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How do you UNDERSTAND and EXPLAIN that these things may be taken "FIGURATIVELY"?

With emphasis on "taken figuratively"?

Thanks for your response.


Lastpage!

Sorry, I usually quote KJV.

4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. Galatians

Allegory
A symbolic representation which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one

shammah1:
Christians, you haven't seen anything yet. You're going to regret ever for voting Buhari.

Northerners don't care about anyone except their own. I'm a proud Christian from the north so I know what I'm saying. They've been killing our people everyday. They wanted power by all means now it will only worsened. Islam and hate.

I really pity the minority Christians from the north who are been killed everyday because of their faith.

God, can this world finish already?

RIP to the dead.

You haven't offered a solution. All I can see is typing.

chimkaire:
Misogynist's at it again

Cracking jokes?

ferhyntorlah:
Thank you!

U welcomed

chimkaire:
Onye a abiakwa ozo

Meaning?

Tinubu is a big mumu.

ferhyntorlah:
I guess you don't understand me.

I understand every bit of what you wrote. Even though Abraham had faith in God, as a human, he still had the urge and wish of going down with another woman, which was dormant. All Sarah had to do was set a match to the kerosene, nothing spectacular and worthy to be adored.

No qualms.

seedorfg:
in as much am a muslim, i didn't support this, if its about religious sentiment then, ko bojumu rara, iwa ai da gbaaa ni

PAUL
1 What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave,
although he owns the whole estate. 2 He is subject to guardians and trustees until the
time set by his father. 3 So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the
basic principles of the world. 4 But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born
of a woman, born under law, 5 to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full
rights of sons. 6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts,
the Spirit who calls out, ""Abba", Father." 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and
since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.
Paul's Concern for the Galatians
8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not
gods. 9 But now that you know God--or rather are known by God--how is it that you are
turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by
them all over again? 10 You are observing special days and months and seasons and
years! 11 I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you. 12 I plead with
you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong. 13 As
you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you. 14 Even
though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn.
Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.
15 What has happened to all your joy? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you
would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. 16 Have I now become your enemy
by telling you the truth? 17 Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good.
What they want is to alienate you [from us], so that you may be zealous for them. 18 It is
fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always and not just when I
am with you. 19 My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until
Christ is formed in you, 20 how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone,
because I am perplexed about you!
Hagar and Sarah
21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by
the free woman. 23 His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his
son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise. 24 These things may be
taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount
Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar stands for
Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is
in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our
mother. 27 For it is written: "Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth
and cry aloud, you who have no labor pains; because more are the children of the
desolate woman than of her who has a husband." 28 Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are
children of promise. 29 At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son
born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. 30 But what does the Scripture say?
"Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in
the inheritance with the free woman's son." 31 Therefore, brothers, we are not children of
the slave woman, but of the free woman. Galatians 4

ferhyntorlah:
The Power of a woman!!!!

How does this statement tally with what he has written?

Allah should be charged to court for war crimes.

I feared things such as this will happen after Jonathan was defeated, since what inspired him has been lost. May 29 seems like a thousand years.

shahydbinaliyu:
Bashing is insulting one's religion without proof.. I give you proof and am not bashing your religion but showing you the truth. Insha Allah i will visit the site and give you feedback.

You know absolutely nothing about hadiths and Quran and yet you insulting it..

You are the greatest fool of human era

Read this and give me reply, http://www.wikiislam.net/wiki/Are_Judaism_and_Christianity_as_Violent_as_Islam%3F

Unto what shall we liken this? Insànity just keeps growing under GEJ. Can't wait for his administration to come to an end on May 29.

shahydbinaliyu:
Isaiah 43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

Is that verse authentic?



THIS ARE THE MISSING VERSES FROM BIBLE LIKE
(NEB, RSV, NIV,
ATHB, AB, CEV, ISV, TMT, LB, NWT, NJB, GNB, TB,
NASB, TDSB,
GNBWA)
Matthew 17v21.
Matthew 18v11.
Matthew 23v14.
Mark 7v16.
Mark 9v44 and 9v46.
Mark 15v28.
Luke 23v17.
John 5v4.
Act 8v37.
Act 24v7.
Romans 16v24.



Revelations 22v18 says:-


I WARN EVERYONE WHO
HEARS THE
WORD OF THE PROPHECY OF THIS BOOK, IF
ANYONE ADDS
ANYTHING TO THEM, GOD WILL ADD TO HIM THE
PLAGUES
DESCRIBED IN THIS BOOK.
18 AND IF ANYONE TAKES WORDS AWAY FROM
THIS BOOK OF
PROPHECY, GOD WILL TAKE AWAY FROM HIM HIS
SHARE IN THE
TREE OF LIFE AND IN THE HOLY CITY, WHICH ARE
DESCRIBED IN
THIS BOOK.


so if bible is book of God or word of God, why
removing some
verses out of it?


is jesus say he is god or paul think he was
god?


Paul has more followers than JESUS by nailing laws
to the cross ...

CHRISTIANITY is outlaw !!
Do you agree ?


IN THE BIBLE.
Kill utterly Old and young,both maids and little
children and women but come not near any man
upon whom is the mark: Ezekiel 9:6

Kill anyone who refuse to listen to a priest.
Deut.17:12-13.




WHICH KIND OF TEACHING IS THIS? Any city
that doesn't receive the followers of Jesus will be
destroyed in a manner even more savage than
that of sodom and Gomorrah. Mark 6:11.



Those who disobeyed the old Testament law
were killed without mercy. Hebrew 10:28-29

Are Christians following old testament law?


Holy Bible (RSV) 1.4 - Act 3:13 The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.

http:///SCLQH

Is that verse authentic?

Yet, if I bash your religion and your insanè god, you will be swift at protecting it. I beg you to visit www.wikiislam.net at least once and I swear to your god that your life will not be the same. But you enjoy reading websites who write trash just to cover your useless terrorism breeding religion. If there is any book corrupted, it is certainly not the Injil or Torah, it is your useless and pure myth called hadith and the book with no order, that made you an eternal slave, Qur'an.

Sad

Because men love it young, know what I mean?

joe4christ:
The last paragraph from the whole epistle actually got me cracking, imagine the stars falling down on earth as figs drops from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

Can any reasonable person describe the size of the least largest stars in the whole universe, scientifically i guess a star should be as large as the earth itself...

Anyways, religion is faith based only!

Above all, you must realize that no prophecy in Scripture ever came from the prophet's
own understanding, 2 Peter 1:20

Came to type something

oboman:
If she is mad, how can she consent? It's clearly rape!

The same way they know when they are going to give birth. The male-female bond is a very strong chain, there is no way emotions won't flow. Aren't these supposed to be mad men, Obo Man?

Acekidc4:
To The Christians, Muslims and all Religion Believers, this Question is for all of You!!

According to a Christian Brother I ask this same question, this was is Reply;

He said and I quote; Yes I would do it because if the creator tells me to do something no matter how bad it sounds, it must be right. Because the person who made all laws can choose who and what law to break. Plus I would feel better knowing that a God does exist and I could devote my life to him!!

That was a Christian to the Core Reply to my Question!!
What do you think Nairalanders!!


Sukkot, Johnydon22, ifeness, Image123, Truthman2012, Kay17 Come in Here and Contribute ya own oh!!

Seeing your profile pic (like that of a hungry lünatic ) and this brainless post, I think there is a viable excuse for you being insanè.

They are adults, since its not a case of rape, I can hardly find a reason why this is news.

Crazy world

Justfollowit:
Mtcheww

sorry

What if its not a joke? He has the right to say what pleases him. The migration to the South West is getting out of control.








Just joking

You also won't regret staying behind bars.

Eiye at work.

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but yourselves can free your mind". Bob Marley.
A lot of people, especially women have turned themselves to slaves, copying everything western.

ifeness:
May I ask you again? What are the laws Jesus and Peter were talking about ?

35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and
saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

johnydon22:
Misogynist2014 so i am supposed to read all that right?

Jude has only one chapter. If you want to know the truth, a bookaholic like you shouldn't bother reading it.

No wonder

johnydon22:
Don't you? religion teaches a god who will punish a finite sin (time-lined sin) with an infinite punished (timeless punishment). That is pure evil and barbarism doubled by sadism. How can anyone find this to be just and good. Even the human basic sense of justice is A billion times better than this...

Pls, look at how eternal fire was used here in the book of Jude, the fire was once with eternal effects. God is everlasting and LORD eternal. Eternal is only used to represent GOD.


Jude 1 New International Version (NIV)
1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James,
To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for[ a ] Jesus
Christ:
2 Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
The Sin and Doom of Ungodly People
3 Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I
felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all
entrusted to God’s holy people. 4 For certain individuals whose condemnation was
written about[b ] long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people,
who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our
only Sovereign and Lord.
5 Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord[c ] at one time
delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And
the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper
dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on
the great Day. 7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave
themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those
who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
8 In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute
their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings. 9 But even the
archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not
himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”[ d ] 10 Yet these
people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand
by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.
11 Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into
Balaam’s error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.
12 These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest
qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along
by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead. 13 They are wild
waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness
has been reserved forever.
14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with
thousands upon thousands of his holy ones 15 to judge everyone, and to convict all of
them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the
defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”[ e] 16 These people are
grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about
themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.
A Call to Persevere
17 But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. 18
They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own
ungodly desires.” 19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural
instincts and do not have the Spirit.
20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in
the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord
Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
22 Be merciful to those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them from the fire; to
others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.
[f ]
Doxology
24 To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious
presence without fault and with great joy— 25 to the only God our Savior be glory,
majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and
forevermore! Amen.