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Richy4:
" So suddenly her eyes were opened and she saw Gozie wed Osas..."

I wish I can possibly believe this

THAT'S UR BUSINESS. IF U BELIEVE IT OR NOT IS UR CUP OF TEA. SOME ONE TOLD U HIS STORY, U ARE FORMING SOMETHING ELSE HERE.

NgeneUkwenu:
Wike Is Sensing The Hurricane That Will Soon Sweep Him Away!

APC in Rivers State;

2 Senators

5 House Of Rep Members

8 House of Assembly members...

Next is to sweep Wike The Murderer Away!

U ARE A TYPICAL LIAR IN D CAGE. DECEIT IS FOOD AND U WILL FAIL WOEFULLY...

NaijaNewsPapers:
Growing up in a conservative Christian church, I was taught that the gospel was one, complete, and indestructible whole — particularly as it applied to human sexuality. But it’s not that simple.


The idea that is still taught in some churches today is that the Christian sexual ethic came to earth fully formed, straight from heaven, about 2,000 years ago. Throughout all that time, there was exactly one way for Christians to express their sexuality — by staying abstinent until they got married to a person of the opposite gender. And then, you could have at it all you wanted.


But what I wasn’t taught in Sunday School is that the Bible’s teachings on sex have been interpreted in many different ways. I didn’t know that the early Christians actually started practicing celibacy because they were convinced the end of the world was near. No one told me that marriage wasn’t always defined and controlled by the church. And that even within marriage, sex wasn’t always something that Christians were taught to enjoy and cherish.


And the truth is that the standards on what it means to be a sexual person and live a Christian life have changed.

Here are 4 facts to prove it.

1. For the first 1,000 years of Christianity (that’s at least HALF of its existence, people), many Christians wouldn’t have considered getting married in a church.


Marriages in the West were originally just economic alliances made between two families, with both the church and the state staying out of the proceedings. This meant that weddings didn’t require the presence of a priest.


The church got involved in regulating marriage much later on, as its influence began to increase in Western Europe. It wasn’t until 1215 that the Church formally put a claim on marriage and hashed out rules about what made children legitimate.


2. To be a truly devoted Christian during the earliest days of the church, you needed to stop having sex altogether.


Early Christians’ belief that Jesus’ second coming was imminent created an environment that exalted celibacy over marriage. It was a radical departure from Jewish teachings that the disciples would have been familiar with. But it makes sense — what was the point of getting tied up with worldly responsibilities, like taking care of a spouse, children and a household, when the end of the world was near?


St. Paul, a celibate Christian leader who wrote most of the New Testament, thought of practicing celibacy as taking the higher road towards God, since it allows Christians to concentrate wholly on things of the spirit.

The second coming didn’t happen, but the emphasis on celibacy stayed. Couples in the second century were expected to stop having sex altogether after producing several children.


3. The Church developed some rules about sex that would seem strange.

In medieval times, the church became deeply involved with controlling people’s sex lives. Virginity and monogamy were still prized, while homosexuality could be punished by death. The church also had very specific requirements for what type of sex married couples could have. Since all sex was supposed to be for the purposes of procreation, certain positions were banned (no sex standing up, the woman shouldn’t be on top, no doggy style, oral, anal, or masturbation). And then there were restrictions on what days of the week people could have sex (not on fast days, or feast days for a saint, or on Sundays, for example).

Sex was also discouraged when a woman was menstruating, pregnant, or breastfeeding, (which considering there was no birth control, could have been a good deal of the time). All of these prohibitions meant that on average, sex between married couples was only legal about once per week, if that.

4. Jesus had very little to say about sex.
Other than a some heavy admonishments against lust and against divorce, the Jesus of the Bible didn’t have a lot to say about issues of sexuality. (My guess is that he was too busy hanging out with the poor and healing the sick to care. Just a guess). He also had nothing at all to say about homosexuality or sexual identity as we understand it today.

Most of the instruction about sex comes from Christian leaders who started spreading the religion after Jesus’ death.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2017/08/4-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about.html

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PLS U ARE COMPLETELY WRONG,VERY WRONG INDEED BUT TRUE THAT,THE CHURCH GOT INVOLVED MUCH LATER. PLS KNOW SEXUALITY AND MARRIAGE HAD BEEN FROM CREATION EVEN BEFORE CHRIST BIRTH. MOST OF D RULES HV BN MADE,ISSUED OR KNOWN TO MAN AND SPECIFICALLY D JEWS AS D MORAL LAWS WERE CLEARLY LAID OUT BY MOSES, SO D BOUNDARIES WAS KNOWN.
1. THE BIBLE'S TEACHINGS ON SEXUALITY FROM D EARLIEST TIMES WAS VERY CLEAR,SO JESUS CHRIST ONLY GAVE CLARIFICATIONS WHERE SOME PHARISEE DOUBTS EXISTED.
2. HOMOXUALITY & ALL OTHER FORMS OF SEX OTHER THAN HUMAN WAS AN UNGODLY ACTS CLEARLY TAUGHT IN D SCRIPTURES.
3.U SEEM NOT TO KNOW UR BIBLE THAT, TEACHES U MORALITY AND PLAIN GODLY PRATICE ON SEXILUALITY : CHECK OUT WHAT IT SAYS ON, NO SEX DURING MENSURATION,FASTING COMMITMENTS,ETC.
4. ITS NOT TRUE FROM D BIBLE THAT EMPHASIS ON CELIBACY WAS HIGHEST. PETER D VERY FIRST APOSTLE WAS REVEALED AS A MARRIED MAN WITH FAMILY. PAUL'S STRESS MUST NOT BE MISCONSTRUED,HE GAVE A VERY BALANCE TEACHINGS ON MARRIAGE AND FAMILY.
5. SODOMY AND ITS DERIVATIVES WERE FORBIDDEN AND EVEN TODAY ITS AN IMMORTALITY TO D CORE.
PLS STUDY UR BIBLE TO SHOW URSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD AND MAN, RIGHTLY DIVIDING D WORD OF GOD PROPERLY. WITHOUR MODERN DAY ERRORS AND BLASPHEMY.

Ranchhoddas:
The religious mind sees a threat in every innovation.
Everything competes with their deity; social media, game of thrones and even the premier league.
The enemy is always lurking. It is a terrible way to live.

WHO EXACTLY IS AN ATHEIST? DID HE CREATE HIMSELF? SOMEONE IS REALLY IN SELF DELUSION HERE. DID ANY PERSON ACCEPT TO BE AN ATHEIST? PLS CONSULT ME TO OPEN UR EYES AND UNDERSTANDING TO UR MAKER/CREATOR AND GOD ALMITHY.THE EVERLASTING BEING,UR INNER BEING YEARNS FOR ALWAYS.U WILL BE SHOCKED THAT U HV BEEN WASTING AWAY IN SELF DESTRUCTIONS.

Evaberry:
It is highly wrong for a widow to remarry

@EVABERRY. PLS WHERE DID U BORROW THAT SATANIC DOCTRINE FROM,THIS HOLY SUNDAY MORNING? ARE U A BELIEVER IN JESUS CHRIST? THEN OBEY UR BIBLE'S TEACHING AND TRYE MORALITY. IT TEACHES THAT, WIDOWS ARE FREE TO MARRY WHO THEY LOVE OR FALL IN LOVE WITH THAN TO BURN IN LUSTFUL IMMORALITY. IF THE MARRIAGE IS NOT AN ADULTEROUS ONE, I SUPPORT IT 100+%. THANK GOD,D GOOD SON ALSO GAVE HIS MUM SUPPORT. PLS LEARN. US IT GOOD THAT, A YOUNG WIDOW FLIRT ABOUT TO SPREAD DISEASE OR LUST? JUDGE.

ImDharay:

Religion section would win this thread,
It's a no no no for romance section...

ITS STILL MOST APPROPRIATE FOR THIS SECTION OF D FORUM. LET EVERY ONE HEAR IT FOR ONCE.PLS. GODS MESSAGE TO A PERVERTED PEOPLE IS SIMPLY PUT FORWARD FOR OUR REF.

Divay22:
It means a man that has a right standing with God..
The fact that you go to church every Sunday doesn't mean you fear God...
If you fear God you'll cleave to her and her alone as he has commanded..
If you fear God you'll do nothing to hurt her.

AND SHE WILL ALSO BE GOD FEARING AND IN D SAME VEIN FOLLOWS SUCH TERMS AND LOGIC. LOVE GOD AND LOVE UR NEIGHBOUR AS U LOVE URSELF. D VOWS ARE FOR BOTH PARTIES IN D COVENANT OF MARRIAGE, NOT SCRUPULOUS,GREEDY WIFE WHO IS LICENTIOUS AND SECRETLY IMMORAL AND VERY UNFAITHFUL.

motun2017:
she'll soon join the slay queens now

MISGUIDEDLY PROMISCUOUS FELLOWS WILL RIDICULE GOOD SUCCESS. LEARN HOW TO BE BETTER AND GIVE BETTER EXAMPLES TO OTHETS. KEEP UR HEART AND MOUTH WITH ALL DILIGENCE, FOR OUT OF IT ARE D ISSUES OF LIFE. GIVE GOOD CREDIT TO A VERY GOOD PERFORMER. ALWAYS ACKNOWLEDGE AND APPLAUD SOME ONE WHO HAS OUTCLASSED U.

Kolababe:
A lady has sparked serious debate on her Instagram page after she shared a photo of herself kissing her sister, Sonia inside a car. The lady named Jessica shared the photo with caption, "I love u sis".

However, many of her followers found the photo in bad taste and criticised her. Some even labeled her action incestuous despite efforts from other followers to defend the kiss as just an innocent sisters' kiss.

Meanwhile, Jessica's brother Cyril also commented to defend his sisters' action as just having fun and blast the Internet trolls.

http://www.newseveryhour.com/2017/08/lady-shares-photo-of-herself-and-sister.html

VERY BAD FAMILY EXAMPLES & BACKGROUND. BREEDING GROUND FOR LICENTIOUSNESS AND IMMORTALITY. LESBIANISM AND ROT.

Andyblaze:
This morning I went down to get my trouser amended, prior to going I had about 5,000 naira in the pocket of this said trouser and I totally forgot I had put it in there last night. Fast forward I went to an Hassan multipurpose shop near my street where they amended clothes, shoes and bags and gave the trouser to one to amend whilst I waited.

When he was there I went home and tested the trouser on my body, then I dipped my hand into my pockets and at that moment I remembered I had put some money there last night but lo and Behold there wasn't any money in there anymore. It was crazy as I sped immediately with the trouser still on back to the shop, one arriving back there I couldn't find the man who amended my trouser. I asked his colleagues about him but they said he had left then I complained to them that the cloth he amended for me had some money in it but I couldn't find it anymore. They told me they had seen no money but that he had already left. Dang! This man has claimed sharp on me and zoomed off with my money and I was resigning to fate, he came strolled back to the shop from wherever he went to and I couldn't recognize him but the other hausa men spoke some hausan to him and then told me he's the one.. I told him i had some money in the trouser he amended but after shaping I couldn't find the money...

Love and Behold, he dipped his hand in his pocket and told me he picked it on the floor that it must have fallen while I was removing the cloth from my body after testing his work. He handed back the 5,000 naira to me.
The honesty of this Muslim fella has made my Sunday already and I couldn't help but wonder, how many of we Christians can actually do this. I know certain people who probably would have shared that money amongst themselves the moment they saw it and all connive to say they didn't see it when I had returned to complain.

THE good is not by claiming we are God - fearing, it's by our deeds.

This is a true story and happened to me minutes ago, Happy Sunday Guys.

IT IS TO TEACH U A PRACTICAL LESSON ON FAITHFULNESS,TRUTHFULNESS AND INTEGRITY. NOT ANYTHING NEW OR STRANGE TO THE GENUINELY BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS. ITS ONLY HALF BAKED OR DECEITFUL AND COMPROMISING FELLOWS,BACKSLIDERS PARADIBG AS SAINTS OF HELL FIRE THAT WILL FIND IT DIFFICULT TO BE SINCERE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD IN LIFE. LEARN D LESSONS AND PASS IT ON PRACTICALLY. GOD BLESS U GOOD.

9japrof:
All these rubbishes are plainly unnecessary, abstinence is the key, free from fornication and adultery.

If you are hyperactive sexually, then make sure you wear protection. Avoid unsterilized sharp objects like plague.

Finally HIV test is Important regularly for early detection and treatment.

HIV positive doesn't mean one is damned to die, a good habit and treatment can keep you alive for a long time...


OP be very careful before you even send healthy people panicking...

WHAT WILL MAKE ANY PERSON EVEN HEALTHY ONES PANICKY? MAN KNOW THY SELF. GOOD CONDUCTS AND CLEAN LIFE AVOID SENSUAL IMMORAL FLESHY SEEKING PEOPLE GIVEN TO CARNALITY AND WICKEDNESS WHO LIKE TO HAVE SEX AND SPREAD DISEASES. SAFE CONDUCTS GIVES GOOD LIFE AND CONFIDENCE ALWAYS.SO BEWARE FRIENDS.[color=#990000][/color]

9japrof:
All these rubbishes are plainly unnecessary, abstinence is the key, free from fornication and adultery.

If you are hyperactive sexually, then make sure you wear protection. Avoid unsterilized sharp objects like plague.

Finally HIV test is Important regularly for early detection and treatment.

HIV positive doesn't mean one is damned to die, a good habit and treatment can keep you alive for a long time...


OP be very careful before you even send healthy people panicking...

WHAT WILL MAKE ANY PERSON EVEN HEALTHY ONES PANICKY? MAN KNOW THY SELF. GOOD CONDUCTS AND CLEAN LIFE AVOID SENSUAL IMMORAL FLESHY SEEKING PEOPLE GIVEN TO CARNALITY AND WICKEDNESS WHO LIKE TO HAVE SEX AND SPREAD DISEASES. SAFE CONDUCTS GIVES GOOD LIFE AND CONFIDENCE ALWAYS.

billycayana:
The guy above me tho, are you on 5G?


@OP
Thanks to the universe for my boyfriend
Nothing works better than weed
Sk, naija, Arizona
I can eat 7raps of fufu after hitting my joint

WILL NOT BE SURPRISED,WHEN U ARE GIVEN TO WEEDS...INDIAN HEMP AS A WOMAN. AN ENDANGERED SPECIE MISLED BY FALSE PASSION AND EGO. DAMNED FOR DESTRUCTION, MISLED BY WRONG COMPANIES...

secretlifesaver:
Yes and the police could round them up and that will be on my conscience forever and it will turn to a burden

U LIE AGAIN. IT CAN NEVER BE A BURDEN ON UR CONSCIENCE IF U REPORT IT anonymously. U ARE FRIENDLY WITH D LAW AND God's PURPOSE THAT IS. GO AHEAD AND DO D NEEDFUL,PLS. UR FRIEND WHO CHOOSES TO BE BAD FRIEND IS DOOMED FOR HELL FIRE,BEARING ARMS ILLEGALLY.

abiodunalasa:
Back in the University, we took an awareness tour to Oil damaged Ogoni in Bayelsa.
We met many of the impoverished community people. We met one man who is a fisher man. You can tell from the look on his face that he is poor beyond poverty. But then he has 11 children and a pregnant wife. I almost collapsed when I find out this. As if not enough, one of his daughter about age of 16/17 is already a parent too. She was put into family way by a neighbor who later ran away. They were all living in one rickety wooden house. I shed tears.

At that moment I knew that no matter how well planned our economic policies are, no matter how fast the pedal upon which our economy is riding... With these kind of careless and mindless child bearing, poverty and hunger will continue to be our permanent companion.

We wrote a proposition on this matter to the then House of Rep Member Hon. Ali Ahmad. But the proposition was dismissed upon religious ground and archaic tradions.
The proposition was seeking to lobby for a law on ONE CHILD POLICY las did in China, though its a modify policy one which to suit Nigerian clime. Our proposition was rejected because they fear it will not be popular among our illiterate people the vast majority of whom voted for them.

Till now, I believe this is the right thing to do. It is #TheRightSense .

By the time I run for House of Rep come 2019, this will be my vocal point. Thank God for the not too young to run law.

U WILL NOT WIN ANY SEAT IN D REPS. PLAN ANOTHER THING PLS. OGONI IS RIVERS STATE NOT BAYELSA. U DON'T EVEN KNOW UR GEOGRAPHY OR D NIGERIA U COME FROM, SO HOW CAN U PUT UR THOUGHTS THROUGH A MULTI ETHNIC SOCIETY? GO BACK TO SCHOOL,PLS.

Ishilove:
Na wa. Both Simon and Linda are mad. She is a mother of 3 kids so it's not like the punny is tight, and this thus makes me wonder about Simon's motivation to have a sexual affair with her.

Oh well, after 5 children I guess his wife's nether parts was wider than the woman with 3 children.

What did this greedy Linda have that his wife didn't have? Stretch marks? Flabby boobs? Vaginal walls that have stretched wide to bring forth life on multiple occasions?? What??

Let me guess: it's the thrill of eating okro soup after being stuck with egusi soup for so long. Never mind that the okro soup is no longer fresh and has almost stopped drawing.

Sick mofos.

ISHILOVE. PLS IT DOES NOT ALWAYS APPLY. UR CALCULATIONS MAY BE VERY WRONG. A WOMAN WITH 5 BIRTHS SOMETIMES MAY NOT BE WIDER THAN 3 BIRTHS WOMAN. ALL DEPENDS ON D CARE & CONTENTMENT.MOST SINGLE MOTHERS EVEN IN TODAY'S NAIJA ARE VERY MUCH PROMISCIOUS AND SATANICALLY FILLED WITH SENSUAL PASSION FOR ECONOMIC EXPLOITS. WE SHOULD BE CAREFUL HOW WE TREAD SUCH PATHS,PLS.

NwaAmaikpe:



Apostle Johnson Suleman's poor church goer's offerings and tithes at work here.

U ARE REALLY NOTORIOUS FIR INCIVILITY. GOSSIPS ARE NOT PRONE TO PROGRESS..TAKE NOTE.

cascarino:
In a corner of Imo, two angry rivers flow without ever coming together
pulse.ng Jul 27, 2017 1:00 PM
One half of the lake is a brownish colour; the other half flows clearly and almost appears green. They have never come together.
Across the world, from Stonehenge to the Great Sphinx of Giza, there are remarkable creations and naturally occurring phenomena that can only be described by the term we use to refer to them; wonders.

They are those structures that both impress and confound us, enough to command a kind of respect that almost feels like reverence and put them in a class of their own; a class that preserves them into classical antiquity.

In many ways, these wonders, especially those made by nature’s hand, are mysteries, more than anything else.

Like the Northern Lights or Tanzania’s 260 square km wide Ngorongoro crater, they are unexplained phenomena that arouse our curiosity, a desire to know more and questions that we try ever so hard to answer with science or religion.

One of such wonders is hiding in Nigeria, in Imo state, within the rainforests of the Niger-Delta.

In Oguta Lake, two angry rivers flow side-by-side without ever coming together.

Ogwuta Lake has an interesting story
From the surface, you can distinguish between the two colours of Uhamiri and Urashi, flowing separately, never coming together (Pulse36)
It has been this way for as long as the people remember.

Oguta Lake is a lean finger lake formed by deposits of clay, sand, and silt that dammed the lower Njaba river.

At 8.05km long and 2.41 km wide, it is the largest natural lake in Imo, and the entire South-East of Nigeria.

Water flows into it mainly from the Njaba river and to a lesser degree, the Uhamiri, Awbana and Urashi rivers.

It is two of these rivers that flow side-by-side, parallel to each other, without ever coming together.

You can see it almost immediately on the surface of the lake.

One flows in a shade of green, the other is brown.

As part of #Pulse36, their trip across Nigeria’s states, Fu’ad Lawal and Chris Chukwuedo visited Oguta Lake to see this sight for themselves and learn more about the stories behind the unique lake.

There, they met Ekene, a boatman, and tour-guide of sorts. He led the way.

According to Ekene, locals believe that the two rivers were male and female, man and wife. The green water is Uhamiri, believed to be the female. The brown water is the male, Urashi.

The stories claim that they had a quarrel, since then, they have flowed separately.

Nowadays, the two are deities; man and wife have become god and goddess.

There are two separate shrines where worshippers invoke and offer supplication to them; one on each side of the river.

The quarrel does not affect places of worship, and worshipers can call on either deity from any of the two shrines.

But those liberties do not extend to every area.

Yenagoa, the one road town
Ekene is a 26-year-old boatman and tour guide. He is also a father to two children. (Pulse36)
Even as it stays hidden in a corner of Imo, Oguta is a major attraction and every year, thousands come to visit, including some who do not understand the efficacy of its legends.

Sometimes, the couple is taken for granted and the inexplicable happens.

While they were on Oguta, ever the inquisitive one, Fu’ad asked Ekene some questions about the lake.

“So they’ve been separated all these years and can’t find a way to make up?”

“Yes,” Ekene said.

“They are petty,” he said jokingly.

“Why are they quarreling?”, he asked again.

Next thing he knew, Ekene was looking right into the water, saying in Igbo how the lake should forgive him because he’s just a boatman trying to make a living, not one who would say things he knows nothing about.

Fu’ad shut up after that.

Ekene told Fu’ad of a time not too long ago when some students came to the lake to see its wonders.

One of the students, after taking in its size, stood up and proclaimed that the lake was small, small enough for him to swim.

He asked the boatman to turn around so he could jump in the lake for a swim. As the guide maneuvered, he fell out of the boat and into the lake. His body was never found.

Stories like these may scare visitors and for good reason. It never hurts to respect local beliefs and traditions.

The people of Oguta and the communities that surround it, know the lake as a source of transport, food, and sustenance. For them, the natural wonder is an integral part of their lives.

Ogwuta Lake has an interesting story
On the banks of Oguta, you will find anything from traders to fishermen to tour guides ready to give you a spin around the lake. (Pulse36)
As Fu’ad put it, for them, it is a means to live.

On any random visit, you are likely to find women on the bank doing laundry or selling anything from souvenirs to dried fish.

On one side, you will likely find a boat man waiting for visitors and fisherman getting their nets ready to be cast into the lake’s depths.

At any point, there are people being ferried to the other side, carrying everything from handbags to farm produce.

Ogwuta Lake is also home to some relics of more recent times, particularly the 70s when the area was one of the many theaters in the Nigerian civil war.

Not far from the lake, there is what appears to be an abandoned 18-hole golf course.

But move closer to the course and you will see it, right there in the bushes; a bunker used by Biafran forces during the civil war.

The mouth of the bunker has been blocked off because kidnappers, in the past, used the bunker to hide their victims from prying eyes.

Ogwuta Lake has an interesting story
Apart from this entrance, the bunker has another that is said to be as wide as a road. It is a fair distance away. (Pulse36)
The lake was also used as a base by the Nigerian Navy during the war. There are reports that remnants of old Biafran war boats can be found in various areas of the lake.

It is things like this that make Oguta lake unique.

Now, as a new generation lives around the lake, the mystery of the two rivers, its history as an important part of the Biafran war and many unanswered questions about its past remain.

They are why Oguta Lake and its immediate environment deserve a facelift if for no reason, to preserve one of the many wonders that Nigeria is so blessed with.

Until that happens, Urashi and Uhamiri continue to flow in the same lake, side by side, without ever coming together.



http://www.pulse.ng/food_drinks_travel/oguta-lake-in-a-corner-of-imo-two-angry-rivers-flow-without-ever-coming-together-id7060869.html

WRITER OR WHATEVER U ARE CALLED,PLS MAINTAIN ONE NAME OGUTA.DO NOT BASTARDIZE D NAME. THE LAKE IS CALLED OGUTA LAKE NOT OGWUTA LAKE. ABD FOR UR GOOD INFORMATION,OGUTA LAKE IS A GENUINELY KNOWN OR ACKNOWLEDGED BLUE LAKE,PLS. UR PIECE IS VERY GOOD FOR D PUBLIC AND TOURISTS BUT PLS TAKE NOTE OF MY HUMBLE CORRECTIONS. because NA MY TOWN AND I KNOW IT WELL. SOME NEW GENERATION CHILDREN MAY BE FUNNY ATIMES,THOUGH.REASON FOR D CORRECTIONS,PLS.

Ekwekwe1:
fresh water what??

this fish was caught down here in brass local govt.( new Sangana to be precise)

that's my friend putting on face cap( his name is Tekena)

it's no freshwater creature.

DO U MIND ALL THOSE FAKE PROFESSORS WITHOUT BOOK NOLEZ OR BASIC VILLAGE SENSE? A TYPICAL SALT WATER FISH,NOVICE HERE CALL FRESH WATER FISH. PLS PEOPLE SHOULD KEEP OR HIDE THEIR BIASES AND IGNO.. TO LEARN WHAT U DON'T KNOW. BRASS OR MOST OF RIVERS IS HIGH SALINITY CONTENT WITH VERY WIDE AND STRANGE AQUATIC CREATURES, FILLED WITH INEXPLAINABLE ARRAY OF AQUATIC LIVES,GID KNOWS BEST. THIS SAME FISH,EVEN MUCH BIGGER THIS ON DISPLAY WAS CAUGHT SOME TIMES AGO IN D SAN BABARAS SEA OF KULA TOWN, IN AKUKUTORU LGA IN RIVERS STATE[color=#006600][/color]

madgoat:
Rev. Fr Reacts to Rev Patrick Edet’s Resignation:The Case Of Another fallen Priest (Fr. Patrick Edet) – Fr. Emmanuel Akalue

“The love of money is the root of all evils” (1Tim 6:10)

As I’ve always understood, not everybody in the priesthood understands what it’s about. Some are truly living in bondage – feeling trapped – because they entered the priesthood with the mindset of pursuing a career. For those truly called, it’s an inestimable privilege and blessing. To God be the glory!!!



All that glitters is not gold. One can give a wonderful sermon or homily (based on academic knowledge). It doesn’t imply the person is convinced of the teaching of the Christ and His Church. Only God knows the heart and how convinced we are about the faith and what we are preaching.

AFTERMATH OF LEAVING THE PRIESTHOOD: What next?

I think the priest for love of power, influence and money, left the priesthood. It is never about being gifted. Absolutely not! What gift has the Church not seen in its 2000 years of history? We have seen super-eminently gifted saints like St. Padre Pio, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Benadette, etc (not to mention the eminent Apostles of the Lord and many others). So it’s about pomposity, spiritual pride and foolishness. Clearly, he has no proper understanding of Ecclesiology or the Priesthood of Christ.

I didn’t realize originally he was a “healing ministry priest.” When I read about Grace Family Outreach yesterday, I googled it and listened to his preachings. I didn’t see any difference between him and any of those half-baked evangelical pastors and prosperity gospel preachers. I think it’s high time our Bishops of Nigeria begin to review the modus operandi of approval of these misguided approaches.

Every priest should operate within the parish level, not seeking individual ministries. There’s absolutely no reason why any priest cannot fulfill the ministry at the parish level, irrespective of whatever gifts one may have.

Think about it: If each priest, for love of money, power and influence, begins to ask his Bishop to release him so that he could face his own PERSONAL ministry full time, who would do the proper COMMUNITY ministry of the Church? Please, we are called to work in the Lord’s vineyard, building up the ONE BODY OF CHRIST, not individual or personal empires. That they may be one!

Reflect on these words of Scripture:

“He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters” (Matt 12:30).
“And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd” (John 10:16).

“To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good” (1Cor 12:7).

“So with yourselves; since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church” (1Cor 14:12).

“And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ” (Eph 4:11-12).

The Church is all about unity and communion; none of the Apostles of Christ ever divided from the Church or strayed from the path expressed in these passages. Truly, “the love of money is the root of all evils” (1Tim 6:10).

Our Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria needs to begin to find urgent solution to this misguided trend, terrible malaise. It’s precisely “INTERDENOMINATIONAL” because they by and large disavow the Catholic Church’s teachings in these useless events. They preach and teach without authentic Catholic theological, pastoral or catechetical perspectives and considerations.

I have been saying and will always maintain that preaching Prosperity Gospel Way is devilish (evident in Christ’s temptations by the Devil: The Devil wanted Jesus to display power by turning stones into bread and to jump down from the pinnacle of the temple. Christ rejected it; it’s never about sheer display of power. The Devil wanted Jesus to desire wealth and riches of all the kingdoms of the world.

Christ disavowed it). Jesus never invited people to come for signs and wonders; Christ invites all disciples to embrace the WAY OF THE CROSS. Christ healed people and said, “Tell no one;” not “Go and advertise it.” “Advertise it” is the Devil’s Proposal. Clearly, therefore, the promotion of miracles, signs and wonders and breakthrough crusades is the Devil’s proposal, evident from Christ’s temptations.

The Church through the Bishops’ Conference MUST stop giving these misguided priests the forum to use the Church as their springboard to making the leap of founding their own PERSONAL and SELFISH ministry or “church.” These guys are exploiting and misleading our Catholic faithful (many of whom do not understand the faith, do not know their left from their right, and are consequently like sheep without shepherds) and dividing the One Church Christ founded.

Every priest should work and function within the given or living tradition of the Church, (just as the prophets of old functioned by prophesying within the living tradition and all the apostles of Christ and their successors functioned within the living tradition of the One Church).

The New Evangelization methodology we taught and still teach in Emmaus School is not about founding “Independent churches” or “Autonomous Ministries.” The slogan has always been “We evangelize into the Church” (cf. Evangelii Nuntiandi, 60). That’s what Jesus did! That’s what the Apostles did!

Every priest should evangelize and do every ministry within the parish and if there’s any outreach to anywhere (in stadium or any other arena), the money raised should be legitimately parish/diocese money for the advancement of the mission of the one Church. Otherwise, the priest is doing his own thing, his own business. Neither Christ nor His Apostles did their own thing, personal business.

If the money from such belongs to such priests, then there’s no reason why any parish priest should not be able to lay direct claim to the entire PARISH ANNUAL HARVEST THANKSGIVING AND BAZAAR (as his personal money, for his personal thing).

Obviously, that would not be right! But why not That is to illustrate that something is definitely wrong with the present state of affairs regarding “healing ministries” and our Bishops should take another look at it.

As I remarked earlier, if every priest begins to divert selfishly into a personal money making ministry, which priest will be available to work for the Church’s COMMON GOOD

St. Paul warned sternly against founding personal ministries or personal churches. In his words:

“And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church. And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you all the time from the first day that I set foot in Asia…. how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house…. And now, behold, I know that all you among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom will see my face no more. Therefore I testify to you this day that I am INNOCENT OF THE BLOOD of all of you, for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with the blood of his own Son. I know that AFTER MY DEPARTURE FIERCE WOLVES will come in among you, NOT SPARING THE FLOCK [THE CHURCH]; and from among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, TO DRAW AWAY THE DISCIPLES after THEM” (Acts 20:17-30) – meaning to exploit and deceive the members of the Church using the DEVIL’S METHOD or the DEVIL’S PROPOSALS during Christ’s temptations (proposal for signs and wonders and miracles and breakthroughs).

This is NOT the faith Jesus and His Apostles proclaimed! But many, if not most, of our Catholic faithful are vulnerable to these delusions and seductions because these misguided priests are exploiting their lack of faith, unnecessary fears and superstitious mentalities and also material poverty. We must – like the Good Shepherd Himself – protect the vulnerable flock from these ravenous wolves. That’s a divine mandate.

Prosperity Gospel entails prioritizing the preaching of material well-being, materialism, at the expense of preaching the depths of the mysteries of the Kingdom and its righteousness as Christ commanded. We preach Christ and His Mysteries of the Kingdom, not about wealth or breakthroughs. People need to learn the faith that they “may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fulness of God” (Eph 3:18-19).

Remember the words of Jesus: “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you” (John 15:15). Or “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations… teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Matt 28:19-20).

The “everything” or “all” in both cases – CLEARLY – is not materialism.

Hence, Pope Paul VI declared:

“Evangelization will also always contain – as the foundation, center, and at the same time, summit of its dynamism – a clear proclamation that, in Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, who died and rose from the dead, salvation is offered to all men, as a gift of God’s grace and mercy.

And not an immanent salvation, meeting material or even spiritual needs, restricted to the framework of temporal existence and completely identified with temporal desires, hopes, affairs and struggles, but a salvation which exceeds all these limits in order to reach fulfillment in a communion with the one and only divine Absolute: a transcendent and eschatological salvation, which indeed has its beginning in this life but which is fulfilled in eternity” (Evangelii Nuntiandi, 27).

ADDENDUM – CALL TO CATHOLIC CHRISTIANS WHO USED TO ATTEND FR. PATRICK EDET’S MINISTRY:

This is a call inspired by the Holy Spirit. Don’t allow Fr. Patrick Edet to make you lose your holy and beautiful Catholic and Apostolic Faith. Don’t abandon the Church of Christ for a dissident/fallen priest. Choose Christ and His Church! Remain with Jesus and His Church founded on the rock Peter.

WHAT ARE CHRIST’S WORDS OF INSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH? Christ words are “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I [JESUS] will build my church” (Matt 16:18). Christ did not say, “You are my Apostles, on these rocks I will build my churches”. He did not say, “You are James, on this rock I will build my Church”; or “You are Philip or Thomas … on this rock I will build my Church…” Thus, it is historically impossible to see any Church that James or Paul or Thomas founded different from that founded on the rock, Peter.

Since we cannot find any example of Paul or James or Thomas, or Mark or Luke, Philip, etc., founding an independent church, we must understand that what we see from the examples of Wesley, Calvin, Henry VIII, Harvard, name anyone else, have no biblical support.

If these private church founders were correct, certainly we could have seen the church of Paul or James or Matthew running through history independent of the one Christ willed through Peter; just as we now see that of Wesley or Calvin or Henry VIII running through history.

Among many Evangelicals (Pentecostals), we find “churches” established by some couples. It needs be said that there is NO “HUSBAND AND WIFE” CHURCH, INC. IN THE BIBLE. Where do we see Matthew, James or Thomas and his wife’s church? Christ DID NOT SAY, “YOU ARE FR. PATRICK EDET, UPON THIS ROCK, I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH.” Absolutely not! So please stay with Jesus and His Original Church. Don’t fall away!

He wants “freedom” to do whatever he wants, without any control, check and balance. He wants to be his own bishop, his own pope. He wants to be able to control others in his ministry and not to be controlled by anybody.

It’s simply called immaturity and pride. Even Jesus placed Himself under the control of His Father, saying, “For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me” (John 6:38). So Fr. Patrick Edet’s actions are absolutely against the Spirit of Christ (cf. Phil 2:5-11). The Church has checks and balance right from the beginning.

See how Apostle Paul directed and controlled the Early Catholic Christians (both clergy and laity):

“What then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn; and let one interpret. But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silence in church and speak to himself and to God. Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.

If a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first be silent. For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged” (1Cor 14:26-31).

St Paul even added unequivocally, “the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets. For God is not a God of confusion but of peace” (1Cor 14:32-33).

Clearly, we are not free to do whatever we like, however gifted one may think one is. We are under authority as willed by Christ (Matt 16:16-19; Matt 18:17-18; John 21:15-18).

Just look at the awesome DIVINE POWER Christ entrusted to His Church in these lines from Jesus:
“If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Matt 17:17-18).

CAN YOU SEE THE POWER OF THE CHURCH HE ABANDONED? IT IS THE LORD HIMSELF WHO DID IT! There’s always the place of the Magisterium (the Pope and Bishops) in the Church of Christ. Christ placed His Church under proper authorities and their successors.

See how St. Paul had greater authority than Bishop Titus:

“This is why I left you in Crete, that you might amend what was defective, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you…. ” (Titus 1:5).

Why didn’t Titus say, “I want freedom and break away from the Church?” Because such attitude is not from the Holy Spirit!

See how the Apostles at the Council of Jerusalem showed they had authority from Christ to direct the flock correctly when some misguided members went to preach wrong doctrine without proper mandate from the Apostles. The Apostles wrote a letter to the regions concerned, saying,

“Since we have heard that some persons from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions” (Acts 15:24).

Why didn’t those folks break away and say “We want to be free?” Because such attitude is not from God! So it’s never anything goes. So pray for Fr. Patrick Edet to humble himself, see the light and repent.
See how St. Paul placed himself correctly under the control or authority of Peter and the Apostles:

“Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. I went up by revelation; and I laid before them (but privately before those who were of repute) the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, lest somehow I should be running or had run in vain” (Gal 1:1-2).

This is the RIGHT ATTITUDE inspired by the Holy Spirit. Notice, St. Paul said, “I went up by revelation” (Gal 2:2). So this is how you know God’s Spirit at work, because “All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2Tim 3:16-17).

No one has mandate to divide the Church or to begin a new one. Such move will always be “anti-Christ”, contrary to the will of Christ (cf. Matt 24:23-26; Rom 16:17-18; 2Cor 11:12-15; 1John 2:18-19; Jude 1:17-18).

CONCLUSION:

So no reasonable Catholic Christian – who has fear of God – should follow Fr. Patrick Edet; any Catholic Christian who follows him has abandoned Christ and His Church. He or she has fallen away like Judas Iscariot and all like him throughout the ages. The Church will continue without them, just as it continued without Judas Iscariot. And the Church will remain until Christ returns because He promised from the beginning (from the First Century), “the powers of death shall not prevail against it” (Matt 16:18).

UR EXPLANATION IS AN EPISTLE WITH NO DIRECTION. D MAN IS FED UP WITH D DOGMAS OF CATHOLICISM AND WANTS FREEDOM THERE FROM. SO WILL U DENY HIM? SO HE STAYS WITHIN AND BEGINS TO SPOIL D CHURCH FURTHER? IS GOOD HE HAS GONE.LIBERTY IS HIS OWN CHOICE.GOD CAN USE ANY PERSON AS HE CHOOSES IN DIFFERENT WAYS BUT FOR HIS DIVINITY.

CastedDude:
According to an online report, this intelligent student who scored 306 in JAMB, got 6 A1s and 3 B3s In WAEC has been met with financial restraint as his parents can't afford to send him to university. According to a post shared on Facebook by Rariya, the young man identified as Shitu Abdullahi, might be unable to further his education in an institution of higher learning despite excelling in his JAMB and WAEC exams.

Meet the student who scored 306 In JAMB, got 6 A1s and 3 B3s In WAEC But his parent cannot afford to send him to university | Photos

Abdullahi scored a total of 306 out of 400 in JAMB, while making a total of six A1s and three B3s in WAEC.

Shittu Abdullahi excelled in both JAMB and WAEC but is unable to further his education.

Abdullahi who hails from the Malam Maduri local government area in Jigawa state, might have to end his education at secondary school level, because his parents cannot afford to see him through a university.

Rariya shared this story which was entirely written in Hausa, soliciting for help on his behalf, so as not to let his brilliance go to waste.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2017/08/meet-young-man-scored-306-jamb-also-excelled-waec-photos.html

VERY GOOD INFO BUT VERY POOR BRIEFS WITH UNNECESSARY REPETITION. SCHOOL ATTENDED VETY IMPORTANT BUT MISSING. HIS STATE EDUCATION MINISTRY SHOULD HANDLE THIS OR D POLITICAL GLADIATORS. PLS.

Ehiscotch:
www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/kebbi-peaceful-state-history-nigeria-gov-okorocha/

SHAMELESS TALKATIVE GOVERNOR. A GARRULOUS FELLOW VERY INSENSITIVE THOUGH PRETENDS TO BE PASSIONATE TOWARDS D POOR. DECEITS OF LUCIFER.

Plankton2017:
Good day fellow NL,

Please judge this case. Last week thursday my sister inlaw visited me and my wife from NYSC camp. I was shocked when I welcomed her because it was no ordinary visit. she came with a full ghana must go. We greeted and I got to know that she escaped from camp due to the tough tasks on camp. My wife never told me her sister was coming to stay. We have lived amicably till yesterday.

My lil cuzin that stays and helps us with chores was mandated by her to cook 2 big pots of water for her to bath. I scolded my cousin and told her why didnt she use the electric kettle so as to save gas which we just replaced with 6k. I now gave her a warning that whatever my inlaw wants that she should ask me 1st. I even got to know that my wife lied to me that her parents knew she left camp. My wife heard our conversation and started antagonizing me that why did I tell my cuz to always ask me b4 she obeys her sister. she was shouting at the top of her voice even my inlaw could hear. This angered me and I shouted back and told her to leave my room. she continued shouting and even slept in the sitting room as I slept alone.

This afternoon while working on my computer for hours I came out of the room only to find out my sister in law has packed her things back to her NYSC camp without telling me but my wife knows....I am slatted to officially do my white wedding next saturday. I just feel down because we quarell too much and my wife talks in a domineering way. I have warned her about it and I do not want to turn a woman beater. Any quarell we have she tells her parents and siblings which make them never free with me and act cold towards me. Damn it! pls advice me

PLS PUT UR MARRIAGE ON HOLD AND REASSESS UR SUITABILITY SINCE NEW EVIDENCE OF INCOMPATABILITY IS SHOWING UP. WOMEN ARE A BIG PROBLEMS TO HUMANITY. ONLY GOD TRULY KNOWS D VERY HEART OF A WOMAN.

NwaAmaikpe:


Sex is life.



Don't shortchange yourself.
Eat the fruit of life raw.

Skin to skin is the best...
Remember, something must kill a man.
If you must use any protection, use anointing oil to lubricate bless your preek and the kpekus then you are good to go.


What is the essence of using a condom to prevent dying from
gonorrhea when malaria can still kill you faster?

U ARE A DISGUSTING DEVIANT, A MISFIT FOR THIS FORUM AS UR IDEAS AND THOUGHT LINES ARE ALWAYS AVAST TO MORALITY AND CORRECTIONS. WHY WATER DOWN AN EXPERT OPINION OR DOWN PLAY A VERY IMPORTANT AND USEFUL ADVISE TO D PUBLIC WITH SUCH SARCASTIC AND DEVILISH REASONINGS?

lionness:
The good thing about this news is, the victim, was once a useless, spineless, myopic, tribalistic, ogogoro-addicted, womanizing zero-brain vagabond, corrupt, dirty, wasted, punanni-obsessed (ask Dieznai and Oduah), militant-loving, divisive, Olodo PHD-holder, religious-scam artist, timid, wowo, brainless stolid, divisive nincompoop who turned security to a jamboree (he wasted billions of the security funds on total rubbish and back-rubbing non-sense) during his solid 5 years regime...The sad news about this is that, I wish the robbers had found him and his fat-fugly semi-illiterate, shrew of a wife and tied them up so we can have the pictures to marvel at for a while. You think because you are the president, Karma wont find you, then ask the man called Buhari, how this terrible wishes against Yaradua and Nigerians is becoming his entire reality. Stay away from leading the people if you arent ready to make sacrifices because one day, you may eventually be the sacrificial lamb.

U REMAIN A VERY BIG FOOL INDEED.

NwaAmaikpe:


Please free them.

In the Bible the woman with the issue of blood tapped current from the hem of the master.

These ones only wanted to tap power from the pastor's preek.

ARE U SO PERVERSE? TRIVIALISING SPIRITUAL THINGS? PLS BE WARNED OR U GET BRUISED. DIVINITY WILL NOT SPARE U NEXT TIME CORRUPT MINDS ARE ALWAYS WILD AND MISLEADING....

[quhote author=feranmi400 post=58814493]more[/quote]WHAT EXACTLY DOES HE/SHE WANTS TO ACHIEVE ACTUALLY?

OrientDailyNews:
…Petitions Assistant Inspector General of Police for Justice




Source
https://orientdailynews.com/wife-of-kidnapped-victim-accuses-police-of-murdering-husband/

IRENE D COMMAND PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER IS A SHAME AND AN INCOMPETENT FELLOW. HOW CAN U BE SPUEING OUT SUCH CONTRADICTIONS AND INCOHERENTLY PUT FORWARD DEFENCE LACKING IN LOGIC. WHAT KIND OF BIZARRE TRAINING WERE U GIVEN? PLS D POLICE OR SKOLOMBO OFFICERS ARE COMPLICIT IN D HANDLING OF D MURDERED MAN. STOP BRING VAGUE DEFENCES FOR PUBLIC SCTUTINY. UR POSTULATIONS ARE BASELESS AND HV GOOD OR SOLID GROUNDS IN LAW AND MORALITY.

hakeem4:
SOURCE :- ayolaTv

WHERE IS D PICTURE OF D ACCOMPLICE OR PARTNER IN DRAMA? IS VERY BAD OF D OP TO ONLY SHOW D ALLEGED PERVERT AND LEAVE OUT D SEDUCTIVE LADY. SO UR STORY IS EITHER NOT TRUE, INCOMPLETE OR A BIZARRE TALE FOR D gods.

D JUDGEMENT GIVEN D POOR MAN IS UNFORTUNATE AND NOT NECESSARY. NO DEFENCE AT ALL. BUT PLS WHO IS WITHOUT GUILT AMONG THOSE ACCUSERS.?

Nerdg:
She told me of being pregnant and later had a stillbirth at the 7months.

The background.
I met her when we were teens and have always loved her. She refused me sex and along the line, her neighbor gave me (who is her relation). She learnt about this and we had our first break up.
We both got admission into different universities and couldn't see again.
We later met again and settled with a condition that there would be no sex. This didn't go down well with me and I called it off. This repeated and there was even a time I walked her out of my house because of this issue and didn't give her tfare. My house is like 1hr drive from where she lives.
The issue:
I love this girl to the extent that anytime I thought of getting married, she will come to mind.
Now I have a good job and she's done with school. I proposed to her and she accepted it.
Is about 3 months now, she came on my birthday 3 months ago. That was all. She doesn't come always because she stays with her elder brother and can't leave house just like that.

Note, we haven't had sex till now.

About 2 weeks ago, I told her about how I got a girl pregnant and we had to abort it and that since then I haven't been myself. That it pains me to this day. We talked about it and she was sorry over it.

Yesterday, we had a very deep discussion and she revealed to me that she had a relationship at school. They were together for 4yrs. I then asked her if she had ever missed her period. She said yes. But not to this school boyfriend but another man. She wanted to keep the pregnancy but her parents refused because the guy is not a good person. The guy wanted the pregnancy but her family didn't want the guy to marry her. She finally had a stillbirth at the 7th month.

I was stunned. I know she's not a virgin, she told me but I was confused. Sex had always been our problem and I never expected that she had experienced something like this. Now she asked me that she hope she won't regret telling me this. I told her no that she won't regret but I'm stunned.

Please should I still go on with this marriage?

PLS MY FRIEND GO AHEAD & MARRY THIS LADY. IF WHAT SHE TOLD U WAS AN ABSOLUTE,THEN STILL SAY YES TO HER AND MARRY HER. SHE WILL BE VERY GOOD FOR TOMORROW.