sapientia:


you just posted things that i know of.. No new thing there... Am a voracious reader.. I know much about *almost* every religion.. Thanks to google.. But that is different from to study them.. I dont care what myths said about who and who.. Greek gods are non existent.. Aside muslim and christianity.. Other religions have just incoherent confusing unconfirmed ridiculous fictitious stories.. Let me not digress.. Bro.. I say it one more time.. If it aint christianity (living like christ).. Am no more interested.. Thanks

Weah96:


May God bless you and keep you. Away from me.

waldigit:


Of course he passing through a session a man experiences when they start thinking they can outsmart God and are not ready to pay price of humility and wait on office of Holy Spirit to reveal Christ and Gods' inward secret to them. Its not new I have been there before.

cecegorz:
Oh dear.
I just saw the thread you created on your journey to endless search of the church history.
The truth is that the end of your search will create more doubts and even backslideness if you insist on that quest.
This was why Paul warned the Colossians to beware of the philosophers of this world, follow their writings and your faith goes out the window in no time.
The Just shall live by faith! Either this or you go down to sense ruled philosopher who believes in one God for all the religions.
Believe me, those new 'discoveries' are enticing for someone with a probing mind, that was how Grail message nearly led me astray before I found Christ.
Don't wait till you get to the point of no return brother!

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!!

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.

Amberon:
this is a known fact to every christian. the bible says " the things you don't see are more real than the things you see".

cloudgoddess:

So... fiction is more real than reality?

Amberon:
dear sis, kindly tell me what air looks like to you. have you seen it? no! but you know its real. yet its so important that without it we would all die.

cloudgoddess:

Sigh not this 3rd grade level air analogy again. You realize we can physically test air, right? And determine its chemical content with instruments? That's how we know air is real. We don't need to use our imaginations to conclude that air is real.

Amberon:
oh really?? when it comes to a similar example using air it becomes 3rd grade, lol.

whether you've tested it or not doesn't mean you've seen it. by the way, how did you know that mars and Venus exists, have you been there?

Look. there's proof of the unseen in everyday life. I've experienced so many things that you'll debunk if I told you. Angels, demons exist. They see you but you don't see them. if you're spiritually dead, you'll never see them. But it doesn't mean they ain't there.

Amberon:
oh really?? when it comes to a similar example using air it becomes 3rd grade, lol.

whether you've tested it or not doesn't mean you've seen it. by the way, how did you know that mars and Venus exists, have you been there?

Look. there's proof of the unseen in everyday life. I've experienced so many things that you'll debunk if I told you. Angels, demons exist. They see you but you don't see them. if you're spiritually dead, you'll never see them. But it doesn't mean they ain't there.

lepasharon:


What do angels look like?

lepasharon:

What do angels look like?

cloudgoddess:

What the heck? Are you seriously still trying to compare things that have clear physical & chemical evidence for their existence (air, planets), to things that exist only in peoples' imaginations (devils, angels, gods)? Are you honestly trying to tell me you can't tell the difference between the two categories?

Something is direly wrong with Nigeria's education system.

brocab:
Quote>What do angels look like?
Of course you may-not be interested what I have to say but hey-you won't believe it-I actually seen a angel in my dream-he stood 15-20 foot high at least, huge. He had a book in his hands-writing something down, I did speak to him-but bro-it was like he was standing in front of me in person.
Angels can come in all sizes-the one I seen was huge-and he looked like a man, but in a larger form without flesh.

Psylas:
is that answer to the qestion?

brocab:
It took 2000 years only because the Roman Catholic Church refuses to spread the word of God-only because they didn't want the world to know the truth about Christ.
It wasn't the Catholic's that allowed us to understand the bible, it was men and women who had risk their lives, torched and murdered by the Catholic Church, they were the modern day disciples spreading the word of God out into the open, so all man kind can enjoy God's true blessings He had installed for us.
The Catholic Church couldn't worship their pagan god's, while the people wanted to know more about the truth.
The Catholic Church went into great lengths to destroy the word becoming world wide.
I remember in the late 50's early 60's the Catholic Church would only have the bible written in Latin, so a very small few could understand it's meaning.
Pope Francis is calling all Churches to reunite back to the Catholic Church, only because he wants the world to become Catholic, you refuse, you die.

dmandy:


Waoh,

I would love to hear more of this. He had no flesh? brother what exactly had he 'bones'?

LoJ:
Hello to all.

I would like to go back to the original question. "Why Did It Take 2,000 Years For The Gospel To Reach Nigeria?"

The truth in my sensing is, before the religion called "Christianity" came to Nigeria (and Africa and Asia, etc.) they were already great followers of Christ and even prophets of Christ. Attention must be drawn to the fact that, Religion and Spirituality are not one and the same thing. Religion is usually the institutionalization and formalisation of the teaching of a Prophet or a Truth Bringer such as Muhammad, Elijah, Buddha, JESUS, etc. by their followers. And usually those followers created a system to systematize those teachings which they oftentimes did not understand perfectly and introduced consciously or unconsciously errors and mistakes and thereby distorted their Message. Sometimes, the prophets themselves failed to live up to their callings, and introduced errors in their message out of some impurity or immaturity of their soul.

When JESUS came to the World, his message and Actions were anchored deeply in the divine (being God the Son) and hence impacted the whole cosmos. Thus from that time (till today) anybody anywhere in the world can have access to the original words of JESUS, with or without human intervention.

So when the Religious evangelists came to the shore of Africa, they were already people who were connected to Christ, and were even better followers of JESUS than the preachers themselves. Of course they may not have called him "JESUS". Jesus is a name, the most important is the entity to whom we are referring to. Even today, people from various tongues, call him differently.

This still applies today: There are people outside the various religions churches and temples, who are better followers of Christ than many preachers and religious people.

Religion is different from Spirituality. And Religion is not a requirement to the true service/worship of GOD.

I wish you all blessings.

brocab:
Because the Catholic Church wouldn't allow it to get through.

LoJ:

Hello Brocab,

How can a human institution (the catholic church) hold captive a divine institution (the message of God)? Is that even possible?

Blessings.

brocab:
They did it for centuries

brocab:
You don't believe their are angels-he had no flesh [/b]like ours-standing tall as he was-he showed great authority from the Lord.
You can have your laugh if you wish-but I assure you-you may never see an angel from God in your [b]hole life time-because you disbelieve they exist. Your mocking say's it all.

dmandy:


I only asked you what he had. Bones?

Again, you will have to wait until I get a hole life before you stop posting blasphemy against the angel of God.