ItShallPass's Posts
Nairaland Forum › ItShallPass's Profile › ItShallPass's Posts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 (of 11 pages)
[quote author=chieveboy post=127783877] I did, you simply missed it. Amber gives birth to jealousy and envy which are sisters.Wrong! Anger does not always give birth to jealousy. It depends on the circumstances. It is right to be angry against evil or even against things that are wrong. A parent can be justifiably angry with an incorrigible and wayward child. It's that your conclusive generalization for me. You didn't answer my questions regarding what your position would be if you were the father of a child who honours another father, or the husband of a woman being cuddled by another man, or even the father of a child under attack by an assailant. You've been evasive. These emotions can be either right or wrong. It depends on how and why they are unleashed. They are not, and here goes the whitewashing again. Anger never produces any good. It is a destructive force. It springs from the negative polarity of the life force.It's a destructive force of cause. But destruction is not always evil. If it destroys wickedness and evil, it does a good job. It does a bad job if it destroys the good. There are always things to be preserved, things to build, and things to destroy. What do you do to the things you have inside your dustbin, don't you destroy them? Is their destruction evil? You're making me believe that Eckankar wants to assume that all things are perfect and that there are no anomalies at all. If that's the case it's pure deception. In this physical world, anomalies exist, and there are emotions put in place by God that motivate people to correct anomalies. Infact, we destroy forests and all obstacles to make way for our farmlands, roads and buildings. Let's embrace balance when philosophizing. Destruction is not always evil. Maybe I should talk physics so you will understand. The negative pole of anything came only function as one. If it produces positive charges, then it's not negative bit positive. It cannot be the two at once.And by physics, I'll want you to understand that the interworking of both positive and negative charges is what produces useful effects. Positive poles or positive charges are useless alone because they can't produce anything. The same applies to the negative poles and charges. All emotions have their rightful uses in our world. The excessive or abusive use of them is what causes a problem. That's why the Bible says "Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. Ephesians 4:26. The Eckankar philosophy about Anger, Hate and Jealousy is not a balanced position without due respect to context . |
chieveboy:I wasn't doing any whitewashing. You already got my point, that's why you didn't care to answer the questions raised. Those things are like money, you can use it to do both good and evil. So, without context, you cannot really categorize those forces. If you're talking of anger, hate, envy and jealousy in terms of habitual manifestations, then, we're on the same page. Anyone who is habitually angry, envious, jealous or hateful is evil. The Almighty God does not personify those evil traits. He's love personified and all His children are commanded to be like Him. Are you telling me that you never get angry? There's nothing you hate in life (You don't hate murder, infidelity, cheating, etc) ? You'll not be jealous of your wife if you see another man cuddle her? You can't paint these forces any colour without talking of context except you're referring to habitual manifestations and tendencies. |
[quote author=chieveboy post=127780398] For it's own reasons, Christians and Orthodox religion teach themselves that those who don't believe in their Prophet are children of the devil (Gods enemies). That God is burning them up for that. If anything, all you have been telling me since is that God is my enemy and I his.This is actually a wrong understanding of Christian doctrines. God loves the world, and in demonstration of that love, He sent His Son to die for the world. The reason is that Satan's presence in the world works to make man sinful. God is not just God, He's also the Judge of the universe. A judge doesn't cast a convict to prison because he hates him, he does it because that is the consequence of breaking the law. Sin is the breaking of the law. God must judge the world but He has passed the judgement of every man on His Son. Those who reject that sacrifice made by God's Son automatically attract the judgement to themselves instead of passing it on to God's son. Hell was not created for man. It was created for unrepentant Satan. But those who chose Satan rather than God, have all rights in the universe to share the same fate with him. God would not continue watching His world being in chaos till infinity. God must put an end to this chaos some day, and judge the cause of the chaos (Satan), and those who reject the sacrifice of gods Son in preference for God's judgement. God is love, and with Him there's no darkness at all. The bolded above got me laughingPlease be corrected. I never said Anger, Hate, Envy and Jealousy are positive forces. Rather they are two sided things. With the exception of envy which is purely evil and condemnnable, Anger, Hate and Jealousy are defined. Except you want to deceive yourself, do you hate armed robbery or love it? Does your hatred for armed robbery make you evil? In the same vein, if you're a father, would you not be jealous if your son rejects your fatherly provisions and embraces that of another man and calls him his father? Won't your heart yearn for your son? Does that jealousy over your beloved son make you evil? If you angrily defend your son against an attacker does that anger make you evil? You can't class these things as negative without presenting a context. Anger, hate and jealousy can only be defined within their subjective contexts. It's an aberration to classify them as purely negative. Otherwise, I'll expect you not to be angry at your son's attacker. Instead, while the fellow is attacking him, you cuddle the attacker in love while your son suffers because love is all you have. I will leave you with a screenshot of what Paul said about Love which was compiled in what is known as the Christian Bible below.What Paul said is within a defined context of love. Love isn't jealous when there's no reason for jealousy. That's evil. But if I start cuddling your wife right in front of you, you'll rise in Jealousy to the occasion. If I'm doing that to any other woman with whom you're not in love, you wouldn't be jealous, and if you are, then, you're evil. I hope you got the points? Cheers my brother. |
[quote author=chieveboy post=127779896][/quote]Please read me again. God has no enemies but the enemies of man are God's enemies because God loves man. I never said or implied that man is one of God's enemies. Yeah, the Almighty God can be angry because He am hates evil and the perpetrators thereof. Or are you saying that the Eckankar deity loves evil? The Almighty God is a jealous God because He loves. When you truly love someone, you can become jealous when that same someone gives the attention and service meant for you to another. Anger, Jealousy, Envy, Regret and Hate are not negative in themselves. It all depends on the source and the direction of these traits. While it is a positive trait to be angry at evil, it is not a positive trait to be angry for nothing. These traits move us to correct the things that are wrong. God hates sin for instability but He loves the sinner. Does the Eckankar deity love sin? Or he protends as if Sin does not exist? Modified: Our attention is not on Satan and demons as Christians. Christ already made us victorious over them. But in liberating the captives of Satan, we exercise dominion. |
chieveboy:Yeah, we live as Gods while on earth. We exercise authority over Satan and his demons. God has no enemies. All things are the works of His hands. Satan became the enemy of God only because he's the enemy of man. God loves man, and so, any enemy of man automatically becomes the enemy of God. |
chieveboy:True. You'll meet the true God in His time. As long as you're in your body, you'll continue to count time until you leave that body. |
Maynman:Bring him to Nairaland, let's see how he fairs. As for you his follower, you're none of my business. |
chieveboy:Smiling. One day, I repeat, you'll meet the true God, and it's just a matter of time. |
SIRTee15:Thanks for the clarification. I guessed as much about him. He even wanted to drag me into unnecessary debates that had nothing to do with the Apostleship of Paul which he queried. Rather than defend his baseless talk, he was referring me to an unintelligent content written by someone like himself on Vanguard. |
Maynman:Kid, I'll dispute it with you only if you're the author. Otherwise it's your cup of tea to believe the gibberish he wrote. And hey, no Christian thinks so awkwardly and reads the writings of Paul upside down like that guy did in the link which you now see as your pillar for debates. |
Maynman:Kid, the link contains the warped ideologies of an ignorant Muslim. Are you that Muslim? |
Maynman:Take the advice kid. Are you the author of the content on that link? I'll debate the author and not the referrer. |
Maynman:Why speak the word when you know you cannot defend it? |
Maynman:Why should I take your word for it? Can't you prove your point? |
Maynman:Would you please establish your point with civility without the unnecessary attacks? Answer your own questions if you think any betrter. I am not here to be queried by you. |
Maynman:Whoever the writer of the book is, as long as it's not Paul, my stand remains. My point is that Paul didn't impose himself as an apostle on Christiandom. |
Maynman:I'm not here to debate the authorship of the Acts of Apostles. I think you should do the slow reading because I made that clear already. What makes you question Paul's Apostleship? That's what I'm discussing you. I made that clear too. And I have also pointed out that Paul didn't declare himself an apostle, someone else wrote that about him. Whether you regard that book as a forgery or not us none of my business. The point is that the Apostleship of Paul and his recognition as such, was not the doing of Paul. |
Maynman:Is this a digression? I don't understand what you meant by "The author of Acts does not mention any Paul." First off, are you here to debate the authorship of the book of Acts or the Apostleship of Paul? I have pointed out to you that the writer of the Acts of Apostles which made Paul popular as an Apostle was not Paul. Whoever that person is to you is not my concern. My point is that Paul was not the one who popularized himself as an apostle. |
Maynman:The important thing is that it wasn't written by Paul. |
Maynman:The Book called the Acts of Apostles which majorly featured Paul was not written by him. |
kkins25:In most of the writings, Paul alludes to himself in greetings at the beginning and end of the epistles. And when you look at the language and styles of the letters, they all rhyme. I do not even need to see a name on a book before I'll know that Paul wrote it because I'm familiar with hhs writings because of the rhyme. However, the guy wasn't actually talking about Paul's writings. He was questioning who made Paul an apostle. |
chieveboy:With God, time is irrelevant in His realm. But as a man, you still have tomorrow, and many days to come. |
chieveboy:It's like that. Everyone with an experience thinks he's the one with knowledge until he is disproved. |
chieveboy:You'll meet the true God man. It's just a matter of time. I understand where you're talking from. |
Minsk24:It's actually laughable because you feel superior. |
chieveboy:Some day, you would meet God. That's not a prayer. It's a prophecy. It would come to pass in God's time. |
Maynman:What ignorance do you wish to expose about Paul? Paul didn't write about himself, someone else did. |
I learnt that Mohammed's father was a priest of the moon god in mecca, and that Mohammed was supposed to be his successor. Indeed Mohammed succeeded in exporting his father's idol to the rest of the world. |
chieveboy:Man, God still has a plan for your life. Your present interaction with Eckankar is ephemeral. Just like how God saved Iyke Nathan Uzorma who wrote the book Occult Grandmaster Now in Christ, God will save you too some day in His time. |
Righthussle:Let me remind you that I do not practice religion. I'm in fellowship. And if you don't know what fellowship means, use a dictionary. Religion is all about belief. Fellowship is all about knowing, and 'knowing' comes by encounters. |
Righthussle:You're talking off point. You were describing my discovery of God as though you knew exactly how it came to be. I'm asking you whether that type of thinking looks intelligent to you. It's not intelligent to discover God. It's a miracle. So, don't get yourself worked up on that. And whatever I consider good isn't your business, neither is it the focus of this discourse. |
Righthussle:You don't know how I know God and yet you've written a whole lot of gibberish describing my knowledge of God from your warped imagery. Does that sound intelligent to you? |

.
.