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chatinent:
I've just subscribed to your channel. I'm interested in the elegance and informative parts.

Thank you, you're so kind.
You might not agree with some of my views, however, you'll find some useful.

AZControversial:
Very well... thank you.
Hope you're enjoying your Sunday?

Oh yes! Just woke up from my usual nap.
Thank you. Do have a splendid week ahead.

olaboy33:
No bad intent, but who knows what 57 years old Mo Abudu below does exactly for a living

She's in the entertainment industry, I know someone in the industry who knows her well and is on her current project. She's good at what she does and quite hardworking!

Don't even try it! You haven't taken loan on your own behalf na another person you wan come take am for. If na life and death matter now we fit understand.
You're barely surviving, I'm certain you'll be the one to pay back because he'll most likely default since he's got a lot of debt on his plate.
Don't take it o if not your eyes go red.

chatinent:
I don't understand what's really happening to this world.

As in, he wooed his mother into it or what? Or the mother consented to it? Or is this a kanayo-o-kanayo thingy? What will the children call their parents? Will they call the mother mother and grandmother? Will they call their father a man married to his wife and mother? Who go come do omugwo?
The woman: mother/ grandmother
Son: dad/brother
The woman will do omugwo but should her mum still be alive, the mum will do omugwo so she'll be grandmother/great grandmother or just one sha. :

This world event don dey scratch body.
Very disturbing news everyday.


O God, let's the Kingdom come today.

Amen but are you fully prepared?

I don't trust Coca Cola bottling company at all.
Zero sugar, no sugar and the one with sugar are all sweet, just different levels of sweetness.

Some people often forget that we're humans with emotions and we're quite different. Some can overlook things and not feel anyhow while some can't. Words you say to people can have effects on them. Some just run their mouths anyhow embarrassing people.
That's how one prof in my department called me his most unserious student in final year, funny thing was he hadn't taken me on any course prior to that level but because I wasn't the type to answer questions he felt I was unserious until I had the highest point in his littérature antillaise et Africane course before he realised he had judged me rather too soon. I felt embarrassed even though my unit mates knew I was pretty good at anything histoire, littérature et culture et civilisation. He told me I was unserious and probably didn't know anything only for him to be disappointed. I later told him what he said and how I felt and he apologized and he ended up being my project supervisor.
Y'all should watch watch you say especially on this Nairaland, so many of you are trolls and have little to no inkling as to what each individual is experiencing in real life. Some of you just open your mouth 'wah' and spew demeaning/fondest things to people you don't even know.

Polyandry and party, omo, I can't stop laughing. .
Make Una give your lives to CHRIST OOOO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL3u0br8LGQ

AZControversial:
...... and it came to pass.....

Yes!!!
I couldn't watch it because I had this headache that made me sleep but I was delighted to learn we had won the match when I awoke. God pass am. . He must be a Chelsea or Arsenal fan.
GGMU.
How're you doing today?

GGMU
GGMU
GGMU
That's how one moniqer laidat yarned that the game would end 3:4, mtcheeewwww, yinmu. Shame catch am.
I need an original Manchester United jersey in my life, no, I need to make money so I can afford this and more.

chatinent:
I'm not an apostle. I'm a bible student.

Na you Sabi that one.
Don't Goan be toasting girls there o. Face the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ well.
It's actually nice to know you're a Bible student.

HardMirror:
Now christianity is a fantastic religion. Although we love saying christianity is not a religion (smiles), we prefer saying it is a relationship with God. I smile because these are part of the things that makes christianity seem special. (More on this later)

Many people erroneously think atheists were never good christians, or that they become atheists because they want to sin. Lol, that is absolutely wrong. It is almost impossible to be a better christian than I was. I don't joke with purity and sincerity. I fast for more than half of the year, to maintain a good level of purity and focus. (And I was damn thin too).

This is one of the reasons why it is impossible to convert me again. There is nothing anyone can say or do that shakes me.

So christians online stop thinking people are not being sincere when they say they are atheists.

MY JOURNEY TO ATHEISM BEGINS: https://www.nairaland.com/3078223/pastor-atheist-why-never-christian#45183779

Lol, why do people forget that anyone from any religion can be an atheist? More often that not, people who leave a religion to become atheists are often thought to have been Christians?

Apt!
We first must search our hearts without sentiments if we're truly in Christ and truly repent if we find we're doing anything that isn't of God then we must go ahead and abide in Him, pray without ceasing, propagate the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and be Christlike.
May God help us finish this heavenly race. Amen.

chatinent:
Hello,

You made mention of three different things: hell, hellfire, and polygamy. I'll take my time to analyse the three.

1. Hellfire.
Most Christian believers in the idea of Hellfire will tell you that it’s a place of punishment for sinners and evildoers. But does that idea have a scriptural basis?

According to Romans 6:7, “he that is dead is freed from sin.” So if a person’s sins are cleared with his or her death, then what’s with the additional punishment of Hell? Doesn't it also contradict the Bible in Genesis that sinners would die..if Hellfire candidates live forever in a torment?

Well, Romans 6:23 goes on to state that “the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Note that there is no mention of sinners being condemned to everlasting torture, they simply don’t get the reward for living a righteous life.

Is the wages of sin now hellfire?

Similarly, 2 Thessalonians 1:9 says that the punishment for those deemed wicked is not fiery torture, but destruction, “shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.”

When it comes to misconceptions about Hell, the popular 17th-century King James Version (KJV) of the Bible has a lot to answer for. For example, in the KJV, the prophet Jonah was in the “belly of Hell,” while David bafflingly insists that God would be with him even in Hell. Even Jesus pops down to Hell after his death on the stake.

Hello? Does this translation verse make any sense? Look it up.

In the story, a wealthy man lives it up while ignoring a beggar named Lazarus. But the pair experience a dramatic role reversal after their deaths, a change of circumstances.

Even at the very start of the Bible, in Genesis 2:16-17 and 3:19, Adam and Eve’s punishment for breaking God’s instructions and eating the forbidden fruit was not the threat of hellfire, but rather a promise that they will eventually die, “for dust you are and to dust you will return.” If Adam and Eve were at risk of being tormented forever, wouldn’t they have been warned of that? Would God lie and tell them they were going back to the dust if his plan was really to lock them in a furnace?

Big question: why did Adam and Eve not go to hellfire? Aren't they the original sinners?

History:
Since many hold the early church fathers as the authority on matters of faith and doctrine, many would find it surprising that even they couldn’t agree if Hellfire existed and, if so, what it actually was.

Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, and Cyprian were among those that held that Hellfire was a literal place of fiery torment. Origen and Gregory of Nyssa disagreed, countering that Hell was simply separation from God. While the idea of eternal fiery damnation can be found as early as the apocryphal second-century Apocalypse of Peter, it doesn’t seem to have become dominant in Christian thinking until around the fifth century AD.

Ironically, this view was heavily inspired by a non-Christian, the Greek philosopher and mathematician Plato, whom the French historian Georges Minois credited with “the greatest influence on traditional views of Hell” of all the early philosophers.

Plato’s Story of Er features an afterlife in which sinners are punished or rewarded in proportion to their misdeeds in life. Whatever your views on Hell’s existence, Plato’s sin-specific punishments definitely have no Biblical support, but the philosopher’s ideas can still be detected in many popular versions of the Christian afterlife, most notably Dante’s Inferno.

In modern times, many Christian denominations have moved away from Saint Augustine’s conception of Hell as a physical place beneath the Earth. Even the venerable Catholic Church has apparently decided to go with the flow, with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, approved by Pope John Paul II in 1992, declaring that Hell is simply a state of “definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed.”
Plato might have had the greatest role, but non-Abrahamic influences on Hell date back a long way before the Greeks pioneered philosophy. The Ancient Egyptian religion, for example, featured a cavern containing a “lake of fire” where the souls of the wicked were punished for their transgressions. The early Mesopotamians also believed that the underworld lay underground, although it was more dim and miserable than a place of eternal punishment.A particularly interesting comparison can be made between the popular idea of Hell and Zoroastrianism, an ancient religion originating in what is now Iran. In the earliest Zoroastrian texts, the souls of the sinful are judged after death and condemned to eternal punishment in the underworld, which the Book Of Arda Viraf describes as a pit full of fire, “smoke, stench and demons.” The souls are tortured according to the severity of their sins in life and the whole thing is presided over by Angra Mainyu, the great evil spirit, “who ever ridiculed and mocked the wicked in hell” for following him instead of their creator god.That sounds remarkably like the Hell of modern pop culture. And what’s just as remarkable is how many of those details have no basis in the Bible. Zoroastrian hell is staffed by demons and ruled by a devil figure, whereas the Christian Devil and his followers have no role in the afterlife and are the one group clearly stated to be destined for punishment in “Tartarus.” There’s certainly no reason to believe that a Christian hell would make the punishment fit the crime, whereas the demons of Zoroastrianism seem to delight in devising inventive tortures for each particular sin. In fact, the Book Of Arda Viraf is distinctly reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno.


It cannot be denied that, throughout history, the idea of Hell has been used as a scare tactic to keep people in line. Should we not love God because we want to rather than obeying him for the fear of living forever being tormented?

2. Hell.
Some Bible translations use the word “hell” for the Hebrew word “Sheol” and the matching Greek word “Hades,” both of which refer to the common grave of mankind. (Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:​27) Many people believe in a fiery hell, as shown in the religious artworks. However, the Bible teaches otherwise.

- Those in hell are unconscious and so cannot feel pain. “There is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol.”​—Ecclesiastes 9:​10.

- Good people go to hell. The faithful men Jacob and Job expected to go there.​—Genesis 37:35; Job 14:13.

- Death, not torment in a fiery hell, is the penalty for sin. “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin.”​—Romans 6:7.

- Eternal torment would violate God’s justice. (Deuteronomy 32:4) When the first man, Adam, sinned, God told him that his punishment would simply be to pass out of existence: “Dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:​19) God would have been lying if he were actually sending Adam to a fiery hell.

- God does not even contemplate eternal torment. The idea that he would punish people in hellfire is contrary to the Bible’s teaching that “God is love.”​—⁠1 John 4:8; Jeremiah 7:​31.

Hell is the common grave of mankind.


3. Polygamy

Does God Approve of Polygamy?

No; the standard God set in Eden with the first marriage was that of monogamy. Jesus Christ later reaffirmed that standard for his followers.​—Genesis 2:18-24; Matthew 19:4-6.

Did not such men as Abraham, Jacob, David, and Solomon of pre-Christian times have more than one wife?
Yes, but how does the Bible portray that arrangement? It reveals the friction and strife that arose in the families of Abraham and Jacob as a result of the practice. (Genesis 16:1-4; 29:18–30:24) Later, God’s Law included this directive to each king: “He should . . . not multiply wives for himself, that his heart may not turn aside.” (Deuteronomy 17:15, 17) Solomon disregarded that statute by marrying over 700 wives! Tragically, Solomon’s heart did indeed turn aside from Jehovah God because of the bad influence of his many wives. (1 Kings 11:1-4)

Clearly, the Bible paints a negative picture of polygamy.

Still, some might wonder why God chose to tolerate polygamy among his people.

Consider: Have you ever temporarily tolerated a piece of furniture though it needed to be replaced, perhaps reasoning that it would prove impractical or disruptive to remove it for now?

Of course, God’s ways and thoughts are higher than our own. (Isaiah 55:8, 9) Yet, we may discern some practical reasons why he tolerated polygamy for a time.

Remember that in Eden, Jehovah God promised a “seed” who would ultimately destroy Satan. Later, Abraham was told that he would father a great nation and that the foretold Seed would come from his family line. (Genesis 3:15; 22:18) Satan was determined to prevent that Seed from arriving. He was thus bent on destroying that ancient nation of Israel. He often seduced Israel into sin so that the nation would lose God’s favor and protection.

To counter the attacks, God repeatedly sent his prophets to warn his people when they veered from righteous standards. However, he knew in advance that his people would often fail to obey even the most basic of commands, such as the one against idolatry. (Exodus 32:9)

If they would struggle to obey so basic a law, how would they fare with a law against polygamy? With his perfect grasp of human nature, God saw that it was not yet the time to forbid that practice, which was already long-established in those days. Had he done so, Satan would have found a very easy means of seducing Israel into sin.

God’s temporary toleration of polygamy had other advantages. It helped the nation to grow rapidly. The larger population helped to ensure the nation’s survival until the time of the Messiah. Polygamy may also have provided a measure of protection for some women, giving them shelter and a household in dangerous times.

Keep in mind, though, that God did not originate this practice. He tolerated it for a limited time, while strictly regulating it to prevent abuses. (Exodus 21:10, 11; Deuteronomy 21:15-17)

When God chose to end the practice of polygamy among his worshippers, he used his own Son to reaffirm the marital standard set in Eden. Jesus thus forbade polygamy among his followers. (Mark 10: Then, this truth became even clearer: The Law of Moses was fine in its time, but “the law of the Christ” is even better.​—Galatians 6:2.

Thank you.

Apostle Chantinent wehdon sah!
This your epistle no be here o.

Until we're dead, we just might never know. However, the Bible says the wages of sin is death and also talks about eternal damnation, if you're a Christian then maybe eternal damnation refers to a fiery place, hell perhaps.

With technology and societal changes and people wanting to to show off, we're almost tempted to tell people about what we have going on in our lives which is quite bad because not everything you have going on should be told to people, not everyone is happy for you and some of you jinx yourselves when you tell people everything .
Here's a video on why you should learn to move in silence.
Hope you watch and possibly subscribe.
Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zERC18r_igU

The disheartening this is that this country has got material resources, brains and wealth to excel, however, self-centredness, cheating, fraudulent practices and co no go allow this country move forward. I'm a proud Nigerian but I must say this country keeps disappointing me.

Life has really been unfair to him but he's still so good to people.
He's a rich recluse and humble, like him for that.
Sometimes I like to believe he's a grey soul,

TarOrfeeek:
Thats the beautiful thing about Jesus Christ.

He loves does who despised him.


Unlike Muhammad that wants to kill everyone

I used to think you were Muslim. Wawu, I never knew.

Thanksful:
What type of business are you planning of going to this time around since the issues of the herdsmen is not over yet?

I'm thinking of yogurt business for now because I already know how to make yogurt, granola and co but my long-term plan for business is definitely farming, that's were my passion and interest lie.
If I had enough money, I'd go into it right away.
I won't be farming in Benue state, I farmed there because that was were I served and farming is good there, I thought it'd be the best place to invest my savings but right after I had harvested my melon (egusi) and was waiting for them to get rotten before washing and drying, tragedy struck.
So, no more Benue state, somewhere else entirely.

duro4chang:
You lie no be small. Make you self try am .

Lol, I no get body for trouble. Na jeje I dey go. I'll pass.
Nagode sosei.

daddytime:
My people, I lay baby for bed o..I dey use corner eye look her she sef dey use corner eye look me...

We dey observe and suspect each other...

For my mind, abi this woman don go born member of her extended family for me...which kain wahala be dis in Gods name?

This your baby na character o, the corner eye no be here abeg. She's so pretty and funny. Lol.

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Chai, sorry ehn. You for attach pictures na.
I don laugh taya.

Sorry about that.
I don't think hepatitis B is solely contracted through sex since it's transmitted via fluid.
The Lord is your strength, it's not the end of the world and I sincerely hope you have the strength to continue to live.
As for your gf, if she loves you enough and can go on this journey with you then great for you but don't feel bad if she considers not continuing the relationship anymore, there's always someone else out there who'll stick around for long.

Where and how's Ceased?
How're you doing?

Auzubilahi Minashaitan Rajeem!
Dem no serious o.

DoggoneDogg:
If this one is 16 then Tinubu is truly 69

Some look their age, some look younger and some look older.
I look younger than my age so it's possible she was 16.

CR7!!!

Mrs and Mrs, sounds weird though. They both look beautiful, especially the one who looks more like the 'Mrs' in the picture.
Not homophobic but as for me, man don do me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL3u0br8LGQ

biggy00000:
Op office sex most times ends in premium tears o.

Oluwa a wa pelu e

Amin na Ya'Allah!
Amen to that!

I wish she had reported him the same day he had sex with her, she would have been taken to the hospital and a test conducted that'd show he did.
I won't suggest abortion, however, the dad things is that this girl will grow up as a single mother and be insulted by some men like some of the ones we have here on Nairaland without even knowing her story, they'll judge her and probable call her demeaning names like bitch, hoe, LovePeddler etc.

Report him, he should also be compelled to fend for both your sis and the child. It's a pity that lots of ladies were and are victims of people like the said man.
You and your siblings should also continue to support her and protect her from men who are vile and have no regard for women because if care isn't taken, she'll go through condescending things in their hands that may even lower her self-esteem. She also should start to acquire lifelong skills and further her education. Omo, I never get belle before but I know this journey might be tough for her. May God come through for you and your family in your trying times. My prayers are with you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL3u0br8LGQ