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Politics › Re: Achievements Of The Jonathan/Sambo Administration In Pictures by Image123(m): 10:01pm On Feb 03, 2015
anonimi:
Na true you talk, my bro.

We can do better for sure and the Jonathan/Sambo team is doing better progressively already.

What is sure & certain is that we CANNOT do better with the daft & dumb old pensioner who allowed weeds to overtake our railways.



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We also cannot be better with the APCheat party, if their so called best governor is unable to deliver train services 19 months after he said they will commence, abi huh





Do you know any reason why someone not afflicted with CCBS should vote for such a fraudulent and deceitful party huh


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i actually meant to say that we can do better than what the current administration is doing. No need for insults. i thought the complaints were that there was no press freedom, yet we have a newspaper picture indicating or informing WAI to act. Today, not only rail coaches are abandoned, peoples and entire local governments are being abandoned. ASUU was abandoned for about 7 months in 2013. Patients were abandoned in hospital till recently. Same thing courts. Ribadu report and many other committee report have been abandoned. Waste dump areas are largely abandoned. Opposition states are strangely abandoned by the FG. i don't think we should be discussing abandonment to favour the current administration.
GEJ has made a lot of promise he doesn't intend to keep so perhaps we should not even go there.
GMB stands like "daddy" in the usual Nigeria cultural setting. The children misbehave and shout and don't cooperate until they hear daddy's car parking. Baba Oyoyo is here.
Politics › Re: Achievements Of The Jonathan/Sambo Administration In Pictures by Image123(m): 9:18pm On Feb 03, 2015
titi50:
Honestly, my marvelled by this. This is what we call change that Nigerians need. GEJ has to continue to finish what he has started. I, must personally comment on a point not mentioned here. During GEJ/SAMBO, Nigeria won the prestigious nations cup which Nigeria has never won in the past 19yrs of history. God bless GEJ/SAMBO. #GEJ4NAIJA
Jesus is Lord, you would even credit this administration for successful marriages and childbirths. Rubbish. The nation's cup is ongoing and Nigeria is not there. Nigeria won soccer tournaments under Babangida and Abacha too. Are you aware? You don't need Jonathan to win nation's cup. The
Politics › Re: Buhari Not Attending ChannelsTV Debate by Image123(m): 4:41pm On Feb 03, 2015
bakila:
Hmm, Ok answer me did Goodluck said stealing is not corruption? Did he refer the the gargantuan theft by our public officers as mere stealing? When he was shoeeless will he not faint at the mention of some of the sum alleged?

Politics › Re: Achievements Of The Jonathan/Sambo Administration In Pictures by Image123(m): 4:34pm On Feb 03, 2015
Swiftboy:
And councel these projects because they're too expensive? You're as ignorant as your presidential candidate. I cant believe this. Mediocrity and we're just coming up. Niger get real.
Get real with what? Get real with the facts of the current administration's mediocrity and corruption. We can do better than the current pseudo transformation abeg.
Politics › Re: Achievements Of The Jonathan/Sambo Administration In Pictures by Image123(m): 4:30pm On Feb 03, 2015
Swiftboy:
And your APC did not spend on all these propaganda that GEJ has done nothing weldone.
the FG spends more money on PR than any state government. That is a fact, please focus instead of being divisive and partisan at every opportunity.
Politics › Re: Buhari Not Attending ChannelsTV Debate by Image123(m): 4:08pm On Feb 03, 2015
agabaI23:
Good luck said that. Abacha is not corrupt, I will stabilize global oil price. Who said that?

LRNZH did not ignore me. He ran away. He has been viewing this thread if you don't know. You are arguing without point
Nobody said that he will stabilize global oil price, that's the shabby work of propaganda.
Politics › Re: Achievements Of The Jonathan/Sambo Administration In Pictures by Image123(m): 4:04pm On Feb 03, 2015
Rexyl:
trying to compare Jonathan performance in office with performances of those State Governors. Unlike the State governments, the Federal Government under President Jonathan doesn't give much publicity to it's achievements. If the Federal Government were to package all its program/projects and publicise them as the States do, probably many would have been convinced that FG under Jonathan has performed.
That's laughable, the FG spends more money on PR than any state government.
Politics › Re: Achievements Of The Jonathan/Sambo Administration In Pictures by Image123(m): 3:57pm On Feb 03, 2015
Swiftboy:
You are a damn pessimist! Oliver twist. These are not mediocre projects...its been a while any government has done things for us. Wake up from propaganda. I believe this is the begining! Lets ask him to do better with our votes...we cant trust the new guys simply the tell us to. If we're crying we should see.
i'm not being pessimistic but being realistic. Input and investment have to correlate with output and gains. If i'm getting 1000 from a billion naira investment, it is simply not good enough. That is not pessimism. Six years is not the BEGINNING, GEJ himself said it. He told us that he cannot do anything after four years, he was not under duress when he said that. He was humbly saying the truth. And we need to be straight here, who are the new guys again? APC? New guys? It's convenient for people to refer to them as the same as PDP when they feel like it, now they are the NEW GUYS. Buhari is not a new guy, i know him very well. In the options available, i think he has my vote.
Politics › Re: Achievements Of The Jonathan/Sambo Administration In Pictures by Image123(m): 3:27pm On Feb 03, 2015
Rexyl:
Hahaha na so you you jealous uncle jona achievements ni... If your Ogun State were to build 12 Universities, 7 Polytechnics, railways across Nigeria, reimburse millions if farmers across Nigeria to improve on farm production, construct 10 lanes of express way from Lagos-Ogun-Ibadan, not to talk of other places, your State Government were to pay the minimum salaries in it's full amounts, and many more I can't be mentioning, probably your State could have been a far better place for all Nigerians to live.
God forbid that i should be jealous of at best a mediocre performance. It's not about My Ogun State, it is about my Nigeria. i have a Nigerian passport, Nigeria is not the exclusive property of PDP association. i mentioned Governors Akpabio and Ameachi as well, you didn't see that i guess. With all the might and money of the FG, if all they can show us are roads, GEJ inside car and promises on newspaper and CNN which are more a estimate due to our population than our policies, then that is a failure. Again, Amosun has better pictures than that despite not producing oil, not to mention Akpabio and Ameachi.
Politics › Re: APC Campaign In Gombe- Live Updates by Image123(m): 3:07pm On Feb 03, 2015
donphilopus:
Nice one. This would be heartbreaking to the PDPians.

Meanwhile, Jonathan be like "Pls paint my face, I don't want Nigerians to recognise me after May 29th (when Buhari would have been sworn in)" cheesy grin
Oga Alamesia (sorry about the spelling) specializes in this type of thing. President Jonathan was a close deputy to him.
Politics › Re: Achievements Of The Jonathan/Sambo Administration In Pictures by Image123(m): 1:52pm On Feb 03, 2015
Ordinary Governor Amosun of Ogun State will flog those pictures i saw on the first page hands down. Not to now talk of Governor Akpabio or Governor Ameachi, and others. If that is what the big FG has achieved, that is well below average. Let someone else try.
Politics › Re: Buhari Not Attending ChannelsTV Debate by Image123(m): 9:08pm On Feb 02, 2015
shadowgwalker:
shatap kid!
You that you're old should show some maturity and behave your age on a public forum. Why do you talk like one that suffers from intellectual laziness?
Politics › Re: Buhari Not Attending ChannelsTV Debate by Image123(m): 9:01pm On Feb 02, 2015
brownlord:
Ask tinubu's company "Lagos state" and Tinubu's manager "Fash-ole" how much they owe before you come here to spew trash
So they are GEJ's role models or what? Deal with the facts and focus of the thread. The FG has plunged the whole nation into reckless and needless debt.
Politics › Re: Buhari Not Attending ChannelsTV Debate by Image123(m): 5:00pm On Feb 02, 2015
brownlord:
Buhari you see your life?

Because of your borrowing attitude, people don they mistake debt for debate.

Smh
GEJ is the one who has put the whole country in huge debts for generations unborn. His below average trains and railway are borrow borrow money from China. All his achievement if any are all borrowed money that a future government will face the hard reality.
Politics › Re: Why Are General Buhari's Campaign Speeches So Short? (Picture) by Image123(m): 4:52pm On Jan 30, 2015
100Cents:
I am ashamed of all the Nigerian youth campaigning for Buhari..

These are people who don't know what Buhari's former regime was all about or care to consult history to know who he really is.

If they think buhari is credible to lead 160m people, let them allow him to talk from his brain unaided for just 30 minutes. He will spit shiiit.

Bunch of mediocre elements..
The only shame i see Nigerian youths exhibit is a nauseating ignorance that says or thinks Buhari is unintelligent or an illiterate. Only ignorant people without exposure or callous people will say so.
Politics › Re: Why Are General Buhari's Campaign Speeches So Short? (Picture) by Image123(m): 1:50pm On Jan 30, 2015
What's the meaning of 1.8mins? Do 60secs not make a minute? Anyway, it's pointless. GEJ barely talks except through Abati and co, except for reading prepared speeches or using teleprompter. It's now that he's afraid to lose his job that he started speaking aggressively, and with much blunder. Buhari was interviewed recently on Channelstv Politics Today and spoke for about one hour. We should stop all this non issues.
Politics › Re: Doyin Okupe Offers N1million To Anyone That Can List 10 Achievements Of Buhari by Image123(m): 3:48pm On Jan 28, 2015
o42austino:
ur 1,3 and 10 re the same
Not the same. One can prosecute and hunt corrupt official like efcc under Obj and Ribadu without cleaning the nation of corruption. Also, number 10 was an attempt to go the extra mile and bring a popular but runaway corrupt official to face the music.
Politics › Re: Presidential Debate Timetable Confirmed, Debate Dates Are Feb 1 and Feb 8! by Image123(m): 2:42pm On Jan 28, 2015
Politics › Re: Presidential Debate Timetable Confirmed, Debate Dates Are Feb 1 and Feb 8! by Image123(m): 2:40pm On Jan 28, 2015
CFCfan:
Yes he did. Like Jonathan, he debated alone.
Jonathan didn't show up for the debate that the other aspirants came for. He preferred to hang out with a musician. It was after ridicule that he organised a rehearsed monologue for himself.
Politics › Re: Presidential Debate Timetable Confirmed, Debate Dates Are Feb 1 and Feb 8! by Image123(m): 2:37pm On Jan 28, 2015
nellyjohn:
Am sure APC won't show up. Dey wil still run just like dey did during the last debate set up for there spokesman. Besides, what does Buhari knws?
GEJ till 2019 jor
GEJ was the one who didn't show up the other time, do you remember? The US, UK and India report that Buhari is an intelligent man.
Politics › Re: Presidential Debate Timetable Confirmed, Debate Dates Are Feb 1 and Feb 8! by Image123(m): 10:45am On Jan 28, 2015
CFCfan:
For the record, Buhari did not show up for the debate with Obasanjo in 2003, while GEJ didn't show up for one debate in 2011 cool
Did Obasanjo show up?
Politics › Re: Presidential Debate Timetable Confirmed, Debate Dates Are Feb 1 and Feb 8! by Image123(m): 10:06pm On Jan 27, 2015
I hope PDP would not run away as usual, i really look forward to a debate between president Jonathan and General Buhari.
Christianity Etc › Re: Let's Talk About Love. by Image123(m): 12:32am On Jan 27, 2015
thehomer:
Again, your problem is with the English language or rather your poor attempts at self delusion. I have told you what your God did. I don't see what Paul has to do with you addressing your God's genocidal command. Or don't you think that genocide is a crime?
You don't seem to like Paul very much. Lemme remove him for you.
Dehumanization involves making and considering humans to be less than human, that is not what happened in Numbers that you allude to. Numbers 31 did not happen because of polarization or hate or extermination. Numbers 31 happened as judgement for events that took place in Numbers 25. Get your facts right please and be objective. Also, there is no denial or attempts to hide what happened. Those are common characteristics of genocides asides being a crime. i wonder what you mean or infer as God's "nefarious purposes". Can you be more plain?


Obviously I'm considering what he did. That is why I brought up the clear genocide he commanded but you just keep twisting and deluding yourself.
God created man, created the earth, divided the red sea, used His prophets to raise the dead and perform many miracles. Do you also see this things before your very eyes?



Yet he did.
No He did not.


Your God is a genocidal maniac. Get that into your brain. How can it be impossible when some people were presented with it? What does Jesus' non-sacrifice have to do with whether or not your God commanded a genocide? I see that whenever I ask you to carefully think about your loyalty to your God, you get very scared.
I'm not contending about the law, but about the command issued by your God.
Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.



Your God is genocidal according to your Bible. I'll give you two. Brahma and Ganesha
i don't even know them, except for Brahma who you made popular. i am sure not up to 1billion people know them, they have failed already.


I'll keep asking that question until you answer it. No you've not answered it. The question remains whether or not you would have done as your God commanded in Numbers 31.
The question remains foolish though multiplied.


No, the very idea of morality. And I asked you if the genocide was punishment, you said it wasn't. Then what on earth are you saying here about justice? How can it be just to command a genocide when you're all powerful and all knowing? Even we mere humans say that other humans who command genocide have done something wrong how much more a God who should have known better? It is a sham that the devil keeps you from getting it. I don't believe what you're saying here. You think that it is a good thing that God kept female children as sex slaves while killing all male children was a good thing? How about not killing any children and not taking any of them into slavery? How about not harming any innocent person? Didn't that occur to your God?
No idea can bind God, sorry. He is the Great God, the mighty God. Sorry, the Almighty. God kept female children as sex slaves? Now, i thought you were deluded and deceived but i now know that you are possessed. What gives you this ludicrous idea? You have no problem with the millions of abortion that you advocate for. How about God killing all the children and taking them all to Heaven, do you like that one? You would not, i'm sure. So, basically, God is not waiting to do what thehomer likes, because thehomer likes nothing that God does, hehehehehehe.
Psa 115:3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.



And here we have it. A crime is not a crime if it is commanded by God. This is why I say that with your God, all is permissible since according to you here, genocide is permissible when your God commands it.
Beat yourself, it is judgement.



Yet your God did all that when he commanded the genocide I showed you.

For some reason, you seem to think that those irrelevant questions somehow help your claims but I still find them ridiculously pointless. Assume I can't do any of those things, what follows from that?
Yes I'm better than your God because I am more moral than he is.
Liar liar, God did not do that. It is not an assumption thehomer. You cannot die for me, or heal me, or give me air to breathe. God does all these for me, you are not better than Him. You can only claim better in your pocket, just like i am a better tennis player than Nadal in my pocket.



Yet he has commanded genocides. That means he is unrighteous.
Vain repetition.


See my responses above.
See my responses above too.



I don't worship.
That is unfortunate.


Of course you won't see it. Given the fact that in your ignorance, you've had to defend your evil God and think that your God owns you.

And this is a clear demonstration of the depravity you share with your God. Anything would be right if commanded by God? There is nothing wrong in owning human beings? Wow. Thank you for confirming my words all along. I always suspected that you too would go ahead and kill those babies if given the command.
From your definition of slavery, i do not see how ignorance fits as a form, do you? i predict you will dodge the question, surprise yourself and myself. Wow, how do you know that God owns me? That must be your genius moment, wasn't it? BTW, do you have a wife, or siblings, or parents? The last i checked, to "have" is to "own", duh. Do you feel depraved for having/owning parents. i don't.



Thank you. I would rather fail using the standard of your God's word since your God is evil. As Ingersoll said:



I would rather not shock the heart of a hyena.
Oh, forget that irrelevant man before he fails you again. Is that not the fellow that said that the only form of slavery is ignorance, or something like that? "i refuse to follow a godless ideology like yours and your brothers- Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao Zedong. Their deeds due to inability to follow God and His ideology and morality not only shocked hyena hearts but killed hyenas at once. They made the poison of the cobra taste like milk, and made the dastardly acts of the religious crusades seem like a massage."
Christianity Etc › Re: Let's Talk About Love. by Image123(m): 12:32am On Jan 27, 2015
thehomer:
I didn't change the context, you were trying to create some sort of special status for yourself.
You changed the context, i was talking about christianity and study of God. You brought up other gods to kind of prove that theology is not the study of the God but of gods. It is not a special status for myself. You know that i am a christian and you know who a christian refers to when he says God.


I asked for the reason and you've given me a non-response. Why don't you simply tell me the reason? Or don't you know?
i told you already, i said to refine. God tests man to refine him. Sometimes, i kind of hope that you are pretending with this your low level of assimilation, though on the other hand pretence is a friend of dishonesty. i have being saying this as far back as December 22. The reference to REFINE and Refiner have being too consistent to miss since then in my posts.



You don't have to quote things either. You too can try to make your points in other ways. Ingersoll greatly helps my cause. Abraham wanted to kill his son because God told him to. Or have you forgotten?
I disagree with what you think makes a righteous life. I don't see how pleasing an evil God makes one's life righteous. Those people are not like me and as I've shown, pleasing your God sometimes means performing very evil acts. Also, you'll notice that for some reason, your God talked to those people directly but for some reason, he won't talk to me directly. You too can try to get him to talk to me.
i feel like quoting and the Bible is most appropriate as it is the text under probe as it were. i do not have any uneasiness with the accused given a chance to speak. My question was/is "Did anybody ever kill his/her child because God told him/her to do so? "
It is your cup of tea what you think righteousness is, i will tell you what i say and what the Bible says righteousness is. It was the context in which you were 'concerned' that God should not expect us(people) to live how He wants us to and avoid His punishment since we have the sin default. i say they are like you and i in the context of being equally human beings, supposedly born with a sin default. Of course, i know they are better than you in other context. Even your oga Ingersoll has been used to so show.
Heb 1:1 God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Heb 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
The Bible(the Word of God) is God speaking to you and all humanity. Read it cumulatively and with understanding. If God has anything extra to say to you, He will. He has already written 66 books for you.



What I had in mind was the fact that you think that sin should be transmissible and the fact that you think killing Jesus would somehow make things okay. Are you saying that if someone is related to a thief, they should get the same punishment as the thief? What I'm driving at is why you think that sin should be transmissible at all. You keep saying that it is a law. I'm sorry but who made this the law? I didn't skip anything because as you'll happily point out, humans aren't God.

Do you think that the wages of sin should be death?
It is not just what i think, it is what i know. Human beings are wicked and sinful creatures by nature and default. The heart of man is very deceptive and wicked. You don't even need to teach humans to be unforgiving, vengeful, liars, retaliating, fighting, scheming even as a little child. And just as one man Adam made all men sinners, even so one man Jesus was sent to make all men righteous.{Again, so we are clear, sin to a christian is basically displeasing God, while righteousness is basically pleasing God. Always keep that in mind when discussing with christians}. The wages/salary/result/punishment of sin(displeasing God) is death. Death broadly means separation from God. So, the wages/punishment of sin is separation from God. So, Jesus came to pay that price or suffer or bear that punishment for man/humanity If someone is related to a thief, it can affect that someone adversely. Your actions and inactions affect people/others. i knew of a careless man living in an apartment. A fire started in his room and burnt down the whole apartment, killing another person's child in the process. This is what i am saying, this is reality. Your being sentimental with SHOULD IT does not erase the reality of DOES IT. Do you advocate that we should simply forgive all sinners and defaulters? You skipped that.



That is if they commit a crime not just because they were born. Actually that argument has to be had because you keep on ignoring the fact that according to your beliefs, your God deliberately made sin magically transmissible from one person to another rather than in arising within each individual. Why should we all be guilty of what Adam did? That is the question you're not answering. Does the child being the child of a criminal mean the child should be sentenced to prison?
Of course IF, although study, experience and scriptures show that they will commit. i have answered your question many times already. We are offsprings/children of Adam. Adam was made to produce after his kind/type.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Adam was head, apex and most important. You are not going to hell because of Adam, you are going to hell mainly because of you. But you start off with a sinful nature as the child of a criminal starts off as the child of a criminal. Logically, one would rather start off as the child of Bill Gates or a respected man, than as the child of a poor and sickly family or community. However, it is just a start, not a guarantee either ways. That you are bill Gates himself doesn't mean you cannot become a criminal or end up in prison. This is my point all along, the start up is not the main thing but what you do with your life. Like they say, your background is not a reason for your back to be on the ground even as a child of Adam.




All this just to avoid my direct questions. Here they are again. Are you aware that according to your Bible, your God ordered Israelites to kill babies? Are you aware that your God ordered Abraham to kill his child?

I'm sure you can answer these questions starting with a yes or no. I still don't need your Bible to care about people and if you must know, there were civilizations before the Bible was written who also cared about people. Over the years, many laws found in the Bible have been rejected as being inhumane while others even predate the Bible. Rather than giving another long response, simply begin by answering the questions above.
i try as much as possible to explain things to the detail and with a lot of example for ease of comprehension. You despise that and ridicule that to your own disadvantage, not mine. A hypocrite like you has no locus standi to talk about others avoiding questions. You asked for what was wrong with your tense and your use of 'has'. God has not commanded the killing of babies, you are not and i am not commanded to kill any baby. You fail to see that and prefer to dwell on irrelevant details.



No that isn't murder or assault. Now will you answer my question? Here it is again. Is commanding the killing of old people, all males, babies and adults while keeping the young female babies and virgins to be used genocide? I'm sure you can start your answer with a yes or no.
Of course you know my answer already, only that you pretend not to. My answer is that IT DEPENDS ON WHO IS DOING IT. So, it is both. Just put God/Man after "Is" in your question, and you will get different answers, God is not man.



You have successfully said rubbish. It is amazing that you could say such rubbish when you have access to the Internet. What you've said says nothing about the theory of relativity. Comparative anatomy, comparative physiology, biochemistry, embryology, genetics, biogeography, paleontology and many other fields demonstrate the theory of evolution.
So, back to basics. How do they show that man evolve from apes or that the earth came about by chance?


They're not as relevant as Numbers because in Numbers, we have God himself being quoted while Matthew and Romans were written by people expressing their opinions. Secondly, I'm showing you how depraved your God is not how people who don't know him think he is good.
You're kidding right? Who is speaking in Matthew 5? Anyway, your understanding and perspective is not the truth. The truth is that the Bible is the Word of God, from Genesis to Revelation. No Christian will tell you that Numbers is more relevant than Matthew or Romans. Secondly, you failed to show how. i have shown you God's love and even asked you to give reasons why you will not obey God's command to love, you have not given.


Yet we have your God speaking as if one child can just be substituted for another. Not believing in somethign when there is no evidence for it is what reasonable people do. Gullible people believe things without evidence.
How was God speaking as if one child can just be substituted for another? Common sense is evidence of an afterlife. Purpose of life is evidence, God is evidence, the true christian life is evidence, justice is evidence. Evidence is relative, i believe my Father.



What you're calling treason and what not in order to justify killing people is what we consider to be making it a crime to think. After all, why do you think that today, such people won't be punished? Why is it that today, non-believers in that same God aren't being killed in civilized societies? This is why I asked you earlier if you would agree with evidence. Now, you have the evidence before you but you've decided to brand anyone who doesn't believe in your God as committing treason and what not. And that is the true evil in your religion. If you people had the power you used to, people like me would probably be getting killed just like people in that Bible passage.

I presented you with a passage where people were killed for not worshipping your God, you read it and just flat out denied what was before your very eyes. It is truly amazing how your religion can warp your mind so.
You said that God made it a crime to think. Did you or did you not? BTW, who are these "we" you are inculcating, i hope you are not there with legion dem? What you presented as thinking or idea was indeed treasonable and sedition against constituted authority among the Israelites. That is a fact, you can read your Bible instead of dreaming that it is about me. Israelites did not go about killing other nations for not following Israel's laws, you wrongly assume/imply that. It is not just a thing of 'today'. It was fellow Israelites that were so judged as according to your so called Evidence. Today, we are in the New testament days, and the same God tells us it is a new day. There is no jew or gentile, everyone is invited to the covenant as it were. While it is still wrong to commit idolatry or fight against God, the New Covenant brings GRACE. That grace delays judgement, so judgement is not immediate but left to God. The sinner can even repent on his dying bed. God Himself introduced that, yet you are complaining. i will give you scriptures that say what i am saying if you need them.



If I am a sinner by nature because God didn't want to stop the transmission of Adam's sin, then it is still your God's fault. Jesus Christ was not a solution. It was simply your God allegedly killing another person for fun. I have considered the theory of evolution and determined that it isn't fictional. If God wanted Adam to be "refined", why didn't he simply create a better Adam?
Keep on looking for fault then, i have found the solution and presented Him to you. i have studied evolution, and i know that man did not evolve from apes, neither was the earth formed by chance. God wants Adam refined because that is what He wants. Just like He wants living things to GROW instead of just being static. This is the reality before us, you can continue to muse on what could have been.



Is it your desire for eternal life that makes you chase after your metaphorical God?
Why do you care?



Of course you'll say I'm not being objective but then, I'm the one calling a genocidal maniac what it is. Who gave God that right? If we're just dashing out rights, then I deny your God that right. As I've said, your God is worse than both of them combined. As far as I can tell, your God is worse than Mao and Stalin combined so I wonder why you keep calling on them when you have your God to look at.
Who gave God right? Lol, He gave Himself duh. Remember, He is Creator of Heaven and Earth. As soon as He created right, He simply gave Himself. Your brothers Mao and Stalin do not own human life neither can they create human life or claim to. On the other hand, God is the Owner of Heaven and earth and the Judge of everyone. Muse on that until you comprehend.
Christianity Etc › Re: Let's Talk About Love. by Image123(m): 4:18pm On Jan 26, 2015
thehomer:
Then it looks like your problem is with the English language and definitions. Your God did all that when he commanded the killing of all males, old people while keeping young females for his nefarious purposes. You claim genocide is God's judgement. That is just how depraved you and your God are.
Dehumanization involves making and considering humans to be less than human, that is not what happened in Numbers that you allude to. Numbers 31 did not happen because of polarization or hate or extermination. Numbers 31 happened as judgement for events that took place in Numbers 25. Get your facts right please and be objective. Also, there is no denial or attempts to hide what happened. Those are common characteristics of genocides asides being a crime. i wonder what you mean or infer as God's "nefarious purposes". Can you be more plain? Again, i cannot make up for your lack of perspective. i can only attempt to help though you are bent on resisting help. For instance, see this passage from the Bible.
Act 25:24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
Act 25:25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
Act 25:26 Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and especially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
Act 25:27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.


Paul did somethings that the jewish multitude thought of as a crime(s) and worthy of death. However, there was a higher government, the Roman government. The Roman government of Festus did not see Paul's actions as a crime of any sort, or worthy of death. He had a different perspective and a higher power. So even though many jews were totally convinced that Paul's actions were criminal, and even avowed to kill him. The higher and different perspective and law saw no crime in the actions. It is a similar thing with you and the divine perspective. Come out of your kindergarten perspective and worship the Lord of Heaven and Earth.


So you're saying genocide was God's punishment?
No, i am saying God created man, created the earth, divided the red sea, used His prophets to raise the dead and perform many miracles. Do you also see this things before your very eyes? Are you afraid to consider all that God did in the Old Testament?


So when God commands genocide as punishment, it is not evil?
God cannot command genocide.



So because you cannot be in someone's shoes, you're unable to tell what you would do if you were presented with the options? Are you this foolishly ignorant about yourself or are just failing once again to be dishonest? Well, all this tells me is that you would actually kill people if your God told you to because a reasonable person would refuse to obey such a command and would be proud to say it.
It is not a matter of shoes or clothes. We are in the last days, get that into your brain.
Heb 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
1Jo 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

It is IMPOSSIBLE to be presented with the options of the Old Testament(Covenant) when Jesus Christ already died. He shed His blood for this New Testament. i am talking reality while you are busy with wild and foolish impossibilities. i would not entertain foolish impossible questions and scenarios.
Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.


One of them is morality. Your God is genocidal and that makes him inferior to a non-genocidal God.
God is not genocidal, who is the so called superior non-genocidal god BTW?
1Sa 2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
Isa 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
Isa 45:21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.

I already did that but you kept avoiding it. You're welcome to address it when you're feeling brave. Once again, read what your God commanded in Numbers 31 and tell me if you would have obeyed such a command.
You have not made your case in one quote in a post. You have instead multiplied and asked the same question and the same Numbers repeatedly as if you are programmed to do that. i have answered you on Numbers 31.



Your God is supposed to be a moral agent and thus is bound by that idea. You can explain things by telling me why you think genocide is sometimes okay because that is what you're doing when you say it is okay for God to command it as punishment. And this is when this God could easily have avoided killing non guilty parties like male babies. And you can also tell me why God felt keeping those young females would help him.
Who bound God, you? Again, Vengeance belongs to God. i have explained it to you already as justice. Fellow humans cannot carry out justice for a crime on each other at will. Their are procedures and protocols. Even school children get this, it is a shame the devil keeps you from getting it. If somebody assaults you or beats yours up, you go to report to the authorities or teacher or principal. It is the authorities that then take up the necessary actions or punishments. You taking the law into your hands is the crime.
You have a problem, God avoided killing female children and you have a problem with it. God killed male and you have a problem with it. But you have no problem with the millions of abortion that you advocate for. Would you rather that God killed the young females too?


Your confusion runs really deep. You're saying that God commanded genocide and didn't command genocide. Just go to bed because you're drunk and high.
Actually, i am saying that God commanded the killings(like the penalty kick analogy), but that it is not a crime like genocide is because it is God and not man(like the referee and player/audience blowing the penalty whistle). Meditate on this until it dawns.


You should have completed my statement. I said whether or not I support them is meaningless because your God supports them even more than any human ever could. Asking me pointless questions does nothing to exculpate your evil God.
You lied that God supports abortion, fornication, unforgiveness, indecency, hate more than you. What is worth completing in that? i stated for the records, " For the records, contrary to what you said, God does not support abortion, or fornication, or unforgiveness, or indecency, or hate." What more is left to complete?
Can you die for me? Can you heal me? Can you give me air to breathe in and out for free? Can you take me to heaven? Can you answer my prayers? Can you write a book? These were the questions i asked, you took to your heels yet again, reminiscent of satan the devil. These are not pointless questions when you state that you are better than God. These are some few things you need to surpass to be better than God. Answer the questions and tell us clearly that you do not support and practice abortion, fornication, unforgiveness, indecency, hate.



So bad things commanded by God in the Old Testament are good? So God has the right to command genocide? Then based on what you've said, with God, all is permitted. This means with God, even genocide is permitted.
God is righteous, He cannot and will not do anything unrighteous.



I've shown that I'm better than your God and that your God supports all the things you've listed as evil.
You are acting deluded now. You have yet to do any of these things.


grin This from someone who worships a genocidal maniac.
Who/what do you worship?



I think that ignorance is a form of slavery not necessarily the only form. Now answer my question.
Hmm. So you don't know what slavery is? Well here's a dictionary definition to help you.
At last, good of you and for you. You are being delivered from the shackles of photocopying Ingersoll's opinions as yours. From your definition of slavery as An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers. i do not see how ignorance fits as a form, do you? i predict you will dodge the question, surprise yourself and myself.
So, your question was if it would be right if commanded by God. That is, if it would be right to own human beings, THEN especially as forced laborers. Would ANYTHING be right IF commanded by God? ANYTHING will be right IF commanded by God. It is therefore necessary to know what God will command and in what context. There is nothing wrong in owning human beings, it is your behaviour to human beings that is right or wrong and important, whether you own them or not. i own my children and so does my wife, they are mine. Do you have a sibling? Do you own/possess a sibling? Some people do not own you but they do worse things than owning or disowning you. Some cheat you, hate you, disrespect you, insult you, assault you without owning you. Again, owning is not a big issue, it is our relationship and behaviour to fellow humans that is important. Abraham had/owned many servants. They fared better than many a 'free' man. Now, the other part of "especially for use as forced laborers." Again, it is a matter of perspective. Usually, employment has some binding on it. You do not disobey the contract and terms of agreement. You are legally bound and there are penalties for going against agreement. Whether you are a sportsman, a teacher, a health worker etc, as far as you are working for or under somebody, you cannot do anyhow. In the Old Testament time, nations warred and carried captives as their labour or workforce. It is a foregone conclusion, everyone had the understanding of what it means to be under tribute or captivity. You either die or you surrender as a captive. Nations don't conquer other nations to become business partners or neighbours. How you treat your worker or labourer is what is important. And by far, Israel had very good relationship with their captives compared to other nations and to what many of us call slavery. Today however, there is no such room or thing in scriptures. In summary, Slavery IS NOT commanded by God. And even when it was, it was a very cordial thing compared to what was prevalent.





And if we use the standard of the acts your God commanded and committed, your God is immoral and so are you. Read your Bible and ask yourself whether or not you would command or commit genocide, keep women for your "use", torture people for many years and other atrocious acts your God commanded.
If i can correctly predict you, you are moving us out of what we are talking about so far with this your slavery and torture talk. Anyway, i hope you are ready because i am always ready. You are not God, God is not a man. You have being shown that you fail woefully using the standard of God's Word. That is the standard that matters on your judgement day. We cannot use the standard of the acts of God and deny the person of God, God is not a man. God can do many things that man cannot. God can fly, God can create, God can divide the sea and raise the dead.
Christianity Etc › Re: Let's Talk About Love. by Image123(m): 4:18pm On Jan 26, 2015
thehomer:
Using words and ideas that other people share.
In proper context.


Why was man being tested? Was it because God didn't know something about them?
Tests are like refining processes. They are like growth stages. e.g
Pro 17:3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.



How on earth does saying "if we're going to be quoting things" imply being forced? Abraham was going to kill his son wasn't he? Or don't you know what your Bible contains?
If those ones lived righteous lives, then I'm living a righteous life and so did Ingersoll.If you're saying that one needs your God to be righteous, then you have no idea how evil your God is.
Again, you don't have to quote things, try to make your points otherwise maybe. Ingersoll is not helping your cause. Did anybody ever kill his/her child because God told him/her to do so?
Stay in context. A righteous life is basically a life that pleases God. The point you were driving at was that God would punish people who were "helplessly" born in sin or a sinful nature. You were trying to prove that God should not expect us to live how He wants us to and avoid His punishment since we have the sin default. i have simply showed you people like you and i, who have pleased God despite their sin default, and because they overcame God will not punish them. You too can overcome.


What you've rephrased as my question is not my question. My question again, is why should everyone deserve to be punished for Adam's sin. Now you claim not to have said what I've pointed out that you said. Let me quote you.
Here after my 4th quote, you said "Killing people when you can simply forgive them isn't a sign of love"
You have a sin default because you are RELATED to Adam. It is a law of sowing and reaping. If you are good, or rich or hardworking, your family and those around you or related to you benefit from it. Same thing if you are sick, or poor or in prison or unpopular, it affects those around you and related to you. We are all related to, and offsprings or descendants of Adam. We are of the same species, in fact, he is prime. However, that default does not hinder anybody from living a life that pleases God or repenting. Just like you do not have to stay in sickness or poverty just because your parents are poor or sick or irresponsible. There is a break away or get away clause which you have decided not to take but prefer to blame others except you. Do you advocate that we should simply forgive all sinners and defaulters? You skipped that. i do not recall saying that "everyone DESERVES to be punished because of what Adam did". You are trying to twist my words, nothing like this appear in what you quoted and i do not agree to that.


If according to you, people who sin deserve punishment and we're already in sin as default, then you're saying everyone deserves to be punished because of what Adam did.

Do you think it is right to jail a child because their father was a criminal? Because that is the implication of what you're saying here about relationships.
It is not just according to me, do you think that people who commit crime deserve to be punished? Are they to be simply forgiven? i am talking reality and truth, not what i consider someone to deserve or not. Ronaldo of Portugal is World Footballer of the year 2014, that is reality and truth no matter how one argues about deserving or not. What anyone can do is try to work for 2015 and other future years. The child of a poor widow or Sicklecelled lady is suffering. That is reality and truth, it is not a matter of deserving or not. Arguing about whether it is deserved or not will not solve anything. The way forward and the proactive thing to do will be to take steps to correct or alleviate the situation, to learn from others who have walked that road etc. It is a similar thing with the children of Adam. We are all born with a sin default because of what Adam did. We ALSO commit many sins and our works are sinful giving us double reasons to be punished. We look for the escape route. A child is not in jail because his father is in jail. But the child is a child of a criminal by default. And circumstances and influence, society and perspective may also push him to be a criminal. But he can fight those forces and re-write or make a name for himself as a success.



What exactly is wrong with my tenses? Are you aware that "has" can be used to refer to past events? Are you aware that according to your Bible, your God ordered Israelites to kill babies? Are you aware that your God ordered Abraham to kill his child?

You're quoting Peter while I'm quoting God himself. Who do you think has more relevance?

I see nothing interesting about that passage because I don't need the Bible to care about people. Do you? I already care about people without the Bible. You did not oblige me because you did not answer my question.
"has" is more a 3rd person singular of have. If you removed the word 'has' from your sentence, you would communicate better and more correctly. "He commanded" is past tense on the plain. "He has commanded" is present. Stay close to that BG book i recommended. Genesis to Revelation is all the Word of God. If there is any scale of relevance(and i am of the opinion that there is none), the New Testament books are of more relevance, because we are in the New Testament period. It is the last days, you cannot change that. So, you have no reason why you would want to disobey 1Peter3v8-11? You asked me for 3 reasons why i would want to obey God and i obliged you by saying His wisdom, His omniscience and His love. When you say you care for people without the Bible, you talk like a man who doesn't use a gadget manual to do some basic things on the gadget because of some level of experience. You need to know or be reminded that the Bible is written to the whole world, that cuts across different strata and ages of human beings. It is the human manual. You may not need to look at a manual to know how to lock and unlock your phone for some reason, but the manual shows plainly how best to operate the phone and keep it optimized. So also is the Word of God to everyone. It is the guide for humanity to function at its best, not just a guide to the ultimate Heaven or afterlife. Over time and generations of civilisation, Biblical principles have become assimilated and ingrained into many cultures, laws and policies so that some don't even need to open a Bible to know that hardwork, honesty, generosity, being courteous etc are best practices for mankind. Nobody can say the manual is useless or irrelevant no matter how good or conversant you have become with an equipment or gadget. Especially when you have not even responded to the most important thing, which concerns your eternity. Time is a minute fraction of life and the Bible deals with that, but of much importance also is eternity. How do you spend eternity, you need that Bible.





Is commanding the killing of old people, all males, babies and adults while keeping the young female babies and virgins to be used genocide?
Is a human being killing a chicken murder? Is a farmgirl milking a cow assault? i have explained in different ways and perspectives how an act can change with respect to the doer. It is left to you to process.


Then please demonstrate the theory of relativity and the theory of gravitation. Again, whining about the theory of evolution doesn't make it false.
Mercury is a heavy atom, with electrons held close to the nucleus because of their speed and consequent mass increase. With mercury, the bonds between its atoms are weak, so mercury melts at lower temperatures and is typically a liquid when we see it. This demonstrates the theory of relativity. Nothing demonstrates or shows that man evolved from apes or that the earth was formed by some bang.



I've not sidestepped anything. The things I brought up in Numbers is relevant that is why I brought them up. They demonstrate your God's evil nature. Ignoring it and typing addressed in capital letters doesn't help you. Please can you explain how the evil in Numbers is a red herring when considering whether or not your God is evil?
Are Matthew 5 and Romans 5 irrelevant? You have repeatedly avoided them and instead brought up Numbers which is already being discussed in other paragraphs and quotes. According to Matthew 5 and Romans 5, God is Love.


Hmm I see. Your problem is with the English language. A still can also to a distillery. That was why your earlier statement made no sense to me. I don't use marijuana. Apparently Job in his smartness thought that one child can be replaced by another. Talk about an ignorant heartless person. Well, Job is in currently being tormented in the lake of fire.
You argue needlessly even when it is clear you made a mistake. The context and line of discussion was about you using marijuana, and i insisted that you should stop using even if it is not banned in your area. Anyway that is BTW though i trust you to aimlessly pursue it. If someone 'loses' a child/children, it doesn't deter the joy of a newborn. You are the ignorant one here in disbelieving the possibility of an afterlife.



More irrelevant issues. I said I had evidence of God killing people for having different ideas and I presented the evidence. Now why have you not changed your mind? Is it because you were lying? Note that what you're calling disobedience was people who had a different idea. Do you know why we no longer kill pepole for not worshipping your God? Well if you're saying that Pol Pot, Stalin and Mao also didn't believe in your God, I see no problem with that statement. After all, there are mass murderers who believed in your God so what is your point?
You said that God made it a crime to think. Did you or did you not? It was in your explanation/elaboration that you presented and by inference equated having different ideas as thinking. And what you refer to as different idea is called treason, sedition and disobedience to constituted authority. Freedom comes with a price. You are not free to take my property, no matter how free you think the world should be.
When you talk about WE no longer killing people for not worshipping God, WE never killed people for not worshipping God. Yet another unnecessary and unwarranted distraction and fallacy.




You want me to take responsibility when you say Adam caused everything? Well why doesn't God take some responsibility? Or are you too lazy to see that far? Have you considered that both God and Adam are fictional? My point is that you're being inconsistent when you blam Adam but not God. Why did God test Adam? Was he ignorant? Or not yet omnipotent?
IF i say Adam caused everything, kindly remember the context. Adam is not responsible for your committed sins, your lying, your debauchery, your ungodly stance on abortion etc. Adam is responsible for your being a sinner by nature, you are responsible for being a sinner by deed. Still, God bore the responsibility by starting the reconciliation. He came to Adam while he was hiding and making excuses. God promised and provided a solution. That ultimate solution was Jesus Christ, the last Adam. Have you considered that evolution is fictional? God tested Adam(or allowed Adam to be tested) to refine him. Like you refine oil, gold and other minerals so that they can be more useful and efficient for you.



So your God is only metaphorically like rock and water? Maybe your God is entirely metaphorical then.
Keep on assuming if it makes you sleep well at night. However, if you want eternal life, you know what to do. You have being told.


Your God ordered the killing of babies, recommended slavery, recommended that young women be used and he is going to torture most of humanity in hell. Pol Pot and Stalin combined don't even touch your God since he will torture far more people than either of them in addition to what he already did while knowing better.
You initially said "with your God's commands in Numbers, we know that your God is even worse than Stalin and Pol Pot combined.". You lost all objectivity right there so covering it up does not remove the fact. Now, God judging the world is different from humans taking one another's lives. Your brothers Mao and Stalin do not own human life neither can they create human life or claim to. On the other hand, God is the Owner of Heaven and earth and the Judge of everyone. If He does anything with His property, it is because He has all right to.
Christianity Etc › Re: Nairalanders In Pastor Osinbajo's Church by Image123(m): 9:23pm On Jan 25, 2015
sbaks:
I don't like rubbish questions like this one. Asking me rubbish questions as if you don't know how islamists overtook turkey, and what they do around the world! Mtcheeeeeewm don't quote me for silly ?s
There you go, you cannot explain yourself plainly or straight forward. You're running on propaganda and lies, use some discernment.
Christianity Etc › Re: Nairalanders In Pastor Osinbajo's Church by Image123(m): 8:09pm On Jan 25, 2015
sbaks:
You think say even the APC like osinbajo? Siddon for there! Na ISIS PARTY O
You are being unnecessarily paranoid. By the way, how do you come to this ridiculous conclusion?
Politics › Re: Fayose Warns Apc And Buhari Over Attacks On pres. Jonathan by Image123(m): 5:25am On Jan 24, 2015
mackriss:
Gus! This reminds me about a popular adage in Igbo land that says, it is good for the fowl to carry the body of the dog(dog) bt when the dog carries the fowl it becomes the a thief. That is excellent one indeed by APC by its supporters, they should continue to attack the president of Nigeria but one thing get me puzzled about Naija. It is believed that Britain has sowed seed of discord between the north and the south which today is dwindling the growth of this nation. In Britain we have Muslims,in America the same thing,they were able to accommodate each other irrespective of their belief and religion but ours is different. If other states that belongs to PDP started behaving like mad cows like what Buhari and his supporters are doing we will plunge this nation into fire. We should be careful the way we do things because nobody stays under the fire when the fire is burning. Yes, there one inevitable truth that need to be told, Nigeria is not the answer now. You might ask why? Point and blank we are not one. See you.
What has Buhari done wrong? Do you also blame Chelsea or Man United when their supporters misbehave? Why are pdp 'stalwarts' who should know better, allowed to make inciting and divisive statements?
Politics › Re: Shettima Begs Residents As Jonathan Campaigns In Borno by Image123(m): 5:07am On Jan 24, 2015
When is the Presidency going to caution and call Fayose, Asari Dokubo and co to order?
Politics › Re: Fayose Warns Apc And Buhari Over Attacks On pres. Jonathan by Image123(m): 9:42pm On Jan 23, 2015
When is the Presidency going to caution Fayose the attention seeker?

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