naa bandy, again you deliberately twist my words in order to have a wobbly leg to stand on

Banderas:

Heh heh. I was speaking about simple english. Do you memorise the bible? The answer is yes, you do. Oh, I admit you memorise it out of understanding, but you do memorise it. Almost all your posts are supported by some quote or the other from the bible.

Read my last two posts again and my answer to that question has been a consistent NO. I do not make the effort to memorise the scriptures but by virtue of having grown up in a home where the bible is read morning and night, certain scriptures stick to your memory. I still find myself having to refer back to the bible to locate full quotes most times.
The essence of my posts is to READ with UNDERSTANDING not merely to memorise a language i do not understand. The quranic equivalent of what Nuru claims is that i memorise Hebrew texts. That makes no sense if i don't understand Hebrew at all.

Banderas:

To the best of my knowledge, you do this because your faith tells you to, and not because common sense says it's a good thing to read the bible and quote from it. However, you seem to think it's okay to take the mickey out of someone else's faith that tells him to memorise his quoran. That is what I have a problem with. You have NO respect for other people's beleifs, yet you expect people to agree when you quote the bible.

Naa, again you fail miserably to understand myy point. The bible does not say to memorise it that was why i quoted the earlier two passages. Lazarus in the bible was so poor he could hardly afford a bible, yet he died and went to heaven. Which bible was he reading to get there? If you can afford the bible and read it then you do so to learn more about the God you purport to worship.

Banderas:

From a hardcore muslim (or other faith) point of view, all your quoting means the same to me as a dog barking. I listen for wisdom. I look out for tolerance. You have neither.

That is essentially what you have closed your mind to always see in my posts ever since the last verbal tussle we had. It has very little to do with points raised on this thread of which your sheer lack of ability to grasp the real essence of this posts is clear for all to see. You don't really listen for wisdom because it is not an attribute you have, you listen rather for just about anything that will justify your tenous attempts to reach God by works and not by faith.
tolerance? It is not intolerance to question why a student memorises his engineering textbook rather than try to understand the concepts. . .

Banderas:


Oh the irony of it all. And the hypocrisy. You criticise someone because of his religious beleifs, and because he knows his scripture, yet here you are quoting your own scripture. in essense, knowing scripture is only alright when you're the one who knows it.

You give Christianity (and by reference, Christ) a bad name. Sir.

Not really, the problem is the same. In your haste to hunt down percieved errors and hypocrisy in my post because of your clouded mind you have failed miserably to understand the meat in my last few posts.

- I ask a simple question, why do muslims MEMORISE the quran? Nuru answers that it is simply because it is the words of allah - of course i agree that he is right. But the question here is what is the essence of simply memorising the quran in a language you do not understand? What is the spiritual benefits of memorising prayers in arabic, reciting tafsirs taught in the mosque and yet you have no clue what they mean?

Now in your misguided haste to appear smart, you attempt to ask me if that means i do not memorise the bible. Of course my answer is NO, the bible CLEARLY indicates that to memorise it is of no use, the most important aspect is that you understand what it says by the leading of the Holy Spirit and allow those very words you read apply to the life that you live.

Without faith - IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD. . . for he who comes to God must believe that He is God, and a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him

The bible cannot make itself much more simpler than that. Allegedly doing good deeds to the poor will get you no where.

Banderas:

PTH obviously doesn't memorise the bible.

no sir, memorising the bible is a futile exercise. Reading with the aim of understanding what is there is the key.
The bible says - for the letter killeth but the spirit it giverth life.
The bible says yet again - too much reading is a weariness to the soul.

In essence - it is not how much you read and memorise the letters, but how much you understand and apply those scriptures to your life.

nuru:

Because it is the Word of Allah. Try memorizing some verses yourself and see what the big deal is all about.

You just memorise because it is the word of allah? How about trying to even understand what you memorise?

gnite all, thanks acidrop!

roaring in laughter at Debo's ridiculous attempts to pass himself off as the tired and jaded Theiry Henry.  
Little does he know that the new kid on the block is the irresistible Lionel Messi.

wishing everyone a goodnite's sleep and praying angels watch over ur teeny heads as you close your eyes to sleep.

Hoping omoge25 would give us a chance to register our voices for the lottery.  

wishing tnaidaR a happy night's (errr sorry morning's) rest. . . and wondering when she'll snap out of the Debo fantasy and just hug the ever elusive Eto'o.

Wondering why omogenaija expects me to understand the fact that she is thinking of having old men over to her house.

wondering why omogenaija wants to have old men over.

Just cant wrap my mind around the fact that niceuzor actually believes i would waste a couple of seconds hating on a citizen of a city of shit?  

hoping omoge learns a lesson that good guys come like a candle in the wind.  

wondering why niceuzor is steadfastly determined to humiliate himself.

Wondering whether Debo is aware that tigers actively hunt buffalo for sport.

thinking Monrovia is actually a place of shit.

wondering why tnaidaR wants Sarah or Sera to queue

thinking even 1950's men had way more game than the lame niceuzor  

hmmm just hoping Debo alias buffalo would wake up from his prolonged state of REM sleep  

wondering whether omoge25 is refering to desperate women?

Just wishing Debo realised that denuded chickens have got more game than raging buffalos who fall asleep after 5 mins.  

wondering why niceuzor wont just focus on liberian women close to home and leave our wives alone.

thinking omoge25 might like to listen to a far less husky voice that talks through the nose. . .  

just wondering why debo is still determined to live in fantasy island as far as tnaidaR is concerned. . . i first you reach dia!  

hoping omoge would calm down and realise a kiss shared is a problem solved.

just hoping this is not a sneak preview into oga Debo's sex life. . . 5 mins and then zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

just hoping omogenaija realised that there is plenty of joy in sharing. . .

Wondering if tnaidaR realised her kiss caught me square on the lips. . . hmmm

wishing tnaidaR knew that i would love to kiss her and omoge too!  

Just wondering when debo expects omogenaija to be old enough for her first kiss.   79 years?

wishing tnaidaR knew that i even see a lot more visions these days.  

wondering if omoge knew i got the indomie orders this morning. . .  itching to plant one more wet kiss on omogenaija's lips! She rocks!

thinking of how to plant a huge kiss on omogenaija's rosy cheeks

just looking at omoge25's response and laughing so hard its virtually impossible to think! 

wondering why it took omogenaija 20yrs to figure out it was poor old me all the while.  

Just wondering what light brown weaves with golden strands would look like in high school geography class.

Considering a candy coming from a cute chic wont be a bad idea afterall even if she's a naija chic.

wondering whether English still remains the medium of learning in niceuzor's wartorn Liberia.  

Just hoping no one believes niceuzor's false definition of PTH.

Clutching my sides with laughter and gawking withh unbelief that omogenaija could believe tnaidaR was a barber!

just wondering whether omoge25 realises i just might be another "stubborn" naija man in disguise.  

imagining why tnaidaR thinks her name and notorious should not appear in the same sentence.  

Just wondering why Debo continues to decieve himself when he is securely married to no one but his barber.

just wondering why niceuzor expects omoge25 to reply him when she is still busy banging on about "stubborn" naija men.

perhaps silently ruminating on why omogenaija who claims to be nosy would just be meeting the notoriously famous tnaidaR for the first time.