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Lastdon02:
U day here?

Ah! My ogaoga


I haileth thee o......

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Compatible with all device.

Easy photo shot.

Different from the one you know in market. owo kekere, small money.

Mk i book space.....


Would peruse lata

Waih

sukkot:
well dayummm. numero uno. go and rest in the constellations and galaxies my friend. we will see you again in the reincarnation

Thats my boss ...... Missed your epistles though......

Fishy all the way...

Speedy got dis after taste i don't like

Fp

True......i earn my living wirking online ...... Freelancing....
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Ademat7:
Can't we have Nigerian version of Alibaba and fiverr? Many country take their destiny in their hands to build all this platform. People from africa and world @ large need to hear from nigeria too.

For now, no we cannot, whho will patronize?

ok

Happy for her......


In another news, if you want to work in the oil and gas

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Good for him

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Cool naomi (that black female wrestler) wears it.

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Anyi3:
You just described me. There are some parts I read in the Bible and I wonder how GOD could allow, say or do somethings and I admit I have felt like throwing the book away right then.

Then again I still find succour in this same faith.

We all have come short in one way or the other

Weah96:
Jesus is a white protagonist. She belongs in his company. Black people who look up to the white man are more psychotic.

Hmmmmmm. You should respect other peoples faith you know

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plaetton:
The Motto of 21st century life is " Whatever can be imagined can be accomplished ".

The world, once defined by churchmen, has undergone tremendous changes over the last few centuries. It started with the gradual , but steady emasculation of Papal Power, the Church and the Churchmen.

Today, we live in era of unprecedented freedom, relative peace, great advancements in scientific technology, as well as advancement in the rights of individuals.

Even recently, none other than the Papi himself, Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome, has hinted that there is a need to revise old scriptures for new understandings.
To wit, a lot of widely and tightly held beliefs need to go , and having been going the way of the DODO BIRD.

Then comes this stunner from Canada:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/atheist-minister-fighting-united-churchs-effort-to-fire-her/article25849312/

An ordained United Church of Canada minister who believes in neither God nor Bible said Wednesday she is prepared to fight an unprecedented attempt to boot her from the pulpit for her beliefs.


In an interview at her West Hill church, Rev. Gretta Vosper said congregants support her view that how you live is more important than what you believe in.

“I don’t believe in...the god called God,” Vosper said. “Using the word gets in the way of sharing what I want to share.”

Vosper, 57, who was ordained in 1993 and joined her east-end church in 1997, said the idea of an interventionist, supernatural being on which so much church doctrine is based belongs to an outdated world view.


What’s important, she says, is that her views hearken to Christianity’s beginnings, before the focus shifted from how one lived to doctrinal belief in God, Jesus and the Bible.

“Is the Bible really the word of God? Was Jesus a person?” she said.

“It’s mythology. We build a faith tradition upon it which shifted to find belief more important than how we lived.”


Vosper made her views clear as far back as a Sunday sermon in 2001 but her congregation stood behind her until a decision to do away with the Lord’s Prayer in 2008 prompted about 100 of the 150 members to leave. The rest backed her.

Things came to a head this year after she wrote an open letter to the church’s spiritual leader pointing out that belief in God can motivate bad things — a reference to the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris.

“That didn’t go over well,” Vosper said. “(But) if we are going to continue to use language that suggests we get our moral authority from a supernatural source, any group that says that can trump any humanistic endeavour.”

Rev. David Allen, executive secretary of the Toronto Conference, said he took various concerns about Vosper to the church’s executive, which decided it wanted to investigate her fitness to be a minister.

First, however, they needed to know the process.

“We’d never done it before,” Allen said.

In response, Nora Sanders, general secretary of the church’s General Council, issued a ruling in May laying out a review process that could ultimately lead to Vosper’s defrocking.

Essentially, Sanders said, the review should determine whether she was being faithful to her ordination vows, which included affirming a belief in “God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”

Vosper is appealing Sanders’ ruling, saying it puts any minister at risk of being judged and found wanting. An ecclesiastical court is set to hear her appeal in the fall.

Allen concedes the issue has the potential to cause disunity in the United Church, which prides itself on tolerance for diversity and inclusiveness.

“What we don’t want is to limit the scope of beliefs within the church, and yet what was being questioned here was: Has she gone too far?” Allen said.

“The vision of the United Church of Canada is: There is a God in whom we believe, and our statements of faith are very clear about that.”

Randy Bowes, board chairman at West Hill who led the search committee that hired Vosper, said he’s had no complaints from congregants.

People want to engage in critical thinking as they explore new ways of expressing their faith and values, Bowes said, and that conversation is “alive and rich” within the community.

In the interim, Vosper said she and those who support her will continue to hold true to her humanistic views.

“If the cost of that is that we are no longer welcome within that denomination, it will be because that denomination has defined us out of it, not because we have defined ourselves out of it.”

Well am not surprised, she is merely passing through a state of self discovery, which later she will understand that Jesus is the way.

A great poet once said "a faithful man is a man that often doubts his faith, but still finds succour in same faith"

There were times we all felt too enlightened that we continually question our faith, but at the end, a verse in the scripture or a hymn keeps us going.....

Ah!