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In Christianity as it is being practiced in the modern world,many christian and trinitarian sects have layed down religious principles, which they call "doctrines" in a bid to streamline their version of the gospel,and isolate "heresy".
This article highlights some of the common heresies and apostate doctrines that has been generally identified to be creeping into mainstream christianity.


1. The "El-Dorado" heresy(or Neo-Eden heresy); this is the believe that once a person gets converted, he/she automatically gets a problem-free, prosperous and peaceful life. This heresy is often associated with the "new age prosperity gospel".

2. The "Paradise-Is-Guaranteed (PIG)" heresy: this believe holds that a convert is automatically guaranteed irrevocable eternal life, even when he commits subsequent sins post-conversion.

3. The "Neo-Pentecostal" Apostacy(or "Holy-Ghost-By-Force" heresy): A believe that all truly converted and baptized christians must be able to speak in tongues(glossolalia).
Written: EVarn.

Nigerians like to complain.
Yes, the cost may be inflated, but that is a plebean issue compared to how they would be maintained, or how much they would generate, these are the things to be worried about.


Public infrastructure projects are often inflated all over the world, it isn't unique to Nigeria or Africa. It's the scale of inflation that citizens should be concerned about, and I don't think those project costs were too inflated.

@SSGN, I fully support your article; the Nigerian Military is most probably compromised, if not, there is no way a "rag-tag" bunch of fanatics can just evade surveillance and attack targets that are hundreds of kilometers from their camp zero. The Dapchi abduction and Maiduguri attack both show that the army and airforce are simply not doing there jobs.
Either they need more sophisticated platforms or they need to purge their ranks.




However, on your analysis, we have to consider the fact that the terrorists are holding thousands of hostages, you can't just "take them out" without killing thousands of innocent civilians, so no matter the level of intelligence gathering, hitting them en masse will be very costly.

This man is a comedian.

I want to ask intellectual nairalanders about ideas on what other sources of funding education(apart from the government) we can explore as a nation.




We are making a lot of noise about human development, but it appears that currently the government does not have the kind of money needed to propel education, while building infrastructure and embarking on social interventions at the same time.




So, let the ideas start rolling in.

This is a very welcome initiative. I hope the government patronizes them in fighting crime.

Armchair economists everywhere; if the governmment doesn't build-up reserves, the country's economy will collapse from forex shortage during periods of recession(this is exactly what is happening right now).

darkchild64:
Fine
Is this the evidence you have to prove that soul exists ?

Yes, I may be wrong though.

darkchild64:
As defined by the dictionary
In religion a soul is the spirit or essence of an individual that comprises of the person's thought and personality

Well, I am inclined to believe that souls exist because of the existence of the supernatural realm.
I have witnessed quite a number of strange phenomena; ranging from conjuration to alleged spiritual possessions, I have heard first hand stories of phantoms of dead people roaming around and even migrating to live in other places(though I haven't personally witnessed any,and frankly, I do not want to, but when you hear a thing from more than 10 witnesses, you begin to accept the possibility of the stories being true).






There have been cases of people claiming to remember flashes of past events, which they had never witnessed before or weren't even born yet at the time the events took place.


Perhaps, all humans have an alternate transcient form which is immortal. Its probably a parapsychological phenomenon.

SSGN:
I never attributed it to oil? I am talking about strategic interests. NATO did not destroy Libya for its oil.

Now this makes sense. The west feels threatened, especially with the incredible rise of China, they may want to ensure that they aren't caught unaware by a similar miraculous rise of a black superpower.

Omooba77:
So students meant to write exams tomorrow in State schools will no do a crash programme.How will people get to Agege, Eko Hotel and so on ma?

Exams can be postponed and handled later, but tell me, how do you handle people getting robbed or dying in traffick?, who knows how many people may die simply because ambulances cannot jump traffick, those people will not resurrect because somebody is insisting on a "24 hours economy" in the face of a monumental gridlock. The LASG had to do something to reduce the traffick one way or another, and declaring a public holiday is certainly not a bad idea.






As for how people will get to Eko Hotel and co, the state government has already addressed that issue earlier, the roads will only be closed for a while, after the president's convoy passes through, they would then be immediately reopened.

SSGN:
You naive man.

Well, call me a realist. Jumping at shadows will solve nothing, international politics is all about calculated precision. Unless you present a convincing argument on why you think the U.S. is setting up a strategic surveillance fence around Nigeria in a bid to eventually take over our oil installations, then your claim is a mere post hoc,ergo propter hoc fallacy.





I believe that the Americans are deliberately encircling us, but saying it is because of oil is simply not acceptable. There must be other reasons.




In any case, I have always advocated that the FG strengthen our military, currently, we are no match for even small combat experienced nations like Chad. Our airforce is virtually non-existent. Zero military industrial complex. How the hell do we hope to defend a half trillion dollars(soon to be a trillion dollars) economy in event of external aggression?. This country is not serious at all.

mikejj:
economic activity will pause for 24 hrs.baba do u knw what that means.

Nothing is pausing anywhere.

I don't think LASG is stopping people from carrying out their daily activities; the state released a traffic schedule this morning, highlighting areas that will be affected and plans that have been put in place to ensure minimum disruption in commerce. If they are expecting the whole state to shut down, they won't have layed down those plans.





The public holiday was probably simply to ensure that public workers and students who would ordinarily have to ply the roads on their way to/from work no longer have need to do so, unless for their own personnal activities. I am sure most private organizations in the state will still operate on that day. The wharf, airport, banks, malls, markets etc will be very much open for business. So the claim that the state will ground to a halt for 24 hours is erroneous.

blackpanda:
Isnt it obvious Why did US go to libya, afghanistan, iraq?? What do they all have in common? Huge natural resources

They can easily buy oil from us, or uranium from Niger.



If they destabilize Nigeria, then what?, they take over our oil installations and start pumping free crude?,are they that broke?.



It would cost the U.S. very substantially to finance a direct military or covert invasion of Nigeria, and maintain the presence of U.S. troops and hardware post-war. We haven't even talked about the economic implications of the humanitarian crisis and mass migration that would ensue, it would cost billions of dollars to set up and maintain IDP camps for the impressive proportion of Nigeria's population, migration to Europe will rise by at least 1000%, creating more geopolitical crisis worse than the current EU-Syria refugee crisis.

Angola produces almost as much crude as Nigeria, and yet, no U.S. blockade.

I don't think this is about the oil.

Yes, there can be a ban on prostitution either by states or the federal government, I think there is even a law against it in our constitution.



But, I think it is a form of transaction, so it shouldn't be illegal.

mikejj:
nobody will do this in the western world

Well, the western world has better transportation networks, Nigeria is still struggling with building its own. So I think it was a good decision to declare Thursday a public holiday, and reduce the unnecessary hardship that the President's arrival will cause to Lagosians.

blackpanda:
U will keep dancing in circles and sniffing ur own ass till they turn u to another libya and afghanistan

You guys still aren't giving reasons why you think the U.S. is deploying military resources against us.

SSGN:
Alleged encirclement ?

We don't know for sure if it is a deliberate attempt at encirclement, there is very little motive for such a drastic strategic military maneuver.

SSGN:
What reasons will the United States spend hundreds of millions of dollars in bases round Nigeria and risk the ire of Americans by engaging in dictatorial regimes and turning a blind eye to the human rights suppression and abuses in those countries, just to monitor drug movement? C'mon....The mines in Niger alone provides France with %70 of the Uranium it uses to power its nuclear power plants. There is a catch to these deployments. Boko Haram is no longer the threat it used to be. The Agenda is to keep the region, and Nigeria mirred in perpetual conflicts...for the obvious. We are seeing an alliance of despotic regimes vs democratic States. So far the despots are winning,

So the U.S. is encircling Nigeria simply because we are threatening the flow of Nigerien uranium to France?.
The current security crisis in the region has very little effect on international trade by the countries involved. So, why the alledged encirclement?.

Well, the Nigerian government will certainly reject any request to host a foreign (U.S.) military base in its territory, hence, the Americans can only approach our neighbours who are more favourably disposed to such an idea.


It may seem as if these american rednecks are being hostile, but are we that big a threat to prompt them spending close to a billion dollars on systematic military encirclement?. I don't think so.

Oil isn't even that much of a "holy grail" anymore, the use of fossil fuels is on the path to becoming obsolete with advancement in alternate sources of energy. They have even drastically cut down on their crude import from us, so why try to choke us because of a resource they can easily purchase with smiles and handshakes?.



Nigeria is not an aggressive state, neither have we professed any territorial ambition. So, I think the U.S. does not consider us an active threat; its increasingly disturbing military deployments close to our borders is most probably due to other reasons.

falopey:
And Russia needs EU money.

True, but then, Russia is diversifying its customer base, with recent agreements with China.

Tension continues to grow between the west and Russia.
Pity, it is weak nations(like Nigeria) that will bear the brunt of such a face-off.




Well, it's only a matter of time before this matter gets resolved across the negotiation table ,afterall, the EU still needs Russian gas.

Right now, Nigeria needs cordial relationship with all its neighbours, hence, the seeming "embarassments" that accompanies bending over backwards to accomodate Cameroon's requests.



However, in the case of undue provocations by Biya's army, we may eventually need to respond robustly. It's just that our leaders just aren't proactive or nationalistic.

As much as I support Nigeria's protectionist policies, the local manufacturer's need to know that they can't always be spoon-fed by the FG. They need to up their game and improve on the quality of their products. The whole country cannot just stand still for them to figure out how to deliver the best products. Sooner or later, we will have to totally open our borders for trade, both with established markets like the EU and competing peers in Africa.

The FG is on it's part is not providing the necessary business environment for the manufacturers to fully thrive.

This is very impressive, after the machine is properly test-runned, I hope INEC adopts it for the 2019 and subsequent elections.



With technology base solutions such as this, rigging of elections will continue to reduce.

This story has K-leg;


1. He was caught in bed with a "fellow man", how?, is it in his room?. How did they catch him in the privacy of his apartment?


2.What about the "fellow man"?, the story only talked about beating just one person to stupor, did the second guy miraculously disappear?.


3. The place where they alledgedly caught him was a residential area off-campus, how come it is the school security that responded and took him away?, or is the whole of abuja now policed by uniabuja school security?.

The issue of mounting debts still remains valid. With the current pace of chinese lending, Africa will be left monumentally indebted to China within the next 20-30 years.