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Olympics Most Iconic Photo: What I Discovered About Viral Christian Post

I first saw a viral Christian post on social media about a Brazilian surfer in the Olympics told to remove Jesus from his surfboard or risk disqualification, but he decided to walk away instead.

It was so inspiring to see how yet another Christian defiantly chose to take an unwavering stand for their faith in Christ considering how the tournament held in France had proven to be blatantly fashioned to make a mockery of Christ and Christianity especially via its opening ceremony.

God bless.

Then several days later i saw another Christian post that said, the same Brazilian surfer that was told to remove the image of Jesus from his surf board or risk disqualification, had gotten a near perfect score of 9.90 on day 3 of the surfing competition which was the highest score in Olympic history.

Attached to the post was the iconic photo of the record-breaking moment, which appeared to show the surfer and his board defying gravity and floating parallel to each other on air, with the surfer pointing his finger up to the sky to suggest his attribution of the remarkable feat to God, which was corroborated by his caption of the photo on his Instagram page, which happens to be a popular verse of the Bible, "I can do all things through he (Christ) that strengthens me" Philippians 4:13.

God bless.

The said post received thousands of engagements (likes, shares, comments), since it appeared to vindicate the surfer's unwavering faith in Jesus, however something was not quite adding up for me despite being a huge supporter and promoter of such remarkable feats achieved by Christians to defy all odds stacked up against them by the world against their faith in Jesus.

It was probably the fact that the other post said the Brazilian surfer who was told to remove the image of Jesus walked away from the competition as a result, which contradicted the idea that he still later competed, even if he broke the Olympic record in the process and later attributed the feat to Christ.

That led to digging deeper to seek the name and identity of the surfer that was told to remove the image of Jesus from his surfboard to confirm that indeed it was the same surfer that also broke the surfing record.

It was after doing so that i discovered that although they were both Brazilian surfers and both gold medal hopefuls for their nation, they were different persons but only national teammates.

While the surfer asked to remove Jesus from board is Joao Chianca, the one who broke the Olympic record is Gabriel Medina.

So it was only after I had gotten that fact right about the story that I shared it here:

https://www.nairaland.com/8188552/olympics-most-iconic-photo-christian

So that effort to verify the story regardless helped me not to join in the spread of the false information, that it was the same Brazilian surfer who was told to remove the image of Jesus from his board, that was behind the record breaking feat and also the most iconic photo of the Olympics, even though that would have been more appealing.

It's only the truth that can make people free, never lies.

God bless

Therefore let's not be in too much of a haste to share anything we see online just because it suits our Christians beliefs, but endeavour to verify where necessary so we won't find ourselves posting such false and misleading information.

God bless.

So I went to church today after a while....

Can someone tell me why this young boy is looking at me like this? I am not your daddy o 😭

Before his real daddy starts getting some ideas

Damnnn niggar

Good for you for your careful investigation

If not una for say he success na because say him know God and Jesus

It is well with Christianity

Everyone sees and associates with a winner!

Assuming he didn't win there'll no story other than he was disturbed....

Lol

@Jesusjnr.
Thank you for this update.
Christ is King forever.

There is no God. QED!.

we re in the end of days so its not surprising

Many people don't know that your religion is your personal business and should not affect others.

Life is not all about policy but sometimes follow your mind.

Nice

Great work 💯💪👍🤍🙏

I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.
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A man who TRUST In GOD IS a WINNER .God doesn't have abandoned projects

May God bless him more

Some photos brings goosebumps.

Darkness will not overshadow Light

Be carefully of these Terrorists, they tend to act in behalf of some imagenary gods.

dogo568:
There is no God. QED!.

Jesus already said that these things would happen...

He said people will hate you for my name's sake

jesusjnr2020:
Olympics Most Iconic Photo: What I Discovered About Viral Christian Post

I first saw a viral Christian post on social media about a Brazilian surfer in the Olympics told to remove Jesus from his surfboard or risk disqualification, but he decided to walk away instead.

It was so inspiring to see how yet another Christian defiantly chose to take an unwavering stand for their faith in Christ considering how the tournament held in France had proven to be blatantly fashioned to make a mockery of Christ and Christianity especially via its opening ceremony.

God bless.

I'm wondering why they have a problem with the image of christ, if it were a cartoon character or random image or picture they wont talk, the same thing happened to one actress that had a picture of christ on her dress , the image is harmless so what's their problem

jesusjnr2020:
Olympics Most Iconic Photo: What I Discovered About Viral Christian Post

I first saw a viral Christian post on social media about a Brazilian surfer in the Olympics told to remove Jesus from his surfboard or risk disqualification, but he decided to walk away instead.

It was so inspiring to see how yet another Christian defiantly chose to take an unwavering stand for their faith in Christ considering how the tournament held in France had proven to be blatantly fashioned to make a mockery of Christ and Christianity especially via its opening ceremony.

God bless.

So good that we have the Power of Choice. The power to chose Good over evil.

dogo568:
There is no God. QED!.

This statement of yours has been reaffirmed by the Holy Bible 1000s of years ago.
Indeed, the fool says in his heart "There is no God".

Heffalump:
This statement of yours has been reaffirmed by the Holy Bible 1000s of years ago.
Indeed, the fool says in his heart "There is no God".

Tell all those your pastors to do away with their security. If they do I will know there's a God.

The photo has defied all logic even if what happened here is explained still it will be some what difficult to understand until you watch the video clip.

Heffalump:
This statement of yours has been reaffirmed by the Holy Bible 1000s of years ago.
Indeed, the fool says in his heart "There is no God".

And a wise person says it out loud!

jesusjnr2020:
Therefore let's not be in too much of a haste to share anything we see online just because it suits our Christians beliefs, but endeavour to verify where necessary so we won't find ourselves posting such false and misleading information.

God bless.

This is really commendable.

Ok

chatinent:
Many people don't know that your religion is your personal business and should not affect others.

So how does the image of Christ on his surfboard affect others?