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jude2011:
I spoke with an atheist last month. I thought this guy was a demon but after my discussion with him, I was forced to have a rethink. He was brilliant,confident and argued with reasons. I have asked many christian brothers and even my pastor about the questions he raised. All they could say is that the ways of God is not the ways of man. One even said that asking such questions will amount to questioning God and that I will go to hell if I keep asking such questions. I did a lot of research on the questions on the internet and using my bible. There are many contradictions in the bible. Noah's ark, Jonah surviving three days in the belly of a big fish, without food,water and the digestive system of the fish went dead. Haba!!!! I also followed the post of many atheist on nairaland and I found there arguements logical and valid. I think I am gradually doubting religion. I don't go to church anymore and also, I am beginning to doubt the bible. My family is a highly religious one. My motherr is a deaconess in my church. I am confused, I don't want to be an atheist but I am gradually becoming one. Religion does not appeal to me anymore. I NEED HELP, I DON'T WANT TO BE AN ATHEIST.

Noting new with your case bro. Many of us got to this stage. We had our doubts, confusion set in, then we became discouraged about God and the bible but God helped us to pass thru it. Today we are back and strong in our believe in God and the bible. May God help you to win. Amen.

The old testament and new teatament were inspired by God. Jesus quoted the old testamemt in his teachings. The apostles quoted the old testament too. The prophecy of the birth pf Jesus was given in the old tesstament. Many other examples abound. The two books are related pls. What i can say is that i dont know why they didnt add the book of Enoch. Its also related to what is written in the bible books.

^^^^ dont satisfy your pastor's greed in the name of supporting church work. A good christian should be able to discern when a pastor is preaching out of greed and out of the spirit concerning giving.

First lady, first to move in.

k

He may still float a similar organisation so as to fix his thugs.

Much as i am not against our liberation from Nigeria, i am against this particular one against Kumuyi by my people. My hand .no dey o.

MizJanet:

' the soul that sinneth, it itself shall DIE' Ezekiel 18:4

'soul can be destroyed ' matt 10:28 Your own holybook render your vision AS NONSENSE

Your response here shows you dont understand the scripture you quoted.

If you think the death the scripture was talking about here is the usual physical death we experience on earth, how come the righteous ones are also dying? Or is Abraham and the prophets not dead? Are the born again christians not dying?

k

Today, Prof Lale is now the new V.C of UNIPORT. He came tops among other contenders. Recall that sometime last year or so, this same Prof Lale came tops among other contenders in the race for the V.C. post of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology but Amechi refused to grant approval to his candidacy for whatever reason. This caused a serious problem between Amechi's government and ASUU, leading to the sack of some lecturers in the university. The man whom Amechi denied vice chancellorship in a state university is now a vice chancellor in a federal university. Wont this be a shame for Amaechi to hear? Thankfully too, the lecturers Amechi sacked in RUST have been recalled by Wike. I am not a fan of Wike but i commend him on this. I also commend the uniport governing council for placing merit above mdiocrity in the selection of the V.C. Thanks to ASUU uniport too who supported Prof Lale in their referendum. And our dear president Buhari who approved his appointment irrespective of the fact that he (Prof Lale) wasnt in the good books of Amaechi.

Na wa o

starlingslimnet:
Am resigning bro...but do you have any idea on how to make the rest understand this Truth?

Put your points in print (in form of a tract) and share to people to read. Tell them the biblical standard of givung in the early church and how the one u people are doing runs contrary to it. This is information age, SAY NO TO WRONG PRACTICES IN CHRISTIANITY.

deb:
Well we were not told that Apostle Paul coerced anybody to give. Rather he thanked them for giving him gift

He never coerced anybody as we see some of our pastors do today.

BLOTRS:
Giving in Church has never been compulsory...or has a pastor ever forced you to give before? it's a personal choice...so i think this thread is unnecessary.

Its either you are deceiving yourself with what you wrote or that you are ignorant of what is going on in churches today.

jadajada:
Just give according to the dictate of your heart.

Yes its biblical. Here is it-

2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Emmasonic4me:
...and the overseer of one church like that will give his sheep aprons to wear claiming its bullet proof but he will wear his own and enter bulletproof car...

Pastors deceiving the gullible...smh

Tinubu's paper. I cant belorve o.

No

God loves a cheerful giver, not one who was pressurized by pastor to give.

k

by SaharaReporters, New York Jun 10, 2015

Facing a huge cash crisis, President Muhammadu Buhari has resorted to unusual strategies for recovering some of the funds stolen from Nigeria’s treasury through a series of shady deals between former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and a group of indigenous oil companies and oil marketers she and former President Goodluck Jonathan favored. Muhammadu Buhari during the inauguration today

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, brought the part of the illicit deals to public attention when he alerted Nigerians that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had failed to deposit $20 billion of oil revenues with the CBN. In addition, Mrs. Alison-Madueke had inked some deals, with the blessing of former President Jonathan, involving oil swaps and the transfer of certain oil wells reclaimed from multinational oil companies to shady Nigerian operators, including Jide Omokore and Kola Aluko.

An investigation by SaharaReporters discovered that President Buhari’s administration has begun the difficult and complex process of retrieving some of the missing petro-billions. One approach so far adopted by the new president is aimed at addressing the fuel scarcity that has harmed the Nigerian economy and threatens to paralyze the country’s economic activities, according to highly placed officials in the government.

But one exception involves Mr. Omokore whose Atlantic Atlantic Energy Oil Company was involved in the controversial concession of oil wells. A source at the Presidency told SaharaReporters that Mr. Omokore had volunteered to return $500 million to the Federal Government. However, the source added that President Buhari nixed the deal based on information that Mr. Omokore, believed to be a front for Mr. Jonathan and Mrs. Alison-Madueke, is in possession of $4.5 billion of funds that should have been deposited in the federation account.

The sources told SaharaReporters that the government’s immediate strategy involved targeting oil marketers and companies “caught red-handed in stealing huge sums of oil subsidies and oil revenues.” The government has pressured these companies and their owners to agree to repay the stolen monies traced to them by immediately importing more fuel into Nigeria.

The sources said the Buhari government has recorded significant early success in getting some oil marketers and their companies to accept the fuel-for-funds deals. “A number of them have agreed to import massive levels of fuel in lieu of the funds they received in shady transactions during the Jonathan administration,” one Presidency source claimed.

Another source revealed that the administration had started out by putting pressure on former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke. She was reportedly quick to deny responsibility for the illicit deals with the oil marketers. Instead, she squealed on her subordinates in the NNPC, accusing them of structuring and doctoring the deals that robbed Nigeria of billions of dollars.

“The [Buhari] government got her to write a formal account of her allegations against some NNPC officials and oil companies. What she put down gave a picture of how some of the funds went missing. The document was then forwarded to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the form of a petition,” one source said.

Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s “petition” reportedly named all the persons involved in the massive fraud in the oil sector, including some past and serving officials of the NNPC. Our sources said those she implicated in the NNPC include the current General Managing Director (GMD), Haruna Momoh, a former GMD, Austen Oniwon, Reginald Stanley and Sam Okeke, a former Group General Manager, New Business Division of the NNPC.

An EFCC source told SaharaReporters that a crack team of investigators was currently working on the former minister’s petition. He said the document had revealed new facts previously unknown by EFCC agents and Nigeria’s intelligence officials at Department of State Services (DSS). Among the scams disclosed by the former minister is information that at least four companies involved in an oil swap deal had not accounted for huge sums that should have been remitted to the account of the Nigerian government.

Among the companies implicated in her “petition,” Transfigura was reportedly unable to account for $80 million, Televeras $111million, while Aiteo apparently gulped down $150 million. Other oil firms named in the defrauding of the Nigerian people are Ontario, which failed to account for $135 million, and Sahara Energy, accused of skipping the payment of $120 million to the government.

Our EFCC source revealed that two companies, Transfigura and Sahara Energy, had made some gesture towards paying back some missing funds. However, a source at the Presidency told our correspondent that “so far the reconciliation has involved just paperwork and has not scratched the heart of the scam.” Investigators described Aiteo and Ontario as particularly problematic because they have completely cooked their records. An investigator also disclosed that the two companies are most directly linked to Mrs. Alison-Madueke and former President Jonathan. Both Ms. Alison-Madueke and Mr. Jonathan are currently in the UK, with the former Petroleum Minister reportedly undergoing a weeklong cancer therapy.

Some of the companies have agreed in principle to return the funds by bartering imported fuel for the funds they acquired illegally.

Our sources disclosed that other downstream companies caught in the storm of missing and stolen funds include Forte Oil, owned by businessman Femi Otedola, Folawiyo Energy, and, Oando, owned by Wale Tinubu and Honeywell Oil Company owned by Oba Otudeko.

Officials of the Buhari administration declined to give official confirmation of the stolen assets recovery process relating to other officials of the Jonathan Presidency.

ok. No be only dumbfounded. how about deaffounded? He thinks Nigeria is a local yoruba land where he manipulates things anyhow. Now let him be hearfounded and even seefounded that Nigeria is not among his area of manipulations.

This same people. na wa o. Lets hope he does it well.

elantraceey:
You're right but who told you the apostles feed themselves?

In the early church, offerings were shared to every man according to their needs and no man lacked anything but in our time offerings are pastors personal property. Is that right?

Acts 4:34 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, 4:35 And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

Blizzyblinkzy:
Its irritating...
Well am not a village girl, So d question ain't 4 me

waitn 4 d village girls 2 comment..
I knw they would deny it

The people u call village girls are more valuable than u. You sound like a waste than an african woman.

Attention Mod. front page thread here pls

https://www.nairaland.com/2362769/dont-deceived-church-today-brethren

When pastor tells you to give a sacrificial offering to God today, a violent offering, a painful offering that will cost you much in order to prosper, pls give that offering to a brethren in need of it. Giving to God is not only when you give to pastor/church, dont be deceived. When you give to the least of the brethren you have giving to God. Again i say dont be deceived.


Matthew 25:37-40

37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.


Most of these pastors stress so much on giving to God because at the end of the day the offering you gave in the church is under their control. Dont fall for their greed and selfishness. Let God direct you today.

Idiotic and satanic. Thats not what guarantees good a marriage so am not tripped. NONSENSE..

CreekReporter:
Basically, I have no problem with the Biafra movement. if they want to secede, fine!. I have no problem with the igbos breaking out.

but what I have a problem with is, why they are including the south south to their Biafra dream, can't they just go ahead and form their country? must we be part of them? come on, why are they forcing their selves on us? why did they include the south south to the Biafran map?

Are they trying to dominate us already? are they the ones to decide for us?

they act like the care, they act like they love us, But the truth is the Igbos (biafrans) are after our 'oyel money'.

they don't care About us all they need is our oil and nothing more...

but we ain't letting that happen, we are the INDEPENDENT PEOPLE OF THE NIGER DELTA. and we answer to no one.

after the northerners have finished stealing our oil, now the igbos want to come and do theirs. NEVER!

I have said it and I will continue to say it, igbos and Yorubas are our problem in this country and if a new country is formed, I want it to be free from Yoruba and igbo.

I rest my case.

by the way,
regarding the map below,

Biafra is the part in red.
NIGER DELTA REPULBLIC is in sky blue.
oduduwa republic is in green.
and the rest is northern republic or whatsoever.

I still remain CreekReporter. reporting live from the creeks.

Who is forcing u? Is it not your south south brothers led by Asari Dokubo that chose to align with Biafra? Be reasonable.

bukatyne:
And I hope all the people justifying cheating are neither Christians nor Muslims

You people are playing hypocrisy.

TooNoisy:
What exactly is your point? So women should expect their husbands to cheat? What nonsense is this?

You ladies loves to live in self deceit. His post is very clear for u to understand the points he made. Trying to twist it tantamounts to living in deceit. Yet the reality remains that most men cheat. Nobody is saying that cheating is good rather he just stated the obvious.