About a month ago I read about and watched a video made by a popular Ghanaian gospel singer Pastor Joe Beecham a man who has been praising and worshipping God for years declare that God wants to use Ebony and that she should give her life to Christ and use her voice for him. He even said he wanted to write a gospel song for her and was begging her to give her life to Christ so as to save her soul and the destinies of many whom she has misled. This was in January. ..... Fast forward to February 8th ebony reigns dies suddenly via a terrible car accident.

If anyone had told her that her end after that message from the pastor would be in a month she would have laughed it off and called that person mad and that she had a lot to enjoy in life. But alas she is now history and a mere statistic.

This stands as a warning to those reading about her. Stop running from God and run TO him. Give your lives to Jesus and be saved. No man knows the hour your turn will come.

RIP ebony reigns. How i wish you served God while in your youth.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them"

Ronpet777:

If ur claims are true,then we shldnt hold him on d past. Cos so far he hasn't been impolite. We r all here to learn and unlearn and not to fight battles.

I want him to change and stop his business as usual method of ridiculing and calling everyone who is against his views names.

vaxx:
I think in this regard, buterfl1ion is very quick to mock. Honestly that is the only side i do not appreciate about him. . You are calm and open to knowledge. Trust me.you can learn from him too just like he can learn from you. Butter can you please cultivate the life of a true Christian?

My guy I am being calm.

I am not mocking Frank but truthfully speaking to him. A simple click on his moniker and a check on his nairaland comments would prove this.

Frank never wants to learn but wants to insult all day every day.

frank317:


@ Ronpet777, at least i am interacting with u for the first time, can you confirm that my posts to u (at least on this thread) are vitriol loaded, hate comment decorated, insult bred and ridicule fermented @vaxx, you are free to confirm too.

butterflylion, whats really biting you... its not my fault that Yahweh left you all alone to fight for him and prove his existence. I maintain that Yahweh is nonexistent. if you think this makes me angry, then I can not help you.

Obsession is written all over you. Where and when did I mention Yahweh when talking to you yet you just could not resist bringing up what you claim does not exist

This must be very depressing to carry about a burden such as Yahweh on your head even when nobody mentioned him or gave it to you to carry

Ronpet777 knows better than to take your word for it. All he has to do is go through your anger driven comments on nairaland and he would see for himself.

80% of your comments on nairaland are loaded with anger and angry outbursts.

Make I show you?

frank317:


lol... anybody can be depressed. This issue should not even come up. budaa has proven the guy has other issues. blaming it on atheism like op did is dishonest and thats just the point i am trying to make.

You mean it is wrong to Blame it on atheism same way this vocal atheist did?

Depression is a serious problem within the greater atheist community and far too often, that depression has led to suicide. This is something many of my fellow atheists often don’t like to admit, but it is true. I know a lot of atheists, myself included, would all like to believe that atheists are happier people than religious believers and in many ways we are. But we also have to accept the reality that in some very important ways we are not.

frank317:


You keep on saying I am angry... I really dont know how u come about that. I am not angry at anything biko, stop spreading false information to make urself feel good

I am sure you would even deny yourself in front of a mirror.

Your posts are all vitriol loaded, hate comments decorated, insult bred and ridicule fermented yet you say you are not an angry soul.

In the west, a simple profiling of your online posts as they do facebook posts would make them suggest a mental evaluation for you or lock you up for a while.

Perhaps you need to start scrutinising Your Own comments.

budaatum:

This is the sort of stupid statement that started this off. If there are scientific studies, just post a link to them please! Or is it the elusive 22 Year Study I've been waiting months for?

Dude go through my posts on this thread and see the links for yourself and also the links posted by vaxx and stop acting like a dolt.

budaatum:

Here you go trying to waste my time! I did not say I know theists because it wasn't the point. I did however state that more theists have committed suicide than all the atheist currently alive. You did bold it and quiver in fear when you quoted me!

Is this is one if your be not smart days by any chance? Shall I wait till tomorrow?

Those were 2 separate comments and I made my observation as they came and I asked that you name the atheists you know who have committed suicide because hopefullandlord expects to see a list online which says atheism made so and so commit suicide.

Meanwhile even atheists have declared what atheism pushed them to become and majority of them all said the same thing. Atheism pushed them to depression and suicidal thoughts and it's no surprise because scientific studies have shown atheists to have high inclination toward suicide. It's like being in a freefall, knowing it and deliberately disconnecting the fail safe. No buffer, no emergency brakes, nothing to stop them.

Even atheists on reddit are singing the same song.

MrMcJay:
Freeze said the man they claimed to heal is back on the streets and Christmas are insulting freeze, calling him names instead of looking at the remote and immediate causes for his relapse.

In insanity, there is something called 'lucid period'. That is when a mentally ill person has some semblance of sanity. Once that period is over, madness resumes full time.

Because you're praying and the mad man is saying Amen, you think he's healed?

Christians need to start asking questions. Church leaders won't tell you because your ignorance is the basis of their unintelligent dogmas. Insanity is a medical condition, it is not as a result of demon possession.

I am sure you have a brain and that brain is meant to be used.

This mad man who was healed less than a month ago had his hair completely cut. The one in the video has Afro hair aka bushy hair.

Do people grow Afro so fast? It's obvious the person in the video and the one whose pictures we saw are not the same people.

Fixed:
But the mad man in this 'new' video has very bushy hair that couldn't have grown that much in less than one month considering the man was completely shaven.

Just an observation.

Same observation I made. Freeze is lying here.

CastedAyo:



The news about the man being healed was published on Jan 13 here on Nairaland.

Whose know maybe it's been weeks they 'healed' him and the news got to the bloggers the time it was published

That is not the same man. January 13th till now is less than a month and this guy in the video has Afro hair. The healed mad man has his hair completely cut.

Does it take a month or less to grow Afro?

Those are not the same people.

It takes about 3 to 4 months to grow that much hair I see on that guy in the video. 5 nights of glory was in January ending so how come this guy in the video has afro hair while the pictures of the mad man showed him with no hair on his head? Does hair grow so fast? Freeze is lying.

But of course his followers do not think and do not cross check anything and simply believe what he says

The man was totally clean shaven when his hair was cut and that was not even to to 2 weeks ago. How come the one in the video has bushy hair?

budaatum:

I said I know of atheist who have committed. For your information, I also know of theists who have committed suicide. And no, I will not name either as no one is arguing that people on both sides don't commit suicide.

The argument was which commits suicide more!

What a cop out. First you mentioned only atheists you know who have committed suicide and when I asked for their list you now said you ALSO know theists who have done same.

Was my question about something you did not say or something you actually said?

budaatum:

I did not ask you for a name! I know of atheists who have committed suicide myself. Your statement was that more atheists commit suicide, and not one person did. And my initial research into Hemingway did not point to his atheism.

Cc vaxx and hopefullandlord

Ahem! Hopefullandlord would like you to list the names of these atheists you know who have committed suicide.

budaatum:

Do note that this is the www. Evidence is key. In my post, I said I have not read his work and showed you what I found with a vaxx like caveat, "sounds like he was a believer!". If I had found he was an atheist, I would have to be stupid to wish to intentionally hide the fact!

Do note that you are meant to provide evidence for more atheists committing suicide than believers. The mere fact that there are so few atheists is sufficient to debunk that idea. I've said it before and will repeat it here. If all the atheists committed suicide, they still would not be as many as the believers who commit suicide. Same as you would find more believers in prison. Its not because more believers commit crimes or suicide, but just that there are more believers, period!

Your words in bold just put the fear of God into me

I am scared shîtless right now

Icecream4U:
I have been seeing this "first fruit" thing here and there on nairaland but I never believed people actually do it until my neighbor confided in me because he needed me to assist him with his house rent.

His house rent (150k per year) expired December last year and he has not been able to renew it despite the fact that he earns 120k monthly salary.

He came to me to help him with the money that he would repay with interest saying his landlady is impatient and abusive. I told him i don't have cos I know he earns almost that 150k in a month.

So, what is really happening?

He told me he made some financial commitment in his church. What about your January salary? I asked. At least, I can support you with like 50k so you can add to it to pay the rent but I was shocked when he told me he has given it to his pastor as "first fruit" as he normally does.

Chineke! My mouth was wide open. I couldn't believe what my ears just heard. How could a full grown man sink himself into an avoidable financial difficulty and go about looking for money to borrow? Could it be jazz?

A lot of you are simply attention seekers who wish to lie your way around nairaland.

His rent is 150k A YEAR. he earns 120k A MONTH. first fruit is once a year and the remaining 11 months is his own and he somehow does not have his 150k yearly rent to pay yet earned 1.32million naira as salary for the remaining 11 months.

Even if he made some financial commitment your story still does not add up.

That's an aside. Your neighbour does not know he has a betrayer as a neighbour. I wish he did.

budaatum:

Heard of him but I have not read his Old Man and the Sea. He killed himself, but sounds like he was a believer!

Ernest Hemingway was born a Protestant but converted to Catholicism when he married Pauline Pfeiffer, his second Wife. Pauline was an observant Catholic who took her religion seriously.  Hemingway, who was never observant, but arguably always religious told Gary Cooper that becoming a Catholic was one of the best things he’d done in his life. Was Hemingway Religious?


Hemingway's behavior during his final years had been similar to that of his father's before he killed himself;[158] his father may have had the genetic disease hemochromatosis, due to which the inability to metabolize iron culminates in mental and physical deterioration.[159] Medical records made available in 1991 confirm that Hemingway had been diagnosed with hemochromatosis in early 1961.[160] His sister Ursula and his brother Leicester also killed themselves.[161] In addition to being affected by his physical ailments, Hemingway's health was compromised by his having been a heavy drinker for most of his life.[114] wiki

https://www.askanatheist.org/famous.html

http://www.celebatheists.com/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway's fiction was successful because the characters he presented exhibited authenticity that resonated with his audience. Many of his works are classics of American literature. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. source: wikipedia

Ernest Hemingway on Religion
"All thinking men are atheists" - Ernest Hemingway

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice.... I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name. Thy kingdom nada, thy will be nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. - Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

He was an atheist the whole world knows this but trust Wiki to adjust certain information about him since the Co owner is an atheist.

iniadewumi:



So God created natural disasters in a perfectly designed universe and then gave us the mental capacity to deal with these same natural disasters he created? Genius plan

Yes it's a genius plan because what you call natural disasters are only seen as so when they affect man but to the planet it's a glorious occurrence.

These are ways what you call natural disasters benefit the planet.

1. earthquakes can fertilize the earth by helping us grow plants. (plants that man benefits from and depends on)

2. Earthquakes cause a shift in the arrangement of rock forms, mineral and ore deposits, and tectonic plates. As a result of these shifts, certain portions of earth may be sucked down into the ground, and other portions may be pushed up to the surface. Earthquakes commonly force mineral and metal-rich deposits close to or above the surface, making them easier to mine and collect (still beneficial to man)

3. Similarly, shifting plates may make fossil fuels, like petroleum and natural gas, easier to access. In fact, though earthquakes often occur naturally, human activity can encourage a seismic event. Drilling for fossil fuels can cause minor earthquakes. Terrestrial shifts and drilling have a delicate relationship, with one often dramatically affecting the other. An earthquake may make a previously unknown pocket of natural resources evident. (still beneficial to man)

4. Tectonic plate shifts and earthquakes are part of the planet's natural geologic cycle. Rock and soil are constantly pulled down into the molten layers of the planet as other molten materials move toward the surface, break through and harden. The planet constantly recycles itself to sustain life and adjust to changes on the surface. Earthquakes are one process that allows the planet to maintain a life-sustaining balance (still beneficial to man)

5. Tsunamis help re establish our eco system in an amazing way (still beneficial to man)

6. For volcanoes, after a volcanic eruption, the soil becomes rich due to the nutrients from the volcano. Precious stones and gems that were once deep within the earth are brought to the earth's surface and will contribute greatly to the economy of the country. Some valuable emissions from volcanoes are pumice, opal, gold, mercury, and metals. It also releases good chemicals into the atmosphere. Chemicals such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen that contributes to the water cycle. (still beneficial to man)

So you see that what you call disasters are not really so when looked at objectively. We cannot make an omelette without breaking a few eggs can we?

The best recycling system ever designed was the planet earth and anyone with a jot of intelligence would see that it does not just behave the way it does by chance but it behaves so deliberately for our sake because when the earth dies, so would the people on it. So the earth with all you call disasters are what is keeping you alive

cc vaxx