₦airaland Forum

Padipadi:
Seems you are an escapee from the asylum. Cos ya jealousy for tithe don get breast and yansh. Why not start religious centre?
You go dey waka nairaland dey spew trash

AuthorMan:
The fool is a Jehovah's witness. They dont mind their business but rather be finding fault on how others worship God.
These guys are not different from the Pharisees who see every other person in the Temple unclean except themselves.

In his comment he stupidly mention that the offerings wont bring enough money for fuel. So, the arindin knows fuel is needed in the church.
What these guys fail to know is that the offering and tithes are used for the comfort of members (in a well organized Godly church)
The light bills, the generator servicing and fuelling, the maintenance of the church premises, payment of church workers, building projects etc. All these are done through the offerings and the tithes.
Abi na stone dem dey use do all these?

It saddens me when I see the JW joining the unbelievers to castigate the church. So sad.

Urgent1Million:
Before they wrote the Bible, they already perfected their plans of slavery, theft of treasures and imposition of their culture on the African continent.
Colonial masters would become the enemies of Africa.
The bible was just a tool of blackmail, control, hypnosis and oppression.
They knew the powers in the African gods and feared them. If they had a not convinced Africans to abandon their gods and follow the god of the bible, they wouldn't have got away with all the atrocities they committed against Africa.

lol, reverse is the case, Africans gave the Roman empire ( the West and East) Christianity. Christianity used to be a proscribed religion like Bokoharam is in Nigeria today until the disciples of Arius preached Jesus to and baptise Constantine. You lack basic knowledge of history. ETHIOPIA IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN AFRICA THAT'S NEVER BEEN COLONIZED YET ETHIOPIA IS A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY. HOW DID CHRISTIANITY GET TO ETHIOPIA WHEN NO PRESENCE OF COLONIAL MASTER OR RULE THERE.

Corrections:
It is often said among Christians “ that they should love their enemies and pray for them”. Many Christians do make this statement without caring to know what it actually means. Many Christians believe this statement is a call to “stupidity” or “foolishness”.

Matthew 5:54

But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.


Now, before we go further, we need to understand what "LOVE" means, then also why do we love.

Using God's standard definition for the word "love". It simply can be summarized as "ensuring that people do the right things at all time". It means correcting people who are not doing the right thing to do the right thing.

Prob 3:12
12. because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.

Hebrew 12:5-6

5 And have you forgotten the encouraging words (corrective words) God spoke to you as his children? He said, “My child, don't make light of the LORD 's discipline, and don't give up when he corrects you. 6 For the LORD disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”

These verses point out that discipline is an evidence of the Lord's love. If He did not love us, He would not discipline us.

Now, correction or discipline is usually a though hurtful experience. Even in our society, the freedom of criminals are usually denied of them by putting them in a confined space called "prison" or "correction centre".

As a parent, when you fail to correct your children when they do wrong things, you actually "hate" and not "love" them. Even in marriage, love is far beyond SEX or KISSING. Sex or kissing does not entirely keep a marriage, but doing the right things (correct things which is the real love) COMPLETELY secures it.

Haven used God's standard of definition of what love is as pointed out in the scriptures,what then does it mean to love your enemy? Does it mean we should allow criminals have a filled day harming us without any resistance from us (Christians) NO! Why didn't Jesus show his love to criminals by allowing criminals to kill him when his time to die (as planned by heaven) as not come?

Jesus understands the true meaning of love so he wouldn't confuse stupidity with love. Jesus wouldn’t allow anyone to physically abuse him. Who dares that? Christians need to know this truth that executing justice and loving your enemies are not mutually exclusive.

1 Corinthians 13:6-7

6 It (talking about love) does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

We can see here, that justice is a form of correctional medium through which people can be corrected to do the right thing. Therefore, “loving your enemies” as a Christian is not a call to stupidity or foolishness, it is a call to correcting them so that they can depart from their evil ways.

Corrections:
It is often said among Christians “ that they should love their enemies and pray for them”. Many Christians do make this statement without caring to know what it actually means. Many Christians believe this statement is a call to “stupidity” or “foolishness”.

Matthew 5:54

But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.


Now, before we go further, we need to understand what "LOVE" means, then also why do we love.

Using God's standard definition for the word "love". It simply can be summarized as "ensuring that people do the right things at all time". It means correcting people who are not doing the right thing to do the right thing.

Prob 3:12
12. because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.

Hebrew 12:5-6

5 And have you forgotten the encouraging words (corrective words) God spoke to you as his children? He said, “My child, don't make light of the LORD 's discipline, and don't give up when he corrects you. 6 For the LORD disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”

These verses point out that discipline is an evidence of the Lord's love. If He did not love us, He would not discipline us.

Now, correction or discipline is usually a though hurtful experience. Even in our society, the freedom of criminals are usually denied of them by putting them in a confined space called "prison" or "correction centre".

As a parent, when you fail to correct your children when they do wrong things, you actually "hate" and not "love" them. Even in marriage, love is far beyond SEX or KISSING. Sex or kissing does not entirely keep a marriage, but doing the right things (correct things which is the real love) COMPLETELY secures it.

Haven used God's standard of definition of what love is as pointed out in the scriptures,what then does it mean to love your enemy? Does it mean we should allow criminals have a filled day harming us without any resistance from us (Christians) NO! Why didn't Jesus show his love to criminals by allowing criminals to kill him when his time to die (as planned by heaven) as not come?

Jesus understands the true meaning of love so he wouldn't confuse stupidity with love. Jesus wouldn’t allow anyone to physically abuse him. Who dares that? Christians need to know this truth that executing justice and loving your enemies are not mutually exclusive.

1 Corinthians 13:6-7

6 It (talking about love) does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

We can see here, that justice is a form of correctional medium through which people can be corrected to do the right thing. Therefore, “loving your enemies” as a Christian is not a call to stupidity or foolishness, it is a call to correcting them so that they can depart from their evil ways.

Starz825:
Loving your enemies means

Loving those who visibly hate you

They Mostly hate you for no reason...

Jesus Christ understands that you are always ahead with Love...


The story of Joseph and his brothers tell a lot abt this verse

Corrections:
It is often said among Christians “ that they should love their enemies and pray for them”. Many Christians do make this statement without caring to know what it actually means. Many Christians believe this statement is a call to “stupidity” or “foolishness”.

Matthew 5:54

But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.


Now, before we go further, we need to understand what "LOVE" means, then also why do we love.

Using God's standard definition for the word "love". It simply can be summarized as "ensuring that people do the right things at all time". It means correcting people who are not doing the right thing to do the right thing.

Prob 3:12
12. because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.

Hebrew 12:5-6

5 And have you forgotten the encouraging words (corrective words) God spoke to you as his children? He said, “My child, don't make light of the LORD 's discipline, and don't give up when he corrects you. 6 For the LORD disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”

These verses point out that discipline is an evidence of the Lord's love. If He did not love us, He would not discipline us.

Now, correction or discipline is usually a though hurtful experience. Even in our society, the freedom of criminals are usually denied of them by putting them in a confined space called "prison" or "correction centre".

As a parent, when you fail to correct your children when they do wrong things, you actually "hate" and not "love" them. Even in marriage, love is far beyond SEX or KISSING. Sex or kissing does not entirely keep a marriage, but doing the right things (correct things which is the real love) COMPLETELY secures it.

Haven used God's standard of definition of what love is as pointed out in the scriptures,what then does it mean to love your enemy? Does it mean we should allow criminals have a filled day harming us without any resistance from us (Christians) NO! Why didn't Jesus show his love to criminals by allowing criminals to kill him when his time to die (as planned by heaven) as not come?

Jesus understands the true meaning of love so he wouldn't confuse stupidity with love. Jesus wouldn’t allow anyone to physically abuse him. Who dares that? Christians need to know this truth that executing justice and loving your enemies are not mutually exclusive.

1 Corinthians 13:6-7

6 It (talking about love) does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

We can see here, that justice is a form of correctional medium through which people can be corrected to do the right thing. Therefore, “loving your enemies” as a Christian is not a call to stupidity or foolishness, it is a call to correcting them so that they can depart from their evil ways.

JASONjnr:
The tithes you'd taken to dash a man who's on suit and had fed properly, give it to your neighbour that is hungry and yet to eat.

Has anyone noticed the reason behind the constant reminder of tithing is because the 1/10th of the salary is really a thing to rely on?

Notice that lately, people pay 50naira to 100naira as offerings? That amount of offerings won't go along way to service the church needs and fueling the gen and so on.

Imagine a member of the church earning 1million bucks and others earning 100k monthly, by the time these people collect the tithes, they might be closing the Sunday with thousands of naira.

That's why they place no interest on the offerings but on the tithe because that's where the money is ...

illicit:
We Yoruba we love Biafrans


😳🤭

Padipadi:
You're responding the ones that broke spiritual chains.
Receive two nukes for capping trash!

JASONjnr:
The tithes you'd taken to dash a man who's on suit and had fed properly, give it to your neighbour that is hungry and yet to eat.

Has anyone noticed the reason behind the constant reminder of tithing is because the 1/10th of the salary is really a thing to rely on?

Notice that lately, people pay 50naira to 100naira as offerings? That amount of offerings won't go along way to service the church needs and fueling the gen and so on.

Imagine a member of the church earning 1million bucks and others earning 100k monthly, by the time these people collect the tithes, they might be closing the Sunday with thousands of naira.

That's why they place no interest on the offerings but on the tithe because that's where the money is ...

illicit:
We Yoruba we love Biafrans


😳🤭

Urgent1Million:
Before they wrote the Bible, they already perfected their plans of slavery, theft of treasures and imposition of their culture on the African continent.
Colonial masters would become the enemies of Africa.
The bible was just a tool of blackmail, control, hypnosis and oppression.
They knew the powers in the African gods and feared them. If they had a not convinced Africans to abandon their gods and follow the god of the bible, they wouldn't have got away with all the atrocities they committed against Africa.

olabrad:
Bro, keep shut. Bible isn't a book of slavery. Have you ever read the bible cover to cover ?

So, you don't know that the African gods also put their people in slavery? They must sacrifice animals and even human blood to appease these gods.

At times, these African idols demand for the blood of strangers/visitors to the community.
Show me where Christianity teaches people to kill someone to appease God.

You guys don't know what you are asking for

Fortune109:
Possible!

But only people with very high vibration who have had their "EGO DEATH" attain that...

That state of freedom and pure clarity a soul reaches after a physical death...Ego Death put you in that state with not having to physically die first...you now feel and empathize with people and love them... You are now fully grounded and at zero point where everything returns...

You will love everybody including your supposed enemies...and people will show love back to you because everything now returns to you...

To be honest...

Not all vibrate very high to this level... Only about 144,000 out of billions of people in the world are able to achieve this at a given time...

Also to add...this journey is an agonizing one...no one wishes to be on this journey...not everyone can withstand or fully understand what's happening to them when it starts...only God can make you a CHOSEN one for the path...




God is Great!

AntiChristian:
When they slap you turn the other cheek!

IfyAwazie:
It means do good to ur enemies. Don't pay back evil with evil, rather pay back evil with good

Chekwume16:
It simply means dont harm your neighbour either in thoughts, words or actions and always remember that vengeance is of the Lord

sonmvayina:
Everything here ...apart from the 144000

How did you come about that number?

sonmvayina:
But you believe the Romans killed Jesus for your salvation....

You get sense at all?

olabrad:
Yes, I believe that Jesus died for me. And that's why I don't have to sacrifice animals or blood to any idol like you. He has paid the full price for my salvation, redemption and peace.

Again, if you have any sense at all, u will read the entire bible first before condemning Christianity

Fortune109:
Very deep bro!