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fredwill1357:
Hello, can we talk outside nairaland? I have some questions to ask you.
You can propose a means of communication, this is my WhatsApp number:

Docodes:
yes pls go on

Truuth:
lol

Truuth:
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Two brothers Enki and Enli visited and created earth together,.

ccjoe:
Those saying that God wouldn't endorse war between nations of God's people should read through., judges 20: 12-48. In verse 23 in particular it reads '... And the children of israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, shall i go up again to battle against the children of benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, go up against him.'

ccjoe:
Okay.

ccjoe:
Those saying that God wouldn't endorse war between nations of God's people should read through., judges 20: 12-48. In verse 23 in particular it reads '... And the children of israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, shall i go up again to battle against the children of benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, go up against him.'

Docodes:
a misconception that was clearly stated?

Docodes:
In my own understanding, God is a king that can do whatever he want and pleases. He is above Good and evil. He created everything.

Docodes:
I have observed how humans always complain and direct their frustration towards God. Is it like an instinctive response to life's troubles. Now I was going through the book of Isaiah and I came across where God clearly stated that he cause troubles and happiness.

jazzman7711:
The gospels are ANONYMOUSLY WRITTEN meaning nobody knows who wrote them!

FxMasterz:
My dear. Let me focus you for now. As for you, I know without an iota of doubt that you've been deceived, hypnotized and held in some spiritual bondage. You're the one I know for now. When I know about my friends, if what you said about them is true, then I'll address them too. But for now, you're my focus.

FxMasterz:
God will deliver you.
If this is your response to all the expose on this thread, you're far gone.
May you receive a Devine visitation in Jesus name.

FxMasterz:
I'll keep praying for you.

FxMasterz:
I'll mention you

FxMasterz:
By contrasting this with the responses on the court proceedings you previously uploaded, they just condemned themselves. Hope Maxindhouse, janosky, Aemmyjah, Michael547, Cornelboy and all the Deceived out there are reading?

FxMasterz:
Maxindhouse

ALMUSTAQIM:
Assalaam Alaekum wa Rrahmatullah wa Barakatuh

waleayeni1:
2 Tim. 2:23-26

BackllGodNaija:
It is not by power or might but by the Spirit of God. You made a big mistake trying to achieve this on your own. Remember the flesh is weak so that explains the urge and difficulty to contain it. But the spirit is willing and prayer is a spiritual exercise so it is one means via which God helps us not to fall into temptation. Matthew 26:41. Fasting is another. Deuteronomy 8:3

Westerhoffe:
"Must show everyone…"
Really?
That sounds so shallow to reply to even… so so shallow.

Sand2022:
In differences of opinion, one opinion is correct while one is wrong. Both can't be right. Arguing to prove to another might not be wrong in itself, but we should not go to the extent of saying so and so will not make the kingdom because of that belief. Only God knows why so and so doesn't accept that truth.

Emm4:
Your evidence that there is no heaven? Or you think a reasonable person will just accept this junk perspective?

Sand2022:
God knows we can't all agree on everything.

fredwill1357:
Matthew 25:34. The kingdom of God in my own understanding of the scripture is any kingdom that God the father, the son and holy spirit rules. Heaven is also a kingdom of God. Jesus promises his disciples paradise, a kingdom ruled by him with no lack, no impurity, darkness nor anything bad.
Some denominations of Christianity proposes that Jesus will takeover the leadership of earth from the devil in his second coming and turn earth to paradise.

You can enlighten me if I am wrong or not completely correct.

fredwill1357:
Jesus started his ministration after baptism with preaching the nearness of the kingdom of God. It was also his last commandment and request to his disciples.
Surprisingly many of us including me thought this message is no longer much important since the gospel has reached almost all parts of the world. Till it was brought to my attention through the teachings of the brethren that this message is still very much important and is meant to continue until the arrival of our Lord.
I bring you this message of hope today and beseech you to heed to it. Repent and seek ye first the kingdom of God and it's righteousness and every other thing shall be added unto you. Yearn for holiness, live a life of righteousness and evangelize the gospel to even one soul.

Westerhoffe:
Ask them…
If GOD would reveal anything to anyone, He will, and no one can question Him on that.

Westerhoffe:
If you are too far from JESUS CHRIST, how will He show you anything of Him?

jazzman7711:
How do you know what your ''quality of life'' was like before they came, when you are a historical illiterate?

Have you spent even ONE HOUR of your entire life reading any African history book?

The quality of life when they left in 1960 was mass illiteracy and mass malnutrition after looting your resources for a century, are you aware of that?

Point at one single public school, industry, useful infrastructure, or university that they built between 1886 and 1960.

ANSWER IS ZERO.

The only reason YOU can even read and write today, unlike your illiterate grandparents under colonialism, is because the invaders were driven out in 1960 and black govts began building the nation from Point zero.




Learn about Benin City, which was essentially the capital of southern Nigeria before colonial invasion. This is from the UK's Guardian newspaper.

THEY know your history and YOU don't.

1836 drawing of Benin City by English artist, Mary Evans, showing multi-storey buildings and large public monuments, 60 years before the British invasion of Nigeria
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhFQSSxX0AADqSb.jpg
Benin City was described as ‘wealthy and industrious, well-governed and richly decorated’.


Benin City, The Mighty Medieval Capital Now Lost Without Trace

Guardian Newspaper, UK

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace


With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. So why is nothing left?



This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops [in Egypt]”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

Barely any trace of these walls exist today.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.

African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”


At the centre of the city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide. These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed.

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”.

Family houses were divided into three sections: the central part was the husband’s quarters, looking towards the road; to the left the wives’ quarters (oderie), and to the right the young men’s quarters (yekogbe).

Daily street life in Benin City might have consisted of large crowds going though even larger streets, with people colourfully dressed – some in white, others in yellow, blue or green – and the city captains acting as judges to resolve lawsuits, moderating debates in the numerous galleries, and arbitrating petty conflicts in the markets.

The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

Westerhoffe:
[b]If you are too far from JESUS CHRIST, how will He show you anything of Him?

FatherChrismas:
READ the septuagint your knowledge will be greatly improved.
It might take you just 4 months to understand biblical Greek
The new testament was not written in English

Aemmyjah:
Ignore that fool sir