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ThatWriterBoy:
➜ Hello everyone! Happy New Year! One of my goals for 2025 is to read through the Bible. Right now, I'm in Genesis 16 and I'm wondering why God picked Abraham to become the most important father in the world (seeing that he became the father of both Christians, Jews and Muslims).
➜ Is it that there was something inherently different about him like Noah who was the ONLY blameless man in the whole world before the flood?
Because Abraham was from Ur of the Chaldeans. And I don't think they were worshipping Yahweh over there. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems as if God just picked a random sinner man and made him all those promises and then he became father of the monotheistic religions.
➜Weren't there other people God could have picked?
➜Correct me if I'm wrong, but Job predates Abraham right? Why didn't God pick Job then? He was a righteous man that He (God) even bragged to Satan about his righteousness. What do you think?

1. God did not choose Abraham as father of religions as you claim nor did God choose Abraham as father of Israel. 🤔
When reading a book, try to empty your head of all previous ideas you may have had of the content and focus your mind and heart on comprehending what is written in the book exactly as it is written so you can better tell the false ideas from the right ones out there.

2. According to the book, God chose Abraham because Abraham obeyed His Laws and commandments. You will find this written in the book as you read on. God Himself answered in the book. 🤔

3. If you follow what is written, all the others in the book were condemned as wicked at that time. 🤔

4. How could Job have predated Abraham when Job's friend, Eliphaz, was listed as a Temanite, a tribe that came down from one of the descendants of one of sons of Esau, Abraham's grandchild, according to Genesis 36?🤔

Maitunbi:
I think someone should help this guy by putting him on a leash before he provokes God by all this unnecessary outbursts.
I think he is really overstepping now.

Have you ever met any human who provoked this deity of yours?

Even your gods of men, after they are arrested for raping, stealing, and even killing you lot never seem to provoke this Christian deity, so what makes you think it makes sense for you to go around claiming he can be provoked? 🤔

Jaboranky:
he is not seeing money in church offering and tithe again,his only means na online treading,I pity his followers

He refuses to scam folks through tithe/vow/offering scams and that is a bad thing? 🤔

I mean he is still lying to them since religion itself is founded on lies. However, compared to your other daddy GOs, this man's crimes against his people are reduced even in the eyes of the law in Nigeria.

Nokio2:
✓That's not my problem sha
My salary is 55k So from Jan 2024,I told my oga to be paying me 50k,that he should help me be saving the remaining 5 5k so I will collect the balance on new year day Kai human being, yesterday oga say I will not get shi shi that how I have I being surviving tpain with only 50k with out stealing his money? Since yesterday my heart is doing gudum gudum gudum...

You set yourself up for this..when your Oga become bank wey dey save money for person? 🤔

Day169:
✓Well, I hope your advice is noted but if they do not have a financial plan at the least, then all income is down the drain.

A plan is good for when one has not overstretched oneself. Given the economic situation and the additional mouth he has to feed, his income seems to have been overstretched and what is needed is more income coming in.

Creativeseeker:
well said

Without proof or substance? 🤔

RealityKings1:
✓ Science is just an English word used to explain an experience that can be documented. It does not mean other things not documented aren't possible

You should probably reprocess the question. I didn't ask him of his idea of science at all.

Day169:
✓ Should we rather throw our hands up in the air and give up hope?.. I admit that things are utterly bad but to stop hoping is to accept imminent death.
✓ The young man was asking for advice so, I find it quite uncharitable when you mutter that I don't seem to understand what's happening. I'm in the rot too and where are you, by the way?

1. Isn't hope part of the major reason why Nigeria and Nigerians are were they are today -- hope the many bad decisions would magically work out somehow?

My friend, Hope is not a solution but a fantastical notion that has so far proven of no real value when bad decisions are thrown in the mix; good decisions are what is needed at this point in time. 🤔

2. Given the economic facts in the country today, what is clear is your formulae which may have worked for you sometime ago would likely fail you pretty soon given continuing rising cost of living so why offer it to him as a viable solution? OP has a family of 3 and starving that child of all it needs should not be an option (we are talking feeding, hospital bills, etc). 🤔

OmoOshodi:
my own prophesy:A renowned man of God deceiving people with the name of God to amass wealth WILL NOT SEE THE END OF 2025....
pin this down.
he will eat the last pounded yam this year.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Creativeseeker:
everything matters

According to Religion, right? 🤔

Creativeseeker:
it's all good... So how was the earth created according to your beliefs

We are talking of how the earth was created here. You and I were not born then so it does not really matter of shouldn't be a focus at all since it will continue on even after we are both dead.

Creativeseeker:
✓ jazz or magic or something metaphysical...
I used to bed wet at about age 17..
After some ritual,I stopped betwetting along with my other siblings

What you described isn't jazz/magic. In kids or growing individuals, it could be a result of anxiety or fear that has previously not been addressed. Kids usually stop after the problem has been resolved. It could be that whatever it was that held you up was resolved around the same time that the ritual was carried out but you choose to believe it was the ritual that made it all go away.

I had similar issues myself but no amount of prayers or prophesying could make it disappear. It was not until years later that I addressed the cord anxieties and fears head on and it was finally resolved once and for all.

Creativeseeker:
/✓ u never see jazz deh occur

Explain what you mean by Jazz? I have experienced mental manipulation, scams, etc., though.

Creativeseeker:
✓ what is the most supernatural experience you have ever heard or experienced..
✓ How old are you also

My experience led me to realizing the fraud of religion. It wasn't one time experience like the religious folks pretend. There was no one prayer to connect to a divine or anything of that sort and since that time, the experience has remained with me 24/7 --- live---, year after year. So what is your most supernatural experience?🤔

2. I am very old but age has little to nothing to do with even my experience which I continue to live with to this day. 🤔

Creativeseeker:
ok oh, allow people weh believe in incantations respond

Well, you claim to believe in it, right? That's why I am asking you.

Creativeseeker:
✓ why do you believe you are a law abiding citizen,
✓ have you read the Nigeria constitution from beginning to end

I am a law abidibg citizen because I livey life according to the teachings and commandments stipulated in the LAW. The fact that I don't have a criminal record, or outstanding warrants for my arrest at least serves as proof of this. 😀☝️

2. I didn't say I abide by the Nigerian Constitution, but yes, I have read the Nigerian Constitution from beginning to end at this point. 🤔

AlphaNugget:
✓ He works with faith.

Huh? You connect to him via prayer and he works with faith? Define faith? And what happens when you disconnect...I mean after you are done praying?

Creativeseeker:
keep it up

You didn't answer my question. 🤔

What proof do you have that your prayer connects you to a divine?

Creativeseeker:
✓ so what do you believe in

I believe in being a LAW abiding citizen.

Creativeseeker:
atheism is not a religion.

Not a fact! 🤔

Ola9ja23:
✓ Many indomies generation don't believe in incantations but I pray you people don't have firsthand experience. Arrow never hit you that will make you succumb.
✓ If there is no incantations then there will be no need for prayer. Quran and Bible are also incantations bcs they carryout what you command them to do

1. If even with all of their stance against religion and your many incantations these arrows still have yet to hit them isn't that proof they are moving in the right direction? If your arrows only seem to work mostly against you religious folks and not against the indomies who abhor religion, isn't that proof that religion itself may be the problem?

2. What is a prayer and what is an incantation?

Creativeseeker:
✓ so what religion do you practice, every religion has prayers..
✓ Prayers connect with the divine..

Religion is a scam, fraud that is founded on lies upon lies so I practice nothing of it.

2. Can you confirm for us that any of your very own prayers have infact gotten you this connection to the divine you speak of? What is the identity of this divine you were connected to and what has physically resulted from this connection?

Creativeseeker:
✓by people obviously who have direct experience...
From movies and books and so on

And you can confirm this direct experience of theirs how?

Baldwretch:
✓ I will answer you tomorrow.

No point since your OP clearly indicates that the stated opinion is not based on Scriptural fact but on religious/fictional claims you were fed.

Creativeseeker:
based on vast stories passed on offline and online...

Vast stories offline and online written by whom, when? ,🤔

Creativeseeker:
✓ the ability to bring the unseen spirits to do the bidding of the person that cast the spell ( incantation)

What aspect of this which you claim is linked to the wisdom of Solomon? Have you ever witnessed or experienced any of these unseen spirits for yourself? Are they any different from say the forces of nature that have been scientifically accounted for thus far?

Creativeseeker:
This incantations of various African traditional religions practice is it directly related to alleged spells that some books claim Solomon practiced to become the wisest man ever in the World

What is it of all of the incantations you have ever studied that led you to believing there might exist a connection between them and Solomon, the supposed wisest man ever?

Baldwretch:
✓ Let me get your right: there was never a war against the Canaanites (in their own land) by a bunch of outsiders called the Jews who invaded their lands and killed them in their thousands? Is that what you are calling fiction? It never happened?

No!🤔

The people known as the Jews only came to be after the former nation of Israel was divided in to two separate nations -- the Northern nation of Israel and the Southern nation of Judae whose people were subsequently regarded as Jews after they were then taken into captivity by the Babylonians. The nation of Judae was created from the descendants of merely the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi..these are those regarded as the Jews.

mu2sa2:
There you go again. Mr man, killing is killing full stop!

Not according to the law— both National and International Law!

mu2sa2:
The painful truth for posters attacking Muslims above is that 100 people are killed every single day in USA in gun violence. Sadly, virtually all the victims will be Christians as their assailants. Would you hypocrites blame Christianity for the unending carnage?

And this serves as justification for this one man's choice to kill many in the name of his religion/deity?

HeatSeeker:
✓ You need to calm down this year. Haba!

Please get the duck away from me this year instead..

MadamExcellency:
✓ Requesting a divorce in Igboland has a procedure. When we marry, we don't only marry the lady or the man, we establish a special bond between the two kinships. It's not a thing you strike off with a pen when you so desires.

Stop lying! 🙄🙄

I know for a fact that even as far back as the 1980s those old idea had not been widely practiced. I witnessed several divorces in my area that didn't go anything like what you are here prescribing for your friend. And that is why I continue to question your friendship.