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Miracles are spiritual acts. They also follow physical laws of presence on every person they were acted upon. That is, be it a bad eye, a sick ear, a dead person et c., each of these members had to be present. Miracles entail faith.
In this case, faith entails a soon- to- be- amputated person refusing to give the go-ahead order for the amputation after the doctor must have affirmed the procedure as the solution to the present situation, believing that God will heal his or her diseased limb. I have seen and heard about testimonies of this one. During accidents, when the limb has been severed off the body, faith entails you joining the severed limb with the other members of the body and believing they will be one or whole again. Remember Marcus' ear and Peter's encounter. These are faith based.
Do you believe? There is nothing impossible for God, only if you believe. Believe!

Naturally, the limbs like some other specialised parts of the body are not regenerative. It is like losing a permanent tooth and praying that another one grows back in its place! But with God...

@BabaGnoni, thanks for the corrections.

I pray that our current man Peter Obi and governor-in-waiting, Chief Willie Obiano, realise what capital expenditure really means. Let us stop this unnecessary waste of funds. Anambrarians, let us learn to cry and fight when the shoe pinches. Anambra must rise.

He said this, he said that; he did this, he did that. Read the bible and discover these truths yourselves, and be 'welcoming' also.
For how long would we have eyes and not see; nose and not perceive; ears and not hear? Read, for it is no longer the reserve of the clergy!

Nwoke, you is a Pharisee- and it ain't good for you! Try and serve God with your best but know when to give up on things you cannot change. Nobody is perfect.

kennytidistar: this device is USE for So many thing, you can USE it to monitor traffic, and other activity instead of using cctv camera. it's a great device using remote cameras.

The thing don get camera too? Oh no!These guys are always very 'fast.'

Seriously, wetin man no know plenty o. But which set of people go buy this kind thing begin use am play as toy? I don even begin plan how I go fabricate digital motor-harness, carry video camera put on top for aerial video coverage. The harness go carry up and down and side-ways settings.
Wetin I been dey wan go see for Sokoto, dey my shokoto since! Naija tv stations wey no go fit afford high-tech instruments go fit dey use this one manage. Make I go even tell Paul my cameraman friend about this plan. U sef fit donate money to make this project a reality.

lf Adam had not eaten of the fruit the wife gave to him, then Eve would discontinue being our mother. In fact she and satan would have died the moment God passed judgement on them only. Adam would have fallen asleep and another woman made for him. Sometimes I think we are all the same Adam come on Earth to show where our allegiance belongs. That is, you and I are the same Adam of Eden- now imperfect- with freewill.
I don't think Eve ate that fruit in the presence of satan. After the brief argument with satan, she must have kept thinking of her coming godship, because it was the 'You will be like God' utterance that broke her defences. It could have been an hour later that she did the act (and with Adam by her side).
Whether Adam was with her or not does not matter much. The fruit was distinct from other nearby fruits, so there was no excuse to save Adam's head. Adam could have resisted a little, then fell for godship bait. Both of their eyes were opened at the same time. Take time to read God's sentence on Adam and you will arrive at this conclusion.

And are we to judge her seductiveness by only this picture? Before you say somebody is a seducer, you would have noted so many things she does like the kind of clothes she wears, the way she walks (sways her hips), her eyes' movements, the lips and tongue movement et c., things the said Nairalander must have observed for a long time.
What I am saying in essence is, that picture won't be enough to conclude whether she is or not!

This girl don use wetin dem dey use clean ear clean eye. Aruuu! Come to the shrine with four kolanuts, a keg... emm jar of palm-wine, and an umblemished white ram for atonement. Tufiakwa! Nna Nna, iwe gi dajuo. Umu nwanyi!

daroz: Are u sure? Have u witnessed a goat giving birth?

Was it so bad that you lent it a hand? I hope you understood my point? Talking further on this 'great pain,' do you know what records say about complications and death arising from human child delivery, as against those of other animals? Thank God for Surgeries.
Also note that most of these animals are prolific breeders, giving birth from two to as much as eight unaided, repeatedly! If a woman luckily gives birth to triplet or more she makes the news.

The table-turner is on "greatly." It could have been that other animals' delivery process was normal or the benchmark, without much pain and difficulty. In Adam and Eve's pre-disobedience era our God could have created the woman's reproductive anatomy and pain receptors in a way that would have induced a no or less pain situation at childbirth, which He changed after the curse.
All things being equal, other animals' labour are less stressful than human beings'. I will 'greatly' multiply your pain at child birth. See how much time some people spend in labour.

Yes! I am even better. No be joking matter, walahi talahi. Nelson Mandela, only if death knew or thought like us! Mr., don't be talking about our leaders only.

One thing wey dey anger me well well na the size of the rooms of our 'modern' houses. Land wey go comfortably house three rooms person go eke out five rooms from! I pray that our people wey dey for authority should look into the matter. Na people get this houses, no be rats.
God's speed for your project.

Sir Hackeem: Its " twinkle " not " twinkling " . Haba!

I tried to overlook your rubbish but couldn't. Take your time to examine somebody's post before you dash to point out errors, Mr. English. However, correct yourself first, ...

What I tell my friends is this: Our country getting better is not something that will happen in a twinkling of an eye. It could take as much as how old she is right now! The thing is that when the turn-around step kicks in, even the blind will know. One day, the kata kata will settle.
While we wait for that saving day, it will not be too much asking you to start effecting your small positive change anywhere you find yourself.

I have seen so many dogs that I am fed up with 'em! Dasparrows, can you get me a male kitten of the cat on left side of the picture? If you can, let us do business.
Back to the unforgiving world, landlord is banging on my door early in the morning saying he can't wait for his 'dues' forever.

I have for long been stretching my ears to hear something from our FG. ASUU brings their palaver to the the table, FG is quick to say it is burdensome. When will FG also bring something to the table? I am talking about something that will repair our crumbling educational institution. Something that will make our certificates have value, where a secondary school certificate will give you most jobs that a degree does now; where universities won't be an all-comers affair; renovate our schools- they are mostly death-traps et c.
Pity my forgetfulness, our nation has so many pressing problems! Let me keep stretching my...

l pray say this him act go dey etched on my and our minds this festive season we been dey enter so, the season of so many show-offs and bets-placing.
Nwoke, na n'udo. A living dog is better than a dead RION.

I dey feel the guy wey open this thread. Another safety tip- speak all the languages you can think of, even the lion's language! That is, roar as loud as fear of danger would let you. And be serious about it. I dey laugh.
Note: These steps are to be taken if there is only one lion. If there are many lions, become Daniel in the lions' den.

I have been on Celestine Ugwu's IGEDE ever since I bought my smartphone. I don't see me getting tired from it soon, though.

Which side of the river am I to let off my net in now? Which tale will now be reliable? Anambra will surely rise. Okay, what about the Rev. Father's account? I am sure he will not lie, he is God's servant! Umunne m, ji esiri n'ite epuo ume!

At Free Radical, neither did I say your explanation was not good to some extent. First, why did they go to Pilate, why did they not kill Him themselves? It was due to the time they were able to catch Jesus without causing unnecessary commotion. Had they caught Jesus a week before there would not have been need to consult with Pilate. The time they caught Jesus was HOLY to the Jews but not to Pilate and his people. The Romans had trampled on so many Laws that held the Jewish nation. That is, their hands (Jews) would still be clean after killing a person on the holy week because it was not the Jews that killed Him but the unclean, uncircumcised Romans. But He had to die at all cost for His numerous 'blasphemies.'
The scriptures had to be fulfilled. Going off topic, why was it on the Feast of Passover, what happened on the original day of Passover at Egypt? The introduction of salvation on a global scale. So it was not because they were trying to see if He was going to come down from the cross, for they had seen enough from His last hours to see that He would not do so. God's plan and the timing of His plan...

The Jews of that time did with Jesus what they did to God's former prophets of old. If the message was good, we would listen; but if the message was to make us feel guilty, we ... Jesus came to give a law that was kind of different from what they had been taught: the mosaic law. For example, when Jesus healed a leper in a synagogue on a sabbath day majority of the worshippers wanted to push him down the cliff! To make matters worst, He said: "Before Abraham I was." The climax was when He said He was God's son, or was it when He said He would be seated at the right hand side of God? These were all 'blasphemies', punishable by death.
Times without number some of the Jews asked Him if he was the Messiah. Even the great John the Baptist had a time he lost it on Jesus' Lordship. Sometimes most believed, sometimes they doubted, but they knew there was something, 'something' about this Man. It got to an extent that some said His source of power was from Beelzebuub.
Yes, most of the crowd he pulled did not come to listen to his teachings. They were either concerned with their belly, His numerous miracles, or to try and use His words against Him. Not that few did not believe in what He was preaching. The opportunity finally presented itself and they chose Barabass. It was a custom for a law breaker to be released, and they thought they were doing God a favor over an unrepentant blasphemer, so they wanted to free Barabass.

Oga Cold, you are really doing fine. The same eagerness you are utilising in bringing out these seeming 'bad' parts of the OLD TESTAMENT OR PRE-JESUS ERA I pray you utilise in bringing souls to God when you finally give your life to Christ. Now, most of the verses you mentioned will be scary to those who do not take time to digest what they read, but I will try to tell you what I think of those verses.
A society that wants to stand out needs laws to govern it. In trying to make old Isreal stand out, God placed or set so many laws to guide them. Laws are a set of DOs and DON'Ts, and the DON'Ts have their consequences. For example, when a law states that a killer will be slowly tortured till he dies, the power of the law is not in trying to kill killers but in trying to scare potential killers with the prospect of a painful death. That is, the killer, after seeing what awaits him, will have a rethink of his plan. That is what God did with Old Isreal. He set up those laws to make them serve Him with their best. This should try and help you with your verses in Leviticus, Joshua and Deuteronomy.
About the verses you quoted from the book of Kings, I do not see anything extraordinary about them. King Jeroboam erected evil alters that led the people astray. God was saying through the prophet that the priest of those alters and people who go there to sacrifice will one day have the same fate as those things they sacrificed on the alters. In fact, they will be burnt up on the same alter they have erected! It is like one psalm that states: '...let them fall into the pit they set for me.'
Ezekiel, like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Revelation et c, is a book of prophecies, so it uses many figurative expressions, yet the message can be discerned.
Are you not happy that He has opened the 'goodies' He reserved for Isreal of Old to everyone, including you Mr. Cold? Only if that Isreal had served Him with the urgency they used in serving idols. Even those laws were not the stumbling block for them- most of them were outright stubborn just as few were righteous. The best part of it today is that the old Laws are gone; why won't you give your life to Christ Jesus?
Actually, I am learning as you are, too.

I think he was talking from the standpoint of a privatised PHCN. Nevertheless, this kind of thing is possible if we put our minds into it. The 'materials' with which to realise it are overabundant in our nation as well.
Obughi tata k'anyi fubalu ndi awusa n'uta!

At topic, God did not accept Cain's sacrifice not based on the type of sacrifice. And He could have chosen to honour both their sacrifices or refused both! After reading reprimands God gave to Cane I think Cane must have evil plans on his mind at his brother or coveting his brother's business. Cane could have been the type that wished a lot and worked little.

It is quite true that I read that part of the bible without fully understanding. Thanks for pointing or bringing out that passage.
Now, the old testament was governed by the principle of a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, and if you make a promise, you must fulfil it! God tested Abraham with Isaac. Samuel's mother, Hannah, made a promise before the birth of Samuel. Jephthah made God a promise, and he fulfilled his promise. You and I know that it was heart-rending by today's standards.
What baffles me most is the way the 'victims'- Isaac, Samuel, and the king's daughter- are bound to carry out the promisers' promises. Going by the standard of our era, which Isaac or Cold will not have fled the scene! The victim (younger) always respected the wishes or actions of the promise-giver (older).
God's yoke is light. When Abraham was about to finally 'harm' his son Isaac, God gave him a substitute. Jephthah, fearing that the battle he was about to fight was 'big,' made a self-choking, careless promise. Something tells me the king never believed the 'cast lot' would fall on his daughter. I cannot say how God felt in this case, but I will say it served future persons who made promises to Our Father in the Old Testament a lesson of not making hasty promises. Cold, don't make a promise for the sake of promising. Let us believe in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary.

cold: Not just animal sacrifices,children were also offered to Yahweh as burnt offering. Seriously the mind boggles

Judges 11:29-40

29 Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands.33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto theLord, and I cannot go back.36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.


How Christians read this & flip through to the next page without feeling any tinge of guilt is really baffling

Thank goodness the students have started doing something. Na stage by stage cry for help. Maybe, when they reach the stage that will be 'the last straw that broke the carmel's back,' na this act go spark the dynamite wey go bring about change for we country. The thing that pains me most is that our leaders don't care. Why would they? They are not the ones losing. This country must be better, whether they agree or not! Our students must get guality education! Kedu ihe bu nka, ehhh?!

For how long are we gonna keep holding ourselves from telling the people in authority that the pair of shoes we have our feet in hurts because we are afraid of soldiers and police? The 'force people' sef, dem dey craze? Do not say things that will discourage these guys from crying out in their moment of grief.

imsu.boi:
when soldiers would be deployed to that place, we go know who be who

I no know say holding phone dey sweet till I land for nairaland. I don't want to imagine how boring some times for be without nairaland! Na pot of knowledge she be. Sometimes you go dey laugh like person wey get laughingitis, other times you go feel like reaching out your hand and slapping some members.
Nairaland, imeela. Jisienu ike.

NEMA should come out and apologise to those who believed they were acting out what they knew. Had I wagered with an engineer friend that drills water for a living when he called the prediction a crap after giving so many scientific reasons, I done lost heavily. In fact, I will need that man to direct NEMA if I had my way. I relied heavily on what they said, now I know better. To think NEMA even gave us an advance warning to prepare for the worst. Sighs.
Flooding is not a new thing to several parts of the country. But last year, with the rate the rains came (even in our area) day in day out, one did not need the gods to tell us something big was about to fall into our hands. Some say that the Camerounians caused it by opening the dam. What if they had not opened the dam and the weight and pressure of water became unbearable for the dam? Will the last not have been worse than the first?
NEMA needs to be sanitized. The worst is what has the government done to minimize the damages of future occurence? We also need to be cautious, especially those living along the coast. How ready is we?

Killing mother rat and leaving her babies in the house is stupid if you want to rid your house of rats. Hell is a place prepared once and for all for Satan, his demons, and sinful humans. First comes the global acceptance that we cannot do without God, then the end comes. That new mankind will enjoy the world in rest or peace. Presently, we are in the times of false hopes of conquering the world, but time of sorrow is fast approaching.
Jesus is Lord.

tony_runo: I wonder! Naturally what do you do to a re-occurring problem? You curb it once and for all! If they had said ok, God hasn't finally obliterated him yet because God is giving him time/chance to change his ways....that would have made sense but no; They say Satan has gotten to a point of no return, he has to die
-Alright just destroy him already...

-em no...not yet

-why?

-Em...because it is to be done later.

-why later? Why not just do it already and save a lot of people stress?

-well er, we cant understand the ways of God.

Of course we cant...