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gosh I almost forgot Napoleon Dynamite I think watching the first 10 minutes reduced my intelligence

onyinye2:
Queenisha
Tufiakwa!!
Titanic is a wonderful movie.
There is no way one could walk out on that.
Live Free or Die Hard is a movie worth walking out on.
It was boring and i knew the whole movie with in 20 minutes.

I just watched it again 2 nights ago, that was a great movie! wow we're all so very different in taste . . .

can't believe some of ya'll are hating on Transformers . . .na una sabi, me I enjoyed it. n I'll ask again, are you sure it wasn't the Nollywood version you watched?

 Other Moives I shoulda walked out on:
Oceans 13 - extremely lame plot

 I might get shouted down for these but whatever. . .
   Batman begins - I fell asleep the 2times I tried to watch it
   I am legend - yes Smith was great but it had a stupid ending, too many loose ends, I left the theatre angry

even if he wins, it doesn't guarantee anything. If he hasn't shown a whole lotta love to Africa before getting into the big office what makes you think he'll show love once he's there and doesn't need our 'support' anymore?

SeanT21:
Are You kidding?

God Forbids something happens to Nigeria 2morrow, WHO WILL THEY CALL ON?

Africa and USA always have a special relationship.

which kin special relationship? lol girl please. Let us not kid ourselves America gives a crap about us outside of anything that might serve their own intrests.
Obama has done NOTHING for the nation of Nigeria. Heck he has done nothing for his home country of Kenya, nothing, not even during their most recent conflict.
Why should we be raising millions of naira to send to other Nigerians in the US. so that they'll "support" him? what kind of joblessness is this?

huxley:
Ok, you want the bait. There you go.

Why are modern version of bibles now printed with the following warnings associated with the following chapters/verses?

1) Mark 16: Verses 9 - 20 are not included in two of the best and oldest Greek copies of Mark

2) John 7 - John 8: Some early manuscripts do not contain 7: 53 - 8:11, that is the story of the woman caught in adultery.

Most Christians publishers are now being honest and trying to accurately reflect the state of the bible in its earliest form. If you bible contains these dodgy verses does it make your bible less holy. Why did god inspire these fraudulent additions into his holy book?

In view of this, do you have the right to point fingers at the Catholic bible that contains more books than yours?

Huxley, I won't "discuss" with you.
Wordsmith already captured you in a phrase when he said this

. . . and that's where the problem lies. You always find the answers of a theist, Christians in particular, "irrational and palpably wrong". 'Til you rid yourself of your prejudice, you, and many others like you would always "find the answers irrational and palpably wrong".

manmustwac:
After going thruough your post JeSoul its seems u can't give any logical explanation to what you know in the bible because what you know is based on your strong faith and your strong beliefs So u can't convince someone like me that there is a God soley based on your strong faith and strong beliefs. I need physical evidence.

Don't get me wrong brotha, christianity does not require you check your brain in at the door and become a zombie, no! not at all. So if it seems that way from my posts, I apologize.
BUT
  I wanted to over-emphasize the importance of faith on this thread. There have been many many discussions on the historical validity of the bible, both for and against. I have nuthin new to add to those already existing materials so I won't bother to repeat them here a quick search will suffice for intrested parties.

As for physical evidence, hehe, it has been available since the begining of the world see Romans 1:
19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

huxley:
I understand your charity towards her and to soft-peddle her, but what concerns me is that she expressed VERY STRONG views towards something she does not know. Would the more rational thing to do is to remain undecided? It is this tendency to have strong but wrong opinions about the world that worries me.

What "concerns" and "worries" you? lol . . . Please don't patronize me hux, I know you are anything but 'worried' and 'concerned' whether or not the 66book bible is true. Haven't there been enough threads here on NL questioning the bible? I know the usual song and dance, they are historians both for and against the bible - it comes down to YOU and whether or not you believe it. Simple.

huxley:
How do you know your bible (the 66 books bible) is the correct one? How?

By faith, it's all by faith and the evidence of God revealing Himself, through those very words to me daily.

mazaje:
she said she doesnt kno'w huxley, let her be please.

Lol . . . we have been begging oga huxley to let us be for months but the bobo no'gree

@ jesoul there is no letter J in the armaic language and his name was'nt jesus that i know for sure it was change to jesus by the greeks.

Even if you're right, what difference does it make what His name was?

I'm kinda curious as to where you got that bit of 'info' but lets save that for a later thread . Holding on I shall be doing . . .

mazaje:
Thanks for your honest answers. you tried to answer to the best of your abilities which is cool to me. am not convinced but keep it real is all i have to say.

You are welcome brotha . My job is not to convince you remember? just to tell you and hope that'll you'll have enuff faith to simply believe. Thanks to you to for being a cool cat

have you read the history of the bible? why are there over 80 translation of the englsih bible alone, when did the bible become the bible? why are there some with 66 and other with more than 66 books. why is there the greek, aramic etc versions of the bible, why can't chriatains produce a universally acceptable book and doctorines? are jehova witness, seven day adventist, grail message, catholics etc christains? who wrote the first four books of the bible, it is written that moses did, moses can not write about his birth, death and events after his death. why is it still written that moses is the author of the first four books, if he is not really the author. why were there other books written by other apostels that were not included in the bible, who publish the 66 books of the bible and why did he publish only 66 books? martin luther did and he did it to suite his own understanding and promote his own agenda. was the bible 66 books 200 years before martin luther? the answer is no. it was much more than 66 books why is it now 66 in some version and about seventy in some? wihch one are people to believe? why is it that jesus is the only person in history who's name was changed from esau to jesus? why is it that people have to accapet jesus as his name? his name was never jesus because nobody with the name jesus ever existed in the time of esua, why is his name now jesus?

I will not pretend I know all the answers to your questions here. But I'll tell you one thing, I believe God in His graciousness has given us His word - as it is today - whether it passed through 1000 hands and 1000000 translations. I believe He is more than capable of maintaining the integrity of His word through many generations and holding it for us today. So as it is in a 66book format, I believe this is what God wanted for us today.
 Granted there are many many translations, and people nitpick and bicker over certains words here n there BUT it still does not change the overall message of the bible.  
 True the early church did not have these scriptures that we do today, but I know God made provisions for them then as He has now. Whether we ended up with 10books or 100 or 66 is irrelevant, what's relevant is that 66books is what God saw fit to survive and remain and I accept and believe that by faith.

Now my catholic brothas and sistas have other 'scriptures' apart from the bible and if you see my history here, I strongly oppose that. For the simple fact that these extra-biblical materials stand in strong contradiction to parts of the 66book bible and present a different way of salvation contrary to the bible. But this is not to say all catholics are going to hell, no. I've met catholics who love God and do not necessarily subscribe to the teachings of their church, why they stay? probably just tradition.

About your comment on Jesus changing His name    where is it recorded that Jesus changed His name?

mazaje:
@jesoul
please go anead and explain i am all ears and will listen to you intently.

Alright . . .

there is nothing absract when i ask questions like why a loving , merciful and almighty god who refuses to reveal himself to the billions of people in indai, china, sri lanka, thialand, japan, bangledesh, taiwan etc in the bible because there is no mention of them and there is no biblical prohets amongst them even though they were in existance during the so called time of the bible prophets and jesus, will then burn them in hell for eternity simply they do not know or havent heard about jesus. does that make sense to you? how about the billions of moslems that do not know about jesus because they were born into the islamic religion, will they all rot in hell too?

Now there is no question that millions of people have lived and died without knowing or ever hearing the Name Jesus. Will these people end up in hell simply becos they weren't 'fortunate' to have heard about Jesus? No, of course not that would be grossly unfair and the bible tells us that God is a just God.
The bible does not give a definitive answer on this, but because we know that God is just, we can have faith(that all-important element) that He has already laid out another way for them to be possibly saved, or perhaps they'll be judged in a different way, I cannot say for certain. But what I'm certain about is that God is just and fair.

who are the real chrianstains? are they the catholics(over 1 billion of them) , or the so many other sects of chriatainity(over 30 thousand sects) each fighting and knocking heads with each other. back in 2002 my pastor said that catholics and the white garmet wearing churches are not chriatains and for that they will all end up in hell. does that make sense to you.

Every denomination claims to be the right way, I know that myself . So who is right? it is a very valid question. And it comes down to faith. The bible teaches that the only way to get to heaven is thru Jesus Christ - and I believe it. I cannot prove to you my belief, becos it is based on faith and the witness of the Spirit of God in my heart. That's why each person has to find God for themselves.

Now this begs the question, what about those who have faith in their gods? islam? hindus? etc . . . The difference is a relationship with the God of the bible is so real and personal it does not need outward validation. God reveals Himself to me in many ways, and when I see His words and promises manifested in my life daily, it convinces me further that He is real. Unfortunately my experience is not transferrable so that I can "prove" and show to you why I persist in Him, God is personal to each person, you have to find Him for urself.

if you were born in kano to a muslim family you would have been passoinately defending islam with the same vigor . if there is a god he won't depend on people to propagate his message he will do it him self, because people have failed completely in doing so.

Part of the beauty of the God in the bible is that He uses and accomplishes great things thru feeble human beings. So that in doing so we recognize His greatness in pulling off such a feat. And who says "people have failed completely in doing so"? Someone preached the gospel to me, and I believed it. And have continued to believe it for many years - I would say that person (Godbless him) did not fail at all.

Mazaje,
  I'll try to address some of your queries but please tell me, are you really intrested in the answers to these questions? or you just want to argue, ignore the responses and find more ammunition to try to bolster your position? because this is the reputation of Huxley and a couple others on these boards hence why many do not like to engage them in discussion.

KarmaMod:
"cover your eyes" or press fastforward

I only have a problem when it has nothing to do with the plot. As in it's only there to appeal to the male audience.

Lol . . .
Too many movies today pander to the sexual inclinations of men. I just want a nice, entertaining movie without having to be subjected to soft-porn disguised as "part of the plot". Well this is just me sha . . .

Riskie:
Silent Hill (nonsensical)

Lol . . . I know how you feel, for some reason I liked it becos of the videogame.

Transformers (what was I thinking  )

you're kidding right?

Ocean's 12 (blah. . . they shouldn't have done a sequel. sequels spoil good movies most times)

You are so right on this one! what a stupid, lame movie. Complete waste of $10    

KarmaMod:
actually 10,000 BC is a terrible movie that wrongly depicted those times but I wont get into that

yeah I know about the "historical inaccuracies" of the movie but for I thot the plot and execution was cool, nice, clean entertainment.

The first 5 mins explains the plot of the movie, the rest of the movie wasnt like that. Pretty much what was shown in the first 5 mins was used as blackmail against someone. It's the only time the movie is "polluted"

Hmm . . . okay. Maybe I'll check it out if they show on TV sometime. It's just that me I don't dig sexually explicit movies, they're a huge turn off.

MissyB,
"discussion" with them is pointless and fruitless as history on these very boards has even shown. I wonder sometimes how people get so angry and bitter and "intellectual" that they reach the point of saying there is no God?

Once and for all, to all the atheists who keep demanding christians explain and prove the existence of God, this is your problem:

1. They're trying to understand the bible with an earthly mind, without the help of the Holyspirit.
1 Corinthians 2:14
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.


2. They're asking us to prove God exists and that the gospel is true, when the gospel was never intended to be "proven" - it was meant to be preached, and it is up to you to simply believe it or not.
John 3:16
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that[b] whoever believes in Him[/b] shall not perish, but have eternal life.
John 20:29
Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed."


3. The existence of God cannot be proven because it is inherent in each person. But some have chosen to deliberately ignore and cut off that in-built knowledge. They have considered those who take the time to know and praise God stupid, unintellectual and backward
Romans 1:19
since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools


4. They love to engage in endless, abstract, hypothetical, strange, controversial subjects based on endless speculations that usually lead to anger and strife. They seem incapable of accepting the fact that there are some things that cannot be explained, some things that just don't have an answer and cannot be "proven" as it leaves no room for faith which the bible tells us "is what we need in order to please God"

These "debates" are only an exercise in self-worship, a time for them to showcase their self-ascribed 'intelligence', thinking they have somehow attained an intellectual prowess that they have out-smarted God and the bible.
1 Tim 1:4
Don’t let them waste their time in endless discussion of myths and spiritual pedigrees. These things only lead to meaningless speculations,which don’t help people live a life of faith in God.


  Atheists sometimes you annoy me with the way you speak about God, but then I remind myself that in all your arrogance, God still loves you, so I will still find a way to love and pray for you all.

proo212:
€1.38 a litre here.

I laugh when you guys in the US complain about "Gas" prices. I would to pay 3.71 a gallon. But then it's relative. Gas has always been cheap in the US.

lol . . . seriously, I guess we're spolied. It does seem to me though that we over here hafta to a whole lot more driving than our counterparts in Europe, right?
For my previous job I had a total commute of 2.5hrs and 82 miles everyday, and at $4 a gallon that is significant cheese coming out of your paycheck.

It's down to $3.67 today the lower the better!

KarmaMod:
JeSoul, what was wrong with Bank Job?

ah my sista the first 5mins were polluted with sexual images, actions and words. I'm a christian and was there with my boyfriend and other friends and we were all in agreement to walk out after only 5mins.
I love Jason Statham but that was just too "pollution"

The auditorium next door was showing 10,000BC (great movie!) - we walked right in and so we didn't waste any money

LASIEFAIRE:
Analytical et Pataki. . Thank God.
Psalm 34:8 " O Taste and see the lord is good: blesseth is the man that trutheth in him"

Me I have tasted and seen that the lord is good. I will put my trust in him and surely I shall remain blessed.

Lasiefaire,
 I thot you might like to know that your frequent updates with songs or thots in your "signature" always put a smile on my face. Godbless you for that brotha!    

Analytical,
  God will so richly bless you for coming up with this idea!     I just came out of the religion forum and was just thinking how foul it is in there. Something like this for us to just bless and encourage one another is great and it has now become my fav thread.    

 One thing God has been drilling in my heart lately is the scripture in 2Cor 5:15 which says "and He died that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again". We get so caught up in the things of life that we forget our lives do not belong to us, but are solely for God to use to bring glory to His name alone. May we all continue to live lives worthy of the calling that we have received! In Jesus name! Amen.

Sometimes I just don't get Nigerians   

They are breaking their necks to raise "funds" for Obama supporters hundreds of miles away in the US. when there are people all around in front of them that need "fund-raising" 
Obama does not even know nor care these boneheads exist. When will some Nigerians grow up and get a brain?

What has Obama ever done for Nigeria? Stupid mugus. Instead of them to address the mountains of problems there at home [insert hiss here]

thando:
transformers

hmm are you sure it was the[b] REAL[/b] Transformers? and not the nollywood one?

Movies I've Walked Out On:
Bank Job

Movies I Shoulda Walked Out On:
Be Cool - John Travolta. Stupid movie.
Cloverfield

     This brings tears to my eyes. Just yesterday I heard he would be in the hosp for weeks cos it was serious and this morn woke up to hear he's dead. This is too sad, death can take anyone at any time . . .  Bernie you will be missed      

chronicle1
if you're refering to me uhm no I'm not angry with you why would I be?

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If you're flying within America whatever you do DO NOT use U.S. Airways!!! I repeat DO NOT use U.S. Airways!!! I had the worst experience of my life flying with them.

Best U.S. airline I'd say is JetBlue

I just drove by Hess an hr ago and Regular dropped to $3.69 today

For a start the Isrealites are decendant of Abraham and Abraham we were told is God's friend. Whose decendant are you and the rest of the zombies and follow follows called citizens of Nigeria?

I didn't even see this response before . . .
neways, please re-read my post. I was making a casual and lighthearted comparison between the length of time the isrealites were in bondage and how long Nigeria has existed in "bondage"- finish! what you see at face value is all you get so please don't stretch my words to say something it isn't.

Kobojunkie:
But what is the connection between my post, which you posted the above in response to, with this?? How did you figure that all the other wishes are not wishes? Are you sure I am the one taking this thread waaay too seriously? I mean I am not the one busy trying to crucify others for not making "HAPPY" wishes, you are.

biko, please show me 1 place where I crucified you for having a different view from mine, just one. All my entries have been very lighthearted.

The poster asked a question and each person went on to post responses and BOOOM, it has been turned into an ambush on those whose wishes do not run with the HAPPY wish hidden agenda.

Let me help you, when you attack anyone for having a view different from yours, by claiming the person is a bitter human or has hate for Nigeria and so on, that is an attack. There is a different between attacking an opinion and attacking a person. In this case, if you open your eyes well, you will see that you and your friends have actually been attacking individuals and not opinions, get it now

oga kobojunkie no vex. I have not attacked yours or any one elses character anywhere on this thread. I'm just saying that you don't hafta been so negative, but then again like you said its your perogative and I don't begrudge you for that, I just wish (no pun intended) that you had something different to say, that's all.

ah yes oh! it had a red cover . . . it must be the same nasty brand. I still have it in my kitchen cabinet though I'm not sure why I haven't thrown it out . . . I guess I remember I paid $6 whole dollars for it . . .

omoge:
i told the guy once to try accepting things back plus give discount
guest what he asked me "where are you from, Jamaica" i was like am talking about your suya spice

it looks like a carbon copy of the store I went to, lol . . . as soon as you say something is weird or tastes different they'll look at you like you don't know anything and shouldn't be questioning the authenticity of their product and then ask "wiera you from?" lol

omoge:
lol

and black ogbono too hahaaha


yeah let us have your dad's website so that we can order online. used to live 1 hr from waldorf. when am home, i drive with my sister to obeng in silver spring. anyway, let's have the website.

suya spice is what i mostly want o

ha you just reminded me, I bought "suya spice" from the local ghanian store. I was so excited when I saw it and proceeded to make suya when I got home . . . you should have tasted that thing, the taste was light-years away from the real thing. I was like which kin suya spice be dis? it was horrible

 If to say na Shaws abi Stop&shop or CostCo I buy am I for take am back and complain and get my $6 back. But those guys will just be speaking twi in their horsy voices    and asking "ar you from africa?" "wiera you from?"