alisigwe: I've paying att closely to d way a lotta dudes we hang out with dis days approach dis life,and before u knw whats on they start wearing dreads,beards everywhere like sme weird ish. All in d name of being rastafarians,thu they believe in the existense of God,but sme how they scare with this jah elijah stuff and where do dis dudes worship,what really do they believe in or are they jst sme confused fellas tryn to escape 4rm reality.
I totally overstand your point but I am just curious, is there anything that you have against Rastas? Do you know what is RASTA? Ok, who can you marry, then?
vannessa7: I felt compelled to write this after observing the online tussle between Muslim's and Christians here on Nairaland about who is right or wrong. After going through my write up I'm sure you might be more enlightened, I converted to Islam Nov 2016 after 20years of being a dedicated born again minister, I was a home fellowship leader, prayer warrior member, sanctuary cleaner, evangelist, followup member, I used to pray for members of my fellowship and God perform miracles, I use to receive revelations about members that will be perfectly accurate, I was always in every service, but nothing was happening in my life, I had a lot of respect from people that knew how God was using me but nothing was happening in my life, no husband, I lost my job after attaining a top management position, I had incessant witchcraft attacks, familiar spirit, ancestral curses and family idol, I became a deliverance junkie in mfm, I never missed rccg Holy Ghost service, winners Shiloh, I eventually got married 10yrs after graduation, 4yrs later my husband died, by that time I had crossed over to rccg with my husband in Abuja, I was an evangelist. I came back to the south to live with my mum as I had nothing left, I immediately joined rccg there and became committed, but I noticed that when I started praying for another husband only Muslim men came even during my 10yrs of waiting before marriage, after deliverance and prayers Muslim men were the ones I used to see and I will reject them, I used to tell them to convert to Christianity but they always refuse, when the same thing started happening my mother told me to give it a try because of time, I grudgingly agreed, but immediately I started receiving great revelations of great victories in the dream daily so I decided to convert to Islam, the first thing I noticed is that the constant sickness I used to experience vanished, I used to treat malaria or typhoid once in a month, even my mother was surprised, there is a particular situation in the family that has been threatening the peace of the family for long I had done several 3days dry fasting that God should solve it while I was a Christian without any result, my mother testify of it just 2months after I became a Muslim, I also noticed the heavy presence of the Holy Spirit while praying or in a mosque, I now understand why Christians have to sing for long before the Holy Spirit will manifest,Islam embodies holiness and that is why anyone who is not holy and goes to a Muslim domain is in danger, I used to have a couple friends who decided to travel to Iran for vacation they had barely step down from the plane when they fell seriously sick, they told me that many Christians have the same experience and some even dies, I will continue below with further analysis and comparison
This is a question that I have asked christians and I have got interesting answers. Some Nigerian christians believe that they are and some believe that they are not descendants of Adam. The reasons for not believing in Adam as the common ancestor of all humans are;
1) Adam is a Hebrew name. There are older languages than Hebrew. It would be more realistic if the first man had a name from the oldest language.
2) Civilization started in Africa and not the middle east. It is unlikely that asemitic or middle eastern people would be or know the first men.
So what do Nigerian believe? Are you a descendant of Adam?
alisigwe: I've paying att closely to d way a lotta dudes we hang out with dis days approach dis life,and before u knw whats on they start wearing dreads,beards everywhere like sme weird ish. All in d name of being rastafarians,thu they believe in the existense of God,but sme how they scare with this jah elijah stuff and where do dis dudes worship,what really do they believe in or are they jst sme confused fellas tryn to escape 4rm reality.
oluagness: A religious cult based on a belief that Ras Tafari (Haile Selassie) is the Messiah and that Africa (especially Ethiopia) is the Promised Land
We rastafarians accept much of the Bible, although we also believe that the message has been corrupted by babylonians. We also believe in the use spiritual use of cannabis/weed/ganjar and the rejection of the degenerate society of materialism, oppression, and sensual pleasures.
Let me also add that I wear deadlocks. So, can you take someone like me home to your mum?
Haile Selassie I meets the Pope and discuss the Christian Faith (Listen very carefully and try to glean information about why Apocrypha is not in the Bible!)
Bearing in mind that the Pope blessed the bombs that Italy's Fascist Mussolini threw down upon the innocent and defenceless Ethiopia people during WWII! As can be seen in the First video below @ 5:24 mark onwards...
alvin000: What the Church doesn't want you to know.
Up until the First Council of Nicaea, the Roman aristocracy primarily worshipped two Greek gods -Apollo and Zeus- but the great bulk of common people idolized either Julius Caesar or Mithras (the Romanized version of the Persian deity Mithra ). Caesar was deified by the Roman Senate after his death (15 March 44 BC) and subsequently venerated as "the Divine Julius". The word "Savior" was affixed to his name, its literal meaning being "one who sows the seed", i.e., he was a phallic god. Julius Caesar was hailed as, " God made manifest and universal Savior of human life", and his successor Augustus was called the "ancestral God and Savior of the whole human race" (Man and his Gods, Homer Smith, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1952).
Emperor Nero (54-68), whose original name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (37-68), was immortalized on his coins as the "Savior of mankind" (ibid.). The Divine Julius as Roman Savior and "Father of the Empire" was considered "God" among the Roman rabble for more than 300 years. He was the deity in some Western presbyters' texts, but was not recognized in Eastern or Oriental writings.
Constantine's intention at Nicaea was to create an entirely new god for his empire who would unite all religious factions under one deity. Presbyters were asked to debate and decide who their new god would be. Delegates argued among themselves, expressing personal motives for inclusion of particular writings that promoted the finer traits of their own special deity.
Throughout the meeting, howling factions were immersed in heated debates, and the names of 53 gods were tabled for discussion. "As yet, no God had been selected by the council, and so they balloted in order to determine that matter... For one year and five months the balloting lasted..." (God's Book of Eskra, Prof. S. L. MacGuire's translation, Salisbury, 1922, chapter xlviii, paragraphs 36, 41).
At the end of that time, Constantine returned to the gathering to discover that the presbyters had not agreed on a new deity but had balloted down to a shortlist of five prospects : i. Caesar ii. Krishna iii. Mithra iv. Horus v. Zeus (Historia Ecclesiastica, Eusebius, c. 325).
Constantine was the ruling spirit at Nicaea and he ultimately decided upon a new god for them. To involve British factions, he ruled that the name of the great Druid god, Hesus , be joined with the Eastern Savior-god, Krishna ( Krishna is Sanskrit for Christ ), and thus Hesus Krishna would be the official name of the new Roman god.
A vote was taken and it was with a majority show of hands (161 votes to 157) that both divinities became one God . Following longstanding heathen custom, Constantine used the official gathering and the Roman apotheosis decree to legally deify two deities as one, and did so by democratic consent. A new god was proclaimed and "officially" ratified by Constantine ( Acta Concilii Nicaeni, 1618).
That purely political act of deification effectively and legally placed Hesus and Krishna among the Roman gods as one individual composite.
That abstraction lent Earthly existence to amalgamated doctrines for the Empire's new religion; and because there was no letter "J" in alphabets until around the ninth century, the name subsequently evolved into " Jesus Christ".
WHO WAS THIS? This was Chrishna (Krishna) of India, who according to tradition was crucified approximately 1200 B.C. Incidentally, he had a “virgin” birth, either by a hair of the Hindu God Vishnu entering his mother’s womb, or in another version of the myth, God Vishnu himself entering her womb.
goldenluve: (You mean from chapter 1 to chapter 21)?
Yes my brother, read it gently, slowly and carefully absorbing every word. Read it in spirit, don't just read it like a novel (Bishop Ajayi Crowther style).
Read Chapter 1 to chapter 21, then read Psalm 24....All in a glass of water...Read it together with her and drink it together. Pray together. Sprinkle your home with some of the water and both take a shower/bath with ssome of the water. After two weeks update me and I may have more guidance for you.
Be patient with her, don't be angry or mad.
Make it a habit to read it together at least once each week .
bloodofthelamb: ALL WHAT WE NEED IS NOT NOT WITHIN US, THAT IS UNDILUTED LIE FROM THE MIND OF THE DEVIL....WE CANNOT SURVIVE SPIRITUALLY OUTSIDE CHRIST JESUS...
I REPEAT, CHRIST JESUS THE SON OF GOD IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE...AMEN
I repeat which of the Jesuses out there are you talking about? There are many types of Jesuses out there, innit? (Sigh) Am I right in thinking that you are referring to the Fake Jesus/Fake Jew being discussed in the video below?
17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written , which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it .
dallyemmy: OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL.. DATE : MONDAY 3RD AUGUST 2015
THEME : RETARDED PROGRESS
Memorise: For when for the time you ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. Hebrew 5:12
Read: Genesis 49:1-4 1 AND Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Message A state of progress in which forward or upward movement is so slow, sluggish or negligible, to the point of becoming an embarrassment, can be referred to as retarded progress. When a 13-year old teenager is still being fed with a feeding bottle or is behaving like a two-year old child, growth in such a case is referred to as retarded. Sometimes, it is better not to make any progress at all than to make the type of progress that brings embarrassment. Retarded progress can also be seen as a trapped destiny. When Jacob was about to die, he called all his children together and began to make certain pronouncements over each of them depending on how they had lived their lives. When he came to his firstborn Reuben, he told him that although he was the one supposed to receive the double portion generational blessing, it would be denied him. Jacob categorically stated that he would not excel. From that day, the future of Reuben that looked so bright and promising became bleak. His destiny was trapped.
I met a particular man of God sometime ago. We had last seen each other some five years before. I asked him, “How are things?” “All is well” he replied. “How is your church?” I asked. “Oh, the church is good”, he said l, and so I asked, “What is your attendance like presently?” desiring to know how the church was actually doing. “We are now about 105”, he replied. Surprised, I said “I thought the last time we met some five years ago; you said your attendance was about 100? So five years later, it has only grown by 5 people? Even if you were winning a soul per month that period, you should have added at least 60 members.” Then he replied, “Please pray for me; I think I am suffering from the spirit of retardation.
One unfortunate thing about retardation is that in some cases, because of the negligible growth or improvement that has been recorded, the victim may be considered to have made some progress. As a result of this false progress, consideration will not be given to putting in the type of effort that would have been required to salvage the situation if there was no progress at all. Is your progress being impeded? Is your destiny boxed? Is the sight progress you have recorded becoming an embarrassment to you? Call on the Lord today for help. Every power that has retarded your progress or destiny is destroyed today in the mighty Name of Jesus.
Prayer point: Father, fast-forward my progress that has been slowed down by the enemy today.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : NEHEMIAH 10:1-12:26 and JOHN 8:12-30 AUTHOR : Pst E. A ADEBOYE
The temple of the most high begins with the human body, which houses our life, essence of our existence. Africans are in bondage today because they approach spirituality through Religion provided by foreign invaders and conquerors. We must stop confusing religion and spirituality . Religion is a set of rules, regulations and rituals created by humans which were supposed to help people grow spiritually. Due to human imperfection religion has become corrupt, political, divisive and a tool for power struggle. Spirituality is not theology or ideology. It is simply a way of life, pure and original as was given by the Most High. Spirituality is a network linking us to the Most High, the universe and each other. As the essence of our existence it embodies our culture, true identity, nationhood and destiny. A people without a nation they can really call their own is a people without a soul. Africa is our nation and is in spiritual and physical bondage because her leaders are turning to outside forces for solutions to African problems when everything Africa needs is within her. When African righteous people come together, the world will come together. This is our divine destiny _[b] Emperor Haile Selassie I [/b]
bloodofthelamb: CHRIST JESUS THE ANSWER...HE IS THE SOLUTION TO ALL PROBLEM.
What is the question? Plus there are many Jesuss and Christs out there, there is even "Jesu Oyingbo"
The temple of the most high begins with the human body, which houses our life, essence of our existence. Africans are in bondage today because they approach spirituality through Religion provided by foreign invaders and conquerors. We must stop confusing religion and spirituality . Religion is a set of rules, regulations and rituals created by humans which were supposed to help people grow spiritually. Due to human imperfection religion has become corrupt, political, divisive and a tool for power struggle. Spirituality is not theology or ideology. It is simply a way of life, pure and original as was given by the Most High. Spirituality is a network linking us to the Most High, the universe and each other. As the essence of our existence it embodies our culture, true identity, nationhood and destiny. A people without a nation they can really call their own is a people without a soul. Africa is our nation and is in spiritual and physical bondage because her leaders are turning to outside forces for solutions to African problems when everything Africa needs is within her. When African righteous people come together, the world will come together. This is our divine destiny _ Emperor Haile Selassie I
goldenluve: I came back from work one day, and my pregnant wife went to Cele Church without my notice and permission. She brought two 5litre kegs with water. One for bathing and sprinkling, the other for mixing with water and drinking. With anointing oil. I personally don't like the they run things in that church. The the awful smell of all that she brought. To be honest, I hate everything she brought to the house. We attend RCCG and that's where we met and got married early this year. She again went and collected a perfumes written 7777777. The whole house is awfully smelling. I can tell more. But I'm afraid it could affect the baby. She went that way just because we lost our first pregnancy. She doesn't see anything wrong with all. For now, I need help on what to do please. I'm thinking of so many things reporting her to her people. I feel like committing suicide or wish I could just die. Because at a point she said that maybe I'm possessed because I keep kicking and frowning against the whole rubbish she brought to the house. #Help please.
Read Psalm 1 to 21, then Psalm 24 into a cup of water and drink it afterwards. Pray with her fervently and before you sleep read Psalm 19 together. Then try and monitor your dreams and visions. All will be well. Read the Psalms regularly...
Revelation 22:18 talks about the book of Revelation only not The whole bible.. that's what you get for reading the bible out of context... Revelation 22:18For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the PROPHECY of THIS BOOK,
the book Jesus told John to write on the prophecies he would Show him...
Revelation 1:1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. 3Blessedis he that readeth, and they that hear the words of THIS PROPHECY, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
revelation1:11saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, WRITE IN A BOOK, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
So the book revelation 22:18 is talking about is the book of Revelation..
Mathew was part of the prophecy.. neither was Luke or John or Galatians etc.. but they were ADDED TO revelation to form the new testament...
INCASE YOU DONT KNOW THERE'S A SIMILAR COMMAND IN Deuteronomy 4:2
deut 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
BUT AFTER THIS, THE OTHER OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS WERE ADDED TO THE TORAH (Joshua, Judges, Isaiah etc) not to mention the new testament..
So You can't threaten the Church that compiled the bible with your out of context interpretation of it..
Thanks.
If we are done with the argument , then there's no need for thee to ask any further questions of me, especially concerning the subject matter.
For you cannot eat your cake and have it, not even if you worked in a bakery!
Peace
Further to my comment to your previous reply (copied and pasted above); I assure thee that I will not mention your name in my posts or replies where Biblical matters are concerned, and I trust that you will also politely eschew mentioning my name in your posts on Nairaland.
Yea burn away the anger and the fury, oy Hail king Selassie I, his praise and glory
[CHORUS:] Whether or not, yo from them dis king Selassie I Babylon goin' collapse Whether or not, ey from yuh dis Emmanuel Babylon me know yuh heart goin' stop Whether or not, yo from yuh dis the Black woman Me know yuh glory it goin' drop Whether or not, from yuh nah love Rastafari That means say yuh doh love the Black
Ey first of all that the woman mek me dey yah Black culture me talk that me deh say ah Dis Rastafari ah who dem a refer Bun John pope and the things whey dem a prefer Ey first of all a Black woman mek I dey yah Curruption dem a talk we nah love whey dem ah say yah Them dis King Selassie ey ah who you dey refer Come fi bun you out a Babylon things you prefer Ey live by the word what you speak 'cuz nowadays ghetto youths start see it Find out, you go bow to the beast In Mount Zion curruption cyar sweet Cyar dis the Black woman nor the high priest Cyar dis the profit with the vision inna the street Cyar dis the king inna tabanackle a teach Make the youths them love them one another, ah tell you it Stop bus the gun stop war stop flinch No apology or else we kick out your teeth Find out nuff ah them waa cheat True Rastaman ah pray pon the mountain peak Fi protect and care fi the poor and the meek Doh dis the order, wake up on the east 'cuz poor people gone Babylon waan thief poor people farm Babylon waan reep Them nah give the ghetto youth one thing fi eat So nah bother dis the Rastafari ey nah bother do it Babylon ah kill the ghetto youth inna the street Mi say fi rise and live bongo nah go repeat Repatriation I nah go retreat, Babylon, gonna sink yuh inna the deep First of all ah the woman mek me dey ya Black culture we talk only that we gotta say yah Ey yuh dis Rastafari ah who yuh dey refer Find out a Vattican ways dem you prefer Ey first of all ah the woman mek me dey ya Bun John Paul Rastafari me prefer Hail King Selassie Babylon ah get defer Ey they musbe check say dat them clever Check them meditation and hear them words They never did ah look much less fi observe Dem never did ah listen so dem never heard Dem dis the Messiah and waan go dis the Sheperd How come you alone waan __ the earth From Mount Zion I ah life Rasta preserve Babylon don't go round no curve Through we treat a situation pagan waan go swerve More me bun the fire more the people get hurt Some boy jus through the money them utter any word Just we full the belly jus we full the purse Babylon you silly Babylon you curse See say that the wicked man can't surf Righteousness, the ghetto youths dem merge Babylon must bow and kiss the dirt Dem nah love Rastaman, much less we work The west minister law ah go get burst Rastafari principle, yo ah it govern the earth Babylon me see say you dey come merge Hail King Selassie I, the first
[CHORUS:] Whether or not, yo from them dis Rastafari Babylon goin' collapse Whether or not, ey from yuh dis Emmanuel Babylon me know yuh heart goin' stop Whether or not, yo from them doh love the Black woman Me find out dem ratings goin' drop Whether or not, from yuh nah love Rastafari ...
I think you and I are over the Ethiopia cradle of Christianity argument..
Ethiopia doesn't have more resources than the Vatican.. the Catholic Church calls the 73 books Scriptures but has all those books Ethiopia has..
here's a question for you.. if Ethiopia's canon was superior or was there before the catholic Church removed from it.. Why did it not define the canon of the scripture before the catholic church did
Thanks.
If we are done with the argument , then there's no need for thee to ask any further questions of me, especially concerning the subject matter.
For you cannot eat your cake and have it, not even if you worked in a bakery!
"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book" (Revelation 22:18-19).
The vatican canon has 73 books not 66. There is a curse to those adding or subtracting from the Word of God. Don't bring yourself under the curse of God.
Ethiopia was before the Vatican, so go and tell the Vatican that they will suffer the curse you quoted above, for removing from the Complete Ethiopian texts and reducing the Christian teachings.
Or are you saying that "Ethiopia which has existed from Page one of the Bible is responsible for wrongly adding to the accepted texts"?
"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book" (Revelation 22:18-19).
The vatican canon has 73 books not 66. There is a curse to those adding or subtracting from the Word of God. Don't bring yourself under the curse of God.
I see. Sorry, I meant to type "normal Bible canon" and not "Vatican canon".
I see you mentioned Revelation; So how comes you did not mention or refer to Revelation 21:3 Orr Revelation 22:4?
The House of God is one of the unlikely places you expect to find a thief but today, it is this unlikely place that thieves visit to steal from people who have come to seek God’s divine favour.
High on the target of these thieves are the visitors’ phones, bags and other valuables.
Today, one Wale David, 24, was arrested for stealing the phone of another church member in a popular camp in Ogun State.
David wasn't just a church member; he was also engaged by the church to help clean up its premises after a special church service.
According to him, while cleaning up, he saw a bag, picked the phone inside, an i-tel android. Same day, he sold the phone to a friend.
Few days later, RRS Police detectives traced the phone to his friend, who in turn assisted the police in his arrest this morning.
The House of God is one of the unlikely places you expect to find a thief but today, it is this unlikely place that thieves visit to steal from people who have come to seek God’s divine favour.
High on the target of these thieves are the visitors’ phones, bags and other valuables.
Today, one Wale David, 24, was arrested for stealing the phone of another church member in a popular camp in Ogun State.
David wasn't just a church member; he was also engaged by the church to help clean up its premises after a special church service.
According to him, while cleaning up, he saw a bag, picked the phone inside, an i-tel android. Same day, he sold the phone to a friend.
Few days later, RRS Police detectives traced the phone to his friend, who in turn assisted the police in his arrest this morning.
Romance / Re: Can You Marry A Rasta? by Tampinu(m): 12:37am On Nov 15, 2017 
