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Dtruthspeaker:
I am not your student bound to answer your exam questions but a free member of the public.

And in exercise of my right, I elected to answer the only important question.

And the implications of my answer disposes off the need for answering the remainder for it now falls on your ability of processing information received

Thank you for your contribution

Kobojunkie:
The book isn't referenced by them only, however, I do agree that they -- unrelated to the book itself --- make the most unnecessary noises about it.

Mention other groups that based their beliefs on the bible

Kobojunkie:
That supposition(in bold) is likely invalid given that Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD, less than 40 years after the death of Jesus Christ—31-33AD—, and the people either killed or exiled from the country around that same time. Scholars instead state that the time of the writing and the actual writers are unknown to them.

2. Most collections of books written by human authors in human languages are bound to contain contradictory ideas. This is almost a given since not all humans think alike or the same.

Which means not all the reports are accurate. = Don't rely completely on the Bible account as some writers wrote what they thought

SIRTee15:
The authorities bought the field with Judas' money. It was blood money and couldn't put the money in the treasury.
They used the money to buy the land where Judas hanged himself.

Death by suicide hanging is abominable in Jewish custom, it was going to be difficult to sell the land to someone.
The practical thing was to buy it and use it as a graveyard for strangers and foreigners.

The description indicates that Judas left immediately to hang himself. Are you suggesting that he waited probably for days or weeks before he hung himself?

safarifarms:
For those who care to know, while the bible has history in it, its not meant for history.

There are those like the OP who search the scripture with wrong objective like looking for contradictions.

The bible is about Jesus and the eternal live that he provides. Fallible men wrote the bible and as such their inadequacies will be seen. But the truth of the scriptures stand out for those who are interested in the truth.

If you are reading as a story book or for contradictions, you waste your valuable time. You can use that time for something more useful.

No amounts of insults will change the truth.

John 5:39-40
King James Version
39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

Where is the truth here Sir? If you claim the writer of the Bible were liable to make mistakes and they did, can I completely rely on their reports? Isn't it God that inspired them to write what they wrote?

NwaliE01:
Bros, it's not a new thing. Even my church has been using it for about 2 years now.

Where is your church?

Watch the Amakas from Anambla, they will be like, "this government is poo. In a 'sane land' they don't do diversion to repair roads, they use technology such that the vehicles will be flying over that spot"

Don't waste your time. Just check the beginning of the second sentence

Pious101:
was 60 naira d only thing U spent? Make we dey try talk true small
My place bride price is is #120 and U will be refunded #20 that does not mean that's d only money u will spend

Use your sense! My dress was ordered from China, I paid for canopies, rent a field and officially invited 300 guess.
But all those I mentioned are not important. I did because I wanted not because I could afford it. The most important is the bride price. Use your sense

CelineOlabode:
People being vocal enough means they are the majority. How come the ones that aren't vocal enough winning elections if not through blatant rigging. Majority of Nigerians still believe Peter Obi won the 2023 presidential election.

Haven't you heard about "empty barrel"?

I married my wife in 2015 and the father collected just 60 naira from me. 50 naira plus 10 naira was what we paid.

That is the most important thing in marriage. Every other thing is not necessary

Rexymania:
Your papa fit do wetin him dey do? Your papa fit dare buhari for him court?

No! My papa is not foolish

Rexymania:
Fearless as the gods

Fearless indeed! Fearless but pass, underground run for ordinary python dance

tete7000:
So you are indirectly saying the quality are poor because they are priced cheap? You agree cheap things come with reduced quality and indirectly agree that Americans can't afford quality university education because of appropriate pricing.
Next I didn't tell you you can't get some good graduates out of the poor quality education system we have. No, there will always be few ones who went out of the way to work on themselves and come out good. By the way, I am a product of a public education system all through( primary, secondary and university up to masters level) and having had opportunity to teach at a school at a certain time in my life, I stand qualified to adjudicate on the matter at hand.
Finally, you said we have some our universities among top 1000 ranked across the world? Fine, let agree we have them there and that it is OK to be 1000th ranked, what percentages of mushroom universities being created by politicians are among those ranked? And how many of even the politicians send their wards to the universities they proliferate and make cheap? If I create universities and don't send my kids there, doesn't that say something about my faith in the schools I established?
Bros, stop being emotional about this issue, I am a patriotic Nigerian, I believe good things can do come out of Nigeria but not because our system have format or is being run properly to inspire any hope but rather because I believe that God has not totally left us and in as much as God is present, good things will somehow always happen. Aside that, our situation looks hopeless. Nothing is working, it is mediocrity everywhere.

It is unfair and also unfortunate that your judgment on this is poor.

We have reports of countries having more universities than the US. America and India alone have close to 10000 universities, please add other countries and see the number of universities we have around the world. Then if there are estimates of 25,000 or probably more Unis around the world, how come you rate 1000 poor?

That I agree the education is cheap doesn't mean I agree it is poor. My yardstick for rating is how they rank among others around the world. However, you didn't see my point here! My point is that university education is a premium service and it is not cheap. No premium service is cheap and in addition, not for everyone. But the country make it so that every one want it - Wrong!

As per your assertion that the children of a certain category don't attend our Unis, that's not entirely true. I have numbers of them in high rank with their children around in our Unis.
In 2002 when I was thinking of studying in America, one of them that I met in school gave me the very tip that made a US Uni offered me an admission.

Again, the public Unis have more "percentage" in the rank than the private.

tete7000:
And you think with apc and Tinubu in power, mama selling ewedu is still able to send her child to secondary school not to talk of university with upward spiralling fees and low earnings ?By the way, do you know the quality of many of our universities are damn so poor now, many are just universities in names? You need to meet some of the graduates, so poor. Quantity without quality produces half baked, poorly educated graduates you won't even be proud of. So much is wrong with Nigeria, take it or leave, it is the truth. No need consoling yourself with bad news coming out from western world.

How much can you pay for the quality one? If they upgrade and charge appropriately can you pay for it?

Again what do you mean by "very poor"?
Our education is not the best but it is not very poor. A lot of my friends in different field can compete with their counterparts in any part of the world. I don't know why you people lie so much against your country. As at year 2002, America had more than 3000 universities. That's America alone. Our universities are ranked around 1000 best. Does that not tell you we have our universities ranked higher than so many Americans universities?

79733139:
I don't have your time. Yes, you are right, shit-packers in Nigeria can afford university education, whilst only children of billionaires can afford university education in USA... smh...

I am talking based on my personal experience but I still want you to use Chatgpt so that you can learn yet you run away instead of learning. Just stop misinforming people

Dreal1247:
Just tell us that this is what the INEC presented as the recorded votes which is not the true record of the actual votes. Everybody knows that it was an arangee election result.

So we should use your own record based on the election you conducted in your room?

79733139:
Go to Google or ChatGPT and first check these facts: median income and minimum wage in the USA, then check for a list of the cheapest and most affordable universities and colleges in the USA with their tuition fees, then factor in all the numerous scholarships available to U.S citizens. If you did that, you would find out that tertiary education in the US is not as expensive as you may have thought.

Please do that. Let find out through you. I personally don't need any Chatgpt but since trust it, use it and let us see how correct you are. Leave your imagination and present reality. We can analyze the system together

To those of us using phones, just check line 3.

To those of us using phones, just check line 3. The information you need is there

79733139:
This is the same lie that you guys always peddle online. There are cheap and affordable universities in the USA (relative to median income) that Americans attend, in most cases, students just have to leave their home states, this is similar to how you have students who move from Kaduna to Osun state to study in OAU and other examples like that.

Please give more details. Let us confirm what you are saying if truly there are cheap universities in America. I will apologize for my ignorance if you do. The cheapest American universities is beyond the reach of a typical civil servant. Please come up with your details

This must not happen here

Ray07:
Absolute trash . . . Comparing the US educational system that offers scholarships to thousands of people world wide.

Castigating same people responsible for your little advancement in life.

Ignorant!

Your country doesn't offer scholarships to students? How will you even know when you spend most of your valuable time on nairaland?

But come to what I said, can a civil servant in America afford to send his child to university in America?

shortgun:
50kg bag of rice was less than 8k in Jonathan’s administration before the real enemies of Nigeria took it to over 100k.
The only thing Tinubu is good at is propaganda and playing senseless politics with people's lives.

How many bags were you able to buy then?

Botragelad:
How does this nonsense relate to what I wrote up there? 🤷🏼
Have you got a comprehension problem, boy? Did you miss where I said 'these countries aren't perfect'

My question is why you expect perfection from your country? Would you have had that same opinion you put up there if the report says operation was disrupted in Aso Rock because of rat? Just answer

Botragelad:
Brilliant. I’ve noticed what you do. Every time Nigeria’s in a state of chaos, you dig up some bad news from the UK or US(with petty comparison) like it makes everything fine in Nigeria. Nice try, but it doesn’t work.

Those countries aren’t perfect, but Nigeria’s miles and decades behind. Instead of fixing your own problems, you just point fingers and cheer over theirs. Still the same old you! 🤦🏼

At least you have been brainwashed to think there is a sane land where everything is okay. A typical American can not send his children to university unless he's a millionaire. But mamas selling ewedu can do that here but you will still think you know something

Ha

nairavsdollars:
Who has performed better as Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy between Mr. Wale Edun and Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala (current DG WTO)?

NB: Edun is still in office but two years is enough to judge his performance

We can't use about 15 years to compare 2 years. It is incomparable. However, Madam Gele's profile no be seresere o

SmartPolician:
The man who killed the fun-seekers has a mental issue. They should give him 50 years imprisonment so he doesn't become a threat to human lives anymore. He can be accessing psychiatric care at prison.

He has history of mental issues but they still allowed him to have access to a vehicle. That is the question Amakas would have busy asking. But as it happened in a "sane" the explanation is welcomed.

Dtruthspeaker:
And is your question not WHY there are different reports aka "what is responsible for the differences?"

I hope you are not a poor student? I asked 4 questions based on the possible scenarios of the main question. All together, there are 5 questions but you are just discussing what you think and want one to take it even if you don't address the question. Why not ask your church leaders for a broader view. Learn to learn!

safarifarms:
There is no anger in telling you the truth. The bible was written by many different people with different levels of knowledge and some reported events based on rumours so not everything is reported accurately. But some like you would rather dwell on the differences in reports of events that are not the important subject of the bible. There's nothing to be angry about.

By those that have a clue, are you looking for those that witnessed his death? They are long dead.

Why must I trust a book that have things that are rumored but not true?

Why must I trust it when many things are not reported accurately?

The stories are not important but the stories and teachings are based on those stories. Are you thinking well?