Christianity Etc › Re: Churches Should Start Paying Tax by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:24am On Jan 20, 2024 |
FRANCISTOWN: God's standard is to help you cohabit peacefully? Which of the gods?
Allah that says you should kill the infidels. Yahweh that himself was a warlord etc. I guess you didn't know what the christian crusaders did in the early millennium.
"Cohabit peacefully" indeed. Keep playing.
I can take care of my kids. I'm talking of other kids with respect to your post That's the essence of doing your own findings before enrolling your child in school intelligent parents don't just assume that all schools are good to go!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:21am On Jan 20, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: Those ex disciples are not making a complaint they are just telling sharing what they experienced in the synagogue of satan. They are telling the BBC what they saw, felt, tasted and experienced. Not them say. They are first hand witnesses as to the atrocities going on in that dungeon. Don't get your facts mixed up.  While millions throughout the world are saying the accused is a man of God! So they need to do better than that!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:19am On Jan 20, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: How does a judge establish the facts in a court case?  The judge must follow the procedure according to the law not emotions or what the different complainants are saying. A complainant must stand out then witnesses must be present to attest to the case that's why each case has it's number they don't just muddle it all up as evidence to judge the accused. All those complainants you're showing are standing each for a single case which should be thoroughly investigated and witnesses should speak as eyewitnesses stating what happened, how it happened, when it happened and what they're doing at the spot that very moment. That's how cases are established in the court of law!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:04am On Jan 20, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: I knew you couldn't say you trust the validity of the Bible because if you did you would have believed the power of eyewitnesses in establishing a fact. Guy you don't even know the meaning of that word "EYEWITNESSES" they are not those making complaints rather independent as in unbiased witnesses who will say they were present when the accused wronged the complainant not the complainant herself! For instance if someone said "Kumuyi is a witch, he killed my son" that is a complainant then the eyewitness must be someone who will testify by narrating how it happend in his or her presence. Abeg you guys know nothing about the law neither do you understand God's word you're just following the crowd with emotions and that doesn't judge anyone!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 7:58am On Jan 20, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: That explains why you will always gravitate towards an organisation that does not take God's word on face value but will have to twist it to suit its own evil agenda. Explain how scriptural it is for complainants of different cases to judge a man having millions of admirers and followers throughout the earth!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: Churches Should Start Paying Tax by MaxInDHouse(m): 7:01am On Jan 20, 2024 |
FRANCISTOWN: It's true o. God will continue to live in the heads of his followers because of childhood indoctrinations. If there was a law that every kid should be 18years before they get introduced to the God fallacy. I bet there can't be one who will believe in a fairy being. Then keep your child in isolation until 18 years before allowing the child to mix with others in the society because God's standard is to help us COHABIT PEACEFULLY with our neighbours but since you don't want your own child to get such training then keep your child away from the society until it's 18+  |
Christianity Etc › Re: Churches Should Start Paying Tax by MaxInDHouse(m): 6:58am On Jan 20, 2024 |
FRANCISTOWN: Who is the head of the church? And who's lifestyle do you emulate? The head is one person just as Tinubu is the head of Nigeria so if Tinubu pay his tax and i also paid mine what sense is there to ask Nigeria as a body to pay tax again?  |
Christianity Etc › Re: Churches Should Start Paying Tax by MaxInDHouse(m): 6:36am On Jan 20, 2024 |
Chukwuka319: Bla,bla,bla, you are just ranting. God is greater than all and will remain forever.The problem is false prophets and teachers. Thousands of atheists have come and gone GOD remains in the midst of His worshipers so the atheist will expire soon and God will forever remain!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 6:32am On Jan 20, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: Do you trust the validity of the Bible?  If you do then follow the scriptural procedures for judging matters not what the crowd are saying! Exodus 23:1-2 |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 6:30am On Jan 20, 2024 |
Ken4Christ: I wasn't alive when Jesus was born but there are documented historical evidences of his words and works. At least we have four witnesses, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. And there is no writings from the Jews to counter what they wrote. Or are you aware of any? The four witnesses you believe are disciples of Jesus not former but those that died as his disciples. Why not ask Jews who aren't his disciples? If you ask disciples of TB Joshua they will also speak good things about their leader nah!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 6:25am On Jan 20, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: If you pretend not to see all the interviews granted by the BBC here is a thread talking about atrocities of the cult long before the BBC. All are fabrications as long as they never follow the scriptural procedures, as a true believer in the Bible i can't go by the words of humans who can't be trusted so God's way for matters to be investigated is what i will trust. BBC is not following God's standard neither are those people accusing their neighbours. |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:51pm On Jan 19, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: There were no interview conducted and yet you trust him to be saying the truth. An accuser of the brethren is someone who accuses you without providing any evidence just as satan your father usually does. The ex-disciples have provided ample evidence which makes their statements certain.  TRUST is not the word but STUPIDITY! Since i left Islam i never trusted what people are saying anymore even if someone says the same against Kumuyi it's your stupidity that will make me laugh at you but i don't trust such information. God's word said "make sure of all things and hold fast to what is good" 1Thessalonians 5:21So i haven't gotten any substantial evidence against either Kumuyi or TB Joshua that's my own stand! |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:45pm On Jan 19, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: This is an interview conducted on one of your JW members who was an ex disciple of TB Joshua. Are you going to refute her experience because it does not fit into your narrative?  When someone said something similar against Kumuyi this is your response: OLAADEGBU: Why should I trust you, friend or foe?  So whatever you say against TB Joshua friends of SCOAN will also ask if you could be trusted nah!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:37pm On Jan 19, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: When did you grant Bubu4Sea an interview before you reposted it on this thread? Why not hear him out the same way BBC gave those people a audience? Instead you quickly dismissed what he said based on trust!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:33pm On Jan 19, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: Don't divert attention from the issue at hand. You made two accusations; that my pastor plagiarised your magazine and that a former member of DL claimed that my pastor is a member of the freemason. It is either you supply your evidence or be satisfied that you are a bold faced liar like your father, the devil.  You're posting what someone else said just as i posted what someone else said. Is there any different?  |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:31pm On Jan 19, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: What do you have to say about the evidence that is readily available? This is a member of your cult talking about her experience at SCOAN which is not dissimilar from what the BBC broadcasted. If granted interviews the same thing will come to Kumuyi jọọ!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: No Plagues And No Pharoah Died At Sea by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:29pm On Jan 19, 2024 |
Roycemadeit: Let's try another analogy: That an Igbo man settled in Ikorodu does not make him Yoruba. The Arabs, the majority in Egypt today, has no ties to ancient Egypt. Lies! |
Christianity Etc › Re: Churches Should Start Paying Tax by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:36pm On Jan 19, 2024 |
The quoted scripture is not about the church but individuals irrespective of your beliefs as long as you're earning money you should pay tax. So instead of demanding the church to pay tax that scripture is to be applied as each person pays his or her tax the church is not a person but a group of worshipers! |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 2:36pm On Jan 19, 2024 |
Ken4Christ: They don't have evidences of what they are saying against Jesus. But those accusing TB Joshua have evidences. Were you alive in the first century or you're just following what majority around you are saying? You're not even an Israelite but those accusing Jesus were Jews. You're not alive back in the first century while his accusers were his contemporaries. You never saw him while his accusers were his own disciples. You don't have the knowledge about their religion as those people who knew so much about their own religion. So how come you say they don't have evidence yet siding with accusers of TB Joshua that you don't even know any of them in person? What God's word said is clear: Any complaint must get at least two witnesses who will confirm the incident actually happened as the narrator presented it and they will be thoroughly scrutinized to be sure that they actually saw it happened. Guy that's what discredited the witnesses of all those accusing Jesus and those accusing TB Joshua hasn't done anything better. The man is dead, some people wanted to take over his business church, the wife disagreed, most females love dating famous and wealthy men so they might be jealous of the fact that despite all their secret romance with this man the wife never allowed them to get anything from his property, there are many competitors who are eyeing his members because it's out of what the guy is making from them that he was spending to buy the love of his admirers. So a lot needs to be considered not just what people are saying that's why i told you if we're to go by the number of accusers in comparison to his admirers they are nothing at all!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: Israel’s Future Depends On Outcome Of This War by MaxInDHouse(m): 1:15pm On Jan 19, 2024 |
They asked for it!
In the first century their religious leaders came together to form alliance of different religions hiding under Judaism to kill Jesus of Nazareth and after killing him they began killing his friends threatening them not to speak about Jesus against. Act 4:18; 5:28
That was what led to the destruction of Jerusalem in the first century.
Last year their law makers came together again and for what reason? To prosecute anyone talking about Jesus of Nazareth, in fact they are banning the mention of that name in their society. Immediately God warned them but they ignored the warning so they are not God's people rather they're faithless and crooked people! |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 1:07pm On Jan 19, 2024 |
See what a former member of Deeperlife said! https://www.nairaland.com/4062678/deeper-life-bible-church-cult#60584621I was a Deeper Life member and worker and almost a Pastor for about 20 years.
Initially when you join it appears to be one great club of humble believers, but afterwards you notice the following traits of their organisation ;
• They are beholden to one man, Pastor Kumuyi
• Anything Pastor Kumuiyi says is truth and if you do not like it you must leave or start your own church
• They are so spiritually arrogant, and portray their church as the next best thing to holiness while other churches are either further away from holiness or fake altogether
• They separate families, husbands and wives, children and parents, siblings, co-workers etc .
• If you are in a second marriage and become born again (so called), you must go back to your first wife and reconcile to her, assuming she is unmarried because your second wife is not recognized by God. Imagine the confusion this will cause especially with children involved.
• They lack true compassion and love for everyone else other than their own members
• They use hell fire to threaten their members into paying tithes and to abide by church rules and regulations.
• If you are not careful, the church will take over your individuality and you will become another zombie minion without a mind of your own
• The church also has to tendency to preach against wine or alcohol intake, something that was never commanded in the bible, rather the bible says we should do everything in moderation
• It is difficult to be truly happy in Deeper Life because you are always fighting one sin or the other or chasing one demon or the other
• Their focus is strongly selfish, it is all about your own salvation and escaping hell to make heaven.
• They will often tell off young women for certain styles of dressing, the problem is many of these same women have the heart of Jezebel, very similar to a modest radical Muslim woman who despite dressing modestly with the Hijab will easily blow up innocent civilians in the name of her god.
• They preach the fables and myths of a fictitious rapture (started by a charlatan called Scholfield ) , Trinity and Hell fire
Young ones, do not be enticed to join. God has called you to express your individuality and make choices in favour of righteousness and peace. God does not want any man to rule over you or force his own belief on you. You are answerable only to God and not Man.
Enjoy this life and all that goes with you, don’t live a life of misery in the name or religion. |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 1:04pm On Jan 19, 2024*. Modified: 1:59pm On Jan 19, 2024 |
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Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 12:52pm On Jan 19, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: Where is the evidence that your partner in crime is a Christian let alone a former member of DL? Below is a videoclip of a JW attesting to the crime of your pervert daddy who you are defending blindly. That's what i'm telling you now that if there is a way people could be granted interviews and assured of their safety your own pastor too will be accused by former members of his church. So it's not a new thing that former members of a religion are speaking against their former religion or religious leaders.  |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 11:44am On Jan 19, 2024 |
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Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 11:02am On Jan 19, 2024 |
MightySparrow: Hypocrisy. Why don't you believe in the reports of the Ex - Jws and the disfellowshiped members when they testify against your organization?. The 'apostates' Sabi leak secrets. Dó you remember Temple777 thread as a former JW's on this platform? I have read plenty of your responses here, if you have no access to Kumuy's church and lifestyle, how do you come about classifying him as diabolical? This one didn't even read the comment he just jumped in and started typing. I said it's members of each religion that comes up to say bad things about their former religion so since i have never attended Kumuyi church i can't confidently say he is diabolic but former members of his church has come here to say that just as ex members of synagogues are doing to TB Joshua. |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:02am On Jan 19, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: I dare you to bring evidence of my pastor sexually or physically abusing worshippers or participating in fetish rituals otherwise forever hold your horse.  This shows you're not intelligent at all! People accusing TB Joshua are former members of his church and i'm here telling you that their accusations is not strong enough to judge the dead man so how do you expect me to accuse someone i never attended his worship center? What i know about Kumuyi i've told you: He used the artistic impressions found in our books to make his magazines and changed all the subjects mentioned. Where we talked about Paradise on Earth with humans and animals enjoying life to the full Kumuyi told his followers that it's heaven. Apart from that i don't know anything else about your pastor as i never attended his worship center. But there are Nairalanders who are former members of Kumuyi's worship center claiming that he is a cultist. So if BBC decides to grant interviews to such ones they will surely speak against your pastor just as these ones are doing against TB Joshua!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: Is It Possible For You To Love God And Hate Religion ? by MaxInDHouse(m): 4:53am On Jan 19, 2024 |
Abdulgaffar22: There are some people who claim to have an absolute belief in the existence of God but have a very great abhorrence for religion . The sole reason for this very aversion towards religion is the assertion that religion has allegedly caused more harm to humanity than good. But what these people has overlooked is the fact that there is nothing in this world that doesn't come with its merit and demerits. However, enumerating the pros and cons of religion is not what is intended to be addressed.
The question needed to be addressed is the possibility of accepting God while rejecting religion . In other words, is it even logically possible to believe in God and yet disbelieve in religion ?
To answer this very question, a concise definition of religion must firstly be known and understood.
According to one dictionary, religion is a set of organized beliefs, practices, and systems that most often (not always) relate to the worship of a controlling force, such as a personal God or any supernatural entity.
There's absolutely no way in which we can talk about religion without talking about belief. In fact, the two ( religion and belief) can be used interchangeably and they cannot be divorced from each other. Even our belief in a Personal God who controls the affairs of the world constitute what is known as religion because there are some people who disbelieve or doubt the existence of such a Personal God (like atheists and agnostics).
Hence, religion is simply a world view adopted by a particular set of people. So there's no any matured and intelligent human being that is not an adherent of one religion or the other. Therefore, proclaiming that you love God but hate religion is nothing but sheer ignorance about the concept of God and religion on the part of the person who made such a baseless and superficial claim.
The fact that some people execute their evil acts under the pretext of religion doesn't make religion to be a bad entity. Both the Bible and the Qur'an made mention of religion in a positive way. For example, James, an apostle and a brother of Jesus Christ (pbuh) recorded to have said in the Bible as follows ;
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this : to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world" (James 1:27)
Similarly, in the Qur'an, God Almighty says as follows ;
"This day, those who disbelieved have given up all hope of your religion, so fear them not, but fear Me. This day, I have perfected your religion for you and I completed My Favour upon you, and I have chosen for you Islam as your religion (Qur'an 5:3)
See how both the Bible and the Qur'an made mention of religion in a positive manner !
If religion is only an evil idea invented by some people in the past without being endorsed by God, then why divine scriptures would made mention of the word "religion" in such a positive way ? Or are we to believe that both Qur'an and the Bible are not truly inspired by God since the two scriptures made mention of the word religion in a positive manner ?
Have you now seen that it is completely illogical and radically incompatible to say that "I believe in God but I disbelieve in religion" or "I love God but I hate religion" ?
But if you want to go extreme by costly believe that neither Qur'an nor Bible is truly inspired by God simply because they made mention of religion, then your belief in a personal God would be seriously questioned. Do you know the reason why ? Please take your time and continue the reading.
If you disbelieve in both the Bible and Qur'an as the word of God, then you have to believe in a God who can allow a liar to impersonate Him and assume His identity. This is because both the Bible and the Qur'an contains many verses which appear to be coming directly from God's mouth. For example see the biblical and Qur'anic verses cited below ;
"I am the LORD, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself" (Isaiah 44:24).
"I made them not to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth, and not even their own creation ; and neither do I have any need to take as helpers those that lead people astray" (Qur'an 18:51)
God is unmistakenly declaring to us in these two verses that He was all alone during the creation of the Heavens and the Earth
Hence, anybody who denies these two verses as the word of God must compulsorily believe their author to be a great impersonator of God. In other words, if you reject these Biblical and Qur'anic verses as the word of God, then you have to assume that the person speaking to us here was a great deceiver who pretended to be God. This is the first point that I want all reasonable people to admit. It is either you believe in these two verses found in the Bible and the Qur'an as the word of God or you believe in them as the word of a great impersonator that assumed the identity of God. There is no third alternative.
But if you as a truthful person can never allow a liar to impersonate you or assume your identity to deceive some innocent people, why do you think God Almighty, who is more truthful than you, would allow such a thing ?
Why would most truthful God allow a liar to speak in His name or assume His identity ?
Of course, if you would never allow such a thing, then God Almighty is in a better position than you to disallow such a thing. There is no any instance in the history when God Almighty allow a liar to impersonate Him, or allow a liar to assume His identity or allow a liar to speak in His name for a long period of time.
In fact, through His dealing with Hananiah ( the false prophet who spoke in the name of God in the Bible ), God Almighty demonstrated to us that He would never allow such a thing to happen ;
"Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, ‘Listen, Hananiah! The Lord has not sent you, yet you have persuaded this nation to trust in lies. Therefore this what the Lord says: I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. This very year you are going to die, because you have preached rebellion against the Lord. In the seventh month of that same year, Hananiah the prophet died (Jeremiah 28:15-17).
It's very clear that the sole reason why God allowed Hananiah, the false prophet, to meet his untimely death is because he spoke a lie in the name of God.
Hence, if God says in the Qur'an as follows ;
"this day, I have perfected your religion for you and I have completed My Favour upon you, and I have chosen for you Islam as your religion (Qur'an 5:3)
then you have to sincerely believe that God has really spoken to us since He would never allow a liar to speak in His name, impersonate Him or assume His identity as demonstrated by logical and scriptural evidence cited just above.
Therefore, if God has realIy spoken to us in Qur'an 5:3 cited above , then how can you logically say "I love God but I hate religion" ?
The concept of God and religion is intertwined and can never be separated from each other. Even if you deny the existence of God, you are still subscribing to one religion because in one way or the other you must believe in something that controlled the shaping and development of all the organs in your body from a single zygotic cell when you were in the womb of your mother. It is now left for you to decide whether this very something is intelligent God or an evolutionary process of chance. |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 4:39am On Jan 19, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: I'll rather trust BBC in carrying out a proper investigation than a deluded and brainwashed JW like yourself. Wake up and smell the coffee! The evidence is all over the internet. Na Nigeria we dey when biased broadcasters start interviewing ex-deeperlifers to come and say what they had in mind against Kumuyi you will understand what i'm saying!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 4:36am On Jan 19, 2024 |
jesusjnr2020: Na you carry your "Jesus is angel Miichael" sense of judgment come dey disturb me where i park, na you dey come dey cry las las. Next time keep your "Jesus is angel Michael" sense of judgment to yourself and fellow antichrists. Baby argumentator. Can you quote where i mentioned Michael on this thread?  |
Christianity Etc › Re: Ministry To Jws, Part 7 - The New Doctrine On Resurrected Ones by MaxInDHouse(m): 10:16pm On Jan 18, 2024 |
Sand2022: You just agreed with what I said which you previously didn't understand. Yet you say I should stop deceiving myself. Only you! Remember we are discussing what the Annual Meeting point is. As to what the scriptures say about who will be resurrected, I said it in the op. Whoever has known the truth but keep turning against it will not be resurrected!  |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 10:14pm On Jan 18, 2024 |
Ken4Christ: Even if you have a million and one person for you, the very moment only two persons have evidences against you, it's enough to nail you. This is what the law also says. So, it's not about the majority liking him. They probably don't know him enough. Let them interview all the disciples that stayed with him. Today thousands of Jews are saying Jesus was a blasphemer and an impostor just as their first century people does that makes Jesus useless to you?  |
Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: 'We Thought It Was Heaven But Then Terrible Things Happened' by MaxInDHouse(m): 10:11pm On Jan 18, 2024 |
OLAADEGBU: Don't change the narrative here. All the eyewitnesses in the BBC docuseries are all saying the same thing but I don't expect you cultists to see it.  No you don't get it they're like stereotype ones programmed to say the same thing but in real investigations each complainant will be called to step forward and present their case with proof, there must be eyewitnesses to back the complainant's accusation. For instance if Mr A said Mr B bite him there must be at least two witnesses to establish that it really happened. The witnesses must tell when it happened, where it happened, what they're doing at the crime scene at that point in time that's how to establish facts. But if Mr A, C, D, E, F, G, H each accused Mr B of biting them but they can't find eyewitnesses to establish the case then their accusations is not strong enough!  |