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Maximus85:
There's a better way you can pass this message across. I'm sure you know that.

Like how Mr.ITK?

I said no offense, what's your beef?

Abeg park well and mind your biz!

Thank God for his life!

This thread is extremely boring and disorgained!!!

I wonder if the mod who moved this to front page is smoking weed

no offense to the op but the truth has to be said

MissGdope:
yayy thank you!

Hello can you post it again? Has It's not opening on my device. Thanks

Humans created God to satisy themselves about the remaining uncertainities of this world

Btw happy birthday @johnydon22 have fun

ronald4lif:
What he (the friend) never told you is that he's battling acathesis and a chronic dunce. Unless you two are of same kind I'd advice you defriend him else people assume you're equally as sick as him.

Though for you to bring such nonsense here I'm inclined to assume you're even more mentally imbalance than the said friend. Any sound mind should have known better than engage in this undiluted stupídity you displayed here by finding this worthy of a thread.

Damn!!

Jchi9876:
no accomplishment!! it is basically a cock and bull story

Lol! Seriously! We can never tell actually.

Apart from that, I don't see how his message is encouraging.

kateskitty:
Nice one but I'm a little bit disappointed that after telling his tall tail, he failed to show others the way. I mean what's the point? Clearly there are people who'd want to follow in his footsteps but don't know how

Gbam!!!! Someone give this sister a drink!

Seriously, I was expecting more from his post. Feels more like he was just telling us more of his accomplishment. #myopinion

tpiar:
nobody does that unless they are referring to the gay lifestyle.

Actually I have heard people say that not just referring to the gay lifestyle.


Btw merry xmas

Where are the so called theists and religious folks here?
No comment?

Written by John Pavlovitz and originally published on http://johnpavlovitz.com/2015/08/13/3-reasons-love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin-is-an-abomination/

Saw this article somewhere and I thought it would be very informative.


Love the sinner, hate the sin.

Rarely in history has there been a greater mischaracterization of the heart of Jesus or a more egregious bastardization of the Bible than these six words.

The damage that LTSHTS has done in the lives of billions of people and to the public perception of Christians can never be fully calculated, but one thing is certainly true: it’s an embarrassment and a sin and a total abomination—and here are three reasons why:

1) Jesus never said it.

Lots of Christians would have us believe that Jesus would be totally onboard with LTSHTS, but the simple truth is that he never prescribed anything like it in Scripture. Jesus was crystal clear in his teachings about our calling to love: God, and our neighbor as ourselves, one another as he loved us, our enemies, sacrificially, extravagantly, relentlessly—but never with caveats or qualifications. He never let anything about a person’s life keep them from intimate fellowship with him (and he was the only one qualified to do so).

LTSHTS supporters will ask rhetorically, “Well doesn’t Jesus preach against sin and therefore hates it? Isn’t hating sin just being obedient to him?” Jesus always spoke to people about their own lives; about the sins they were personally called to address in response to him. Whatever repentance Jesus was inviting people to, it was on their behalf, it was never on behalf of anyone else. His words were never given as license to police someone else’s moral condition, but to use a mirror to assess one’s own. Any behavior modification, any inner conviction, any heart change would be between Jesus and those hearing his words. Only he decides the work he does. We don’t get to play middleman between Christ and another human being. We are assigned the tasks of feeding, healing, and caring for those we cross paths with, in his name.

Unfortunately for those so clinging to LTSHTS, Jesus commands us to love people—period.

2) It’s cowardly and morally inconsistent.

Let’s be honest here. Whenever any Christian uses the phrase LTSHTS, it’s never in the context of anything other than gender identity and sexuality, which itself is an indictment of the term. It isn’t as though these faithful folks spend their entire lives dispensing the kind of behavior-based malevolence that LTSHTS always comes packaged with. It’s not as though they continually scour the Scriptures, applying their theological understandings of sin to those in their midst who might lie or steal or commit adultery or love money or drink to excess. If they truly loved those “sinners” and hated those “sins” enough to treat people as horribly as they treat the LGBTIQ community for the sins they charge them with, they’d have nobody left who could ever stand to be in their presence. LTSHTS is simply an exercise in selective, subjective sin-shaming and targeted discrimination disguised as righteousness.

If you’re a Christian and you’re going to choose to be hateful or biased toward people based on their gender identity and sexuality, you may as well just come out and say it. Own your discomfort or displeasure. Hiding behind LTSHTS is just using Jesus as justification for the kind of behavior he would be quite appalled by. It isn’t Christlikeness, it’s cowardice.

3) It’s a relationship-killer.

At the core of LTSHTS is the argument that gender identity and sexual orientation are somehow choices (an idea that runs counter to everyone’s experience of both, of course, but that’s neither here nor there). The speaker of LTSHTS believes that the person in question is making a decision to do something that the speaker believes is inherently sinful, yet (the speaker claims) they are able to somehow separate a sexual act (which they despise), with the person engaging in said act (whom they supposedly love). I’d really like a practical unpacking of how that all works with actual people, but I doubt it will be forthcoming.

Never mind that gender identity and sexual orientation are for all of us, both far greater than simply any physical acts we perform, and therefore to characterize LGBTIQ people as inherently sinful for only those acts themselves, is completely flawed from both a Biblical and common sense perspective.

But someone’s sin isn’t really the issue here and we don’t even have to agree on that. Regardless of one’s theological perspective, we can’t ignore that at the heart of Jesus’ life and ministry is the way he drew people close to him, listened to them, touched them, broke bread with them, wept with them, and treated them with dignity, as equals.

When a follower of Christ claims that they LTSHTS, they are saying two things loudly and unquestionably to a LGBTIQA person:

One, that he or she knows that person’s body and heart from a distance, better than the person in question knows from the inside.

And two, that what those people are telling them is involuntary about themselves, they are characterizing as despicable. They are declaring them as inherently defective, vile, evil. I’m not sure those who wield LTSHTS so causally have any real idea how damaging and hurtful that is; what it really speaks to the hearer’s heart. If they did, I’m certain they would see the complete absence of Jesus in it.

To say to a LGBTIQA person, “I love you but I hate your sexuality”, is the same as saying to someone, “I love you, but the color of your eyes disgusts me”, or “I love you, but I hate the way you laugh”, or “I love you, but God believes that the freckles on your shoulders and cheeks are an abomination.”

LTSHTS is not (as it alleges) a balanced phrase, but a hateful phrase; one that never makes a relationship between two parties better or closer or richer, it only severs or prevents the very kind of intimate fellowship Jesus forged, even with those he disagreed with. To utter it is to stand in complete opposition to the life he lived and to the ministry he practiced.

Christian, there are many more reasons why “Love The Sinner, Hate The Sin” needs to be killed and buried forever, but those are a great start.

The bottom line is that it is a phrase that injures, demeans, judges, and ostracizes people who are made in the image of God, and those are things that should never be on the agenda of someone claiming to be following in the footsteps of Jesus.

We’re talking here about important conversations, regarding extremely complex issues, with incredibly diverse human beings. These all deserve much more than a cheap, insulting catch-phrase. They deserve far greater effort than a lazy religious platitude which doesn’t work when fleshed out in real relationships and serves no redemptive purpose.

LTSHTS is about as sinful as we can get, friends.

To never utter that phrase again may be the very repenting Christians ought to do—but that’s between you and Jesus.

As for me?

I love you, Christian, but I really hate the way you, “love the sinner, hate the sin.”

Hot!

Thanks very much Hahn and HCpaul
I appreciate,wish you the same also.

Merry christmas to all my followers and followee lolz

Enjoy!

Tola!!! why??

#sigh

valzey:
it comes with lollipop, until you root and install xposed,you can't do anything about it.

Wow! That's extremely wierd. Thanks, is it some kinda bug or something? that's pretty dangerous.

Oxytocin:
Go to your settings.. Sound and notification then notification when device is locked and choose don't show notifications at all or hide sensitive notification content .. That's all

Okay thanks , was referring to the PIC below

I have learnt something new

It's a cultural thing unfortunately....

So much discrimination against leftists

People just have the belief that left is wrong .....it's some sort of orientation I believe

Hello house been a while here

Please I need help with my infinx phone, mmmmm.....I notice that when I use the phone even with the swipe lock and pattern lock. My hotspot, my WiFi or even light can still be accessed by a third party.

Am i the only one experiencing this? Or is it a launcher problem

Please I need answers. Thanks

Mods!!! Front page pls!

Cc: seun, ishilove, lalasticlala,dominique
This is important!

Thanks so much mods!

The University of Ibadan (UI), in partnership with two American universities, on Wednesday, announced the discovery of a permanent cure for the sickle cell disease.

The cure which was described as less risky and with a potential to help over 5 million Africans living with the disease, was the outcome of a research carried out by UI in alliance with medical experts at the University of Illinois and the University of Loyola, both in Chicago.

Nigeria and other African countries can now heave a sigh of relief as the University of Ibadan in partnership with the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA and University of Loyola, Chicago have discovered a permanent cure for the terminal disease.
The cure of the deadly disease, according to the Professor of Medicine, Victor Gordeuk, who is the Director, Sickle Cell Centre, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA and his colleagues, Prof. Damiano Rondelli, also from the same university and Prof. Bamidele Tayo, University of Loyola, Chicago this new treatment is done through bone marrow transplant and that it is less risky.
This was revealed yesterday at the University College Hospital, Ibadan after a three-day brainstorming session with other experts in the teaching hospital.
Unlike the other conventional method of stem cell transplant which exposes patients to radiation which could cause cancer, first blood and marrow stem cell transplant, BMT, is much more effective.

The experts who were flanked by the Chief Medical Director, UCH, Prof. Temitope Alonge, Dr. Titilola Akingbola, an haematologist and Dr. Foluke Fasola, said this stem cell transplant is a standard procedure for the treatment of many blood cancers in both adult and children.

He said: “With this chemotherapy-free transplant, we are curing adults with sickle cell disease, and we see that their quality of life improves fast within just one month of the transplant.

“About 90 per cent of the approximately 450 patients who have received stem cell transplants for sickle cell disease have been children. Chemotherapy has been considered too risky for adult patients, who are often more weakened than children by the disease.

“Adults with sickle cell disease can now be cured without chemotherapy — the main barrier that has stood in the way for them for so long. Our data provide more support that this therapy is safe and effective and prevents patients from living shortened lives, condemned to pain and progressive complications.”

“In the new procedure, patients receive immuno-suppressive drugs just before the transplant, along with a very low dose of total body irradiation, a treatment much less harsh and with fewer potentially serious side effects than chemotherapy.”

“ Donor cells from a healthy and tissue-matched sibling are transfused into the patient. Stem cells from the donor produce healthy new blood cells in the patient, eventually in sufficient quantity to eliminate symptoms. In many cases, sickle cells can no longer be detected. Patients must continue to take immunosuppressant drugs for at least a year.

The CMD, Prof. Alonge who called for support from government, philanthropists, donour agencies and corporate bodies like banks and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation for provision of equipment and completion of the sickle cell centre, described sickle cell as a disease of bone crisis which the patient suffers from head to toe.

He added that Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic disorder due to the presence of an abnormal form of haemoglobin in the red blood cells, called haemoglobin S (Hb S) instead of haemoglobin A (Hb A). Haemoglobin in the red blood cell is responsible for the transportation of oxygen in the body.


Source:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/uch-usa-varsities-discover-cure-for-sickle-cell-anaemia/

TolaOluwatosin:
happy birthday deae, God bless you and keep you, may his face shine on you and give you peace, amen. i miss you

amen!

Thanks but not my birthday though

My lady

Happy birthday!

I don't understand why people are vexing here, wasn't jega also from the north?

Nigerians sabi complain sha.....

Judas2013:
Just an observation

An observation from your myopic mind no offense....

Judas2013:
Nigerian ladies I suppose are less curious than their male counterpart.

Please where in the cosmos did you get this ideology from?

@op johny and some others have said it all. Too much discrimination esp. The way some of the ladies reason. Say anything and you are looked down upon like someone with no values or something.like believing in God or being religious makes you more moral than others.


Some of the guys are more willing to listen than the ladies. So its sometimes it's just better to keep your own view to yourself unless when necessary.

negga4al:
I don't know of any way you can do that except by keep selecting "always" instead of "Just Once" each time it pops up. Or just delete other browser app

Okay....I can't tell if you are sarcastic though....

But thanks

menesheh:
It isn't the best option to close some of the Universities. A lettered unemployed person is better than a dumb unemployed counterpart because the former can join in the fight for liberation or revolution in better ethical way.

Let's be realistic here, most of the people who end up graduating from university here in nigeria aren't that educated. Most just scram their way through their stay in the university.

So even those who graduate can end up even more dumb than those who haven't been to the four walls of a classroom.

Schooling in the university and having a certificate doesn't make you an educated person. The fact that someone didn't go to school doesn't mean he can't fight for a" revolution or liberation in an ethical way " like you stated .

We have enough schools in the country, we should look for ways to improve on what we already have and change the labour market for the better. Than creating more schools and generating more problems for the nation

This thread is for me, I need help too.