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These celebrities (who are 100 percent black) are just three/four/five generations away from Africa, so why would anybody be surprised that they look like an African?
What are they expected to look like?

Jakumo:
Where most people see a career buffoon, some would see a potential rap artist.

Just imagine this legislator wearing a backwards-facing baseball cap, baggy trousers pulled halfway down to expose a foot of white underwear, huge sneakers on his feet, and massive gold chains around his neck.

Now picture the learned orator delivering another of his rambling, meaningless speeches, but with a beat added, complete with DJ scratches, and tell me Nigeria doesn't have the makings of another MAJOR star here.

We'll see how many of you continue to laugh after I sign this man up, and fly him out to fill venues coast to coast accross America. Africans have always been slow to recognize and appreciate national treasures, and the ridicule of this gentleman is but another example of that short-sightedness.

Birds of the same feathers flock together.

But honestly, there are stories of maids who are witches and wreaked havoc in the family of their oga. That one no be lie.

For the fellow who called their housemaid a 'retard', why didnt you simply send her home? At first, I was way too ignorant to realize that housemaid in Nigeria is slavery, until I moved to the USA and thought about it. Look at it this way. You are an employee, you work for your boss for 40 hours a week, and get paid at the end of the week with 2 days off. But a maid back home works seven days a week for peanuts. That is unacceptable and a gross service of injustice. Tell me, who would willingly accept that? If I am to move back home, believe me, this is something that I would want the government to tackle from the roots. I blame poverty and ignorance, just yesterday, I was reading an old edition of Tell Magazine. On the cover was a picture(s?) of little kids hawking their goods on the streets, and I did point that out earlier that it's child abuse.

Who is more famous, Patrick or Kris Okotie?

Is Chime still the governor? I thought I read somewhere that he was impeached.

I saw a documentary on Television about Salma Hayek breastfeeding another baby and I dont know if I gasped or not, but I do know that to some women, it's definitely a NO No for them to accept a woman breastfeeding their child. At the same time, it was a touching and generous gesture on her part to have nursed the baby, because the mother, (I think) had no milk in her breast and the child may have been starving. Perhaps, most mothers may not accept the generousity of strangers, for fear that the child may become attached to that stranger. I maybe wrong . . .

How about you? (Please, this is a mature discussion, not a discourse to elicit childish and immature innuendos.)

blacksta:
Please be advised that this image was not doctored in any form.

We just cant make assumptions from the picture and the notoriety of the Nigerian police that they were demanding bribe from the female driver.

OLAADEGBU:
@[b]debosky, Ndipe, Finally and others who think God could have used the evolution process to create the earth.[/b]

There are serious consequences when we consider the possibility that God used evolutionary processes to create over millions of years, and one of them is that the Word of God will no longer be authoritative, the other is that the character of our merciful God will questioned as it is today.

If we say that we are Christians and accept the New Testament doctrines that Jesus Christ and Paul preached but reject the book of Genesis as literal history, read what Thomas Huxley, who was called Darwin's bulldog had to say:
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[li]" the melancholy fact remains, that the position they have taken up is hopelessly untenable." [/li]
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Thomas Huxley went on to lambast those Christian compromisers and gave them a lesson of their lives.  This I am sad to say, is the reason why these atheists, who are seeking for excuses not to be accountable to God, will want to give more authority to their fallible philosophies since Christians are beginning to doubt their own source of authority.  He pointed out that for the so called theologians to be consistent they had to give up the Bible totally and that compromise is not acceptable.

The battle, really, is not one of the young earth versus old earth or billions of years versus 6 days, or creation versus evolution;  The real battle is the authority of the Word of  God vs. man's fallible opinions. 

We Christians believe in the bodily Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ because of the words of Scripture ("according to Scriptures.", we believe in the 6 literal days of creation because of the words of Scripture ("In six days the Lord made . . . ".  "Then God said . . ."  His Word is the evidence of how and when God created, and His Word is incredibly clear.  The real issue is one of authority, is God's Word the authority, or is it man's word?

Read the link below to find out the reasons why God could not have used  evolution to create, and see why the belief in millions of years of evolution not only contradicts the clear teaching of Genesis and the rest of the Scripture but also questions the character of God.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/couldnt-god-have-used-evolution

Ola, how many times have I told you that I dont believe in evolution? Never will believe in it, as long as the Good Lord keeps me alive, Amen.

Until you can show me where it is written in the Holy Bible the age of the world, then I am not inclined to believe that the world is 6,400 years old. Ok, let me ask you this question. Its generally believed that Jesus Christ died 2000 years ago, right? And I do know that He died and Resurrected again. The time frame, however, I am not sure, and that automatically does not bar me from inheriting His Salvation. However, if you are gonna believe that this blessed event occured two thousand years ago, then how can you explain the time frame between Methuselah (who died when he was over 900 years old) to King David, to Rehoboam, to the captivity, I mean, would you honestly say that the time lapse may not have been 1000 years between Methuselah and Jeremiah? I dont know for sure.

OLAADEGBU:
@Ndipe, debosky and any other theistic evolutionists who believe in the day-age theory, which is more deadly than the theory of evolution itself.
Romans 3:4 declares: "Let God be true, and every man a liar."  One with God is a majority and it does not matter how many of you that gather together to believe in a lie, God will always remain true to His Word.  In every instance where someone has not accepted the "days" of creation to be ordinary days, they have not allowed the words of Scripture to speak to them in context, as the language requires for communication.  They have been influenced by ideas from outside of Scriptures.

God's people need to realise that the Word of God is something very special.  It is not just the words of men.  As Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 2:13 "You received it not as the word of men, but as it is, truly the word of God."  Proverbs 30:5-6 states that "every word of God is pure . . . Do not add to His words, lest He reprove you and you be found a liar."  The Bible cannot be treated as just some great literary work.  We need to "tremble at His Word" (Isa.6:5) and not forget that:

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work - 2 Tim.3:16-17

In the original autographs, every word and every letter in the Bible is there because God put it there.  Let us listen to God speaking to us through His Word and not arrogantly think we can tell God what He really means!

I will suggest you read the article in the link below if you are still doubting whether God could really create everything in 6 days, that's if you have not already made up your minds and don't want to be confused by the truths of God's Words, figures and facts.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/could-god-have-created-in-six-days

I dont believe in evolution at all!

OLAADEGBU:
@debosky and all those who think that they are "Christians", listen and read what hard core evolutionists think about their theories.

William Provine's quote sums up all the modern evolutionary biology.  "Let me summarize my views on what modern evolutionary biology tells us loud and clear . . .  There are no gods, no purpose, no goal-directed forces of any kind." 
William Provine(Professor, Cornell University), Origins Research, Vol.16:1/2(1994),p.9, quoted in Technical Journal, vol.10:1(1996),p.22.

This shows that the foundation of the religion of evolutionary theory is based on materialism, and thereby it is the ideology that there is no creator God.  This is so because they want to counter Christian beliefs and to escape from accountability to a creator God, they reckon that if there is no law there will be no law giver that they will be accountable to, so they thereby go on to form their own theories that have no scientific backing and this explains why their theories have remained just a theory, conjecture or hypothesis and have not been able to progress into a scientific law because it is unworkable, irrational, unreasonable, illogical and unscientific.

God has all the answers because He was there to observe has given us the answers not only in creation but in His written Holy Word, The Bible.  The answers as to who created, what was created, how it was created, when it was created and how long it took for Him to create.  It is either you choose to believe Him or to believe man's fallible theories that changes by the day.

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[li]1.  Who created?------------God[/li]
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[li]2.  What was created?  ----All things[/li]
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[li]3.  How was it created?--- By His Power[/li]
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[li]4.  When was it created?—In the beginning[/li]
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     Create?------------------- 6 days[/li]
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Some top and highly qualified Hebrew scolars, who are called lexigraphers wrote in the most widely recognised Hebrew lexicons and dictionaries, published in the 20th century says that the creation days written in the book of Genesis are literal days.

Below is a partial list of scientists who believe in the Bible's account of creation as is recorded in the Bible and through their professional fields have come to the scientific conclusion that confirms the Bible's account:

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[li]Danny Faulkner         Ph.D.  Astronomy
John Byl                     Ph.D.  Astronomy
Tom Greene               Ph.D.  Astronomy
James Dire                 Ph.D.  Astrophysics
Dave Harrison            Ph.D. Astrophysics
Steven Boyd               Ph.D. Hebraic and Cognitive Studies
Floyd Nolen Jones     Th.D., Ph.D.  Author of Chronology of the Old Testament
Herb Hirt                    Ph.D.  Biblical Exposition
Robert Cole                Ph.D.  Semitic languages
Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon
Georgia Purdon          Ph.D. Molecular Genetics
Duane Gish                Ph.D. Biochemistry
David Menton            Ph.D. Cell Biology
Donald Chittick          Ph.D.  Physical Chemistry
Tom Greene              Ph.D.  Astronomy
Jason Lisle                Ph.D.  Astrophysics
Russell Humphreys   Ph.D  Physics
Don DeYoung            Ph.D.  Physics
Terry Mortenson       Ph.D. History of Geology
John baumgardner   Ph.D. Geophysics
Bob Compton            Ph.D. Physiology, DVM
Andy McIntosh         Ph.D.  Combustion Theory
John Johnson           Ph.D. Mathematics
Tommy Mitchel          M.D.
Andrew Snelling       Ph.D. Geology
Emil Silvestre           Ph.D. Geology
Esther Su                 Ph.D. Biochemistry
David DeWitt           Ph.D. Neuroscience[/li]
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And above all is the One who knows it all with absolute certainty and has recorded it with His own caligraphy:

God Almighty in the  The Ten Commandments

"For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."  Exodus 20:11

“For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers:  all things were created by Him, and for him.”  Colossians 1:16

Which is the strong foundation that makes the faith of those who choose to believe in Him, based on rock solid evidence.

At your own time read the following passages if you believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac or Jacob.

(Exodus 20:11;God created all things by Jesus Christ. Gen.1:1; Colossians1:15-18,20; John 1:3; Ephesians 3:9; Heb.1:1-2; 11:3)

Totally base, who are you to decide who is a Christian or who isnt? Let God be the Judge!. That there are some practising Christians on this board who hold divergent views to your discourse does not necessarily mean that that they are wrong. Let God be the Judge. You have your views, they also have their own views. In the long run, I'd like to think that even those who disagree with you, all believe in the Salvation of God through Jesus Christ.

Yes, it's very RUDE infact, you should be repartriated to your homeland. Why should you speak your language openly, instead of covering your mouth and muttering it in very muffling tones? Only English Language needs to be spoken PUBLICLY. Our native language should be spoken BEHIND closed doors, and even then, mixed with English Language.

wrong posting

@debosky, Suggestion should be limited, not 'threatened' by timescales.

m_nwankwo:
@Mad_Max

Thanks for your input. I address the issues you raised as follows:
Yes I believe that Jesus resurrected after his death and appeared to many including the doubting Thomas. However the resurrection was not in a physical body but a transformed non-physical body. I may expalin that in details if you are interested in examing the process of resurrection.

Jesus knew of the probabilty that he might be murdered by the people he came to save once God the father made the decison to send his son to save mankind from there sins. Thus Jesus knew of this probablity that he will die even before he was incarnated on earth and that probabilty was also revealed to various messengers or prophets of God, hence the prophecies about his coming and death. As Jesus became conscious that he is the son of God, he could consciously survey the entire will of God and based on his living knowlege he came to the sad realization that men will continue to disobey the will of God, and that even his disciples can still be willing tools in the hand of darkness and such disobedidence will untimately lead to his death and hence his death on the cross became a certaintity to him instead of a high probability. Jesus cannot prevent Judas from betraying him because God does not interfer with the free will of man, the perfection of the laws of God allows man to use his free will but also to taste the consequences of his free will. Judas has several oppurtunites to change his course but he refused since he has given his soul to Lucifer, the enemy of God. Jesus did not avoid death because the main accusation is that he is the Truth, the son of God. To flee or avoid death is equiivalent to denying that he is indeed the son of God. Jesus is the son of God and he cannot deny what he is even at the risk of his own death. It is like you have a son and people are accusing you that you are making a false claim by claiming to be the mother. If you are certain that you are the mother of the child, you can face anything even death to prove that you mean what you say. Jesus stood by his conviction that he is the son of God, the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Yes I do know how thoughts, words, imagination etc interact with unseen enviroments. I have had experiences of seing what people think and picking the thoughts and words of others is also a common occurence. Sure some people can condense their mental images to become materially visible. It is a question of radiations and transformation of radiations to matter and vice versa. I will be willing to offer a detailed expalanation of these processes if you want and you present specific examples since the subject is so vast to discuss in general terms. However these abilities should and must come naturally and should not be acquired through an occult or mystical training. Occult or mystical training is a dangerous to the spiritual development of man. Stay blessed.

Jesus Christ Resurrected in the same body that he was killed in. Please dont even attempt to explain further. It would have (in my opinion) been self defeating, if he had risen in another body. Remember what He said, "Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again." (John 10:17)

Nobody should give IBB the time of the day anymore. His fifteen minutes of infamy is up.

Why do you guys think the police were trying to extort 50 naira from the lady? Who even knows if the lady herself is guilty, and was trying to elude the cops. A picture is not always proof of reality, especially in the digital age of 'doctoring images.'

It's amazing that in this day and age when the west are reeling from recession and laying off people, there are some folks in Naija, who are willing to gamble "their allowances and my savings" to come abroad.

Best wishes folks.