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Faithfulness99:
Hello brethren.

why are we brethren?
Is it not because our souls has been won already?

If be it so, why then are we still preaching?

The term "unconditional love" has never been in the radai of African traditional religious beliefs even till now.
The conventional African Christian still believe that if a Christian commit sin and dies he goes to hell fire without a rethink. And he has lived with this fear in order to maintain holiness and righteousness, yet Nigeria is one of the most corrupt nations in the world.
Little wonder pastors in Africa still feels that it is their entitlement to exploit church members and make wealth of them for every services rendered, because they think, what is their gain for selfless services?
Little wonder politicans and civil servants go into public service without thinking of what extra-bogus benefits they will gain first, against the need to serve the people for only the very wages they are entitled to.

Unconditional love is a self principle.
A principle of great leaders who rule with justice and equity.
And the later end of it is a desirable societal development in terms appropriate circulation of the common wealth and resources of the society.

Did God send Jesus to restore eternal life to mankind only to gain anything from him, order than to make this world a better place?

Think about it!

So rats and flies don first me enter space, witch kind wahalla be dis?

Fiscus105:
Some guys usually attack ladies, that, they like bad guys, some even labelled lady at 35 that yet to married,as too choosy, While some would lament, they chat girls and not replying for days

Guys, if you are the one in which your DEMAND OUTNUMBERED SUPPLY, what will you do?

1.SELL FOR ALL.
2.SELL RANDOMLY.
3. BE TOO SELECTIVE WHO TO SELL FOR.
4. SELL FOR THE BADDEST".
5. SELL FOR THE WEAKEST.
6. GO FOR THE RICHEST.

What is difficult there to sell for just one person that truly fit the description of your kind of person, not necessarily the money?

Davenro:
Baba you can't relate

How, can you explain yourself?

jesusjnr2020:
God will continue to expose ye wolves that come in sheep clothing.

Don't quote me anymore, i will not warn you again.

Just keep to your beliefs let me keep to my own. You can't force people to share your kind of mind-set with you

daniwise:
you use style get bad mouth.At least he is motivating others to also try

Try wetin, try to motivate people to stop rubbing their other side when the tin dey scratch dem?

Who does not dat 5 for yaars ?

So, you don't have a better thing in life to celebrate?

Because, we Gen z want to know why.

If you give us good reasons, we will be the first in church every sundays

orisa37:
RELIGION IS A DAGGER DRAWN FOR PEACE!!!

AND TRUMP SAYS, "WE MUST FIGHT FOR PEACE".

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUMP AND PUTIN IS FAITH
AND FAITH IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND SELFISHNESS.

both are Allies now, are they not?

Good Sunday

AngelahFlo:
Good question brother. First of all we Christians are called to reflect the life of Christ and this is what makes Christianity not to be a mere religion. A mere religion follows a set of rules and guidelines and rituals but true Christianity is a lifestyle of Love and compassion towards all men as exemplified by Jesus who's our perfect example and the way to the Father. On the ground of this admission, I'm a sincere Christian who stand for the truth and seek to show people the way to God through the message of Reconciliation.

In other words, i should be diplomatic with Non Christians and people of other denominations since Christ says follow peace with all men?

AngelahFlo:
By trying to be diplomatic when in the midst of non Christians or those of another denomination from their own

In a situation where a non Christian or a friend of other denomination celebrate a birthday party and alcoholic drinks were served. Meanwhile my church teaching is that alcohol consumption is a sin and it will take me to hell fire. Then there was my pastor and some of my church leaders in the party drinking soft drinks. Does it mean that i have denied Jesus if take alcohol ?

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We did all these and we still did not have first class

We didn't come to live for religion, but rather religion was created for us.
Any religion that makes you believe doctrines which will make your life on this earth miserable, please avoid it. You have the absolute right to do so!

For me, my priority is to continue leading a very happy life here on this earth because i have come to understand that God is not in religion. God is in my heart

Absolutely

AngelahFlo:
Hello Guys,
As Christians we're commanded to stand for the truth and to defend the truth. This is more pertinent in the season we are in now. A lot of people for fear of not been accepted or not being branded as controversial has taken to denying their faith and this is how they do it.
By not defending their beliefs as outlined in the word of God which is the Bible.
By trying to be diplomatic when in the midst of non Christians or those of another denomination from their own.
By hiding their identity which is the same as not letting people know their alliance with Jesus.

The Bible has a somber warning for such people and it's found in the Gospel of Luke 12:8-9
I say to you, whoever declares openly and confesses Me before men [speaking freely of Me as his Lord], the Son of Man also will declare openly and confess him [as one of His own] before the angels of God.
9 But he who denies Me before men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.
(Luke 12:8-9 Amplified Bible version)

The above passage is a somber warning indeed and should put fear in the heart of the reader as they go about their daily life interacting with their friends and neighbors. When you deny the Lord Jesus by not confessing Him or defending His Word then that person will approach the throne room and will hear Jesus say "I don't know you, depart from me...".
Everyday we must search our hearts and thoughts to see if in our daily interactions with people if we're reflecting Christ in our conducts or just trying to fit in.
Jesus when he was on earth was very controversial. He had a rub off with the Pharisees and Scribes of His day. If He could do that so as to identify with His Father how much more we who have been sent by him to be a witness to his word of truth!

In conclusion never be afraid to share your faith and never be afraid to defend and speak up for the truth. It's better to be controversial for the truth than to be a Yes man

So, I asked a question before that Jehovah witness guy did the rubbish.
When religion is hiding the truth from you, how possibly can you defend the same religion if you are a sincere person?

Gabrielshow24:
Quoting verse off point,

good!
It's your opinion though.

According your opinion, how do you quote and explain 1 Corinthians 15:35 to the end of the chapter, since you are here to correct me?

Gabrielshow24:
Why not ...kukuma say man was reincarnated 🤨?
Instead of this "absolute" periphrasis

If you want to call it reincarnation so be it.
But note that the word reincarnation was never used in the bible because it is contemporary, that's why you see me breaking it down to the simplest for one to understand that the scripture had actually meant reincarnation.

that you have concocted 🤷

I didn't write 1 Corinthians 15:35 to the end of the scripture. Everything i said here is clearly stated there, no one can deny it. Unless you want to tear that part of the bible away

without any proof.

To further proof what i have said that they have been giving birth to us with a new body after we die, which is the concept of our resurrection and our salvation in Christ.

1 Timothy 2:15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

And another scripture says IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST HE IS A NEW CREATURE.

we all know what creature is, that they all exist here on this earth

Even the scriptures you quoted are visibly taken out of context to fit such contrived doctrine 🤦🏾‍♂️.

you are seeing it that way because i didn't quote it from the beginning.

Start from verse 35 and read it comprehensively.

1 Corinthians 15:35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

Then read it down and see the answer to the question for yourself.
You can't tear this part of the bible away simply because you want to proof your doctrine of humans evaporating to the thin air someday.

I will address this later, let me first have me a shut eye, when I am refreshed. I will come for you.

You can't dispute the fact that God's kingdom is already in us here on this earth by virtue of Christ resurrection

tctrills:
I am asking from a Christian perspective. Before our birth and our lives as humans, did we preexist? What does the bible say about this?

Going by the literal understanding of the spiritual context of scriptures and not the conventional religious dogmatic illogical doctrines, the bible have it that over 95% Christians worldwide came from pre-existing life. That is, they had lived old and died and were born into life again as new born babies several hundreds of times now with different bodies immediately they had died in the several times they died, but not necessarily did they born in the same Christian family that they previously died.

1 Corinthians 15:38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.


Then the remaining less than 5% were converted into Christianity from other religions and they will be born immediately after they die also.

But for Non Christians, they are only procreated and they have been dying off forever after living once.
Except, on the condition that they accept Jesus Christ.

Many religions believe that man is an ancient being that preexists earth life does Christianity agree?

Science did not teach that homosapiens pre-exist earth, is there anything like that?

iamteegee:
Yes , kindly check my next letter

please specify the next letter and the scripture

Everything you said about the mansion that it is a spiritual place where God lives in us, is absolutely correct.
But...

iamteegee:
are we in heaven now? Yes but it's not yet full

do you have any scripture to show that we are not fully in heaven according to all the scriptures in your op?

Who dem won evict again after indaboski? I am the war?

Onlinetutor7:
Don't argue what you don't know na. You argument is just exposing your ignorance of the Bible.

Keep giving yourselves false hope that you born again are better than other people.

If it is by born again Nigeria that is among the most religious nations in the world would have been the less corrupt

Yes

Classickj:
Wetin be your own problem

My problem be say you do traditional wedding as Africa were you be, is that not enough for the whites to accept una as husband and wife?

RenaissanceGuy:
Your argument is puerile, but I'm not in the mood to engage you at this moment.

I agree is puerile ,you don't need to engage anything
But go and think about this :

The message the bible has come to preach from Genesis to Revelation is that, Through the sin of Adam death came to the world but Christ came and restore life back to mankind.

And that our salvation is by Grace through our faith

No amount of doctrinal errors you preach. can erase this concept.

So, the simple childish questions i raise are likely to the kind of questions Jesus raised as a child and the elders of the synagogue at that time will never be in the mood to engage him because he has come to expose their flaws.

The lesson to learn here is, never find yourself confidently promote a doctrine or teaching you don't fully understand especially when it originate from religion.
It's better to sincerely say i don't know anything about it when you are asked about the doctrine.