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hupernikao:
1. Firstly, if what you refer to as OT and NT is the scriptures, then we have nothing as such. All scriptures are God's breath, God's word. Word of Grace.

2. Jesus never had any new law. Like I said earlier, Jesus only preached and brought to fulfillment all Moses wrote. Infact Moses is the custodian of the scriptures, Jesus came to fulfill it not to give a new one.

Observe, Moses, preached both sin and death, also life (Deut 30). That's exactly what Jesus preached too and the apostles. Hence, Moses and Jesus never gave two different explanation.


3. New covenant isn't as related to Moses writing or commandments. Covenant was had with Israel, which they rejected, the new simply means a renewal, not a new as in absolute different. It was a renewal of that covenant Israel rejected. To be the custodian of God's message to the world. That is the world to receive the spirit through their obedience, but they rejected it.
This is what was renewed in Christ. Not a new covenant.

So, the writing of Moses wasn't what was renewed, the writing of Moses told them God's plan, God's covenant for Israel to the world, they rejected Moses and disbelieve the covenant. Then they perished. Notice, they rejected and perish. In NT language that is rejecting life and perish. JOHN 3:16


Hence, covenant of God from Adam till eternal is same, all you had all through is a renewal.

- Adam same, cover the earth Gen 1:26-28
- Noah a renewal, cover the earth
- Men later rejected and made name for themselves, Gen 11.
- Abraham (Gen 12), a renewal, cover the earth
- Moses to fulfill this through Israel but israel rejected it. (notice this was based on what God promised Abraham, in your seed..)

- Jesus a renewal, cover the earth
- Today fulfilled in us in Christ. The glory of God covering the earth.

It's the same story, covenant, plan and project of God. That's the story of the bible. One story not two.

I beg to differ. Though they both point in the same direction. There are certainly 2 different covenants- the old and the new.
And the old has been made obsolete in Christ.

Hebrews 8:
They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” 
But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 
For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.

8 For he finds fault with them when he says:
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds, and iwrite them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 11  And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall jall know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”

13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

hupernikao:
All you listed above that Jesus did was exactly what Moses taught. Jesus came to do what Moses already taught not something different.

Note this and read it again. The Pharisees never did what Moses instructed, they did what they wanted. I gave you a scriptures earlier that should clear all these.
Jesus himself said the Pharisees didn't do what Moses said, that what Moses said is exactly what he (Jesus) is doing. Hence his rejection is Moses rejection.

John 5:46 please read this well.
46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.(BC) 47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?

Notice the emphasis, THEY DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT MOSES WROTE.

that is an express statement that should guide your interpretation of the Pharisees doctrine.

So, Jesus wasn't correcting Moses, he was correcting the Pharisees.

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Secondly, for you to say Moses didn't preach eternal life is a slap on him. The doctrine of life eternal was Moses concept and didn't originate from Jesus. Bro, you are reading scripture in silos.

A simple rule of Bible interpretation is to findout who owns a term or usage of word in the Bible.


Moses is custodian and originator of most terms in the OT and NT. Terms such as

Life
Heaven and earth
Ark
Worship
Light
Etc.

You can't read any other author without tracing this to Moses.

Jesus read Moses and he was interpreting Moses. So when Jesus taught eternal life he wasn't introducing a new concept but teaching what Moses taught.

The first mention of life eternal in Bible was used by Moses and called it tree of life (Gen 2). Note in Gen 3 he told you the tree is for living for ever. How then do you say he never taught eternal life.


Paul taught eternal life and salvation in christ, by quoting Moses verbatim.

Read Deut 30 from verse 10. Compare to Romans 10 from verse 6.

He was quoting Moses verbatim in teaching life.

This is same as everyone in the Bible who is God's prophets and apostles.


Read this well.
NO ONE USED OF GOD IN THE BIBLE SPEAK OUTSIDE WHAT MOSES TAUGHT. NO ONE. INCLUDING JESUS.

Why?

It's the same inspiration, purpose, plan, spirit and God, hence they spoke the same.

I will sincerely advise you have a second look at Moses writings and theology. It will change your whole Bible explanation.

Today having read the teachings of Jesus Christ, you might be able to say Moses taught the same things as Jesus.
But before the understanding of the teachings of Jesus; you might see it as completely different from the teachings of Moses.
I hope you can answer the following questions with biblical references;

1. Is there any difference between the old testament and the new testament?

2. Is there a reason why God gave the laws of Moses and gave Jesus a new law which Jesus himself acclaimed?

3. Why do you think there was a need for a new covenant, if Moses' laws were the saw as what Jesus came to teach?

Ayietim:
I have no intelligent response to your question. But please permit me to ask you some questions and make some suggestions

What's reality? Is reality evidenced by only what we could see and touch? Or the true reality is the manifestation of a dream; of the invisible?

Think about all inventions we have, in what form did they exist before they became the form we all could see and touch? They all began as some people's dreams. Dreams that became passions that seduced their owners, won their love, stole their time and extracted total devotion from them.

Haven't these inventions made life easier and more comfortable? If they have, wouldn't it be fair to conclude that we could only go back to the beginning by expressing our temporary existence in love?

Ideas that have been proven true have come to pass.
The idea of heaven or after life is only evidenced by someone dying and going to heaven or hell and having a second chance to recount it.
And not just one but more than one witness.

The idea of heaven is more than 4000 years old yet no proof, no evidence.
The only reason you believe it is that it was mentioned in the bible. Both Jesus and David also mentioned Sheol as an after life . Besides that no other proof.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11.1

Following God, Christ, Christianity is based on faith.
However, what does the verse above mean?

This is important for any believer because Luke 18:8 asks if on the last day, Christ will find faith on earth.

What then is this faith?
I hope we can explain the 3 different Faiths elaborated below;

1. Is Faith waiting on God for his divine direction before making any decision?

2. Is Faith praying for your heart desire and trusting on God to make his word good?

3. Is Faith believing in Jesus Christ and nothing else matters?

Dtruthspeaker:
Change of Post! We are not talking about experiencing forever but about rich vs poor, which is better!

You likewise know that rich is better.
Just that you have been promised that you will be rich in the forever after death. Instead of being rich now that your alive.

Dtruthspeaker:
I prefer to be poor at the first and live forever than to be rich and Die Forever.

"Better the end"

But you have never experienced the forever.
Read up the parable of the talents.

God blessed Adam to have dominion over earth and everything in it.
Jesus taught us that everyone is gifted with a talent or talents. And God will require his gain from everyone.
In fact it is the one who fails to be productive here on earth that will be cast into the burning flames.

Dtruthspeaker:
Only fools like you people think it a good idea to buy land and building in disaster zones.

Only poor people think like this.

Pastor Kumuyi (Deepet Life) did more than you all are doing and before him others too.

You need to understand that bother the heaven and the earth are the Lords. Psalm 24.
And he has promised to to you.

So it is foolish and ignorant to thing being successful on earth is a distraction or wrong.

In fact when God created Adam, what was his promise to him?
That he would have dominion over earth and all that's in it.

But like they say in Christian circuits, to each according to their faith.
Keeping having faith in poverty as proof of your service to God and you will always be poor.

hupernikao:
His interpretation. That's all.
They taught the scriptures in their own way not Moses way. Jesus taught the scriptures in Moses way.

John 5:46-47
46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.

47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

They didn't believe Moses, they taught their own doctrine deviating from Moses. Jesus taught exactly what Moses want them to believe.

Matt 16:6
6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees

12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
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Observe Pharisees doctrine were also from the scriptures howbeit, manipulating the words.

Jesus doctrine was also from the scriptures, straightening what Moses intended.

He taught differently the same scriptures they had and never understood.

And as teacher of the law, an unlearned lad now teaching you your own manual, it takes humility to accept such persons. Hence his rejection.

The laws of Moses were that the Pharisees and Saducees executed.
The law of the new covenant which Jesus taught is not the same as the laws of Moses. In fact the law of the new covenant negates the old covenant.

1. Jesus Christ introduced eternal life. They never knew anything about that.

2. Jesus Christ prevented the execution of the law on the adulterous woman who was caught and was about to be stoned to death as the law required. Simply because Jesus introduced the that only those without sin should stone her which wasnt in the law of Moses.

3. Jesus did not honor the Sabath as the law of Moses required. Rather he said he was Lord of the Sabath.

4. Jesus did not honor his mother, Mary as the Law of Moses requires. When he was told his Mom and siblings wanted to see him, it seems like he disregard her and his siblings. The second commandments is to honor your parents that your days may be long. (Perhaps why he didn't leave long?)

5. Jesus broke many of the Laws of Moses which were not what we would consider sins today but were sinful according to the law Moses received from God. (If you can point to any,I will point you to the corresponding law of Moses)

Bear in mind that I'm not saying Jesus did not teach the true gospel. In fact, the teachings of Jesus were in line with the Fahers of faith- once you study the ways of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, David, Daniel, etc. Cos they weren't bound by laws, God blessed and saved them even for breaking the laws.
Abraham and Jacob did not operate on laws, God simply blessed them and they committed them selves after he blessed them. It was not a law.

But God did give Moses the laws.10 on the Mount Sinai and over 600 other laws as they journeyed through the wilderness.

I'm simply saying it's hard to blame the Pharisees and Saducees for doing what they were taught and trained to do- To uphold the laws of Moses given by God.

I'd cite biblical references but I believe you know thus scriptures.

Ayietim:
We’re all immortal beings
trapped in bodies as temporary beings,
imprisoned by our desires to live a temporary dream,
distracted from the substance of continuity
by the pursuit of a shadow
that has turned most of us into
beasts that live all for today and gone tomorrow’
condemned to the trash bin of history, to be remembered no more:

But we’re souls, immortal beings,
meant to be made stronger by pains and sufferings,
so that we could embody empathy and compassion;
emotions that ingrain loving without discrimination in our nature
and give us the nature of those glorious immortal beings
we were meant to be from the beginning.

https://ayietim.com/2022/01/23/you-dont-have-a-soul-doctor-you-are-a-soul-you-have-a-body-temporarily-walter-m-miller/

Do you realise you have been brainwashed to call your reality a dream? With no evidence of your claim?

You are simply saying your parents are not real, your siblings and friends are not really. Your achievements/dreams and ambitions are not real. Your 100 years of possible existence is not real.

That the only thing that is real is an idea.
And idea that you have never and none else has experienced?
Think about that as I look forward to an intelligent response.

HardMirror:
Thank God for Elon Musk the richest man in the world Not a Christian
Thank God for Jeff Bezoz
Thank God for Bill Gates

All not Christians

THANK God for Arab money!
Thank God for Chinese money! THEY ARE BORROWING TO NATIONS! they are unbelievers!

Thank God for broke suffering Christians that their shoes are worn out and dont know what to eat after church service.

Thank god for broke Christian's that are owing school fees, House rent and cannot repay loan app loans.


Shey una no get sense to know that you benefit nothing from being Christians.

Shey u shout and clap when your church member is giving you lamba claiming he or she is giving testimony.

Testimony time! Lying time!

Keep deceiving yourselves and be thinking your religion makes you special!

Imagine if the richest people in the world were Christians we for no hear word again.

Una mumu never reach

Well said.

I'm sure their next argument will be that their benefits are in heaven and not material things.

Yet the material things are promised everywhere in the bible but I know more Christians that are Broker than stocks exchangers.

God1000:
Good morning guys, happy Sunday to you all.

So here is the question, whether Christian or Muslim, are you living a good life by keeping God's commandments?

Do you care about life after death, especially those of you engaging in debauchery

Can you convincingly share why you believe in after life besides what you read and were told in the bible or quran?

[quote author=Righteousness2 post=109421994][/quote]Not to rain on your parade but I wish you'd share the whole story.
Cos I'm sure you both didnt just wait in the Lord to do it... you tried various ways. Which could have been what resulted in the conception.

This reminds me of Alakija's testimony when asked how she became the richest woman in Africa. Her response was it was just the grace of God.
But those who know her story know better.

daughters13:
The anti-indecency campaigner and deeper life member, Prince Dele Banjo has staged a peaceful protest at the Deeper Life Headquarters at Gbagada, Lagos.

The protest is in connection with the introduction of unconventional music to Deeper Life.

Prince Dele Banjo stated:

"We are surprised about the introduction of unconventional music as well as the invitation of Gospel rock stars to Deeper Life. We are also surprised about the invitation of local Christian musicians that are not advocates of modesty to deeper life.

We are surprised because pastor Kumuyi who is our father in the Lord did not raise us his children with such music. Instead, he raised us with modesty, holiness and the belief that we should worship God with our book of hymns alone using low toned and humble songs.

Pastor Kumuyi was the one that taught us all we know about modesty and holiness, so we are surprised that our teacher is changing direction and he is inviting international Gospel rock stars and local musicians that are not advocates of modesty to come and sing at deeper life.

We strongly believe that as a holiness church, deeper life ought to stick with our choir and our God given hymn book alone. We don't need unnecessary noise from these American gospel rockstars and these local Christian musicians.

Our God given and humble choir at deeper life that consists of those lovely teenagers, keyboardists and trumpeters is enough for us at deeper life.

Since he is our father in the Lord, we hereby request an explanation from him; we want to our dear father in the Lord to defend the invitation of rockstars and local Christian musicians that are not advocates of modesty.

We hold in our hands the book of hymns in order to prove to everyone that all we need in deeper life is our God given book of hymns.


Thank you very much"

But none of them is holy though.
Only our very own Righteousness is holy both inside and outside.

Let's take Daddy GO to court for lying to his congregation by feeding them with doctrines that he knew Nigerian parents wanted to hear.
But now that he has cashed out, Baba wants to enjoy life abeg. Cos he knows organised religion is a scam.

You can be in the confines of your home and have a much better relationship with God than most church goers and even muslims in Nigeria.

hupernikao:
You are the one who said this. This isn't true as per Jesus teaching.

Jesus taught exactly what Moses taught. Same scriptures. The issue were with the Pharisee.

You must understand that the problem in Jesus's days were interpretation problem not a documentation problem. Jesus never negate what Moses wrote. He only explained them. The Pharisee never negate what Moses wrote, they only had wrong interpretation.

This must be clear.

They all agreed the scriptures is true and same but interpretation was their issues. Jesus spoke Moses mind nothing else.

Why did the Pharisees and Saducees and reject him?

hupernikao:
You have to juxtapose all my last 3 responses to you. Your last comment seems to neglect my earlier views and responses about how these men were inspired, what the inspiration is and how it comes.

I have also laid out for you the possibility of being able to document private conversations through oral transmission, first hand information from the actors, narrative extension by the scribes (disciples) all guided by the Holy Spirit. Hence it is not special or different from what is obtainable today. Because men havent changed, and the Spirit of God with them, is same in us today.


I also felt, you are diverting gradually into spirit giftings looking at your last paragraph, yet you are mixing it up with spirit inspiration of writing the scriptures.

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I will give just two sweeping statement to summarize the difference between the two above, which i may explain later on depending on our conversation.

TWO KEY QUESTIONS

1. Does the Spirit giftings still in operations today, even gift of revelation in the believer?

Absolutely yes.
I believe in the current day Charismatic ability of the believer. And i believe the main challenge of a believer today isnt the presence or availability of the spirit gift (which he has) but in the lack of knowledge, training and exposition on how it functions. Its applicable knowledge must be taught beyond unnecessary argument and unseriousness we see today.

False and wrong information about this concept has contributed more to the much inactivity of a believer towards these gifts. Hence many alternatives to spirit gifts have been proposed and taught in places. Since knowledge always precedes ability to do, we will have to spend more time teaching these, so that believers can unlearn, relearn and learn to act on these abilities.


2. Does the Spirit giftings today available to inspire men to write a further scriptures?.

Absolutely No.
The scriptures revelation are stratified, purposed and definate. Even though they came through day to day men of their days, they werent the regular day to day inspiration but an unveiling the total plan of God. Note that beyond what was written, there will be other revelations and utterances by the prophets and God's servants in their day that werent captured as scriptures, why? Scriptures are definate and purposed.

Observe that this plan has been detailed from start to finish all through the scriptures, hence anyother inspiration via revelations today are subject to this definate inspiration (scriptures).

Observe, the scriptures itself admonish that we judge all things today side by side with the scriptures. Hence, any revelation today can be taken as spirit inspiration as much as it aligns and agrees with the revelation of the scriptures, which is the totality of God's plan revealed to man.

The teachings of Jesus did not align with the Scriptures of his day, which is why the Pharisees and Saducees and even till date the Jews reject him as the Messiah.

elated177:
Is Bible God?

Which God do you serve?

Your question stems from my post asserting that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, not because of homosexuality but they were beyond redemption.

I simply answered you letting you know I was referring to the God in the bible.

Whether i serve God or Jesus is not the question, you simply share your reference that the God in the destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah due to homosexuality.

hupernikao:
Excuse bawo.

What I gave is what is obtainable even among men today. Always know when interpreting Bible, that those men, you are reading or the writers, were humans as you. They had feelings, they suffered, have daily schedule, lived among people, had children to cater for, had wives, passed through almost what we pass through today. They weren't robots, they weren't another species.

Hence we can look at man today, and be able to explain man in their own time and history, we can look at man inspired today and explain man inspired in their own time. It wasn't as you see it in movies, it was a reality.

They ate, got angry, worried, sad, happy, slept, made jest, ate as we do, used the rest room as we do. Had even stomach pain, head ache, sleepless nights, I can go on and on.


Until we start seeing these men as natural as you are yet believed God and hold to God's will, used of God even in their weaknesses, we will not have the clarity of how God used them.

So, Bro, I never gave excuses, I gave you provable facts within human experiences.. We can look at the history of man and see how things were written, and how inspired things were written also.

As per Ifa and Co. I can't hold brief on them, because my faith isn't in it. If you can show me God's plan for humanity all through the ages through those books and convincingly explain how that affects me, then we can start the dispute on it. Things of the spirit and of God aren't hidden in the moon, they can be explained, felt and understood. So maybe you can be able to do exegesis from them then open it for discussion. But for me, I know where my conviction lies.

Exactly because I see them as natural men is why it seems impossible for them to perform what we credit them for.
Like you believe someone who wasnt there when Jesus was praying to God in his private moments to somehow document his every word and prayer because he was moved by the Holyspirit?

When was the last time you were moved by the Holyspirit to write the conversations between say your pastor and God talkless of the conversation between Adam and God?

But we attribute these unrelatable feats to the bible characters and say it was because they had the Holyspirit.
The same bible says we who have the same faith and Holyspirit will perform even greater things than Jesus right?. Yet go to the churches and what we find is that we keep praying and fasting just to eat or even get divine guidance on basic things.

If you believe some natural ordinary men were inspired and somehow got to write what we today call the bible, then where is that same inspiration now. Cos more than ever, the world needs it.

hupernikao:
Thanks for taking time to read.

Sure question should be asked. That's what bible study is for. To investigate well.

In all, a key element in all the writings is the fact that God's spirit upon them gave them the right understanding, access and coordination to be able to suniemi, a reading and understanding together, put things down and forsee God's bigger picture ahead of time even in their ancient dispositions.

I'll do my best to provide inexplicable private scenarios recorded in the bible. Let's see what you make of them and how they came to be documented when no one else was around and the author could not possibly have access to these details.

Until then, I want you to ponder over the fact that if this were not the bible that you have chosen to place your faith in, say it was just another holy book from another religion like Islam or Buddha or Ifa, etc would you make these same excuses for them?

Sabadon:
Obi looks like a modest man who holds his family in high esteem but i know alot of ladies wont hesitate to leech on him

You don't have such money and not womanize. Unless he performed ritual and is forbidden from any other woman but his wife. Even that one, him go still cast when him meet better Jezebel.

elated177:
Which "God" do mean?

Let us start with that.

Bible.

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aov80:
Super clean Tokumbo Ford Focus 2012 model .
Fault : BAD TRANSMISSION
ACCIDENT FREE
every other thing works perfectly . Owner is selling as it is because of lack of funds
Price : 2.8M
Location: Festac town
Call/WhatsApp 08035070308

How much is the gear box?

elated177:
El Elohe Yahshrael!

If two adults get into their room and assist each other to commit suicide, have they hurt anyone directly? No, they have not. They only took their own lives. However, the effects of their actions on their loved ones are better imagined than experienced.


Simply because sex between two consenting adults of the same gender may not directly hurt or harm anyone, does not make it right.


Homosexuality defiles the earth.

Homosexuality glorifies the kingdom of Satan.

Homosexuality pollutes the environment
spiritually. It contaminates the spiritual atmosphere.

The efficacy of some people's demonic protection depends on them engaging in homosexuality - especially pederasty/pedophilia.

Some people are in covenant with Satan and the demons to initiate as many young ones as they can into the detestable act of homosexuality. The more they do this, the higher they rise in their evil associations.

There are families where people must practise homosexuality because the demonic worship being transmitted generationally depends on it.
So, some of the people who engage in this abomination did not choose it. Rather it was demonically chosen for them, some even before they where born.

The demons need a polluted environment - I mean spiritually - to thrive. And there is no sexual sin that pollutes the environment like homosexuality, it is the chief among them.

No saint of YHVH Almighty should ever nourish any iota of doubt as to the abominable nature of homosexuality. It does not matter who or what country has sanctioned it. It does not really matter how rich, peaceful or prosperous those people or countries are. Our Father in heaven, YHVH Almighty, has made his stand known in that regard.


El Elohe Yahshrael! Hallelu Yah!

Can you mention one instance where God is against homosexuality?

God chose to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah not because of their homosexuality but because they were too sinful. Though homosexuality often times is credited to be the reason but there are other cases in the bible where homosexuality was perpetuated but God did not destroy them.

Homosexuality is just as bad as fornication, adultery and lying.

While I'm not a proponent of homosexuality cos I find it disgusting between men but sexy between women, I believe it is just the same sin as fornication and adultery.

Reason being there are cases mentioned in the bible of homosexuality where God did not destroy the city. Hence my position that Sodom and Gomorrah was not because of their homosexuality but because they were beyond redemption. Their sinful ways were too much aka dey don too tear eye and God realised no one was safe there.
Even the Angels he sent were going to be raped until Lot intervened.

That said, exalting homosexuality above any other sin is just unbiblical. Cos God's judgment for a liar is the same for a homosexual,fornication or adulterer.
Before God every sin is the same. It is humans that try to make hierarchy of sins.

LordReed:
Well how do we know it is spirit and not just the mind? How do we know the spirit is communicating to another spirit?

This my friend is the question.
Cos when it's the mind, it normally should be from what is stored up from your experience.

But when it's spirit, then you yourself know the source of your knowledge transcends your experiences.

triplechoice:
If man is spirit and God is also spirit as you say, then it means humans are the same with God.

Sure. Even the bible corroborated this.
Know ye not that ye are gods?

Though the creator is greater than the creation.

budaatum:
I do agree somewhat with this by the way, though I would say darkness is the absense of a source of illumination which produces the matter called light by reducing the (matter) called darkness.

Funny. Has anyone noticed we are arguing that a natural state of things called darkness is being denied its existence just because we shed light on it?

Go on, turn the light off. Tell me the darkness you obviously see does not exist or is not a thing with substance.

I see where the issue is now.
Calling light a matter is actually a misnomer cos light is an Energy.
Matter of course being anything with mass and occupies space.
So neither light or darkness is matter.
You can have Light energy and I believe you can likewise have dark energy.

So I get your point. They both exist.

budaatum:
I do not think my Lord said "darkness is immaterial", Myer. If he did, we'd have an even greater disagreement.

Consider the following:

Light is the presence of illumination, which is a product of the light source).

Darkness is a presence of zero illumination (as in, an absence of a light source).

Shadow is the presence of partial illumination (as in, the partial blocking of the source of the illumination).

Can I not therefore claim, light is immaterial, and that it is the source of the light that is material?

Lol! My light just literally turned to zero!

Know this one thing. Darkness is the absence of light.
Light is the matter.

You can see the source of light.
You can control light.
The intensity of light can be calculated.

Darkness on the other hand is just what you get in the absence of light.
You don't calculate the intensity of darkness. You calculate the intensity of light.

KanoFirstSon:
You’re hoping to get your dream Biafra meanwhile Anambra and Ebonyi pple are planning to run away from the stupid Biafra. They say they don’t want una Biafra. Haha see Biafra land

I'm Yoruba.
If you know anything about your history, the West was even the most developed region in Nigeria before Awolowo was tricked to support one Nigeria.

Unless you're a northerner or you have been paid to sell out your future and your children, I see no reason why you should support one Nigeria.

Kobojunkie:
You claim that No Christian or normal human should eat or drink blood. But Jesus Christ, the Christ in Christianity placed no such restriction on His followers. He taught them they are free eat even blood if they so desire - Matthew 15 vs 10 - 20. . So who do we believe? Jesus Christ or who else?

This is what Matthew 15:10-20 says.

And he called the people to him and said to them, q“Hear and understand: 11 rit is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” 12 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were soffended when they heard this saying?” 13 He answered, t“Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted uwill be rooted up. 14 Let them alone; vthey are blind guides.3 And wif the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” 15 But Peter said to him, x“Explain the parable to us.” 16 And he said, y“Are you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not see that zwhatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?4 18 But awhat comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 19 For out of the heart come bevil thoughts, cmurder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, dslander. 20 eThese are what defile a person. But fto eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

It says all things eaten or drunk are allowed. Right?
But can you give a reason why Christian should drink blood?

osuofia2:
SHOULD WE BE HAPPY OR WHAT? APPLAUDING PEOPLE WHO ARE GEOMETRICALLY KILLING THE LIVELY HOOD THEIR PEOPLE IS EVIL AND SHOULD BE CONDENMED

I was not a supporter of Nnamdi Kanu cos I used to believe in one Nigeria.

Today I support Kanu even though I don't agree with some of his tactics. Especially killing those who do not choose to sit at home. It's not supposed to be by force.

Now he has lost the goodwill of those he's fighting for.
Cos most of them no longer feel safe to run their own businesses.

I applaud those who take the pain and time to avail themselves to protest against the injustice being meted on him simply for exposing the tyranny and bigotry of Buhari and his fellow northerners.

It would be foolish for any Easterner,Southerner or even Westerner to assume or even contemplate that the Northerners see them as equals.

So the best solution for the failed amalgamation is to divide this once upon a time entity called Nigeria into its geopolitical zones- North, South, East and West.

It might take a while for us to get it right, but that first step is in fact odikwa necessary. O se Pataki.

DannyXpress:
Might be cats probably in your ceiling

Fumigate your house and your surrounding thoroughly

The most probable explanation.

achorladey:
What is/are the common denominators of the following

1 Blood transfusion

2. Blood fraction transfusion

3. Blood fractions component transfusion

4. Person's own blood use or transfusion during a live operation.


Does the common denominator shows that Jehovah’s witnesses are really or ideally abstaining from blood?

I think the verse Acts 15:29 is a bit confusing.
It says abstain from blood. But by Lev standard it probably refers to eating of blood.

No Christian or normal human should eat or drink blood. That goes without saying.
Cos we know those who practise paganism drink blood for some initiation or spiritial ascension.

But that Acts 15:29 probably has nothing to do with Blood transfusion which is meant to save a life that is dying from blood shortage. Not for some form of spiritual ascension or ritual or oath.