This reminds me of a fascinating story I read,of when in the 1970s Daniel Everett,a linguist and Christian went to the Amazon jungle to convert a tribe called the piraha people to Christianity and completely failed for one crazy reason 😂😂 When Daniel Everett arrived with his wife and kids at the remote Pirahã village in the Amazon, His mission was clear…learn their language,translate the New Testament,and convert this isolated hunter gatherer group to Christianity. What he encountered instead was one of the most radical cultural and linguistic worldviews ever documented 😂. From his experience,Everett eventually formalized what he called the “Immediacy of Experience Principle”. What this means in essence is the Pirahã culture and grammar strongly constrain what can be meaningfully discussed or believed…to them,knowledge must be anchored in direct,personal observation or at most in the recent testimony of living people you know. Things that happened long ago,that no one alive has seen,or that exist only in abstract or supernatural realms fall into the category of what they called xibipío (“gone out of experience”). They don’t deny it outrightly.. to them, such things simply carry no weight and are not worth serious talk. This principle shapes everything for them… and is why they have No creation myths or origin storis , No numbers beyond rough quantities like “a few” or “many.” , No recursive embedding in grammar (you can’t easily say “kelvin’s brother’s house” … you say two separate sentences). Their Stories and discourse stay tethered to the here and now. Now Christian theology, by contrast, is built on precisely the kind of claims the Pirahã worldview filters out…A distant creation,Miracles and events from thousands of years ago, A savior no living person has met, Salvation and afterlife described in ancient texts. Everett tried …He told them the story of Jesus..his birth,teachings,death,and resurrection. The Pirahã listened politely,then asked the questions their language and culture demanded… “Have you met this man?” “Did you see him?” “Did your father see him?” When Everett admitted he had not , that these events happened 2,000 years earlier and were known only through a book,the conversation effectively ended 😂. “That’s interesting,” some of them would say, treating the Gospel the same way they treated any other distant tale…as something outside lived experience, therefore irrelevant to how they live and what they believe. Notice It wasn’t hostile rejection(like the one you’d get from the people of the sentinel islands in India). It was epistemological incompatibility. The theology couldn’t even gain traction because their entire system of knowledge validation rejected second hand ancient testimony. Everett kept trying for years. He failed to produce a usable Bible translation. Meanwhile, living among people who were profoundly content, generous, and empirically grounded …with no concept of sin, eternal punishment, or a distant deity. By 1982 he himself started havinv serious doubts about his beliefs and by 1985 he had quietly become an atheist. The man who had come to convert the Pirahã had instead been “converted” by their way of seeing reality.😅 As Everett later wrote and said in interviews, the deepest challenge wasn’t an argument against Christianity. It was living inside a culture where the very criteria for what counts as real knowledge made supernatural historical claims feel as weightless as yesterday’s dream. The Pirahã didn’t need to debate theology. Their language and worldview simply had no slot for it and, in the process, they helped a missionary lose his faith without ever raising their voices.😂 Makes you wonder, what would a Christian say the fate of these people is? Eternal torment? We can all see how that would be problematic. Would they somehow make heaven and get judged by how they live their lives? But That would make the whole Christian message irrelevant. 🙂

Omo

We can take it on all of them simultaneously… the government o , the church o , the mosque o .. Arsenal fans … all of them.

The extracts he posted are confessional scholarship either way. There is a prior commitment to protecting a dogma, biblical inerrancy. The interpretation/reading is apologetic in nature and not necessarily critical…..

What a drama queen

It’s 3:14am… I Woke up to pee … decided I should respond to this after going through it (I didn’t the first time because I didn’t have the strength) My argument was never simply that nahaam has only one possible English translation, therefore God made a mistake. That would indeed be a semantic argument. My point is about the narrative as a whole. Genesis 6 doesn’t merely say that God observed human wickedness. It says that God was grieved(if that’s the word you want to use) that He had made humanity, and then immediately has God announce that He will blot out the humanity He created because He is “sorry” that He made them. The emotional response is followed by a drastic attempt to reverse the situation by drowning everyone bar Noah and his family . So if God is omniscient and already knew exactly what humanity would become before creating them, what exactly are we supposed to make of that sequence abeg? You can tell me that naham has a range of meanings. Fine. You can tell me that Mathews the evangelical conservative pastor (of course I checked) interprets the passage as divine grief rather than a cognitive error. Fine. But neither point removes the underlying tension being raised … the narrative portrays God as retrospectively distressed about having created humanity and then taking drastic action in response to that outcome. I ain’t arguing that the passage necessarily means that God made an intellectual mistake because He didn’t know what would happen. I’m arguing that, given omniscience, the story’s depiction of God regretting/grieving His creative decision and then effectively undoing much of it through the Flood creates precisely the tension I’m pointing to. that’s why simply listing alternative meanings of naham doesn’t settle the issue. The question ain’t if naham can mean something else somewhere in the Hebrew Bible… sure it can. The actual question is what does the author intend by it here, given the immediate context, the Flood that follows, and the fact that the God being described is supposed to have known the entire outcome beforehand? That’s the argument I’m making.

people don’t get how insane it is

People no know how much that man dey pack from YouTube I dey come, make i do post for them today

I pointed out a while ago how only one out of the top 100 richest humans on Earth is from Nigeria but how four out of the top ten richest pastors were Nigerians. Quite an interesting distribution there! 🙂

The woman who posted this is insulting people’s mothers in the comments because they disagree with her 😅😅 and she’s not the only Christian who would insult and curse you for disagreeing .. they are all over the internet. That’s how you know the Christianity practiced serves a lot of purpose .. none of which is chasing salvation.

Mentally weak nation… Bunch of brainless adults hoping for fufu miracle in a crumbling economy

See proper crash out, lol…

Tinubu’s economy is really affecting every buinsness organization in Nigeria.

If hackers successfully steal your Bvn identity now and withdrew all your cash, you’d blame banks for not having better security protocols for changing names like .. you know…. Going to be bank physically. 😏

Okay I guess that’s my cue

I remember addressing this tomfoolery earlier this year🤣. Now that there's an increasing bad PR for religion they want to be slick.

This is why I’m on this app.