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| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 10:38pm On Sep 26*. Modified: 11:00pm On Sep 26 |
MaxInDHouse:YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT FREEDOM OF SPEECH MEANS AND THAT IS THE PROBLEM. ISSUING THREATS OF ETERNAL DAMNATION OR DESTRUCTION AGAINST LAW ABIDING PEOPLE ISN'T COVERED BY FREEDOM OF SPEECH. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/14sTraGs6Rr/ |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by MaxInDHouse(m): 5:33am On Sep 27 |
lawani:Where are your ancestors? Dead! Do you have a hope of seeing them again? No! So how does the idea of seeing my loved ones again translate to threat? The Bible God never promised to torment anyone after death what He promised is resurrection (bringing back to life) those who proved to be virtuous {Job 14:13-15} so they can live forever! Psalms 37:29 So open up that this truth is what you don't want to hear and of course nobody is forcing it on you that's where freedom of speech and expression comes to play. It's like two politicians wanting to campaign and tell voters what they have in mind to do for their citizens then one is saying the other person shouldn't talk. Why? Because his campaign method is killing opponent's ambition!🤣 |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by Expanse2020(m): 12:29pm On Sep 27 |
AntiChristian:🤣😂😂😂😂 Last Jesus was dancing and drinking in tel Aviv night party maybe they saw that one... You know Jesus plenty and a person.. they may see Mel Gibson or the other ones too |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 4:35pm On Sep 27 |
MaxInDHouse:DO PEOPLE HAVE TO BELIEVE YOUR SHIT TO BE SAVED? THAT IS THE QUESTION. DO YOU THREATEN LAW ABIDING UNBELIEVERS THAT THEY WILL CEASE TO EXIST IF THEY DONT BELIEVE? IF YOU DO THEN IT SHOULDN'T BE CLASSIFIED AS COVERED BY THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH BECAUSE EASILY IMPRESSIONABLE PEOPLE EXIST WHO LOOK AT STATUS AND ETC OF WHO IS TALKING IN ORDER TO DETERMINE WHAT TO BELIEVE AND IF THE SOCIETY BELIEVE THINGS THAT ARE WRONG LIKE LAW ABIDING PEOPLE BEING PUNISHED FOR UNBELIEF, IT WILL LEAD TO AN UNSAVOURY DESTINATION FOR THE SOCIETY AS A WHOLE |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by MaxInDHouse(m): 5:00pm On Sep 27 |
lawani:Do you believe in life after death? If not then how does having such belief and teaching others become a crime? |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by Roycemadeit(m): 7:38am On Sep 29 |
MaxInDHouse:. . Christianity has been a global missionary religion for centuries. Catholics, Orthodox, Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, Evangelicals, Mormons and numerous other Christian movements have sent missionaries across countries and continents preaching what they believe is God's truth. And other religions have also developed global missionary movements. Your argument is not simply that Jehovah's Witnesses preach globally. Your argument is that the particular combination of preaching, doctrinal unity, political neutrality and refusal to participate in war proves that God is behind your organization. But that is precisely what you can't demonstrate. A group being worldwide does not prove divine appointment. A group being peaceful does not prove divine appointment. A group having members from different races and cultures does not prove divine appointment. And a group agreeing on doctrine does not prove divine appointment. Those things establish characteristics of the group. They do not establish who God chose. Otherwise, any religious organization could identify characteristics that distinguish itself from others, find Bible passages that resemble those characteristics, and then declare, “Therefore the prophecy is about us.” That's the very assumption I questioned. |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by MaxInDHouse(m): 7:56am On Sep 29 |
Roycemadeit:Jesus sent his disciples to preach and teach globally! Matthew 28:19-20 Roycemadeit:Jesus said his disciples will have the same line of thought regarding doctrine! John 17:22; 1Corinthans 1:10 Roycemadeit:Jesus said his disciples won't be a part of world political struggles. John 17:14-16 Roycemadeit:Jesus said his disciples will be as wise as serpent and harmless as dove! Matthew 10:16 compare to Matthew 26:52 If all these points doesn't proves that God is behind a group then what exactly do you expect to see as evidence that an organized people are disciples of Jesus the man who taught all these things in the Bible? For your information when Jesus said his disciples will serve as his witnesses globally {Act 1:8} it doesn't mean they will bear the group name CHRISTIANS rather he meant they will represent the core values of his teachings everywhere they are found. Your blind arguments just proves what i said earlier: You are now fighting tough to overturn what you once said that i silenced you with facts. So my friend i understood you very very well!🙂 |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by Roycemadeit(m): 8:17pm On Sep 29 |
MaxInDHouse:- - - - - - But Max, none of those characteristics is unique to Jehovah's Witnesses. Global preaching? Christadelphians, Mormons, Baptists, Catholics and many other Christian groups do it. Doctrinal unity? Many religious groups have their own unified doctrines. Political neutrality and refusal to participate in war? Christadelphians, Quakers, Mennonites and other Christian peace churches have practiced these. You keep showing me that Jehovah's Witnesses fit your interpretation of the verses. I'm asking you to show me where the Bible says those verses specifically identify Jehovah's Witnesses. |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by MaxInDHouse(m): 10:30pm On Sep 29 |
Roycemadeit:Perhaps i need to school you on what doctrinal unity truly means! ![]() It simply means there will be peace among them but today all these religions have weapon carriers among them which means they don't agree that's why they resort to violence using weapons to settle their disparities. Matthew 26:52🥱 |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 3:49am On Sep 30 |
MaxInDHouse:So billionaire Jehovah witnesses don't use weapons to protect themselves from kidnappers in Nigeria? Keep deceiving yourself you hear? |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by MaxInDHouse(m): 6:56am On Sep 30 |
lawani:Please i don't mean to be rude but how do you use your power of reasoning? Surely you need to be schooled on this matter!🙂 A billionaire walked up to Jesus asking: “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit everlasting life?" Luke 18:18 After proving that he's been a law abiding citizen all his life Jesus told the billionaire: “There is still one thing lacking about you: Sell all the things you have and distribute the proceeds to the poor, and you will have treasure in the heavens; and come be my follower.” Luke 18:22 The man walked away sadly as he couldn't meet up with Jesus' order so he told his disciples: “How difficult it will be for those having money to make their way into the Kingdom of God! It is easier, in fact, for a camel to get through the eye of a sewing needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” Luke 18:24-25 LESSON LEARNED! You can't keep material things as your choicest possessions and at the same time be a disciple of Christ. WHY? Because all eyes will be on you both the good, bad and vicious people all because of worldly riches! Matthew 6:19-21 Now ask yourself: How can an individual be one of Jehovah's Witnesses but refuses to go out preaching and teaching along with his or her fellow believers? Have you ever seen Jehovah's Witnesses preaching in your street and some body guards following them because of one billionaire to be protected among Jehovah's Witnesses? Ọmọ now you know why JWs are the one and only true Christian organization globally because you can't be one of us without going out to preach and teach in your neighborhood so if you're scared of being kidnapped due to riches then you can't be one of us! Luke 18:25🙂 |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 9:15am On Sep 30 |
MaxInDHouse:You are just going round in circles. A JW having a business employing hundreds of people (and they exist) will be kidnapped if they live in an area prone to such if they don't have armed body guards. They can go about preaching in areas not prone to such or where their identity is not known. In short if you say policing or national defense is wrong then you are leeching on the system because those things are the reasons you are able to operate in peace in any environment. You leech on the system and you condemn things that benefit you. |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:25pm On Sep 30 |
lawani:So you know we don't go about with security guards and their are billionaires among us shey? All you need to ask is how we are coping with the situation not just concluding we must believe in the use of weapons simply because you don't know how to go about things with wisdom!😁 |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by Roycemadeit(m): 7:19am On Oct 01 |
MaxInDHouse:Not carrying weapons yourself doesn't mean you live without protection from people who carry weapons. If a Jehovah's Witness in northern Nigeria is protected by the police, military, private security, or other armed personnel, then the claim that peaceful society exists simply because your organization has eliminated the need for weapons becomes... |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by MaxInDHouse(m): 7:45am On Oct 01 |
Roycemadeit:So you think it's your police or military that's protecting you shey? Ọmọ you guys have a long way to go. Now i know for sure that people really need the wisdom Jesus impacted in us. Some individuals within a society were trained and given weapons to carry about and these individuals are also in need/want of so many things that riches can buy yet they mentally subject themselves to average lifestyle instead of forcefully using the weapons in their hands to collect whatever they want or need just as others whom you call "CRIMINALS" are doing and you believe it's because they're carrying weapons that's why you are protected shey? What if the same people holding weapons decide to rob you who will now protect you from being robbed? Ọmọ it's not the weapons in the hands of those wearing uniforms that's serving as protection rather the mentality that there should be right and wrong which doesn't even have anything to do with physical weapons at all. So if you now see people who mentally subject themselves to rules having to do with right and wrong without the use of physical weapons they are the ones proving that they are real humans not those deceiving themselves claiming they are being protected by uniformed men and women that can decide to attack or even rob you using the same weapons given to them!🙂 |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by MaxInDHouse(m): 7:57am On Oct 01 |
@Roycemadeit In the below picture you see many people carrying weapons while just two men are there in their midst controlling all the resources in their countries. Do you think it's the weapons that's doing the work or the mentality that there must be right and wrong? Do you think those carrying the weapons have all the things they want/need so that they fully agree to stand protecting those two old men?🤔
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| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by Roycemadeit(m): 9:52pm On Oct 03 |
MaxInDHouse:But this picture actually proves my point, not yours. You're showing armed personnel protecting political leaders and asking whether the weapons or the mentality are doing the work. The answer is: both can matter. The soldiers' discipline and obedience are the mentality, while their weapons provide a physical means of protection and enforcement. Remove either one and you change the security arrangement. And if one of those armed personnel decided to attack the very people they're protecting, the existence of a “right and wrong” mentality would not magically stop them. You would still need another security mechanism to protect against that threat. That's precisely why societies have layers of security, laws, institutions and armed enforcement. Your argument keeps treating moral agreement and physical force as if one makes the other unnecessary. They don't. And none of this answers the original question: how does Jehovah's Witnesses' refusal to personally carry weapons prove that God uniquely established your organization? |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by MaxInDHouse(m): 11:09pm On Oct 03 |
Roycemadeit:Question: Do you think the youths holding weapons have all what they want in life? If they don't what makes them feel it's better to subject themselves to the rule of law instead of using the weapons to forcefully collect whatever they want from vulnerable ones like those two feeble old men? Is it the same weapons they are carrying that's doing that work or the mentality that there should be right and wrong?🤔 |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by Roycemadeit(m): 3:53am On Oct 04 |
MaxInDHouse:. . You're creating a false choice between “weapons” and “mentality.” Of course people need laws, values and a sense of right and wrong. But that doesn't make physical protection irrelevant. A police officer can believe stealing is wrong and still need a weapon to stop an armed robber. A soldier can believe murder is wrong and still carry a weapon to defend people from someone who intends to kill them. And if your argument is that criminals would stop being criminals if everyone simply had the right mentality, then you haven't explained why your organization needs courts, police protection, security arrangements or any other institution that deals with people who don't share that mentality. The existence of moral restraint does not eliminate the need for physical protection. That's why saying “we don't carry weapons” doesn't prove that weapons are unnecessary. It only proves that you personally choose not to carry them. |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 4:07am On Oct 04 |
Roycemadeit:Let them go into a bear forest without weapons and see if they won't be lunch for bears. Bears don't run from humans. They see them as lunch. In Northern Europe it is illegal to go into the forest without arms because of bears. Meanwhile some human beings that we live with in our cities are more dangerous than wild animals. They are more dangerous than any bear. They look upon you as lunch |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 12:24pm On Oct 04 |
Please kindly join the effort to press the government to pay for the use of my intellectual property. If your own experts can't solve a problem for decades despite paying them billions of naira then you should acknowledge and pay the person that solved it especially if they have no personal income How to make universities in Nigeria even more viable and a Mayday call I was the one that proposed many years ago the policy of sharing scholarships or funding to students instead of giving funds to universities directly and the policy has propelled Nigeria to the status of the African country with the highest number of globally ranked universities. It happened within a few years of the policy. kicking off. It happened exactly as I predicted. I was not contracted to consult for the government but I did a civic duty for which a one off complimentary gift of one million dollars and a permanent consultancy is not too much considering the problem solved but I can not force any one to recognize or acknowledge my contributions. Even the present policy of a shift to taxation instead of dependence on oil and gas that has changed the fortune of the country, I am the ONLY one in the country that has been advocating for it as the solution since 2007. Most other people are up in arms against corruption alone. The current administration is the first since I became active to act as if I am being read. The current President Bola Tinubu is also the only politician that joined the online group I created named Project Free Nigeria. One of the aides of former senate President David Mark also contacted me by mail once in my account that was taken over by hackers, I think in 2008 or 2009 but the only subscription to my group by a top politician is by the current President. The President has his faults of course but he has done well by Nigeria because all former presidents after President Obasanjo also were reading everything I wrote and they knew the solutions that are working today too. The solution that is now working in the universities is in an unsolicited paper I sent to the University of St Petersburg in Russia years ago. It is courtesy of that solution that Nigerian universities have now stabilized. All that is by the way The issue now is the matter of universities that do not want to be remitting part of their inflow to the federal government. The British empire succeeded more than it's seniors because it operated or started off as a business that must pay it's shareholders as against the Spanish and Portuguese whose royals controlled everything and reported to no one. No audits and etc. In like manner, the universities in Nigeria will succeed more comprehensively if they follow that blueprint of profit seeking and accountability to their owner that funds them as I proposed. Definitely if they do this then the tertiary education sector can become a net income earner for the federal government within a few years as there will come a point when inflow from the sector will surpass budgetary allocations. Other tiers of government should also be mandated to set up their own version of NELFUND (Student Loans board) and the funds flowing into the federal universities for instance should have a portion sent to the federal government. In the long run, the federal government will start making profit. It will eventually happen since private investors in the sector make good returns on their investments in the same country and government making ten percent of what private investors make will be okay. I believe federal universities should send fifty percent of their tuition revenue, twenty percent of accomodations revenue, ten percent of any research grant won by any local or staff researcher/scholar from anywhere on Earth while there can be negotiations on the sharing formula for inflows from other possible assets on a case by case basis. The input of the government can be in marketing the universities to research sponsors, prospective students, partnerships and etc. Universities are entities and they can sponsor research on their own too and profit from it etc etc The Mayday call I solved the problem of ASUU strikes with my brain and pen and there has not been any ASUU strike in Nigeria for three years. My paper solved it as you would expect a PhD dissertation to do and this is a problem that people paid billions of naira in total for decades were not able to solve. I solved it without being commissioned but I am under the attack of the RCCG, Deeper Life, Winners Chapel and etc and I therefore have no income from work but only from charity. So do your bit as a beneficiary on any level whether as a student or a parent or even an onlooker to get the FG to pay something for the benefit the country is already enjoying as a result of my civic duty. Some of the articles in the public https://www.nairaland.com/8156591/university-autonomy-rejuvenate-tertiary-education |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by MaxInDHouse(m): 1:13pm On Oct 04 |
Roycemadeit:We don't need any of them our God said we will see reasons why He must destroy all those who are not members of our faith because if everyone is our member this earth will become a paradise! So you have judged yourself as you said it's not members of our faith that's causing the problems leading you people to believe in the use of weapons! Revelation 6:3-4🙂 |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 1:16pm On Oct 04 |
MaxInDHouse:People who can't distinguish between right and left need the courts more than the average human being. You don't know it is wrong to be saying God is burning law abiding people for unbelief? Then you can't be trusted to make any important decision outside youraelf |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by Maximus692(m): 1:21pm On Oct 04 |
lawani:When did i tell you my God will burn people nah? Hope you're still following our discussion o i'm not churchgoers talking about some Hellfire!🙂 |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by Maximus692(m): 1:25pm On Oct 04 |
I thank God for giving me a sound mind!
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| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 1:26pm On Oct 04 |
Maximus692:I mean your mental image of God is deleting law abiding people from existence for unbelief. |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by Maximus692(m): 1:26pm On Oct 04 |
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| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 3:00pm On Oct 04 |
MaxInDHouse:What you are saying that you heartily believe is that the government of Sweden is wrong to mandate people entering forests to be armed because they can be attacked by bears. You stand by this belief because there is no circumstances to you when bearing arms would be the commonsensical thing to do. Judge it by yourself or do you agree that the government of Sweden is right? |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by Roycemadeit(m): 8:00pm On Oct 04 |
MaxInDHouse:. . But Max, you've just moved the argument from how society actually works today to what you believe your God will supposedly do in the future. You say you don't need courts, police or security because God will eventually destroy everyone who isn't a member of your faith and then the earth will become paradise. But until that supposed future judgment happens, your members still live in the same society as everyone else. They still depend on laws, courts, police, hospitals, roads and other institutions maintained by people who aren't Jehovah's Witnesses. And Revelation 6:3-4 doesn't say, “people who are not Jehovah's Witnesses will cause the world to use weapons.” It describes a rider taking peace from the earth so that people kill one another. The connection you're making between that passage and modern governments using weapons is your interpretation, not what the passage says. More importantly, you're assuming the conclusion: “If everyone became Jehovah's Witnesses, there would be no need for weapons.” But that is precisely what you're trying to prove. You can't use the peaceful world you expect after everyone has been manipulated to accept your belief as evidence that your belief is true. The question is about the world we actually live in now. And in that world, your members, like everyone else, can be victims of people who don't share their beliefs. That is why the wider society still has laws and security institutions. The existence of a future paradise doesn't demonstrate that weapons are unnecessary today, and Revelation 6:3-4 doesn't establish that Jehovah's Witnesses are the organization God chose. |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by Roycemadeit(m): 8:05pm On Oct 04 |
lawani:. . Exactly. And that's the point I've been making. Having the right mentality and obeying moral rules is one thing; dealing with someone or something that doesn't share that mentality is another. That's why physical protection can still be necessary even in a society where people understand right and wrong. |
| Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by Roycemadeit(m): 8:19pm On Oct 04 |
MaxInDHouse:. . . Whether those soldiers have everything they want in life is completely beside the point. A person can lack many things and still choose to obey the law. The question is whether the weapons have any practical role in protecting people when someone chooses not to obey the law. If an armed criminal attacks an unarmed person, having the “right mentality” doesn't physically stop the attack. Another person, institution or security force may need the ability to intervene. Moral restraint explains why someone chooses not to misuse a weapon. The weapon can still explain how someone is physically able to stop another person who does misuse one. You're treating two different questions as one: why people obey the law and how society protects people when someone doesn't. Your argument doesn't establish that weapons are unnecessary. It only establishes that weapons don't automatically make people criminals. |
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