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litigator:
This is one area of our Biblical journey we often shy away from talking about.

I am certain I am not alone in this regard.

How does it feel if at 9. am on a Sunday morning, I come out for an altar call after a powerful heart-shattering and guilt-provoking sermon, give my life to Christ; I am prayed for and declare born again, but I unconsciously commit a sin on my way back home?

And with that guilt, I go back to sin full time like it was before the alter call?

I guess I am not alone in this regard. I have attended church services countless times and listened to sermons and teachings that I can't recollect, and at the end of such endeavour, I obey the alter call one minute, and the next minute, I am back to fornicating. This is one thing that has kept a lot of people out of this spiritual journey.

Even Pastors are not immune to sin, as some have found themselves committing sin at one point or the other. I guess Apostle Paul suffered same in the Bible. And this brings me to my question.


Does being again make you immune to sin, and is it a vaccine against sinning?

Is it that if I sin, it will no longer count against me because I have Grace?

Or is it a merry-go-round of sinning and asking for forgiveness shortly afterwards until we get better at not sinning anymore?

And if the latter is the case, why do churches hate and guilt-shame members when they sin but defend pastors when they do the same?

Before I answer your questions in a simple way, please always keep in mind the religion is responsible for making these things as difficult as it seems.

For instance, someone gave you a good answer. You should question the argument not bother about which religious clique he/she belongs to.

Back to your questions. From my own perspective so far,

1. Does being again make you immune to sin, and is it a vaccine against sinning?
No. Your spirit got saved and born again. Your body will always be your body and will never be saved; the body will suffer all the consequences of past and previous sins on earth and will perish in the same earth.

Being born again is not a vaccine from sin. As long as your body remains in this world, you will continue to sin one way of the other. Everybody sins. God doesn't weigh sins. Nobody has the right to judge or forgive someone's sin. We are all the same before God.

What Born Again does is to give you a brand new spirit. I wish I can break this down to you but good luck to your understanding.


2. Is it that if I sin, it will no longer count against me because I have Grace?

When you sin, realize your wrong by confessing your sins and ask for forgiveness. That is what grace requires. Your body will suffer the consequences of your sin on earth. But grace allows you to get back to God anytime. You sef forgive yourself once you realize your wrongs and stop feeling guilty.

There is no immunity to sin as long as you are alive. If you want to continue in sin and always bank on grace, you dey whine yourself thinking you are whinnin God. Realization and Confession of sin is the first sign of God's grace on your life. If these two things are missing, forget it. Oya sope otilor.


3. Or is it a merry-go-round of sinning and asking for forgiveness shortly afterwards until we get better at not sinning anymore?

Like I said, you just deceiving if you keep enjoying your sins and claiming grace religiously. Naturally, every new born Christian is expected to continue in their old ways. Grace allows you to see your wrongs and work towards correcting it permanently.

If grace helps you to stop sinning permanently, that's a good thing. But remember, Grace will not stop you from suffering the consequences of every sin while you are on earth. The world is still suffering from man's first sin.

4. And if the latter is the case, why do churches hate and guilt-shame members when they sin but defend pastors when they do the same?

Well, this is always the tricky question. Men will be men. All the affairs in churches are not different from other social circles and that's all I have to say on that.

Before you ask, I am not a religious person. I lived in a Christian home and have studied up to two religions. I believe God is God and the different religions are God speaking in different languages. Na my own be that.

5 tweets is equals to Nigerians. Something is wrong with journalism in Nigeria

Lol. You are new there, you better stop trying to correct anything. Do the job you are paid for. As long as the error does not implicate or involve you in anyway, abeg mind your business. After a while when you have a good understanding of the place, you will know if to report and who to report to. Until then, face your business.

dfrost:
The heat of the game is getting closer to home base. Allay! our fears are gradually unfolding .

Lol. Everyone knows lowkey sha.

It's small but the most important thing right now is transparency and consistency.

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Of course, governments around the world are doing that already. We need sensible drug-related laws in the country. Even if you don't legalize weed, at least make everybody understand the health benefits of using it. Stop keeping people in the dark.

OK. The police are wrong sha, typical of Nigerian police. But wait ooo, I don't know how I would feel if it was my wife that got caught in all this. For real, it is morally wrong for married woman to visit another person wife inside hotel na. Let's be honest with our sef. Jeez

The stupid Governor is succeeding in making Ganduje looks like a saint while rubbish Kwankwaso legacy. Such a fool.

Tems getting nominated everywhere without a single album out will always be funny to me. She is good but I am hoping she is not overhyped at this point.

Anyone that knows the relationship between Pat Utomi and Tinubu should know better. This is just an open secret. But, it is wat it is.

Yeye stats upandan


There is serious insecurity in Nigeria and this stats does little or nothing to show the level of insecurity we are facing. Why bring up a statistics that does not even show what the problems are?

A stat that can't even show the relationship between the killings and Buhari's flawed security policies. Yet, u say this and that were killed under Buhari. Na Buhari kill dem?

We have a long way to go in this country. The rate of mediocrity and incompetence is high abeg.

Lawyers will milk this thing ehnnnn

God is humbling many so-called pastorpreneurs around the world. All these happened in the last US elections. Many top men of God are still sucking their wounds.

AndroidAI:
A straight man that's secure with his sexuality will not be threatened by crossdressers or drag queens.

In fact, they will find this situation comical.

But closeted gays struggling with internalised homophobia will never be comfortable.

There are a lot of married men today who are gays or bi living in denial and in hiding, and claiming to be straight.

Now I am suspecting Davido.

See useless yarns. WTF are u saying? I will be f**ing irritated. This is how yall twist narratives to confuse straight guys to become gays. Nonsense and ingredient

spacechuks:
Because PDP knows they didn't stand a chance with LP,

For now, stop making reference to who came out 3rd or 1st, we are saying the umpire who declared that position is fraudulent and the Yakubu himself have not come out to defend himself

How will you feel when your university issued you a pass certificate when you know you deserved a 1st class,

Well God is a just God and He is watching,

All of you supporting evil in this country because of tribe will suffer from evil, you will not be given what is deserved yours,

We the youth rejects APC president elect,

We the south south rejects APC president elect,

A thief with no honour

Stop saying 'we'. Most youths support LP but not all youths. Why is this so difficult for yall to accept?

Many did not even read it to the end and that's the real pandemic in this country. Anyways, the bishop said so much that hits almost all person. But in the end, these words will do nothing to change the false narratives on ground.

For me, someone needs to tell Peter Obi the truth. Of course Buhari leadership style brought divisions all along, but Peteru divided Nigeria more by not being able to control his youth supporters. This is the truth. No be today dem dey rig election so why create this huge Division. PDP wey come second are also in court and are not making noise. But, those disruptive ones trying to claim they are more Nigerian than others, will go to any length to create false narratives. Imagine the respected Chimamanda calling on US not to congratulate Tinubu. Sake of say wetin! So if no be democracy we dey sef, people like that wud av burned this country down just cause your guy did not win elections.

The same people went to Army headquarters seeking for interim government
Their VP made himself judge on live TV
The same people said they should not swear in the president until court process is over
The same people spread false news about the Supreme Court judge

All for what? Na third you carry sef

Funny. I just watched the movie. Me I don taya for all these desperation to paint a narrative about Lagos politics. King of boys. Shanty Town. And now this. Can they just stop this Plagiarism? Why create different movies with the same narrative? Wats the point? We now get it. Lagos is controlled by one central godfather who send touts to kill each other. Please, write something else abeg.