My God entered time, stepped into creation, and took on humanity.
He was tempted in every way, yet without sin. He felt what I feel. When I cry out in pain, He does not stand distant. He says, “I know. I have been there.”
He sees me. He understands my tears. He comforts me. He is not distant or untouchable.
This is why He is my advocate, my defender, my eternal High Priest, my Lord and my Saviour.
He came exactly as He promised. Through the prophet, it was written, “A virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and His name shall be Immanuel” which means, God with us.
He is compassionate. He entered our condition, even tasting poverty, so that I might become rich in His righteousness.
He tasted death for my redemption. Yet death could not hold Him. He rose in victory, so I have the assurance of resurrection. Because He lives, I will live also.
He did not lose to death. He conquered it.
Now to your claim.
You say, “If your god can die, then he is not God.”
But you misunderstand the gospel.
God did not cease to be God. The Son took on human nature and, in that humanity, truly experienced death. Not as defeat, but as victory.
If your god has never entered human suffering, then he cannot truly relate to it.
If he has never faced death, then he has never conquered it.
The power of the gospel is this:
God did not remain distant. He stepped in.
He did not avoid the battle. He won it.
He did not escape death. He defeated it.
That is why He is not only God above me, but God with me, God for me, and God who has secured my eternal life.
In your framework, a person stands before God hoping their good outweighs their bad. There is no full assurance, only the expectation of judgment.
In Christ, I do not stand on the scale of my works. I stand on a finished work. My confidence is not in what I have done for God, but in what God has done for me in Christ. He has already borne my judgment. He has already secured my righteousness.
So I do not face eternity with uncertainty. I face it with assurance.
Not because I am good enough, but because He is.
And that is not a dangerous hope. That is a secured salvation.
In Islam, when the Romans came to arrest Jesus, he hid among his disciples and offered them a deal:
“Who will take my place, and Allah will reward him with a castle in paradise?”
The Islamic Jesus bargains for his own survival. He offers paradise as currency for someone else’s suffering.
He escapes and someone else dies.
This fits perfectly with Muhammad’s method, castles, virgins, rivers of wine, palm trees in paradise, divine bribery, used to extract whatever Muhamed desired from his followers.
The Islamic version of Jesus is repackaged in Muhammad’s image: transactional, self-preserving, power-driven.
The real Jesus, the biblical Jesus, didn't ask anyone to die for him, he died for us.
allah and his so-called “prophet” aren’t worthy to untie His sandals.
Apparently this is an early post.
- First, wait to find out the specific hospital you matched into.
- Reach out and ask if they are willing to sponsor you for O-1A visa (it is not part of the banned visas).
- There's no reason why they can't sponsor you but expect most hospitals to push back because this is a new territory for them (so be ready to pushback too). This is because they are used to H1B and J-1. The O-1A is better than both.
- Also, due to expertise in writing the O-1A Petition, expect hospital lawyers to attempt to resist but tell them you can write it yourself and all they have to do is sponsor you and pay the petition filing fees.
- This visa has a 93% approval rate.
- It does not carry the $100k fee like the H1B.
- It doesn't require you to go back to your Home Country like the J-1.
- Its a dual intent visa meaning you don't have to prove home ties. In layman terms, the main hurdle is getting the petition approved. Once approved, you visa interview is just a casual conversation.
- The Visa is valid for 3 years, and unlike the H1B that you can only renew twice, you can renew this indefinitely.
- To qualify, there are 8 criteria and you have to meet 3. There are specific evidence required for each criterion. If you matched, there's a high chance you meet at least 3.
- Once you've gotten a go-ahead from the hospital, then you can reach out regarding putting your petition together.
“When it comes to sex, no one can control it. It’s a very strong desire.” Is this what Islam teaches? Is this why there are so many roving rape gangs in Europe? Is this why their prophet married a 6 year old? Is this why they think the prize in paradise will be 72 virgins? Is this why they have so many wives and why pedophilia is so rampant in Islamic countries? Is it just a religion based on perverted lust and lack of self-control?
What a stark contrast to Christianity, which upholds self-denial as a necessary component of the faith and self-control as a fruit of the Holy Spirit and only honors sex between one man and one woman in marriage.
It’s not hard to see why Christian nations built what they built and Islamic nations have built what they have.
“Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” Gal. 5:19-24
Only a Demon will inspire a man to marry a 6 year old and have sexual relations with her while she still played with dolls.
Only a Demon will inspire a man to marry 12 wives, and leave 11 without a seed, Actually, 2 has children, the other ones child died at infancy.
Not only is sexual sin in his church being righteously called out, he offers them a biblical solution—marriage.
With all the attention homosexuality gets from evangelical churches, it’s quite refreshing to see other forms of sexual sin being called out as well.
Don’t force your foreign concept on us.
The belief in a supreme God is enshrined in both ATR and Christianity. The Igbo call Him Chukwu Okike, whilst the Yoruba call Him Olodumare. There is something African in Christianity.
Our ancestors always wished to gain revelation of this Supreme God through smaller deities, but there was always a vacuum, hence multiple household deities with multiple functions.
Christianity teaches that the supreme God has come directly to relate with us, not through stones made by human hands, but through His own Spirit, making us living stones.
My ancestors saw this truth and accepted it voluntarily.
You can tell who reads Scripture to get to know the character of Christ and who reads it to win arguments.
Because the moment you use the Bible to tell a woman to go make a sandwich you’ve already revealed which one you are.
The verse:
“Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent.” 1 Timothy 2:11-12
And the application according to a man made in a public theological debate, after losing the argument was: stick to making dinner for your husband.
Let’s ask the only question that matters.
Did Christ ever do that? Once? Anywhere?
The woman at the well had five husbands and a complicated history. Jesus sat down, engaged her theology seriously, and revealed He was the Messiah to her first. Not to Peter. Not to the disciples. To her. Then He let her go tell an entire city. John 4.
Mary sat at His feet in the posture of a disciple while Martha asked Jesus to send her back to the kitchen. He refused. He said she chose the better thing and it would not be taken from her. Luke 10.
Mary Magdalene was the first person to see the risen Christ. He didn’t appear to Peter. He didn’t appear to the eleven. He appeared to her and He said go tell them. John 20.
The bent-over woman He healed on the Sabbath over religious objection. He dignified her publicly in front of the men trying to shut Him down. Luke 13.
He engaged women’s theological questions seriously. Publicly. Deliberately. Jesus did it constantly and never apologized once.
Not once did Jesus use Scripture to silence a woman.
Not once did He redirect a woman’s theological engagement back to her domestic duties.
Not once in all of Scripture.
So why does 1 Timothy 2 exist.
Because context is everything.
Paul is writing to a church in Ephesus and the home of the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.
The entire city’s religious culture was built around a female deity with female-dominated priesthood.
New converts were dragging those frameworks straight into the church.
The heresy being spread there was that Eve was the enlightened one. The serpent was the hero.
This is why Paul addresses Eve directly in verses 13-14. He’s not making a universal claim about female nature. He’s refuting a live heresy corrupting a specific congregation in a specific city.
This was a situational correction. Not a timeless universal command.
Because the same Paul called Phoebe a deacon. Named Junia a prominent apostle. Praised Priscilla for correcting a man’s theology and wrote Galatians 3:28.
The character of Christ is the lens everything runs through. Every verse. Every doctrine. Every application.
And the Christ of Scripture knelt in the dirt to protect a woman. Chose a woman to announce His resurrection. Refused to send a woman back to the kitchen.
So when someone uses His word to tell a woman to go make dinner, they are not representing His character.
They are using His character to do something He himself would never do.
As you go to bed tonight, I want you to ruminate over this piece here👇
👉Few days ago, scores were killed in zamfara. Many villagers are being humiliated in the worst way. Women were raped, wives were raped, husbands and sons were killed.
👉3 days ago, a Christian community was ransacked in Plateau State. About ten persons were killed.
👉A church was attacked in Ondo and worshippers were taken.
👉 The nation is totally in chaos and there's blood shed everyday.
But non of this brings any concern to the idiots that makes up this MYCN. It doesn't matter even if the country is sinking, as long as it doesn't affect Islam or Mohammad, it's ok with these animals.
Have it at the back of your mind, NIGERIA IS NEVER GOING TO BE BETTER AS LONG AS THESE RETARDS REMAIN IN OUR SOCIETY.
There's never going to be peace, progress or prosperity.
What we could continue to do is what we've always done. MANAGE TO LIVE WITH EACH OTHER
There's just too many errors in the foundation of this country. IT WILL NEVER WORK.
It may not be today, or 10 years from today or 30 years from today, but I assure you, a day is coming where a generation will rise and dismantle this unholy marriage.
I don’t care if you’re Christian, Muslim, atheist, or anything in between. I believe every civilized human being can look at this and see what a danger and disgrace it is. This is the attitude and ideology that is destroying Nigeria and threatens the peace of the entire world. All who are civilized should stand against it. 
If we don’t join together as people of conscience to end this madness, indeed it will “result in more serious consequences” … for everyone.
#EarthShaker
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I had an 84-year-old church member call me today. She was concerned because she wasn’t sure she had ever really “felt” the Holy Spirit. She told me her sister spoke in tongues, and it left her worried.
So I asked her a few questions.
“Have you ever felt conviction over your sin?” She said yes.
“Have some of your old, worldly desires been replaced with godly ones since you trusted Christ?” Again, yes.
“Have you ever been anxious about something, prayed about it, and then experienced peace?” Yes.
“Have you ever felt joy when sharing Jesus or serving others?” Yes.
I reassured her that she had certainly experienced the Holy Spirit at work in her life.
Some grouos often over emphasize the extraordinary in regard to the work of the Holy Spirit. But the Spirit is very present in the ordinary of our lives. He is producing fruit in ways we can easily overlook. He is with us.
She needed to hear that today. Maybe you do too.
I translated this into English for everyone to read. This is written by an orthopedic surgeon colleague in Spain, but I know my American colleagues will appreciate the text an similarities to challenges we face here
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The Asymmetry in Medicine in Spain: Responsibility Without Authority (I)
Opinion
Francisco J. Guitián Lema
The Asymmetry in Medicine in Spain: Responsibility Without Authority (I)
“There is irrefutable empirical proof of this asymmetry: the doctor can replace anyone; no one can replace the doctor,” states Francisco J. Guitián Lema, a Vigo-based traumatologist specializing in orthopedic surgery
There is a truth so elementary that it feels uncomfortable to state it: a hospital exists solely and exclusively to cure the sick. It is not there to provide jobs or to justify organizational charts. Nor to feed bureaucracies or to experiment with organizational theories. It exists so that a sick human being leaves it less sick or, at the very least, having received the best possible treatment.
From this premise follows a logical consequence that the Spanish healthcare system seems determined to ignore: in that healing process, there are only two absolutely indispensable figures. The patient, who is the reason for the entire structure’s existence, and the doctor, who possesses the knowledge to guide that process. Everything else — and this is not disdain, but taxonomy — is support structure. Necessary, valuable, often heroic, but auxiliary.
The doctor is the only professional capable of performing the core act that justifies the hospital’s existence: diagnosing the disease and establishing the treatment. Without a diagnosis, there is no possible direction. Without a therapeutic indication, there is no meaningful action. An orderly transports the patient, but it is the doctor who determines where and why. A nurse administers medication, but it is the doctor who decides which, how much, and when. A technician performs a test, but it is the doctor who orders it and interprets its result.
This functional hierarchy is not a social convention or an inherited privilege: it is a direct consequence of training. Six years of medical school plus four or five years of MIR specialization produce a professional capable of integrating knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and a thousand other disciplines into a diagnostic synthesis that no other healthcare professional is trained to perform.
There is irrefutable empirical proof of this asymmetry: interchangeability. A doctor can, in case of need, perform the functions of any other hospital professional. They can push a stretcher, insert an IV line, draw blood, take vital signs — in Germany, doctors routinely perform these functions. The reverse is not true. An orderly cannot diagnose pneumonia. A nurse cannot order a surgical intervention. The doctor can replace anyone; no one can replace the doctor.
Recognizing this reality does not imply disdain toward anyone. Nursing care is essential. The orderly’s work ensures that hospital flow does not stop. Everyone deserves respect and fair compensation.
But respect for personal dignity cannot be confused with functional equivalence. In an operating room, the surgeon is not worth more as a human being than the assistant; but their function is irreplaceable in a way that the assistant’s is not.
This distinction, obvious in any other field, has become taboo in Spanish healthcare. The prevailing egalitarianism has managed to make an evident functional truth be perceived as a moral offense.
Islamic extremists – "convert to Islam or be killed"
Moderate Muslims – "Islam must enter every household"
They're the same. Just coding in different languages.