Speechless3:
Compiled, yes but canonised? explain sir.

To formally declare that the bible (the chosen books) is the inspired word of God.

Of course the church is the soul custodian of truth that was authored by God himself. I have always known this church to be the roman catholic church until i started reading the epistles few days ago. The churches depicted do not look like our catholic church to be sincere but maybe am reading them wrongly, dont know. Already very worried. Are there books you think i should read instead of the bible? pls share.

Thank u

CoolUsername:
I'm sure if you check a non-catholic source then you'll get an unbiased answer.

JustTara:
The Holy Bible is considered by many the infallible word of God. It was not just written by man, but rather written by God through man. This book is the cornerstone to the Christian and Judaic religions, without this book, they have nothing to hold their beliefs to. With these two things in mind, one would think that it would have to be one heck of a book. Not only 100% correct in every manner, but chock full of wonderful teachings, pleasant miracles by the all loving God, but scientifically tested and proven as a source of answers to the unknown mysteries of our earth and universe as well.

Here's something interesting...

Constantine the Great called the First Council of Nicaea, composed of 300 religious leaders. Three centuries after Jesus lived, this council was given the task of separating divinely inspired writings from those of questionable origin.                       

The actual compilation of the Bible was an incredibly complicated project that involved churchmen of many varying beliefs, in an atmosphere of dissension, jealousy,
intolerance, persecution and bigotry. At this time, the question of the divinity of Jesus had split the church into two factions. Constantine
offered to make the little-known Christian sect the official state religion if the Christians would settle their differences. Apparently, he
didn't particularly care what they believed in as long as they agreed
upon a belief. By compiling a book of sacred writings, Constantine
thought that the book would give authority to the new church.

Actually, legend has it that at the Council of Nicea, Constantine was unsure of what else to include as a holy scripture (which later the batch became the Bible). He threw the batch that he was to choose from onto a table. Those that remained on the table were in, those that fell off were out.

There have been many different theories set forth over the history of the church as to exactly how God’s hand was involved in this selection process. Skeptics have pointed out that over three thousand books were candidates for inclusion in the New
Testament canon alone, and only a handful (twenty-some books) were selected. Doesn’t that raise some serious questions? Isn’t it possible that certain books that are in the Bible should not be there and others that were excluded by human
evaluation and human judgment should have been included? We need to keep in mind, however, that
of those not included in the last analysis, there were at the most three or four that were given serious consideration. So to speak in terms of two or three thousand being boiled down to twenty-seven or something like that is a distortion of
historical reality.

Till date, the number of books in the Catholic bible are still different from the number of books in the Bible of the protestants/ Pentecostals. All for one God?
Please, does anybody have an accurate idea of how the Bible was compiled and by whom?

Speechless3:
Okay i need your help. Was born by catholic parents and by default, amma catholic too, but what i dont understand is my birth church adopts two authorities. Its own and the bible. And to be sincere, its hard ta admit it, the bible is seen as a sub-authority...

Well not like i even read the bible ummm but i have this feeling something is nat in place.

Can someone figure this out.

I still love my church but...

Cc: Italo, Rich4God, Olaadegbu, Malvisguy and others...

xcelentattitude:

Bro, you call the ark of God images.

waldigit:


As I have said earlier we have many version of that history since non of them did not substantiate their fact with facts I am not in position to hold brief for them. Yet I know you are not privy to the version that you defend too since you are merely relying on written account . I then wonder what made you so sure this account is foolproof and authentic were you a first hand witness of this event. As for me that's why I stay with post erori evaluations to save myself from falacies

Mynd44:

Separation of state and church.

Nigeria always forget that not everyone is.Christian/Muslim and forcing people to pray alongside other faiths is a violation of their rights and also a form of intolerance

dolphinheart:


Kk, give us examples of images that the isrealites bowed to, And let's see if those images are not made by direct instructions from god. Do not make for yourself , that was the instruction.

waldigit:


We ve heard many versions of that history as well yet the partucular version that has stood the test of time proved to us that the compilation was done by men who were moved by Holy Spirit

chigozie1010:
Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ARK of the Lord until evening, he and the ELDERS of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.


This shows a sign of mourning, besides that, they were not bowing down to any image but to the ARK of the Lord.

waldigit:


I disagree with that sir. May be the catholic version of it and not the contemporary one that is acceptable by all, persecuted by many, survived and passed the test of time and commercially available to all,

EnlightenedSoul:


I don't believe anything.

However amusing the thought, it was indeed a strictly observed double-blind experiment. These people actually funded and conducted a large, cross-institutional experiment on the benefits of prayer, fully expecting to find that it improves patient health, only to 'unearth' a widely observable truth any experienced, unbiased healthcare professional could've saved them the trouble of accidentally concluding.

It's worth discussing, at least. And criticism is welcome.

EnlightenedSoul:


It was a proper double-blind experiment. I'm not at all surprised by the findings, if thats what you mean.

RobinHez:

Ok.
So what's ur point exactly?

RobinHez:

Sorry...
Catholicism aint Christianity ..to me..

RobinHez:
Cc Lalasticlala, seun

ifeness:


According which of the thousands of gods in mythology? There has never ever been evidence such a god exist. Oh I think you meant Obatala,or zeus,Oriris? which one?

How can a god who doesn't exist perform a personal love on me? Perhaps you meant alien DNA program on me?

I am not imposing,your catholic cult have been trying to impose their belief on us all on the planet. Free thinkers are the victims of your dangerous faith here.

ifeness:


You claim your god is love right? But true love can never kill because it is UNCONDITIONAL!

Unconditional love is known as affection without any limitations, it can also be love without conditions.A love that knows no bound.An example of this is a parent's love for their child; no matter a test score, a life changing decision, an argument, or a strong belief, the amount of love that remains between this bond is seen as unchanging and unconditional.

I as a person will never ever kill a fellow human regardless of what he/she does to me. Why will a god(obviously doesn't exist) kill the people he claimed he loved. Even if a man kills his fellow human, the punishment shouldn't be death.Why? Because two wrongs won't make it right.

If your (no evidence)god kills humans because of their wrong doing,then we have negative reaction + another negative reaction and the result will be NEGATIVE.

This why it is hard to believe such a creature(u call it god) exists

SalC:
Good name,

Yeah the Nosa I know here is Nosayaba. I like the Nosa part but they can keep the yaba part o
Lol so you don dey gather possible name for your daughter, I thought naming the daughters is the mother's job not the father

Kamsified:

Ajebo alert

Aisosa is a beautiful name both the sound and the meaning.

plappville:


I think its because They are so scared to die.

GooseBaba:


Bros abeg read wetin I write again... This time I take big God beg you. Pay close attention to "prayer warriors "..

hahn:


Bro, na wa for you o. I didn't run away na, my battery died and there is no power.

First of all, the context of ifeness' presentation is not to present the sumerian story as truth but only to explain that it is an older text than the Christian text and also to compare the similarities between that story and the story of genesis in order to prove that the Christian story is only the by product of another myth.

I'm on my phone now and I can't really do much research as regards the truth of the story but hey, I don't see you presenting any Christian article or any article for that matter disproving the authenticity of the story.

Besides, I'm personally not interested in either story. As far as I'm concerned, they are both myth and should only be read for pleasure and not taken seriously.

Kingebukasblog(bubu), how far na?

Jereomejnr, bomb dey your head

@italo3, what happened to the "italo" moniker?

hahn:


Care to elaborate?

plappville:


Prove it from the bible that Peter was in Rome. And the pope is a successor.

plappville:

There is one head of the Church is Christ. As christ is the head of the church so is the husband to the wife.

plappville:


Nothing like visible. Catholic with visible things. Thsts why do much idols in the church. .