Only angels can do something without blunder as they are PERFECT creatures but as for humans when God declares Israelites "HOLY" it wasn't because there was no blunders in their midst rather it's because they are unitedly doing God's will. That's is why God gave them rules to govern them as His own people and no outsider comes to tell them how to implement the orders given to them by their God!
God's people will be declared "HOLY" because we are unitedly doing God's will as a nation like the ancient Israelites, whatever blunders that's happening in our midst is evidence of the fact that we are IMPERFECT HUMANS like all others but unitedly doing what Jehovah promised regarding His united worshipers!
OLAADEGBU: If you represent the type of intelligent officers in our obodo country today then we no one is safe.
Romantic adventure gone wrong is what most ladies call "RAPE" If a man raped your sister once and she later told you it happened again will you take her words seriously? What is she still doing close to the rapist?
OK the rapist did it the first time and she came to report while we are doing our investigation she went to him again and came back to tell us that the story repeated itself. Haba! Rape doesn't occur in the open place nah, she must have been in a hidden place all alone with the man before such a thing could happen. So what took her to the same man who supposed to be a pastor but she discovered he is a rapist nah? Ọmọ we work with our brains not teeth so if you are carried away with emotions we are not!
If the Bible say "NAME" and you don't know it's meaning then there is nothing further to discuss because LORD is a title and not a name. That's why i referred you to the preface of all Bible versions so that you can figure out why these people refused to make use of God's personal name instead of titles like Lord and God but since you joked with it i also like jokes so let the jokes continue.
Westerhoffe: MaxInDHouse Finally he responds. Now let's delve back into the discussion. Mark 12 (KJV) ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ ³⁰ And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. ³¹ And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. Deuteronomy 6 (KJV) ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ ⁴ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: ⁵ And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” — Matthew 6:9 (KJV) Acts 2 (KJV) ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ ³⁴ For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, ³⁵ Until I make thy foes thy footstool. “(Psalm of David.) The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” — Psalms 110:1 (KJV) Now tell me, do you see the perversion in your version of the Bible?
MaxInDHouse: Churchians like you are just puffed up with no knowledge and instead of you to learn humbly you will be accusing real disciples of Christ. Check your version of the Bible and read the preface to find out what was written in the Bible book of Deuteronomy 6:4-5
“Listen, O Israel: JEHOVAH our God is one JEHOVAH. You must love JEHOVAH your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your strength. The name JEHOVAH or YAHWEH appeared three times in that passage but since Pharisees and Sadducees decided to stop using the divine name they replaced it with "Adonai" which means "Lord" that is why Jesus continue to lay emphasis on the use and mention of God's name:
“You must pray, then, this way: “‘Our Father in the heavens, let your NAME be sanctified" Matthew 6:9
“I have made your NAME manifest to the men whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have observed your word. John 17:6
So when Jesus quoted Moses's words at Deuteronomy 6:4 he mentioned God's name:
Jesus answered: “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel, JEHOVAH our God is one JEHOVAH, and you must love JEHOVAH your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind and with your whole strength.’ Mark 12:30-31
So my churchian guy go now and check the preface of your copy of the Bible instead of arguing blindly because Jesus mentioned and used God's name throughout his ministry by referring to God as father simply means that is the father of all creations! Read Luke 3:23-38 Jesus is supposed to be the son of Joseph who is the son of Adam who is the son of God!
Who told you the Apostles don't used God's name in their ministry? Oya check your Bible and see where Peter quoted David @ Act 2:34-35 compare to Psalms 110:1 There David sang saying:
"JEHOVAH said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet."
But the translators of your own version chose to follow the tradition of Pharisees and Sadducees that's why they used Adonai (Lord) to replace God's name hence when you're reading that passage your won't know that someone was issuing orders for Jesus you will just conclude erroneously that the LORD who is the shepherd David meant @ Psalms 23:1 is Jesus instead of JEHOVAH. So study your Bible personally by comparing what you find in the preface about the divine name with the passages. Wherever you see the LORD all in capital letters it was God's name that was there originally that's why Psalms 110:1 will confuse most churchians like you because it's obvious that it's about two persons where the greater is giving orders to the lesser!
Only those who do not know the One True Living GOD will make the comments you make about the name of GOD.
If you know who your dad is, and you stand before those who know him as well, you don't need to call him by his name before they know who you're talking about when you mention, "My Dad…"… they know who you're talking about already.
But when you stand before those who do not know your dad, even if you mention his full name, they still don't know him and may never know him until you go back to where he is, bring him before them to show him to them.
You asking me of the name of the One True Living LORD GOD ALMIGHTY shows you do not know Him.
Because if you know Him, you won't have asked again when you read One True Living LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
MaxInDHouse, hallow the name of GOD the FATHER as JESUS CHRIST the Son taught us to… and stop calling His name anyhow without respect according to your erroneous and misleading version of the Bible.
askit: All that's semantics, which I'm not interested in discussing. How will a person be called baba onifa without doing the rites of joining awo, which makes them a babalawo? There are laid down rules for such rites online on blogs and books on the subject about Yoruba culture and traditions I use the term "Ifa devotees" /"Ifa priests" to refer to babalawos, and that usage has a key significance in this subject. Ifa devotees or Ifa priests (who I call babalawos) are different from other people, for instance, students or researchers, who know Odu Ifa alittle or a bit more but don't belong to any awo (occult) and don't worship Ifa Such people may even be a descendant of Ifa or Orunmila directly or indirectly but still they don't worship them Don't mix things up. Even Ifa priests/devotees don't recognize such people as individuals (members) within their fold because such people are often quite objective about Odu Ifa, which the priests or devotees usually find offensive or disrespectful Look at the individual talking about Ifa earlier, which I think the mod banned; such people are mere researchers, not in any awo. No Ifa devotees/priests will tell you that Odu Ifa has limits (only people into academia do such) In fact, the priests hate hearing such, and they don't usually consider researchers of Odu Ifa as belonging to to their fold Researchers don't know or observe their codes of conduct
There is a difference between Ifá and Awo, a Buddhist, Muslim, Churchian, Traditionalist, Doctor, Lawyer, Judaist and many more may be involved in AWO but Ifá is a religion on it's own just as all these religions are on their own.
Ifá means consulting the Oracle while Awo means the occult which any form of religionist can be their member. There is the Olúawo, Apènà, Erelú, Asípa and the others in AWO this are the initiates while Ifá only deals with the Oracle anyone can go for a consultation the initiates are also novice when it comes to ifá they must pay for consultation just as anyone else.
All these are top secrets that most of you don't know!
Please why was my comment (post) banned on this thread? Those nations had what is called the golden rule but they deliberately shunned it. For instance back then the most powerful nation rules so if they knew that the Almighty God was coming with the Israelites why didn't they allow the Israelites to occupy wherever they choose?
Janosky: JohnW confused werey. Nah your fellow member post the screenshot "The church is NOT a place of Perfection." Oga receive SENSE.
I ignored that one because he doesn't grasp a single thing all he's expecting is exchange of insults from JWs. I'm sure sparrow now understand what God's word means by holiness because Israelites weren't perfect people when God declared them HOLY so after giving him the reason why God declared the Israelites HOLY and explained how JWs today are also HOLY his failure to provide a rebuttal means he has gotten the sense of it but stubbornly chose the opposite direction!
banom: Is there any difference between a christian believer who keeps living in sin and an unbeliever who commits the same sin. ?
Going by the scriptures the difference is clear!
An unbeliever is someone who doesn't believe in the word of God for reasons best known to him, it might be because he lacks the ability to understand how faith works or he is yet not so convinced of what the love of God means. Such a person will continue to commit sin since he doesn't know what is bad in God's eyes he only stick to what he knows is good and bad from his little understanding about life. From God's standpoint he is not judged yet because he doesn't know what he is doing! Luke 23:34
A believer who already knows what God's word says but due to his own greed chooses to go back into the things he left behind has been judged. This is what the scriptures say about such ones:
For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left, but there is a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a burning indignation that is going to consume those in opposition. Hebrews 10:26-27
Willfully PRACTICING WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW as evil deeds is sin against God's Holy Spirit so there is no more forgiveness for such a person! Hebrews 10:34 compare to Matthew 12:31-32
MightySparrow: Your Delusional Majesty. Jehovah leads you to uncertainties in doctrine? Please paste your new pictures with full grown beards. What number are you and tribe in the 144,000?
You keep proving that you're faithless!
Imagine you're a Canaanite during the time Israelites were wandering in the wilderness for forty years a journey that supposed to take them forty days. Would you have believed that it was the Almighty God that's with them?
Your faithlessness is the only thing that will lead you to destruction now because i'm sure this is clear to you!
askit: The way you post lies all about is mind-boggling. All what you said here is only a figment of your imagination. It's totally different from the reality
Anyone following events in Nigeria and overseas knows adherents of ATR, including babalawos (often translated as Ifa priests), are a minority in Nigeria and have held little or no key political positions
Dey post your lies small small, no be kids dey dis forum
This is what most of you failed to realize because majority calls the building where people gather for worship "Church" doesn't mean that's correct.
MightySparrow: I accept the truth that you are special imperfect people.
YES! Just like ancient Israelites that JEHOVAH declared HOLY simply because there's no better nation as ORGANIZED as the imperfect humans that JEHOVAH Himself is leading!
You're just been heady for nothing i've told you what my own Bible said! Micah 4:5
Westerhoffe: “For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.” — Micah 4:5 (KJV) Where is the name here? I know you don't know your Bible and I won't stop until you realize your mistakes.
epainos: Most Babalawos are Senior Yahoos Nice one. It is why I said Babalawos are the king of thieves.
You need to know the real meaning of that word "BABALÁWO" it totally differs from "Ifá priest"
Babaláwo means the head among the initiates most initiates don't even know a single thing about Ifá because that's not their field. This is the full meaning "Bàbá nínú àwọn aláwo" this people are behind the politics in all the places they are and they are behind all the political parties throughout the world. There are three categories of initiates: Those in the race of business. Those in the race of religions. Those in the race of politics You can switch lane but your position in one lane won't be the same in another, you have to join the queue from the back even if you're well known as a frontier in one lane you can't be a frontier on the other lane. They are all into the same cult and they know themselves so once they initiate anyone he or she joins the race and they're ever ready to protect the interest of their members. Don't think they're only in one continent they are everywhere!
immortalcrown: Before you mention Christians, doesn't the road obstruction negatively affect Muslims? Aren't there Muslims among the users of the road or do every Muslim pray at the same time?
BLAMELESS and PURE could only make sense to those whose power of reasoning is working and can distinguish between what is right or wrong. So if you can't present a HOLY PEOPLE like the Israelites that God Himself declared HOLY in Bible times then you're just deserving yourself because God declared the Israelites Holy yet there is no evil deed that was not found among the Israelites back then therefore if God declared them HOLY despite their flaws it means you don't know what it means to be HOLY from God's viewpoint!
i have told you before more than once that God's Holy People/His Church/his ekklesia is called out people, called out by God Himself, they are from many denominations and non denominational they are saved by God's grace through faith
of course so called Jehovahs witnesses orginisation and roman catholics and latter day saints and many others orgs. and sects think they are the true church, they are of course blinded:
2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them
For all the peoples will walk, each in the name of its god, But we will walk in the name of JEHOVAH our God forever and ever. Micah 4:5 What is the name of your own God?
Westerhoffe: Coming from a person whose religion came from a branch of Satanists!
How many times did JESUS CHRIST mention the name of the FATHER? Why did JESUS CHRIST teach that the name of the FATHER must be hallowed?
You know you're the clown here!
Why are you afraid to admit that the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY I'm asking you of is the One True Living GOD if you're not a Satanist yourself?
Why always trying to twist the whole thing the way JWs always do?
You even sound ridiculous and very much unreasonable to bring Zeus, Krishna, and Jupiter into the sane conversation all because you're trying to prove an unreasonable point that does not exist.
You are becoming more and more unreasonable with all your diversions. Why do you hate the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY? Answer me!
So Jonah was miraculously preserved alive in the belly of the fish he never went to your fairy Hell. For him to say Hell (Grave) he simply means that place would have become his grave had it been that God didn't intervene.
Ken4Christ: That was a miracle from God. Physical fire will of course burn your body but it cannot destroy the immortal soul. This is why souls that were dead could cry out even after they have been slain and buried;
Revelation 6:9-11. 9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar THE SOULS of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And THEY CRIED with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And WHITE ROBES were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Notice the passage above said that;
1. The souls of them that was slain cried out for vengeance. They were already dead and buried but their souls are still alive and they could cry.
2. They were even given White robes to put on. This is the spiritual clothing of the souls or spirit of saints who died. They still have all their shape and body parts intact. The only thing is that they can't make contact with the physical world.
So, erase those doctrines that teaches you that the dead are not conscious. They are even more conscious than you like it is clearly stated in the story of the Rich man and Lazarus.
You're not a disciple of Christ Jesus that's why you don't know the importance of God's name.
Jesus commanded his disciples to go and preach to people of all the nations in the name of his father. Matthew 28:19
So if you're talking to an Indian, Greek or Roman ordinarily mentioning: Father, God, Lord, Almighty will make you a clown without the specific name of the God in question!
Westerhoffe: And ask yourself a reasonable question, did I ever propagate Jupiter? Did I ever propagate Khrishna? Did I ever propagate or talked to you about Zeus? Why are you always talking like an unlearned little child? Come on! You need to grow up.
Guy: Jupiter in Rome was the Lord God Almighty to the Romans. Krishna in India is the Lord God Almighty to the Indians. Zeus was the Lord God Almighty to Greeks just as many other nations have the God they refer to as Lord Almighty.
So without the specific name your God is just nameless!
Stop deviating from the point for a bail-out. I want to know why you are condemning the 'LORD GOD ALMIGHTY'. Don't dodge it by that tactic of yours. I'm too used to seeing such.
You keep condemning the name of the LORD, despite He saying:
“And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.” — Genesis 17:1 (KJV)
Answer the questions.
Who is the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY?
Why do you detest the name and Person of the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY?
Is He the LIVING GOD? Is He among the gods? Is He among the lords? Is He an idol? Is He a graven image?
I know you are refusing to answer because it will expose your ignorance again. But you must answer the simple questions with all sincerity if you truly claim to know GOD.
Shadrach, Meshak and Abednego were thrown into a burning furnace which killed those that threw them there yet King Nebuchadnezzar called them out from the fire. Jump into a burning furnace and see if you won't burn to aches. God changed the burning furnace that could have been hell (grave) for the three Hebrews into a parlour of air conditioner the same way He turned the belly of a fish into a room where Jonah could still continue breathing and praying. They were never dead!
Ken4Christ: What kind of question is this? Jump into the river and tell me if you will be alive after 30 minutes. Unless you are a very good swimmer. Jonah jumped into a deep ocean. To make things worse, a fish swallowed him. And you are asking if he was dead? Answer the question yourself. Either way, your doctrine is exposed to be false. If he wasn't dead, the experience he narrated couldn't have happened in the fish belly. Please, don't be stubborn. You know you are propagating false teachings. Repent before you go to hell. You will feel very sorry for yourself.
epainos: Building a deep true relationship is a sign of healthy worship. Babalawo will want to put themselves in the middle...and will never want to teach their clients how to meet their god. Lol...419 people. . Barawo people. And then scare the heck out of people. Thenafter, start demanding various things to rub their ego. They usually give eshu the head of livestock, but they will eat the fleshy parts. They will even do abracadabra pretending to ask ifa if they should share the meat with their households, or give it to another babalawo. But at the end of the day, most of them always say that the meat is for their households. imagine...dem give eshu the head wey meat no dey. That's what? Babalawos are "agba yahoo". ogundabede!!!
Who taught you that odù "Ògúndábèdé"
Oh i remember Yorùbá movies!
Well let me continue:
The relationship between the true God and Abraham lasted throughout the man's life. Note that the true God never gave Abraham any laws regarding how to live his life or deal with his neighbours God kept watching this man and both of them continue to keep their part of the friendship going as if they're just friends and nothing attached Abraham never made any demands, he stayed all his life with his wife without having a child and he never questioned his friend who claimed to be the Almighty God why he couldn't have a child in his youthful age. This God kept promising Abraham that there are nations coming from the loins of this Old man whose wife is also old yet Abraham remained faithful to this spirit until his wife got fed up and asked him to sleep with her maid. The truth is that Sarah wanted to know if the problem is from her that's why she demanded that Abraham sleep with her maid servant. Had it been the maid never got pregnant she would say to her "Abraham has been the cause all this while" but at a go the maid got pregnant and she was devastated now the problem is surely from her. But is that what really happened? NO! The true God was only watching how faithful His friend could be and Abraham proved to be a real faithful friend to Jehovah, faithful uncle to Lot and faithful husband to Sarah. James 2:23 That's why Jehovah the only true God declared Abraham as the father of all those having faith! Romans 4:11
This was how Abraham became the foundation of faith in the true God and He began calling Himself the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. These three men proved themselves faithful throughout their lives to the promise made by the spirit who claimed that He is the Creator! Exodus 3:15
So when people whose ancestors worshiped demons in the past are agitating against God's word i only ask them one question:
What did the god of your ancestors promised your forefathers?
Because the God of Abraham made a lot of promises and everything has come true! Joshua 23:14
Ken4Christ: But the experience he narrated couldn't have happened in the belly of the fish. Read Jonah 2 very well! Jonah 2:1-6 1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. note note 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. note 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. 5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God Lets assume the hell mentioned in verse 2 means grave. You said that the dead are unconscious. How come Jonah cried from the grave? How can a man who knows nothing cry? In addition, he said that the weeds were wrapped around him. Are there weeds in the fish belly? He talked about the earth and her bars was about him. Are there bars in the fish belly? He said that he went to the bottom of the mountain. Are there mountain in the fish belly. The dead are conscious. The soul of man lives on.
Afterwards these fallen angels started fighting for worshipers and territories that's what led to wars in ancient times as the demons used humans as agents to occupy or capture places and other people settle down there as subjects to the agents of demons called kings back then. That's why fetish and occultic things goes along with the installation of kings in all the earth because these people were agents of those Gods in fact the Yoruba people often refer to kings as assistance or second in command to the Gods. After these Gods has settled down with their worshipers the one and only true God called Abraham, introduced Himself and promised what He will do to all the false gods and their worshipers to prove that He is the Almighty God who created everything. First He told Abraham what He will make of this rich but humble man and Abraham agreed to do whatever this spirit talking to Him said. In fact their friendship got to a point that Abraham began questioning his friend's actions! Genesis 18:25
So unlike false Gods the true God built a solid friendship with Abraham.