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Christianity EtcRe: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by MaxInDHouse(m): 3:34pm On Jun 18
Why not answer the question nah?🙂

Did Muhammad spend the money he earn, sweat and his wealth on Khadijat?🤔
Expanse2020:
What did you work alone for 🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣
If a cash you only work for it and spend it with those who didn't work and sweat with you ..so what are you saying...
What should the mother of the person do if you mean the woman work for it🤔🤣🤣🤣
You are a joker ..which woman work for you
Or you spend your earn, sweat,nwealth on them.
Abeg close this chapter
Na unreasonable conversation you de bring
Christianity EtcRe: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:26pm On Jun 17
Try to be wise nah!😟

If you and someone else found a huge some of cash surely you have no option than to share it together but can you equally share what you worked alone for with someone else?🙂
Expanse2020:
Ehen...
So you have never see two or three women and they leave happy with a man..
They share the same man and they are fine with it ..
Several marriage of men married two women on the same day have been posted on this platform
Christianity EtcRe: Revisiting The Scripture For Better Understanding by MaxInDHouse(m): 5:44pm On Jun 17
I have told you countless times that it's not in God's plan for humans to live in heaven the only destination for humans is planet earth though today humans have turned this planet into something else {Revelation 11:18} God promised to remove those causing the problem {Psalms 37:7-11; Proverbs 2:20-22} so Paradise will be restored on planet earth not heaven as your prophet told you.
The only reason why some are going to heaven is to rule with Christ as he said they will be taken to where he lives before coming to the earth. John 14:1-3

So there is no other verse that support this because only Jesus promised his future corulers of heavenly life and they are limited in number. Revelation 14:1

If you are thinking of going to heaven as a blessing its time to erase such in your mind God never promised anyone heaven that is the simple truth!🙂
Christianity EtcRe: Why The Story Of Salvation And Faith Feels So Complicated by MaxInDHouse(m): 3:30pm On Jun 17
Yorimichi:
​If human history was fractured over a single act of disobedience, why didn’t God just say, "I forgive you" and move on?
That single act of disobedience leads to a question that needs to be answered.

Who has the right to set standards for mankind: God or humans?

As simple as this question may sound majority of humans finds it really hard to answer!
Christianity EtcRe: Revisiting The Scripture For Better Understanding by MaxInDHouse(m): 2:02pm On Jun 17
Explore2xmore:
The relevant verses have been cited: 2:30, 2:35, 2:38, 3:59, 15:26, 21:105, and 54:54–55. The answers are there.
Just quote one out that EXPLICITLY says "EARTH" because that is exactly what is confusing all Muslims till today!🤣

None of your leaders can answer where the righteous will live after God has destroy all evildoers because that word "PARADISE" your prophet doesn't know its real meaning!😂
Christianity EtcRe: Revisiting The Scripture For Better Understanding by MaxInDHouse(m): 1:58pm On Jun 17
Explore2xmore:
The righteous will be in gardens and rivers, near a Sovereign, Perfect in Ability. It does not specifically say this is the same heaven from which Adam was sent down.
The above statement is what i'm talking about because all Muslims are confused regarding where Adam was created to stay before he sinned.

So it's either you admit that your Quran couldn't give a definitive answer or you humble yourself and learn.

I have heard that statement thousands of times from Muslims so quoting your Quran without stating where Adam was created explicitly shows you people have nothing to learn in that your book.

This is what the Bible says about Adam:

“Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every creeping animal that is moving on the earth." Genesis 1:26

Can you see how clear the Bible answered the question?

That is God's word not some copy and paste book from an impostor who does not know where Paradise was in the beginning.

The main reason i keep tormenting you is because your Quran can't answer where Paradise will be whether heaven or earth but the Bible made it clear that it was the perfect state where God put Adam that all righteous people will inherit again {Psalms 37:9-11, 29} so only Christ corulers will be taken to heaven not all righteous people! John 14:1-3🙂
Explore2xmore:
The Quran has answered these points directly, with references already provided. A person familiar with Islamic theology would know the Quran doesn’t say Adam was taken from earth to heaven and then returned. It says he was placed in a Garden and later told to descend. Claiming that the Garden must have been in heaven is an assumption, not a statement from the text itself. Even classical scholars debated this issue.
Likewise, saying the Quran copied the Bible oversimplifies the matter. Both scriptures exist within a shared Abrahamic tradition, but that’s not the same as one being a copy of the other.
The relevant verses have been cited: 2:30, 2:35, 2:38, 3:59, 15:26, 21:105, and 54:54–55. The answers are there. Rejecting them without addressing them isn’t a counterargument. And the standard should be consistent: the Bible also has not produced a clear verse proving two permanent groups of saved believers with different eternal outcomes. That question remains unanswered. When you can answer we will see clearly.
Advice you get off your haughtiness and imagination. This is an online platform with higher chances of me living longer on earth than you besides age not being a measure of knowledge.
Christianity EtcRe: Called To Love Others by MaxInDHouse(m): 10:34am On Jun 17
God's law to the Israelites is:

Love your neighbor as yourself.


“Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord." ‭Leviticus 19:18 NIV‬

This law is only for Israelites who lived in the same country that's why the law specifically stated "among your people"

But when Jesus walked the earth Jews and Samaritans have been separated for centuries which make most Jews view Samaritans as no neighbor that is why they insisted that Jesus should tell them who are their neighbors for real! Luke 10:29

Jesus explained that whoever proves to be our neighbor is a neighbor just as the Samaritan in his illustration proved to be a neighbor to the robbed Jew! Luke 10:30-37

So the law God gave Israelites is to love their neighbors but Jesus gave another law to his own disciples:


“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” ‭John 13:34-35 NIV‬


Jesus called this a NEW COMMAND because there is a difference:

Love neighbor as yourself. Mark 12:31

Love fellow disciples as Christ loves. John 13:34-35



So the first applies to everyone around us because they are all our neighbors but the second applies only to our fellow believers in Christ!
Christianity EtcRe: True Religion by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:11am On Jun 17
What most people don't understand is that it's impossible to have faith without works so James is not telling you that there is faith without works rather he is telling you that there is no faith without works.

To understand James 2:26 well consider this statement and try to rephrase it.

A woman who has nothing to do with a man is dead to motherhood.

Is it possible for a woman to become a mother while having anything to do with a man?

Of course that's impossible so without faith you can't work that is what James is saying!

So what does it really mean to believe in God's only begotten Son?
Is it just by claiming you believe in Jesus?

Take for instance someone is shouting up and down the town:

"Only Mr V can save us in this country, he has all the potentials needed to serve as our president, he is a bonafide son of the soil and he's been working round the clock to make our country great again. In fact when he becomes our president he will solve all our problems"

Do you think such a person truly believes in Mr V?

Well by the words of his mouth you will think he does but then has he:

Registered to get a voter's card?

Associate with members of the party?

Participate in the party's programs?

Move to all territories to ensure voters?

Fearlessly come out and vote for Mr V?

If he doesn't do all of these do you think he truly believes in Mr V? Hebrews 11:6🙂



yommyuk:
Faith without works is what? Dead
Faith (Belief) in God via his only begotten son is not enough. Genuine faith (Belief) must be demonstrated through actionable deeds. By their fruits , you shall know them. What fruits.? Gal 5:22-23
Yes, with good deeds on its own, one cannot earn salvation. However, good deeds are still natural fruits and proof that ones faith is alive, transformative and genuine. This concept can be compared to the human body. Just as a body without a spirit is deemed a lifeless corpse, faith (belief) without corresponding deeds is also lifeless corpse.wink
Christianity EtcRe: The Judgment Of Satan Revelation 20:7-10 by MaxInDHouse(m): 6:37am On Jun 17
mysticwarrior:
This passage raises a profound question: if a thousand years of peace, justice, and God's visible reign cannot convince humanity to remain faithful, what does that say about free will? The fact that multitudes still rush to rebellion the moment Satan is released suggests that the greatest threat to mankind is not the devil himself, but humanity's persistent willingness to follow deception despite having every reason to know better.
What God wanted to do is preserve the few ones who have the same mentality like Jesus. Jesus is the first creature God made and for untold years they've been together until God decided to create more life but it was in the process that God discovered that it's not all intelligent creatures that will be as graceful as His only begotten Son.
By the time God began creating other intelligent creatures Satan proved to be different, he just wasn't satisfied with being one of God's children rather he wanted more than that! Isaiah 14:12-14
Afterwards many intelligent creatures preferred being like Satan {Genesis 3:15} in fact ⅓ of the angels in heaven followed him to rebel against God! Revelation 12:4
God Himself later realized that most of the intelligent creatures are wicked! Genesis 6:5-6
That is why He declared that He will only allow those who are like his first spirit son to continue living! John 3:16
Christianity EtcRe: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by MaxInDHouse(m): 6:19am On Jun 17
Expanse2020:
Ehen
Muslims women hate it ..
And some pastors have two wives
Others have several concubines
And they hate it.
Have you found any woman who will like to share her husband with another woman?
Not when everything is fine with them.
So in Paradise everything will be fine its the focus of faithful servants of God!🙂
Christianity EtcRe: JW 008 The Year 1914 by MaxInDHouse(op): 8:42pm On Jun 16
Melchizzedek:
What are the evidences? I wanna know
Almost all the promises the Bible God made are fulfilled and we have all the records!🙂
Christianity EtcRe: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:19pm On Jun 16
The Israelites as a nation never wanted God's laws it's only God's prophets that has been consistent with it so Jesus also did just as all other Israelite prophets. God has promised that He will change that covenant since the time of Jeremiah {Jeremiah 31:31-33} but it will remain valid until God has fulfilled His own part of the covenant which is when the Messiah arrives and the nation failed to accept his teaching! Deuteronomy 18:18-19

So all the prophets until John the baptist stick to the old covenant that is why Jesus round it up with his sacrificial death and usher in a new covenant.

Do you notice that after his resurrection Jesus never went into that temple again?

He stopped practicing Judaism after his resurrection!🙂

Expanse2020:
Even if the Israelite abandon it which not all isrealite did that ... Jesus and his disciples didn't abandon as them know it's God law
Now you are telling after Jesus died they abandon God law and created their law and followed their own desired that what you tried to tell me...
So God law was abandon to formed the one they like baa
Today
that
Was it not from the tribes of jew they started the evangelism...
Jesus didn't abandon the God law but the followers abandon it right is ok
Christianity EtcRe: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:06pm On Jun 16
Expanse2020:
What did use to measure the richest man wealth you are taking about óò🤔🤔
When God created did He created two men simultaneously
Rather he created a man so a woman.

As the time grew much woman are dominating and a man can marry more than a woman ás at it legal not illegal way.
If a man take a woman ás women plenty so the others should marry Jesus abi

Even the bible also testify that women will clip onto a man too at later end of s time
In Paradise God promised that life will return to how it was before Adam sinned, there won't be suffering or pain but where there is envy such is inevitable. No woman will be happy to share her man with another even your Muslim women hates it.
Christianity EtcRe: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by MaxInDHouse(m): 4:54pm On Jun 16
Expanse2020:
,,🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔🤔
Marry two wives is bad example
I don't needs to argue you told me already is out of z God plan...
What is the point 🤣🤣🤣
Point is God gave the world's richest man only one wife so there is no reason why those who are less richer should think of taking more than one!🙂
Christianity EtcRe: Revisiting The Scripture For Better Understanding by MaxInDHouse(m): 4:48pm On Jun 16
Over to you jàre Mr Explore2xmore.

If your Quran says Adam was created from the dust of the earth and God put him in a garden on planet earth:

Explore2xmore:
Ibn Kathir explains in his tafsir of these verses that Adam’s creation began from dust/earth (turab), which Allah made into clay. The Prophet pbuh also said Allah created Adam from a handful which He took from all of the earth…
When was he taken to heaven so that God later send him out of heaven to planet earth again?🙂

Explore2xmore:
The righteous will be in gardens and rivers, near a Sovereign, Perfect in Ability. It does not specifically say this is the same heaven from which Adam was sent down.
How i wish to stay away from engaging Muslims in such discussions because i know your Quran has no answer to all these questions but when you decides to question God's word you people give room for intimidating your prophet, god, book and religion!😟
Christianity EtcRe: JW 030 Can Sane Humans Remain In A Religion Knowing Its False? by MaxInDHouse(op): 4:46pm On Jun 16
When God decides to silence critics of pure worship He has several ways of handling matters.

Mr Gabriel was banned for a decade at least to keep him in his place!🤣
Christianity EtcRe: JW 008 The Year 1914 by MaxInDHouse(op): 4:41pm On Jun 16
Melchizzedek:
u need quit believing that Jesus is coming back. No one is coming to save us
If that is your own opinion no wahala we have all the evidences needed for any honest hearted individual!🙂
Christianity EtcRe: JW 008 The Year 1914 by MaxInDHouse(op): 4:35pm On Jun 16
Melchizzedek:
Do you know why the Jews didn't believe in Jesus as the Messiah? Why did the disciples have the believe Jesus would come back in their lifetime but he never returned even after 2026 years?
Do you really want to know or you want to argue?🙂
Christianity EtcRe: JW 008 The Year 1914 by MaxInDHouse(op): 4:16pm On Jun 16
What evidence gives us confidence that God’s purpose to bring an end to Satan and his wicked followers will be fulfilled?

In 1914, Jesus started the war against Satan the Devil and his demons and cast them down to the earth. Revelation 12:7-9

Although the battle itself took place in heaven, those on earth have certainly felt the effects of that battle. “Woe for the earth and for the sea,” the Bible says, “because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing that he has a short period of time.” Revelation 12:12

Since 1914, Satan’s attention has been focused on the earth, and as a result, world conditions have gone from bad to worse. Indeed, “woe for the earth”! Soon, though, Jesus will “complete his conquest” and Satan and all his supporters will be removed. Revelation 6:2

Jesus will vindicate Jehovah’s name once and for all. Psalms 45:4-6

Everyone will know that Jehovah is the God of truth! Ezekiel 38:23.
Christianity EtcRe: JW 036 Why Miracles Do Happen. by MaxInDHouse(op): 4:11pm On Jun 16
After the destruction of Jerusalem there is no human given the privilege to perform miracles again!🙂
Christianity EtcRe: Revisiting The Scripture For Better Understanding by MaxInDHouse(m): 4:01pm On Jun 16
FxMasterz:
Neither should you!
Never again!
Farewell!🙂
Christianity EtcRe: Revisiting The Scripture For Better Understanding by MaxInDHouse(m): 3:56pm On Jun 16
FxMasterz:
This is the thousandth time you'll be saying this. And you'll be the first to come mention me. Very unstable personality. If I said you have answered a question, how does that mean you're being mentioned for engagement?
Now that it's clear you and i aren't on the same page please don't mention me or refer to me in your post.
Continue with your fellow worshipers as for me whatever i say is the belief of my entire global family and you can ask any of them unlike you who can't mention your own church yet claiming they exist!🤣
Christianity EtcRe: True Religion by MaxInDHouse(m): 12:54pm On Jun 16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ‭John 3:16 NIV‬

Whatever good deeds we can think of as a passmark is worthless before God unless we believe in His only begotten Son.

What you should be asking is how can we truly prove that we believe in God's only begotten Son?
Christianity EtcRe: Revisiting The Scripture For Better Understanding by MaxInDHouse(m): 12:50pm On Jun 16
FxMasterz:
Reinterpretation of scriptures is even an understatement. They outrightly introduce interpolations and make derivations that are absolutely illogical and baseless.
FxMasterz:
Maxindhouse has largely answered the question.
Please whenever you want to comment on Nairaland don't mention me again in relation to whatever you believe because you and i aren't on the same page. Mark 3:11-12
So quote your fellow worshipers in your God and make reference to them not me!🙂
Christianity EtcRe: Revisiting The Scripture For Better Understanding by MaxInDHouse(m): 12:43pm On Jun 16
Explore2xmore:
I answered your previous questions but you refuse to accept these and consider them unanswered.

O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the Paradise…
Explore2xmore:
Quran 54:54–55 states that the righteous will be in gardens and rivers, near a Sovereign, Perfect in Ability. It does not specifically say this is the same heaven from which Adam was sent down.
Ọmọ i know Islam before you were born so i can tell you categorically that both Allah, Muhammad and your Quran can't answer any question straightforward.

I'm not saying your Quran can't copy and paste few things from the Bible what i'm telling you is that your Quran can't answer any question EXPLICITLY as you are demanding from the Bible.

So answer the simple question.

You said your Allah drove Adam down away from heaven.

So when was Adam taken to heaven before he was sent down again?
After all you are now saying Adam was created on planet earth.🙂
Christianity EtcRe: JW 058 PEACE: Want Or Need? by MaxInDHouse(op): 10:30am On Jun 16
In the ministry i greeted a Muslim who always oppose us whenever we preach in his neighborhood even when we have stopped appealing to him to give us a listening ear for a conversation he always reject. But this time around he is cold and calm so i asked him what he thinks about the situation of Nigeria in the face of security.
He admitted that he is really confused because even the government has failed to protect their subjects so in his conclusion everyone should protect themselves.
So i quoted the Bible book of Proverbs 1:24-33 which reads

Because I called out, but you kept refusing, I stretched out my hand, but no one was paying attention, You kept neglecting all my advice And rejecting my reproof, I also will laugh when disaster strikes you; I will mock when what you dread comes, When what you dread comes like a storm, And your disaster arrives like a storm wind, When distress and trouble come upon you. At that time they will keep calling me, but I will not answer; They will eagerly look for me, but they will not find me, Because they hated knowledge, And they did not choose to fear Jehovah. They refused my advice; They disrespected all my reproof. So they will bear the consequences of their way, And they will be glutted with their own counsel. For the waywardness of the inexperienced will kill them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them. But the one listening to me will dwell in security And be undisturbed by the dread of calamity.”

The Muslim man felt really disturbed and this time around he politely and humbly asked me to interpret this verse.

Well Jesus has commanded us never to withhold knowledge from whoever ask for it so i interpreted it for him!

Jesus sent us out as his disciples to preach and teach about God's Kingdom {Matthew 28:19-20} and also said we are sons of God for making peace {Matthew 5:9} so whoever listens to us will also become one of those preaching and teaching about the kingdom of God like us {Act 1:8} and his name will be written in the book of life {Malachi 3:16} but all those sticking to their own personal opinion regarding righteoness {Proverbs 3:5-6} will pay dearly when the calamity for which we are preaching against kicks off! Proverbs 1:33

How are we protected?

First of all when others start to hate, fight and kill themselves racism {Revelation 6:3-4} and their religions fail to unite them as one spiritual family {John 17:22} we have preached peace within our neighborhood and all the people have known that we are completely neutral regarding whatever is causing chaos among them because among us there is LOVE no matter where our member may come from {John 13:34-35} those hating and fighting against themselves will not see us as part of what is causing troubles among them. John 16:14-16

Secondly because people in our neighborhood have known us as preachers of peace whoever stays with us will be viewed as our members who are also peace lovers! Isaiah 2:2-4

Lastly even though any of us is affected due to stray bullets or persecution for his or her faith Jesus will resurrect such faithful ones back to life when he begin his rulership! John 11:25-26

But what happens to all those opposing us claiming they know God better than us?
This is the time their false religions will fail woefully to protect them even from their own fellow worshipers!🙂
Christianity EtcRe: What Does It Mean To Be Seated Together With Christ? by MaxInDHouse(m): 7:54am On Jun 16
h777:
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE SEATED TOGETHER WITH CHRIST?
According to the scriptures Christ will rule as King on David's throne forever! Isaiah 9:6-7

The mother of James and John begged Jesus to promise her that when Jesus is seated on his throne her two sons will seat one at his right and the other at his left {Matthew 20:20-21} this simply means to rule with the Christ.

Jesus made it clear to them that it's not by ones effort of faith because surely they will both do everything within their power but only his father chooses corulers for him! Matthew 20:22-23
Christianity EtcRe: Why Are Atheists More Obsessed With Religion Than So-called Religious People? by MaxInDHouse(m): 7:24am On Jun 16
They wanted to hide behind science but the deeper the go into science the more they are seeing the evidence that God exists. The problem they have now is shame because they don't want to swallow their former pride and ask the most important question:

Which religion is the truth or which one represents God amongst the tens of thousands different religions around the world?

Many of their leaders are confused after having indepth knowledge of science as they keep on seeing the evidence of God's existence! Romans 1:18-20

Christianity EtcRe: Revisiting The Scripture For Better Understanding by MaxInDHouse(m):
FxMasterz:
Did Jesus not call their temple His Father's House when He drove out the traders? Is the God of Israel not the same as the God Jesus preached? You guys have very shallow understanding of Scripture and your arrogance will not make you learn. Jesus didn't introduce a new God to Israel. He only introduced a new Way. Anyone who doesn't serve God in this new way is of his father the devil.
Did Jesus worship the same God with the Pharisees?
Just answer the question YES or NO?🙂


FxMasterz:
The apostles didn't make any error in their understanding of Scripture and later corrected themselves.
FxMasterz:
They (Apostles) agreed but they misunderstood. They probably thought He was talking about the dispersed Jews among the gentiles. There was a Moses stronghold on their minds that wouldn't allow the truth of that message to penetrate. Thank God for Paul.
Why did Peter say:

Now I truly understand that God is not partial, but in every nation the man who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him" Act 10:34-35

Note the highlighted in red.
Did they understood everything at once or later corrected themselves through the help of God's holy spirit? John 16:12-13🤣
Christianity EtcRe: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by MaxInDHouse(m):
Expanse2020:
So the laws are for the Jew and Jesus practices Judaism right ...
He kept all the law, he followed all the law
But his followers throwed the law away ...
Keep the one meaningful (favour the west) to them
Through the God law away because not favour them right
That why Judeo-Christian was formed and later transformed to the Christianity. ..
Where you abandon God words and inscribe the one favour you
Jesus kept the Mosaic laws because it's only Israelites who kept God's laws that supposed to be his corulers. Revelation 7:5-8 compare to Genesis 12:3

But since the Israelites themselves abandoned the covenant that made them God's special possession {Exodus 19:5} the invitation to rule with the Christ was blown open to people from other nations {John 1:11-12 compare to Matthew 22:2-14} so that former covenant is no longer binding on those who will rule with the Christ whether they are Jewish background or not! Jeremiah 31:31-33

So as the promised Christ Jesus fulfilled all what the law covenant required for Israelites to know that God played His own part of the covenant but it was the Israelites themselves that failed to play their own part of the covenant! Matthew 23:37-38

Today that old covenant is no longer binding on whoever becomes a disciple of Christ since God has chosen another nation {Matthew 21:43} and established another covenant with them {Jeremiah 31:31-33} that new nation began with the Born Again Christians and most of them are not from Israel therefore it makes no practical sense for them to continue with a covenant that has been broken!
Christianity EtcRe: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by MaxInDHouse(m):
Expanse2020:
If God didn't allow it
Why would
Abraham
Moses
Jacob
Solomon..
The sons of god have more than a wife
While would God give law on wives and thier children inheritance if it not allowed 🤔
The first man to have two wives in the Bible is Lamech {Genesis 4:19} and he set a bad example {Genesis 4:26} in many cases God allows some things for humans to learn on their own but when Jesus came he reminded his listeners that God has set the standard regarding marriage by giving Adam who is the world's richest man only one wife. Matthew 19:4
So that is the standard if we wants to live in Paradise!

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