₦airaland Forum

frosbel:
Valid question.

Now let's see how the Nairaland Christian Theologians will dribble around this one.

FP please.

tpia0002:
was there a Nigeria 2000 years ago?

ROSSIKE:
frosbel my brotha, please, how far is the middle east from Nigeria that it should take the Creator of this universe 2,000 years to extend his 'good news of the kingdom' from that region to Nigeria? He deliberately left us 'in the dark' for that period. Why? He saw our ancestors engaging in 'sinful practices' like 'idol worshiping', and said, ''Oh, I'll just leave them for another 2,000 years, till the time comes when the white man in Europe needs slaves, and lands rich in gold and silver to exploit and get rich, before the news reaches them''. This christian 'God' is indeed strange in his operations, and sure seems to favor white folk over blacks!

tpia0002:
was there a Nigeria 2000 years ago?

tobechi74:
Dont blame God,blame man

ROSSIKE:
If 'Jesus, the son of God' came to this earth and was born in the middle east in 1 AD, how come it took 2,000 years before this message from ''the son of god'' reached us in Nigeria? And then only when Europeans needed slaves and lands to colonize and loot for raw materials necessary to power their industrial revolution? Are you saying God did not deem it necessary to inform all those millions of Africans that would have lived from 1 AD to 1850 of the glorious kingdom of his son until Europeans decided just a couple hundred years ago they needed to raid Africa and loot resources? Did 'God' really 'postpone' the Nigerian introduction to his 'truth' until such a time as the Europeans needed to conquer and loot our lands, a full 2,000 years down the line, and why?

The ways of this imported 'God' are indeed strange!!

ROSSIKE:
You don't get it do you? The fact that it took 2,000 years for the gospel to reach Nigeria from the middle east

tpia0003:
you have to move past this fallacy in your thinking if you are really seeking answers and not trying to draw traffic and hold gigabytes.

are you implying christianity did not reach west africa until 2000AD?

was there a nigeria 2000 years ago?

We know it got here around the 19th century

tpia0003:
really

frosbel:
Valid question.

Now let's see how the Nairaland Christian Theologians will dribble around this one.

FP please.



I asked this question to one of them, Teacher shdemidemi and he boldy proclaimed that their fate was sealed by predestination irrespective of them never having heard of Christ, what !!!

Mind Boggling.

tpia003:
Christianity reached Egypt in 43 AD.


From there it grew steadily until the Arab conquest of North Africa., after which it was concentrated to the southern parts, specifically around Ethiopia.

ROSSIKE:
Who is talking about Egypt and Ethiopia?

saintopus:
It looks like the people are gradually awakening. People have started asking questions which less than ten years ago many would have accepted it "whole and sinker ". Of course no thanks to social media and technology. We have started seeing the light after many years of mental slavery. I think honestly the church have a lot to do. Things will never be thesame again. I see Nigeria and Africa in general rising again. Maybe if we are lucky, many will revisit the core African Traditional religion. No nation develop fast outside its culture and traditional beliefs. We may not go a long way throwing away our indegenous beliefs and embracing foreign religion.
Orthodox religions of Islam and Christianity have a lot to do. It may be small at first, but with time, someone have to explain.

cecegorz:
Frosbel, it seems like you are gradually turning into an atheist.
Like they say in NL, I just dey observe o

ROSSIKE:
Who is talking about Egypt and Ethiopia?

Bolt3:
Yet there are places on earth till this day that hasn't heard the gospel like China.

tpia003:
was there a Nigeria during the time frame you have in mind?

kevoh:
Please, stop talking commenting and spreading ignorance. Christianity got to China sometime in the 8th Century.

Bolt3:
Really, I didn't know that. That doesn't change the fact that less than 1% of the Chinese population are Christians.

According to a survey conducted in 2010, hundreds of millions of people practice some kind of Chinese folk religions and Taoism; of these 754 million (56.2%) people practice Chinese ancestral veneration, only 215 million (16%) believing in the existence of ancestral shen[note 1], 173 million (13%) adopt Taoist practices on a level which is indistinguishable from Chinese folk religion.[17] The same survey reports that 185 million (13.8%) are Buddhists, 33 million (2.4%) are Christians, and 23 million (1.7%) are Muslims.[17] In addition to Han local religion, also some non-Han ethnic minorities follow their traditional autochthone religions... Wikipedia Source

shdemidemi:
Gradually!!!That is putting it mildly. Your friend is anything but a CHRISTian.