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MeandSum: Please define God then. Again "God has appeared in his mercy, and has revealed himself to people in his mercy". That's the issue... he always seem to appear to other people. not to you.God is the creator. He has appeared to people. There are ttimonies everywhere. Unique ones. Arguing here with you is a waste of time. If you truly seek God, adress the eternal creator and ask him sincerely and diligently to reveal himself to you. Stop wasting your time here speaking arrogantly on what you know nothing about Hebrews 11:6 No one can please God without faith, for whoever comes to God must have faith that God exists and rewards those who seek him. |
mazaje: There is evidence of man visiting the moon,provide one single evidence of clear cut divinne healing like god healing an amputee or healing a very popular blind person. . .All the nonsense of god healed my cancer is nonsense because some cancers go into remission on their own. . .The nonsense we see like "A crippled was able to walk after many years" "or a deaf man was able to see" in crusades are all planned and scripted. . .Real miracles like god healing real blind people or amputees never happen. . .tell that to the blind people I've seen healed. And the testimonies of the men who had their limbs restored. The reason your words cannot faze me is because I've seen and tested and experienced these things myself. Yet you stay here and claim boldly that they never happen. Lol. I wonder if you feel threatened by these things. mazaje: Here is the problem with you, you always come here beating your chest but when shown how silly your assertions are you beging to cry like a puppy. . .In the bible Jesus healed even unbelievers. . .And the bible promised those that believe in him to do more wonders than he was written to have done. . .I know bible believing christians that have faith that god will heal them and it never worked, it will never work, i have a few bible believing friends that are amputees can you pray for them and ask god to restore their amputated limbs?. . .These guys truly believe. . .I am puting it to you that no matter how you believe and pray their amputated limbs will never be restored through prayers, you KNOW that VERY VERY well. . .no you see. We have seen people healed. I am putting it to you that God heals when we believe. And he even heals passive unbelievers as we believe. You cannot deny wrong-doing. We tell people they they are guilty of wrong and that Jesus saves. We don't insult them or demean them, we tell them the truth, their conscience and the holy spirit does the rest of the work. Speak your pretty words to the men who have cried and embraced Christ and life change, and you'll see that we need Christ is forgiveness in our world like never before. |
This thread is about losing faith, then a change in lifestyle. So I will speak of when I was almost losing faith. I was the typical religious kid. The "typical christian", even in scripture union since I was an infant. I feared hell, church was boring, the bible was boring. Didn't know Christ. Was beginning to lose faith. Maybe if I had come on nairaland in those days, I would have become a "staunch secret" atheist. I have enough vocal skill, I have enough strength of words to evoke decision-making change, I have an uncanny ability to steer people to my side with "natural words".(All these have changed now) But Just before that, I had the encounter, and became born-again. Yes, went for a camp-meeting, and was plunged into the depths of God-reality, never to break out again. All those years, I thought I knew God, I was wasting my time, I didn't really believe, any oppourtunity I got, I would act like a typical unsaved man. Then I got saved, and I saw the spiritual life in the bible. Then I looked some more, and I saw the intellectual life in those words. The hope. I've been walking with God ever since. I've proved this words: Hebrews 11:6 No one can please God without faith, for whoever comes to God must have faith that God exists and rewards those who seek him. Faith in God is reasonable faith born of knowledge, faith in God's non-existence is blind unreasonable faith. Knowledge of Christ, Is characterized by radical life-change ya know. There are many religious people who have nothing to do with Christ on our streets. We're meeting them. Changing them one by one with Christs light. We're showing the real-deal of Christ to nigeria. Preaching his love and his judgement, narrating salvation, living the life. People see this life, and cannot deny this change. Its yielding fruit. We're being stirred up in nigeria, we stand together for righteousness and integrity. We're everywhere. Look around. We might seem to be working behind the scenes now, but we'll soon burst forth. So in the midst of my confusion and darkness, as I began to lose faith, I had the God-encounter that changed my life forever. Today as I preach I trust God to flow through the words that I speak, and it bears fruit. The spark changed my friends too. I carry the flame everywhere I go. And by God, my life will continue to bear witness with this message that encompasses man's all. |
MeandSum: Very very convenient. Why can't you superimpose your faith on the amputee's faith and heel him? I thought with faith, you can move mountains. So, if you can move inanimate things, moving "faithlessness" out of that amputee should be a cake walk for god.what foolish idea do you have of God then? That would come to people on their terms? No. We come to God on his terms. We must believe that the creator exists, and he rewards those that diligently seek him. Even then, God has appeared in his mercy, and has revealed himself to people in his mercy. Some accept, some don't. God is not your houseboy. If you want to conveniently deny his existence and his judgement so you can continue in wrongdoing, carry on. We're patient enough to wait till death to see the result of your actions, and the reward of our faith, born of knowledge. |
mazaje: How do you know that he will not believe after he sees?. . .Seeing is believing no?. . .Even the bible talks about signs that will follow the believers, it talks about believers performing wonders so that the unbelievers will see and believe. . . .Since your god's messengers have completely failed why not just heal an amputee so that he will see and believe. . .After all you guys always claim that your god is still in the divine healing business, curing cancers, AIDS, malaria, TB, healing the blind, raising people from the dead etc. ..But when asked for clear cut miracles like healing of amputees you always come up short. . .This only shows that all miracle claims are BOGUS. . .Any god that can heal the blind and restore their sight should be able to restore the amputated limbs of humans. . .Well we know that the people were never blind in the first place, pastors just pick people to act etc. . . .But they can't pick on amputees because they know they can use them to decieve people. . .All cases of divine healing are false. . .lol. See how you boldly make this claim. Sorry, but you can also claim man has never and can never visit the moon simply because nigeria has not. Amusing. |
Kay 17: @joshthefirstit is actually. Its written in everyone's heart. You made a wrong assumption it seems, and an ignorant one at that, in an effort to disqualify the lawmaker. |
Kay 17: ^^I understand the conundrum well. But my position is that time itself was birthed. What is yours? |
texanomaly: awwww...thanks Joshie ![]() |
texanomaly: I see you Josh...thank you ma'am. Happy new year in advance. God keep you and your family. |
Happy new year family. Blessed be the name of the lord |
Following and praying too. Love post number 2 |
Kay 17: ^^^no actually, the onus is on you who even denies the spiritual,( which I generalize in this case to be the timeless and spaceless realm) to prove that it is anti-physical. Kay 17: I cringe whenever I "hear" first cause.no. First cause reveals that the concept of time was started and put into relay by the cause. By first cause, we mean the cause of our universe itself, with its time and space and every other. |
Fulaman198: And yet there are several killings every day, there were killings in our holy books... the Qur'an and Bible, and if you are Jewish the Torah as well.so? The law is given to discourage killing and to provide justice for the guilty. Does the fact that say people steal everyday give you license to steal? Fulaman198: You do realise the implications of a woman being violated right? If a woman was a virgin, she would no longer be a virgin. Women should not be penalised for the crime a man commits.my brother, neither should the child be killed for the crime the man commits. Not so? Kay 17: Whoever drafted the 10 commandments, did not go to law school.too bad its written in our consciences, and the natural order of the universe correlates with it. When we begin to move the boundaries of absolute law, we only end up hurting ourselves, damaging our brains with pornography and lust, breaking hearts with adultery and immorality, murdering children in the womb, rebelling against natural order, chaos. We need a reconciliation. ![]() Happy new year. And are you male or female? |
ifeness: how? He can speak to me buy healing amputeeshe has before, but you still won't believe. Sorry, but he's too big to be interested in your kind of man. He said blessed are those who don't see me yet believe. And will you not think it hypocritical that after years and years of reaching out to you and you calling his messengers deluded smokers, he'll suddenly embrace you after you see an amputee healed? No. You will still remain adamant in your rebellion, like a little child. People encounter the eternal creator everyday. Happy new year. |
Fulaman198: I hate how my smartphone outputs so many typos. As a man, what makes you think you have the right to say what women do with their body? Do women tell you what to do with your body?there are many ways, but none should involve killing. Our freewill should not be used to commit evil. THOU SHALT NOT KILL |
mazaje: It tells me that they people living at that time were capable of acheiving great feats assuming the story was true. . .The pyramid of giza has always been among the 7 wonders of the world, It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact, it is thousands of years old. . .Mordern scientist still marvel on how it was constructed. . .yeah. Men have always been thinkers. Innovators. Happy new year in advance sir. Keep being an innovator, keep thinking. |
mazaje: Really?. . .Is there a shortage of bones and flesh?. . .he speaks of faith. There must be belief in God for him to heal and restore. Anyone who believes will have what he says. Mark 11:24 For this reason I tell you: When you pray and ask for something, believe that you have received it, and you will be given whatever you ask for. |
Logicboy03:if my sibling dies and survive, I will mourn, and I will begin to analyze the situation. If I cannot get answers, I will wait on God for comfort. There's always a reason. And God is always good. But everyone will pass through suffering in this world. Will pass through death. rationalmind: Lol, some will take butthurt into the new year.I don't butthurt. Happy new year. Sorry also, I probably get on your nerves too much. I tend to be always blunt and vehement sometimes. I am sorry too. Happy new year. ![]() |
mazaje: Brother learn to read before shooting blanks. . .I never used the word stone age man in this thread, you can re-read all of my posts here on the thread. . .okay, but what does the scientifically proven very specific dimensions of an ark capable of withstanding waves of 100ft telll you? |
Logicboy03: Dont mind josh.....na butthurt dey worry am Happy new year abeg. Begin to talk to God small small. Little by little. Stop denying him. It will do you no good in the long run. Adress the real God, the true one, the eternal one, the just one. |
Logicboy03: To luck? To evolution for granting me heakthy genes from healthy parents? To my parents for caring for me? To charles darwin, richard dawkins and my alma matter for educating me?you personify luck? I see no sense in giving thanks to non-directed randomness. You personify evolution too? What has the new year and the preserving of your life got to do with darwin and dawkins? I see pointlessness. Happy new year. ![]() Reyginus: Happy new year guys. Guys quarelling already.no be quarrel we dey quarrel na. Na discussion we dey discuss. ![]() |
[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]Its not that you'll be dead exactly. Your soul will be born in another body. You see, we are not advocating the killing of developed/grown-up individuals who are handicapped/r.ape-born,etc. We are talking about the infant/pre-infant stage. @your second point, what do you mean by selfish interests of the mother ![]() It is not the mothers fault that she was r.aped. Neither is it her fault that she doesn't want to die. It all depends on the circumstance! [/quote]does the infant/ pre-birth stage make anyone less human?It is not the childs fault that he came into being. Yet he will pay the price of things that happened without his hand with his willing death? Because he cannot yet cry out in pain? What circumstance justifies the unlawful killing of a baby in the womb? Fulaman198: It truly sadly is a male dominated world. So because a woman is wronged, she should pay for a mans sins? Does that make sense? A man should be the one paying for his own sins. I reiterate my statement, if a woman is improperly violated, she has every right to do what she wants with her body. It is not the deception l decision of selfish lustful men to carry out.and a child should pay for the sins of its father because of the simple inconvenience of its mother? It is truly a selfish world. Where we take a childs life for happenings it knows nothing about. Where it is the decision of a selfish mother to take the life of the unborn. |
mazaje: Brother pls stop allowing Joshthefirst to be peddling lies. . .The Noah's flood story remains a myth. . .It never happened, there is no scientific evidence for it and there is also no historical evidence for it. . .There is no evidence to show that the planet was destroyed completely by a flood about 6000 years ago. . .The pyramids of Giza which you alluded to where actually built around that time. . .People were living and writing their histories in places like China, Egypt, India and the Americas about 6000 years ago with out any interuption so the Noah's flood is just a plaigiarized myth from the epic of gilgamesh, that is where the Jews plaigiaried the story from. . .Christians now adays are claiming that it was a local flood because it is embarassing to claim that the entire planet was wiped out 6000 years ago leaving a drunkard and his family behind. . .forget about the flood then, and look at the very articulate dimensions of an ark written by a "stone-age man" |
Logicboy03: I just stated why I am thankful? Did you read the op? Or some butthurt is driving you? Let go of pain this new year ooo!!to be thankful is to be aware of a benefit and expressive of gratitude. So whom or what are you expressing gratitude to? |
Why are you thankful? What are you thanking? Happy new year! I thank God I'm alive |
ifeness: Why cant yahweh explain himself?he has, you choose not to believe in him, others choose to fashion him for their convenience |
rationalmind: You have been confirmed a liardon't worry, I presume other people can read and understand. |
Kay 17: "Who is behind it" one of the most biased questions possible.doesn't change anything. My next question would be the same why and what. But let us not derail this thread. |
rationalmind: ^ ^ ^ noted.This is the post I quoted and replied in context and yet you still find dishonest means to deny what has been spoken. Shame on you. Enough said. |
libero00: Bro in christ,(you are a slave for christ aren't you?) saw it somewhere in proverbs that says it is pointless to argue with a fool less you turn like him. At the rate at which you keep arguing with us, you might just turn out to be like us.sorry, but my post was not directed at you. And yes, arguing can never change a man for christ. Only God's conviction can. I argue for other reasons. And until you show us where we lied, you are simply showing your bias and prejudice and brainwash, rushing into an issue that you do not know of and accusing falsely without proof. Very low. |
Kay 17: ^^I understand. Now please show me how the transcendence of the first cause would become antithetical to the physical aspect of our universe. |
rationalmind: ^ ^ ^ ^But wait, are you really genuinely foolish?actually, you are the foolish one. Claiming that generally "stone-age men" were stupid. I have showed you proof that they were as smart as we were and it is our exchange of knowledge that makes us better, from the writings of same men and others and you come and start speaking of divine influence. Please where in my post did I show divine influence? Sorry, but the wind has blown away your feathers and exposed your ass once again. ![]() I should have just ignored you instead of making you embarass yourself like this. I apologize. |
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