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idnoble135: Hum.... It aff not do o. Needs a gift of a live cow to bounce back to full capacity.

uj_sizzle: More like seasoner of stew

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ATMC: be fast about it

ATMC: look away from the stew pot...look unto jesus the author and...

idnoble135: Haha! Abeg o! I've seen the wire.

ATMC: yhu need artesunate...

ATMC: chai! renew ur mind!

idnoble135: You need JESUS!

ATMC: stay connected brother! mintayo r we loosing him? somebuddy helps!

olat4cash: We never believe all tinz in the bible are words of God, we're nt selfish by believing some and not all tin said in it. If U wanna know all Jesus words in it kindly get the red label bible. All highlighted word in it are the words of God. How can U call something God word when there're a lot of mistake,contradiction and false tinz in it, God can never be wrong . If U agree with me God can't be wrong try to get the book "bible Quran and science ”

idnoble135: I pity this brother o. Brother you need to intensify your fast, the days are evil, remember?

idnoble135: *raises hands up*
Ayam innocent na!

idnoble135: Hum... Pls o, some of us have been doing without food for years. We just started eating to prevent wastage of food.

ATMC: sundays are for church tinz buh for yhu it is food chai bro mintayoooo repent!

idnoble135: Royally, i see you...

idnoble135: Mintayo, could you help me out?

ATMC: brother mintayo!

idnoble135: Anything for the boys

idnoble135: lol... Been a while i went for outreach. The joy that one derives from going for an outreach is bigger than the tiredness that one feels.

Oya, ATMC, whats cooking? The men wanna eat 'som fin' .

ATMC: sunday stew o

idnoble135: I'm fine. You crossed my mind this afternoon. How you doing?

ATMC: so so browsing and cooking tins

idnoble135: Hi Mintayo, ATMC, Ujsizzle, Divepen, Damex, HBG, Anonimus, ARareGem, Yetseyi, Ledafaze, Omo Daddy, Tovot, Ihe..... *takes a deep breath* Whew!
Hello everybody, i'm missing you all.
P. S
Incase i missed your name, i'm sorry. You know this is one big extended family.

Ohibenemma: Once again, I'm impressed by the way you go about springing out quotes from the Bible. Having done my NYSC in the north, I'm not surprised. Thumbs up. However, what you fail to realise is that 'all have sinned and come short of God's glory." That includes you and I, but "God demonstrated His love towards us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." His piety was attested to by the prophets of old and, of course, by the founder of your religion, Muhammad. But in a bid to be set apart and reverred like most men will, he claimed superiority over God's own son, Jesus. But Muhammad was quick to show how of little consequence he was by stating that even he himself wasn't sure of making heaven... Now, that's funny.
But there's a name that's above every other name and that name is Jesus Christ. He has even gone to prepare a place for us(as many as believe in Him). You are offered that same opportunity. Please, don't reject it.

ATMC: who's home? im up for some chats, who's in?

Enigma: Christians have the words of Jesus and of the apostles to (a) reassure them and (b) to guide them.

Mercifully the reassurance and guidance of Jesus and the apostles to us Christians let us know that we Christians do not need "popes" (some of whom even their sheep i.e. even Roman Catholics described as antiChrists).

For now just a couple of examples of the assurance and guidance that Christians have from the Lord Jesus Christ Himself and from the apostles.

1. Jesus is the Good Shepherd of Christians; He knows them and they know Him!
John 10
14“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me

2. Christians as Jesus' sheep listen to His voice, He knows them, they follow Him and He gives them eternal life.
John 10
27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.

3. Jesus has given the Holy Spirit to Christians to lead them to all truth.
John 16
7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth.

4. Because Christians have the Holy Spirit they do not need a "pope" or such like to teach them.
1 John 2
27 As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit--just as it has taught you, remain in him.


Summary
Christians have enough assurances from Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit and with the teachings of the apostles as recorded in the Christian Bible. Christians do not need any "pope". I might return later to quotes from their sheep i.e. Roman Catholics including Bishops about some of these "popes".

In the meantime I finish this post with an ordinarily prominent "sheep" of a pope; a quote from no less than a "cardinal" who in fact, historians tell us, could have himself become a "pope" and was actually considered for becoming a "pope"!

"The chief lesson of these times is that the Church can get along very well without popes. What is vital to the Church's survival is not the pope but Jesus Christ. He is the head of the Church, not the pope." ("Cardinal" Baronius --- as quoted)

OLAADEGBU: The question is: what would make us one?

italo: Did Jesus leave us as sheep without shepherd that we should be unsure of the truth?

I think he left us a shepherd. No?

ATMC: so far so good