₦airaland Forum

adelee777:
Good morning brothers and sisters in Christ. There is something that has been bothering me on ''modern day christianity''. In all these Sunday jamborees, merchandise, politics, self conceit and hypocrisy going on in churches, how does one separate the wheat from the chaff? How does one extricate oneself to serve God in spirit and in truth. I am the type that seeks for truth in the bible and the warning from our Lord in Matt 24:24 is always ringing in my head. God bless you.

If you were really the type you claim, you would probably have instead asked why you even attend these churches when nowhere in Scripture is it written that Jesus Christ permitted men to build these monuments using his name nor did he command his followers to congregate in the manner that they do in those buildings of theirs using His name.

phlopholly:
■ Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the [children] of God . . .
—1 John 3:1
As God’s children, we are His dependents. The Bible says, “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him.” Dependent children spend little time worrying about meals, clothing, and shelter. They assume, and they have a right to, that all will be provided by their parents. Because God is responsible for our welfare, we are told to cast all our care upon Him, for He careth for us.
Because we are dependent upon God, Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled.” God says, “I’ll take care of the burden—don’t give it a thought—leave it to me.” Dependent children are not backward about asking for favors. They would not be normal if they did not boldly make their needs known. God is keenly aware that we are dependent upon Him for life’s necessities. It was for that reason that He said, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”Prayer for the dayHow magnificent, almighty Father, that I, dependently, can rely on You to take the burden of my heart! Sir Billy Graham

The only people who are God's children are those who are born-again — born of Water AND born of Spirit — and have through continuous submission and obedience to the teachings and commandments of Jesus Christ have come to know the Truth and are set free by the Truth(Spirit of Truth) of God - John 8 vs 31 - 44. This is what Jesus Christ Himself said of those who are children of God. Any interpretation that differs in the slightest from what Jesus Christ Himself decreed is a lie!

Jackanda1:
■ You are a low key Atheist. I can't wait for you to officially and publicly declare yourself an atheist, so we know the real you. Junkie

You people and your many meaningless terms — contradictions all of them.

How can I be considered an atheist when I openly announce that I am a follower of Jesus Christ who was sent by the God of Israel only to the Lost sheep of Israel? That brain of yours is not meant to sit idle. Engage it!

Jackanda1:
■ The Bible says in the last days many shall fall away from faith paying attention to decietful doctrine and teachings of demons. That prophecy is been fulfilled today, even here on Nairaland. The work of the demons of Atheism is to cause the hardness of heart. Its even worst if you were a mature child of God before turning away. You have seen the goodness of God yet still reject it. Be Careful, there is a point you reach and its considered the Blasphemy of the Holyspirit. Most of you have trampled on God's grace one too many times, but i believe his arms of mercy are still open, only that you're unwilling to accept it. There is no amount of curses you place on God and Jesus that would change His authority, people have done worst. You're only putting yourself in trouble. Big trouble. You are joining forces with the devil and his host of demons to fight God. You would end up with them in hell.

The "Bible" says none of what you claim as the "last days" described by the Prophets and Jesus Christ in Scripture instead about the Nation of Judah(Zion) and the people of Israel. The last days of the Nation of Israel happened around 700 BC. Judah ceased to exist over 1900 years ago — around 70AD. So, these beliefs of yours are not born of Scripture but of mental delusions fed you by your many gods of men.

Jackanda1:
■ Your own judgement is going to be worst. Wolf in sheep clothing.

You mean judgments that were imagined by your pastors and mogs, your gods? Those judgments only apply to you and others who believe in the tales fed to you by your gods of men.

Jackanda1:
■ One sin that God hates is pride. He resists the Proud but gives grace to the humble. Believing and accepting the gospel like a child is humility. The sin of pride and 'over sabi' is why Satan was thrown out of Heaven. Atheism is pride.
Most of you were born again and ministers before been decieved into Atheism today. God calls us to live by faith, but you have gone your own way. I warn you. You're at the verge of commiting the sin unto death.(1jhn5:16,17). There is a point were God decides to leave people alone to continue in their Sins. Its a bad place. I was an Atheist Blaspheming God before i decided to humble myself and seek GOD, only to be attacked and humiliated by demons. I have seen some fearful things i don't like to talk about. The demons of Atheism are very crafty. They would decieve you with seemingly smart ideas in order to prevent you from believing in Christ and getting saved. Remember the story of Eve. There is nothing to gain in fighting and resisting GOD, only spiritual death. Think!

Dude, your threads as far back as 2019 on here, reveal that you have almost always been rather an anxiety-plagued/fear-ridden religionist whose many issues seem to throw him around depending on the season or time of year.

There is no such thing as a "demon of atheism", neither is it possible to blaspheme a God who says He is not God of the people called Israel — those who have the blood of Jacob coursing through their literal veins given that the same God announced that the life of a man is in his blood. You need to wake the fk up from these delusions of yours before you end up losing your mind under all of that craziness that is religion.

lordm:
He is right though

How is he right?

Icrave4u:
Nobody is coming to save Nigeria. It is only Nigerians that will save Nigeria. Local brands may or may not be as good as foreign ones, but with continued patronage, they will improve in quality. Buy them, and your Naira will rise along with your personal happiness and the international rating of the green Nigerian passport. Your value is tied to Nigeria's value. Buy Nigerian and Nigeria's foreign reserves, trade balances, and debt to GDP ratio will automatically improve.

That reads instead like a "How to make Nigerian millionaires richer?" list and not a "How to cause the Naira to appreciate?"

#TableShaker my arse!

Voice234:
Saudi Arabia is planning to open its first alcohol store exclusively for non-Muslim diplomats.
According to Reuters on Wednesday, a source familiar with the plans said the store will be located at Riyadh’s Diplomatic Quarter, a neighbourhood where embassies and diplomats reside.
The liquor store, expected to be opened in the coming weeks, will be “strictly restricted” to non-Muslims.
According to a document cited by the report, customers will have to register through a mobile application, get a clearance code from the foreign ministry, and subscribe to monthly quotas for their purchases. Confirming the report, Saudi Arabia’s government spoke on the development in a statement via the Center of International Communication (CIC) — the Kingdom’s media organisation.

Religion is slowly loosing it's grip on the nation of Saudi Arabia.

Melagros:
■ You didn't answer the question properly, he asked, someone earning 30k before is he now earning 120k because of the inflation? Your reply was one sided

Does the question matter as far as the price of food and commodities? Does the price of food depend on how much you earn or what? Do market sellers first ask you how much you make before they then tell you cost of their wares? Come one!

Melagros:
■ Jenny, you called rice a nutritious meal? I will rather eat that his cheap meal than to eat rice without beans, no matter what.

Your rice has just as much nutrition in it as you have in your beans and your eba. If only you would google these things to find out for your own selves instead of holding fast to the ignorance of yesteryears!

naturefellow:
university don, why not school me?

There is google for that these days. Please make Google your friend.

nigeriansamurai:
lol... we don dey do "civic duty" for this country long before you could even say "mama" keep decieving yourself, your vote and opinion doesnt count...

Stop lying!

studyless123:
■ You're right. It's funny but Kobojunkie gave a solution. I own a garden because I like eating vegetables and I also drink a lot . You don't need large plots for gardening. Gardening helps and I lot many people that have gardens.

The typical response of the average Nigerian to good advice is to first cast it down as rubbish to walk away from it. They are allergic to good advice. Way too many of them are allergic to good solutions and advice.

nigeriansamurai:
if at this stage and at your age you dont know that, today election excercises are noting but a formal ceremonal event in Nigeria... You dont know anything.

You mean that lie Nigerians such as yourselves conveniently cocoon yourselves inside of all so that you can avoid your civil duties in the country that is Nigeria? The world dey dey watch una!

nigeriagospel:
■ Am a Christian and a logical thinker as well and am quite aware the things of the spirit cannot be explained or understood carnally.
■ The ten commandment no doubt was and is for peaceful co existence among the Israelite as a lawless society brings about negative vices but how does it concerns Nigeria who are not Israelite. God said HE brought them out of the land of Egypt and commanded them not to serve any other God except Him, how does the law apply to us since we were never enslave by the Egyptian. And on the death of Christ I thought he died for his people in the middle east alone to atone for their sins, something many Africans community leaders according to history have done as well when they willingly offered themselves to be sacrifice to certain gods so the community can know peace or to avert epidemic they might be facing at the time. Why is Christ death believed to be for the atonement of entire mankind and not the Israelite alone?
■ Please bible scholar in the house should help me out with bible verses I want to learn.

1. That is the first lie Christianity and many other religions feed you to get you to abandon your ability to logically reason everything out as you ought always to.

2. The God of Israel, and Jesus Christ of course, never changed their minds regarding Israel being the only people chosen by them both. Religion is to blame for the lie that they did, particularly the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

3. There are no Scriptural references for such ideas as they are instead born of the doctrines and traditions of men, and religion, which God of Israel cast as lies against Him and His Truth.

johnydon22:
■ When you say freewill, what do you mean by that term?

CASE 1: CHINA ENCOURAGES THE POLICY, NO REWARDS FOR COMPLIERS AND NO PUNISHMENT FOR NON COMPLIERS. BOTH GROUPS LIVE THEIR NORMAL LIVES IRRESPECTIVE OF CHOICE.

OgaNightmare:
■ It's not hearsay. It's a well known fact in both Evangelical and academic circles among scholars of the New Testament.
You can register a free course on TEXTUAL CRITICISM online from any accredited Seminary and you'll even discover more than this. This is just the to of the iceberg.

1. The hearsay of the religious l-minded just that hearsay.

komzy589:
■ Ideally, the woman should have custody, unless she doesn’t want to.
■ If a man chooses not to be with a woman, even children cannot make him change his mind. Men too can take care of children alone.

Ideal situation would be shared custody of the children.

2. The same goes for the woman so fortunately, we have courts where common sense still reigns. Now if only they can both drag themselves there at least for the sake of the kids.

Qatar2022:
Did you know what happened between them?

It doesn't matter since the kids have nothing to do with it.

Konquest:
The fruit fly too... May the forces of evolution be with you.

What forces?

Iamsunday9898:
I thought it was just a mere coincidence not until my other siblings which happened to be my elder sisters children that are grown up started telling me the same thing that they always have a problem or go broke whenever they help her, I have been questioning myself alot if I'm not making a wrong preference, the same woman was sitting down from one shop to another when we got to this street and would tell me it's cause she doesn't want to be bored, I got tired of her bullshit and told her one day that I would like to go and rent my own place and we should live separately and since then, I haven't had that opportunity to make this move, my mother has ruined things for me to the extent that if I want to buy something in the house she would instigate I don't even by the irritating look she gives... I don't know what to do cause I have lost alot and whenever I go out to my friends place or my siblings telling them not to tell her where I was, I always get money miraculously and she won't stop calling everyone to find out where I am but when I come back home, it's from one problem to another, I'm at the verge of killing myself because of this cause I lost my peace and sanity already .

Your mother is not the problem. Rather you seem to have a superlative imagination that weaves blame her way. Start learning how to better manage your time, finances and also decisions no matter the shape of your moms face and you should see a lot of your complaints fly out the window.

Yes, your mother sounds like one of those overbearing mothers and honestly, there isn't much that can be done so long as she is not mentally ill.

OgaNightmare:
■ It's not hearsay. It's a well known fact in both Evangelical and academic circles among scholars of the New Testament. You can register a free course on TEXTUAL CRITICISM online from any accredited Seminary and you'll even discover more than this. This is just the to of the iceberg.

If this is not hearsay where is the evidence for the claim made?

Israel07:
This is making no sense. I recently met one lady, I might her in a super market in the night, it was late and dark. The lady was very jovial from the get go, I was a bit surprised cos she was so free like she knew me before, I didn't take any interest in her until she turned to leave an I saw a gigantic ass. Oh boy, I followed her ASAP, talked to her letting her know my intentions ASAP but babe legit told me she's willing to Bleep but i must give her some cash. I didn't mind but at that moment I knew she's for the streets. We met few days later and I saw tattoos on her. She look really good and I just can't resist that ass. She's more like my best friend now, she's always with me as I don't really have a serious relationship. She knows it's just vibes and I don't care about who she fcuks asides me. I just like the vibe with her, she drinks and smokes too. So I don't care. Sometimes I wish she wasn't damaged already before we met. She's very beautiful that even her fellow girls look at her non stop. I took her to one business meeting one time, Omo this men were just agreeing to all my terms during negotiations, I knew it was because of her. She chose to leave her life like that, nobody influenced her.

You just proved that what OP said makes a lot of sense considering those who think as you do who, sadly, happen to make up the majority in that country.

KAG:
■ I had a chance to reread the story of Jephtah the other day because it was referenced in Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion, and to be honest I was as shocked this time as I was when I read it as a child. I find it hard to understand how anyone can not only worship the Bible God, but also deign to call the Bible God a loving and good one. Furthermore, it's almost impossible for me to understand how that God is distinguishable from the other bloodthirsty Gods that have been condemned by Christians.
In any case, it made me wonder whether any theist here approves or condones the actions of Jephtah and the Bible God. If there are any, then I guess the question would be why.
Judges 11: 31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD’S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed

Did this God also approve of David's killing of Batsheba's husband in Scripture? Come on people.... the book does not record that God accepted what Jephtah did and it is clearly against the Law to offer such to God so what gives?

ademolu719:
■ Porverty, the way teenage girls brag about sex for money ehhhhhh. They don't care, very disgusting Porverty, the way teenage girls brag about sex for money ehhhhhh. They don't care, very disgusting ...

They are teenagers, what do you expect?

Mimicle101:
lol. that can never enter my brain. as me na living example.

Breadwinner-wives plenty for Nigeria. E sure me say dem go even get association put.

Mimicle101:
■ true story

Nothing true about that nonsense claim!

In that same Nigeria are many deadbeats propped up by their wives.

Jewessgratitud3:
When I said it here sometime ago that even that woman that is pressuring you to marry her now, saying she will stand by you through thick and thin when you clearly have nothing to sustain yourself will be the first to drag you like generator when you fail to provide for the home tomorrow. Is it not happening now?
I'm a woman and I know these things. No woman can bear with a man that has no bearing for long. Forget what anyone tells you unless the woman get who dey give am outside be say marriage go dey go

Stop generalizing abeg!

Look at the case of Osinachi. No be the same Nigeria una dey when she been dey play breadwinner?

BadBradley:
■ nope. Their are a billion simp in Nigeria. And women have taken over on Nigeria as well. There are many homes now being run by women. There are also many instances where women marry men. Nigerian women rebellion abroad is 100% tied to the timid and suppressed condition they find their once dominant husbands. Black skin, strange accent, little professional skills. You're at the mercy of your new environment making you unable to protect your wife. The women simply morph into their true nature

So, una patriarchal society don dey fail una, abi? The war has been won by the women... so why you dey complain?

BadBradley:
their are still controlling men abroad and patriarchy still exists in yhr west. The OP nailed it perfectly. When a woman finds the husband has lost value in western society she doesn't feel protected. Stop trying to push your own narrow , false perspective here

The women who choose such men do so knowing this. they are not cajoled into such situations as is the case in Nigeria. Such men are like a fetish in the West as opposed to what you find in Nigeria where such men are the norm and the law allows them to roam free.

YelloweWest:
■ My sister's husband that used to be macho and abusive is now as loyal as a dog abroad. He loves his children and realizes he can't do the bull shit he used to do in Nigeria anymore because she can live without him now

The man is no longer a boy it seems!