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Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by Seunomobo: 10:54am On Jan 12, 2025
Merry100:
God didn't ask us to depend on miracles to live our lives; in fact, miracles are majorly to make unbelievers believe in God. God has given us brains to handle situations. One should pray and expect a miracle mainly when the situation is beyond human effort.

You might believe your situation is a case of luck, but mine is a miracle. I prayed, and God answered me.
Okay what if you prayed and he didn't answer?
Nothing would have changed your belief system still, so abeg go sit don, that your lie no enter
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by Incredible128: 10:57am On Jan 12, 2025
Do you have sense? What are you saying??
Dtruthspeaker:
Not when you are not His child and He has been courting you since but you rejected Him.

And seeing how He answered His children and servants immediately, it clearly means THAT, THAT CHILD WAS NEVER HIS IN THE FIRST PLACE

After all these, now you are asking for favours, YOU MUST BE MAD!

Go to your own father's hospital and heal yourself
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by Krismas(m): 10:58am On Jan 12, 2025
Merry100:
The miracle I shared with my friend:

In 2022, I booked my flight ticket from the UK to Nigeria through an agent who was introduced to me. Although I preferred to book my flight online, I decided to patronize her. A day before my scheduled flight, she called me and informed me that my ticket had been cancelled.

I was so worked up because I had already made arrangements for the trip, and everyone knew I was leaving tomorrow; in fact, an Uber was already booked to take me to the airport. I had already spent money buying various things, so the news came to me as a painful shock. I went online to look for cheap tickets, but I couldn't find any. So, I just knelt down and prayed to God.

I told God that if this is the last thing He does for me, He should just do it. I didn't want to tell anyone about it because it might seem to them like I was stylishly asking for funds.

The deal day eventually came, and I had no ticket. I was sitting in the car heading toward the airport, scrolling through the website of the agency I preferred to book my flight from and refreshing the page from time to time.

About an hour before my arrival at the airport, I came across a very cheap ticket. With quick fingers, I booked it instantly. I don't know why the ticket was so cheap; it is possible there were available seats on the plane, so they decided to reduce the price, or someone called to cancel their ticket. But the important thing is that it was indeed a miracle for me.
grin U did it, not god.
Infact, u have the capability to travel from UK to Nigeria without using a plane. {Teleportation)
So stop promoting FALSE RELIGION
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by DropsMic(m): 10:59am On Jan 12, 2025
Dtruthspeaker:
Not when you are not His child and He has been courting you since but you rejected Him.

And seeing how He answered His children and servants immediately, it clearly means THAT, THAT CHILD WAS NEVER HIS IN THE FIRST PLACE

After all these, now you are asking for favours, YOU MUST BE MAD!

Go to your own father's hospital and heal yourself
The white man’s religion has turned your brain to faeces.

Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by DropsMic(m): 11:00am On Jan 12, 2025
jaephoenix:
Use your brain for once. Its not illegal
You are asking for too much baba grin
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by frank317: 11:01am On Jan 12, 2025
jaephoenix:
This example of a miracle is why I conclude many Christians have low IQ.
Luck is a thing. It happens to everyone, whether christian, Muslim, atheist, Buddhist, rapist, murderers, carpenters etc, whether they pray or not.
I always use my example of myself. I had a spinal issue that made me unable to walk for weeks. I didn't pray to any scammer. Just took drugs. Now I'm using my legs. If I had prayed once, that's how everyone would be telling me its god.
OP have you thought that despite the prayerful nature of Nigerian christians, the country is getting worse daily. So why is atheistic countries like China, New Zealand which have considerably less christians than Nigeria progressing while we languish in Nigeria despite praying at any chance?
Use your brain for once. Its not illegal
The funny thing is that his God will quickly help him secure a ticket for his flight but will watch a 5years old girl get helplessly molested by a mentally unstable Wicked man...

He started with his business issues, showing he does not have a perfect life as a believer. But his female friend going through same challenges is being tempted by the devil, while his own challenges are being managed by his God.

The way people sit down and make up super stories to suit their narratives is over my head.
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by franvincoop: 11:02am On Jan 12, 2025
Miracle? aka wonders without number?
Don't 4get say their God carry Job e 10 children over 2.5 inside 1xbet with Devil.
Funny people.

jaephoenix:
This example of a miracle is why I conclude many Christians have low IQ.
Luck is a thing. It happens to everyone, whether christian, Muslim, atheist, Buddhist, rapist, murderers, carpenters etc, whether they pray or not.
I always use my example of myself. I had a spinal issue that made me unable to walk for weeks. I didn't pray to any scammer. Just took drugs. Now I'm using my legs. If I had prayed once, that's how everyone would be telling me its god.
OP have you thought that despite the prayerful nature of Nigerian christians, the country is getting worse daily. So why is atheistic countries like China, New Zealand which have considerably less christians than Nigeria progressing while we languish in Nigeria despite praying at any chance?
Use your brain for once. Its not illegal
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by chipet67(m): 11:06am On Jan 12, 2025
As if their problems in life are now over.
Mtchew
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by Blakjewelry(m): 11:10am On Jan 12, 2025
Merry100:
The miracle I shared with my friend:

In 2022, I booked my flight ticket from the UK to Nigeria through an agent who was introduced to me. Although I preferred to book my flight online, I decided to patronize her. A day before my scheduled flight, she called me and informed me that my ticket had been cancelled.

I was so worked up because I had already made arrangements for the trip, and everyone knew I was leaving tomorrow; in fact, an Uber was already booked to take me to the airport. I had already spent money buying various things, so the news came to me as a painful shock. I went online to look for cheap tickets, but I couldn't find any. So, I just knelt down and prayed to God.

I told God that if this is the last thing He does for me, He should just do it. I didn't want to tell anyone about it because it might seem to them like I was stylishly asking for funds.

The deal day eventually came, and I had no ticket. I was sitting in the car heading toward the airport, scrolling through the website of the agency I preferred to book my flight from and refreshing the page from time to time.

About an hour before my arrival at the airport, I came across a very cheap ticket. With quick fingers, I booked it instantly. I don't know why the ticket was so cheap; it is possible there were available seats on the plane, so they decided to reduce the price, or someone called to cancel their ticket. But the important thing is that it was indeed a miracle for me.
Your writeup is full of stupidity, so think someone who is frustrated and lash out is an atheist. Real atheist are thinkers who dare question all. Real atheist are feared by non thinkers like you.
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by franvincoop: 11:12am On Jan 12, 2025
Bros, u don forget Suleman toilet flight from Germany airport to France Airport fairy tale?
The definition of christianity is people that have brains but violently refuse to use it but allow others to use it for them.
1+1= 2 not 11.


https://journalist101.com/2024/08/16/apostle-suleman-and-his-toilet-flight-from-germany-to-france/

Krismas:
grin U did it, not god.
Infact, u have the capability to travel from UK to Nigeria without using a plane. {Teleportation)
So stop promoting FALSE RELIGION
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by thesolutions(m): 11:12am On Jan 12, 2025
Namaster:
This analogy is NONSENSE!

It's one thing for your wealthy parents to REFUSE to sponsor your wedding to a second wife. You can grumble and throw tantrums if they DON'T answer that request and still consider them your parents.

But if your father was a WORLD-CLASS Oncologist who owns and controls a TOP-TIER cancer treatment centre with TOP-OF-THE-LINE equipment and CUTTING-EDGE procedures YET he blatantly refuses to treat your 3-year old daughter with lung cancer.

That's ANOTHER thing entirely.

He watches you suffer watching your child immersed in unbearable AGONY and he does NOTHING.

Instead he strokes his beards and tells you to TRUST that he LOVES you very much. And that he has a GOOD reason for abandoning your little child to die a SLOW and EXCRUCIATING death.

You are justified to say a father like that is DEAD to you, i.e does NOT exist.
You are still saying the same thing he said no matter how emotional you tried to make it appear.
It is a pity that we tend to assume we feel the pain of others more than they do just because we are unable to help them.
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by eazye4u133(m): 11:15am On Jan 12, 2025
I was thinking the thread title should be: how God used you to save a friend from being an atheist. You did that not by your power nor might ...
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by occfx: 11:15am On Jan 12, 2025
Merry100:
2024 seemed to be a very difficult year for many, I am not excluded; it was the kind of year that one might wish they had spent in a coma, only to wake up and find it was another year.

One of my friends experienced a significant business setback, and I, along with others, tried to console her. When she finally regained her composure, she started claiming that there was no God.

Even though I was also having a bad time, her claim didn't sit well with me. There was even one particular client who was frustrating the hell out of me at the time, to the extent that I had to refund his money and tell him that I was no longer interested in doing business with him.

One day, I approached my friend and told her that I wanted to speak with her. She replied that if I was there to give her a sermon, she wouldn't listen. I proceeded to tell her that I was also frustrated and angry with God.

I narrated my bad experiences to her, but I told her that I don't think they are enough reason for me to say there is no God. I mentioned that I still remember those times I prayed and received instant miracles. There was a particular miracle that happened to me in 2022; I had shared it with her before, but I recounted it again during this conversation and also reminded her of a specific miracle she had shared with me.

I included that there are times when we ask our parents for things, and they give them to us instantly without stressing us. However, during those times when we ask and they refuse to give, we might show our frustrations or try to avoid speaking with them or seeing them, but we don't start denying that they are our parents or go to court to sever ties with them.

When I discovered she was reasoning with me, I proceeded to tell her that it was okay to be upset and frustrated, and that she could even vent her anger by misbehaving, acting like a prodigal child, and doing all sorts of things until she felt satisfied. But she should not claim there is no God when it is obvious to her that there is God. This is how I succeeded in reversing her decision.
It's very easy to convert a frustrated Christian to anything because, they are been lied to every Sunday. Pastors tell them that God is watching over them and will do everything for them in times of need but it's fat lie. God watches everyone and had provided for all men. It is our job to act and get rewarded. We should go to church to communicate to God and thank him for everything. It is important for our soul and not because we want to please God. Fellowship with Christ should be a hubby and fun at the same time. You don't go to church to ask for anything because, everything has been given. If you having a bad time, thank God, good times thank God. It's not his fault that you are having a bad time, it is your fault or nature. Look for a way to get out of it and still thank God. However, when your soul is in constant communication with God, miracle can happen. Things you didn't expect, unmerited favor, impossible things. These miracles are involuntary and it's not connected to your righteousness or whatnot. They are simply called miracle because, you don't deserve it anyways.
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by Electorate: 11:16am On Jan 12, 2025
Namaster:
This analogy is NONSENSE!

It's one thing for your wealthy parents to REFUSE to sponsor your wedding to a second wife. You can grumble and throw tantrums if they DON'T answer that request and still consider them your parents.

But if your father was a WORLD-CLASS Oncologist who owns and controls a TOP-TIER cancer treatment centre with TOP-OF-THE-LINE equipment and CUTTING-EDGE procedures YET he blatantly refuses to treat your 3-year old daughter with lung cancer.

That's ANOTHER thing entirely.

He watches you suffer watching your child immersed in unbearable AGONY and he does NOTHING.

Instead he strokes his beards and tells you to TRUST that he LOVES you very much. And that he has a GOOD reason for abandoning your little child to die a SLOW and EXCRUCIATING death.

You are justified to say a father like that is DEAD to you, i.e does NOT exist.
Where were you before you were born? How did you suddenly have the sense of touch, sound and movement? Who activated it? Abi na you activate am yourself? You can feel the sensation of air around you but cannot see air and believe air exist yet you don't believe God exist....dey play.

Now use that same brain you used to analyze the guys analogy to analyze mine and see the CLEAR picture.

Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by frank317: 11:16am On Jan 12, 2025
Seunomobo:
I want to ask one simple question, what impact does believing or not believing in a God has on someone? What does your God need my believing in him for? Submission and control right?
Same question I have been asking for ages
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by frank317: 11:26am On Jan 12, 2025
Electorate:
Where were you before you were born? How did you suddenly have the sense of touch, sound and movement? Who activated it? Abi na you activate am yourself? You can feel the sensation of air around you but cannot see air and believe air exist yet you don't believe God exist....dey play.
He does not have answers to all these, but u, a mere mortal like him suddenly knows its a being called God. So how did u know it's one being that created u and not many or a family or a community of beings? Is God what u use to fill up ur ignorance of the existence of this world?
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by jaephoenix(m): 11:32am On Jan 12, 2025
Kingpele:
Well done brother..it's foolishness to believe that human existence is by chance and not by God for a purpose of living good and purpose driven life throughout our earthly journey...the bible said that at the last days people love for God and our saviour jesus christ will grow cold...and is happening now..people are returning to paganism and saying alot of crazy things about jesus christ...only those who have encountered jesus christ in the truth and in spirit will remain with God.... we have alot of churches and people filled every single seat every Sunday yet we have few committed servants of God...God have given Nigeria every thing we need to succeed and praying for him to Make Nigeria great is like commanding him as our servant instead of our Lord...the only reasonable prayer we need in this country is to ask God to help us reason like real humans he created in his image and likeness, so that we can use our God given brains to create solutions for our national problems..
We are not using our brains properly simple..that why we are tribal bigots and religion bigots...but if we come into a real relationship with God ..he will help us think well as humans and corruption and bribery will be eliminated from our national life...we will begin to love one another and work with one another to make Nigeria great again ...it is our duty to build Nigeria not God's duty...every developed society used their God given brains to make their nation more attractive and developed..God will certainly judge those who use their brains for evil purposes because that brain malfunction...
2 Chronicles 7:14-16 New International Version (NIV)
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land

From The passage, your god clearly asks for prayers to save a country. Now Nigeria has been doing that for years. Any respite? No.
Now compare the scenario to countries that pray much less than Nigeria and are even considered atheistic, are you seeing what we are saying?
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by Krismas(m): 11:32am On Jan 12, 2025
franvincoop:
Bros, u don forget Suleman toilet flight from Germany airport to France Airport fairy tale?
The definition of christianity is people that have brains but violently refuse to use it but allow others to use it for them.
1+1= 2 not 11.


https://journalist101.com/2024/08/16/apostle-suleman-and-his-toilet-flight-from-germany-to-france/
Christianity like other religions, is fabricated.
Notwithstanding, Teleportation is real, and within the psychic capabilities of anybody.
Sulieman's story cannot diminish the truth of the art of teleportation,
whether he actually did or lied about it.
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by ozoono(m): 11:33am On Jan 12, 2025
Merry100:
I also have unanswered questions that make it impossible for me to doubt the existence of God.

I speak in tongues; can you explain this?

I dream, and it comes to pass; can you explain this?
U speak in tongues, hmm pls is it in the OZA room or where exactly becus ur curve in that ur pics wud be very good for doggie , I don't understand
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by jaephoenix(m): 11:34am On Jan 12, 2025
Incredible128:
Do you have sense? What are you saying??
Pay him no mind. He's psychotic. I'm not capping
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by jaephoenix(m): 11:35am On Jan 12, 2025
DropsMic:
The white man’s religion has turned your brain to faeces.
That guy Dtruthspeaker is psychotic. Go through his post and you'll understand
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by Martinez39s(m): 11:35am On Jan 12, 2025
frank317:
The funny thing is that his God will quickly help him secure a ticket for his flight but will watch a 5years old girl get helplessly molested by a mentally unstable Wicked man...

He started with his business issues, showing he does not have a perfect life as a believer. But his female friend going through same challenges is being tempted by the devil, while his own challenges are being managed by his God.

The way people sit down and make up super stories to suit their narratives is over my head.
grin grin grin

The matter just weak me. Religion at times makes one indistinguishable from someone with a low IQ. Religion-induced madness is so normalise that we don't take it seriously. grin
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by jaephoenix(m): 11:36am On Jan 12, 2025
DropsMic:
You are asking for too much baba grin
Its really disheartening seeing grown ass adults reasoning like cretards
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by jaephoenix(m): 11:38am On Jan 12, 2025
franvincoop:
Miracle? aka wonders without number?
Don't 4get say their God carry Job e 10 children over 2.5 inside 1xbet with Devil.
Funny people.
As in beta Naijabet Yhwh dey do with Satan. A supposedly all-knowing god gambling grin with Satan, using his faithful servant as pawn and the servants children as cannon fodder. What a loving god grin
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Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by Indifferent12: 11:39am On Jan 12, 2025
Dtruthspeaker:
Not when you are not His child and He has been courting you since but you rejected Him.

And seeing how He answered His children and servants immediately, it clearly means THAT, THAT CHILD WAS NEVER HIS IN THE FIRST PLACE

After all these, now you are asking for favours, YOU MUST BE MAD!

Go to your own father's hospital and heal yourself
Are you seriously, even if a father and child is beefing, if the child need help the father will always step in.

Omo, u guys really defending god wickedness, well he doesn’t exist sha
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by Martinez39s(m): 11:43am On Jan 12, 2025
Electorate:
Where were you before you were born? How did you suddenly have the sense of touch, sound and movement? Who activated it? Abi na you activate am yourself? You can feel the sensation of air around you but cannot see air and believe air exist yet you don't believe God exist....dey play.

Now use that same brain you used to analyze the guys analogy to analyze mine and see the CLEAR picture.
He doesn't know the correct answers to your questions. Guess what? You also don't have the correct answers. However, unlike him, you've taken one foolish step further to insist on the god answer, particularly the god of your religion.

Enjoy your arrogant delusion.
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by franvincoop: 11:43am On Jan 12, 2025
Agreed.
Suleman say na prayer cause the teleportation, meanwhile im get 3 private jets.
Funny people.

Krismas:
Christianity like other religions, is fabricated.
Notwithstanding, Teleportation is real, and within the psychic capabilities of anybody.
Sulieman's story cannot diminish the truth of the art of teleportation,
whether he actually did or lied about it.
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by jaephoenix(m): 11:44am On Jan 12, 2025
occfx:
It's very easy to convert a frustrated Christian to anything because, they are been lied to every Sunday. Pastors tell them that God is watching over them and will do everything for them in times of need but it's fat lie. God watches everyone and had provided for all men. It is our job to act and get rewarded. We should go to church to communicate to God and thank him for everything. It is important for our soul and not because we want to please God. Fellowship with Christ should be a hubby and fun at the same time. You don't go to church to ask for anything because, everything has been given. If you having a bad time, thank God, good times thank God. It's not his fault that you are having a bad time, it is your fault or nature. Look for a way to get out of it and still thank God. However, when your soul is in constant communication with God, miracle can happen. Things you didn't expect, unmerited favor, impossible things. These miracles are involuntary and it's not connected to your righteousness or whatnot. They are simply called miracle because, you don't deserve it anyways.
What exactly did your god provide, for me to thank him?
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by Indifferent12:
Merry100:
I also have unanswered questions that make it impossible for me to doubt the existence of God.

I speak in tongues; can you explain this?

I dream, and it comes to pass; can you explain this?
Speaking in tongues is just letting ur emotions get the better of you, it’s all chemical reactions in ur brain.

You dreaming n it coming to pass doesn’t mean anything spiritual exist.
If we analyze it well it’s probably something u were working towards already, sometimes is just mere coincidence and misinterpretation.

I have also imagineer something and It came to pass, doesn’t mean god exit.
While I was younger I had a crush on this girl, my parents change my school n I imagine I would see this girl in my new school, low n behold there she was in my new school.
Do I have super power? no, was it god also no. It’s just mere coincidence.

Sometimes it’s because we are thinking of an event too much hence we dream of it.
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by AlfaSeltzer(m): 11:48am On Jan 12, 2025
Anumanu. So you got cheap flight tickets and that proves to you there is a doG somewhere manipulating Airline fares? Mumus just full this country.
Re: How I Saved A Friend From Becoming An Atheist by AceNY:
[b]Ps 77 vs 8 Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore?

9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? [Selah

10 And I said, This is my infirmity; But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.

11 I will make mention of the deeds of Jehovah; For I will remember thy wonders of old.

Thank you very much for being an encouragement to your friend. The Psalmist also felt so at some point.... God bless you abundantly
Merry100:
2024 seemed to be a very difficult year for many, I am not excluded; it was the kind of year that one might wish they had spent in a coma, only to wake up and find it was another year.

One of my friends experienced a significant business setback, and I, along with others, tried to console her. When she finally regained her composure, she started claiming that there was no God.

Even though I was also having a bad time, her claim didn't sit well with me. There was even one particular client who was frustrating the hell out of me at the time, to the extent that I had to refund his money and tell him that I was no longer interested in doing business with him.

One day, I approached my friend and told her that I wanted to speak with her. She replied that if I was there to give her a sermon, she wouldn't listen. I proceeded to tell her that I was also frustrated and angry with God.

I narrated my bad experiences to her, but I told her that I don't think they are enough reason for me to say there is no God. I mentioned that I still remember those times I prayed and received instant miracles. There was a particular miracle that happened to me in 2022; I had shared it with her before, but I recounted it again during this conversation and also reminded her of a specific miracle she had shared with me.

I included that there are times when we ask our parents for things, and they give them to us instantly without stressing us. However, during those times when we ask and they refuse to give, we might show our frustrations or try to avoid speaking with them or seeing them, but we don't start denying that they are our parents or go to court to sever ties with them.

When I discovered she was reasoning with me, I proceeded to tell her that it was okay to be upset and frustrated, and that she could even vent her anger by misbehaving, acting like a prodigal child, and doing all sorts of things until she felt satisfied. But she should not claim there is no God when it is obvious to her that there is God. This is how I succeeded in reversing her decision.
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