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nuclearboy:

what is "COG"?

Jenwitemi:

Three quick questions;

1)Why was the bible god such an asshole in those days?

2)Is he still an asshole, or has he been finally deposed?

3)When is he going to come down to this earth and die for his old screw-ups sins?

There are qite a number of people here who would like to get their hands on him and do him many many things.

Isaiah 53:3-5; 7-8 BBE:
<sup>BBE is Bible in Basic English

3</sup>Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

⁴But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.

⁵But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.

⁷Men were cruel to him, but he was gentle and quiet; as a lamb taken to its death, and as a sheep before those who take her wool makes no sound, so he said not a word.

⁸They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.

*666*:

WHAT EVER QUESTION THAT BOARDERS YOU.

WEATHER CREATION OR PRE- CREATION (FOR I WAS THERE)

JUST ASK AND YOU WILL GET AN ANSWER .

I AM SERIOUS!!!!!!

Joagbaje:

We should understand the perspective of my exhortation.

There is difference between the fear for God.

It is a fear of reverence and not a negative fear of torment. A man may feel fear negatively, that's why God always say " fear not"

e36991:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-562516.0.html#msg7274845

@Joagbaje

Good call in highlighting the danger of not using fear the right way, the right time and still be on God's right side whilst using it

On the contrary afraid is not the devil's language but a word the devil exploits with delight to the hilt

Afraid is a state; a condition; anxiety; a feeling, a distressing emotion etc

brought about by a real or imagined threat, impending danger, evil, pain, inferior complex, low self-esteem, lack etc

It is a situation that the devil will exploit to an advantage. Part of one of the strategies the devil uses to reinforce a grip on a hold . . .

As a matter of fact God would rather we confess a destination and not confess a disadvantaged situation . . .

The devil basks in fear but God rather basks in faith . . .

Undoubtedly we have a time and place to fear . . .

tpia1:

ps 56:3

When I'm afraid, I will trust in you

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2056:%203&version=NIRV

Joagbaje:

We contantly hear  words such as "I'm afraid our time is up" or " I'm afraid [/b]that's all we can take today"

Does it sound familiar to you? We are surrounded with such statement from time to time. Broadcasters use it , some preachers use it.

We feel it sounds polite . But it's a wrong use of tongue. There are several things the enemy has programmed in our daily life.

He operates by fear and tries to saturate our lives with it. Fear is of the devil .

Your life goes in the direction of your speakings. Words are spirits and not mere sounds.

[b]Ephesians 4:29
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 

So why is the talk of fear a corrupt communication? Because fear is not of God.

2 Timothy 1:7
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

The tongue naturally may go negative , especially if you grow up in an atmosphere where such wrong language is a norm.  It may be a little challenging to tame the tongue at first.

James 3:8
8 But the tongue can no man tame;[ it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison

But that doesn't mean it's not possible to tame the tongue. The more you fellowship with the Word of God on daily basis , the more your tongue and language is transformed 

James 3:2
2 We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check. 

One sure way to know you're growing as a Christian is  to WATCH YOUR TONGUE!

Instead of using the devils language "I'm afraid it's time to close" why not simply say "it's time to close" or  If you want to add some courtesy or politeness. Just say I'm sorry, its time to close." I think it's time to close" " sorry, I got to go"  

Colossians 4:6
6 Let your speech[ be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
 

2 Kings 4:17-20; 24-26 KJV:

¹⁷But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

¹⁸The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers.

¹⁹“My head! My head!” he said to his father.

His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

²⁰After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

²⁴She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Lead on; don’t slow down for me unless I tell you.”

²⁵So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.

When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, “Look! There’s the Shunammite!

²⁶Run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’”

“Everything is all right,” she said.

Deuteronomy 10:12 KJV:

And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God,
to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

Proverbs 1:7 KJV:

The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge . . .

aletheia:

^^Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. <<John 5:39>>


A great truth that a lot of us ignore. Since I understood that the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation are about Jesus; it has opened up new vistas of understanding for me.
In our study of the scriptures; too often we leave off looking at and considering the Heavenly Man and instead focus on self: hence the rise of the "prosperity" gospel
Consider how it must have felt during Jesus' exposition of the scriptures concerning himself.

And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. <<Luke 24:27>>

And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. And they said one to another,
Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? [Luke 24:31-32]

My prayer is that the Holy Spirit will open to us the scriptures in a powerful way.

Proverbs 25:2 KJV:
[It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.

John 14:26 BBE:
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will be your teacher in all things and will put you in mind of everything I have said to you.

John 16:13 BBE:
However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guides into all true knowledge:
for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will makes clear to you the things to come.

1 Corinthians 2:10 BBE:
But God has given us the revelation of these things through his Spirit, for the Spirit makes searches into all things, even the deep things of God

Otoks asked "Is It A Sin For A Christian To Drink Alcohol?":

please, what is biblical standard on alcohol.

Have read different article on this topic but am not yet convinced.

Let me hear your view.

Ephesian 5:18 BBE:
^{BBE is Bible in Basic English}

And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;

Zikkyy:

This is great. Tithers dont die young. Methuselah must have been rendering a 100%  

Drops dead. Like the pun, huh?

Genesis 5:3-29 KJV:
³And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

⁴And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

⁵And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

⁶And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:

And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:

⁸And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

⁹And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:

¹⁰And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

¹¹And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.

¹²And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel:

¹³And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

¹⁴And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

¹⁵And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:

¹⁶And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

¹⁷And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

¹⁸And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he[b] begat Enoch[/b]:

¹⁹And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

²⁰And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

²¹And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

²²And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

²³And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

²⁴And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

²⁵And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.

²⁶And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

²⁷And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

²⁸And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

²⁹And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

nuclearboy:

Isaiah 45 verses 5,6 & 7:

⁵ I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
⁶ That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
⁷ I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-545999.32.html#msg7104234

InesQor:
I foresaw all this [size=14pt]jagbajantis[/size] before I posted that's why I put the context (impure DNA) not[i] impure bloodline[/i] or ethnicity.

It was God's will that Jesus should come from a bloodline that encompassed many peoples, not only Israelites, BUT all were genetically pure like Noah was in his day. See the Matthew genealogy for more context.

InesQor:

I believe God had to take special care to ensure the Israelites kept a pure line:

1. Spiritually
2. Biologically (pure Human DNA)
3. In understanding and intellect
4. Politically (to remain a nation)

It was also important that they had a geographical location to call their own.

This was because Jesus was coming thru that line. Satan, like other angels, knew that, at the least (though the entire dynamics were unclear).

God's strategy was to preserve a people for himself while his plan unveiled in time.

Satan's strategy was to sabotage the little he knew of the plan by directing other nations (non-chosen by God, but would soon be chosen when Christ came on earth. Like it is now), using them to try to snuff the life out of Israel in one of those 4 aspects so that God's plan wont work out.

In biology, medicine/pharmacy and computing, there is something called Quarantine. Here, a valuable element that is representative of the entire data set, corporeal entity or group is carefully kept away and guarded to the death from likewise valuable elements because the latter is corrupted. Even if the ones outside quarantine get destroyed in the process of safe-guarding the quarantine, the quarantine is adequate to re-develop the entire system when the equilibrium of well-being has been achieved.

After system health is restored and the antibodies, antivirus or otherwise health regulation feedback system is established, there is no more any need for a defensive quarantine that attacks any threat to it. Since Christ has come now, there is no need for any of these "murders" and "wars" anymore.

Preserving Israel by all means was all about Christ.

InesQor:

. . . I think we are all saying the very same thing.

aletheia:

@e36991:

. . .  In your opinion, when did the Satan fall and lead a third of the angelic host astray?

Joagbaje:

We should not forget the foundation of this discussion. Chukwudi says holy Mary and saints in heaven are praying for "us" by the holy spirit. 

I said the holyspirit is with the church here on earth and nit in heaven.

So we should gave the background in mind. The holy spirit is omnipresent but his presence doesn't show in every place.

He manifest now through the name of christ. Saints in heaven don't need the power of the holy spirit.

Mai Suya:

Isn't there a place where Paul talked against eating food sacrificed to idols?

I doubt if Jesus was talking about physical food in that passage.

Matt 15:10-11 NIV:

¹⁰Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand.

¹¹What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.'"

Mai Suya:

Isn't there a place where Paul talked against eating food sacrificed to idols?

I doubt if Jesus was talking about physical food in that passage

nuclearboy:

@e36991:

Your post above! I've read it about 3 times now and thats because I wonder concerning the scope and applicability of our subject matter here.

I think you're right but you're looking at the big picture whist I think myself and Inesqor are looking at "EARTH".

True, some angels went down but there may or may not be a need to fill their ranks back. I believe God can/will perform His judgments Himself.
The idea of "know we not that we judge the angels", I seem to understand differently.
I see it as Paul saying His (and Christians) conducts/worship/trials/tribulations will be used as a marker for judgment
but tacit support for the "accused" would not help such case.
In effect, stop seeming to be on his side by being like satan, was what Paul was saying.

I agree with the message of your post but I think "qualifications" and life style is where I'm really about for the purposes of this thread.

BTW, where did "Modamo" get such gory videos + where's the link to the heroin issue?

Matt 15:15 NLT:

Then Peter said to Jesus, "Explain to us the parable that says people aren't defiled by what they eat."

Pastor AIO:

Dear brothers and sisters I have a big problem.  I have a predilection for Amala, that is the meal that is made from Yam flour.  I can eat it at anytime of the day or night and I am sure that if I get a whiff of it in my sleep I can sleepwalk to it and scoff the whole pot before going back to bed without even waking up.  You all will just wake up to find that there is no more amala in the pot.

Now my problem, and it is a big one, lies in the fact that there is absolutely no mention of Amala in the bible.  Not even Yam.  This is very worrisome for me.  If it was Iyan, that is pounded yam, that one is still better because it is white in colour and so might connote some sort of holiness.  But Amala is BLACK!  Could this be the devil's food. 

Please help!!

Image123:

chukwudi
Where did you see that God has seven arch angels?

chukwudi44:

I am still waiting for our dear pastor to expatiate on his statement and possibly use some bible passages to "convince" me.

Jenwitemi:

Oohh! Brilliant! Bravo! We are getting technical now to prove the grand design of the divine kind! Impressive!

Please answer the following questions;

1) Who are the designers?
a) God according to the ancient jews;
b) God according to the pope?

2) Who is doing the "waterfall model" as you put it?
a) God according to the ancient jews;
b) God according to the pope?

3) Who is doing the testing at the last stage?
a) God according to the ancient jews;
b) God according to the pope?

4) Who is doing the acceptance of the "modell" in question?
a) God according to the ancient jews;
b) God according to the pope?