"The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law."
In other words, the bible says that anything in the bible that doesn't make sense doesn't make sense because it's not supposed to make sense, so you should just ignore those things and focus on doing the things that the bible says you should do. Don't you think that's a lousy argument?Suppose you're a student and your teacher says something that makes no sense. Would you accept it just because he said he's always right?
akinsadeez: Why not be a christian and do good and when I die if there is a God, all well and good; and if there isn't one I am still covered.
You're not covered. When you die,you may find yourself in the presence of Allah, condemned for worshipping a man (Jesus) as God. You may find yourself in the presence of a God who loves atheists for using their brains and hates religious people. There's no security in fantasy.
philips70: Nigeria to earn $1.3 billion from cocoa exports this year October 28, 2014 | Filed under: main story | Author: Editor 6 ivoarian-cocoaThe federal government expects to earn $1.3 billion from cocoa exports this year, an increase of 45 percent on two years ago, after a steady rise in output that could help shift Africa’s top economy away from its reliance on oil.
Agriculture minister, Akinwumi Adesina, who spoke on the sidelines of a cocoa summit in Nigeria’s capital Abuja late on Monday, said the world’s fourth biggest cocoa producer was set produce 370,000 tonnes this year from its 14 major producing areas, up from the 250,000 tonnes that earned it $900 million in 2012.
philips70: Please read the OP very well, you will find out in the later part this amount is the total global figure and not just for Nigeria alone. I made a comment on that thread concerning it. Threads might look interesting but mods should read them very well before moving them to frontpage. Apart from driving traffic we are suppose to be educating people including foreigners on this forum. It is turning to something else
We've dropped it from the home page. We apologize for this mixup.
I was in Deeper Life for five years, between 1978 and December 1983. Brother Kumuyi was and is still a great teacher of the Word. The person that put the fear of God in me was Brother Kumuyi. He laid the foundation for systematic teaching that many people see me do today.
One day, while I was ministering and a brother was interpreting, I was giving example of the “faith cometh by hearing and hearing the word of God” and I said, ‘Supposing you go to a supermarket to buy soap, you might not know what soap to buy but because you watched the advertisement of Joy soap on television, then you would look for Joy soap because you have been hearing about it.’ And my interpreter said: “If you have been watching the devil’s box…”
I told him I didn't say devil’s box but television, and he repeated saying the devil’s box and Brother Kumuyi was behind us. I said I didn't say devil’s box and that the normal interpretation is amu ohun mu aworan, (the box that captures both the voice and the visuals). Anyway, he still said what he said.
The following Sunday, Brother Kumuyi came up with what he called “Sunday Exaltation”; he said that even if you repair television, you are a child of the devil. Then I took my Bible and left. I went home and said I would serve my God, but was not interested anymore in church. So I returned to Surulere Baptist Church.
In fairness to Brother Kumuyi, he himself eventually went on television. He must have changed his mind, because that time he was very hard on such things. By the way, looking back today, there is a lot of evil on television. It is not the television that is the devil’s box, it is the programmes that people put on it. So you can choose what you watch.
philips70: I see, you are happy to ridicule any party even with falsehoods like the frontpage thread that says Nigeria currently exports $10b worth of cocoa yearly? What is true about that obvious contraption?
If it is false, we will correct it. We aren't perfect, but our objectives are just. What is the true figure on how much cocoa Nigeria is exporting?
donphilopus: What response do you need from APC before you move the thread to the homepage?! Just wanna know the kinda response you're talking about. Maybe your purpose of moving the thread to the homepage is to ridicule APC, who knows. Anyways, I'm glad to tell you that there's no basis for ridicule here!
We are happy to ridicule any party. Our loyalty is not to PDP or APC but to the truth and to Nairalanders. Both parties could use a little ridicule.
Why do bad things happen to good people? Well, we're actually made privy of God's "mysterious" reason in this particular case, and we find out that it isn't so mysterious after all.
Historically, Job has been revered as a great work of literature. Nobody really knows who wrote it, but the powers that be figured it had to be God-breathed. This book disgusts me mainly because it values material possessions over sons and daughters. Job's children were killed, and he's supposed to be fine with that because God returned twice the amount of his possessions. Sorry, not good enough. Yeah, Job had ten more kids, but as any parent who has lost a child can tell you: ONE CHILD DOES NOT REPLACE ANOTHER.
Disclaimer: I didn't make these videos, and I didn't write the text above.
Most religions scoff at what they have deemed as the "atheistic worldview" (what they think atheists think) because they believe it has no "meaning". Well, I've heard religious people describe what they believe to be the meaning of our lives...and I find it utterly demeaning and pathetic: to honor [someone] who created us just to thank, praise, and love Him - or else?! REAL love is unconditional. And when someone is requested to praise, it is meaningless, disingenuous.