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[Erson @itsnotjeff_]

There's just something about girls with coloured eyes👁🥺.......i just can't help but fall in love at first sight😓❤

[Nike @Nike]

It was all going to plan until instincts took over…

Rip The Script

[Erson @itsnotjeff_]

Your akara looks anaemic.

[Martins | Film Director @Dir_Martinsz]

Imagine comparing Frame 1 to frame 2?? Big disrespect 😂

just look at the abuja own (frame 2)!! The look is scary 😭 you guys need to respect Akara lekki.

Frame 1 any day, any time.

[Lekan Olayinka @lekan_olayinka1]

Biggest Mack @Big_Mck, I will respond to you again.

You mentioned three things that are factually incorrect about the role of the Bible in slavery:

1. You said the Bible is not divine because humans compiled it.

2. You said Europeans who misused the Bible were the ones who compiled it.

3. You suggest Christianity is inherently imperial to Africa.

Let me start with the third point.

Christianity may have been born in the Middle East, but it grew up in Africa.

That’s right. The intellectual framework that forms the doctrinal epistemology of Christianity was largely developed in these three African regions:

Alexandria in Egypt
Hippo in Algeria
Carthage in Tunisia

Biggest Mack, do you know the major milestones in Christianity that emerged from these African centers?

The Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint, was translated by 70 scholars in Alexandria.

Church fathers like Origen and Clement systematized Christian theology there as well.

The first person to write a sustained theological framework that shaped later Trinitarian language was Tertullian of Carthage (Tunisia).

Even more crucially, Augustine of Hippo (modern-day Algeria) is one of the most influential figures in Western Christianity.

His writings on grace, sin, the church, and salvation underpin much of Catholic and Protestant theology.

To be blunt, if you remove Augustine, a significant portion of Western Christian theological structure collapses.

His influence is not peripheral; it is foundational.

And he was from Algeria.

Did you also know that councils that shaped the early biblical canon were held in Hippo and Carthage, modern-day Algeria and Tunisia?

The idea that Christianity simply “came to Africa” is a display of historical ignorance.

Now to the moral question of slavery.

How can Christianity be accused of being the root of slavery when Scripture directly undermines its moral justification?

Paul writes on the ethical treatment of slaves, which was strange in a Roman world that legally considered them property:

“Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.”
— Colossians 4:1

“And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.”
— Ephesians 6:9

Paul also directly reframes the master–slave relationship in Christ, calling slaves brethren with their masters:

“Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour..

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren...'— 1 Timothy 6:1–2

That last line is crucial: “because they are brethren.”

The implication is that even within a socially unequal system, the gospel redefines the moral relationship entirely.

Paul also explicitly condemns slave trading:

“The law is made… for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for SLAVE TRADERS, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine.” — 1 Timothy 1:9–10

The term here is explicitly rendered as “slave traders.”

That places slave trading in the same moral category as murder and sexual immorality.

This is not the moral framework of endorsement; it is moral condemnation.

This theological framework later informed abolitionist Christianity in Europe, the same intellectual tradition that fueled movements against slavery.

Christian thought introduced a universal moral vision of human worth.

Before this, moral status was largely tied to geography, gender, genealogy, or social status.

As a result, slaves, women, and the disabled were often treated as having diminished or no intrinsic moral worth.

Christianity introduced the idea of universal moral equality, which later influenced modern human rights discourse, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

So why accuse the Bible of perpetuating a system it provided one of the earliest moral critiques against?

Furthermore, slavery predates Christianity entirely.

Humans were among the earliest commodities humans traded.

There was no industrial economy; much of ancient production depended on forced labor.

In parts of the Roman Empire, slaves made up more than 50% of the population.

Slaveholding was widespread across civilizations.

Historical records also show African participation in slave trading, including the sale of captives to Arab traders.

But it was Christian abolitionist movements that eventually pushed for the dismantling of slavery as an institution.

For example, Britain spent approximately £20 million compensating slave owners in 1833 (equivalent to billions today).

This debt was only fully repaid in 2015.

The British Royal Navy also lost thousands of sailors enforcing anti–slave trade patrols.

They even used military force against local rulers such as King Kosoko in Lagos when treaties to abolish the trade were resisted.

Slavery was ended in a world where it was globally normalized.

Finally, you argue that the Bible is not divine because humans compiled it.

Why must it be either/or?

Divine origin does not exclude human transmission.

The fact that humans compiled the canon does not negate divine inspiration;

it reflects the means of transmission, not the source.

The Bible is understood as divinely inspired yet written and compiled through human authors guided by God.

That is your argument addressed point by point.

I would encourage you to study the subjects you are engaging with more deeply.

Lest you veil intellectual ignorance under the guise of activism.

[Erson @itsnotjeff_]

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[^ @whisperandwords]

he’s a 10 but he is extremely cold and untouchable when it comes to other people but suddenly turns into a certified yearner who is clingy, obsessive, and soft spoken when it comes to you. what is he?

[Lekan Olayinka @lekan_olayinka1]

Jesus didn't worship the gods of the Gentiles.
He didn't fellowship in their temples.
He didn't visit the brothels of the prostitutes.

When Paul and the apostles came in contact with foreign religions and gods, they condemned them openly.

In fact, the worshippers of Artemis wanted to kill Paul and his companions.

They got them arrested, beaten, and thrown out of the town.

But you don't really know God's word, or don't even care about it much.

You only need it to defend the Pope, perhaps.

The Pope is called the Vicar of Christ on earth. His representative.

You think Christ would remove His shoe, walk in reverence into an Islamic mosque and bow to Allah?

The same deity who 'revealed' that Christ Himself is not God and curses the Christians who follow Him?

I am again asking you all to have moral clarity. It is becoming a pandemic now.

How hard is it to call what is wrong as wrong?

[Ihunanya Chi ❤️ @Ihunanya_chi]

Title: **Why Jesus Was Buried Before Sunset: Jewish Law, Prophecy, and Divine Timing**

The burial of Jesus Christ was carried out with unusual urgency. The Gospels repeatedly emphasize that His body was taken down from the cross and placed in the tomb before sunset. At first reading, this may appear to be a mere historical detail, but when understood through Jewish law, feast days, and prophetic symbolism, it reveals a profound mystery of divine order and fulfillment. Nothing about Jesus death, burial, or resurrection happened by chance. Even the timing of His burial was governed by God’s covenantal design.

In Jewish law, the treatment of the dead was a serious matter, especially in relation to holiness and ceremonial purity. Deuteronomy 21:22–23 commanded that a body hung on a tree must not remain overnight, but must be buried the same day, “so that you do not defile the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.” For Jews, leaving a corpse exposed overnight brought defilement upon the land, and on a holy day such defilement was unthinkable. Jesus, having been crucified, fell under this command. Though He was innocent, the Law still applied to His body.

The urgency was intensified because the day of His death was the preparation day for the Sabbath. Jewish days begin at sunset, not midnight. As soon as the sun set, the Sabbath would begin, and no work could be done. The Gospels are careful to note that this Sabbath was not an ordinary one, but a high Sabbath, because it coincided with the Passover festival. In Jewish culture, Passover was the most sacred remembrance of God’s deliverance of Israel from slavery in Egypt. To allow a crucified body to remain exposed during such a holy time would have been a serious violation of the Law.

This explains why Joseph of Arimathea acted quickly and courageously. As a respected member of the Jewish council, he went to Pilate and asked for Jesus body. This act itself is significant. Touching a dead body would render him ceremonially unclean, preventing him from participating in Passover rituals. Yet Joseph was willing to bear this cost to honor Jesus. His urgency was not only compassion but obedience to Jewish law and reverence for God’s holiness.

The timing of Jesus burial also carries deep prophetic meaning. Throughout the Old Testament, God’s redemptive acts were marked by precise timing. Jesus died during Passover, at the very hour when Passover lambs were being slaughtered. Paul later writes that Christ is our Passover Lamb who has been sacrificed for us. Just as the lamb was killed and prepared before nightfall, so Jesus, the true Lamb of God, completed His sacrifice before the beginning of the holy day.

Burial before sunset also ensured that Jesus rested in the tomb on the Sabbath. In Jewish understanding, the Sabbath is a day of rest that mirrors God’s rest after creation. By resting in the tomb on the Sabbath, Jesus fulfilled this pattern. His work of redemption, like God’s work of creation, was complete. When Jesus cried out on the cross, “It is finished,” He declared the completion of His redemptive work. The Sabbath rest that followed was not inactivity, but sacred completion.

There is also a powerful symbolic parallel between creation and new creation. God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. Jesus labored through suffering, death, and sacrifice, and then rested in the grave on the seventh day. On the first day of the new week, He rose again, inaugurating new creation. Jewish readers would recognize this rhythm of work, rest, and renewal.

Furthermore, burial before sunset prevented Jesus body from corruption, fulfilling Psalm 16:10, which says God would not allow His Holy One to see decay. By being buried promptly and rising on the third day, Jesus body never experienced decay, further confirming Him as the promised Messiah.

The speed of the burial also explains why the women did not fully anoint Jesus body at that time. There was simply not enough time before sunset. They planned to return after the Sabbath, which is why they came to the tomb early on the first day of the week, only to find it empty. What they intended to complete, God had already completed through resurrection.

For us today, the burial of Jesus before sunset teaches something important: God works according to His appointed times. Every moment of Christ’s passion aligned perfectly with Scripture, Jewish law, and divine purpose. Even what seemed like urgency and limitation was actually precision and fulfillment.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Jeremiah 1:5 sounds like a lullaby.
But it’s not, it’s a detonation.

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you”.

Before biology, before breath, before consciousness, there was knowledge. Which means you weren’t an accident of chemistry, but an execution of intent.

Every creator creates twice: first in conception, and then in construction.

Steve Jobs held the iPhone in his mind before it existed in his hand.

The Wright brothers saw flight before metal kissed sky.

God follows the same pattern. When He said before I formed you, I knew you, He wasn’t just claiming foresight. He was declaring origin. You existed first as intention in eternity, then as flesh in time.

But there’s something vital that this passage refuses to let you avoid.

Every creation answers a need.

The Wright brothers didn’t randomly bolt wings to a frame, they perceived humanity’s ache to conquer gravity.

Similarly, before God formed Jeremiah, He surveyed history and said: I need a prophet for this moment.

This is very chilling. The Infinite surveyed time and found something he decided only Jeremiah could answer.

To be clear, this is not a gap in God’s sufficiency, but a precision in His design. The word ‘need’ here isn’t about deficiency. It’s about specificity.

A Master Architect doesn’t need bricks. He needs this brick, cut to this dimension, placed in this wall. That’s what you were. That’s what you are.

You weren’t a filler. You were the answer to a divine appointment.

If God doesn’t create without purpose, then the same iron logic applies to you, you don’t exist without reason. To doubt your purpose isn’t humility. It’s a direct accusation. It accuses the Creator of carelessness.

Now there’s an ugly part to this whole thing.

Apostle Paul writes that he was “set apart before he was born” (Galatians 1:15).

Paul, who dragged believers from their homes. Who held the coats of men stoning Stephen. Who, by his own admission, breathed threats and murder against the church.

God didn’t choose him despite the violence. He chose him knowing it was coming.

The Damascus road wasn’t Plan B. It was always the design.

Every arrest warrant Paul signed became part of the testimony that would shake the Roman Empire.

This is the most confrontational dimension of sovereignty, it doesn’t erase our failures. It fully incorporates them.

This means your worst chapter isn’t a footnote that God is trying to recover from. It’s a chapter He already read, before you lived it, and wrote into the architecture of something you can’t yet see.

Psalm 139 says it plain, “in Your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them”.

Even the seasons you call confusion remain within His choreography.

You were not an accident. You were imagined, named, and set in motion by a mind that operates outside of time.

The God who chose Paul before Damascus, knowing exactly what Damascus would require, chose you with the same foreknowledge.

And this God doesn’t revise what He authors.

He finishes it.

[𝓖𝓮𝓸𝓻𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓪 @yo_ginaa]

For someone who is scared of failure, I am so unmotivated and lazy. 😭

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Christianity is the only religion that handed its critics the exact tool needed to destroy it.

Every religion faces the same structural problem: how do you ground an invisible truth claim in something verifiable? The bridge you build between the transcendent and the tangible determines everything about how stable the whole system is.

Most traditions solve it one of three ways. Islam grounds its claim in a sacred text, but the Quran’s divine origin is confirmed by the Quran. Buddhism grounds itself in inner experience; essentially, enlightenment is real cos you feel it. Most prophetic traditions ask you to trust the messenger. In every case, the chain between the claim and the evidence is thin. One step removed from “just trust me bro.”

Then you arrive at 1 Peter 1:3.

Peter doesn’t ground Christian hope in a text, a private experience, or prophetic authority. He grounds it in this: “A living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”

A dateable, locatable, publicly witnessed historical event, one that is, in principle, falsifiable. Not a feeling or a tradition. Paul said it plainly: “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile.” No other religious movement plants its flag that way. He put everything on the table.

And the framing goes deeper. Jesus isn’t simply someone who rose. He is the firstfruits; in Jewish agricultural theology, not the whole harvest but the pledge and guarantee of it. His aliveness is the down payment on yours.

The historical architecture around this claim is interesting.

Paul names the witnesses in a letter people could fact-check. Five hundred people at once, most still alive when he writes. Proclaimed in Jerusalem, the same city where it happened, within weeks. The Roman empire was motivated to shut it down. Jewish institutions were motivated to shut it down. Neither produced a body.

Now think carefully about what would have weakened the credibility. À sole witness would have been dismissed as grief. A remote location would have been unverifiable. No post-resurrection appearances would have left a gap b/w the death and the hope. And an immediate ascension would have severed the transmission entirely.

Instead you get 40 days. Named witnesses. Multiple independent appearances. Public proclamation in enemy territory.

If you wanted to engineer a resurrection story for maximum credibility in 1st century Jerusalem what would you change? The architecture isn’t just sufficient. It is over-engineered. Which raises the question nobody who dismisses this casually wants to sit with, who fabricates a story this carefully and then dies for it?

Peter wrote this to exiles, people stripped of belonging and security, people who would see through bullshit. He doesn’t comfort them with vague theology. He tethers their hope to a man who walked out of a tomb, ate fish on a beach, and told their spiritual father where to cast his net.

Every other tradition asks you to trust something unverifiable. Christianity asks you to evaluate an event.

The witnesses were named. The city was real. The tomb was empty. Two thousand years of motivated opposition followed.

Nobody used the knife.

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

The Bible was written on three continents.

Asia.
Africa.
Europe.

In three languages.

Hebrew.
Aramaic.
Greek.

By over 40 different men —

Shepherds.
Kings.
Prophets.
Fishermen.
A doctor.

Across roughly 1,500 years.

Yet it tells one continuous story:

Creation.
Fall.
Redemption.
Christ.

Different writers.
Different centuries.
Different cultures.

One voice.

Because behind the human hands was a divine Author.

Men held the pens.

But God wrote the story.

[Erson @itsnotjeff_]

At the end of the day, Man is a product of influence. Our thoughts, actions and the likes are all influenced even when we think we act independently

[Ayo @Ayobenson10]

Influence can be very subtle that you won’t know you’re being influenced

[Ayo @Ayobenson10]

In a bid to please people, we start to conform and twist the scriptures to suit the desires of people….

[The Sound @thesoundhub_]

“So Be It” (unreleased) | Elevation worship

[SAGE MEDICAL⚕️ @Sage_medics]

Heart-wrenching photo of a doctor crying behind a hospital after not being able to save the life of a 19 year old boy. 💔

Outside of a Southern California hospital, an ER doctor is crouched down against a concrete wall grieving the loss of his 19-year-old patient. A paramedic snaps a photo of the tender scene.

Minutes after the photograph, the doctor returns to work “holding his head high.”

This photo doesnt identify the doctor in photo, but it definitely shows the side of the medical field you never see.

It contains so many life lessons.
The photographer captures a poignant moment in a stoic profession that trains doctors to remain professionally distant. The voyeuristic photo reveals the emotional reality of doctoring and a side of physicians that people don’t usually see while uniting us all in our common humanity.

Unexpected death is universally heartbreaking.
One ER doctor writes “When it comes to our work, nothing is harder and I mean nothing than telling a loved one that their family member is dead. Give me a bloody airway to intubate. Give me the heroin addict who needed IV access. Give me the child with anaphylaxis. But don’t give me the unexpected death. . . . We can only do so much, and we can only hope to do our best. But it’s that moment, when you stop resuscitation, and you look around, you look down at your shoes to make sure there’s no blood on them before talking with family, you put your coat back on and you take a deep breath, because you know that you have to tell a family that literally the worst thing imaginable has happened. And it’s in that moment that I feel. And I feel like the guy in this picture.”

In medicine, crying is unprofessional. That needs to change now.
This photo honors a man for having the courage to cry. It shows the side of physicians that people don’t usually see while uniting us all in our common humanity.

[Erson @itsnotjeff_]

@Ayobenson10 @onayinka_segun Good morning sir, I stay at Lagos, Nigeria. I'd love to send a DM but X won't let me send message requests to someone not following me.

[Saints Community Church @saintscommlagos]

“Him whom the heavens cannot contain, the womb of one woman bore.”

— St. Augustine

#chrissegunonayinka
#saintscommunitychurch

[Erson @itsnotjeff_]

@lx_amara I love this!!!
Amidst the whole religious war on Twitter, not many Christians can defend their faith accurately and rationally

[Big Amara @lx_amara]

This is something every Christian should understand. Not enough characters on Twitter to go into details, but I’ll try to summarize it here.

To understand the seeming difference in God’s character and requirements between the Old and New Testament, we should answer these questions:

- What is the punishment/result of sin?
- Who was the law given to?
- What is the purpose of the law?
- What is the new covenant?

1) The wages of sin is death. This was clear from the beginning.

“…for in the day you eat of the fruit, you will certainly die.” — Genesis 2:17

“When Adam sinned, the entire world was affected. Sin entered human experience, and death was the result. And so death followed this sin, casting its shadow over all humanity, because all have sinned.” — Romans 5:12 TPT

Death is the consequence of sin. This has never changed.

2) Death reigned over all humanity because of sin. But God chose a people for Himself through Abraham’s line. Through this line’s seed, He planned to fulfill the promise given to Adam and Eve and the judgment pronounced on Satan:

“…he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” — Genesis 3:15 NIV

Before the coming of this Seed, He gave this people laws and regulations to temporarily and partially shield them from the influence of death that affected the rest of humanity.

“So the law was our guardian until Christ came….” — Galatians 3:24 NIV

3) The law was not a permanent solution. In the midst of the Old Covenant, God promised a New Covenant:

“The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah... I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
— Jeremiah 31:31, 33

“I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.”
— Ezekiel 36:25-27

Why a new covenant? What was the purpose of the old?

“For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.”
— Hebrews 8:7

The old covenant was faulty, not because God makes mistakes, but because it was temporary. Besides serving as a guardian, it was used to reveal man’s weakness & inability.

“Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin”
— Romans 3:20

When a person sees their inability to keep the law, their response is:

“What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?” — Romans 7:24

The law’s proper use is to point to the need for salvation in Christ alone.

“We know that the law is good if one uses it properly.” — 1 Timothy 1:8

4) Jesus came as the fulfillment of the law, thereby ending it.

“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” — Romans 10:4 KJV

When asked about divorce, Jesus said the laws were permitted due to hardness of heart, not God’s original intent.

“He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so”
— Matthew 19:8

The law was ineffective, like perfuming a pig that returns to the mud. Rules like “eye for eye” were temporary guardrails for a people under death’s influence, pointing to true life in Christ.

“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit”
— Romans 8:3-4

This is Christianity: A new covenant. Spirit led. Jesus at the center!