parisbookaddict: When will u people stop lying. Strike which finger tips.. Why are you quoting the quran and claiming its in bible... or you just mindlessly copied another persons post. Okay let me quickly explain the first verse you quoted.
This is what chronicles said 2 Chronicles 15:12-14 GNBDK
They made a covenant in which they agreed to worship the Lord , the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul. Anyone, young or old, male or female, who did not worship him was to be put to death. In a loud voice they took an oath in the Lord 's name that they would keep the covenant, and then they shouted and blew trumpets. ___ This is a documentation of the events that happened during the reign of king Asa.
its a narrative of events. Not a prescription for punish for all time as seen in the quran..the passages does not call for the killing of people. Even though this happened thousands of years before the barbarian mohammed came along and started slaughtering people that disagreed with him.
The people took it upon themselves to make an oath and they didnt even keep the oath as the following passage shows.
2 Chronicles 15:16-17 GNBDK
"King Asa removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made an obscene idol of the fertility goddess Asherah. Asa cut down the idol, chopped it up, and burnt the pieces in the valley of the Kidron. Even though Asa did not destroy all the pagan places of worship in the land, he remained faithful to the Lord all his life."
Before criticising islamic texts i read the passages to ensure i get the proper context. Mohammeds call to slaughter are usually prescribed for all time. His call to extort exorbitant jizyah from jews and Christians are prescribed for all time. Look at isis a proper islamic caliphate.. that is mohammeds vision of islamic domination..
Stop looking for moral equivalence in the bible to justify mohhammeds crimes.. it is not there.
The Spirit of Truth truly rests on you. May He continually enlarge your wisdom in the Word.
cao: More like Sony ran to Marvel to make the deal, since their latest Spidey reboot didn't do as well as they expected. Sony owns the film rights to Spiderman, while Fox owns the film rights to the X-Men universe & Fantastic 4. Fox should just relinquish F4 film rights already. They almost messed up Deadpool, thank God that its director and Ryan Reynolds are proper fanboys. If not for that leak they did and the public support it created, we would have never seen the Merc with the Mouth in action. That nonsense in Wolverine Origins does not count.
Marvel made their own studio, so they'd have more creative control & much needed quality control on their IPs and also they'd be able to make more money from it.
Oh and the Tobey Spidey films were not the first films based on Marvel characters. Everybody forgets the Blade films, even the first Punisher film...we could talk about the 1994 F4 film that was only made because the folks who held the film rights at the time wanted to retain said rights. There's even a terrible Captain America 1990 film, sef.
Gosh. Never knew that Blade is a Marvel Character. I always thought that he was one of those randrom characters who didn't fall into either the Marvel or DC camps, like Hancock and Hellboy.
I think Marvel was still learning its craft when it made that embarassing 1990 Captain America movie. Most Steve Rogers fans practically disowned the movie before it was even released because there was widespread anger about its deviation from the original story. In the original story, the Redskull is German and is the leader of Hitler's S.S. Research Unit (HYDRA), but the 1990 Captain America reinvented him as an Italian so that they could cast him as a Mafia Don in sequels and spinoffs. Needless to say, it backfired spectacularly and it wasn't until The First Avenger in 2011 that fans finally got the Captain America movie they'd always wanted.
Progress and breakthrough everywhere. That is, everywhere except Africa where primitive fears of juju and witchcraft still reign supreme and unchecked. And yet they wonder why the rest of the world treats them as a stock joke.
The thing is at one point in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the only people who were making money from Superhero movies was DC and that was due mainly to Superman and Batman.
Marvel was limited to comic books, Saturday morning cartoons and the occasional video game. They were actually broke and had to sell off a lot of their assets like The Fantastic Four, X-Men and yes,Spiderman.
That is why none of the Spiderman movies made in the last 10 years (The ones with Toby Macgwire and Andy Garfield) are included in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). If they had been included, then Iron Man 1 (2008) would not be considered as the FIRST MCU movie, yet everyone agrees that it was.
I made the mistake of thinking DC had upstaged Marvel to obtain the rights to Spiderman. My bad. It was actually Sony Entertainment who bought and still own the rights to Spiderman. Marvel was only able to reach a deal for the use of Spiderman in Captain America Civil War after a long round of negotiations and bargaining with Sony and they were actually motivated by the fear that Sony would sell to DC if they didn't buy back Spidey. That is why the new and rebooted Spiderman movie of next year is called "Homecoming". Marvel is celebrating the fact that they have got Spiderman back.
Does anyone know how on earth Marvel was able to get Spiderman from DC? It still isn't clear to me how they pulled it off. I know by now we're sick and tired of the constant rebooting of the Spidey franchise, but I think Marvel will do something special with him.
Nigayoyo: Let me also generalize the same way you had generalized in your earlier post because I doubt if you have really taken any class called Advanced Linear Algebra:
For a Christian anything goes. Because he believes in a Higher Supernatural Power with barbaric history of killing children and approving the rape of women, to whom he will be accountable at the end of his life. He is free to indulge and even over-indulge every excessive urge for selfish gratification that comes over him. His God even had sex with the virgin Mary with his tiny mo.f.uck.ing d.ick. Is it any wonder that popular pastors who had been involved in sex scandals , like Biodun Oguntoyinbo of COZA, Chris Oyakhilome of Christ Embassy, and Chris Okotie of dumba.ss assembly are staunch Christians? It takes ignorance to subordinate yourself to a Higher Supernatural Ideal. Christians will NEVER be wise to set themselves free.
Now if I had intentionally said that, wouldn't that be a hasty generalization?. Because you had said "For an Atheist" in your earlier post. However If you had said "For an average atheist" I wouldn't have bothered with replying you. And Nothing in my earlier link to christian pornstars said all christians were pornstars. It was just a link to show you there are Christians with no morals(according to you). The same way there are good and bad Christians is the same we have good and bad Atheists.
With the way you reason,I guess you might have to go get an advanced degree at a top school outside Nigeria.
Anyway, I gotta go do some shopping with my wife and kids and from there we go to the movies. Have a lovely weekend bro!
What an I.d.I.ot! Trying to be clever and ending up making a fool of himself! I pity the woman who was witless enough to spend the rest of her life with you!
Where in the Bible did it say that God had sexual contact with anyone? Is making up lies the new atheist pastime?
Kindly go for a lobotomy to sort out your mental health issues before coming on NL to embarass yourself. I did not generalise about atheists in my first post. I merely pointed out that because an atheist does not subscribe to a specifice value system, he is free to do whatever he wants without any qualms. His decision-making lacks a sense of focus or direction. As Martin Luther King Jnr put it:" A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything." A person who never attended lawschool or medical school who passes himself off as lawyer or doctor is a fraud. Likewise a so called "Christian" who practices adultery inspite of "Thou shalt not commit adultery" is also a fraud. He is not a "Christian without morals" as you s.t.upidly believe. The difference between you and him is that he is a non-believer who thinks he is a believer, while you are a non-believer who knows he is a non-believer. At the end of the day a IndecentStar who has deceived himself into thinking he is a Christian is no different from a non-believer. Hope your kids were not conceived at the shallow end of the gene pool. They might by misfortune inherit your meagre mental resources.
Nigayoyo: Bro, your post made me google this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT7WQ_K-IuM I couldn't believe my eyes when I read what Lexington Steele (A top porn actor) said at 1:25: " worship and prayer were how I made it through some tough scenes. The Lord was always on my mind"
Big fallacy of over generalisation. So a tiny sampling from a top 10 list of porn people who claim to believe in God is somehow representative of the millions of people who worship God earnestly and strive to do His Will according to His Word?
Simple logic my friend. An aberration to a general rule does not negate that general rule. If 10 pornstars call themselves believers in spite of the overwhelming evidence that porn is anything but Christian, how does that affect Christian credibility?
To use this example, there is a general rule that most basketball players are over 6 feet tall. "Most" does not mean "all". So if a FEW bballers under 6 feet tall are found, it doesn't negate the general rule that MOST basketballers are over 6 feet tall!!!
This is simple logic. I thought logic was supposed to be the atheists bread and butter.
The 10 people in your Youtube video are not typical examples and are NOT consistent with Christian teachings and doctrines. So how come you have made them the standard bearers of Christianity? Is that logical?
The truth is that an atheist has no moral compass. For an atheist anything goes. Because he doesn't believe in a Higher Power to whom he will be accountable at the end of his life, he is free to indulge and even over-indulge every excessive urge for selfish gratification that comes over him. Is it any wonder that the biggest producers of pornography in the world, like Larry Flint and Hugh Heffner are staunch atheists? It takes discipline to subordinate yourself to a Higher Ideal. Atheists will NEVER have such discipline.
Ovamboland: So when you tell a muslim all the above, you expect him sing kumbaya and meet you with roses or try to pick holes in your belief the way you pick holes and dismiss their own claims?
The more we realize and come to accept most religions especially Abrahamic ones are exclusionist as proven with your above statements, juxtapose it with today's reality and if we want to live together or separately.
At the bold are you saying perfect God is learning from man's imperfect ways?
I'm saying that there is a universal edict that evil must be punished. God represents all that is good and therefore it falls on Him to punish wrongdoing. Man learnt this from God, not the other way round. God's standards are higher and more exacting than anything Man is capable of meeting. That is where the concept of Grace,forgiveness and repentance comes in. Neither Grace, forgiveness nor repentance are possible without Christ because all three were only made possible by His sacrifice on the Cross. This is very different from the islamic teachings I highlighted which said that ipso facto (by the very fact) that you are Jewish or Christian, you are hellbound.
Ovamboland: "I am the truth , the way and the life,No one commeth to the father except through me" John 14:16, was said by Jesus Christ, so how can a Buddhist or Sango worshiper calling another name get to the father? Are they not part of the unbelieving highlighted above? and those who say Jesus is not the son of God, any hope for them? They are not even trying to get to the father through Him, so what's their hope per Christian beliefs?
It's easy to see the horrors, exclusions and unfair statements in the other person's beliefs and be completely blind to ours or be apologetic about it
Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the only Way to salvation.
This is a claim which can either be accepted or rejected on the grounds of faith, experience, dogma, logic, doubt etc.
The great British writer, C. S. Lewis, explained it best in his well-known book, "Mere Christianity", "A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher; he'd either be a lunatic -- on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg -- or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse."
"You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
So Jesus was either a madman, a liar, a myth, or He really was -- and is -- the Son of God. For us Christians he is the latter.
Unbelief is a complex phenomenon because it is the root from which springs rebellion and all other sins.
Sin is what separates Man from God. If Man in his own earthly way can put criminals to death for comitting evil crimes, why should a blameless and perfect God not be expected to subjugate all who wilfully flout his authority?
Ovamboland: But Christianity by it's very essence has condemned every muslim, hindu, Shinto, Sango, Ifa, Buddist etc adherent who did not accept Christ to hell without option of fine or parole, so what are you driving at? It even gets worse, many evangelical Christians are fully convinced the 1 billion Catholics are on a roller coaster to hell and vise versa i suppose. It's all about my own condemnation method is better than yours? Does being religious automatically damage you ability to empathize?
Not true. In Christianity God judges the world on the basis of righteousness and sin not race, colour or creed. Jesus said not everyone who called him Lord would enter into the Kingdom of God: Matthew 7:21. He was specifically refering to a certain type of Christian when he made this proclamation. In other words, you don't get a free pass into heaven just because you outwardly manifest the attributes of a Christian.
If you look at the list of people who the Bible specifically said would end up in Hell, none of them are condemned because of religious affiliation:
Revelation 21:8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars–they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
Christianity is first a MORAL LIFESTYLE before secondly being a religion.
The truth is, I would like to believe what Kumuyi says, but Islam as a religion has always had evil intentions towards Jews and Christians. You only have to look at their teachings to discover this for yourself.
Islam teaches that no matter how sinful a muslim might have been, Allah will not send him to hell, rather he will send a Jew or a Christian to hell in place of that muslim:
Sahih Muslim 6665—Abu Musa reported that Allah's Messenger said: When it will be the Day of Resurrection Allah would deliver to every Muslim a Jew or a Christian and say: That is your rescue from Hell-Fire.
Sahih Muslim 6666—Allah’s Apostle said: No Muslim would die but Allah would admit in his stead a Jew or a Christian in Hell-Fire.
Sahih Muslim 6668—Allah’s Messenger [said]: There would come people amongst the Muslims on the Day of Resurrection with as heavy sins as a mountain, and Allah would forgive them and He would place in their stead the Jews and the Christians.
110 Hadith Qudsi—Allah’s Messenger said: On the Day of Resurrection, my Ummah (nation) will be gathered into three groups. One sort will enter Paradise without rendering an account (of their deeds). Another sort will be reckoned an easy account and admitted into Paradise. Yet another sort will come bearing on their backs heaps of sins like great mountains. Allah will ask the angels though He knows best about them: Who are these people? They will reply: They are humble slaves of yours. He will say: Unload the sins from them and put the same over the Jews and Christians: then let the humble slaves get into Paradise by virtue of My Mercy.
Demmzy15: "Muslims in Holland are now saying that this is a hoax. Vander Hoven’ a Dutch psychologist does not exist. Some Dutch Muslims say that there can well be healing powers in the word Allah but they don't need a non Muslim to disclose this.
Then again, Some Catholics swear that they are healed after praying to the Virgin Mary. Some are healed by washing themselves with holy water from Lourdes. Before I went to the service, my grandma made me a little copy of Psalm 121, the size of a credit card all cellophane wrapped and fit snugly in my wallet; She told me I should read this Psalm before any dangerous mission and I will be protected; I did just that and I was never wounded in combat; I witnessed soldiers around me being sniped but I was never hurt. So did this Psalm truly protect me? It's all about faith. If you have faith in your Religion, hold on to it."
This is from a Christian 5years ago, now why don't you go back to the "drinkwater" thread of who's a Christian?
O the stup.dity of Ickslime! So the Heart which is the epicenter of the circulatory system and the lungs which form the respiratory system perform the same functions?!? O gosh these Mudslimes are F.O.O.LS!!!
emis8: Jezus Christ was and is sti God. The same Bible you are quoting to explain why He is not God contains His quotes saying He is God. I and the father are one, if you have seen me, you have seen the father.
You need to study the person of Jesus Christ, why He came and The Reason He came.
His coming was prophesied, and when He arrived, the devil started work immediately to stop him before He fulfil his purpose. Jesus being aware of the devils plan (including plans of turning the people against him when He reveals his identity as God), he tactically played them. He had to teach them about the father and incre their understanding so as for them to believe when he says he is gGod and not condemn him to death.
At a point, when Jesus started his healings, demons wanted to reveal his identity and Jesus comanded them to keep quiet, as it was not yet time for him to do so.
when Jesus has done all he came to do and it was time, He finally said He was God Almighty and that was what led to His crucifixion. Jesus said, I pre-existed Abraham. He said " Abraham, 'I am' ". That statement "I am" signifies God almighty, who is the creator of the world, who is the God of Abraham.
And the jews said, for good works, we stone you not, but for being a man and making yourself God, we stone you. Jesus made it clear about his identity, only understand that he revea his identity in stages so he could have enough time on earth to make disciples.
You need to study the Life of Jesus and not just bring out scriptures to say who he is, or is not.
Don't mind the Mudslime I.d.i.o.t. He wants to reduce our Lord to the level of MADhaMAD.