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Anything as long as it supports the Arabian guy goes with you!🥱

honesttalk21:
Please don’t confuse the Epistle of Barnabas with the Gospel of Barnabas. They’re different. The Epistle is an anonymous Greek Christian text, likely composed between the late first and early second centuries and maybe as late as 130 CE. The writer takes on a teaching role, but there’s no solid proof he was actually Barnabas, Paul’s companion. Early Christians didn’t just toss it aside either. Clement of Alexandria leaned on it heavily, treating it with significant authority. It even made the cut for Codex Sinaiticus in the fourth century. That inclusion doesn’t mean everyone accepted it as canonical, though.

The Decretum Gelasianum lists a Gospel of Barnabas among apocryphal works, but that’s not the same book we have today. The surviving version comes down to us via a sixteenth-century Italian manuscript and an eighteenth-century Spanish one. Scholars generally date it to the medieval period. One influential study even pins the Italian text to the fourteenth century.

Sure, the Epistle is polemical. It fiercely argues against Jewish interpretations of Scripture. Calling it propaganda by a non-Jewish writer goes too far, though. We can’t establish that with certainty. The author’s identity and background are still unknown. Labeling him non-Jewish is an interpretation, not a demonstrable fact.

FxMasterz:
You mean I should never talk about JW? If you don't already know that this isn't possible, then you should know you really need help.

Now you know what it means to have a reputable group you want to tarnish the good name of Jehovah's Witnesses because you can't mention any useful religion to which you belong but claiming Christian when everyone know that that name "Christians" has been hijacked by thousands of different religions!🥱

MightySparrow:
😂 Hahahaha
Who is fooling who?
That is your own estimation of your organization.

So all those comments came out from me shey?

Please how do you think people will evaluate you when you quote Jesus but deliberately deny what he said?

People from different schools of thought speak about a group you said it's my own estimation.

Well until i see people come out to utter the same about your so called Pentecostal sha!🥱

HardMirror:
Mr man. Please delete my name from your data base, abi what is all this mention from you all the time.

Later you people will start or join others in conversations.
Can you just hear yourself?
You said something but don't want to be quoted!

ATHEISM is a crime wahala talahi

FxMasterz:
Lol.
Your truly not a serious person.
Lol.
It shows you're not serious. So, you meant I should never address any JW issues here again? You need help.

If this person is talking about JW the case would have been totally different but it's you who started talking about us when the OP never mentioned JW.
So you need help because you don't even know what Jesus said about supernatural acts which could be from any source!🥱

Walahi talahi some people just like talking trash.

How can a Barnabas who never lived in the time of Jesus be one who tells what happened during the time of Jesus?🥱

FxMasterz:
What have you tried ? What truth have you found before you started claiming these are all lies and illusions? Upon what authority do you make these assertions?

Jesus said it's by their fruits {Matthew 7:16-18} not their acts of supernatural powers! Matthew 7:21-23

So if you can't present the fruit of faith in false religion but want everyone to just swallow whatever they claim then you're deceiving yourself!

FxMasterz:
So, you still mentioned me again after you said I should stop mentioning you.

You mentioned me once you are talking about JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES!🥱

FxMasterz:
Jehovah Witnesses, those who hate Jesus

So if you truly want to prove you are sincere why did you mention the name of my organization?

Come on stop being childish here i'm Maximus one of JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES so whenever you mention the name of my group you have automatically mentioned me!

So respond to the comment and stop being deluded!🤔

FxMasterz:
Jehovah Witnesses,

What concerns us with your lies and self deception?

Is it supernatural acts we hate or your claims that they are all from Jesus?

Jesus himself said many will claim they performed miracles but he will say he doesn't know them {Matthew 7:21-23} so how do you expect a right thinking person to be carried away with your illusion?🤔

MightySparrow:
2 Corinthians 3:2
Ye (we) are our epistle written in (our) hearts, known and read of all men:
Matthew 5:16
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Now you are quoting what you can't expatiate.
If Jesus said "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven" Matthew 5:16

And you think he wasn't talking to a unique group but individuals in different religions all claiming they are his disciples how can they be the "light of the world" Matthew 5:14

Is it Mr A in Catholic Mr B in RCCG Mr C in Synagogue Mr D in MFM and still Mr E in Cele?

How can the world recognize these different individuals found in different religions as light?🤔

Ọmọ Jesus was referring to one group/organization that will have some unique qualities which all people from one end of the earth to the other end that this group have what all others don't have:

freethinker01:
Tho I don't like their disturbance, I'd have to say they're far better than all their Christian tithe whoring counterparts.

BafanaBafana:
Quite true. JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES are actually one of the few denominations who are still following Christ. Most churches now are headed by motivational speakers who only use the name of Jesus to preach other things. The goal is to attract members to their church and the members will bring the money.
Shikena!

APOPTOSIS:
JEHOVAH'S WITNESS is operating at a different level.
They have been steadfast, resolute and committed.
I hold no grudge against them. They downplay commercialization of churches.
They entertain persecutions a lot, in fact more than several Christian bodies.
Seems in their church everyone is at same level irrespective of your degree, financial acquaintance and contacts.
And it seems they obey the Bible the most:
-They hardly disturb neighbors during prayers.
-They frown at intimidation and flamboyant lifestyles.
-They ensure financial gifts are covered and never displeased at whatever they recieve.
-Their members would make good politicians but they frown at politics
I respect them. I judge based on actions and not what I'm told.

Oye0404:
well said, once had a witness DAT comes around for years, truth is,dis guys are so caring and accommodating. lots if misconceptions about dem..

XXLDICK:
They remain the most peaceful Christian denomination.
They do not pay tithes. They are the only Christian denomination yet to be commercialized. They are my favourite.
Cons:
They do not recite the national anthem.
They do not participate in elections.
They do not accept blood transfusion.

boss1310:
The way they are hated makes me to think sometimes they might be the true Christians but I might be wrong.

Love800:
I would love to be a JEHOVAH'S WITNESS, because of their gentle life. Relaxed service and programs(not those stressful and loud types), and serenity of their church yard. Infact, its this serenity of their abode that blows my mind!

But the thing that worries me, is their misled teachings. How can you say that we are not going to die, but remain on earth and unite with our love ones and live happily together forever!

Deway52:
I am convinced that JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES are the real religion, they do everything in line with the bible.
Na small time remain for me now, I don enter. If everybody in the world is a jw the world would be a better place.

HardMirror:
unfortunately, JW are the best Christians if we will be honest.

If you call what all these people are saying "COMMUNITY TRUTH" are these commentators also members of Jehovah's Witnesses?

Abeg continue deceiving yourself o!🙂

King David was chosen among his brothers to lead God's people later David committed adultery with a woman, killed her husband and took her as his wife but after all said and done God declared that there is no king in Israel that's like David who is a man according to God's heart! Act 13:22

Whoever is not interested in knowing why these things are so can't be one of God's loyal worshipers rather you'll end up claiming God is not just or say God has no standard.🥱

This is why i asked you to list the qualities of the FRUIT of God's holy spirit because if you don't know how it's connected to the holiness God requires i wonder how you are going to distinguish between true and false religion.

Do you think it's by the attitude of imperfect humans that we are to be assessed? You're really funny because if that's what determines the righteousness of God how do you think Muslims, Traditionalists, Buddhists, Judaists, Atheists, Agnostics and Freethinkers who are kind and nice could be excluded from the blessings that God promised?

Ọmọ i know you are spiritually empty that's why i told you never to call me your brother as you despise divine wisdom.

Meanwhile know that no amount of mockery can change our mind regarding what we know as truth our righteousness is not what you can measure with human thinking because it's from Jehovah our God! Isaiah 54:17🙂

MightySparrow:
Hahahahahaha. I have about five of you around me. You as a member are just under the masquerade costume of Nairaland. Your righteousness is just veiled behind the screen. .
You have been talking about fruits: by their fruit you shall know them. I already have the fruit of both Jw.Org and Governing Body close to me.
Cheers dear brother. The fact is when leaving the confusion of Islam, your first contact was JW. Org. The first and only. If you had entered Celestial, Anglican, RCCG, your experience and thinking would be different. I was born into a nominal Christian home. You know, a little of Christian understanding and more of tradition. I have some experiences across some christian denominations. I know how to get the better of the lot.
I understand your passion, in born, you must have been a very devoted Muslim, the same zeal you brought into JWs. Fine my brother at least as a human and moreso as a yoruba man and, well, as a branch of Christ.
Cheers brother.

MightySparrow:
Islam is not a continuation of either Judaism or Christianity. It is a fraud

Your own PERSONAL judgement!

MightySparrow:
JW.Org preach and teach segregation from brethren than separation from the world.

Your PERSONAL judgement!

If Jesus was born into Judaism but condemned all the religions that stem from Judaism claiming only his followers can have everlasting life then you have nothing to say against Jehovah's Witnesses because it's exactly the same attitude of Jesus that Jehovah's Witnesses portrayed!🙂

sonmvayina:
that's what you were supposed to write, not the BC you wrote.....

Pẹ̀lẹ́!

MightySparrow:
Because of humanity.

How do you talk about humanity when you despise the one and only organization that's working towards peace and love?

You people just love deceiving yourselves!

Jesus preached love and peace the only group practicing what he taught you despise claiming they have community truth when it's not you or your daddy that establish the religion you want to carry on your head.

I was a Muslim when i saw the light among Jehovah's Witnesses and moved closer to learn more because i don't belong to any religion except the only one that's practicing what Jesus taught.

So if you feel you already got the religion you want it simply means you and i aren't on the same page if i see a better performing group than Jehovah's Witnesses today i'll leave them instantly and join, i'm not tied down to any religion so i'm a free agent only the truth that has no equal can hold me!🙂

MightySparrow:
Awolowo said, ' because we are related, we will meet; and continue to meet again and again.

Because i'm responding to you shey?🥱

MightySparrow:
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
That is it.
Does the passage say 'all' who called Him Lord, Lord or all that prophecy,cast out demons, did miracles?
This is the assumptive interpretation that leads to community truth and rob people of their redemptive blessings. Sir, there is adifference between all and many.
This is the very foundation of delusion I have been saying.

I have chosen my own path you are free to choose yours nah.
If you are after supernatural acts go after them i'm not interested in such acts but the fruit of God's holy spirit!🙂

gbolaben:
They are exactly the questions that should be asked when we are told to accept suffering as part of a divine plan.

Suffering was never God's plan!

MightySparrow:
So yours is selective belief?
What is convenient?

Jesus WARNED me that i should not allow supernatural acts to deceive me nah! Matthew 7:21-23

So no matter how many miracles you performed what matters to me is the fruit of faith. Matthew 7:16-18

As long as that fruit is missing i'll just pass you bye.

WHY?

Because much supernatural acts do occur in different religions even in our own traditional religions here in Africa our people do perform supernatural acts so when anyone claims he is doing it in Jesus name i'm never moved!🥱

MightySparrow:
Tell us how much of the fruit you are touting that exist with JW. Org

I only believe in what Jesus said.

He warned me not put my trust in supernatural acts {Matthew 7:21-23} so i zero my mind when people are rushing towards such acts instead i focus on the fruit of faith which Jesus said will serve as evidence of his presence in the gathering of faithful people! Matthew 7:16-18

So if you don't believe in the fruit of faith as Jesus commanded his disciples please there is no reason arguing further! 🥱

MightySparrow:
What about fruit of delusion in jw.org?

Are you now running away from what you started?
First of all what are the qualities of the fruit of God's holy spirit {Galatians 5:22-23} which Jesus said we should look out for. Matthew 7:16-18

Then we can later talk about delusion that people in the first century also complain about among Jesus' disciples.

MightySparrow:
We
You claim to know Him in person but deny His wonderful works among men today. You deny the apostolic legacies. Deny the operations of the Holy Spirit and resorts to philosophy of men. You are not sure that when you call on Him, He would answer you. How much of Him do you know?
People that know Him and know His voice, you condemn them.

The same man said "By their fruits you will know false religionists" {Matthew 7:16-17} so can you mention the qualities of the fruit of God's holy spirit that you found among those you say i don't believe today?
Or is it just their so called miracles alone that makes you quantify them as true servants of God? Matthew 7:21-23🤔

@Roycemadeit
In the below picture you see many people carrying weapons while just two men are there in their midst controlling all the resources in their countries.
Do you think it's the weapons that's doing the work or the mentality that there must be right and wrong?
Do you think those carrying the weapons have all the things they want/need so that they fully agree to stand protecting those two old men?🤔

Roycemadeit:
Not carrying weapons yourself doesn't mean you live without protection from people who carry weapons. If a Jehovah's Witness in northern Nigeria is protected by the police, military, private security, or other armed personnel, then the claim that peaceful society exists simply because your organization has eliminated the need for weapons becomes...

So you think it's your police or military that's protecting you shey?
Ọmọ you guys have a long way to go.
Now i know for sure that people really need the wisdom Jesus impacted in us.
Some individuals within a society were trained and given weapons to carry about and these individuals are also in need/want of so many things that riches can buy yet they mentally subject themselves to average lifestyle instead of forcefully using the weapons in their hands to collect whatever they want or need just as others whom you call "CRIMINALS" are doing and you believe it's because they're carrying weapons that's why you are protected shey?
What if the same people holding weapons decide to rob you who will now protect you from being robbed?
Ọmọ it's not the weapons in the hands of those wearing uniforms that's serving as protection rather the mentality that there should be right and wrong which doesn't even have anything to do with physical weapons at all.
So if you now see people who mentally subject themselves to rules having to do with right and wrong without the use of physical weapons they are the ones proving that they are real humans not those deceiving themselves claiming they are being protected by uniformed men and women that can decide to attack or even rob you using the same weapons given to them!🙂

MightySparrow:
Every church organization has its own community truth. That JW.Org community truth is superior to others is a lie.

Now read the below before you deceive yourself further:

A first century youth about 33 years old said:

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" John 14:6

Because of this statement most people who knew how he was born and how he grew up became offended and so 99.9% of Jews including some who had been following him before then turned against him. But today you claim to believe this same man even though you never saw him like those people did yet you claim to believe in him.
Please how do you manage to believe in a first century man who uttered such a statement without knowing him in person yet refused to believe an organization today claiming they are the only group practicing what he taught?🤔

lawani:
You are just going round in circles. A JW having a business employing hundreds of people (and they exist) will be kidnapped if they live in an area prone to such if they don't have armed body guards. They can go about preaching in areas not prone to such or where their identity is not known. In short if you say policing or national defense is wrong then you are leeching on the system because those things are the reasons you are able to operate in peace in any environment. You leech on the system and you condemn things that benefit you.

So you know we don't go about with security guards and their are billionaires among us shey?

All you need to ask is how we are coping with the situation not just concluding we must believe in the use of weapons simply because you don't know how to go about things with wisdom!😁

Now it's clear something is not right with you.
You edited my comment and you responded to yourself!😁

sonmvayina:
exactly judgment day and hell are all creation of the human mind to keep people like you in line.....

sonmvayina:
You will wake up when its your time.

Better!😁

MightySparrow:
Maybe your organization should check their light and New Light.

It's OK you can continue with your church if you and i don't agree there is no wahala!🙂

DeltaFire:
There is a short video here in the Facebook message by an older White woman telling us what Christianity did to our ancestors.
If you seek truth, you will watch her and listen.

This is why the Bible says:

Make sure of all things; hold fast to what is fine! 1Thessalonians 5:21

The popular story you all knew is half truth the religion most of you know as Christianity today is not what was practiced in the first century. The true Christians were killed by the Antichrist that you know today as Christians {Revelation 11:7-10} but today God has separated His true worshipers from among followers of the Antichrist it's as if pure worship resurrected after centuries of spiritual darkness {Revelation 11:11} just as Jesus foretold {Matthew 13:24-30} Satan's agents gave the group name "CHRISTIANS"to the disciples of Christ in the first century not to honor but mock them but the disciples due to the love they have for Jesus adopted that group name {Mark 8:38} so in the year 1931 the true God gave His worshipers another group name to distinguish us from followers of the Antichrist! Isaiah 65:15

So if you want to know how true Christianity should be go and study the Bible with Jehovah's Witnesses! Isaiah 43:10🙂

lawani:
So billionaire Jehovah witnesses don't use weapons to protect themselves from kidnappers in Nigeria?

Please i don't mean to be rude but how do you use your power of reasoning?

Surely you need to be schooled on this matter!🙂

A billionaire walked up to Jesus asking:
“Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit everlasting life?" Luke 18:18

After proving that he's been a law abiding citizen all his life Jesus told the billionaire:

“There is still one thing lacking about you: Sell all the things you have and distribute the proceeds to the poor, and you will have treasure in the heavens; and come be my follower.” Luke 18:22

The man walked away sadly as he couldn't meet up with Jesus' order so he told his disciples:

“How difficult it will be for those having money to make their way into the Kingdom of God! It is easier, in fact, for a camel to get through the eye of a sewing needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” Luke 18:24-25

LESSON LEARNED!
You can't keep material things as your choicest possessions and at the same time be a disciple of Christ.

WHY?

Because all eyes will be on you both the good, bad and vicious people all because of worldly riches! Matthew 6:19-21

Now ask yourself:

How can an individual be one of Jehovah's Witnesses but refuses to go out preaching and teaching along with his or her fellow believers?

Have you ever seen Jehovah's Witnesses preaching in your street and some body guards following them because of one billionaire to be protected among Jehovah's Witnesses?

Ọmọ now you know why JWs are the one and only true Christian organization globally because you can't be one of us without going out to preach and teach in your neighborhood so if you're scared of being kidnapped due to riches then you can't be one of us! Luke 18:25🙂

MightySparrow:
Why were they added and who did?

The clergy back then don't want anyone to fault whatever they say so if someone raises any objection regarding their dogmas they will quote those verses for him.
Then such a person must prove he is truly a disciple of Jesus by staying with snakes and other dangerous animals, drink poison and other evil things that will surely kill him after all he claims to be holier than them.
That is how they control people back then.
When you hear that most true Christians were killed cruelly that is what happened to them, the clergy back then will quote these verses for you and force you to drink a deadly poison or throw you to carnivorous animals that can kill their plan is to kill anyone who kicks against their dogmas.
So once that person dies they'll tell everyone:
"Can you see he/she lied?
If Jesus is truly behind him why did he die after drinking the poison?"
So they added it to kill anyone who kicks against them.

Another verses added is Matthew 17:21

They knew that most people will like to please God so they will tell you to fast like Jesus after all you claim to be holier than them knowing fully well that you will die of hunger.

You can make research to know more about how the clergy killed many people for kicking against their dogmas in the dark ages!