WHAT HAPPENES TO US AFTER DEATH

Good news brethren, there is no need to fear hell anymore neither will there be any heaven or paradise for your enjoyment. There will be no seventy two virgin for sex, but certainly, your death contributed in maintaining natural balance.
Do u know how fossil fuel is produced? Plants use the Sun's energy to produce sugars and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water, during photosynthesis. This energy is stored in the chemicals the plant produces. Animals eat the plants and so the energy is transferred to their bodies. In the conditions on Earth millions of years ago, plants and animals decayed, and the organic chemicals their bodies were made of became the source of fossil fuels we now use

Why do we eat? of course to get energy. It equally means that the food we eat contain energy and our body absorb this energy. Our body is made up of energy and matter. When we die, the body decompose into matter and energy. The energy, like all form of energy can be converted from one form to another. this energy is what people called spirit that live on after dead.
Matter — anything that has mass and takes up space — is pretty straightforward and easy to grasp, but energy is a bit more abstract.
In physics, energy is the ability to do work, or the ability to move or elicit change in matter. In effect, the amount of energy something has refers to its capacity to cause things to happen.
Energy has a few important properties. For one, energy is always "conserved" — it cannot be created or destroyed. It can, however, be transferred between objects or systems by the interactions of forces. For example, the energy in vegetables is transferred to the people who digest them.
When we die, our body decomposes into organic matter after some days while the energy in us is converted or conserved immediately we stop breathing depending on the circumstances of our dead (system or object in physics), but one thing is certain, it is not you again that live on but the energy that was in you just as fossil fuel is no longer plant or animal . There is no way your 'matter part' will fuse itself with your 'energy part' again. So you cannot stand trail at heaven gate because energy never stand trail, neither can your energy enjoy paradise or seventy two fresh vagina.
Note that the energy in you may convert to geothermal, fossil, chemical or what i called meta-energy etc. There is no life after dead, the force in you return to the ecosystem were it comes from and the cycle continue. BE HAPPY.

By Ubong Alfred

NOAH'S ARK; AND THE CELEBRATION OF RELIGIOUS BAD IDEAS

Every Religion is a stupid idea taken too far. When i ask some Christians why are they Christians they normally say because God and the Lord Jesus Christ is helping and protecting them. If i ask Muslims they equally say that Allah, is helping and protecting them. The Hindus will say that Shiva, Vishnu, Radha and Shakti are protecting them. All these bad ideas got to show that we all drive the same pleasure and happiness worshiping any bad idea thrown at us. The biggest dinosaur was 40m (130ft) long and 20m (65ft) tall. Weighing in at 77 tonnes, it was as heavy as 14 African elephants (BBC). How can a male and female specie of this particular dinosaur be accommodated in a wooden ship made with primitive scientific ideas? Unfortunately dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago even before the Bible God said let there be light 6,000 years ago. If all the animals in the Ark were just male and female what food did animals like lion and lioness eat in the Ark for the 110 days journey? In all the religions i have seen, Christianity is the most confused and ridiculous sham. The Catholics invented Purgatory in their dogma where dead souls will first go and suffer themselves out of sin before going to Heaven. Even though there is no Biblical basis for this, people still believe it. The Jehovahs witness said that the Earth will be transformed like Heaven for them to live forever. While the Pentecostals are going to Heaven or hell direct. Etc, Meanwhile they are all reading and quoting the same Bible. The most stupid thing about Noah's story is not even the Ark but the idea that a loving God committed genocide by wiping away the entire world, which He purportedly created, including the mentally ill, innocent children etc. Yet He claim to be all knowing God. If He is all knowing why cant he understand that those people will sin against him in future and stop creating them in the first place? We were flogged and beaten by the slave Masters into Christianity, and i dont expect us to be flogged out of it again. The brain is already there but you people choose to switch it off in favour of infantile tales. The only way to be happy with genocide is to claim to be a Christian, it happened to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah and we keep praising the Bible God for mass murder, is that not crass stupidity? The same Bible clearly supported slavery, and devoted many Bible verses to teach us how to handle slaves? What sort of Book is that? Really! Really!! Awful! We have prayed a lot, yet we are still in a mess as a Country. Somebody told me Yesterday to get down on my knees and pray to God, and i replied that we have prayed enough, the problem with Nigeria is not getting down on our knees but standing up to think with our brains. There are more Pastors, Priests and Prayer warriors in Nigeria than all the Doctors, Lawyers and Engineers in the whole world put together, and it will be in our own interest to stand up and change the trend. We can not keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. I respect Christians a lot but anybody that literally believe all the conjectured fairy tales in the Bible to be true should try and see a psychiatrist.

Ozor Ozoduru I. C 

BEWARE OF TITHE-COLLECTORS : By Femi Aribisala

Don’t allow pastors who don’t understand the ways of God to continue to deceive you. God is no respecter of “tithers.”

John says: “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.” (1 John 4:18). Therefore, Christians should resist any attempt by anyone to scare them into doing anything pertaining to the righteousness of God. That is precisely what mercenary pastors do in order to arm-twist Christians to pay tithes; a requirement now inapplicable under the New Testament.

Threat of curses

If you are one of those with a money-minded pastor, he will call you a thief for failing to pay tithes and insist you are cursed. The legal authority for this predicament comes from Malachi: “Will a man rob God? Surely not! And yet you have robbed me. ‘What do you mean? When did we ever rob you?’ ‘You have robbed me of the tithes and offerings due to me. And so the awesome curse of God is cursing you, for your whole nation has been robbing me.’” (Malachi 3:8-9).

The truth, however, is that this scripture has no application whatsoever to Christians. Malachi’s invective was addressed to Old Testament priests and not even their congregation. Today’s pastors are experts at double-speak. They quote Paul: “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law.” (Galatians 3:13). Then they use Malachi to curse the redeemed in order to squeeze money out of them.

Believers are blessed: “with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ.” (Ephesians 1:3). These blessings are not conditional upon the payment of tithes but attendant on our faith in Christ and adherence to his teachings. God would never curse a Christian whom he has already blessed. When Balaam was offered money to curse the children of Israel, he replied: “God has blessed them, and I cannot reverse it! No curse can be placed on Jacob, and no magic shall be done against him.” (Numbers 23:18/23).

God said to Abraham: “I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you.” (Genesis 12:3). Christians are the seed and heirs of God’s promise to Abraham. (Galatians 3:29). Therefore, any pastor who curses a Christian is only cursing himself.

Scourge of the devourer

Pastors further seek to manipulate Christians by saying, if you do not pay your tithe, God will unleash the devourer on you. (Malachi 3:11). This means you will be confronted with all kinds of unnecessary expenditure that will continually drain away your finances.

Accordingly, Bishop David Oyedepo writes that rats ate all the cables in the car of a woman in his church. When she had the car re-wired, the rats ate the cables again. On investigation, it was discovered she had not been paying her tithes, which was why the devouring rats had been unleashed on her. Once she started paying her tithes dutifully again, the rat-attacks stopped.

Stories like this are commonplace in the churches and they are pure balderdash. It is amazing how far pastors will go in order to fleece their flock. Bishop Oyedepo says the offending rats in question were not ordinary rats but “devourer rats.” However, he fails to tell us how to differentiate between the one and the other, in case we come across any rats.

Suffice to say that such stories are manipulative. They are only designed to scare people into paying tithes. I don’t pay tithes and I don’t have rats of any kind in my car or in my house.

Answer me this: do bad things only happen to those who don’t pay tithes? Indeed, do bad things only happen to unbelievers? The answer is emphatically “No.” As a matter of fact, the truth is that in this world, worse things actually happen to believers than to unbelievers. The psalmist declares: “Many are the afflictions of the righteous.” (Psalm 34:19).

According to Jesus, in this world the believer is appointed to problems. He says to his disciples: “These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33). Tribulation, it should be pointed out, does not connote prosperity.

Bait of showers of blessings

Having used these scare-tactics to manipulate the gullible into paying tithes, many pastors then employ the promise of blessings as additional inducement. They say if you pay your tithes, God will open the windows of heaven for you and pour out a blessing so great there would not be enough room to contain it. (Malachi 3:10).

But let me ask a question here tongue-in-cheek. Have you actually discovered that Christians are any richer than non-Christians, after all only Christians pay tithes?

Pastor Adeboye claims to be richer than Bill Gates because he allegedly has houses in 188 countries. However, even if each of Adeboye’s putative 188 houses were to cost one million dollars, it would still not make him a billionaire. However, Bill Gates is not worth 188 million dollars: he is worth 76 billion dollars; making him truly the richest man in the world. Nevertheless, Bill Gates is an agnostic, in spite of his Catholic background. He does not pay tithes to any church or pastor.

Don’t believe the lie.

People don’t get rich from paying tithes. They don’t even get rich from being righteous. Take another look at this kingdom dynamic:

“The truth is that the wicked live on to a good old age and become great and powerful. They live to see their children grow to maturity around them, and their grandchildren too. Their homes are safe from every fear, and God does not punish them. Their cattle are productive, they have many happy children, they spend their time singing and dancing. They are wealthy and need deny themselves nothing; they are prosperous to the end. All this despite the fact that they ordered God away and wanted no part of him and his ways.” (Job 21:7-14).

Don’t allow pastors who don’t understand the ways of God to continue to deceive you. God is no respecter of “tithers.” Jesus says: “(God) makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” (Matthew 5:45). In all the time you have been going to church, have you ever seen any “tither” who received so much money he had no room to put it? I doubt it.

The windows of heaven were opened on believers when Jesus gave us the keys of the kingdom of God. (Matthew 16:19). The blessing that there shall not be room enough to contain is the blessing of salvation. In the kingdom of God, a man who is financially rich is not deemed to be blessed. The man who is blessed is he who has received forgiveness of sins.

Jesus says: “Blessed are the merciful! For they shall obtain mercy.” (Matthew 5:7). David concurs: “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.” (Psalm 32:1-2).

So if you have been deceived into believing some financial windfall is going to fall down on you from heaven because you pay tithes, think again. You have been conned.

Formatted By Ozor Ozoduru I.C 

PRIVATE JETS AND THE LORD'S VINEYARD IN NIGERIA

Congratulations to Pastors T.B. Joshua and Enoch Adeboye on the purchase of their brand new $60-million Gulfstream luxury private jets - reported on two consecutive days by Sahara Reporters. The brand new Gulfstream G550 jet purchased by Pastor Adeboye Bob Holland
We are thankful to God for three unrelated reasons:
1) This epidemic of Gulfstream jets in the Lord's vineyard in Nigeria is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes for only by faith do we understand that (bi ko se pe Oluwa ba ko ile na) unless the Lord builds the house and buys the jets, we labour in vain.
2) The extant presidential directive for determining the well-being of Nigerians is still to be found in Chapter One, Volume One of The Collected Thought of Goodluck Jonathan (Nairobi Publishers, 2014). This philosophy states that the well-being of the ordinary citizens of Nigeria is directly proportional to and dependent on the number of private jets accumulated by privileged Nigerians. Until our new President - himself a custodian of 12 presidential jets that he is using style to keep quiet about - tells us differently, we must celebrate all new additions to the private jet family in Nigeria.
3) The American prosperity Pastor, Creflo Dollar, tried to buy this same Gulfstream jet recently to replace his old one. He launched an appeal to his followers to sow the seed. There was outcry and outrage and he was forced to cancel the appeal. He still hasn't been able to buy that jet. Two Nigerian prosperity Pastors have succeeded where a famous American prosperity Pastor failed. The Nigerian pastors do not have two heads yet they succeeded and the American failed. This is a source of national pride. Ki se pe a fi n yo Creflo Dollar. A fi n gbe oruko Olorun wa ga ni. This is a great moment for Nigeria. We are not mocking Creflo Dollar, we are just using the instance of his own failed bid to highlight the favour that the Nigerian ministry has found in the eyes of God.
May God continue to bless your hustle and draw your miracle closer to you as you sow abundantly. IJN.

By Pius Adesanmi

ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN GOD AT MY SOBER TIME!

My life is a testimony that i can win a lottery without purchasing the draw ticket. I am saying this because it baffles me that an average sperm ejaculated contains from 20 Million to 250 Million cells, and when i was conceived, i can say that about 100 Million of my potential Brothers and Sisters did not make it, and i am here to tell their story. Equally, according to World Heath Organization about 4 Million of Pregnancies end in miscarriage yearly. About 9 Million Children between the age of 1 to 5 die every year. Why must life be so cruel to such vulnerable and helpless children at such a crucial stage of early life, knowing that a Loving God created them for a purpose, and i am asking if part of the purpose is to suffer their Parents? And if the plan is to suffer their Parents why must the innocent kids be used as scapegoats for what they don't know? When a woman fail to give birth for some years after marriage, they will consult every conceivable prayer house and if they eventually give birth, the Almighty God will take all the Glory. Then conflate it with the fact the Boko Haram boys kidnapped more than 400 women and raped them and more than 300 of them are pregnant, without any identifiable father, and grime future for the children. Why must God allow those innocent girls not only to be successfully raped repeatedly by men challenging His existence, but also allow the girls to conceive of children which most married women pray for without success for years? If God is a perfect designer why must He allow 250 Million potential individuals to be wasted in a single ejaculation?, will it not be economical and reasonable to strengthen one single cell at a time that will make the perilous journey into the ovary? I hope one day i will meet Millions of my Brothers and Sisters that did not make it, so that we can unite again and stay as we normally do in the sperm duct then

Ozoduru I. C

ENUGU STATE: THE EXCITEMENT OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS AND THE FEAR OF GATHERING VULTURES.

The 2015 General Election ended well and to an average indigene of Enugu State the election ended as predicted in the State. The emergence of Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as the consensus candidate of PDP prior to the primary election was greeted with an unprecedented acceptance and as such many observers believed that the general election will just be an ordinary formality for him. Even though there are still pockets of weighty litigations pending in courts, challenging the emergence of Gov. Ugwuanyi, we brushed it all aside as ordinary distractions that will never dampen our resolve to vote for the Man we love. 

The reason for this general acceptance is not only because of the charisma and leadership qualities of Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, but also as a result of the fact that beneath the metropolitan makeover of Enugu State by the past administration, lies excruciating level of poverty, unemployment, acute insecurity and lack of basic amenities, especially in the rural areas. And Gov. Ugwuanyi’s emergence was seen as the greatest opportunity we have to experience a government that is grassroots driven, people oriented and selfless. And going by the antecedents of the Man fondly called Gburugburu, the expectation is utterly so enormous, and no room for excuses.

After the election, the expectations keep gaining massive traction  and what supposed to give the Enugu Sate people insight on what Ugwuanyi’s administration will look like signaled a serious danger. And that is the appointment of Commissioners and Special Advisers. The reason this signal must be taken seriously is because people expected that there will be a total change from what we usually have as Executives. The teeming youths that fought doggedly for the election with overwhelming passion to match our expectations with a team that can deliver, was reneged to give way for the usual Gerontocrats.

However, I am not saying this because those people appointed are not reasonably qualified and experienced but because most of them are career politicians that will always find their way into any Government circle to be relevant. And it is obvious that virtually all the past administration did not live up to expectation and most of this people played significant role in those past administrations.

It is equally a signal that Enugu State is becoming one of the Sates that bears the agonizing brunt of PDP defeat at the National level, because most of the Politicians that usually hibernate in Abuja for the past 16 years of PDP rule during their time of irrelevance in the Sate returned massively after the election, since the wind of change at the Federal level is not giving any sign of creating a space for career Politicians to hole up.

Equally, it is logical for one to be circumspect when somebody who is in a position to contest for the Presidency is now begging to be a Councilor, not because he is not qualified to be a Councilor but because the salary of a Councilor will not be enough to fuel the cars in his entourage, let alone taking care of their palatial homes and litany of servants.

This scenario negates the principle that to whom much is given much is expected, because most of the appointed Executives have occupied higher positions in the past and the office of Commissioner or Special Adviser to the Governor can be likened to a demotion, and that is my concern. We all know that lack of job satisfaction kills creativity and passion for proper performance. That is our fear, and I will like them to prove us wrong by doing the right thing.

The core essence of this piece is not to cast aspersion on any person but generally to make it clear that we know the antecedents of the Commissioners and Special Advisers and we are watching them with keen interest. When people are part of old brigades, it is reasonable to fear that they may not perform well in the new brigade that will match our expectations. We all believed that with Gov. Ugwuanyi at the driving seat, things will no longer be as usual, but how can he achieve that by engaging the services of the usual people? Time will tell.

When I saw the list of our Commissioners and Special Advisers, I told myself that it must be a mistake, that maybe they mixed up the list with that of 1990s or 1980s, how can we be expecting a Change by recycling men that have served us to the best of their abilities during their youthful age and they are still here to turn things round. Does it mean we don’t have smart, creative and hard working Youths and other distinguished Technocrats that can do better? Is it equally a sign that our youths are only good as political cannon fodders and thugs?  Tom Peters made it clear that “Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders”. And if after all these years our leaders did not create more leaders that can fit into this lesser positions they now occupy, it means they failed this cardinal quality of good leaders.

The whole scenario reminds me of the Bible narratives in Luke 17:37. When Jesus told his Disciples about rapture, His Disciples asked Him “where will this happen Lord?

Jesus replied, “Just as the gathering of vultures show there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.”

The prevailing reality is that oil which serves as the backbone of our revenue nosedived to a record low in the World market, leaving our economy in shambles, to the extent that even the Federal Government is borrowing money to pay workers.  And all the elected officials are looking for ways to reduce the cost of governance. And some Governors and Even the President pledged to be taking only 50%of their salaries. In this perilous time, I doubt if the crop of Men in Enugu state Cabinet can ever curb the living expenses they have been used to as a sacrifice for the general wellbeing of our people. And if they continue in their usual life style with retinue of personal assistants, concatenation of latest SUV cars in their entourage and incessant oversea trips, we can as well say that the end is near for Enugu Sate.

Let it not be that our hallowed Sate will now serve as a resuscitating vestige to some ravenous politicians that failed during the election. And let this Executives prove us wrong by ushering in a Government that will match the unprecedented expectations with commensurate actions. And when this Government performs creditably irrespective of this red signal, we will keep shouting Gburugburu in pious reverence and absolute respect for the Man we voted for as a bridge builder that can tighten the gap between the rich and poor in our State.

Finally, let all the ravenous vultures that are hovering around our State thinking that it is the last bastion of carcass to be devoured steer clear. (042 Is Our Pride- Ashua Azua)

By

Barr. Ozor Ozoduru I.C