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Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 11:41pm On Aug 09, 2017
realtem:
That's not an heaven i'll want to be in anyway
What?

Free food, booze and p*ssy? Count me in please!!!
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 10:10pm On Aug 09, 2017
edicied:
In Muslim heaven, you can do anyhow grin

Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 8:33pm On Aug 09, 2017
HardMirror:
oh cool
I am interested
I think this where my discussion with dorox saw God enter the table, were have been talking from the start of the thread but at that juncture God entered and the discussion began to sweet well well.. take a look

https://www.nairaland.com/3138024/cosmological-philosophical-forum/3
Christianity EtcRe: Malaysian Minister Declares To Hunt Down All Atheist In The Country by johnydon22(m): 8:00pm On Aug 09, 2017
butterflylion:
How can you say the faithful are the danger when the same faithful live by divine moral codes that transcend the laws established by men?

What moral laws do atheists live by? They live by those established by men but let's assume such laws established by men cease to exist what would happen to their morality? Let's assume that for some reason one can circumvent this man made laws would an atheist not commit the crime as long as he or she is sure they would not be caught?

The divine higher morality at law in the faithful keeps their conscience alive and even though they also have the tendency of defaulting they also have a higher tendency of listening to the inner voice or conscience and declining. That much I wouldn't say for an atheist.

Hahahaha it's open season on atheists in Malay. cheesy cheesy
The post still shows the faithful's morality in full glare, there is nothing more for me to add to it
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 7:38pm On Aug 09, 2017
HardMirror:
yes like me admitting I am wrong about God right?
Not necessarily about God actually but you may also, opinions change so if yours does you may well agree.

and where have u gotten an honest reply from the religious folk ? how have they honestly replied u r thread? lol.
There is no need for argument if people do not defend their positions and opinions, basically i enjoy the arguments

let us just be honest with ourselves here. I got no time for tongues in cheeks. I will spell it out. There is simply no HONESTY here.
You are probably right, we all are biased in some way even without realizing so i wouldn't argue that statement.

i have argued with the likes of Dorox who is theistic and i can tell you he is one of a kind, our discussions is like butter in oil, i will try and find the links ..
Christianity EtcRe: Malaysian Minister Declares To Hunt Down All Atheist In The Country by johnydon22(m): 6:12pm On Aug 09, 2017
40kobo77:
Very good.

A faithless man is a dangerous man.
i think rather the post presents the opposite of this comment, the faithful is the danger here
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 5:36pm On Aug 09, 2017
hahn:
Having a discussion is only fun when it is had with people who are ready to have their opinions criticized and also ready to admit when they wrong.
It works two ways brother, are you also ready to admit when you are wrong?

Otherwise it is a waste of time. There are a million better ways to make use of one's time
There are million better ways to use our time i agree but one can still chose to use it this way when he/she is free. it's a choice
Christianity EtcRe: To All Atheists In The House! by johnydon22(m): 5:34pm On Aug 09, 2017
OLAADEGBU:
This is the challenge atheists face and we know why. cheesy
ok
Christianity EtcRe: Mammy Water Live In My Shrine (video) by johnydon22(m): 10:26am On Aug 09, 2017
Babalawos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFNI0FT6WsY

Mammy water is a water spirit that is different from Olokun or Osun or Oya or Oba or Yemoja....etc

Although they are all water spirits but they operate differently.

Both Olokun and Mammy Water use similar symbols which represent water and are used as a vehicle into the spiritual world.

I took this video during evocation of Mammy Water in my shrine at Benin City, Nigeria.

10 BENEFITS OF MAMMY WATER IN YOUR SHRINE OR HOUSE

{1} Immortality

{2} Revenge

{3} Power

{4} Money

{5} Children

{6} Husband / Wife

{7} Fame

{8} Long Life

{9} Protection

{10} Business Boom / Employment

Thank you for reading, leave a comment

Babalawos
I was hoping to see real mermaid as the name implies not carved woods, common mehhn!!
Christianity EtcRe: Mammy Water Live In My Shrine (video) by johnydon22(m): 10:25am On Aug 09, 2017
GrandFinale2017:
i'll locate ur shrine at Benin City and I'll destroy it and set all ur idols on fire
Are your churches impervious to destruction and fire?
Christianity EtcRe: Mammy Water Live In My Shrine (video) by johnydon22(m):
GrandFinale2017:
i'll locate ur shrine at Benin City and I'll destroy it and set all ur idols on fire
What for?

aren't others also free to practice their religion just as you are?

Isn't this just as much as an act of terrorism as boko haram burning churches?

doesn't this make you both a dangerous fanatic and a terrorist just as much BOKO or Isil or other extremist groups?

would you shout foul when someone burns your church for the same reasons?
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 10:16am On Aug 09, 2017
HardMirror:
I have given up on nairaland. honestly u can't have sane and intellectual arguement here. I begin to agree with hahn, it makes more sense to take advantage of the gullibility of Nigerians than trying to enlighten them.
At some point in my journey (That is now) i no longer claim to be perfectly or absolutely correct on my opinions, i am beginning to enjoy paying attention to other people's points and perspective too, willing to also learn from them and let them enlighten me not about me doing the teaching and enlightenment but still i air my honest opinions about the subject being argued.

Maybe that is the reason i began to enjoy it once more
Christianity EtcRe: Why Heaven Can Never Be A Place Of Joy For Sane People. Facts by johnydon22(m): 10:10am On Aug 09, 2017
HardMirror:
johnydon22 more reasons to shake u r head at the stupidity of Christians. They simply don't think
I wouldn't call it stupidity really, it more like an exhibition of a profound hope and sometimes things we hope for isn't really feasible but still we hope. Belief can take the form of hope.
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 9:21am On Aug 09, 2017
HardMirror:
the very questions I have asked and not gotten an answer to. The very reason why I am so confident heaven can't exist.
there cannot be such a thing as perfection when there is freewill
CultureRe: Lagos state govt To Host 1st Ever Beer Festival Week Long by johnydon22(m): 7:52am On Aug 08, 2017
It's already a culture in Enugu state. Every end of the year there is a beer carnival hosted for more than 2 weeks in Enugu.

Drinking and enjoyment every night.
Christianity EtcRe: A Weird Encounter In My Local Church by johnydon22(m): 7:35am On Aug 08, 2017
youngin:
Bro.... I even think say na whatsapp group she dey talk about at some point
E tire me o
Christianity EtcRe: A Weird Encounter In My Local Church by johnydon22(m): 7:02am On Aug 08, 2017
The whole story revolves around God said, and I had a revelation and I had a dream - this is exactly the way you live?

On the dream, visions and voices in your mind?
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op):
That humans have an innate desire to live forever is quite an untrue assumption, humans more like fear death is truer than the former statement.
Christianity EtcRe: Lets Talk Philosophy: The Socratic Triple Truth Filter (A Must Read) by johnydon22(op): 8:59pm On Aug 07, 2017
Ermacc:
Since its Philosophy,
Sure my brother, Philosophy sometimes can be a real pain, sometimes my brain will start paining me seff.. grin

Question 1: Truth can not be said to be absolutely constant, it has been found to vary with time, perspective and so on.
True but on this very instance the truth of the matter is the certainty of the messenger on actuality of his news, so if he is uncertain then how trusted can that news be?
Question 2: What is good and what is bad is relative.
Sure, now this goodness according socrates in this example is about the implications of the alleged news/event, take for instance he wanted to tell socrates that "His wife is cheating on him with one of his friends"

this news isn't good neither will you want to take actions on the basis that it was true and it turns out to be false thus the first question

Question 3: The usefulness of any information does not rest entirely on the messenger. It's the receiver who finally decides it's uselessness or usefulness
both can agree on that
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 8:47pm On Aug 07, 2017
winner01:
Doing great. Just wish I could spend more time here. cheesy
we all do but at some point we have more important things doing, money must be made you know
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 8:43pm On Aug 07, 2017
winner01:
Lol. Why in Gods name would i care about what's happens on a cosmic scale when I can use my abilities to the fullest in the only chance I got got.
cosmic perspective - Grand scale spanning through time

earthly perspective - here and now

many atheists believe that the universe care should nothing about us, wouldn't it be fair enough to reciprocate the gesture? Tit for tat smiley
the universe is billions of years old (If you buy that), humans we live for say 100 years that is not even up to the fraction of a second in contrast to the universal timeline.

You may be indifferent to the universe since it spans more than your reach, the here and now, humans around you are just as fleeting as you are therefore matters more since the implications of your actions rests in the here and now.

If you give alms to a homeless man, it doesnt distort the orbit of mars neither will it help reverse the expansion of the universe rather it's implication can only be felt by the man who received the help -in here and now, right here on earth, at that very point, at that very moment in your lives.

So are x-ray images, stainless steel, plastic and many other things we enjoy.
Ultimate meaning is what these don't have. Why should I want to hold on to ultimate meaninglessness?
Well my point has been passed across apparently, accidental doesn't equate meaningless, ultimate meaning and non-ultimate meaning becomes another subject.



Which one is earthly perspective and heavenly perspective?
I'm quite certain i explained above boss

Have you ever gone through the following scriptures?
Philippians 2:4
Act 20:24
Romans 12:9-10
Amongst others.
i wouldn't know if i have, i will check them out when i am free and read more about them

Still does not matter. I have a right as much as you or carl Sagan did not to give a damn about what you care for the universe or what the universe cares for you.
Oh you do and also have a choice to consider the implications of your actions in the here and now not about the universal implications, the earthly implication, the societal implication, the human implication is just enough for you as a human in a human society living on earth.
Christianity EtcLets Talk Philosophy: The Socratic Triple Truth Filter (A Must Read) by johnydon22(op): 8:10pm On Aug 07, 2017
We all have friends come over to tell us about some other person, we all have that Gossip moment every now and then.

what if i tell you there is a way you can cub that and minimize the rate at which people bring such information to you.

Having studied the philosophies of the great ancient philosopher Socrates, i figured out what is called the socratic triple filter test that can filter any information people bring to you.




READ THE STORY TO THE FINISH




So one of the most famous scenes of Socrate's life came when someone approached him promising information about one of his friends.




"Did you hear about your friend? i have something to tell you about your friend' he said.

"Wait before you tell me anything about my friend, can you please answer these three questions for me?" Socrates asked.

the following questions are what later got to be known as the socratic triple filter.





Question1: Are you absolutely sure that this information you are about to give me is entirely true?


"No how can i be so sure it is the truth, i just heard it from someone else" The man replied.




socrates nodded and threw the second question.



Question 2: Are you absolutely sure that this information is good?

"Uuuuhm no, not really something good" he replied again.





Socrates nodded again and asked the third and final filter question.




Question 3: are you absolutely sure that this information will be useful to me in anyway?

"I don't think so, it's just news" the man replied yet again.




So here you are trying to give me an information about my friend that you are neither sure is true, that is not good, that is not useful to me, why exactly would i want to hear it?" Socrates asked looking at the man.

The informant just shrugged and walked away disappointed.


There are lots of wisdom we can derive from this little story up there, we can apply these triple filter questions up there for any information we are about to receive.

Not only will it minimize the rate by which we take in negative informations, it will save many of our relationships.

please what are your thoughts on this?
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 7:31pm On Aug 07, 2017
winner01:
Boo""
Hahahahahahahahaha i hope you have been alright, it's being a while you know?

how are you fairing?
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 7:30pm On Aug 07, 2017
winner01:
not really but it arguably should make no difference to someone with a naturalistic worldview if I have a PHD or want to be an armed robber.
On a human scale, it would mean something to someone with naturalistic view but on a more cosmic scale, it wouldn't. It depends on what angle it is judged from and from scale of importance is.

As a Christian, I believe life is meaningful and valueable and not some cosmic incident.
Well yes i agree you believe so and that is quite profound, though being accidental doesn't really reduce the value.

Penicillin was accidental but still one of the most valuable and important leap in human medical science.

I do the best I can to help humanity and flow the life of God to others.
I like this reply, you see this reply. You divided your reply into two perspective, the heavenly perspective and the earthly perspective.

On the first instance above, you replied "not really" when i asked if we are going to use a Phd in heaven, which means from your heavenly perspective, a Phd is useless, its not useable in heaven, doesn't matter.

But now from your earthly perspective, what you do here can only be used to help humanity etc..

A naturalistic world view can also be divided thus.

a cosmic scale where a Phd is useless because you die and it ends and a smaller scale (earthly scale) where it is meaningful since it directly influences the world as it is this very moment.

Over to you. What does it matter to you if I'm a highly paid assasin?
From a human perspective, let me give a reply as Carl Sagan would " The evolutionary lesson is clear, humans are rare and they are young and vulnerable, if a human disagrees with you let him live because if you transverse the entirety of the cosmos, you will never find another.

Simply put: I live in the here and now, so whatever you do now and here matters to me sorely because of it's implications on now and here not here after
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 7:14pm On Aug 07, 2017
winner01:
To what end?
I mean, why should they bother?
We're all supposed to die, never to have any significant meaning in this meaningless accidental inconsequential world.
Why should it matter if some religious persons, skip a thread on the internet or masturbate on it?
What real meaning would it give?

Live your worldview man, you're demonstrating it to be unacheivable.
Do you think we are going to use our Phd in heaven ?

Mind if i ask what you are studying or studied in school?
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 7:13pm On Aug 07, 2017
winner01:
oh my bad. Pardon me. It's usually the end game of all atheist gimmicks.
with this type of assumption at the back of your head, how do you then understand a post before replying?

I have noticed here on Nairaland, everyone is in a box, they don't read the post to really understand the underlying points of the matter but just to reply and argue based on their preconceived assumption of the point you must have.

it is sad because i don't see any growth in that, it's an intellectual landlock, DoctorAlien replied without making such assumptions.

If someone told me the following "If a teacher existed, with the ability to teach us all subjects effectively without the exception of any subject, we would have heard of such teacher".
I wouldn't have much to conclude either smiley
Well it makes me wonder what exactly your first reply here was about since you already made a mistake by assuming the premise of the thread which turned out to be wrong.

Anyway forgive me brother for not replying it, it's much too bulky plus the pictures and all.

Have a good one and assume less
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op):
winner01:
And because God did not make man in the state in which we feel man should be made, then it makes God non-existent. Great logic. cheesy
Great assumption there but i am quite sure no where on this thread did i conclude therefore God did not exist, this thread wasn't about the existence of God it only questioned the feasibility of heaven/paradise/eternal bliss and sinless existence.

Maybe you should not have assumed to know the premise of the thread without really understanding the premise of the thread - again this thread does not argue that God does not exist as a matter of fact the whole argument is centered on the assumption that God actually exist.

Or maybe you should point out where the article states God doesn't exist or concludes thus, i'd like to see that.
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 4:36pm On Aug 07, 2017
DoctorAlien:
It is not about what GOD would do in heaven; it is about what the dwellers in Heaven have done while they were on earth. They had cultivated a character of holiness and obedience to GOD while they were on earth. The fact that even death, which is the ultimate price, could not change their character of obedience to GOD(Rev. 12:11) tells you that such a character is permanent, and they would dwell with it forever.

So, Heaven is safe, and sin will never arise again(Nahum 1:9).
A permanent character in freewill, that is highly unlikely. If us as beings in heaven can be sinless then it means that perfection of beings is attainable therefore creatable - God could have easily made man in that innate state of holiness that is permanent.

But if man goes up to heaven as man fully with freewill, how so can man not still sin/disobey/fall as Adam or Lucifer did
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 4:30pm On Aug 07, 2017
DoctorAlien:
How could you be a man without being born of men? You begin to wonder, why didn't GOD create 7 billion people on earth? It is because He has designed for our first parents to be the parents of all men. GOD created our first parents, and commanded them to procreate. Creating you directly into Heaven means you'd be an angel or any other being, but not a man. Don't you get it?
I get it perfectly well my brother and that still remains my point, If we are to end up in a perfect world for eternity, why weren't we (our ancestors) however you chose for it to be done created in a perfect world?

is God incapable of creating a perfect world?

If such blissful world is possible, why aren't we there?

why do we need to be tested in order to gain a perfect world?

And if this perfect world was possible, why weren't it the first port of creation if God had the intention of putting man in such a world?
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 4:21pm On Aug 07, 2017
DoctorAlien:
In heaven we would still be men, okay?(Rev. 21:3).

GOD actually values man more than angels(Jn. 3:16). Jesus Christ will, throughout eternity, bear the form of man. That's a privilege. GOD created man in His own image, but He did not create angels in His own image. It's a privilege to be a man. And I would rather be a man, than be an angel. Man is the crown of GOD's creation. Heaven would simply be a place of restoring man to his original position, and only then can we begin to know the glorious destiny which GOD prepared for man.
Good so which then brings the final question of the article into light; How then could man avoid being man in heaven, how will man not fall/sin/disobey again in this paradise?

what will God do differently in paradise to avoid the whole saga repeating itself all over again and thus it keeps going?
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 4:19pm On Aug 07, 2017
DoctorAlien:
How can man's disobedience call into question Heaven's purity? That's meaningless.

Man could choose to sin because he was created with freewill, just like angels.
And this further buttresses my point, if the earth was perfectly done in the first place and man's fall corrupted it - Man's fall due to his freewill as you have put it here.

What then stops man from exercising this freewill when he gets to the promised paradise?

Wouldn't that still lead man to sin/fall/disobey and thus we are back to where we started once more?
Christianity EtcRe: About The Idea Of Heaven And Eternal Bliss by johnydon22(op): 4:17pm On Aug 07, 2017
DoctorAlien:
This is where you miss it. Why do you think everybody won't be in Heaven? It is because only those who have cultivated a character of holiness would be able to dwell in Heaven's sinless company(Heb. 12:14).
I don't get this line brother, the first and last sentences seem to contradict by implication, mind reviewing?

Heaven is for only those who have shown on earth that come what may, they would never disobey GOD. These loved GOD(Jn. 14:15) to the extent that they would die rather than disobey GOD(Rev. 12:11). Can't you see that even in Heaven, nothing would make them disobey GOD, if they were willing to give up their lives on earth rather than disobey GOD?
this is exactly what my point was hitting: we could still love God if he created us directly into the promised perfect world...

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