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Christianity EtcRe: Christian Doctors And Science Students (science Vs Religion) by Joshthefirst(m): 6:26pm On Jul 06, 2017
lepasharon:
He still a student, amberon too
a student of science. wink
Christianity EtcRe: Christian Doctors And Science Students (science Vs Religion) by Joshthefirst(m): 6:22pm On Jul 06, 2017
JackBizzle:
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Where you are wrong is that religions still oppose the little 1% that we know as human beings.

For instance, we know that prayer is useless from a scientific point of view. We also know that most miracles are lies. But religion no dey gree.


Furthermore, it is logical that an omnipotent God could be the rules of nature to create miracles. BUT DOES THE SKY DADDY EXIST?
prayer has nothing to do with science, prayer is spiritual. It is a supernatural communication, so why do you expect science to have an opinion on it? It is outside of the boundaries of science, so don't be unwise. Science is very limited, even in our bid to understand the physical universe. Man's heart yearns for the spiritual, and the impossible.

Life itself is a miracle. Things like people parading about with an unbelief in transcendence is a miracle.

It is not just logical, but it is necessary, for God to exist.
And telling someone to calm down and still using derogatory remarks like "sky daddy" is foolish of you. It seems you have a very annoying mentality that you are Intrinsically better and smarter than everyone else, and you are right and can never be wrong.
Christianity EtcRe: Christian Doctors And Science Students (science Vs Religion) by Joshthefirst(m):
JackBizzle:
This thread is for Christians who are scientists, whether they are doctors, lab assistants, technicians, engineers etc.

HOW DO YOU BALANCE YOUR RELIGION WITH SCIENCE? THIS IS VECAUSE THEY CAN BE POLAR OPPOSITE AT TIMES.

JUST LOOK AT THESE QUESTIONS

1. As a biologist, how do you explain Jesus rising from the dead, when you know that a dead body can't rise again especially after 3 days?


2. Where does Jesus's other set of chromosomes come from if Joseph is not his father (no biological father)


3. As a geologist, wouldn't there be earth or soil under any body of water? Then how could God in genesis claim to have floated over deep waters and created the earth?

4. How do you reconcile pastors healing diseases with no cure? How can someone be healed of Aids, Ebola etc?

5. How can an astrophysicist look at the vast emptiness of outer space and agree that a great omniscient God created such a waste?
I interpret the word "religion" more accurately as faith. How can I balance my faith with science? I don't. My faith and science are not at polar ends.

You should understand once again that science has it's limits, and it doesn't make any intrinsic assumptions about the extra-pyramidal, miraculous, or supernatural. YOU are the one who makes assumptions about the supernatural, science simply seeks to understand and methodologically investigate that within it's grasp, the physical, primarily.

So to your numbers:
1. We know that it is scientifically impossible (meaning current scientific methods have no way to accommodate) for the dead to be raised, but it is not impossible for the source of life to give it again, supernaturally.
2. See number one
3. Genesis says God made the waters recede from the land. Read your Bible well.
4. God, who created the body, has the power to heal diseases we are not capable of healing with our limited medical knowledge right now.
5. How can any man look at the beautiful balance of life's parameters and the intricacies of life itself at all levels and think there is no omniscient God?


I advise you not to make assumptions or be dogmatic or go through life pretending to know it all like an arrogant man, and be open to more knowledge, and seek to find truth, and truth will find you.
Christianity EtcRe: What Is A Man? By Mark Twain by Joshthefirst(m): 11:21am On Jul 03, 2017
Old man is wrong. Thought, does not come from extrinsic machinery of mind. Thought is independent and intrinsic, spontaneous expression of consciousness.

Thought can be INFLUENCED. But choice is independent, from spontaneous ones, to reflective ones. I have arrived at this conclusion, based on personal intrinsic reflections as well as reflections on the thoughts of others.

@theilluminatus: what is the mind? The mind is the inner voice that reads this words to you. It is the consciousness, the aliveness and intelligence that makes sense of a bunch of symbols of sensory input that you interpret as LOGICAL LANGUAGE.
Christianity EtcRe: Mathematics Professor John Lennox Destroys Shallow Atheist Reasoning by Joshthefirst(m): 9:12am On Jul 03, 2017
KingEbukasBlog:
lolz . He has been an atheist for over 5 years and has been arguing with Christian intellectuals for the same number of years . Its 2017 and the same atheist claims that an eternal being create itself . Can you just imagine ?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5XsgJp9g4


Isn't this the Attention Deficit Disorder we all have being telling them all over the world that they suffer from . Because they just don't pay attention . grin They just can't .

Fortunately , those who paid attention have dumped atheism .
This is really nice. I can point them to this video, because the question has been asked and answered on the platform countless times, this quite sums up the answer.
Christianity EtcRe: Mathematics Professor John Lennox Destroys Shallow Atheist Reasoning by Joshthefirst(m): 8:50am On Jul 03, 2017
PrecisionFx:
Yes. A mixture of that.
so what's your point?
CareerRe: 4 Signs You're Just Not Cut Out For The 9-to-5 Life by Joshthefirst(m): 7:15am On Jul 01, 2017
Many aren't given a choice. They're suddenly thrust into the 9-5 life, without any escape, or thoughts of escape...except maybe during midlife crisis
Christianity EtcRe: For Fun - Popular Contributors To Religion Section by Joshthefirst(m): 7:28pm On Jun 29, 2017
sonofluc1fer:
Make we play na cheesy
na only daily I fit play. No live, unstable network. If you still in challenge me
Christianity EtcRe: For Fun - Popular Contributors To Religion Section by Joshthefirst(m): 7:07pm On Jun 29, 2017
sonofluc1fer:
This thread was supposed to be for fun. If this is fun.... Wahala dey o.. grin grin
lol
Christianity EtcRe: For Fun - Popular Contributors To Religion Section by Joshthefirst(m): 7:06pm On Jun 29, 2017
sonofluc1fer:
Bros sad
sorry abeg
Christianity EtcRe: For Fun - Popular Contributors To Religion Section by Joshthefirst(m): 6:15pm On Jun 29, 2017
analice107:
He is an atheist though, but mature and doesn't leave issues to attack and insult characters unlike these children here who are badly brought up.
lol. Thanks for the upvote analice.
Christianity EtcRe: Mathematics Professor John Lennox Destroys Shallow Atheist Reasoning by Joshthefirst(m): 5:51pm On Jun 29, 2017
JackBizzle:
Look at the bold. You said that an eternal being can't be created but the being created itself
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Do you know what eternal means?
Christianity EtcRe: Mathematics Professor John Lennox Destroys Shallow Atheist Reasoning by Joshthefirst(m): 5:48pm On Jun 29, 2017
^^
I know about the genome you see, so I'm even more fascinated when I ponder the wealth of intricacies of genetic information than a layman.

And I'm dumbfounded when people who are learned men deny the obvious. It's a showcasing of human stubbornness in the face of their genius. A prime example of dogmatic thinking.

One will look at a cell, and say it arose by chance. How unfortunate. John Lennox has really summed it up here.
Christianity EtcRe: Mathematics Professor John Lennox Destroys Shallow Atheist Reasoning by Joshthefirst(m): 5:44pm On Jun 29, 2017
KingEbukasBlog:
Please pay attention to the third time he went beast mode . Start from 9:00 cool
Quite a great and eloquent presentation of a powerful point
Christianity EtcRe: Christians , Please What's Your Take On This by Joshthefirst(m): 5:55pm On Jun 11, 2017
KingEbukasBlog:
I don't think its a sin that pornographic images are used to sexually arouse the man so that his sperm can be retrieved . Use this logic : Killing is a sin but war against an oppressive enemy , self defence and abortion to save the mother's life are not considered sinful.

When you stare lustfully at a woman , its for the pleasure of the flesh but if you need to so as to run fertility tests then why should it be a sin ? How else will orgasm be achieved if not through steady arousal ?
Lol. I have no answer to this bro. I have no labels to pin here. Whatever anyone does in this case is between that person and God.
Christianity EtcRe: Christians , Please What's Your Take On This by Joshthefirst(m): 5:50pm On Jun 11, 2017
Pidgin2:
That would be fornication
So a man receiving treatment for say a prolactinoma cannot undergo a fertility review? I find this unsuitable.

I still hold on to motives in this case shaa. God will discern, not us. We learn everyday.
Christianity EtcRe: Christians , Please What's Your Take On This by Joshthefirst(m): 2:57pm On Jun 11, 2017
felixomor:
Masturbation done for medical purpose isnt a sin.
But u and I know majority dont do it for medical purpose

Masturbation falls under Lasciviousness.
Its a manifestation of the flesh.
It has killed the spirituality of many young men.
In some places abortion(one not done to save the mother's life) is considered a routine medical procedure. Doesn't make it right.

Pidgin2:
As to your question, won't they give him pornographic materials to view so that he can get aroused? The photos he looks at to get an erection are not his spouse's image, they belong to other women so he has committed a sexual act with the image of a woman he's not married to
I understand, and I largely have this piont of view, but I have a question about it also. Single unmarried men also may undergo fertility testing requiring them to produce semen for examination. What do you say to that?



Note that I also believe thinking lustfully about someone who isn't your wife is wrong.
Christianity EtcRe: Christians , Please What's Your Take On This by Joshthefirst(m): 10:43am On Jun 11, 2017
Pidgin2:
Will the initial process of sperm retrieval involve masturbation? Then it's a sin but without the masturbation, how is surrogacy a sin, it isn't
Why is masturbation a sin? It's just a question. No strings attached. In medicine we may want to examine semen for some issues like fertility, etc. The man has to ejaculate and bring samples. I don't know of any non-surgical method of sperm retrieval without erection and ejaculation.

To the op, I think as someone has already said, it all depends on motive.
I see no wrong in surrogacy itself. My opinion.

But I'll also advise that it is healthy for a child to grow up in a stable family environment with a mother and a father.
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 5:12pm On Jun 06, 2017
dalaman:
Which truth? Your truth is subjective because it is a lie to another person. What you call the truth is not objective as such can not be called truth at all. Its simply make belief.
So there is no truth at all?



Life has no meaning on its own part from survival. Humans chose to ascribe what ever meaning they want to give to their lives that is why the meaning of life varies from human to human and across various cultures and religions.



The purpose of.life is what you chose to make of it, that is why different people ascribe diffrent purposes and meanings to their lives. God is a human creation that is why there are different Gods and religions all created by diffrent cultures and civilizations.
Survival is life's meaning? That's nonsense. What is there to survive for when death is inevitable? What is the point of suffering and struggling to survive a pointless and inconsequential life? Apart from maybe smoking weed if that appeals to you.
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 4:57pm On Jun 06, 2017
sonofluc1fer:
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Like higher purpose has any meaning. Suicide bombers act according to higher purpose. When dafuq has higher purpose meant good, great or even useful purpose? Stop bringing your 'church grammar' to public forums.
higher purpose is simply purpose. A good reason to live or die. To move forward. You have none. Pointlessness.

How? Na wa.. Surely, you know better. Achievements and aspirations can be reached and achieved without carrying the corpse of a dead God on your mind. You know better.
What's the point of achievements and aspirations if there is no purpose or point to existence itself? Why go to all the trouble? Better just spend what time you have smoking pot.

Life isn't cruel. Life is. Life is impartial, just like nature. Remember those Nigerian Christians bombed to smithereens by Boko Haram years back? Life. The others that were in TB Joshua's collapsed building. Life. I have good friends around me and weed too. I enjoy life. I live life. I take the good and bad parts of it. That's life. Brother, you can't understand while the cross of that Jew weighs upon your skinny black ass.


Your mind has never been steeped in any sort of thought. African man believing in a dead Jew. You obviously have never looked at a map.
I understand life much more than you. Notice that all the examples you gave of life are of DEATH. What an irony, what a tragedy. It looks like your beliefs are beginning to Influence your subconscious. The only useful thing you have to look forward to in your meaningless and pointless life is death atheist.

I have hope, joy, and the love and relationship of God that transcends even death itself. That is life and living. I look forward to waking up and making achievements tomorrow, because my actions count both now and in eternity.
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 4:43pm On Jun 06, 2017
sonofluc1fer:
Hehehe. I wonder if y'all jack off to thoughts of Hitler, Stalin and all those other Europeans you're so desperately in love with. Eurafrican. grin grin

Oh and yes, life is pointless. You can believe in the after-life, if that gives you a sense of purpose and usefulness. Some of us find purpose and meaning in interactions with other life forms. One doesn't need GOD to appreciate smile, beauty, death, hunger, hardwork, pain, sorrow. That's life.


It's unfortunate you'd never be able to understand that. You're too trapped in your God delusion, you after-life Conqueror. May the Good Lord grant you all the earth you require to rule when we unbelievers are all dead and gone.
Now you're beginning to get it a little. Your life is pointless. If your life is pointless then all your fancy purpose and meaning and life forms smiling nonsense is a huge pile of pointless sheet that has no meaning.

I'd rather reside in God-delusion than subscribe to this nonsense. And if you believe life is pointless then stop trying to convert me to your pointless meaninglessness and leave me in my so called delusion.
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 4:37pm On Jun 06, 2017
sonofluc1fer:
Lol. It's still tough for y'all to comprehend atheism isn't a religion. Or a set of rules. WHat dafuq does true to atheism means? WHat next? Atheist takwas? Blaspheme? YOur minds are so steeped in religion, it's difficult, near impossible for you to comprehend life without those institutions or terminologies. Can't blame you though. You're a Nigerian afterall, where people pray before eating meals and after having sex.
Atheism, means a lack of belief in God. A non-belief in God. Such a worldview has implications and consequences, atheist. One of it's implications is that there is no higher purpose or meaning in your life. Death sheets and laughs in the face of all your achievements and aspirations and whatever you do or want to do. There is no point to anything, other than enjoying the cruel existence of life before passing away to dust.

Your mind has never been steeped in critical thought about your belief in unbelief. But I don't blame you.
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 4:33pm On Jun 06, 2017
dalaman:
What is the meaning and purpose of life that is universally acceptable by all humans?
why should it be universally acceptable? When we are all different? When some of us have not yet come in contact with truth? When all of us are free to choose to reject truth?

So because there is no meaning or purpose that is universally acceptable then there is no meaning at all? Try to examine your thinking carefully, examine both sides of the great argument and consider the veracity of your worldview.

If we don't all have universal purpose then there is no purpose
If we don't all have universal rule then there is no rule
Because we all worship different God's then there is no god?

Illogical nonsense.
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 4:27pm On Jun 06, 2017
sonofluc1fer:
You greedy fella. Why would you want to live forever? Bitter truth, you won't. You and everyone else you know will eventually die and be forgotten. Life works that way. cool cool

You can believe the lie that you'd be living forever. While there's life, that dream remains valid. Unfortunately, death is as sure as heaven is uncertain. cool In brief, Bleep your beliefs.

And if you need heaven to appreciate life, you never deserved to live in the first place. tongue
Lol. You foolish fella. Why would anyone want to die? My life is worth living, though your pointless life is a huge assault and insult(I'll understand if you want to die), only a wicked one will cause you to take breath and open your eyes to the thrill of living only to end it in pointless nothingness. Your truth is a lie that even you do not believe. Is life a gift then to be appreciated? It is only an accident, a cruel one if what you say is true. Why waste time hustling and looking forward when there is no forward to look to? You, an inconsequential speck in the universe? Do you appreciate life then? What is there to appreciate If you and Hitler and everyone will end up dead and forgotten? If that was life, then i'd rather have not been born.

That is not life. You and I know that. So I'll advise you to empty your foul beliefs, for they take much faith, effort and foolishness to be subscribed to.
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 4:16pm On Jun 06, 2017
dalaman:
Of course death ends all. Even planets and stars die, so what exactly are you on about? You will live after you doe but only that you will live in Allah's hell.
If death ends all then there is no point to life and moving forward so stop disturbing me with your meaningless sheet. Wallow in your pointless existence and leave me and others alone to look forward.
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 4:12pm On Jun 06, 2017
sonofluc1fer:
On the contrary, I've always been a proud Hell candidate, if that shit exists. grin grin
No be poo o. Hell may be a party. You will live forever, and who knows, you may see some buddies. Just that you may have to make your own sun and home, after all you've rejected the one who could make them easily for you...you may also encounter more powerful beings filled with hate for you too, that'd be very bad. I don't know for sure how hell will be, and I don't wish it for my worst enemy. Any life outside of my loving father is hell enough for me.
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 4:02pm On Jun 06, 2017
dalaman:
You'll wake up in Allah's hell. If you escape that you'll reincarnate as a house fly. You won't escape that at all.
Comparison is no answer. It doesn't change the hopeless pointlessness that is your life. A life without a point, an accidental existence that will eventually be swept up in the eons of so called evolution, culminating in death.

I don't believe you're true to atheism. I have yet to come across one who is.

The truth is there is a higher power that birthed all the is. And as conscious moral beings, we will stand before him one day. He birthed freewill in his love, and shares a relationship of love with many.
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 3:58pm On Jun 06, 2017
What do you guys live for sef? If your life truly has no meaning or purpose then it is wicked of you to come online and rob others of meaning or purpose for themselves. Better to let them inhale the so called opium of religion, or better yet, sit with them and get high and laugh with them.
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 3:55pm On Jun 06, 2017
dalaman:
You are already thinking foolishly na.
No. You are. And if you were really true to your foolish thinking, you'd realize the futility of a life without direction or purpose or point, and you will embrace the hopeless pointlessness that is your existence and live for nothing, looking forward to death laughing in the face of all of life and sciences and arts and humanities achievements.
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 3:53pm On Jun 06, 2017
sonofluc1fer:
shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked
Sounds wonderful. cry cry cry

So I give my life to Christ and all that is mine?



Hehehe. Enjoy your dreams, Bro. You'll be dead soon anyways..
We'll all die soon, but we'll wake up. I'll wake up to light. Some others will wake up in the company of darkness. I hope and pray that you'll join us in light shaa.
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 3:51pm On Jun 06, 2017
dalaman:
Keep.dreaming and imagining.
I'm awake. But even then, I'd rather dream than destroy my own hope and meaning in life through foolish thinking
Christianity EtcRe: A Simple Rebuttal To One Very Common Argument Made By Atheists . by Joshthefirst(m): 3:50pm On Jun 06, 2017
sonofluc1fer:
He can keep his heaven. I don't wanna be a part of it anyways. Have fun with your plenty mansions and streets of gold. Una no get sense I swear. grin grin
One more thing; If you don't want to be a part of heaven and it's light why do you complain when you're left in outer darkness? Nawa for you o.
You don't want heaven, so stay away from it and don't complain. You and jackbizzle can dance around in meaningless futility or dark silence for all eternity nau. cheesy

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