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CAMEROONPRIDE: i said it already i only confessed twice in my life the first time during my communion and the second time during my confirmation ,also each time there were people waiting in line and we were outside , so calm down madam i have never been abused by a priest

eni mcnite: The BEST and the 1st picture I tot I ought to have seen in this thread should've been the. Picture of a Vulture waitin for a crawling African baby to die, a starvin baby that was crawlin to a nearby Unicef camp about 10km away but d baby obviously didn't make it And the Stupid Photographer dat took the pic killed himself after 3months of miserable tots of d incident where he could've saved the baby's life!

Lovethywilbedon: Please try to make the difference between diagrams and reality. Is "that" what your Priest did to you In any of the two Confessions you miraculously attended? If so please post the real pictures for us lets see.

natruetalk: bro. can i have autopivots link for dowload please

ijawkid: Lol.....you don finish me with laugh.....lmao.....

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faragai24: My Dear Nairalanders

Do you know that All sort of carnivals are un-religion and satanic, they are meant to invorke dark forces,the evil, the lucifer, in return of the worldly gain, it is usually practice by Pagan, Satanist, and traditionalist, It is a religion on its own practiced by the fore fathers of todays pagan, take closer look at how the event is organise, it is usually organise at the end of the year to commenserate with the time HORUS, the pagan god, was born.

It is not worthy of celebrating by either Christian or Muslim hence this two religion are termed as the Right hand religion.

hornipipe:
You-ll-Never-Walk-Alone
When you walk through a storm
hold your head up high
And don’t be afraid of the dark.
At the end of a storm is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark.
Walk on through the wind,
Walk on through the rain,
Tho’ your dreams be tossed and blown.
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone,
You’ll never, ever walk alone.
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone,
You’ll never, ever walk alone

ijawkid: The only time wey scriptures go get problem with you na when you stop to eat yam as food ,then begin do festival for the yam in imitation of the new yam festival starters.......shey u get??....no persecute me for wetin I talk o...

dekung: Why steal childhood from your children just because you are paranoid. Am sure your shadow must be evil since it distorts its own shape at will. Many of us here watched voltron, and all the Hagar the witch issues yet we turned out like sane human beings. Just because some deluded pastor in your church thinks its bad then you swallow everything hook, line and sinker. Ok let me shock you if you do not already know....if you ever wished anyone merry xmas then you have passively partook in a pagan holiday/celebration.

jamace: Exactly. Scam brokers will do anything to ensure your trades don't win. Have you ever experienced a situation where you put a pending order (whether it be take profit, stop loss, buy limit, sell limit, etc) and price will come on the pending order and starts dancing AWILO or is it AZONTO, without TRIGGERING the pending order?

plappville: Zikkyy, the Church still keep the trees and other Christmas decorations, caros are used, etc...You cannot change the uniformity of this old custom.

The only thing they didn't continue in is the killing of thier infants children. The decoration and disguise remains.

plappville: According to Scripture, If the day of our death is better than the day of our birth,as some of God’s greatest servants said their birth date was far from being a special day, then how special can our birthday be? you will be the one to answer this question, It shows that birthday is not a time to express joy, sing and expect gifts, simply because one is born into the world on a specific date.

Jeremiah 20:14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

See it to ur face, i am not fabricating it.

Yahnur: Your opinion!

ijawkid:
........you guys claim the reason for the season is Jesus,but na lie....the reason for the season is for paganism to surface and rule..........
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plappville: Its like in Benin, there is a feast they call "Igwe" they do this yearly, imagin a pastor will just wake up and tell them, enough is enough
I have come to present to u my God, he is a living God urs is a dead one, and the people reply ok we would like to accept ur God but we can't let go our Igwe feastival.
The pastor will now tell them, ok you can continue to do ur "igwe" but this time to the new God, we will change the name to "loveforgodfeast", the people are completely happy because thier igwe is not taken away from them. They continue to celebrate thier usual "Igwe", the change of name is nothing to them.

This is How Christmas has come to stay, do you think God will welcome/share such celebration that was not originally for/from Him?

jer 10: 2 thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.

TroGunn: Your answer is clear - in your opinion, there is nothing wrong in adopting a Sango worshipping festival as long as we say we dedicate it to God.

However, clear biblical evidence shows your opinion is incorrect. What you are saying and doing is not new. The Israelites did something similar.

Exodus 32:1-8 shows how they, in their wisdom did a "a feast to the LORD" adopting pagan mode of worship. Dedicating their wrong practice to God, did not make it right. And God was displeased.

Note too that the pagan practices associated with the pagan celebration - the trees as used in the decoration, Santa, the use of lighting, etc - all had meaning which tied to their wrong beliefs and way of worship and were not just ordinary decorations.

We should know how Jesus feels about presumptuously adding man-made practices to God's worship. Jesus said: "In vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men" (Matthew 15:9). Christmas observance is a tradition of men.

true2god: Tank God dat ur founding fathers celebrated xmas (in ignorance, according to u). And u tink there are xcuses for ignorance? Dats ok.

In order word pple dat r celebrating xmas now are worshipin idol cos ur organization now paganizes xmas. While Russel, Rutherford and co dat celebrated xmas some 60 to 80 yrs ago will be ressurected afta armagedon, the xtains celebrating now will not be ressurected cos ur organization now sees it as a pagan stuff. Is dat logical? Who made u or ur org jugde over the pple of God?

Tell me a single place u see any libation, sacrifice, incantation is bein made durin xmas (aside frm picnickin, observing holiday, resting at home, visiting friends etc).

Im sure new yr is also dedicated to idol according to una belief.

truthislight: "strawman"

i have got no time to west.

truthlyt: yes i do that once in a while, God's servants are a happy people.

Yahweh said that the sons of Israel should use the converted tith money to buy wine and alcoholic drink and rejoice while serving him.

truthlyt: "And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness." (1 John 5:19).

Zikkyy: I think people just want to talk for the fun of it. Christians and pagans live in the same world. God made everything for our use. It is not the use of materials that makes one pagan, it is how you use it. I.e is it used to worship Satan? is it used in a manner God dislikes? God made the trees for our use, should we now destroy or remove every trace of the Christmas tree from the planet because pagans used it? While Jews were giving bulls as burnt offerings to God, pagans were burning their bulls to Baal. Who owns the material for sacrifice, Jews or pagans?

truthislight: ok, i will die out of this satan's ruled world one day if God's kingdom does not come in my life time.

But i hope that you, after all this celebration of your birthday will lived forever in this satan ruled world and continue to celebrate Chrismas and your birthday, if not, i pity you for your wested effort in futility.

The Scripture shows all evidence that the use of Ring is positive. With the few passages i have read, I'm yet to see where it indicate, either directly or indirectly, that
the wearing of rings (wedding bands or otherwise) is wrong. (Genesis 41:41-42) records Joseph’s acceptanc of a ring given him by Pharoah.

Because of Joseph"s faithful service to God, God favoured him in Pharoah’s eyes. as a result,Joseph was promotioned to the second highest office in Egypt.
If this had been displeasing to God, He (God) would ve made it known to Joseph. Futher chapters of Genesis show that Joseph continued to receive God’s blessing and guidance.

In the later centuries, the Israelites offered their rings toward the construction of the Tabernacle (Ex. 35:22). They certainly had it with them when calling on God to free them from Egype, God did answer thier prayers. If you hve read the entire exodus you will know that there's nothing in any of the previous scriptures that shows that they were doing this because God did not approve of the wearing of rings. In chapter 32, it tells us that Moses burned the golden calf (made from the people’s earrings) , ground it into dust, and cast it into the drinking water. The jewelry was not bad, but rather the use of it to create an idol.

TroGunn: The practices have been stated since beginning of this thread:

The use of tree
The exchange of gifts on that day
Wreath (became Christmas Wreath)
Light decorations
Santa

All above were copied from pagan celebrations Saturnalia and Yule, from which Chrismas got it's date and even nickname (Yuletide).

So, here's my question again, before it get's lost in distractions:

So, are you saying it's ok to pick a Sango worship festival, give it a Christian name while retaining the practices used by the Sango worshipers, right? And this, even though God expressly forbade His worshipers from copying pagan religious practices?