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Jewessgratitud3:
It's amazing how I was contemplating making this post before a member here requested or should I say started asking me questions in that line and being a very free and open person, I promised I was going to post about it.

Well... Let me start from my background and up bringing which also contributed indirectly to my nonregrettable actions that has left me in this wonderful marital status.

I grew up in a Catholic christian home where good virtues moral values were instilled in us by engaging us in christian children activities from an early age. The Most social part of my childhood ( apart from school) was around the church then back home with close monitoring. So there was no room for nonsense even up to our secondary and tertiary level. the monitoring was topnotch. So we didn't really get to do shit like our mates who got exposed early to certain lifestyle,; dating number one.

We were overprotected and shaped with these guidelines that a mindset was formed that boy and girl relationship is a taboo ( and it's true). So we knew better than to toll that part.

In the long run, after I have come off age, it became very difficult to date. This was at age 21. Whenever I manage to give a man a listening ear and he mentions sex, I'll run without looking back because that was a danger sign we were taught to look out for. So i was always running away from men because of premarital sex. It got to a point, after looking like that's the only way to get a husband and I was already in my mid twenties, a time when a girl should be getting ready to settle down, I said ok, let me see if I can bend the rules a bit for this one. This man was a chronic responsible bachelor. So I felt it could work out since he's ready to settle down. He was in his mid 30s the and never married. We were in the same compound. So I gave in and we started dating. Mind you there was no pressure from both parents to get married. My parents will never pressure you to get a suitor.

Being a novice in the game, I never knew men could double date or even knew how to handle one when it happens. So, on this fateful day the randy goat came home with another girl. It was our last born that came and told me some girl came to look for him because everyone in the compound knows us together. I was heartbroken and right there I broke up with him without even finding out who or if what they both have is serious. Though I made him cry cos I started entertaining other boys that have been chyking me and bringing them to the compound but I never had anything with them or knew any of their houses. I was just using the to pepper him. Once they say hi, I'll drag them to the compound and we will sit on top of his car sometimes until he now confided in one of our neighbors who now told me to stop that the man is always crying. E never cry. I showed him two can play that game. He tried coming back but I bulshit him.

After that I locked up and never trusted any man. I began to see why my dad was being overprotective. I didn't date again for almost five years and then men were coming but that was when my own shakara increased. I mean responsible well to do men o. That was when men had good jobs from banking, investment and oil companies in ikoyi and vi both staff from five star hotel like Eko hotels and suites, federal palace cos those were the places I worked so I had many suitors and friends but the moment they mention relationship, Ill take off.

Part 2

It continued like that and I was enjoying my life with peace of mind that I forgot about time or didn't bother about it cos I don't care.

When I entered mid thirties, I said let me loosen up a bit but because Ive gotten used and enjoyed single life with peace of mind to that age, I found it difficult to commit again because anytime I tried, I'll start having anxiety. The thought of him cheating on me or even as little as admiring another woman will just make me unsettled and I'll think of aborting mission before it's too late.

So I said to give one man a chance, he too brought another girl in my absence. I found out from the sister and that was it. I called it off he begged and begged that the lady was forcing herself on him and sending him money bla bla.. he made a conference call with his family begging, my mind was made up I dumped him and moved on to a Choir boy Ive been admiring who was also trying to talk me into a relationship. I truly loved this guy and I think I was older than him in age . Though he refused to tell me his age but I was able to deduce from his Facebook profile cos he wrote class of 2006 while I finished 1999 but because I don't look my age, we just looked like age mate and we loved each other.

I met him when he just finished serving and was squatting. I was out of job then but one thing that made me stick with him was, even though he was not working, he shared whatever little he had with me. We were together when a very rich young pastor came asking for my hands in marriage. I told him about it and he started feeling sad that because he doesn't have a bearing now some guy wants to take me away from him. I on the other hand don't really fancy the pastor but wanted to force myself and see if it will work but it wasn't working because I didn't have feelings for him. To now make matters worse, he started showing stinginess. In the three months we courted, we didn't get to sit together because he's a pastor so we only see in church, stand and talk very briefly and disperse and each time he kept posting me about money I asked for to enable me travel for Xmas and the day was fast approaching. It was my Choir boyfriend that wen to borrow money from one girl selling recharge card to give me to travel. Now coupled with the fact that I don't even like him, i just texted him to look for another sister. The highest he ever bought me was two two hundred naira recharge card a stinkingly rich ajebota pastor for that matter ( 2014) but he would always call me.

Lastly, in 2016, my bobo got a job in Chevron with a nice apartment in lekki. Before then we had a small quarrel and we're not in talking terms because I requested for money for hair to attend my twins introduction and he told me no money but he didn't tell me he was saving for an apartment. Even then, how much? So, after months of not talking, he called and invited me over to see his new place. A surprise I guess. I got there and we had a nice time. He tried to make it up to me. He gave me his short and polo to wear that day and took me to a pepper soup joint. **Smiling**
later we got back and ad I was about to shower, I saw a used shower cap in his bathroom. He now handed me a new one from his wardrobe where there were many more. I asked him who used the one in the bathroom, he said baby don't start again. I held my peace.
The following morning he did something that I can't say for sure what really happened.

I slept over because there was no way I could go back from lekki to the mainland that day. That night he came to disturb me and I told him you know we can't be doing this. Please let wait till everything is formalized. When he wouldn't let me be, I left him and went to sleep on the floor. In the morning he woke up and was saying you, you, I was just looking at you as we were talking someone knocked on the door. It was a ladies voice. My ex went to meet her and they were together for almost 30mins before he came back inside. Me i didn't talk. I suspected he went to do nonsense because his thing was up when he left only to come back and it has come down.

We prepared and left together that morning for work. When I got home, I called and told him off. Na small thing dey vex me. He didn't believe it. So many things on my mind that made me take that huge decision. Men are not worth my type.

Since then till date, I stopped anything relationship especially if it's not a born again and I must like him. I faced my God ever since and decided to give myself peace. I can't stand a cheating partner. Disease dey town and I don't want to end up a baby mama.

Now, with the way things are, no jobs, the few decent men can hardly fend for themselves let alone catering for a family, I just decided to let sleeping dogs lie. Make person no come enter from fry pan to fire. Some family men now are dumping their family and running away from their responsibilities leaving the women to carry all the burden. So tell me what will make marriage enticing to me again? Abi na domestic violence? Biko Biko.

So basically you were traumatised into becoming single. Weird flex but ok.

Janosky:
FALSE claim.
JWs will NEVER go outside of the holy scriptures.
Are 95% of the Screenshots PROVEN evidences I've posted on this forum written by JWs?

The Bible truth is incontrovertible.

True claim. State something the GB has instructed that you disagree with and will never do or refrain from doing.

Abujaexpress:
Go and find out

Not being in charge of Goshen doesn't mean he's retired. AFAIK he has a different job within the ministry now, unless you know for a fact that he no longer works at all.

Dtruthspeaker:
The serpent has revealed his twisting self!

Change of post! The question was about my following The Law in its entirety not about disciples to keep alone.

No Road!

You aren't following the laws Jesus asked his disciples to keep.

Dtruthspeaker:
Lokoja is a settlement travellers meet along their route of travel.

So the correct place to look for your thrash is on the road before or after lokoja where you stopped and threw your thrash or peed/poopood in the bush as you were traveling.

I didn't deposit any trash until I got to Lokoja.

Dtruthspeaker:
That is exactly what Paul is saying. When you steal, kill and do wrong, The Law comes for you and you will be under Condemnation and death.

But when you are washed and you do no wrong aka sin not, you are free from condemnation exactly how Efcc and ndlea and police do not bother when you do no wrong. End of story!

So he says Christians aren't under the law of Moses but Jesus never said that they should follow the laws of Moses.

SIRTee15:
Why don't u tell LordReed your faith. Maybe u can explain the Jewish religion to him better.
I think its unfair for a Christian to be defending Judaism myths and legends when we actually have someone who believes in those tales.

Says the guy who believes in the Jewish creation myth. LoLz.

Janosky:
JWs are candid & upright.

Or continue DECEIVING YOURSELF & WAILING like that Sparrow hooked on oil sold by pastorpreneurs (with retinue of well armed security) DECEIVING HIM.

LoLz. Yet you'll never go outside of what they tell you, would you?

Abujaexpress:
... If a whole Bishop David Abioye could be retired by the new system in the commission, anything can happen.

Wait, what Are you sure of this?

Haa you want the veil to tear? Don't you know if they apologise everybody will see their nyansh. LoLz.

MindHacker9009:
This is why anyone making money from gullible followers with the name of the invented jesus christ will always fight tooth and nail by claiming the invented superman jesus christ was a real character:

They could have been a real person called Jesus who was crucified by the Romans but he certainly didn't have any super powers.

HugeElephant:
It feels real, always there, inexorably moving forward. Time has flow, runs like a river. Time has direction, always advances. Time has order, one thing after another.

Time has duration, a quantifiable period between events. Time has a privileged present, only now is real. Time seems to be the universal background through which all events proceed, such that order can be sequenced and durations measured.

The question is whether these features are actual realities of the physical world or artificial constructs of human mentality. Time may not be what time seems — this smooth unity without parts, the ever-existing stage on which all happenings happen.

To appreciate time is to feel the fabric of reality. The three basic properties of time come not from the physical world but from our mental states: A present moment that is special; some kind of flow or passage; and an absolute direction.

Except not even your mind will escape the effects of time nor can your mental state in any way affect the progress of time.

So instead of fighting the river current why not use its strength.

Aemmyjah:
Typo error
Nothing to teach
Just being overly negative and pessimistic in the name of being critically minded

I said you should go learn, I wasn't teaching you. You have to learn the difference between those too. LoLz.

Aemmyjah:
Keep seeking attention
And you'll find
Why not create a Thread amd teach us something meaningful?
We're hear to learn right?
Intelligent atheist

Yes while you wait for me to teach you something meaningful, learn the difference between here and hear. LoLz.

Aemmyjah:
Someone knows where to find answers but he's desperate for relevance and attention
I did not ask you the meaning of forum but you did qnd shared it
Why not ask the site same question?
Attention seeker

LoLz! I didn't even quote you when I asked the question but you jumped in to reveal how stupid you are so who is the attention seeker if not you. Bwahahahahahahahaha!

Aemmyjah:
The forum is for you to be asking me stupid questions when you have never dropped anything significant and to drop overly negative and critical views on topics. Keep seeking relevance

Yes it is to ask questions but the only stupid here is you since you can't answer simple questions. Bwahahahahahaha!

Aemmyjah:
Oga
U have never dropped anything meaningful on Nairaland
Just questions and debates
You came here to seek relevance

That is exactly what a forum is for. LoLz.

Your hallucination is really acting up. What did you ingest, weed or mushrooms? Bwahahahahahaha!

Aemmyjah:
I don't blame you too
Last time we conversed, u acted like someone who's imagination is in a cement mixer - lost...
That's all you do
Offering no meaningful explanation to life and the future
All you do is ask stupid questions and beg for critics view on some subjects. You're only here to seek relevance that your religion philosophy cannot give you

Bwahahahahaha! When did you and I discuss life and the future? Are you hallucinating?

Seek relevance? From you? You really are hallucinating. LMFAO!

BTW you didn't answer the question, only to become salty for nothing. Bwahahahahaha!

Aemmyjah:
Ask.com

LoLz. A thing that cannot be properly articulated in a meaningful way. I don't blame you for not answering at all. Bwahahahahaha!

Dtruthspeaker:
I cannot do the entirety especially as i am not in Israel. And Moses taught them how to do it how much more I in my day, when devils have changed the calender (time and Laws Dan 7:25).

And most especially God raised up the most important part of The Laws that everyone can keep which is

1) Love, Respect,Honour and Fear The Lord.

2) Eschew evil and Do the good, harm no one and be blameless in everything.

All these things I can do and live to do.

Those weren't what Jesus said to his disciples to keep alone.

Matt. 23 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

2 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:

3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

Are you observing those things?

Even the one Jesus mentioned to someone are you do it:

Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

Besides why do you need to be Israel to obey those laws?

Dtruthspeaker:
Have we not all done and do wrong?

And he restated what Christ Said that it is in our power and hands to stop doing wrongs aka "go and sin no more" . That's all.

If all has sinned how are they not under The Law of Condemmation aka Law of Sin and Death?

Dtruthspeaker:
And because a person has done no wrong, then he is above The Law of Condemmation aka Law of Sin and Death.

The same Paul that said all have sinned? LoLz.

Dtruthspeaker:
I stated it unequivocally that every Christian and reasonable person understands a that Paul was saying that if you have done no wrong then The Law would not come after you.

LMFAO! Do you as a Christian follow the laws of Moses in its entirety?

What is a god?

Dtruthspeaker:
You are pretending not to see I said Christians get Paul and they understood that what he said is what Christ Said in fewer words

State it unequivocally, did Paul say Christians are under the law or they aren't?

Dtruthspeaker:
Thrash mostly comes from settlers. Travellers thrash are mostly in the way of travel therefore are always lost in transit.

Millions of people including you and i have tranversed Abuja Lagos, Portharcourt-Lagos and we have never one day seen our last thrash.

I specifically mentioned Lokoja because many travellers will stop there to buy one thing or the other which gets disposed of. When you dispose of your trash there it is collected and dumped in the trash heap, along with every other person's trash in the vicinity. That conglomeration of trash is very substantial. Why would you see your last trash when it is in the midst of a millions of people's trash?

sukkot:
Now obviously naked is not literal. Naked means no protection spiritually. Now while we have very virulent energy vampires who feel like a certain body part of yours is needed for them to harvest your essence for wealth ritual but yet there are more sophisticated demons who don’t have to go that diabolical. All they have to do is just touch you and they have stolen your essence and from there you will just be experiencing stagnation in life.
Some of these demons ? All they have to do is talk to you and they have harvested your energy and from there your life gets stagnant

Spiritual warfare. Get an antivirus

Oga don go spiritual now. Shey the 3rd world war is spiritual. Bwahahahahahahaha!

CloudTrees:
The branch that breaks off the tree find it hard to survive

What does that mean in this context? Are you saying he can't succeed except he remains under his father's church or what?

Supremos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJj27tz3UUc?si=TiS5unuAnAWjc2LL.

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LoLz. The people in the video are obviously familiar with the snake and that money was obviously tied onto the snake. Delivered money indeed.

Awesome6s:
In a world where tradition and expectations often guide our paths, Isaac Oyedepo’s recent decision to step away from the well-trodden road is nothing short of inspiring.

Isaac Oyedepo did not resign from the Christian faith, he only resigned from a denomination; Living Faith aka Winners Chapel to face his God-given mandate and it is a testament to the diversity of God’s callings for each individual.

Isaac’s journey highlights a crucial truth: we are not photocopies of our parents’ callings. Rather, we are unique vessels, each designed for a distinct purpose within the broader Christian faith.

This principle holds true for every clergyman’s offspring. I have seen pastors whose children are doctors, military officers, or in any other profession which shows that God’s grand design encompasses every field and endeavor.

Read more: https://www.crispng.com/?p=13973

According to some inside sources Isaac was somewhat of a black sheep of the family. Not surprised at this move in light of that.

Besides his big brother is most likely going to step into his father's shoes.

SIRTee15:
I think the bigger problem here is your poor understanding of what's called the bible.

Bwahahahahahaha! Tell us what is hard to comprehend about an anthology of Jewish myths and legends.

The bible consists of two independent and separate books- the old testament and new testament.
Their development is completely independent of each other. The new testament is not the continuation of the old testament neither is it volume 2 of the OT. One doesn't complement the other.

Yet you guys claim that they do compliment each other or how are you making that claim while simultaneously believing that the OT "prophesied" of Jesus?

BTW your condescension stinks Captain Obvious. Who argued with you that the Bible isn't made up of many books divided into the so called Old and New Testaments?

As at the time the Lord Jesus was walking the surface of this earth, the tanakh as we have it today already existed, compiled and established.
There were no Christians involved in the development of the old testament.

Like who cares if Christians were not the ones who compiled the Tanakh? The argument here is it was included in the compilation BY CHRISTIANS even when some of the providence of the books are just as arguable as the ones they chose to exclude.

The new testament is based on a different theology that focus on the Christology of Jesus. The criteria set for it's compilation would be different and that's the ones agreed upon by the church and Christians.

Again who cares since it was Christians who combined them into what is viewed as a contiguous work. If you have different criteria for different sections then why are you bellyaching that people are calling out the inconsistency?

So if the historicity of Daniel isn't in contention, why do u doubt the wrote down what's in the book of Daniels. Scholars argument is borne out of the fact that Daniel is a legend of sort and not a real person.

Because most of it doesn't fit with what is known from historical evidence, just like the rest of the anthology. So it makes little sense to an outsider that the criteria for choosing one book over another is some random cutoff that merely emphasises the bias of those doing the choosing.

The early church fathers who were less than few decades away from the apostles confirmed who wrote the gospels. Some of these church fathers knew people who met the apostles and heard from them.

Did the church fathers confirm that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were the actual authors of the books? That's the question here, not whatever this your answer is saying..

Now thousands of yrs later some scholars writing their PhD in bible theology came up with doubts about gospel authors. Why? because the gospel letters were not signed, the ascribed authors are fishermen and couldn't have learn how to write, the contents in the letters are too sophisticated for 1st century Christians AD.
None of the above made sense to me.

Where would fishermen of that era who were living in a fishing village far from the major city centers have gone to learn how to write? You mean they learnt enough Greek to compose the type of prose we see in the gospels after the death of their master while they were busy keeping their heads down from prosecution and doing the work of their ministry?Show us the evidence that they did.

I have debated the gospel authorship multiple times on nairaland, can't go thru it again. Research a book called Didache and an apostolic father called Papias.
Maybe we can start for there.

LoLz. You want to use another anonymously authored book to prove other anonymously written books. Are you joking?

The same Papias that said: "For I did not think that information from the books would profit me as much as information from a living and surviving voice." That Papias? LoLz.

Once again problem lies in poor understanding of the structure of the new testament.
The letters were written to mostly gentiles who were new to the Abrahamic religious concept.
They knew about Jesus because they hear the gospel in their church, but not familiar with the tanakh. It's expedient to show them that Christology isn't an abstract concept but has its genesis in a God that was known for thousands of years and worshipped by the Jews.

I thought you said the books don't compliment each other? LoLz.

Jesus handed over the leadership of the church to Peter, He told him to feed and care for his sheep. What do u think Jesus meant?

Isn't that more reason the Gospel of Peter would be taken more seriously by you folk?

Most 1st century Christians were from alien cultures and religion, they were going to attempt extrapolating strange practice into Christianity or misinterpret Christian doctrines.
They needed guidance, teaching, reprimand, training in ensuring they stay in right part and not be led astray.
That's what Jesus meant, and this is why he sent the holy spirit.

“I have much more to tell you but you cannot bear it now. Yet when that one I have spoken to you about comes—the Spirit of truth—he will guide you into everything that is true.

So then the mere recitation of oral traditions was not enough right. Then why do you think the oral traditions should be strong enough to convince us now when even then they couldn't prevent people from adding to them.

Dtruthspeaker:
You did not go to the heap to pile your thrash so how can it be there?

But the mere fact thst you can't find your own thrash in lokoja has proven my points.

LoLz. Are you being fatuous? Where do you think the trash comes from?

No, it actually disproves your point. The trash of 1 person is insignificant compared to the trash of millions and the trash of millions cannot be ignored.