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tsquare299, Thanks for sharing your meditation, it really put the prayer in a perspective many can relate to.

damn the price, at last some people will get to see that you it takes more than the physical eyes to see.

abelprice:
In the next 10 years dey won't be able to implement this project.... ...

don't think this is TSA initiators, you will be shocked come 2019 when you would not be able to vote because your NIN, BVN, Voter's card are not aligned and linked.

lagostokd:


Seriously serious, I never knew of your extreme stupidity before this thread (apologies for the word stupid )

Wait... let me lecture you

What makes human male or female are the differences in body... A man/woman is made up of the body, spirit, and soul. The body was made of sand and will decay, then turn back to sand after death, the spirit lives forever.

Man was made in the image of God and woman was made from man (just the body) but we all share the same spirit form as a result of same breath of God whose name is Yahweh. (Read the creation story in Genesis 1 and 2).

The moment man or woman dies, there is no more gender difference that is why there won't be marriage in heaven (Mathew 22:30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.)

Note the bolded from Jesus' quote- they will be like the angels of heaven

There are no female angels

The Greek word for “angel” in the New Testament, angelos, is in the masculine form. In fact, a feminine form of angelos does not exist. There are three genders in grammar—masculine (he, him, his), feminine (she, her, hers), and neuter (it, its). Angels are never referred to in any gender other than masculine. In the many appearances of angels in the Bible, never is an angel referred to as “she” or “it.” Furthermore, when angels appeared, they were always dressed as human males (Genesis 18:2, 16; Ezekiel 9:2). No angel ever appears in Scripture dressed as a female.

The angels named in the Bible—Michael, Gabriel, Lucifer—had male names and all are referred to in the masculine. “Michael and his angels” (Revelation 12:7); “Mary was greatly troubled at his [Gabriel’s] words” (Luke 1:29); “Oh, Lucifer, son of the morning” (Isaiah 14:12). Other references to angels are always in the masculine gender. In Judges 6:21, the angel holds a staff in “his” hand. Zechariah asks an angel a question and reports that “he” answered (Zechariah 1:19). The angels in Revelation are all spoken of as “he” and their possessions as “his” (Revelation 10:1, 5; 14:19; 16:2, 4, 17; 19:17; 20:1).

As brilliantly condescending as you are, you have failed to explain in whose image the woman was created, pay attention to your words:

"Man was made in the image of God and woman was made from man (just the body)"

Does that imply woman was made in the image of man?

If the only difference between male and female is just in the body, how come Angels have only male bodies?

Since there is no woman in heaven as all angels are male, is it safe to say heaven is "same sex" place in a sense?

Does it mean women will be transformed to males on getting to heaven to get their heavenly reward? If so, why the bias against transgendered folks on earth?

How does, "as in heaven also upon the earth" (Mathew 6:10) fit in this context?

Besides, your argument still bolster the dominance of male both on earth, in heaven and in the Trinity.
I guess that means the female should go and do the needful to herself.

lagostokd:
That was the genesis of the fall of Lucifer - wanting to claim the exalted throne of the most high. Think of yourself as the most high and be given the Lucifer treatment

Who elected the King of Kings? When was the election?


Its either you don't understand things easily or you're willfully ignorant or rather blinded by your false self belief because I explained in my earlier post about the different gods worshiped in different cultures and tribe.
Anybody can worship any god, the choice is yours! The most high God doesn't need your worship to be God. He was God even before creating man and other things - in fact, if men don't worship him, he can raise up stones (give life to stones) to worship him.

You said he is King of Kings, you are in a better position to tell me who the other Kings are?

Neither would he need you to defend his claim to the title of God of Gods nor be so particular about being worshipped?

If Lucifer was vained in coveting the title, Yahweh must be vained in demanding to be worshipped to the point of threatening to raise stones to worship him.

Must you resort to insult to defend your points? What do you mean by "false self belief?"

Which of the Pst Chris is this? Okotie or Oyakhilome?

Is Pst Chris Oyakhilome still married to Pst Anita?

If yes, this response to Apostle Sulieman is in order.

lagostokd:
The problem with most of you guys is too much knowledge without understanding!

The word 'God' is not a name
The word 'God' is not a name
The word 'God' is not a name
I hope you get the emphasis now...

The word 'God' is not a name but a title (a position) just like the word 'President'
Anybody can bear 'President' but the question is 'President of which country?'

Anybody/deity could bear 'God' but the question also is 'God of what?'

The Yoruba race, long before Christianity or Islam was introduced into Yoruba communities understood these things very well...

There are many Gods in Yoruba culture...

Sango - God of thunder
Ogun - God of Iron, etc

But with all the numerous Gods in Yoruba culture, the wise Yoruba still understood that there's a supreme God called 'Olorun' or 'Olodumare'

In Athens, many years ago, they also understood what the Yoruba culture understands. Athenians worshiped many Gods but still understood there's a supreme God - they didn't know the name of the supreme God but labeled him 'THE UNKNOWN GOD'. (See Acts 17:23)

All tribes and cultures worshiped different Gods but there's only one God of Gods, King of Kings, the creator of heaven and earth whose name is YAHWEH

@bolded, And what makes you think no other God can make the same claim, since those are equally titles?

Besides, King of Kings, God of Gods connotes an elective position, just as any member of Parliament can be elected Prime Minister by other parliamentarians.

So Yahweh that was known to the Hebrews becomes the Unknown God of the Greeks?
How many Gods do you know?
How do you account for the Gods Unknown to you?

valkaka:
lol, thanks for that but I doubt you really comprehend my message patently, try and read in between lines for total discernment.i was only trying to send a message to people out there who constantly diminish and loathe their self-cos of their looks. if you look at the subject matter, you will notice ,It was a question asked by a woman and the message was an answer I gave and i chose to share it here.anyways thanks once again.

@bolded, that is absolutely true, if you apply it to that comment I made.

I guess this quote below explains you were responding to a girl's question, But the underlined is what I responded to:

I'm not "mansplaining" or trying to discount how you feel - I'm offering a perspective that might help. Believe me - I know what it's like to dislike your body. i have a big eyes and i sometimes struggle to accept that i will never be as attractive as most guys out there are.

If i misconstrued your words, apologies.

I couldn't believe my eyes.
So you have an electric pole in your sitting room, ni?

That is how some people appropriated the 5% appellation to themselves.

OP, If the old man can see beyond the frumpy empty-nester and you can't see beyond your alleged big eyes, you are truly blind, with due respect.

You ought to have posted the article you are responding to or at lest a link to it.

Let me select the ones I can respond to, others will fill in the rest.

VivaDeAngelo:
14) The fundamental human rights of El-Zakzaky has been denied him till today. Remember, he is a human being like you and I.

And he is an Igbo man, or his modus operandi is IPOBic, I guess?

15) In keeping with his 97% and 5% policy on treatment of Nigerians, President Buhari's first top appointments totalling 48 had no Igbo person from the SE region.

Recall, also, that in a diverse and heterogeneous country like Nigeria where we still have Arewa Consultative Forum, Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, Ijaw People's Congress, and Oodua People's Congress, with each organisation looking and speaking out for and on behalf of their region, Igbos have no representation during National Security meetings.

And those organisations speak out for their regions at the National Security Council meetings, except Ohaneze Ndi Igbo?

16) The SE region is the only region with 5 states and the total number of Local Govts in the region probably equals that of Kano and Jigawa put together. Considering the "feeding bottle" system in Nigeria, does this not amount to

You mean the whole of SE is not up to the size of Kano and Gigawa states combined, yet is a region?

18) Are you aware that the gas pipeline that feed Lagos industries from oil and gas fields in neighbouring SS region totally excluded SE states and cities? Remember that SE, unarguably, has the highest number of Indigenous industries in Nigeria.

I thought it feeds the ones in Kano also?

19) Of course, I am sure that you are fully aware that the neighbouring seaports at Port-Harcourt, Calabar, Warri, and the inland port at Onitsha have been rendered comatose, while Lagos ports are the only ones working. In-fact, Badagry seaport is already being developed. This is despite the known fact that over 70% of businesses in the Lagos ports are done by SE and SS indigenes.

That is still part of PMB's 95% and 5% policy.

20) Do I need to bring up the fact that despite the devastations wrecked on the SE region during the war, there has been no concrete steps towards rebuilding the bombed and destroyed infrastructures more than 47 years after cessation of open hostilities. Meanwhile, even with boko haram still very much active in NE, the NE development commission is already in place with several billions budgeted for their activities. SE development commission? Sorry, represent the bill next century. Another

And it took you 47 years to realise you need a development commission to rebuild?
Or just taking a cue from NE?


Let me conclude by asking, peace, love and justice, which one comes first?

Please help me find my thread, I wrote on "The Monetization of social media," attached is proof of publication.

Cc:
Seun
Lalasticlala
Mynd44
TonyeBarcanista
Omenka

Ps:
All una wey read this comment, screenshot it, refresh in five minutes and report if it is still there.

iamnlia:
I read that you can also use acupressure to open your third eye.

Most methods use pressure, for instance, in meditation you focus your conscious attention mentally on a particular "spot."

Olabenjamen22:
LOL, and how is your post related to those verses you misinterpreted before, lol simple Islamic tactics, once you cannot answer them then use scope to ask another question, lol you people believe God is all-powerful but you don't believe he can be a father even without sexual intercourse or opposite counterpart. Lol. Peace

That is absolutely true.
Listen to it..

AgentOfAllah:
It touched itself to beget itself as its only begotten son. Is it a self-servicing (Not to be mistaken for self-serving ...although it probably is that too) schizophrenic?

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This is not to foster religious bigotry but a call to take a look at our beliefs from the point of the Observer, not a blind adherent.

Olabenjamen22:
LOL, one of the thing I love about the holy Bible is that it is clear and just, so you mean your interpretation which is ("before Abraham, I Am" means before man-ifestation there was Consciousness.
Consciousness is still manifesting as you and me, birds and bees, fishes and lions, marijuana and banana, ayahuasca and oranges." correlate with Jesus statement there? Lol well you want interpretation and I will give,
In verse 56 Jesus Christ said that there father Abraham was glad to see him' which he was literally saying that he exist even before the era of Abraham, and Abraham saw him after he(Abraham) die, and when the people hear that they ask him how can he claim he saw Abraham even though his not even up to 50 year old, which literally bring about his statement in verse 58, which state "even before Abraham was, I was and I am(hmm infinity invading time". Did you know the statement of the people?verse 59 "they said he claim to be God Almighty" LOL common have you gotten your interpretation now? And note, I back all my interpretation with verses, in which your own interpretation is 100 presumption. Lol, learn about Christianity, not the one your imam is telling you. Peace

I have answered you robustly in an article I wrote specifically to that effect, so as not to derail this thread further, with due respect to the OP.
https://www.nairaland.com/4058451/cosmic-joke

Why is the Female not represented in the Trinity of the Christian Godhead, yet Christians are against people with same sex orientation?

Does Islam have a Female counterpart to Allah?
Since Muslims are promised female virgins in Paradise, maybe there is in Paradise.
OK, what if Allah is not in Paradise but in Heaven? Or is it a wrong assertion that Heaven is different from Paradise?

Which is most appropriate "the hermaphrodite God" or "the homosexual God" in describing the sex orientation of the God of our chosen religion?

The sexless God sounds apt to me, though it raises the question of male dominance and female exclusion from the Trinity. Does this informed the subjugation of the female in the affairs of men and their relegation to the kitchen and the other room activities?

You are the Cosmic Joker if you think of your God as Father denoting male gender when your God ought to be sexless to fit the status of a God.

Gourdoinc:
not having a functional seaport is not an attack by other tribes on igbos, but a reflection of the failure of igbos to play politics appropriately. we supported Jonathan and yet couldn't get him to do something like that which will benefit our region.

the simple way of achieving that now is simply through restructuring, we will simply ask investors to partner with our akwa ibomites neighbors to develop that seaport to enable boost in trades and investment. we won't need to beg the north again, because even they will be interested in having such a seaport working for their export

I agree with you, That will bring about a win-win situation.

One thing we have failed to understand is, we manifest what predominates our consciousness.
The average Igbo person is predominated by the consciousness that igbos are marginalized and the Universe cannot help but manifest that.

OLAADEGBU:
Read the Bible and you will discover that the Israelites were subjected to hard labour. What were they building if it was not the Pyramids?

Do a little research, does the Bible say anything about the pyramids?

Maybe they were building roads or houses.

Olabenjamen22:
"before Abraham, I Am" means before man-ifestation there was Consciousness.
Consciousness is still manifesting as you and me, birds and bees, fishes and lions, marijuana and banana, ayahuasca and oranges."
Really? Is this how you people use to understand your quran? Devil is indeed a lier. Well let start from his previous statement that make him make that statement?
John 8:56-58 Contemporary English Version (CEV)
56 Your father Abraham was really glad to see me.”
57 “You are not even fifty years old!” they said. “How could you have seen Abraham?”
58 Jesus answered, “I tell you for certain that even before Abraham was, I was, and I am.”
so can you now tell me how your presumption take relate to what Jesus Christ said? Lol well the truth shall prevail. Peace

You only quoted, without interpreting how you understand that portion of scripture.

lagostokd:
You always beat around the bush... why cant you address each of my points?

Get out of this thread since you cannot refute the fact that the God of heaven and earth whose name is Yahweh is not the same person as the Islamic God Allah

In a rational arguement of this nature, it is idiotic to claim Yahweh is the God of Heaven and Earth, because to the Romans, Greeks, Sumerians, Egyptian, Indians, Arabians, Chinese, Mayans, etc they had their own God of Heaven and Earth.

Yahweh is the God of Heaven and Earth when we view things from the Hebrew perspective, but Allah viewed from the Arabian, or Amen-Ra from the Egyptian, or Brahma from Indian, or Quetzalcoatl from Mayan, Anu from Sumerian, ... Perspectives.

Since they all refer to the "God of Heaven and Earth," it begs the question, why only Yahweh should be different if he is also the "God of Heaven and Earth?"

Unless "God of Heaven and Earth" is a title that change hands over the aeons.

If you can, decode what was said in the Matrix :-

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth….
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

Babacele:
I think it is more like: why bother about heaven when earth's life we haven't lived?

But why can't we take advantage of the greatest energy in the whole world that the ever merciful abundant And most intelligent Father has blessed man with? An unlimitable force which no matter, tradition, force, space, law, feasibility, and conditions can limit.

I was meditating on this, and came to the awareness that it is possible to experience life on earth and heaven alternately, Though some people, entitled to their own opinion, will disagree.

I rise to explain.
In our "wake" consciousness, we experience all aspects of earth life in the earth body, But in our "sleep" consciousness we change into a different body to experience life in another dimension.

What if we can or could experience life in heaven during or in our "sleep" consciousness?

Since "Energy is neither created nor destroyed but transformed from one form to another," so also, Consciousness is neither created nor destroyed but transformed from one state of awareness to another.


Caveat:
Heaven in the context of this article is subject to the reader's definition.

Babacele:
now I'm talking to a mystic. No person ,religion or group can appropriate God who this very minute and at all time expresses Herself in all parts of the world.....

I'm all for total human development but spiritual adult races ain't good for toddlers' legs; without regard to age please.

I'm presently protecting my pineal , if you may know please. So I'm not against it for I know the implications on the physical as well as the psychical health of man.

@bolded, Yes, protect it from further calcification.

As for the race, everyone at their own pace.
Never be a "rate limiting step" to anyone or let anyone or anything be to you.

5Realms:
There's more , my phone died

IPhone X is for you, it does not die.

– What infact forms the basis of behaving well?

The crux of the whole thing lies in answering this 30k question.

Besides, escort as used in OP, is a civilised way of saying someone is a prostitute.

Babacele:
I think it is more like: why bother about heaven when earth's life we haven't lived?

But why can't we take advantage of the greatest energy in the whole world that the ever merciful abundant And most intelligent Father has blessed man with? An unlimitable force which no matter, tradition, force, space, law, feasibility, and conditions can limit.

@bolded, Still a valid way of putting the question.

The problem is we have chosen to limit that unlimitable force to a particular religious practice and belief system.

Scientific methods alone are not enough to tap into the Unlimited Force available to man neither can religion alone offer methods to access it.

Since we are talking about an Unlimited Force, there can only be an unlimited number of ways to access it. We should not limit it to our limited knowledge and understanding.