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God by Nobody: 12:39am On Feb 20, 2023 |
They claimed that we were created by one God and that He wants us to love one another. Yet they killed and enslaved us for centuries. I still can't wrap my mind around what happened. One thing I know though is that no one either dead or alive know anything about God. Everything you've been told about God is either an assumption or blatant lies. Free Your Mind! AOB 6 Likes |
Re: God by Jashub: 12:40am On Feb 20, 2023 |
Be specific and stop generalizing. Which of the religious groups are you referring to ? |
Re: God by Maynman: 12:59am On Feb 20, 2023 |
JOKO44: How then do you know about the word “god”? According to you isn’t that also a blatant lie and assumption? |
Re: God by budaatum: 3:17am On Feb 20, 2023 |
Jashub: Odd enough, both religions brought to Nigeria were used to enslave Nigerians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade 4 Likes |
Re: God by Nobody: 3:31am On Feb 20, 2023 |
Jashub: Nothing to be specific about. All religions have the same mission. To gain power and control others. It's always being like that and still continue till date. 5 Likes |
Re: God by Nobody: 3:39am On Feb 20, 2023 |
Maynman: For sure, there is power that above us. You can call the power any name of your choice. God, Allah, Chineke, Eledumare, Jehovah e.t.c. However, people hide behind those names to deceive other people in order to gain power. And use the power to accumulate wealth. 1 Like |
Re: God by Maynman: 4:42am On Feb 20, 2023 |
JOKO44: Which power above you?who taught you that? The same people with blatant lies and assumptions? Are you also not doing the same thing now? god is a title not a person. Allah is the arabic god different from chineke( you should look up how chineke came to be), eledumare is the yoruba god and Jehovah is a common Israelite god, all of them are different and do different things according to what we read in their MYTHOLOGY. All the names you mentioned who taught you? |
Re: God by AnyanwuSilas: 5:40am On Feb 20, 2023 |
Jashub: The question should be which God |
Re: God by Jashub: 8:58am On Feb 20, 2023 |
JOKO44:That's an assumption you cant prove |
Re: God by Nobody: 12:59pm On Feb 20, 2023 |
Maynman: You don't need anyone to tell you that there is a power above humans. Look around and ask yourself where are all these creatures come from. The plants, the animals, the ocean, the mountains etc. But who is the owner of this Supreme power? No one knows. 2 Likes |
Re: God by Maynman: 4:13pm On Feb 20, 2023 |
How did you arrive at "who", is this owner a person? JOKO44: The owner of this supreme power who and what created it? Where did it come from? How did you arrive that a single power was responsible for the creation of plants and also animals? Why not multiple powers? Since no one knows the owner of this supreme power, then how did you conclude that there's a supreme power not powers and it has an owner not owners? By looking around? 3 Likes |
Re: God by LordReed(m): 4:51pm On Feb 20, 2023 |
JOKO44: Yes there's a power above humans, we call it the sun. LoLz. 2 Likes |
Re: God by Dtruthspeaker: 5:25pm On Feb 20, 2023 |
JOKO44: How does this make sense? Is it not clear that people are the ones enslaving people because they can eg Buhari vs the masses? Just say that you are writing your name in the book of those who hate God. |
Re: God by Dtruthspeaker: 5:27pm On Feb 20, 2023 |
LordReed: And death too is another power that is greater than men. |
Re: God by Dtruthspeaker: 5:30pm On Feb 20, 2023 |
budaatum: There are many things that they have brought to enslave people eg education, technology, movies, books, Google, football, betting things etc. |
Re: God by Nobody: 5:30pm On Feb 20, 2023 |
Maynman: You are right. Everything we think we know about Supreme power or powers are just assumptions and speculations. |
Re: God by Dtruthspeaker: 5:32pm On Feb 20, 2023 |
JOKO44: All men have power and can take control of others eg your parents, neighbours, the strong man, the murderous criminal etc 1 Like |
Re: God by budaatum: 5:40pm On Feb 20, 2023 |
Dtruthspeaker: My point actually is that religion was not used to enslave anyone, though I did missphrase my comment. Facts are, some hid behind religion to enslave others, but that was not the intent of religions in their own right, nor of education, both of which eventually set one free from slavery. |
Re: God by Dtruthspeaker: 5:50pm On Feb 20, 2023 |
budaatum: That is not true. Everything including out natural respect for He Who is called God was used to enslave together with money, aggravated sex, chocolate, prosperity, beauty etc. |
Re: God by budaatum: 5:59pm On Feb 20, 2023 |
Dtruthspeaker: That is your own opinion, and I don't share it with you. I'd in fact claim people are enslaved due to their own ignorance, same way ignorance kills people earlier than they would have died if they had knowledge. Evidence shows we humans were enslaving ourselves long before anyone brought us religion or education. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_antiquity
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Re: God by Dtruthspeaker: 6:05pm On Feb 20, 2023 |
budaatum: Since you admit that people were already enslaved here even before those white and foreign invaders came, then you prove my point. For our own parents enslaved us with the use of canes, food, play, sleep, work, fruits, ice-cream etc before the strongest man and men did their own and in all these the slave is not strong enough to resist them. All done before those foreign bandits came. So, devotion to God was another means in addition to other forms of slavery and this reminds me of babalawos and dibias who because of their god connection also used their position to enslave others. So in the end you still prove me right! |
Re: God by LordReed(m): 6:47pm On Feb 20, 2023 |
Dtruthspeaker: Death isn't a power. 1 Like |
Re: God by budaatum: 4:48am On Feb 21, 2023 |
Dtruthspeaker:Sorry but I think you have a very unusual definition of slavery which I do not agree with. Not many will claim their relationship with their parent's is one of slavery or that they are enslaved by their parents with those things you mentioned. See the definition of slavery here and let me know if that is the relationship you have with your own parents. If it is, please consider having them charged with child abuse. 1 Like 1 Share
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Re: God by Dtruthspeaker: 7:47am On Feb 21, 2023 |
budaatum: I made no claim that all children are enslaved by their parents but you got my point which is that we are aware that some children were enslaved by their parents like these cases https://www.nairaland.com/5716011/lagos-state-rescues-boy-severely#87121661 https://www.nairaland.com/4309418/police-rescues-boy-chained-ogun#64484502 |
Re: God by NNTR: 8:05am On Feb 21, 2023 |
LordReed:Romans 6:8-11 8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live [together] with Him, 9because we know [the self-evident truth] that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him. 10For the death that He died, He died to sin [ending its power and paying the sinner’s debt] once and for all; and the life that He lives, He lives to [glorify] God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. 11Even so, consider yourselves to be dead to sin [and your relationship to it broken], but alive to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus The tongue has the power of life and death (i.e. Proverbs 18:21) Yes, you're correct, in that, truly, death isnt reckoned being a power anymore, simply because of the fact that, God came to earth, became one of us, lived among us, literally lived our life, experienced death on our behalf, and from, thereafter, He broke, not only the power of death, but also, broke its backbone. Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.🥴 |
Re: God by LordReed(m): 8:18am On Feb 21, 2023 |
NNTR: I don't care about your fairytale, death isn't a power because death is not a thing that does work (definition of power is ability to do work), it's how we describe the state of a system no longer functioning. 3 Likes |
Re: God by Maynman: 8:33am On Feb 21, 2023 |
NNTR: You’ve been duped. Your iesus chrestus is dead and gone
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Re: God by Dtruthspeaker: 9:00am On Feb 21, 2023 |
LordReed: It is a power! |
Re: God by LordReed(m): 9:12am On Feb 21, 2023 |
Dtruthspeaker: How is it a power? |
Re: God by Dtruthspeaker: 9:23am On Feb 21, 2023 |
LordReed: Because like the sun which you agreed has power over us through its exertion of its power of light and heat, Death too is exerting its power to cut us from living on the earth, and like the sun we can not stop it either. 1 Like |
Re: God by LordReed(m): 10:12am On Feb 21, 2023 |
Dtruthspeaker: Death is a state not a thing so when you say it's exerting power there is nothing doing that. We can see the sun but can you say the same for "death"? Nope because it is not a thing. 2 Likes |
Re: God by Dtruthspeaker: 10:32am On Feb 21, 2023 |
LordReed: Now you have changed post! Death is a thing which after it has exercised it's power of taking its target leaves their "empty" shells (bodies) behind, which we see, exactly as when the sun burns brightly, the living man must sweat. So we have seen it. 1 Like |
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