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Op, it is better and safer to rely on what the Bible says on that topic. Did the Bible not say that hell enlarges itself daily? If so, for what purpose? Did the Bible not say tht the road to life is narrow, and only few people find it?
What you should be asking yoourself is, how many righteous people are on earth today?
Remember, God is neither sentimental nor a respecter of persons

Give me my man Daniel any day!!!
I so much appreciate the way he held on to God and was used of God.
His life depicts the fact that you can be in government and still be favoured and godly.
His life showed that trust in God never puts one to shame.
What's more, he was relevant in at least three regimes!!! What this God can do if we yield to Him!!! Help me Lord!!

optimumprimus: theres no judgement day. you are going to die within the next 70 years. get with the program and stop living in fantasy .

I hate to say this, but the Bible says you are a fool. Not me.

optimumprimus: the Nigerian environment is very dirty. african cultures are very dirty . dirty and scanty environment,poor esthetics and lack of attention to detail. poor diet and hygiene ,stinking people with disgusting body odour .
most black people around the world including african americans are often religious because of self pity and victim mentality . they are praying to a white bearded man up in the sky to save them from their misery. their neighborhoods and environments are dirty and ghetto.
people who lived in clean and civilized societies like in Norway,denmark,germany ,Japan or sweden ,are less religious .

Please make sure you tell God this, give Him this excuse on the judgement day.
That black people are religious because they are not developed.
If I am not mistaken, you also belong to a church too.
But this devil try no be small!!!

Sir, as far as I am concerned nothing you mentioned there is little. We need Gods help, and our churches are not helping us at all.

Maximus85: Until I see where "rapture" is written in the Bible.

Are you serious? 1 thessalonians chapter four nko?

Op, I agree 200% with all you said. The list is not even exhaustive.
Its just Gods help we need. Which Christian will claim he or she is entirely free of all these things listed here?
The person is just being hypocritical.
That's why VERY few will make that solo flight.
Lord, Lord, Lord! Please don't allow me go through the Great Tribulation! Help me, please!!!

I have always known that Canada is a cool place to live

3cycle: I don't like compliments especially one that has to do with my clothes or jewelleries.

I may never have to use them again if you compliment them. Sounds weird but that's me

I don't like this. That's one sure way to know you haven't been complimented before. Sorry o

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Instead of starting this thread you could have easily done a search through the "Yahoo Nairaland custom search" and found that , THIS HAS BEEN DISCUSSED ON NAIRALAND QUITE A LOT OF TIMES , you don't need to come up here asking us to make the decision for you,do your due diligence ,do your homework and use the internet, use edmunds,use google,use kelly blue book,use motor trend,use auto trader, stop wasting our time and your time, some folks on here don't even have bicycles yet they'll advise you on "BUYING A CAR"

Don't be lazy and search the internet, it should'nt take more than 10 minutes to find good comparison reviews and opinions from "professional car reviewers" on the internet
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I don't believe that asking peoples opinion on an issue amounts to laziness, bro. Those auto trader, kelly bluebook and things you mentioned are exclusive to America and Europe wher driving and maintenance costs and issues and conditions are way different from what obtains here. I am sure he must have done other forms of homework, too. So take it easy on him.

Fine writeup OP,
Some don't apply to naija car buying sha.
Imagine a naija sharp guy indulging in finance and insurance before buying a car!
By the way, it is what you recognise and prepare for that actually comes your way.
Since the insurance matter is outrageous and unreliable here, we insure it divinely! And- the results are there for all to see!!!

Sometimes I wonder about our policy makers.
Why must every policy cause hardship to the proletariat?
The local industries have not even started running, they rushed to hike the duty on imported vehicles.
Its been nearly a year since I heard about the 30bn govt wanted to inject into local automotive industries. Do they intend to get the money from these levies, or what?
These people should look at international best practices abeg.
Not that we even have the roads to drive the cars on, by the way.
No matter how they try to colour it, the demand on tokunbo cars is high, and that's the target.
In favour of their pockets.
Well, even if they shoot the levy to 1000 per cent, my God will get me a good car to drive, and change it when its due.
Anyone who trusts the budget of man, is on his or her own. Imagine!!!

Sometimes I wonder about our policy makers.
Why must every policy cause hardship to the proletariat?
The local industries have not even started running, they rushed to hike the duty on imported vehicles.
Its been nearly a year since I heard about the 30bn govt wanted to inject into local automotive industries. Do they intend to get the money from these levies, or what?
These people should look at international best practices abeg.
Not that we even have the roads to drive the cars on, by the way.
No matter how they try to colour it, the demand on tokunbo cars is high, and that's the target.
In favour of their pockets.
Well, even if they shoot the levy to 1000 per cent, my God will get me a good car to drive.

Psylas: keep deluding yourself

Leviticus 5:17

sexzskil: AND IF THERE IS A GOD, THAT GOD IS THE GOD OF THE CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS??

Whoever you are, whatever your religion, you are answerable to the Lord Jesus Christ. Time will tell, but I pray it will favour you.

There are two forces in the universe. Good and evil. God and the devil. America has refused God's help.

Sex rationally involves consent of both parties. That's the only way it can even be enjoyable mutually in the first place. The Bible says both partners should not defraud each other, so that room will not be created for unfaithfulness. But some women use sex as a trump card of sorts, a threatening tool, even as a means of appreciating their partners. It is meant to foster intimacy between MARRIED people, and anything that negates this is wrong. But when the excuse is related to ill health, prayers, threat to life, or anything related to that, that's the only tenable reason.
I wouldn't use the word rape in a marriage context though. Its too criminal and rattling.

Handsomeness and beauty is relative. I don't think that exists, by the way, in Gods rating

I have just one thing to say. And that's the same thing my father always told me.
He would say, never go close to any woman you can't marry.
Anything you do with a woman without a marriage picture is a waste of your precious money, seed, time, and is a sin, most importantly.
This girl, can you marry her?

Even if she doesn't fear God, or respect her husband, which normal 34 year old will do this? For the love of Mike?
Soon our girls will start dressing like this on the streets, and they want molestation to stop.

Now this has proven controversial-and timelessly too. It is common to witness altercations between people, one says he was disrespected, and demands express apology. The other says he didn't mean to be like that and therefore owes nothing. My question is, who should be handed the right of opinion here, baring factors like age difference, culture and others?
Talk to me, people.

I always knew those seeds were beneficial. This is good. Do you know that no part of that fruit is a waste, as weet as all of them are. Even the back of it, when chewed, is the best solution to malaria and typhoid as a prophylactic. I also know watermelon helps those who watch their weight.
I was munching on the peeling one day when my brother called me a hungryman, and in his words, you go chop the one wey human being go chop, chop the one wey goat go chop.
I hope he reads this!!! Them thinks say person no get sense

Bottom line...by strength shall no man prevail. But it dosent negate hard work.

Let them keep deceiving themselves.
I wonder how virile, nubile and warm blooded people will get steamy and claim there will be no bodily reaction. Yet the few who are sincere enough are unprofessional.
The mere fact of denying the normal course of nature is enough insult to God.
But kaaaaai.....this devil try...he cheated some people. Big time.
He will keep chewing the life off some people, and they revel in doom, like a subtle house rat.
How many of them last in their marriages?
Let them continue fornicating and adultering in the name of acting. Hell is meant for someone. Someone has to go there.

Let them keep deceiving themselves.
It beats me how a warm-blooded, nubile and virile young people will get steamy and claim not to have body reactions, and when they do its unprofessional.
The devil has cheated us, and grossly too.
When the Scripture says when a man looketh lustfully he is in it already, and someone is busy arguing whether it is professional or not to roll in the hay with another man's wife or husband. the mere fact of even trying to circumvent Gods course of nature is enough insult to God already.
Well...this hell...is meant for some people. That's why it enlarges itself daily.
Keep annoying God in the name of acting and being professional

Music is a generational thing.
This generation is perverse, corrupt and depraved, music-wise.
Whether Naija or American, they are the same difference.
I miss the good old Blackstreet Boys, 112, Jagged Edge, Dru Hill, Backstreet Boyz, the old Usher Raymonds, Babyface, ginuwine, Brian McKnight, Ruggedman, Plantashun Boiz, and the rest.
Even when they talk about love and the extremities of sex which is common with 112 especially that bad boy Slim, they do it in a creative, veiled and appreciable manner. That is not to say that parental advisory content is worthy listening material anyways.
But today...whosai?
There are very few...I mean very few contemporary songs I can relate to. One of the is Chris Brown's Don't Judge me.
By the way, who knows that my best gospel crooner Dave Hollister was one quarter of Blackstreet Boys?

ihedinobi2: Potential is not the same as guarantee, it's merely resident possibility. And just about every man has it.

However, to the crux of the matter: I believe strongly in finding your feet before looking for love. In fact, I do not believe in looking for love at all. I consider love as something that happens in the course of life. I personally prefer to have an understanding what I want in my woman and just carry on with life until I see it. And when I see it, I go after it like the devil is at my heels, doesn't matter what I'm doing right then.

A man who is steadily building his life will likely meet women he would like to share the work with. My answer to that situation is this: if she stays knowing that this is hard work and she fights on anyway, she's earned every right in the book. If she goes, like the Book says, "if we have suffered with Him we shall also reign with Him", the converse is also true.

The thing that must be dealt with as the problem is not what might or can happen in the future (which is what all the talk of potential tends to be about) but what any given man has planned for himself and what he is doing about it. Some men have a goal that takes a hell of a lot of work to get to while others have one that doesn't take quite so much. Believe me, to become a professional (a doctor, engineer, lawyer etc) is a lot easier than to be, say, an entrepreneur. The former can become the latter and probably a bit more easily than it is for one to head directly into it. But the direct path is by far more tasking, more discouraging and more tortuous. So, if a woman wants to judge "potential", she should be looking at where the man is headed and how much it will cost to get there and decide whether she's up to it.

I have not taken into consideration the vagaries of life. Accidents do happen and the best-laid plans are ripped apart without regard to what career path or vision any given person runs with. These things cannot be helped. But what a man wants to accomplish with his life is wholly under his control. A man's choice of purpose and of means for achieving his purpose is his alone. A woman may rightly judge him by that. A woman may also judge a man by his refusal to be held down by ever-changing circumstances or by his resignation to the forces of life.

Again, I emphasize, a woman is right to judge a man's ability to lead her into the destiny she desires for herself. She can thus judge each suitor and decide the one that best suits her overall vision in life. But if a woman finds a man who has a clear, unconfused and sensible vision that he is pursuing and he is giving everything he's got to it and taking every help within reason that he can get and she is just afraid that it is delaying so much so that she abandons him, then she does not deserve to have any hardworking man commit to life with her at all. And any such man who loses her has lost nothing of value. But if she sticks and insists on working it out, pushing him even when he is exhausted and discouraged as life is often capable of rendering even the hardiest of men, she's a diamond and deserves every bit of investment that such a man can put into her.


About the man in the op, I have two things to say:

1. It does not speak very well of him that five years down the line into his thirties he is still stymied. I understand that life can oppose one so much that they lose the strength to keep fighting and sort of settle down into a lethargy waiting for some kind of handout or pick-me-up. And many times it is totally legitimate. Not everyone is born a self-starter, that is the way God made the world. We are not all the same. But a man who does his best with what he has is not a failure or an unsuccessful man. In this particular case, however, I could feel lethargy through the story, weariness where there should be defiance and self-reinvention. But I can only see through the OP's eyes so I can only limit the accuracy of my judgment to the accuracy of his sentiments.

2. A woman is a terrible asset to a man. In the Bible it is said that one will chase a thousand but two will chase ten thousand. The presence of a woman in a man's life can boost him in the most amazing ways. A man can take a lot of things and endure a lot of things as long as he can count on the woman he has chosen to trust with his life. Frequently, however, when that trust is betrayed, men can be totally wrecked. A man can lose all his strength and zeal to live when a woman loses her faith in him. It takes a man choosing to move on IN SPITE of her to get beyond stuff like that. So I consider that it is very possible that the departure of his lady love dealt a severe blow to his will to fight for his life and dreams.

To that I say that my brother should get a new fixation, something that he can make more important than his very life and fight for it.

You have a good head sitting on your shoulders. I like apt and concise sense of judgement when I see one. Cheers man

To say my mind, there is no heavenly dance. There is nowhere in the scripture we are following where the mode of shaking and twisting the body was aptly specified.
I want to pick a classic example here. What kind of dance do you think the children of Israel danced and praised God with, when they successfully crossed the Red Sea? Most probably what they saw and learnt in Egypt. And did God receive the praise? An emphatic, roof-tearing YES.
Most times, we do not even know what God requires of us, talk more of meeting up, that is why we keep dwelling on trivialities as this, ignoring the weightier matters of the law. This has nothing to do with living steadfastly for God in this perilous times.
I don't know how to dance azonto or skelewu, or Etighi, but I sure have the frame, energy, waist, and drive, as well as the Spirit, to shower praises and encomiums on my God,whichsoever way He leads me. Regardless of who is watching and sneering.
But there's a caveat though- it stops glorifying God when it arouses clandestine effects or draws inordinate attention to the dancer.

Best bet: finish up with this one. If you keep up the pace u might make up and still come out with the 2.2. Then pursue it at masters level. Its not peculiar to you alone. But find out what led to the decline and address it. Emotion and academics are parallel, very parallel.

I wonder why politics has to be about hypocrisy and deception all the time. Tomorrow they will claim no one voted them in, and so they are accountable to no one.

I am going to tender my humble opinion here based on my little knowledge and experience with the author and implementor of destiny.

As far as it is called destiny, it is undeniable, irretrievable and inevitable. But as for delay, sure-curses and maledictions can- even to cut someone short before his time. But there is a condition- when the protective hedge of the Word of God is broken through sin.
The book of proverbs says 'Curse causeless shall not come.

What is the use of enjoying what is meant for one at 20, when one is fifty?

The age-long scare of infidelity has always been there on the part of the ladies, dude. Its not far from the same truth on the part of guys who date hot ladies. So anyone who isn't ready to admit that little insecure part of him or her here is not being sincere. Besides, the reason these qualities are classed as vain and vague is the pride and hoftiness that goes with an attribute the person had no hand whatsoever in.

But the real question should be, how far and well does handsomeness and beauty really go, in keeping, sustaining and fanning th flames of a relationship? No doubt there is that adrenalin rush-feeling of having that gorgeous chic or bloke, but when its down to specifics, we see that what is, is not really enough, if that's all that's in the kitty.
Personally, I would rather a wife (not gf) that has a fair mix of all worlds of the marriage requirements...not just beauty.