problems
    * Chapter 16: The Eyes
    * Chapter 17: The Teeth, Gums, and Mouth
    * Chapter 18: The Urinary System and the Genitals
    * Chapter 19: Information for Mothers and Midwives
    * Chapter 20: Family Planning- Having the Number of Children You Want
    * Chapter 21: Health and Sicknesses of Children
    * Chapter 22: Health and Sicknesses of Older People
    * Chapter 23: The Medicine Kit
    * The Green Pages: The Uses, Dosage, and Precautions for Medicines
    * The Blue Pages: New Information
    * Vocabulary: Explaining Difficult Words
    * Information: Addresses for Teaching Materials, Dosage Blanks, Patient Report, Information on Vital Signs, Abbreviations, Weight, Volume
    * Index (Yellow Pages)

jagunlabi:
There are inidications. . . with all them paedophile cases.

Here is Mr. Condell,

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKg4HLsu5gE&hl=en_GB&fs=1&[/flash]

Topic: Evidence The Devil Is In The Vatican - Pope's Chief Exorcist

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-411907.0.html

[size=14pt]Doctors don't know why baby grew a tail[/size]

  https://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/mar2010/5/9/pic-rex-features-999809230.jpg

A baby boy has left doctors baffled by growing a 10 centimetre tail.

Mao Mao’s family say that his tail was the size of a little finger when he was born.

But as he got older the tail grew.

Surgeons removed the tail during a two-hour operation and Dr Liu of Ji'an Central Hospital said the tail was actually an intraspinal lipoma, which grows bigger with age.

He said: “It's better to cut it off as early as possible otherwise it will oppress the spine nerves, hindering intelligence development and leaving the patient incontinent."

SOURCE: Hover here

InesQor:
. . . if [size=14pt]Ogaga[/size] oversteps the boundary I will be one of the first to click "Report to Moderator".

[size=14pt]His beans is still sizzling so let him be[/size].

@^

God biko! You are truly tolerating, longsuffering in silence but abundant is mercies

InesQor:
The only thing I have to say on this topic is rather [size=13pt]simple:[/size]

Don't go out of your way [size=14pt]to seek a spectacular "personal supernatural experience"[/size].

Otherwise, [size=14pt]an evil spirit can[/size] will [size=14pt]take the advantage to seduce you[/size].

But if God has chosen to show you something or make you have such an experience, all well and good.

Nuff said.

@InesQor

Was pleased with the cautionary "Let the BUYER beware" advice and/or warning

There is a need to recognise that if galavanting from an unguarded and/or vacant abode,

evil spirit(s) will or might trespass and literally squat,

leading to actions of deliverance or exorcism to redress (i.e. for eviction)

This is more esoteric . . .

@ Grace5, Noetic16, Benodic, Babaearly and All

Keep it coming ^{Ezekiel's was interesting}

Sure hope yall arent taken the mick though or is this esoteric

MyJoe:
. . . In related developments, the Bible's history has been shown to be unreliable. While it posses remarkable scientific accuracy in several places, it falls flat in several others, for in the Bible, for instance, we are told that the hare is a cud-chewing animal (Lev 11:16).

The sum of what I have learnt about the Bible, much of which has been discussed in this thread, is sufficient for me to believe that I need to reckon with more than the Bible in my efforts to make sense of things. When you look at the Bible in total, without faith playing a role, it just does not add up as being infallible. As I stated earlier, I agree with you fully on the matter of perspectives. But what about the person without a worldview to defend? I have no shadow of doubt the evidence would weigh against an inerrant Bible for anyone who had not been previously introduced to religion.
I think honesty is basic, and not an achievement worth celebrating. A man who has lost it has nothing to live for except work hard to cultivate it. 

@MyJoe

It is Lev 11:6 and not Lev 11:16

[size=14pt]About the Hare[/size]

The European Hare or Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus) is a species of hare native to northern, central, and western Europe and western Asia.

It is a mammal adapted to temperate open country. It is related to the similarly appearing rabbit, which is in the same family but a different genus. It breeds on the ground rather than in a burrow and relies on speed to escape.

It is larger, longer-eared, and longer-legged than a rabbit. It has a body size of 50-70 cm and a tail length of 7-11 cm. The weight for a full-grown adult ranges from 2.5 to 6.5 kg. It can run at speeds of up to 72 km/h (45 mi/h). It is strictly herbivorous. [size=14pt]It eats grasses and herbs during the summer months but changes to[/size] feeding on twigs, bark, and the buds of young trees in winter, making it a pest to orchard farmers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/species/European_Hare#p003b0qr

Grace5:
I saw an angel GOD in vision quite awesome many years ago very tall looked like man,

colour white like snow with big feathers at his back, has two hands,

he held my hand and we fly, him holding my hand, the rest, more if you really have interest

@Grace5

Subscribing . . .

[size=14pt]Care worker helped her husband launder £6m from mortgage scam[/size]

  https://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/11-carehome-415.jpg
  ^{High life: Ruth Ayinde-Azeez drove a Bentley, took luxury holidays
                   and had £1.6million in her bank accounts}


A care home assistant who led a life of luxury by helping her crooked husband launder the profits of a £6 million mortgage con was facing jail today.

Ruth Ayinde-Azeez, 26, lived in a six-bedroom house with 12 plasma televisions and drove a Bentley and Land Rover.

She took holidays in Dubai and the south of France, [size=18pt]kept £1.6 million in her bank accounts[/size] and blew huge sums at expensive bars and restaurants. But her life was funded by crime, Southwark crown court heard.

Her husband Victor led a mortgage fraud gang which plundered nearly £6 million from high street banks in six weeks.

He “bought” 22 houses around the South-East and, with his accomplices, applied for mortgages from high street lenders including Bradford and Bingley and Abbey National. The paperwork was signed off by crooked solicitors.

When Ayinde-Azeez was arrested, [size=16pt]she was about to leave the country after her husband texted her a warning that the police were on their way[/size]. He is believed to be abroad.

The Kenyan national was told by Judge Martin Beddoe: “It seems to me that I'm going to have to pass on you a significant sentence, without credit for a guilty plea.”

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23814399-care-worker-helped-her-husband-launder-pound-6m-from-mortgage-scam.do

[size=14pt]Nurse stole over €30,000 in cheques from a dying cancer patient[/size]

A nurse who stole more than €30,000 in cheques from a dying patient she was caring for has escaped with a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Doreen Appleby (aged 59) worked as a night nurse with the Irish Cancer Society and was caring for Ms Bernadette Monaghan hours before she passed away.

Appleby of Carrickmore Gardens, Saggart, pleaded guilty to three counts of stealing cheques from Ms Monaghan and her husband Hugh at their house on Mount Anville Road, Goatstown between February 10 and 13, 2007.

Detective Sergeant Sean Hogan told prosecuting counsel, Mr Garret Baker BL, that Appleby was caring for the terminally ill woman and finished her shift two hours before she passed away.

Shortly beforehand Ms Monaghan had received a cheque from ACC Bank for €19,990.

Her daughter, who was handling all of her affairs, put the cheque in a pink Chanelle gift box which also contained Ms Monaghan's funeral arraignments.

When she passed away her daughter went to the box to retrieve her funeral requests and noticed the cheque was missing. After the funeral the family continued looking for the cheque and rang the bank when they could not find it.

ACC Bank assured them the cheque was "account payable" meaning only be paid into the late Ms Monaghan's account. They also put a block on the cheque to further prevent it from being cashed.

When the family rang the bank again several weeks later they were told there had been an error and the cheque had been paid into a post office account in Tallaght.

At the same time Mr Monaghan noticed something wrong in his bank account and it was discovered another cheque for €7,050 had been forged in his name and paid into the same post office account.

This account was traced back to Appleby who had opened it using an unwitting friend's passport.

Gardaí went to her house and arrested her. A search of the home revealed the friend's passport and another cheque that had been stolen from the house made out to pay €5,000 in the post office account.

Appleby was interviewed and made immediate admissions to gardaí.

"The cheque was looking at me the whole time while I was there and I couldn't resist the temptation," she said in interview. She claimed that at one stage she took the cheque and put it back because she thought she could not go through with it.

She admitted to taking another two blank cheques which she filled out later for the €7,010 and €5,000 amounts. She said she set up the post-office account using her friend's passport which she had after they went on holidays together.

She said she was "in a bad way with drink" and felt ashamed and remorseful. She told gardaí she was now a different person and trying to led a good and honest life.

Defence counsel, Mr Laurance Masterson BL, said his client had taken out a credit union loan and repaid the stolen money in full. He said she was the daughter of a prominent garda who was a strict disciplinarian and her constant efforts to please him led to her becoming a alcoholic.

He said she was an highly skilled and experienced nurse who had worked in pioneering heart surgery in Ireland and in treating HIV patients. Her husband of two years handed in a character reference which Judge Frank O'Donnell said he was "very moved by".

Judge O'Donnell called it a "total breach of trust" and said Appleby "had put her hand into the pocket of a dying lady".

However he also noted her lack of previous convictions and battle with alcohol and imposed a two-year sentence, suspended for five years.

"I hope you never have anything to do with this court again," he told her as she walked from the courtroom.

http://news.eircom.net/breakingnews/17543811/?view=Standard

If OP is not a pseudonym for Pastor AIO

then be rest assured that Pastor AIO will be popping in sooner or later

Open Heavens Wed 17th March One Hundred Fold Return:
. . . when you give to [size=16pt]genuine church founders[/size] . . .

Genuine church founders?  

Anyway I know this much, beware of the relegation (i.e. The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard)

Jesus said, "So it is. Everyone who is now first will be last, and everyone who is last will be first."

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen

" . . . Many be called, but few chosen" begs the question, who out there are real and are among the chosen . . .

I suppose time will tell, innit . . .

[size=14pt]Bangladeshi man beheaded to redden bricks[/size]

Published: 5:02PM GMT 21 Mar 2010

A Bangladeshi man was beheaded by labourers who burnt his head in a kiln in the belief this would redden their bricks, police said on Sunday.

Four suspects were arrested for murdering the 26-year-old bricklayer in a remote town in northern Bangladesh on the instructions of the brick-field's owners, said Golam Sarwar Bhuiyan, a local police chief.

"They said the owners were unhappy as the brick-field was not producing reddish bricks despite enough heating. A fortune teller then suggested that the brick-field needed a human sacrifice," he said.

Police were searching for the owners and the fortune teller, he added.

Red bricks are in huge demand in Bangladesh's countryside as the colour is seen as proof the bricks have been baked properly.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/7493874/Bangladeshi-man-beheaded-to-redden-bricks.html

Emmboy:
I just wonder if one can go to heaven with tattoo

cos sometimes I just cant help imagining how it would be like seeing people with tattoo in heaven.

Can u guys pls make us know what we dont know about this perhaps with bible verses?

Okenwa:
Deformation of the temple of God (our body) is not the best.

Most tattoos are gotten when one is in the world (living a life of pride, gangsterism, cult, etc the future emistries of the anti-christ)

seeing GOD from far He will tell you

"Child you have messed your skin, I never brought you into this world like this.

Look what you have done to your body . . . my temple.

I don't think I can stay there . . . and neither can you stay here"

@Emmboy

My friend, you wont find bodies with tattoos in heaven

I want you to know that our bodies of flesh and blood will decay.

(i.e. we will be having new unperishable bodies)

This still doesnt exempt one from been a good steward of God's property - the body

moreso what is left of it since becoming a child or son of God

- Classic case of from this point sin no more

Marlbron:
. . . The requirement to be born again was on the assumption that you have not been practising the basic injuctions of love, truthfulness etc.

but there are people on earth now, that are already practising all of these and they are not christians.

Christ's death on the cross was I believe for all mankind - Moslems, Christians, Hindus etc.

His death has resulted in the rapid progress of mankind these 2000 years.  

Recollect that Abraham became a friend of God without being born again, he carried out an act of faith by obeying the instruction to sacrifice Isaac.

Now Abraham, David, Jacob, Moses, Elijah were from biblical accounts murderers, fornicators etc
- however,  we Christians regard them as numero uno in the kingdom.

@Marlbron

You are making a few assumptions to many . . .

Note that Jesus was hinting that to see the Kingdom of Heaven one must have been born again

(i.e. for one to see or perceive Kingdom of God and/or its power indicates a kind of spiritual birth)

Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.

The Gospel is preached all over the whole so what is the excuse for not believing in the person and principles of Jesus Christ

Believing in the principles of Jesus Christ and not believing in the person of Jesus Christ as Muslims, Hindus etc do is mutually exclusive

You cant have one and not the other . . .

If Abraham, David, Jacob, Moses, Elijah from biblical accounts were murderers, fornicators etc and God used them, then we all have a chance

True Abraham was a friend of God but all through Jesus potentially can become sons of God

The scripture below gives some meaning to the death of Jesus Christ

Romans 10:9-18 AMP:
⁹Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth)

that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

¹⁰For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God),

and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.

¹¹The Scripture says, No man who believes in Him [who adheres to, relies on, and trusts in Him] will [ever] be put to shame or be disappointed.

¹²[No one] for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. The same Lord is Lord over all [of us] and He generously bestows His riches upon all who call upon Him [in faith].

¹³For everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord [invoking Him as Lord] will be saved.

¹⁴But how are people to call upon Him Whom they have not believed [in Whom they have no faith, on Whom they have no reliance]?

And how are they to believe in Him [adhere to, trust in, and rely upon Him] of Whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher?

¹⁵And how can men [be expected to] preach unless they are sent?

As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings! [How welcome is the coming of those who preach the good news of His good things!]

¹⁶But they have not all heeded the Gospel; for Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed (had faith in) what he has heard from us?

¹⁷So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself).

¹⁸But I ask, Have they not heard? Indeed they have; [for the Scripture says]

Their voice [that of nature bearing God's message] has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the far bounds of the world.

The Gospel is preached to the Mandelas of this world so what is the excuse for not believing in the person and principles of Jesus Christ

@Marlbron

Are you familiar with these phrases of progression (i.e. from near - hand - within)

"Repent of your sins and turn to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near . . ."

and then seven chapters later in Matthew

"And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand . .  "

and here is a scripture to mull over

Luke 17:20-21 KJV:
²⁰And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come,

he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:

²¹Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you

Okenwa:
Yes I know that the Bible made us to understand we should " . . .  believe in His prophets so as to prosper"

but my question is this: MUST WE BELIEVE EVERY DOCTRINE all this so called pastors SAY?

What should be the best source of our conduct? Bible or the man on the pulpit?

I am particularlly concerned on diverse doctrines such as TITHES, PROSPERITY, RIGHTEOUSNESS, CHRIST COMING, DRESS ETIQUETTE etc

Okenwa:
I often hear people say " . . . my pastor says, pastor say , etc

@Okenwa

II Timothy 2:15 AMP:
Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial),

a workman who has have no cause to be ashamed,

correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully teaching] the Word of Truth.

. . . then you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free

and would have translated from a hoodwinked child of God to the status of a son of God

Bigfoot79:
The whole twist is nerve cracking and I really don't know what or who to follow now

@Bigfoot79

Easy, eat the chicken but spit out the bones

and follow Yeshua as Noetic16 rightly advised, you wont go wrong

Marlbron:
Christ preached about a coming kingdom, but he asked his disciples to practise righteousness, love and to avoid sin.

Now if a muslim or a hindu does these or if an aetheist or any other unbeliever practices these things

can we rightly assume that they will not make the kingdom of God?

Let me know your opinions with researched reasons, no insults or pettiness.

@Marlbron

The Kingdom of God is already here

Think of it this way, it is similar to having American soil in Naija (i.e. by virtue of an embassy)

An American citizen in an American embassy is on American soil

and no longer subjected to the host country's law inasmuchas such individual remains within the confines of the embassy

However an observation.

Without accepting Christ, is it possible to practise righteousness, love and to avoid sin should have been the question

Anyway I tell you this truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again

Dolemite on March 15, 2010, 09:39 PM:
The bible is crap, man wrote the God dammed bible so naturally there are millions of contradictions in there, here's another one.

MAT 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

LUK 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli.

@Dolemite

What a rookie conclusion you've arrived at with novice written all over it

Dolemite on March 16, 2010, 12:14:14 AM:
Explain dammit . . .

@Dolemite

My dear friend, your exuberance is almost infectiously catching

Tell you what, by the time you read up on the "Levirate Law"

the penny should drop with an "am eating the humble pie" Ah-ha! exclamation

Manmustwac:
Was born and bred in london so I had the choice to come back.

So when the going got tough the tough get going.

@Manmustwac

Tough ke? Mba

Show me a place not tough and I'll be there in a flash

All of them have their challenges

so toughness aside, its a no brainer that Akata has more advantages & opportunities

hence the "Andrew am checking out" exodus (i.e. remember that mid 80s NTA Enebeli Elebuwa's "Am checking out men . . . )

Rebranded:
Maybe if we know what makes most people leave the Country, we might be able to know our priorities in making Nigeria a Country to be proud of.

For me I left:

- To get a better Education
- Better Quality of life, comfort,etc
- To escape the Heat and the dust

@Rebranded

Head start?

MRbrownJAY:
miracle nko, mira not cool ni!

@MRbrownJAY

Almost there, keep on honing the skill . . .

It should have been "miracle ko, mira not cool ni!"

(i.e ko[/i]and not [i]nko)

Dolemite:
Explain *$(%# . . .

@Dolemite

My dear friend, your exuberance is almost infectiously catching

Tell you what, by the time you read up on the "Levirate Law" the penny should drop with an ah-ha exclamation

Dolemite:
The bible is crap, man wrote the God *%&!" bible so naturally there are millions of contradictions in there, here's another one.

MAT 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

LUK 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli.

@Dolemite

What a rookie conclusion you've arrived at with novice written all over it