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.

Vikky014:
lol mydear happy sunday.jst imagine oooo.by her logic d gospel came 14 yrs ago in obodo 9JA

malvisguy212:
T he first book of the Bible, Genesis, says that God chose Abraham to make into a great nation. The descendants of Abraham, the Jews, would establish the nation of Israel to become a people of God's own possession.God has chosen the Jew to reach out to the world.The bible is full of foreshadowing, an event that happen but God use it to show us what he will do in the future.hosea was a old testament prophet,in that book of hosea the children of isreal always disobey God,and God say he will scatters them and on the third day he will revive them and isreal shall live in my sight. This is a foreshadowing of how God is about to scatter isreal and reach out to the new testament church.

In acts 1:6-8
6 Then they gathered around him and
asked him, “Lord, are you at this time
going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
7 He said to them: “It is not for you to
know the times or dates the Father has
set by his own authority. 8 But you will
receive power when the Holy Spirit
comes on you; and you will be my
witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea
and Samaria, and to the ends of the
EARTH.”

God scatter isreal, for 1900 there is no nation of isreal, the scattered isreal became a nation in 1948,why? The gospel has been preach and isreal are about to live in the sight of God (the saints) now that you have hared the gospel, you have no excuse.

Vikky014:
to add to your list of question.5. why is it that christains are bombing the whole world?.6.why is shekau and mohammed a pastor?.

Bolt3:
The problem is that your blaming God for mans error. God has already instructed us to spread the gospel around the world. Yet there are places on earth till this day that hasn't heard the gospel like China. Now ask yourself is it God that is stopping you from going to China to preach the gospel? This is why God is very angry when we don't preach the gospel because there are potential Christians lost everyday just because of our Laziness. Left to God everyone would be a Christian but he doesn't like to intefer.

deasy:
Why did it take such years for the GOSPEL to reach Nigeria?

What a question?!...thinking
Should we blame God?...Absolutely NO!!!
Who should we blame?...Man? I think YES, Man should be blamed.

Here's my reason why I won't & will never blame God for the delay of the gospel. I know one thing for sure...that it cost God nothing to change every living human on earth into his own side, if HE can turn SAUL to PAUL. And guess what, everyone's heart is at his reach...BUT he won't pull everyone's to his own side. He want's Us all to make a our own choice.

Here's the reason why I will blame we men for the delay. I Observe one thing when God met SAUL on his way to DAMASCUS to kill & destroy the GOSPEL...within a second God changed him. But GOD didn't preach to HIM, he had to send him to a place, to a man who will instill...lemme use teach or pass the GOSPEL into him.
THIS WILL TAKE TIME...shabi? Saul no fit know all he knows in one day...he had to learn it. Even God in man(Jesus), while he was on earth had to wait to be trained, learn, filled with power and commissioned before He began His mission.

I WILL SAY GOD WORKS IN HIS OWN WAYS & WITH HIS OWN TIME...GOD ways & things is mysterious to us. It's kinda slow and steady to us.

BUT think about this...I blame men, because those who have receive the gospel early enough are STINGY!!!
This does happen a lot and it slows down GOD'S GOSPEL...in jerusalem after Jesus ascension his disciples were stingy. They never want to leave jerusalem despite his instruction "You will receive power and you will be my witness through out the ends of the earth" But GOD had to scatter them using PERSECUTION...mind You Saul led this.

Even after then, they still become stingy...that's why they face more persecution! In our present time, those who have receive the gospel were like this too...STINGY!
God will create a circumstance/situation to push His gospel to the ends of the earth even if we no wan preach!

The european have the gospel but they no wan bring am come here because they were scared...God create a circumstance/situation/situation(slavery) to bring it in.

And maybe slavery is our own punishment for not going after the light.

ObiChiz08:
OMG! I woke ts morning wt great xpectation, picked up ♍Ɣ phone, visited nairaland.com & †нε 1st topic on FP is ts. Damn it! Ɣ ts early sunday morning? All ts atheist & wanna-be atheists, can't ΰ guys mind ur business by focusing on being †нε best atheist of ts century instead u guys keep on wt blasphemy against Christianity as though it's †нε fault of Christianity dah u guys are atheists.
Just so annoying

aurenflani:


Is Israel a Christian nation? I thought that the Jews are still rejecting Jesus in Israel?

icebeatz:
Using bible logic.

God created the world in 7 days.
A day in eyes of God is like a thousand years to man.

So, in the eyes of man, God created the world in 7000 years.

IN THE EYES OF GOD, THE GOSPEL GOT TO AFRICA IN 2 DAYS.
In the eyes of man its 2000 YEARS.

Forget the circumstances through which the gospel came into africa.

The circumstances that also made joseph a leader was also pathethic but in the end, he rose and shone his light.

There are some parts of the world that has not heard the gospel.

Cellytones:


I prophesy that your generation will never lack God's defence as you have defended His word today. For those who still doubt. Go on!

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 strongly suggests there is no ''God'' involved in the whole christian charade. That's the point being made. I mean, if we can fly to Dubai in under 5 hours today, how come the Creator of the Universe (for whom human technology must be really really puny) couldn't get his message to us from that region for 2,000 years?

It was either

a) because he didn't consider the message important enough to bother (in which case why should we bother?) or

b) he wasn't involved in any of the stories claimed in the bible.

Which is it?

rehpotsirh00:

Winter is really really coming!!

miqos02:
whats your point sir? becos all religions (including traditionalists) believe there is a creator

chrissy3:
My greatest question no one has been able to give me concrete answer to and I pray the creator answers me. It goes like this " If God knows the end from the beginning,he knows you before you were born,he knows everything then he definitely knows before you were the kind of life you would live on earth right ? Now cause he knows everything which means he knows if you would be good or evil and you would die as one of them,why punish someone you created knowing fully well the person would be evil ? God can as well save the person from hell by not creating the person knowing fully well the person would end in hell.I know people would answer and say its a choice thing but if choice comes into the equation, it means God doesn't know everything cause choice is when you have to choose btw options and if God knows the option you would choose, then you seize to have a choice.

ROSSIKE:


Through research and study. Do you know that as earth humans we only see around 1% of what is around us? We can only see that tiny bit of matter which reflects llght. But 99% of matter in the universe does not reflect light, so we can't (ordinarily) see it. There are many realms of existence.

ROSSIKE:


Dude, use your brain for once in your life. 2,000 yrs is an approximation. We know it got here around the 19th century, meaning something like 1,867 years or something. And of course there was no 'Nigeria' 2000 years ago, but the territory now known as Nigeria existed, with people living in it, did it not? I mean, maybe it's an IQ problem with you, I don't know...More likely you're seeking to dodge the main question by raising irrelevant strawman arguments. That won't work.

Samakinr:

Re-read this. Does it really mean any sense to you?? . Yea, I said, atheism requires a Degree of faith. What faith it is is what makes the difference. Peace bro

PAGAN9JA:


Shut up u fool! Ur gospel has created enough wahala in the world already u satanic agent from the pit of the underworld. U berra repent and serve the GODS of ur forefathers or else die or get killed in ur own ignorance. Fool!

Austin234:
Lol. Tanx 4 d insult. I refuse to take offense.
But permit me to still direct u to Christ. Accept Jesus now

bolliejay:

I don't trade words on NL but l can't help than to reply u dis once.....................
U are nothing but a frustrated satanist agent looking for who to misled.......u beta give ur life to christ b4 its too late!
And lemme warn u, sin against the father is forgivable, sin against the son is forgivable but sin against the holy spirt is NOT...I repeat watch wat u SAY!
2day is the last sunday of the year lemme go worship, dance to my maker who make me witness it.

Justdulla:
The Holy Torah, Bible were all guides sent by God to aid humanity,but when the were corrupted, God then decided to send down the quran...And i have a question for everyone, Jesus Said a Being would come after him that he will come to redefine faith, but christians called him the Holy Spirit,that couldnt be seen instead of admitting it was Prophet Mohammed PBUH...God sent Human being all the while as prophets and preachers why the sudden change to Holy spirit then,Pastors now speak in tongue under the influence of Jinns and they say they are communicating with the spirit indeed...

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!!

PAGAN9JA:


We want to restore Traditional Religion in Nigeria and end the menace of foreign religion here once and for all.

frakdon:
indeed nd what is that traditional religion, yu r talking about, nd also hw hv yu promoted it around yu?