₦airaland Forum

LaurelP:
Really

Yeah, really

jumbo44:
[/color][color=#006600]LORD MY GOD

That isn't even Jesus in the pic

tempem:
1. Garri,sugar & groundnut
2. Garri,sugar & kulikuli
3. Garri,sugar & robo elegusi or
alata
4. Garri,sugar & eja dindin
5. Garri,sugar & milk
6. Garri,salt & sugar
7. Garri,peanut & sugar
8. Garri,sugar & buscuit
9. Garri,salt & eja sawa
10. Garri & ponmo- alata
11. Garri & moinmoin or ewa
12. Garri & groundnut
13. Garri & eran dindin
14. Garri & ordinary water
15. Garri,coconut and milk
DON'T FORM !!!


Mine is, 8... Garri and biscuits.

So, you never hear of

16. Garri, milk and sardine with cold water. Soakis tins

Ubenedictus:
I believe he means that issues decided upon by d early church is usually done with right reasons and prudent judgement and many modern day christians are ignorant of this fact.

True. Many modern day christians are ignorant of a lot of things. However, christianity seems to have many loop holes in its doctrine and the presentation by many christians tends to fuel suspicion and discourage many people willing to seek the truth

Warning:Only for logical minds

We are all patiently waiting for the outcome of the 2015 elections and many are wondering who will win. In my opinion, Buhari will not win because of a very simple reason, 90% of Nigerians are corrupt.

Everyone keeps blaming the leaders for the corruption in the country but the truth is most Nigerians are corrupt. Corrupt citizens create corrupt officials.

The average Nigerian man isn't ready for change because this will signify a reverse of the status quo. Bus drivers and conductors won't be able to increase their transport fee for no reason. You won't be able to commit a traffic crime and bribe the official with N1000 to let you go. No one will be able to throw pure water sachets and litter the roads because then it will be a crime. Your sister's husband's father might be arrested and not be able to share his spoils in his current political post. Your father or someone else might be the one taking care of the family and everyone is happy with the fact that he has enough millions to spend and share around plus you can remain in your current high social class. No more "nigerian time". No more unaccountability and impunity.

Despite the fact that change is neccessary, it is always challenging and it skillfully avoided by the mediocre and confused . Majority of Nigerians are simply too comfortable with the way things are and will do anything they can(sometimes nothing) to ensure to remain the same.

I hope I'm wrong.

Obascoetubi:
how does they knows dat total number of ppl defected to pdp is 3000?

Really? "How does they knows?"

Dannylux:
As the year progresses in line with maturity and responsibility, its relevance drops consistently down the scale of priority.

The devaluation of the Naira shares similarities with the decline coupled by the fact that there's really nothing to be happy about as a Nigeria

Waiting for news of their traditional wedding. They have to come down to Nigeria for the trad and then spend the honeymoon at the luxurious 5-star kirikiri hotel

basisop:
The contemporary church wants to destroy history. The early church had preserved this historical facts for us. They even gave us the calendar.

Care to elaborate?

benkings:
don't mind him ....dats how all dis pastor deceive dem too in d name of prophecy n dey submit their hard earned money as tithe to dem.

Touche

simpleseyi:
Easter is around the corner. The ex too will call her for Easter sexx. EEEDIOTS. Her husband probably thinks that he is the father of the kids he has been raising.

Do you think he will wait that long? New year sexx is closer

Seems GEJ is going to have more company during his exit.

Btw, Taiye Taiwo's club should sack him for declaring a false age

Very interesting

ojayfrancis:
Merry xmas

Same to you

amenke:
Enjoy yourself my able president, you have worked for it, all work n no play makes jark a dull boy

Its "jack" not "jark"

Well, what else do you expect from a clueless one of the clueless one

The True Origin of Christmas
BY DAVID C. PACK

Where did Christmas originate? From the Bible or paganism? What is the real origin of Santa Claus—mistletoe—Christmas trees—holly wreaths—and the custom of exchanging gifts? Many are concerned about putting “Christ back into Christmas.” Was He ever there? Here are the stunning answers!

Every year after Thanksgiving, most people's thoughts turn to Christmas. It is the time when professing Christians are supposed to focus on Jesus Christ. After all, it is the “Christ-mass” season!

Christmas is thought by most to be a wonderful time, focusing the participants on giving, family togetherness, beautiful music and decorations, feasting on special foods and singing Christmas carols throughout the neighborhood (as my family did every year). All of this is supposedly centered around the worship of Christ. Surely the Bible instructs us to do all this—right?

The answers will shock you!

Why do people think that Christmas is wonderful? Most never reflect on why they believe what they believe or do what they do. We live in a world filled with customs, but few ever seek to understand their origin. We generally accept them without question. Most people basically do what everyone else does—because it is easy and natural!

Let's carefully examine the roots of Christmas. Let's look at why people follow the customs associated with it. Why is it kept on December 25th? Did the early New Testament Church keep it? This article is filled with facts from history that, when placed together, paint a complete picture. Let's avoid all assumptions and only accept what can be PROVEN!

Pagan Origin

In 1990, the Solon, Ohio (a Cleveland suburb) school board banned all nativity and other Christmas scenes on any school property because they felt it violated the separation of church and state. They were challenged in court when outraged parents opposed them, feeling that Christmas was being stolen from their children and the community. The board lost the case! The citizenry had contended that Christmas was a worldwide tradition that was not part of, and transcended, religion. It was deemed to be secular—a part of virtually all cultures worldwide.

The court decision affirmed that Christmas has no Christian roots! However, the court's opinion also noted that Bible reading and prayer obviously are associated with Christ-ianity—a remarkable admission! The court concluded that Christmas-keeping and manger scenes could remain because they are not really part of either Christianity or religion—but prayer and Bible reading, which are, must remain excluded from schools!

Nearly all aspects of Christmas observance have their roots in Roman custom and religion. Consider the following admission from a large American newspaper (The Buffalo News, Nov. 22, 1984): “The earliest reference to Christmas being marked on Dec. 25 comes from the second century after Jesus' birth. It is considered likely the first Christmas celebrations were in reaction to the Roman Saturnalia, a harvest festival that marked the winter solstice—the return of the sun—and honored Saturn, the god of sowing. Saturnalia was a rowdy time, much opposed by the more austere leaders among the still-minority Christian sect. Christmas developed, one scholar says, as a means of replacing worship of the sun with worship of the Son. By 529 A.D., after Christianity had become the official state religion of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian made Christmas a civic holiday. The celebration of Christmas reached its peak—some would say its worst moments—in the medieval period when it became a time for conspicuous consumption and unequaled revelry.”

Consider these quotes from the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911 edition, under “Christmas”: “Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church…the first evidence of the feast is from Egypt.” Further, “Pagan customs centering around the January calends gravitated to Christmas.” Under “Natal Day,” Origen, an early Catholic writer, admitted, “…In the Scriptures, no one is recorded to have kept a feast or held a great banquet on his birthday. It is only sinners (like Pharaoh and Herod) who make great rejoicings over the day in which they were born into this world” (emphasis mine).

The Encyclopedia Americana, 1956 edition, adds, “Christmas…was not observed in the first centuries of the Christian church, since the Christian usage in general was to celebrate the death of remarkable persons rather than their birth…a feast was established in memory of this event [Christ's birth] in the fourth century. In the fifth century the Western Church ordered the feast to be celebrated forever on the day of the Mithraic rites of the birth of the sun and at the close of the Saturnalia, as no certain knowledge of the day of Christ's birth existed.”

There is no mistaking the origin of the modern Christmas celebration. Many additional sources could be cited and we will return to this later. Let's begin to tie some other facts together.

It was 300 years after Christ before the Roman church kept Christmas, and not until the fifth century that it was mandated to be kept throughout the empire as an official festival honoring “Christ.”

Can Christ Be Honored by Christmas?

The most common justification that one will hear regarding Christmas is that people have replaced old pagan customs and intents by asserting that they are now “focusing on Christ.” I have heard many say that they are “honoring Christ” in their Christmas-keeping. The problem is that God does not say this is acceptable to Him! Actually, He plainly commands against it! Keeping Christmas dishonors Christ! He considers everything about it to be an abomination! We will soon see why.

Christ said, “But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” (Matt. 15:9). Christmas is not a command of God—it is a tradition of men. Christ continued, “Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition” (Mark 7:9). Every year, throughout the world, on December 25th, hundreds of millions do just that!

We will see that God plainly commands, “Follow not the way of the heathen.” But most people do not fear God, and He allows them to make their own decisions. Human beings are free moral agents—free to obey or disobey God! But woe to those who ignore the plain Word of God!

Was Christ Born on December 25th?

Christ was born in the fall of the year. Many have mistakenly believed He was born around the beginning of winter—December 25th! They are wrong! Notice the Adam Clarke Commentary, volume 5, page 370, New York edition: “It was custom among Jews to send out their sheep to the deserts about the Passover [early spring], and bring them home at the commencement of the first rain.” The first rains began in early-to-mid fall. Continuing with this same quote: “During the time they were out, the shepherds watched them night and day. As…the first rain began early in the month of March-esvan, which answers to part of our October and November [begins sometime in October], we find that the sheep were kept out in the open country during the whole summer. And as these shepherds had not yet brought home their flocks, it is a presumptive argument that October had not yet commenced, and that, consequently, our Lord was not born on the 25th of December, when no flocks were out in the fields; nor could He have been born later than September, as the flocks were still in the fields by night. On this very ground, the nativity in December should be given up. The feeding of the flocks by night in the fields is a chronological fact…See the quotations from the Talmudists in Lightfoot.”

Luke 2:8 explains that when Christ was born, “there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.” Note that they were “abiding” in the field. This never happened in December. Both Ezra 10:9-13 and the Song of Solomon 2:11 show that winter was the rainy season and shepherds could not stay on cold, open fields at night.

Numerous encyclopedias plainly state that Christ was not born on December 25th! The Catholic Encyclopedia directly confirms this. In all likelihood, Christ was born in the fall! A lengthy technical explanation would prove this point.

Since we now know that December 25th was nowhere near Christ's actual birthdate, where did the festival associated with this date come from?

Now read this quote under “Christmas”: “In the Roman world, the Saturnalia (December 17) was a time of merrymaking and exchanging of gifts. December 25 was also regarded as the birthdate of the Iranian mystery god Mithra, the Sun of Righteousness. On the Roman New Year (January 1), houses were decorated with greenery and lights, and gifts were given to children and the poor. To these observances were added the German and Celtic Yule rites when the Teutonic tribes penetrated into Gaul, Britain and central Europe. Food and good fellowship, the Yule log and Yule cakes, greenery and fir trees, gifts and greetings all commemorated different aspects of this festive season. Fires and lights, symbols of warmth and lasting life, have always been associated with the winter festival, both pagan and Christian” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed., vol. II, p. 903).

A final quote about the selection of December 25th as the birthdate of Christ is necessary. Note an article in The Toronto Star, December 1984, by Alan Edmonds, entitled, “We owe a lot to Druids, Dutch”: “The Reformation cast a blight on Christmas. By then, of course, clever ecclesiastical politicians had adopted the Pagan mid-winter festival as the alleged birthdate of Jesus, of Nazareth, and thrown in a few other Pagan goodies to make their takeover more palatable.”

December 25th was not selected because it was the birth of Christ or because it was even near it. It was selected because it coincided with the idolatrous pagan festival Saturnalia—and this celebration must be carefully examined. In any event, we do not know the exact date of Christ's birth. While God certainly could have made it known, He chose to hide it from the world's eyes!


Source: http://realtruth.org/articles/169-ttooc.html

Also check out www.theniministore.com/blog

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Merry Christmas!

LMAyedun:
I will still vote for the clueless One come 2015. I still prefer the clueless One.

Birds of a feather flock together

icelord:
Hit like if u think gej is clueless

I don't THINK he's clueless, I KNOW he's clueless

Below is what happened to this pastor who disguised as a destitute to his church:

Pastor Jeremiah Steepek transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the 10,000 member church that he was to be introduced as the head pastor at that morning.

He walked around his soon to be church for 30 minutes while it was filling with people for service, only 3 people out of the about 10,000 people said hello to him.

He asked people for change to buy food – no one in the church gave him change.

He went into the sanctuary to sit down in the front of the church and was asked by the ushers if he would please sit in the back.
He greeted people only to be greeted back with stares and dirty looks, with people looking down on him and judging him.
As he sat in the back of the church, he listened to the church announcements and such.

When all that was done, the elders went up and were excited to introduce the new pastor of the church to the congregation.
“We would like to introduce to you Pastor Jeremiah Steepek.” The congregation looked around clapping with joy and anticipation.
The homeless man sitting in the back stood up and started walking down the aisle. The clapping stopped with all eyes on him.

He walked up the altar and took the microphone from the elders (who were in on this) and paused for a moment then he recited: “Then the King will say to those on his right,

‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him: ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

‘The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
After he recited this, he looked towards the congregation and told them all what he had experienced that morning. Many began to cry and many heads were bowed in shame.

He then said, “Today I see a gathering of people, not a church of Jesus Christ. The world has enough people, but not enough disciples. When will YOU decide to become disciples?”

Pastor Jeremiah Steepek then dismissed service until next week.







http://www.theniministore.com/blog

Some people's fame was earned before they were even born. Op, hustle and become rich and your own kids will be come instantly famous because of your accomplishments. Unless, of course, you intend to subject your kids to poverty and mediocrity.

kristen12:
I'll take it as Ɣ☺ΰ don't understand what you're saying.
People get sick through different means like being careless or sometimes hereditary, but its different in this case.
Its not like they prayed to contact the virus or something. I'm sure some contacted it unknowingly

Let him go there first and he can figure out if they don't have faith when he gets there. There MUST be one other person among the thousands there that are infected that has enough faith to be healed miracoulously.

You can even help by travelling there and giving them the opportunity to test their faith by calling the "pastor" with your own funds that is if he's too bus himself

And don't forget to open a thread about it

cococandy:
shes beautiful that's all U know. Yes I look like her . kilo kan?

Good luck with that

Its obvious that we are being exploited. As usual

voksils:
At the current $78 average world market price for crude Nigerians will have to pay only N109.43k per litre were the highly abused subsidy on petroleum product to be removed immediately today. This price, analysts say, completely debunks the fear widely expressed that the removal of the subsidy will result in a substantial jump in the pump price of petrol.

The country’s controversial subsidy on the pump price of petrol is now about N12.43 per litre on the back of falling oil prices, BusinessDay can authoritatively report.

Industry sources confirmed to BusinessDay that the product’s pricing template authorised by the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), recognises four main headings.

First is the product cost defined as the monthly moving average cost of products, as quoted on Platts Oil gram. The reference spot market is North West Europe (NWE). Next is freight cost which is the average clean tanker freight rate (World Scale (WS) 100) as quoted on Platts.

It is the cost of transporting 30, 000mt (30kt) of product from NWE to West Africa (WAF). Then there are margins for marketers, dealers and transporters.

Other cost items on the template are jetty-depot through-put, as well as other charges and taxes.

As at yesterday, landing cost of petrol was estimated at N100.98 per litre, consisting of product cost (N86.02), freight (N5.34) and other delivery costs, excluding local distribution, marketing/dealers margins but including port and financing costs at N9.62. Local distribution cost to Lagos attracts N2.05 per litre, marketers’s margin of N4.70 and dealers’ margin of N1.70 giving a sub-total of N8.45 per litre.

Thus, the total cost of petrol at the pump is N109.43 per litre.

However, given the regulated pump price of N97 per litre, the subsidy element works out at N12.43 per litre.

Nigeria’s daily consumption of petrol is estimated at 35million litres today. This means that the daily subsidy comes to N435.05million, or N13.051 billion per month.

Analysts observe that with the falling price of oil, dropping the subsidy entirely may not hurt the economy too much. It is also estimated that at the peak of oil prices, the subsidy was about N44.00 per litre.

Weneso Orogun is the Chairman of the Editorial Board of BusinessDay newpaper
First published in BusinessDay Newspaper November 25, 2014


Comments are welcome

She also learnt how to dress like a LovePeddler.

If I click on that link, GEJ will quit ogogoro

cococandy:
huh? That's a pretty girl . Is it because she's not wearing fake hair and plenty make up?

Fake hair and make up have nothing to do with a pretty/ugly face. Unless of course, you feel you look like her whenever you don't apply make up or fix your hair then I understand where you are coming from

Op, I haven't seen it yet. That's my op"e"nion