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WantsandMore:
➜What if you’re wrong?

But there is no "what if I am wrong" here.

Tellmeastory:
➜Of course it talks about a god. The god is Yahweh. Yahweh cannot be the Source of All That Is.
➜The Ultimate Intelligence. How could he be? He orders massacres and rape in the Old Testament!

So, you admit you were wrong then!

2. Help me out here! Why can't the ultimate intelligence order those?

Tellmeastory:
➜THE BIGGEST LIE EVER TOLD IN THE WORLD IS THAT THAT BOOK CALLED “THE BIBLE” IS TALKING ABOUT GOD. THAT BOOK IS TALKING ABOUT YAHWEH, A TRIBAL DEITY OF THE HEBREWS OF ANCIENT ISRAEL.
➜IT IS AN ABSOLUTE EUROPEAN LIE AND DELUSION TO CLAIM THAT YAHWEH IS “GOD”.JUST 10 MINUTES OF READING THE OLD TESTAMENT IS ENOUGH TO SHOW ANY UNBRAINWASHED PERSON THAT THAT CANNOT BE GOD.

You contradicted yourself there. If the book is about YHWH, which is depicted as a tribal deity— God of Israel — much the same as every other deity out there, why do you then deny the book talks about a God?

2. This statement also does not make sense.

Infoguy666:
➜ One protester said: “I didn’t see any wrong in what they are saying, thought I dont know much details in what they are saying ” “I don’t know why am supporting him, I dont know the whole story”.
Another said: “I’m protesting because I want Senator Akpabio to win the position,” the demonstrator stated while joining the pro-Akpabio rally.
The protest happened amid ongoing tensions following allegations of sexual harassment against Akpabio by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.
While some protesters demanded Akpabio’s resignation, his supporters gathered to show solidarity, dismissing the accusations against him.

And these are some of the individuals Nigerians refer to as "wise" elders deserving of their respect, abi?

WantsandMore:
✓How did you come about the bolded?

It isn't rocket science! That is the story of most all Christians, no different from every other religion out there.

NomoreKobo:
➜According to me "He was not circumcised" ? Please point me to where I made this bold statement. I beg you. You read my posts and just interpret it in your words? It's scaring. Once again, pease point me to where I stated that Moses was not circumcised

. You didn't say that? My mistake!

What then was the essence of mentioning the uncircumcision of his son as a condition to negate the claim that Moses was a holy man at the time he was called to walk holy ground by the burning bush? Where is it stated in the book that a man with an uncircumcised son could not attain holiness?

NomoreKobo:
➜And you rounded it up to 500? How convenient of you.
➜ Oh you holier than thou Folks! You are just being pedantic. Alright then, let me try to be a pendant this one time... How is 430yrs, almost 500yrs? Is that how you do your rounding up of numbers?.
➜For a pedant, one would have thought you would give me the correct figure, rather than come up with a number (500yrs)that is way off the mark than the one I stated (400yrs).

1. I knew the number was higher than 400(counting the fact that Joseph was the first descendant of Jacob(Israel) who supposedly arrived in Egypt, became a prisoner, and later a governor all before his family came to join him much later). That is the reason why I stated that it was towards 500— no rounding attempted— instead of exactly 400.

2. There is nothing holier than thou here since that concept only applies as far as you religious folks are concerned. I am simply interested in the written facts in the book versus the many tales traded by you religious folks.

3. I don't walk around with exact values in my head, but the one thing I am certain of is that religious takes never line up with what is stated in the book.

WantsandMore:
➜I don’t know there’s something really genuine about how you indulge, more genuine than anyone else whose claim to other god blindside them.
➜I pray and hope you encounter God on your own terms.

How I indulge? I am against all religion so I don't do any of your indulging. Thank you very much! 🙄🙄🙄🙄

2. You mean the same Christian deity that has yet to answer your particular prayers throughout probably all of your life— not counting, of course, the few coincidences of life that you conveniently interpret as answers to prayers, knowing them deep down for what they really were? Come off it already! Even your mogs abi na gods of men look to you, their sheeple when they have need and not those deities they peddle to you all.

Mercylike:
Please advise me... Met her via Facebook and we connected well... She has visited me couple of times and I really enjoyed her but the thing is dt she is a single mother........ Not in bad relationship with her baby daddy but due to some issues, they never got married but have a daughter... She is a good lady and I really like her.... Just scared of the fact that she is a single lady.... What do I do

If the fact that she is a single mother is a red flag for you, why in the world should it matter what others have to say? Na others go come marry her for you, abi wetin?

NomoreKobo:
✓ Please show me from the "Israelite Scripture, the number of years (or its approximate) the Israelites spent in Exile. Please.

You can start by showing me exactly where you get the claim that it was exactly on the 400th year that Moses had turned 80.

40 The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years.
41 After 430 years, to the very day, all the armies of the Lord left Egypt.
42 The night they left, the Lord watched over them to bring them safely out of Egypt. So the Israelites will always celebrate this night each year to remember what the Lord did. - Exodus 12 vs 40 - 42

Exodus 12 claims the Israelites had been in Egypt for exactly 430 years by the time

NomoreKobo:
✓ Are you categorically saying that Exodus 4 Vs 24 is not part of the Israelite Scripture, but was fabricated by "religious folks" And whatever is written therewith is not true?
Please clarify.

Try to pay attention please! 😩

Recall that you had earlier asserted that Moses could not have attained holiness at the time he walked up the mountain to meet the burning bush since, according to you, he was not circumcised. I pointed out then that before the introduction of the Old Law of Moses, which came after the event, YHWH did not make circumcision a prerequisite for Holiness status. Shem, Noah, and even Abraham were not circumcised before YHWH justified them.

You had also mentioned Zipporah's act detailed in Exodus 4, and I pointed out that the entry in that chapter does not state that
✓ Moses was unholy
✓ Moses was uncircumcised
✓ and hence not that YHWH attempted to kill Moses there because Moses was unholy or uncircumcised.

In Exodus 12, we read that the foreigners who wished to be a part of the nation of Israel had to be circumcized even those we eventually learn that they were excluded from the reward of the Covenant of Moses since they were not of the bloodline of Jacob— they had to be descended from that bloodline to reap the afterlife promised in the Land of Canaan by YHWH. Hence, holiness did not apply to them even though they were required to be circumcised to eat the Passover meal and live among the people of Israel.

For you to now, after this—ask me if the verse was fabricated— is utterly ludicrous. I am like, where in the world does this idea of yours come from, any of what I have said so far? 🙄🙄🙄

NomoreKobo:
✓ Almost 500 years indeed

Stop believing everything religion tells you and read the book for yourself.

NomoreKobo:
➜You are using the scripture to contradict the scripture?
➜You believe what the Creator said in the scripture, but you don't believe what the scripture states the Creator said?
➜Phewww! And you have even taken it one step further- "Upon your closer review"? Review based on what?

1. Wrong! I am using it to contradict the claims that are born of Religion.

2. What creator? I said YHWH is the God who called Moses and, according to Him, the uncircumcised man among the descendants of Abraham would be cut off from among the people. Not sure how that translates to being killed or why you religious folks concluded that Moses must have been uncircumcised and hence the reason for what is written in Exodus 4.

3. Review of what is written in the book versus the claim made by you religious folks, which is that Moses was uncircumcised even at age 80. No scripture states that. In Exodus 12, we have the same Moses telling the Israelites that they needed to be circumcized in order to eat the Passover meal. Moses ate the Passover meal, did he not?

WantsandMore:
➜hmmm interesting POV, is there anything striking that made you come to this conclusion? You may say what you like, everyone’s entitled to their opinion but the Bible’s shares a timeless wisdom of the human race, except you claim to know everything, there’s a certain biblical truth that you cannot deny and that truth has been delivered by Jesus christ of Nazaren mandating every man to find God from within through him who is the truth and the life.

The Book is not of opinion but of supposed Israelite-related fact, from their history. Either one accepts fully the intended message of the authors of the book or goes on to write a book with a message completely different from that intended by the authors of the books in the bible. Religion has been doing the latter for many hundreds of years now, every single dogma/doctrine vomited from its many pulpits and altars remaining nowhere close to the original message.

NomoreKobo:
➜Uncle Exodus 4 Vs 24 On the way to Egypt, Moses stopped at a place to spend the night. The Lord met Moses at that place and tried to kill him.[a] 25 But Zipporah took a flint knife[b] and circumcised her son. She took the skin and touched his feet.

I definitely read what is written but more importantly, I know what YHWH instead said. So, I would rather default to what YHWH said. By the way, Exodus 4 DOES NOT state that Zipporah circumcized Moses.

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Upon closer review, I am not even certain that Moses was uncircumcised at all. His son was not as of Exodus 4 but Moses; there is no mention of him not being circumcized at that point in time.

NomoreKobo:
➜My first observation from your post is that you are buttressing my points. Now I wonder if we are even holding the opposite end of a stick. I gave a simplistic yet straight to the point answer but you bombard me with deeper interpretations of my statement. You lambaste me of be over religious (religious folks! religious folks!) yet your comments is being inundated with religious backings. Validated with religious narratives.
➜2: Moses encountered the burning bush while he was 80yrs olds-not his 80th birthday. Moses was 80 years old when it was the 400th year of the Israelites exile in Egypt. If Moses was 29yrs old during the 400th year of the exile. A 29yrs old Moses would have led the Israelite out of Egypt.

1. You should probably put on your glasses, as nothing of what I have said so far lines up with the claims you have made thus far. Here's the funny thing of all of this. I have offered you no interpretation whatsoever as I instead regurgitate only that which is written in the book as it is written. I am a great believer in letting the book speak for itself as opposed to the twisting and skewing of words and meanings that is religion.

2. But this is wrong! Moses was not 80 years old on the 400th year of Israelites' exile in Egypt. The very claim that it had to be the 400th year came from religion and not from Israelite Scripture.

NomoreKobo:
➜MOSES WAS CALLED AT THAT POINT BECAUSE THE 400 YEARS OF EXILE WAS AT HAND. COME ON MAN?!
➜ MOSES HADN'T EVEN CIRCUMCISED HIS SONS BY THEN ( A very important commandment by GOD to Abraham and his descendants) - A DEFIANT ACT THAT ALMOST GOT HIM KILLED BUT FOR THE QUICK ACTION OF HIS WIFE.

1. The exodus took place almost 500 years after the Israelites had migrated to then become slaves in the land of Egypt, not before 400 years. If you did the calculating yourself, you would see this for yourself.

2. YHWH justified and called Abraham in Genesis 12 vs 1— Abram had proved himself a holy man then. It was not until Genesis 17, long after YHWH had made the promise to Abraham, that He, YHWH, then required that he and his descendants circumcize themselves as proof of the other agreement, which was to make Abraham and his descendants a great nation.

1. When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him. He said, “I am God, All-Powerful.[a] Obey me and live the right way.
2 If you do this, I will prepare an agreement between us. I will promise to make your people a great nation.”
3 Then Abram bowed down before God. God said to him,
4 “This is my part of our agreement: I will make you the father of many nations. 5 I will change your name from Abram[b] to Abraham,[c] because I am making you the father of many nations.
6 I will give you many descendants. New nations and kings will come from you.
7 And I will prepare an agreement between me and you. This agreement will also be for all your descendants. It will continue forever. I will be your God and the God of all your descendants.
8 And I will give this land to you and to all your descendants. I will give you the land you are traveling through—the land of Canaan. I will give you this land forever, and I will be your God.”
9 Then God said to Abraham, “Now, this is your part of the agreement: You and all your descendants will obey my agreement.
10 This is my agreement that all of you must obey. This is the agreement between me and you and all your descendants. Every male must be circumcised.
11 You will cut the skin to show that you follow the agreement between me and you.
12 When the baby boy is eight days old, you will circumcise him. Every boy born among your people and every boy who is a slave of your people must be circumcised.
13 So every baby boy in your nation will be circumcised. Every boy who is born from your family or bought as a slave will be circumcised.
14 Abraham, this is the agreement between you and me: Any male who is not circumcised will be cut off from his people[d] because he has broken my agreement.” - Genesis 17 vs 1 - 14

YHWH never did state to Abraham that circumcision came with a guarantee of holiness as you assume. Holiness, as was the case with Abraham, was obtainable without circumcision.

You mention that Moses was almost killed because he was not circumcized. Well, I am not certain if he would have been killed had his wife not intervened, as you say she did. Why? Well, because what YHWH instead said, in verse 14 above, is that any male who is not circumcized will instead be cut off from his people. And I don't have enough information to for sure claim that death was what YHWH meant when He said that.

Circumcision was given as a seal of the second agreement between YHWH and Abraham, not as a requirement of holiness. I mean, we read later that YHWH killed off many of the circumcized israelites in the desert, so it was not necessarily a fore-requirment for holiness, nor was it meant to ward off death.

WantsandMore:
✓ Okay Kobo. You lost me on this one.

If you opened the books to read for yourself, abandoning all of the other religious nonsense you have been filled with up until now, you would find the narrative contained in it is completely nothing of what even the religion of Christianity has been trading for almost over 1800 years now.

WantsandMore:
No doubt, Judgement is reserved for God which is why Jesus Christ admonishes us to Judge not, so that we may not be Judged. Mathew 7:1

Lies as expected! The same Jesus Christ of Israel equally commanded His followers to judge all things rightly.

As I said before, those whom Jesus Christ of Israel warned were not of Him includes the people of all religions -- Christianity included.

WantsandMore:
The New Testament warns of people who "profess to “know God” as you have consistently claimed but by your deeds and actions deny Him". It's a fair context.

Going by the books of Israelite Scripture, that list includes those of all religions including Christianity.

Nonsense storytelling!

NomoreKobo:
1. I could not comprehend anything up here👆🏾.Please make me understand .
2. Can you use a synonym of the word justified in your next comment, because I still fail to understand it's relevance here. And where or when did I say that the only thing that had a real impact is because he was born Moses?
3. To me, you are just a random guy online, a faceless fellow Nigerian that I do not know or care about. But to your parents, you are have an intricate value. You are not a random guy. In fact I believe your parents will be miffed with anyone who calls out to you "Hey random guy" in their presence. Therefore to the Creator no one is random.
4. If you indeed read my previous comment with reference to Abram, you would have seen the irrelevance of the above question or statement.
5. Please enlighten me about what was actually written concerning Moses by the Israelites.This is not a rhetorical plea, I am indeed serious.[/b]
6. What is the correlation between this statement👆🏾 and the matter in discuss? I can't even fathom whatever message you were trying to pass through it.

1. The story you tell of Moses and all the rest do not line up with what is written of them in Israelite Scripture. I find myself needing to depend on you to fill in the gaps in the story you continue to tell.

2. Make legitimate/rationalize/Vindicate....Recall here that your story did not state that this creator of yours contacted Moses before his 80th birthday. There had to be justification to explain the sudden contacting of him after he had turned 80 years of age. There had to be some catalyst to explain the sudden communication— a justification of sorts— after 80 long years of none.

According to you, what Moses did during those 40 years that he was not attempting to save his people mattered little to nothing since he was a special child born to carry out a special mission by your creator. That invariably means that even if Moses had also been involved in, say, the illegal trading of slaves or drugs during that time, it wouldn't have mattered because at the appointed time, he would have been called by your creator and sent off on the mission to rescue his people anyways, right?

3. My parents are not gods— they are humans like myself; hence, they are random people too. If your creator does not consider people random beings, then what about the man that Moses killed? Did you creator specially assign for him to die at the hands of Moses? Was it his mission to die at the hands of Moses? Was that an act rationalized in that sense or something?

4. The reference to a person called Abram is meaningless since you seem to be writing your own stories. You would need to fill me in on the details regarding your particular Abram for me to better understand what other weight that reference is meant to carry.

5. The book instead says that Moses of Israel, like his ancestors, had to abide by YHWH's every commandment and statute to become holy and then justified by Him, YHWH, the God of Israel. Moses' ancestor, Abraham, did the same— the faith He had is as a result of His careful submission and obedience to every one of YHWH's commandments and statutes (Genesis 25 vs 3-5)- it was not of chance or circumstance. In the Book, YHWH's requirement of men is that they first be justified by Him, and His Law is the standard by which that justification is obtained by men. If Moses had not learned of the God of His Fathers and done that which He commanded, He would not have become a holy man and would hence not have been invited by the God of His Fathers to walk the holy ground. If Moses had become a holy man before his 80th birthday, there was no reason specified in scripture for why Moses could not have been called at that point, too, given the prophecy that was given to Abraham was of a period, not an exact date.

Your own story seems to chuck what happened to Moses to chance and circumstance; you say he was born special, and it was just for that reason that he was called up at age 80 to lead his people.

6. Is Jesus Christ of Israel the creator who gave Moses a mission?

EXOUSIAng:
➜Now you get me right But it isn't actually the same thing. A christain will never accept that he is worshiping the same ultimate entity with an Ogun worshiper, and an Idemili and sango worshiper will never accept that he worships the same entity as a Muslim. The concept of religion is actually to make men blind. There is so much focus on the deities very little attention is given to the ultimate supreme entity. The few who have been able to see this are seen as being abnormal (above-nornal) The Greeks understood this. They called the ultimate entity Zeus, while they had other Gods. The Vikings understood this they him the ultimate entity Odin the Al'Father..
➜Every religion and culture has a place for an Ultimate entity...That ultimate entity is who I believe in. In order to understand him better. One need to see him from the eye of the various other deities.
➜There are so many perspectives to the Almighty God

. According to you, Religion is a form of blindness, yet here you are trying to convince me that your blindness, regarded as abnormal by others equally religious, is not blindness.

2. Again, you are repeating the same statement, which is that all deities direct religious folks to the same ultimate deity, exactly what you have repeated over and over.

3. So many perspectives mean you believe that this Almighty deity is the Elephant in the poem about the Six Blind men and the Elephant. So, why deny the claim you originally made, a claim that holds after all of this?

DarkLover:
➜I derives joy from helping others, I still helps in my little capacity, however, the question that always pop in my head is "why am I sent here?" You, my friend, have you discovered your purpose here?
➜I lost my dad at his peak of his career, yesterday I almost died, though from the cause of my actions. But then, good men dies, same as bad men, and on a daily basis. Is our existense that inconsequential?

1. What if there is, in fact, no higher purpose? You believe, without reason or evidence, that there is a higher purpose, but what if, after it all, you find there is no other purpose at all but that which is before us, which is to live well and die well?

2. No man is guaranteed a long life on this planet. Everyone will die. When no one knows. But we can live well with the hope that we will also die well. Importance and significance are all a delusion we create for ourselves, kinda like the many societal class systems we create to set some above others even though Death — the one to come to us all — has no respect for all those standards.

DarkLover:
➜I have so many reasons why I see knowledge as a curse, especially too much of it. If I begin to explain these reasons, I'll turn here to some literature & gothic classes.
➜Right from my childhood, I've always believed that I have a higher purpose here. Yes, I've helped strangers, gave people hope, make people smile, I've always been a shining light to others– a reference, but still, I believed that there's more to my existence.

1. What do you do for a living?

2. I, too, had the idea that I had a higher purpose from my childhood. Again, the act of believing in having a higher purpose without in fact having the details to go along with it is, as I see it, a delusion. I used to have that delusion myself, but over time, I realized it for what it is and, fortunately, accepted it as the nothing it is. I hope you can get over yourself soon, too.

This is why I say over and over that you religious folks are ever writing your own books as your claims never fit with what is. in fact, written in Israelite Scripture. 😩😩😩😩

NomoreKobo:
➜I say NomoreKobo, you say you be kobojunkie...oya na On a more serious note, this will be the first time you are asking pertinent questions and making pertinent statements, as per the discussion on ground. 1st Answer: Moses did nothing and and also did other things during those 40 years period
*In doing other things: Moses got married. Moses became a Father. Moses was a shepherd. Moses was living what one could term a normal dessert live
*In doing nothing: He didn't start training as a guerrilla soldier to liberate his people. He did not start a rebel army.
Moses had been declared a special child from the day he was born...Hence the reason he survived the holocaust carried out by Pharaoh against the new born male child of the Israelites in Egypt.
He had a mandate. The mandate came as a result of the things he did and also despite whatever he did in The desert.
As a result of what he did reasons- Moses was always in communication with his people in Israel through his elder brother Aaron and perhaps... i.e maybe through other sources. So he always had the burden of the enslaved people of Israel at heart. Despite what he did resasons- Moses got married,Settled down and became a professional herder.
➜2nd Arsenal: Humans will always go about their business-persomal interest and goals, But when the Creator calls you, just Answer. Or try to be in place where you can answer... Like don't kill your neighbour so dat you won't get lynched to death. Don't become an effeminate man-that is an abomination to the Creator.
➜Moses did a lot of things and didn't do a whole lot of things, but when the Creator called in the burning bush, he answered! Howbeit with a little bit of persuasion and magic. But he answered.
➜Answer like,Samuel, Answer like, Elisha, Answer like, Isaiah, Answer like, Peter and Co.
➜ Remember the rich young ruler Jesus Christ called? Well he didn't answer.

According to you, all the things that Moses did — Moses was always in communication with his people in Israel through his elder brother Aaron and perhaps... i.e maybe through other sources. So he always had the burden of the enslaved people of Israel at heart; Moses got married, settled down, and became a professional herder — which are things a majority do, and these had no real impact on the mandate, meaning they were things that were justified— they did not count against him at all, right? You claim that the only thing that had a real impact was that he was born Moses, abi?

2. And this almighty of yours can call any random human being anywhere trying to do any of those things you listed, is that it?

3. So, your creator, for no other reason except that Moses was born a special child to carry out a mandate, decided, after 80 years, to call Moses to a place regarded as a place? That is your story?

4. Um.... your story regarding Moses does not fit with what is in fact wertten of Him by the Isrealites, so, I don't expect your story regarding Samuel, and the rest to fit either.

5. But there was no mandate given by Jesus Christ of Israel to a rich young leader.

NomoreKobo:
➜The Creator told Abram that his descendants will be slaves in a foreign land for so n so number of years, yeah? Young Moses, being a zealot Israelite at heart wanted to free his enslaved brothers by the might of his hands, what happened? He didn't succeed. He had to flee Egypt for a long while. But when it was the will and appointed time of the Creator to free the enslaved Israelites, Moses went peacefully with the mandate of the Creator and he prevailed. What he couldn't achieve while he was young and full of youthful strength and a touch of royal glamour, he achieved when he was pretty passed his youth. You know, he was 80yrs.
➜So, in doing the will of the Creator (which was the core of the question I commented on), one must allow the Creator to present HIS will, and you just follow it, rather than present your own will to the father and press upon HIM to execute it for you.
Therefore, your interpretation of my commentary is rather off the point, I must say.

1. This na the main religious story telling wey dey give person headache. 😩😩😩 😩 😩

So, are you insinuating that Moses spent 40 years doing absolutely nothing or doing other things before this mandate came to him? Did the mandate come as a result of things Moses did during those 40 years? or did it come despite the things that Moses did during those 40 years in the desert?

2. What about the day-to-day activities/actions of human beings? Are those of no relevance where this idea of your creator is concerned?

NomoreKobo:
➜Here is an Analogy for you... In the grand plan of the Creator, it has been approved that I will be in Nigeria come end of this year. But due to my own free will-personal interest and goal; I actively start pursuing a US visa. I have the funds, I have the idea,so the time is right for me. Then I pray and commit everything into the hands of GOD .Make Baba GOD grant me success. But at the end of the year, my Visa pursuit ends in futility, and I am denied the Visa. Naturally, I go cry to Baba GOD "But Baba I pray and fasted for this Visa to work, I even gave a seed, why did you fail me. My faith was strong, I believed you had given me the Visa already..."
So tell me, where is the justification in that my personal pursuit and how is it evident that all is the will of the Father? You do understand that, in this contest, Will is a pattern in the midst of a whole and not the whole in general, right? Your use of the word justified in this whole discussion is intriguing to me.

With this, you should probably go back through your initial post and revise many of the claims you made since this seems to run counter to the claims you made there.

NomoreKobo:
➜If I explain my Believe in GOD, some may interpret it as nihilism, or what's worse, lack of faith.
[b]Here is my believe in GOD.
⚈I believe in HIM so much that I dread my existence, because His Will for my life trumps my own "free will"
⚈I believe in HIM so much that I may be having the worse time ever, but deep down I know He loves me.
⚈I believe in HIM so much that I have come to the realisation that wether I live a comfortable life (of my choice) or a life of poverty (that I detest), HIS love for me remains undiminished.
⚈I have come to realise that believing in HIM does not me I will be rich, or healthy, nor successfully. I could be the poorest man alive and yet his love for me will be just the same as the Love HE has for my LORD and CHRIST, Jesus.
⚈The Arabic statement " insha'Allah" best describes my believe in GOD. i.e ... If HE wills; I live. If HE wills; I die. But HIS steadfast love for me is undeniable.
⚈The ways of the LORD GOD Almighty is just too mysterious.
⚈HE will not answer all your prayers; but how Blessed are you if you find favour in HIS sight![/b]

Here's a scenario for you to possibly play around with. That your deity does not answer all of your prayers means that you may not even be privy to his grand plan at all, so essentially, all actions are born of your free and personal will— not your deity's grand plan. Do you see where this is going?

NomoreKobo:
I hope to GOD you re-read what I wrote up there, and 'edit' this response of yours, coz it is indeed off point.
Where is "justification/ justified" implied in my comment?

But of course it is implied that because , according to you, all is according to the Will of your deity, then every action you take is justified in your little equation of faith there. You probably should read through your own list yourself to realize that is the sum of what you posted.

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FreeSpirited:
➜I BELONG to no faction...,cos no faction brought Christ to me... Christ found me by himself

Storyland! 🙄🙄

I know you people don't like to critically review the statements you blurt out in defense of your beliefs, but I still hope. You claim to be a Christian, meaning you belong to the system of religion created by men dogs, aka non-Israelites, after the death of the man whom they pretend they have connections to. The ideas you hold regarding your belief come not from the book that records the life and teachings of the man named Jesus Christ of Israel but from the many doctrines and dogmas of the men who man the religion of Christianity. To add to all of this, you look to these same men for ideas on applicable principles for your belief whenever possible. How can you possibly expect to convince anyone that you are not of one of the 10's of thousands of factions that comprise this same religion? 🙄🙄

Meedon:
➜My friend is a drug addict. He takes all kinds of drugs like codeine, totoline, nicotine, emzolyn, Arizona, weed, loud and etc. E remain only colos weh him never take.
He has tried numerous times to quit this dangerous habit, it always ends in futility. He narrated his ordeal to me. He told me that he always thought of commiting suicide but I preached to him that anyone who commit suicide would go to hell.
What can this my friend do to break free from the shackles of this menace called drug addiction? Please I need your candid opinion. My friend's life matter.
➜He is so emaciated, looking older than his age. Those who are is elder are bowing down to greet him, little did they know that he is just in is mid_20s.

Why are you certain that if your friend commits suicide, he will go to hell? Why lie to him?

2. Your friend can check himself into an addiction clinic or move himself far away from all of the drugs and resources that enable him to retain access to drugs and, hence, the addiction. If he is really intending to quit, then he needs to reach a place where he is finally done with the habit and ready to start anew.