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FxMasterz:
To the shame of the devil and his demon possessed Atheists.

Hehehehehehe
This is also evident Batman is existence. Gotham City is actually a city in New York

jesusjnr2020:
Lol!

More evidence to affirm the true story of the greatest and most influential man that ever lived.

This is just like saying that since New York exist, then Spiderman exists.
Logic is one of the poorest points of christians

MaxInDHouse:
JEHOVAH isn't using force {Zechariah 4:6} so it is not expected to gain majority worshipers in fact Buddhists and Hindus have the greater number but the point is they will NOT SPEAK (be known with their preaching, teaching and activities) they will NOT HAVE LOVE JOY and PEACE (despite forcing their opinion on people they themselves will not be organized as they will continue to wage wars against themselves)

So what has islamists been telling you that has given you any reason to argue with them?
Or what Islamic group have you seen that's peacefully working together as one family of faith in their God?

That's what JEHOVAH promised about His own worshipers! Isaiah 2:2-4; Micah 4:1-3

Lol. You're such a self-important person.
If you read the history of Christianity you'll see the Crusades, Inquisition, Witch Trials where millions were threatened so as to convert them to Christianity, some killed because they refused to convert. Do you think there would be growth of christianity and thus birth of your precious JW if Emperor Constantine didn’t slaughter the Moors and thus export christianity to the Anglo Saxons who eventually brought it to Nigeria? All that blood and tears was for expansion of Christianity. If he didn't do it, the Arabs would have taken over, and more people in the world population would be Muslims. And of course, you'll be a Muslim, banging your head and disturbing us here about Allah being the greatest.

Barims:
What do you expect when you are talking to something that only exist in your brain? What do you expect when you talk to ceiling
Start working, don't pray. It's has been shown in studies that it's make things worse as it makes you relax while you wait for nothing to happens

Its a logical conclusion to arrive that no god exists, with these kind of scenarios OP describes. But they won't see it

Jokanem:
How Can You Pray and Be Heard?

Jehovah God is the “Hearer of prayer.” (Psalm 65:2) We can speak to him anywhere and at any time, aloud or silently.

Jehovah wants us to address him as “Father,” and he really is the best Father we can have. (Matthew 6:9) Lovingly, Jehovah teaches us how to pray and be heard by him.

PRAY TO JEHOVAH GOD IN THE NAME OF JESUS

“If you ask the Father for anything, he will give it to you in my name.”​—John 16:23.

Jesus’ words clearly show that Jehovah wants us to pray to him, not through images, saints, angels, or departed ancestors, but in the name of Jesus Christ.

When we pray to God in Jesus’ name, we show that we recognize the vital role of Jesus. “No one comes to the Father except through me,” said Jesus.​—John 14:6.

SPEAK FROM THE HEART

“Pour out your hearts before him.”​—Psalm 62:8.

When we pray to Jehovah, we should speak as we would to a loving father. Instead of reading out of a book or reciting something memorized, we should speak to him respectfully and from the heart.

PRAY IN HARMONY WITH GOD’S WILL
“No matter what we ask according to his will, he hears us.”​—1 John 5:14.

In the Bible, Jehovah God tells us what he will do for us and what he wants us to do for him. For our prayers to be acceptable to God, we need to pray “according to his will.” To do so, we need to study the Bible so that we can get to know him well. If we do, our prayers will be pleasing to him.

WHAT MIGHT WE PRAY FOR?

Pray for Your Needs. We can pray to God for our daily needs​—food, clothing, and shelter. We might also pray for wisdom to make right decisions and for strength to endure our trials. We can pray for faith, for forgiveness, and for God’s help.​—Luke 11:3, 4, 13; James 1:5, 17.

Pray for Others.

Caring parents are pleased when their children love one another. Jehovah too desires that his children on earth care about one another. It is appropriate to pray for our mate, our children, our family, and our friends. “Pray for one another,” wrote the disciple James.​—James 5:16.

Express Thanks.

Of our Creator, the Bible says: “He did good, giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and filling your hearts with gladness.” (Acts 14:17)

When we think about all that God has done for us, we will be moved to express our thanks to him in prayer. Of course, we should also show our gratitude to God by the way we live.​—Colossians 3:15.

BE PATIENT AND KEEP PRAYING

At times, we may feel disheartened because of not getting an immediate answer to our sincere prayers. Should we conclude that God is not interested in us? By no means!

The Bible records many of Jesus’ prayers. The best known is surely the one he taught his disciples. What can we learn from it?

The Lord’s Prayer​—A Model for You

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave his disciples a model prayer, often called the Lord’s Prayer. (Matthew 6:9-13; see also Luke 11:2-4.)

Over the centuries, this prayer has become so popular that many have memorized and repeated it word for word. Was that Jesus’ intention for this prayer? It hardly seems likely because earlier in that sermon, Jesus had told his disciples to avoid repetitive prayers. (Matthew 6:7)

Rather, Jesus was teaching his followers how to pray and what to pray about. Let us see what we can learn from the model prayer.

“Our Father in the heavens”

We should address our prayers only to God himself.

“Let your name be sanctified”

God’s name, Jehovah, should be honored and viewed as sacred.

“Let your Kingdom come”

God’s Kingdom is a heavenly government with Jesus as King, and it will soon exercise its rule over the entire earth.

“Let your will take place, as in heaven, also on earth”

God’s will is for humans to live forever on earth in peace and security.

“Give us today our bread for this day”

Jehovah is the one who provides the things we need to live.

“Forgive us our debts”

We all make many mistakes and need forgiveness.

Keeping those points in mind can help you to offer meaningful personal prayers.

How come the most religious nations are the more ignorant, poorer and backward nations? Why aren't their prayers answered? Since you have such good praying skills, why is your and Nigeria's life worse off than China, Czech etc with less prayer warriors?
Please christians shouldn't dodge this question

NNTR:
Already stop the gaslighting.
You only be giving yourself undue and unnecessary distress because I gave no hint that I didnt believe you

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

1. Stop using terms you don't understand. There's no gaslighting going on here
2. Read your comment slowly, this time.

I fail to see what value is in there, needing to believe you
What does this comment connote?
For the avoidance of doubt, do you or do you not believe me? Yes or no

Mccallistas:
Nnaaa... I don't know how to appreciate you.

Now this is the person that understands my plight.

Why must I find it hard? Why?

Did God create me to come here and watch others live their lives.

I'm just existing.

Is it until my parents no longer have strong teeth, will I be able to buy them meat


Why will people always tell me thank you. Why can't I tell them thank you or don't they find me worthy of favour

Chai!

Even in the Bible, its said 'Ask and it shall be opened/given' there were no caveats

CaptMarvel:
when a prisoner doesn't struggle to leave his Prison he have peace with his captors and remain a captive, but when he does struggles, troubles ensue, and if he continues victory is certain. Think about it.

Whoa. What an analogy. So the more a Christian fights the devil, he suffers, and keeps suffering everyday? But if he chills with the devil, he'll be enjoying?
I love Christians. They are like kids that argue with the first notion that pops up in their mind anywhere

Jackanda1:
Your sincerity is zero.
You are just an atheist trying to discredit God.

The no true Scotsman shows up again. Seems to be your favorite fallacy

jesusjnr2020:
Okay I see where your problem lies, hence the need to repent first, as I earlier said.

The wicked are cursed, and no amount of blessings you think they have can ever change that fact unless they turned away from their wicked ways.

Yeah, everyone believes his own soup is the sweetest

BRATISLAVA:
You're going to hear a lot of excuses for why God doesn't answer you, and it will surprise these people that you are probably more holy than they are. Later they will tell you it isn't Gods time. At other times God doesn't answer the prayer of sinners.

There are just some people that God has never and will never answer their prayers, right from kindergarten as you've said. Just live your life as you can. God is for some people, not all.

Why create some people to suffer and use some random form of favoritism on creations? One day, you will get to see why. Maybe everything you read in the Bible is a lie.

The Bible is actually a barefaced lie

MaxInDHouse:
That's exactly what i've been telling you all these while!

If you're the most powerful human on planet earth you should have delegates throughout the world, Jehovah is the Almighty God that's why He made sure that His Witnesses are in all lands despite the fact that we don't use force!


“This is the word of Jehovah to Ze·rubʹba·bel: ‘“Not by a military force, nor by power, but by my spirit,” says Jehovah of armies. Zechariah 4:6

Those gods aren't real that's why they're helpless and their worshipers as you can see!

Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, But to your name give glory Because of your loyal love and your faithfulness. Why should the nations say: “Where is their God?”Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever he pleases. Their idols are silver and gold, The work of human hands. A mouth they have, but they cannot speak; Eyes, but they cannot see; Ears they have, but they cannot hear; A nose, but they cannot smell; Hands they have, but they cannot feel; Feet, but they cannot walk; They make no sound with their throat. The people who make them will become just like them, As will all those who trust in them. Psalms 115:1-8

Are you aware there were periods in World History when polytheism was virtually everywhere, and there were no christians. I guess Jehova/Yahweh was second or even tenth fiddle to the then popular gods, right? Or he was cowering in a cave?
Are you also aware that Christianity is waning by popularity globally, more so your JW business is dwindling, as evidenced by the sale of empty Kingdom Halls? Atheism and Islam are growing by the day, the former more than the later. Is your Yahveh aka Iehova getting more pussy?
Logical reasoning isn't a strong point of theism. So its no use doing it. They fail woefully

Mccallistas:
From my kindergarten till now, I have never went to God in prayer and that prayer got answered...

That one no dey bother me again cuz I know God no put me for His agenda. My problem be say anything wey I see for dream na opposite for real life.
I dey for dream this early morning and Peter Obi win the election.

I don't know how to start crying.
My prayers, God no dey ever answer am and my dream na opposite e dey do.

Congrats to Atiku then.


Even if Lucifer win for this country, anybody wey God wan bless e go bless am.

That's cos he doesn't exist

NNTR:
Please kindly go back to re-read my comment, instead of giving a misleading account of it, from misrepresenting what was written.

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

You hinted you didn't believe me

Kobojunkie:
No true Scotsman fallacy eh!

Its intentionally posted and is a retaliation . You didn't see where the Christians started with 'No true christian can turn atheist' abi u don blind

Techobeys:
God himself preached the gospel to Adam. The commandments of God the gospel. The gospel are set of rules which one must follow to achieve life eternal and rest in God. So those laws God have to Adam, those are the gospel.

The only law was to not eat the fruit of Knowledge.
Which other law was given

Techobeys:
Of course anyone can write the bible. We have a list of books written by men who never experienced anything but were under influence of some drugs.

If it’s the truth, it has to be consistent with other books. The same story must be represented either in riddles or metaphor. Any book that comes out of the fray is a lie

Are you aware the bible is replete with lies, half truths and contradictions?

NNTR:
Except you are a pathological attention seeker or have a histrionic personality disorder, I fail to see what value is in there, needing to believe you.

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

So why do you think I lied?

MaxInDHouse:
So if Nairaland is a Nigerian forum but Jehovah the God of Israel is known here what happened to the Gods you're talking about?
Jehovah is just as foreign like those other Gods so what made those other Gods helpless?

Those religions aren't represented here because we don't have many practitioners that are Nigerians. Is that too difficult to understand?

Dtruthspeaker:
One of the many laws I live by.
"Before you assume, learn the facts, before you judge, understand why" Anonymous.

Kwontinu

Dtruthspeaker:
At least he did wonders before the people present, do your own!

How do you know I haven't

Dtruthspeaker:
Because, we already know you.

So maybe when you enter someone's house even though their door was locked and they did not burn you for being a thief, then, we could consider you.

Saul was an unbeliever yet did wonders after conversion. It could be me

NNTR:
Good for you

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

I hope you believed me

Dtruthspeaker:
See if you were not a 12 year old you would have immediately known that this was stupid.

The Bible even showed that Joseph did react exactly as we all know he should to this strange phenomenon but right there in the report we all see that he got in contact with one who was not a man, naturally and without any man's orchestration. So you just disgraced yourself.

What makes you think Yahweh didn’t give me that power?

NNTR:
Deuteronomy 10:14
Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens,
the earth with all that is in it.

Job 41:11
Who has first given to Me, that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine..

Psalm 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and its fullness are Mine

Psalm 24:1
The earth and everything on it,
including its people, belong to the LORD.
The world and its people belong to Him.

As it happens, the man and the wife are both God's, to start with

Besides, notice that if Mary had not consented (i.e. agreed or gave permission) then God wouldnt have allowed the Holy Spirit to overshadow her (i.e. her consent was the green-light, for the Holy Spirit to go ahead and apply creative energy upon her womb and with preternatural influence, impregnate it with God)

Yes, take for example, Sarah was already menopause, but God waited 25 years, for Abraham to become impotent before He gave Abraham and Sarah, the promised child, baby Isaac.

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

I am 110 years old

Jackanda1:
I feel bad that you've let them capture you too.....smh sharon

Same way I feel for you bro

Dtruthspeaker:
O I am always right because I am not in a hurry to conclude on any person. I believe in giving people a chance to reveal themselves.

Oh. Youre 100% right? Okay. No need to continue the debate. You win

terrezo2002:
That's true. I said many atheists were never Christians. I agree that that it possible for born again Christians to fall away too.

How can you make totally opposing sentences together. Did you read your post?

1Sharon:
A true atheist will not leave atheism.

Yeah. He wants to play that fallacy game. I didn't want to oblige him

1Sharon:
Lol..YouTube can be used to prove anything

I keep on telling the dude that. Muslim, Buddhist, Hinduist NDEs full Youtube. You can believe anything you want

Dtruthspeaker:
What a madness. You just made a fool of yourself as most churchgoers have been deceived to think and do.

Everyone reasonable and normal person knows that it is never valid if you mark your own result.

So your born againing and your bone thugs tongue twistingning was a complete waste of your good time and energy.

So you did see that you were in a lie but you did not find The Truth.

Yeah. I found out religion was all a lie. And I know you have done the same too but either too scared or too stupid to realize it

Jackanda1:
You saw spirits and you're agnostic today? Isn't seeing spirits enough evidence to convince a person of the existence of the supernatural,?

Lol. Anyone can experience anything. The human brain is maze. Even neuroscientist are still discovering new stuff. Audiovisual hallucinations are very common, especially in psychosis. Same as delusions, especially of persecution, grandeur etc.
So you need to get your head screwed right to get over it
Ask yourself some hard questions about Christianity, and religion, and you'll realize you're a fool for being a theist