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truthhurts2well:
Names please!

he has none

HardMirror:
They are all Asfites.
No I can't answer your questions (imagine, mtchew)

guys can you see more?
Chai!

RoadsAndGreen:


Now he is not close to the brother. ohlala. Trying to distant himself bit by bit. we will be here till you cast your self

lol

truthhurts2well:
Who were the 3 people who told you/ Were they ASF people or CACCF people? For them to have told you this means they know you well and you cannot say you do not recollect at least one of these 3 people.

So can you answer my questions?

good one.

HardMirror:
These are details I can't give cos I can't recall. But when I heard the news, the school was in session. About 3 people told me this, don't forget I was not close to the brother.

guys, can you see this?

this guy deserves to be ban from NL. I mean for the REST OF HIS LIFE!

RoadsAndGreen:
people have profile pics on NL and i never hear anybody being beaten. stop making excuses. beside if people can sacrifice their lives to win souls why cant atheists sacrifice their own lives to save souls? loolz

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SirWere:
The trophy here is your rep and the credibility of your stories....

If your story cannot be verified then why should anyone listen to you


You started this story making some bold claims.... You shouldn't decide to desert it now that it's being reviewed.

It's basic common sense.

hardmirror still lacks the dignity to understand it.

Smallville10:
did d man die at d camp ground or not... If yes, how many persons can u say, were certain he died and they saw his body... How far did d news of death go

note: he said he NEVER saw the body

urahara:
So 2mao ur kind will see him on the road and beat him 2 death ba

sir, please can you think before you say anything?

truthhurts2well:
Seun if Hardmirror is unwilling to disprove then let people help approve or disprove it. Push this to the front page. People suffering from Histrionic Personality Disorder Symptoms which i believe he most likely is suffering from unbeknownst by him often need a wake up call before they can come out of it

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RoadsAndGreen:
where is johnydon22, i saw you drooling on that thread.

what do you have to say to this new development?

please, don't call him out yet from his hiding caban.

HardMirror:
Pls what trophy are we competing for?

You are not me. If I choose to go further I will. You can choose to doubt me till then. It is ok by me.

here the lair goes.....


no respect for himself!

HardMirror:
Jesus!!!
Damogul carried out investigations?
Biko tell me about it.
So reposting what was originally in hopefullandlord's thread is what you call investigation?
Pls get serious

I doubt someone will ever take you serious on NL again.

you just floored your respect.

truthhurts2well:
It surprises me that Seun would place a ban on damogul in the face of how important he is to this thread as the OP and he is asking questions from those who did not carry out any investigation.

this is a big shame!

HardMirror:
Hehehe What is getting too much?

your lies!

RoadsAndGreen:
you didnt ask questions before pushing his wonderful story to front page.

but now you are asking questions.

you act like a child

point!

Seun:
I guess a public investigation isn't going to work. The Christians want to discredit HardMirror at all costs because they think souls are at stake. Anyone who says anything that stands in the way of their goal will be accused of being all sorts of things. So where do we go from here?

hmm

frubben:
Lead and argument is different. U choose to argue with them. Because dey argue always that does not stop u from still teaching them

Of course, it does not.

That's why I will rekindle my grace evangelism again by God's grace, because it is for everybody. Both to the christians, muslims, atheists, unbelievers and agnostics.

At times, when preachers tell people about the message of the cross, they normally stop at the last paragraph. But, what happen there was not JUST what I wrote there.

To make you understand grace more, I have to break down the death of jesus here.

Note: the wages of sin is not ordinary death, rather death in hell(spiritual)

We were NOT forgiven because we were sorry for our sinful nature, or because we decided to be TRYING to live well or because of our prayer of forgiveness, these things does NOT WASH your sins away. We were forgiven because somebody decided to take the punishment of our eternal sins.

If a criminal is tried in a law court, proven guilty and condemned to death sentence. No matter how the criminal cries, begs, ask for forgiveness, it doesn't change the case. One thing that is certain is that JUSTICE must be done to the CRIME committed. The ONLY solution that can make the criminal to be forgiven, is that somebody WILLINGLY offered himself, to take up the punishment of the criminal, by being sentenced to death IN PLACE of the criminal. That's what happened in our case, but Jesus shed his blood for the forgiveness of our sins.



Stay in grace

When we were sinners, we were so WRETCHED, GUILTY, CAPTIVATED, and SO POWERLESS to deliver ourselves. Imagine that we had a salvation bank account and in our account we were not having zero rather, we were having "minus", OWING.

Now, in that position, we were fornicators, criminals, lairs, idolators and so on, who COULDN'T help themselves. God through his son, Jesus, decided to save humanity, by taking our ETERNAL PUNISHMENT.

You know that when someone is being kidnapped and is about to be liberated, usually a RANSOM must be rendered before the kidnapped can be liberated. We were kidnapped by the devil, and for God to save us, he has to offer a RANSOM.

And the ransom must be a man because it was a man,adam, that lost everything, who will take on himself the ETERNAL PUNISHMENT of others. At this point, God searched among the people but couldn't find one without sin, who could carry out this mission, because, we ALL were in the same bondage, nobody had the power to deliver himself let alone delivering others.


So God decided to come by himself in the likeness of man, in the person of Jesus. But how sure are we that Jesus is really God? Isaiah 9:6"For to us a Child shall be born, to us a Son shall be given; And the government shall be upon His shoulder, And His name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, MIGHTY GOD, EVERLATING FATHER, Prince of Peace."

Jesus didn't pay for our sins, he, himself, IS THE PAYMENT FOR SIN. Glory!!!!

When he came, he saw that ALL MEN were already condemned to death because of sin, he decided to take our place.

The punishment of the eternal sins of a world without end, which christ suffered can NEVER be of any effect to people who think that they can HYPOCRITICALLY STRIVE TO LOOK sinless perfect before men, rather christ died for us, HELPLESS and POWERLESS SINNERS, when we were not even trying to look righteous. We were absolute sinners, when he died!



Now, why are we sinners? We are NOT sinners because we commit sin. We are sinners because of what adam DID TO US ETERNALLY. Very terrible! Before you EVER committed your first sin, you were ALREADY a sinner. YOU WERE ETERNALLY BORN A SINNER, BECAUSE IT WAS IMPUTED ON YOU WITH NO WORKS FOR THE SAKE OF WHAT ADAM DID. Why, but I have not sinned at that time? Yes, that's exactly the problem.

Rom 5:12;" Therefore, just as sin came into the world THROUGH ONE MAN, and death through sin, and so death spread to ALL men because ALL SINNED". That is to say, that sin entered through one man, Adam, and it was imputed unto all men WITH NO WORKS.

If you are expecting sinless perfection by works of righteousness, then you will not find that, but will only end up condemning yourself, living in a deadly SIN-CONSCIOUSNESS, uncertainty of your salvation, constant prayer of forgiveness and worst of all FEAR OF HELL.

Now, before I go in details what grace is all about, I will like to give you a picture of what it looks like. And that boils down to our sinful nature and what happened at the cross.

When we were left to die and take the PUNISHMENT for our Past, present and future sins(ETERNAL SINS), which is eternal death in hell, Jesus decided to come. And guess what he did? I imagine him quoting rom 6:23; that the WAGES of our past, present and future sin is death but the FREE GIFT of God is ETERNAL LIFE. He now said; "okay I am going to pay for ALL the wages of your ETERNAL SINS, so that you can have access to the FREE GIFT of God, not withstanding sin". He said; "though you MERIT to REAP eternal death, but this time around, the law of sow and reap is not going to function again, because all the bad you have sowed, sowing and will ever sow, is what I am about to reap, so that I can give you eternal righteousness, eternal justification, eternal redemption, eternal holiness. Finally, he took our death and WILFULLY laid it on himself, and gave us his life. This is what is called GRACE. How dare you say you merit such love? Of course, you wouldn't say that, because it is really an UNMERITED favour.

Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were YET SINNERS(lairs, murderers, fornicators, idolators) , christ died for us.

Grace means an unmerited favour of God. It is not worked for, rather, it is a GIFT.

First of all, the reason why the grace of God was offered to us was because no one has the ability to live a sinless perfect life. NO ONE! Grace was given because we are naturally, morally POWERLESS to stop sinning and as well condemned eternally.

No matter, how any preacher who preaches that the heretic gospel of sinless perfection looks like, let it be settled in your heart that he is guilty of what he is preaching. Even moses, samson, david, paul and even peter, who blew it a BIG time, they were NOT sinless perfect. Sinless perfection(works) is NOT a requirement for eternal life, rather FAITH IN GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS is the ONLY requirement for eternal life. Nothing else!

I know that you have heard people who have told you to live a sinless perfect life to go to heaven. This is the greatest LIE of all times against the gospel of Jesus. But, the gospel truth BEFORE GOD AND MAN, is that those preachers were NEVER, is NOT and can NEVER be sinless perfect. Don't be deceived!

The gospel of Jesus(grace) is not a call to duty, is not a call to change the wrong and always deceive yourself as mr right, is not a call to do this and keep away from this. It is a GOOD NEWS to BELIEVE that Jesus never suffered at the cross in vain. A GOOD NEWS TO BELIEVE that Jesus has suffered the punishment of your eternal sins so that you can have PEACE with God. A GOOD NEWS, that Jesus died and went to hell for 3days for your eternal sins, so that NOT EVEN SIN can take you there. Only if you can believe the work he did in your place. It was you that suppose to die and go to hell but he did it WILLINGLY for you.

4kings:
Atheism is the lack of belief in the existence of gods or God.

So where is his 'Hate for God' coming from.

He was never an atheist, just confused!

See an atheist bishop who decides who is an atheist and who is not.

Tell me more pls!

Peace, Security, Freedom
Now what difference should this make in your life? For Martin Luther and John Bunyan the discovery of the imputed righteousness of Christ was the greatest life-changing experience they ever had. Luther said it was like entering a paradise of peace with God. For Bunyan it was the end of years of spiritual torture and uncertainty. What would you give to know for sure that your legal acceptance and approval before God was as sure as the standing of Jesus Christ, his Son?

It's free. This is what Christ came to do: fulfill a righteousness and die a death that would remove all your sins and become for you a perfect righteousness. He offers you this today as a gift. If you see him as true and precious, if you take the gift and trust in it, you will have a peace with God that passes all understanding. You will be a secure person. You will not need the approval of others. You will not need the ego- supports of wealth or power or revenge. You will be free. You will overflow with love. You will lay down your life in the cause of Christ for the joy that is set before you. Look to Christ and trust him for your righteousness.



JESUS IS THE WAY, NOT RIGHT LIVING!

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Christ Is Our Righteousness

This text says that Christ became to us (or for us) "righteousness." And the reason Christ is our
"righteousness" in this way is that we are "in Christ Jesus." "You are in Christ Jesus who became to us . . . righteousness." Christ is our righteousness, not faith. Faith unites us to Christ and all that God is for us in him. But what he is for us in him is righteousness.

So then what is the point of all this? The point is
this: When Paul says in Romans 4:22 (and verses
3, 5, and 9) that "faith is credited as righteousness," he does not mean that our faith
is our righteousness. He means that our faith
unites us to Christ so that God's righteousness in
Christ is credited to us.

Here's a very imperfect analogy. But I will risk it in the hope of greater understanding. Suppose I say to Barnabas, my sixteen-year-old son, "Clean up your room before you go to school. You must have a clean room, or you won't be able to go watch the game tonight." Well, suppose he plans poorly and leaves for school without cleaning the room. And suppose I discover the messy room and clean it. His afternoon fills up and he gets home just before it's time to leave for the game and realizes what he has done and feels terrible. He apologizes and humbly accepts the consequences.

To which I say, "Barnabas, I am going to credit your apology and submission as a clean room. I said, 'You must have a clean room, or you won't be able to go watch the game tonight. Your room is clean. So you can go to the game." What I mean when I say, "I credit your apology as a clean room," is not that the apology is the clean room. Nor that he really cleaned his room. I cleaned it. It was pure grace. All I mean is that, in my way of reckoning - in my grace - his apology connects him with the promise given for a clean room. The clean room is his clean room. I credit it to him. Or, I credit his apology as a clean room.

You can say it either way. And Paul said it both
ways: "Faith is credited as righteousness," and
"God credits righteousness to us through faith."
So when God says, this morning, to those who
believe in Christ, "I credit your faith as
righteousness," he does not mean that your faith
is righteousness. He means that your faith
connects you to God's righteousness.

Second, look at Romans 3:21-22, "But now apart
from the Law the righteousness of God has been
manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the
Prophets, even the righteousness of God through
faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe."
Notice that it is God's righteousness that comes
to us through faith. Faith is what unites us to God's righteousness. Faith is not God's righteousness.

Third, 2 Corinthians 5:21, "He [God] made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." Here we have a double imputation. God imputed our sins to Christ who knew no sin. And God imputed his righteousness to us who had no
righteousness of our own. The key phrases for us
are "the righteousness of God" and "in Him." It's
not our righteousness that we get here. It is God's righteousness. And we get it not because our faith is righteous, but because we are "in Christ." Faith unites us to Christ. And in Christ we have an alien righteousness. It is God's righteousness in Christ. Or you can say it is Christ's righteousness. He takes our sin. We take his righteousness.

Fourth, consider 1 Corinthians 1:30. John Bunyan
said that, after that experience in the field where
the imputed righteousness of Christ hit him so
powerfully, he went home and looked for Biblical
support. He hit upon 1 Corinthians 1:30. "But by
His [God's] doing you are in Christ Jesus, who
became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption." "By this scripture," Bunyan said, "I saw that the man Christ Jesus . . . is our righteousness and sanctification before God. Here therefore I lived for some time very sweetly at peace with God, through Christ" (Grace Abounding, p. 91).

Now what is the Biblical basis of that
interpretation?

John Owen, in volume five of his Works (pp. 318-319) gives five arguments, and John Murray in his commentary on Romans gives nine arguments (pp. 353-359) why "faith credited as righteousness" does not mean that faith is our righteousness. I will give a few of these.

First, notice that at the end of verse 6 and at the
end of verse 11 in Romans 4 you have a very different way of expressing "imputation" or
crediting. At the end of verse 6 it says, "God credits righteousness apart from works." And at the end of verse 11 it says, ". . . that righteousness might be credited to them."


Notice: in both of these, faith is not the thing credited as righteousness, but righteousness is the thing credited to us. "God credits righteousness," not "God credits faith as righteousness." What this does is alert us to the good possibility that when Paul says, "Faith is credited as righteousness," he may well mean, "God credits righteousness to us through faith."