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viickerz:
""Atheists are smart people sha.. ""

SIMPLE AND SWEET

CallMeeTimi:
Grammarian

Angusdays:
Ok don't know much of Nigerian marriage,but if you want to marry a girl from anambra, how much is the budget and what are the stages you have to do.

captaindavid:
Anywhere I go, people say am more handsome than 2face Idibia. It amazes me soo much.But I really want to in hw true it is.. What y'all think?

Wealthgang:
Pro'ly imitation by my brothers across d Niger . I seriously doubt if 5-alive can make sth like this.
This is where I miss Dora Akunyili.
#CarefulWhatUDrink

wiegraf:
Lucky you.

We straightfolk do have to put up with a lot of $hit from these females, I tell you.

maximunimpact:
Are you born again? This is mostly one question MOGs and professed Christians ask a fellow in order to ascertain his or her faith. To many, being a christian means that you are born again, and without it, no one can be saved.

This teaching came from Jesus's conversation with Nichodemus in John 3:1-21. In his reply to Nichodemus's question of what he must do to be saved, Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

As simple it may seem, but what did these words really mean? Well let's see what Jesus said further: 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. By these words, Jesus dismissed a possible understanding that the first birth is our maternal birth, because spiritual birth has nothing to do with a physical birth.

But for someone to be born again, that person must have been born at least once in the past, and it is definitely not our physical birth! This means that to be born again, one must have gone through a previous spiritual birth.

The Jews as a nation were God's people who are born to God as a special people when God made a covenant with them at mout Sinai in Deuteronomy 5:2 Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today in your hearing, that you may learn them and observe them carefully. 2"The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3"The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, with all those of us alive here today.…

This covenant that God made with the Jews is about to be replaced with a new and a better covenant, as prophesied by prophet Jeremiah. "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." (Jeremiah chapter 31 verses 31-34).

So in order for the Jews to come into the new covenant, they have to be "born again" into the new covenant! This is not suppose to be a mystery, as many look at the teaching today, Nichodemus being a ruler of the Jews was suppose to know these prophesies and God's promise of a new covenant. That is why Jesus chided him when he said: 10 Jesus answered, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things? 11 I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

So what Jesus mean when he told Nichodemus to be born again in order to see the kingdom of God is infact that he (Nichodemus) and the rest of the Jews must be born again into the new covenant of which Jesus died for in order to continue enjoying a special favor with God.

But what about the rest of the world? the non-Jews who were never part of the old covenant, these other gentile nations were never born to God before, so in order to become part of the new covenant, they do not need to be born again, since they were never born before. However, for the gentiles, they have to go through a "new birth" as 1Peter 1:23 said: 23 For you have been given a new birth, not by corruptible, but by incorruptible seed, through the word of the living and enduring God.

Apostle Peter made mention of the new birth because his letter was addressed to a general audience, comprising both the jews and non-Jews, while some bible translation renders Peters words as "born again", other translations reads "new birth". What is important here is that for the Jews, they must be born again, but for the non-Jews, what they need is a "new birth" in order to be saved. It is new to them because they were never born to God, they are aliens to the true God. Peter will go on in chapter 2:10 to share more light: 1 Peter 2:10 "Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy".

What does this mean now? it means today as we know it, no one can be born again! This is because all those previously born to God in mout Sinai are no more, the Jews that we have now in the state of Israel are not the same Jews whom God made a covenant with, infact they were scattered all over the earth after the fall of Jerusalem in 70AD. What we have as state of Israel today is a republic gathered by Britain in 1945. However, as i earlier mentioned, today we can only have a "new birth" in order to be saved.

But what does these two things mean? Jesus said:John3;5; Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.

Just like we cannot make our birth possible by our own will, so also is the new birth, no one can administer "born again" or "new birth", because it is God that makes that possible through grace. John3: 8 The wind blows wherever it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Since it is not something we can control, as there is no way a baby in the womb can tell when to be born, it is therefore unreasonable for anyone to administer a new birth to anyone in the way of repeat after me, as we always see among many professed Christians. All you need to do is seek God in truth and spirit, when God hears your heart, He can then chose to born you into his covenant.

wiegraf:
Did she just make you gay?

Ishilove:
Your answer is wack. Feel free to kiss my cheeks, and I don't mean the ones on my face

Ishilove:
Who is the ultimate maker?

MY HAIRY BALLS

gimbayaro:
no be girl na guy the hold the food flask...u no de see again. mat be na u sef....

shashasha

Mindfulness:
@bold

You are entitled to YOUR OPINION.

Mindfulness:
Explain please.

Mindfulness:
Does the belief in God make me have a religion? Then yes!

Do I consider myself a Christian, Muslim, Jew or Hindu? No!

Miracle212:
Log for 2nd May

450 skips
Breakfast: a plate of moimoi
Lunch: a plate of white rice and stew with avocado pear
Dinner:

Total water taken for the day:

MAMAH E BE LIKE YOU LIKE MOIMOI PASS ANYTHING OO

Lessonteacher:
be sincere pls, do u smoke weed or use drugs?

I SMOKE ASSS

lilzcee:
i look better than u, so fucck to hell

johnydon22:
I have this idea of Organizing a Live Discussion or Seminar for freethinkers, irreligious, religious who ever is interested.

But maybe we will start with a Seminar for freethinkers, deists, pantheists, atheists, agnostics, irreligious and with time we could consider putting christians and muslims into the picture.

what do you think? Typing is becoming more ....tiring...

Live chat will be fun