It is written in the Bible:

(Galatians 6:7):
'Be not deceived; God is not mocked:  for whatsoever a man sow, that shall he also reap.

Here are some men and women who mocked God :

John Lennon (Singer): Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said:  'Christianity will end, it will disappear.  I do not have to argue about  that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him' (1966).  Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot  six times. 

Tancredo Neves (President of  Brazil ): During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from Presidency,   Sure he got the votes, but he
got sick a day before being made President, then he died.

Cazuza (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet):  During A show in Canecio  Rio de Janeiro ),  while smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some  smoke into the air and said:'God, that's for  you.' He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner. 

The man who built the Titanic After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked  him how safe the Titanic would be,  With an ironic tone he said:  'Not even God can sink it  The result: I think you all know what happened to  the Titanic 

Marilyn Monroe (Actress)  She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she  said:  'I don't need your Jesus'.  A week later, she was found dead in her apartment.

Bon Scott (Singer) The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang:  'Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the  highway to hell',  On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.

Campinas (IN 2005)  In Campinas   , Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend,    The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter  holding her hand, who was already seated in the car:  'My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You, She responded: 'Only If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause Inside Here, It' s Already Full ' Hours later, news came by that they had been  involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died,  the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact. The police said there was no way the trunk could  have remained intact,  To their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken.

  Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist and entertainer) said the Bible (Word of God) was the worst book ever written.  In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond recognition  in her motor vehicle.

Many more important people have forgotten that there  is no other name that was given so much authority as the name of  Jesus.  Many have died, but only Jesus died and rose again, and he is still alive.

Beautiful piece

^^ Thanx, kolaxy.

_{<viaro shrugs his shoulders.>}

'Men who mocked God'.  There are many 'Christians' today who are mocking God and yet not even having a clue what they are doing. Let me look at it another way:

We understand what it means in Christian parlance to 'hold onto Jesus', don't we? The question that has been crossing my mind for a while now is this: how are Christians today holding Jesus before the eyes of the world? Luke 22:63 highlights this problem well in just one line: "And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him."  Astonishing. It just shows that even today, many who have "held Jesus"  are the very ones who are both mocking and smiting Him in public eyes.

How is this possible? Yes, we mock Him when we tell 'beautiful lies' on His behalf in order to defend our faith as 'scientific' when everyone knows we're cheating on such matters. We also mock Him when we prefer to employ fundamentalism, facade,  fabrications and face-saving in our public lives instead of fidelity to His love.

We mock Him when we make so much of our own denominations and yet be out of reach with the very people we ought to be reaching out to. This mockery goes on every week when the only thing that drives our enthusiasm these days is the other 'master' - mammon.

Before we get too concerned about how 'others' are mocking God, perhaps we need to wake up and address our own mockery of God. How do we stand to mock Him and yet not feel the pain of our own loss? How do we ever stand to bear the shame of such mockery from ourselves in quoting verses against people who interpret matters differently from our own dogma?  How is it that many of us would applaud these mockeries against Him and expect the communities around us to be positively impacted? Is it not such impudence against God from Christians that make many people complain that the increase of churches has not lessened crimes in their countries?

When will these 'holy men' be ashamed of their own mockery of God before pointing out the same thing in others? Would it be said of many of us that "the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him"?? How are we as Christians holding Jesus today in the eyes of the public?

@ Nezan
beautiful piece.

P.S I hope our own resident mockers would learn.

@ noetic; Tanx, bro.

@ viaro; Living an unworthy life before God in my view, is different from mocking God.

Nezan:

@ viaro; Living an unworthy life before God in my view, is different from mocking God.

^^^ That's your view, and viaro has no problems with that. However, from the Bible itself, it is evident that living an unworthy life quite simply equates to mocking God.

[list]Galatians 6:7-8
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.[/list]

Maybe you have not noticed that the verse above is a warning to CHRISTIANS as the epistle was written to Christians.

I have no problem with your views. However, what I was trying to say was that a true Christian (not a nominal Christian), struggling to live above sin, is conscious of his failings and works on his spiritual life to try and make it right with God with the aid of the Holy Spirit. This can not be equated to an unbeliever, who consciously mocks God and makes fun of Him.

@Nezan,  you are soooo busted

Nezan:

It is written in the Bible:

(Galatians 6:7):
'Be not deceived; God is not mocked:  for whatsoever a man sow, that shall he also reap.

Here are some men and women who mocked God :

John Lennon (Singer): Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said:  'Christianity will end, it will disappear.  I do not have to argue about  that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him' (1966).  Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot  six times. 

http://www.john-lennon.com/theassassinationofjl.htm

"He walked past me and then I heard in my head, 'Do it, do it, do it,' over and over again, saying 'Do it, do it, do it,' like that," Chapman, preternaturally serene, recalled in a BBC documentary several years after going to prison. "I don't remember aiming. I must have done, but I don't remember drawing a bead or whatever you call it. And I just pulled the trigger steady five times."

Chapman described his feeling at the time of the shooting as "no emotion, no anger dead silence in the brain."

His unnatural tone sounded all-too-familiar. British lawyer/journalist Fenton Bresler took it as a tip-off. Chapman was a brainwashed hit man carrying out someone else's contract.

Unless you are saying rather than Smite people as he routinely does, he chose a rather elaborate scheme to brain-wash a good christian fellow into shooting his target,  very feeble argument there Nezan

Tancredo Neves (President of  Brazil ): During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from Presidency,   Sure he got the votes, but he
got sick a day before being made President, then he died.

Well i will give it to him there, that is a classic smoting example that is reminiscent of the days of Pharaoh and Slave Israelites and the pestilence and smoting  of first borns (i love that word smite)



Cazuza (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet):  During A show in Canecio  Rio de Janeiro ),  while smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some  smoke into the air and said:'God, that's for  you.' He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HIV-positive_people
Guy,  the dude was bi-sexual and had HIV, he died from complications resulting from a poor immune system and opportunistic diseases,  this guy had it coming and God could care less if he was Bi-sexual or puffing smoke at him.  God is beyond that and can accept you as long as you are born-again. Nezan,  try to seek facts before posting


The man who built the Titanic After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked  him how safe the Titanic would be,  With an ironic tone he said:  'Not even God can sink it  The result: I think you all know what happened to  the Titanic 

Again,  you persists in shallow arguments, it is a known fact that the Titanic, beyond the captain ignoring 4 Warnings of ice bergs or floating blocks of ice, the ship was never tested and it,  well read the full list of mistakes for yourself here http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/how48.html

Marilyn Monroe (Actress)  She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she  said:  'I don't need your Jesus'.  A week later, she was found dead in her apartment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe#Death_and_aftermath

On August 5, 1962, LAPD police sergeant Jack Clemmons received a call at 4:25 a.m. from Dr. Ralph Greenson, Monroe's psychiatrist, proclaiming that Monroe was found dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California.[120] She was 36 years old. At the subsequent autopsy, eight milligram percent of Chloral Hydrate and 4.5 milligram percent of Nembutal were found in her system,[121] and Dr. Thomas Noguchi of the Los Angeles County Coroners office recorded cause of death as "acute barbiturate poisoning," resulting from a "probable suicide".[122] Many theories, including murder, circulated about the circumstances of her death and the timeline after the body was found. Some conspiracy theories involved John and Robert Kennedy, while other theories suggested CIA or Mafia complicity.[123].

Bon Scott (Singer) The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang:  'Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the  highway to hell',  On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.

Nezan. i am sure that you did not post this yourself. because it stinks with biased reporting and deliberate exclusion of the truth which is very un-christian if i might add. here is an excerpt of the official story

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Scott#Death

On 19 February 1980, Bon Scott, 33 at the time, passed out after a night of heavy drinking in a London club called the Music Machine (hosted at the Camden Palace, currently known as the KOKO). He was left to sleep in a car owned by an acquaintance named Alistair Kinnear, at 67 Overhill Road in East Dulwich, South London.[13] The following afternoon, Kinnear found Scott lifeless, and alerted the authorities. Scott was rushed to King's College Hospital in Camberwell, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Pulmonary aspiration of vomit was the cause of Scott's death,[14] and the official cause was listed as "acute alcohol poisoning" and "death by misadventure".[15][16] Scott was cremated and his ashes were interred by his family in Fremantle, Western Australia, the city to which they had moved when he was six.[17]

[b]Campinas (IN 2005)  In Campinas   , Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend,    The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter  holding her hand, who was already seated in the car:  'My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You, She responded: 'Only If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause Inside Here, It' s Already Full ' Hours later, news came by that they had been  involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died,  the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact. The police said there was no way the trunk could  have remained intact,  To their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken.[/b]

Seriously!!! I mean SERIOUSLY!!! this has got to be one of the most played out religious hoax on the internet, even the brazilian authorities have come out to say they have no records for this guy, no families and definitely no record of this wierd-out accident NEZAN is posting about. It is a SIN to propagate lies

even google crashed when i tried to ascertain this fake fact.

  Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist and entertainer) said the Bible (Word of God) was the worst book ever written.  In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond recognition  in her motor vehicle.


Now this is a really low blow for Christiandom. how can you insinuate that God sent a bunch of toked-up jamaican drug dealers to kill this woman? that is sooo. sick i mean even for christians.

http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20060630/news/news1.html

THE POLICE LAST night confirmed that the body that was found in a burnt out Toyota Hiace van is that of former talk show host and public relations practitioner, Christine Hewitt.

According to the police, at about 6:45 p.m., residents of an area along the Mount Industry road in St. Catherine, heard explosions and called the police. When the lawmen went to the scene, they found the charred body of Ms. Hewitt on the rear seat of the vehicle.

Due to how badly burnt Hewitt's body was the police had to use her wedding band to identify her. The cops believe that she was attacked, shot and then her body put back in the vehicle before it was set ablaze.

And the moral of the story is, never copy and paste without verifying

Who cares how about the countless people that praise him that are suffering, a good percentage of Nigerians will take lenons way out!

Nezan:

I have no problem with your views. However, what I was trying to say was that a true Christian (not a nominal Christian), struggling to live above sin, is conscious of his failings and works on his spiritual life to try and make it right with God with the aid of the Holy Spirit. This can not be equated to an unbeliever, who consciously mocks God and makes fun of Him.

^^^What you refer to as the 'unbeliever' is not helpful here.

The [b]un[/b]believers that we know in our society do not pretend to be [b]un[/b]believers. They are not 'norminal Christians'.

However, to be even described as anything 'Christian' (where norminal, antinomian, carnal, worldly, or whatever adjective used), one has first to be a believer. Here is where we cross the line - you cannot describe someone as a 'believer' when they do not identify themselves with anything 'Christian' - and what I was describing was not having to do with 'unbelievers' but rather with believers, whoever they may be.

This is why the many NT warnings we read in the Bible are addressing Christians, not unbelievers.

viaro:

^^^What you refer to as the 'unbeliever' is not helpful here.

The [b]un[/b]believers that we know in our society do not pretend to be [b]un[/b]believers. They are not 'norminal Christians'.

However, to be even described as anything 'Christian' (where norminal, antinomian, carnal, worldly, or whatever adjective used), one has first to be a believer. Here is where we cross the line - you cannot describe someone as a 'believer' when they do not identify themselves with anything 'Christian' - and what I was describing was not having to do with 'unbelievers' but rather with believers, whoever they may be.

This is why the many NT warnings we read in the Bible are addressing Christians, not unbelievers.

Na grammer you speak so, I have opened a thread here on nairaland to ask if uneducated people can even go to heaven, all this grammer and exegesis and analysis you do here, how many christians know what it means to be christian and they have to rely on interpretation from village headmasters? huh?

Chrisbenogor:

Na grammer you speak so, I have opened a thread here on nairaland to ask if uneducated people can even go to heaven, all this grammer and exegesis and analysis you do here, how many christians know what it means to be christian and they have to rely on interpretation from village headmasters? huh?

Huh?

Hehe.

^^^^Ya heard me!

Ok let me mock the christian god and see if I will also die . . .Fuucck the Christian god (and allah) I want him to come and take my life in the next 2 minutes. If that will show his alleged power and might to the christians here and make them believe more. I want the christian god where ever he is to come and take my life in the next 2 minutes and send me to the imaginary hell fire. Failure to do that means he is does not exist.

Its now over 10 minutes after I mocked the christian god and he is yet to kill me. Where is he? I guess he is some where masturbating in heaven. You guys should keep on bandying urban legends and lies.

toneyb:

Its now over 10 minutes after I mocked the christian god and he is yet to kill me. Where is he? I guess he is some where self-servicing in heaven. You guys should keep on bandying urban legends and lies.

O boy take am easy, If God no smite you now, some disgruntled christians will take it upon themselves to exact excruciating smiting on your black behind.

Sooo take am easy, better a beating than a beheading (the Muslims will have your head)

Unless you are saying rather than Smite people as he routinely does, he chose a rather elaborate scheme to brain-wash a good christian fellow into shooting his target, very feeble argument there Nezan

Are you drunk? John Lennox ridiculed God and Christianity and was shot to death. What makes my argument feeble?

Well i will give it to him there, that is a classic smoting example that is reminiscent of the days of Pharaoh and Slave Israelites and the pestilence and smoting of first borns (i love that word smite)

Somebody challenged God and didn’t get away with it. You didn’t refute anything here.

Guy, the dude was bi-sexual and had HIV, he died from complications resulting from a poor immune system and opportunistic diseases, this guy had it coming and God could care less if he was Bi-sexual or puffing smoke at him. God is beyond that and can accept you as long as you are born-again. Nezan, try to seek facts before posting

God might have extended his years had he repented. God wanted him to repent but he didn’t and ended up in a shameful way.

Again, you persists in shallow arguments, it is a known fact that the Titanic, beyond the captain ignoring 4 Warnings of ice bergs or floating blocks of ice, the ship was never tested

The man ignored all the warnings because he was confident of the ship’s design and thought that not even God could sink the ship. We now know better- God sinked the ship.

On August 5, 1962, LAPD police sergeant Jack Clemmons received a call at 4:25 a.m. from Dr. Ralph Greenson, Monroe's psychiatrist, proclaiming that Monroe was found dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California.[120] She was 36 years old. At the subsequent autopsy, eight milligram percent of Chloral Hydrate and 4.5 milligram percent of Nembutal were found in her system,[121] and Dr. Thomas Noguchi of the Los Angeles County Coroners office recorded cause of death as "acute barbiturate poisoning," resulting from a "probable suicide".[122] Many theories, including murder, circulated about the circumstances of her death and the timeline after the body was found. Some conspiracy theories involved John and Robert Kennedy, while other theories suggested CIA or Mafia complicity.[123].

Of the source of death I care less, what concerns me is her denial of Jesus and tragic end shortly after.

On 19 February 1980, Bon Scott, 33 at the time, passed out after a night of heavy drinking in a London club called the Music Machine (hosted at the Camden Palace, currently known as the KOKO). He was left to sleep in a car owned by an acquaintance named Alistair Kinnear, at 67 Overhill Road in East Dulwich, South London.[13] The following afternoon, Kinnear found Scott lifeless, and alerted the authorities. Scott was rushed to King's College Hospital in Camberwell, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Pulmonary aspiration of vomit was the cause of Scott's death,[14] and the official cause was listed as "acute alcohol poisoning" and "death by misadventure".[15][16] Scott was cremated and his ashes were interred by his family in Fremantle, Western Australia, the city to which they had moved when he was six.[17]

Yes, he sang that he was on the highway to hell and shortly after he died. These numerous occurrences are more than just coincidences.

Now this is a really low blow for Christiandom. how can you insinuate that God sent a bunch of toked-up jamaican drug dealers to kill this woman? that is sooo. sick i mean even for christians.

God didn’t send anybody to kill her, she died as a result of ridiculing God.

Seriously!!! I mean SERIOUSLY!!! this has got to be one of the most played out religious hoax on the internet, even the brazilian authorities have come out to say they have no records for this guy, no families and definitely no record of this wierd-out accident NEZAN is posting about. It is a SIN to propagate lies

Of all the facts I posted, only this can not be verified on the internet, that does not make it a lie. Not all incidences are documented on the net.

toneyb:

Ok let me mock the christian god and see if I will also die . . .Fuucck the Christian god (and allah) I want him to come and take my life in the next 2 minutes. If that will show his alleged power and might to the christians here and make them believe more. I want the christian god where ever he is to come and take my life in the next 2 minutes and send me to the imaginary hell fire. Failure to do that means he is does not exist.

You can never order God, He only does what He wishes.

toneyb:

Its now over 10 minutes after I mocked the christian god and he is yet to kill me. Where is he? I guess he is some where self-servicing in heaven. You guys should keep on bandying urban legends and lies.

God doesnt take pride in the death of a sinner, He wishes that all be saved, that is why He is giving you more time to repent. You dont even know the number of people praying for your soul.

Bimbo odukoya died in a horrid plane crash most probably on her way to praise god.People die motherfuckers,death is the best state a man can be in,eternal rest.

noetic15:

@ Nezan
beautiful piece.

P.S I hope our own resident mockers would learn.

It is neither a beautiful piece nor by Nezan. This is a rancid brew of outright lies, half-truths, tall contradictions, exaggerations and superstitions. I run a book editing outfit and have personally worked on more than one Christian book where this is pasted verbatim. It was compiled by someone – T D Jakes? Not sure. At the end there is an exhortation Nezan did not include that you should voice an 8-second prayer and send the message on. Obviously our Nezan realizes an insincere prayer is weightier than “mocking” God like Lennon did?

I if I were you, I would not make too much of it as its is author has. The Almighty God so thin-skinned he would do bolekaja with atheists just to prove a point? Someone has since asked why God waited 15 years to kill John Lennon. How many of you even know the context in which Lennon made those statements or the fact that he later apologized for them on American television to appease the fundamentalist American Christian gang? And, by the way, what about all the people that have "mocked" God and didn't die. Or didn't “mock” God but were shot – like Martin Luther King, Jr?

There’s a story the author of this stuff omitted. Madeleine Murray O'Hare, wasn’t it, who went out during a thunderstorm screaming a challenge at God to strike her down if He existed. Of course nothing happened to her. But she was murdered five decades later. God at work, abi? Include it.

viaro:

_{<viaro shrugs his shoulders.>}

'Men who mocked God'.  There are many 'Christians' today who are mocking God and yet not even having a clue what they are doing. Let me look at it another way:

We understand what it means in Christian parlance to 'hold onto Jesus', don't we? The question that has been crossing my mind for a while now is this: how are Christians today holding Jesus before the eyes of the world? Luke 22:63 highlights this problem well in just one line: "And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him."  Astonishing. It just shows that even today, many who have "held Jesus"  are the very ones who are both mocking and smiting Him in public eyes.

How is this possible? Yes, we mock Him when we tell 'beautiful lies' on His behalf in order to defend our faith as 'scientific' when everyone knows we're cheating on such matters. We also mock Him when we prefer to employ fundamentalism, facade,  fabrications and face-saving in our public lives instead of fidelity to His love.

We mock Him when we make so much of our own denominations and yet be out of reach with the very people we ought to be reaching out to. This mockery goes on every week when the only thing that drives our enthusiasm these days is the other 'master' - mammon.

Before we get too concerned about how 'others' are mocking God, perhaps we need to wake up and address our own mockery of God. How do we stand to mock Him and yet not feel the pain of our own loss? How do we ever stand to bear the shame of such mockery from ourselves in quoting verses against people who interpret matters differently from our own dogma?  How is it that many of us would applaud these mockeries against Him and expect the communities around us to be positively impacted? Is it not such impudence against God from Christians that make many people complain that the increase of churches has not lessened crimes in their countries?

When will these 'holy men' be ashamed of their own mockery of God before pointing out the same thing in others? Would it be said of many of us that "the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him"?? How are we as Christians holding Jesus today in the eyes of the public?

Excellent piece. What I understand from it is that folks should pay attention to the more important things. Resorting to anecdotes to prove or disprove the existence of God is not one of them and does not work.

redsun:

Bimbo odukoya died in a horrid plane crash most probably on her way to praise god.People die motherfuckers,death is the best state a man can be in,eternal rest.

Death is good if you die in Christ, for you will have eternal rest. Those that die without Christ are not allowed that rest.

lagerwhenindoubt:

@Nezan,  you are soooo busted

Here are some men and women who mocked God :

John Lennon (Singer): Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said:  'Christianity will end, it will disappear.  I do not have to argue about  that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him' (1966).  Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot  six times. 

http://www.john-lennon.com/theassassinationofjl.htm

Unless you are saying rather than Smite people as he routinely does, he chose a rather elaborate scheme to brain-wash a good christian fellow into shooting his target,  very feeble argument there Nezan

Tancredo Neves (President of  Brazil ): During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from Presidency,   Sure he got the votes, but he
got sick a day before being made President, then he died.

Well i will give it to him there, that is a classic smoting example that is reminiscent of the days of Pharaoh and Slave Israelites and the pestilence and smoting  of first borns (i love that word smite)



Cazuza (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet):  During A show in Canecio  Rio de Janeiro ),  while smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some  smoke into the air and said:'God, that's for  you.' He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HIV-positive_people
Guy,  the dude was bi-sexual and had HIV, he died from complications resulting from a poor immune system and opportunistic diseases,  this guy had it coming and God could care less if he was Bi-sexual or puffing smoke at him.  God is beyond that and can accept you as long as you are born-again. Nezan,  try to seek facts before posting


The man who built the Titanic After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked  him how safe the Titanic would be,  With an ironic tone he said:  'Not even God can sink it  The result: I think you all know what happened to  the Titanic 

Again,  you persists in shallow arguments, it is a known fact that the Titanic, beyond the captain ignoring 4 Warnings of ice bergs or floating blocks of ice, the ship was never tested and it,  well read the full list of mistakes for yourself here http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/how48.html

Marilyn Monroe (Actress)  She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she  said:  'I don't need your Jesus'.  A week later, she was found dead in her apartment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe#Death_and_aftermath
Bon Scott (Singer) The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang:  'Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the  highway to hell',  On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.

Nezan. i am sure that you did not post this yourself. because it stinks with biased reporting and deliberate exclusion of the truth which is very un-christian if i might add. here is an excerpt of the official story

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Scott#Death
[b]Campinas (IN 2005)  In Campinas   , Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend,    The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter  holding her hand, who was already seated in the car:  'My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You, She responded: 'Only If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause Inside Here, It' s Already Full ' Hours later, news came by that they had been  involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died,  the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact. The police said there was no way the trunk could  have remained intact,  To their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken.[/b]

Seriously!!! I mean SERIOUSLY!!! this has got to be one of the most played out religious hoax on the internet, even the brazilian authorities have come out to say they have no records for this guy, no families and definitely no record of this wierd-out accident NEZAN is posting about. It is a SIN to propagate lies

even google crashed when i tried to ascertain this fake fact.

  Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist and entertainer) said the Bible (Word of God) was the worst book ever written.  In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond recognition  in her motor vehicle.


Now this is a really low blow for Christiandom. how can you insinuate that God sent a bunch of toked-up jamaican drug dealers to kill this woman? that is sooo. sick i mean even for christians.

http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20060630/news/news1.html

And the moral of the story is,  never copy and paste without verifying

is the above not simply RIDICULOUS.

The OP made a post that illustrates the ill effect of mocking God, with the sole aim of educating others about the inherent dangers involved. All u have done is not to refute any of the facts but diminish the possibility those actions being of God. . . .a feat u failed at.

The imminent poser remains that what EXACTLY happened to God's liberty to do as He pleases. . . . . I hate hearing arguments influenced by illiteracy  

MyJoe:

It is neither a beautiful piece nor by Nezan. This is a rancid brew of outright lies, half-truths, tall contradictions, exaggerations and superstitions. I run a book editing outfit and have personally worked on more than one Christian book where this is pasted verbatim. It was compiled by someone – T D Jakes? Not sure. At the end there is an exhortation Nezan did not include that you should voice an 8-second prayer and send the message on. Obviously our Nezan realizes an insincere prayer is weightier than “mocking” God like Lennon did?

I if I were you, I would not make too much of it as its is author has. The Almighty God so thin-skinned he would do bolekaja with atheists just to prove a point? Someone has since asked why God waited 15 years to kill John Lennon. How many of you even know the context in which Lennon made those statements or the fact that he later apologized for them on American television to appease the fundamentalist American Christian gang? And, by the way, what about all the people that have "mocked" God and didn't die. Or didn't “mock” God but were shot – like Martin Luther King, Jr?

There’s a story the author of this stuff omitted. Madeleine Murray O'Hare, wasn’t it, who went out during a thunderstorm screaming a challenge at God to strike her down if He existed. Of course nothing happened to her. But she was murdered five decades later. God at work, abi? Include it.
Excellent piece. What I understand from it is that folks should pay attention to the more important things. Resorting to anecdotes to prove or disprove the existence of God is not one of them and does not work.

1. This piece has been in circulation on the internet for ages . . . but no one posted it on the forum. . .nezan did. . . .kudos to him for that.

2. again u speak with a vain and beclouded world view. it still remains the perrogative of God to do as He pleases. show mercy unto whom He pleases cos its not of he that willeth or runneth but of the Lord that sheweth mercy. What all of the above people have in common is their fame and willingness to openly mock God. This illustrates that they knew who God was and chose to disbelieve to the extent of publicly mocking Him. they would not be the first or the last.

3. quite unlike your distorted analysis. God is not a manual or text book that has a finite/limited or defined way of doing things. that explains why we say that His ways are numerous. So God's decision to strike one mocker today, another mocker 15 years later or to spare a mocker is not dependent on your flawed understanding of God, your preconceived notions or dogmas or your inherent misunderstanding of God's will.

4. again u goofed in the marthin luther king scenario. I ask u, what does the will of God entail? do u know if marthin had done all that God required of Him and His time was up?
True xtians do NOT fear death. . . . .for death is described as an ENEMY of Jehovah and the last enemy to be destroyed.
true xtians learn to submit and live by the will of God. . .do u know the will of God for martin?

Nezan:

Death is good if you die in Christ, for you will have eternal rest. Those that die without Christ are not allowed that rest.

Which of this two statement is more comforting and dignifying-I am christ like,(the one) or i depend on christ for my salvation?

What ever is it that christ claimed,why not just put urself in that position and live ur fuc-king life without contradictions.

Same bible all are made in the image of god,yet some people are still seen as special before god,while some see themselves as nonentities.

All these mocking of god anecdotal tales. I remember back in the days when I was in Kano Nigeria and some of my moslem friends used the pages of the bible(Gidieon's new testament bible) to wrap their weed and smoke. Yours truly was a Christian back then and I secretly used to wish that god will teach them a lesson and make them go mad for that act of sacrilege   . The never went mad instead the continued smoking and smoking using the pages of the bible to wrap their weed all the time. . . . .Christians mock allah daily Moslems mock the trinity and the god of the christans daily while atheist mock all the gods all the time and nothing has ever happened and nothing will ever happen to them.

MyJoe:

It is neither a beautiful piece nor by Nezan.

And nowhere did Nezan claim authorship.

MyJoe:

This is a rancid brew of outright lies, half-truths, tall contradictions, exaggerations and superstitions.

You can see that these facts were verified on the net by Lagerwhenindoubt, so why spew out those useless comments.

MyJoe:

I run a book editing outfit and have personally worked on more than one Christian book where this is pasted verbatim. It was compiled by someone – T D Jakes? Not sure.

What is of outmost concern is the veracity of those stories which can be verified on the net. Just google and you will see these are not lies.

MyJoe:
At the end there is an exhortation Nezan did not include that you should voice an 8-second prayer and send the message on.

Nezan is more interested in the verifiable facts than the prayer and wants the facts to be relayed on NL.

MyJoe:
At the end Obviously our Nezan realizes an insincere prayer is weightier than “mocking” God like Lennon did?

Our Nezan obviously wanted what happened to Lennox to be read on NL, maybe our Nezan thought prayer is his personal concern with his God.

MyJoe:
if I were you, I would not make too much of it as its is author has. The Almighty God so thin-skinned he would do bolekaja with atheists just to prove a point? Someone has since asked why God waited 15 years to kill John Lennon.

God was giving him time to repent.

MyJoe:
How many of you even know the context in which Lennon made those statements or the fact that he later apologized for them on American television to appease the fundamentalist American Christian gang?

Bring out your evidences, not just conjecturing words from your computer.

MyJoe:
And, by the way, what about all the people that have "mocked" God and didn't die. Or didn't “mock” God but were shot – like Martin Luther King, Jr?

As for the other mockers, God was giving them time for repentance, BTW, you are too insignificant to question God’s actions, remember Job?

MyJoe:
There’s a story the author of this stuff omitted. Madeleine Murray O'Hare, wasn’t it, who went out during a thunderstorm screaming a challenge at God to strike her down if He existed. Of course nothing happened to her. But she was murdered five decades later. God at work, abi? Include it.

God was giving her time for repentance. You shot yourself in the leg when you concluded that she was later murdered.

noetic15:

1. This piece has been in circulation on the internet for ages . . . but no one posted it on the forum. . .nezan did. . . .kudos to him for that.

@neotic, my good friend, that is not true. Quite a few times while surfing the net on Lennon, search engines led me to Nairaland where several posters already posted the same thing. Here are a few -

[list]Do Yhu Know These Facts? - by Missy B

Top Earning Dead Celebrities  - by spikedcylinder

Mocking God? - by layi

I Do Not Believe in God - by kaylala

Pastor Adeboye Says Satan Planned 49 Plane Crashes - by Jungle Queen

What The Bible Says About Death - by Mamajama[/list]

I just thought you should know.

mazaje:

All these mocking of god anecdotal tales. I remember back in the days when I was in Kano Nigeria and some of my moslem friends used the pages of the bible(Gidieon's new testament bible) to wrap their weed and smoke. Yours truly was a Christian back then and I secretly used to wish that god will teach them a lesson and make them go mad for that act of sacrilege   . The never went mad instead the continued smoking and smoking using the pages of the bible to wrap their weed all the time. . . . .Christians mock allah daily Moslems mock the trinity and the god of the christans daily while atheist mock all the gods all the time and nothing has ever happened and nothing will ever happen to them.

GBAM!!. God has laid down the rules, Right or Wrong you choose and face the consequences. when and where-ever they happen. I doubt his style as recorded in the New Testament is as strict and exacting as in the days of Moses and teh Supreme Court. these days you have a system of Appeals and you can keep appealing just to delay your final judgment.

redsun:

What ever is it that christ claimed,why not just put urself in that position and live your fuc-king life without contradictions.

Same bible all are made in the image of god,yet some people are still seen as special before god,while some see themselves as nonentities.

Are you on weeds? How can I be pretending to be Jesus when I can never be?

noetic15:

2. again u speak with a vain and beclouded world view. it still remains the perrogative of God to do as He pleases. show mercy unto whom He pleases cos its not of he that willeth or runneth but of the Lord that sheweth mercy. What all of the above people have in common is their fame and willingness to openly mock God. This illustrates that they knew who God was and chose to disbelieve to the extent of publicly mocking Him. they would not be the first or the last.

What has this got to do with anything?

3. quite unlike your distorted analysis. God is not a manual or text book that has a finite/limited or defined way of doing things. that explains why we say that His ways are numerous. So God's decision to strike one mocker today, another mocker 15 years later or to spare a mocker is not dependent on your flawed understanding of God, your preconceived notions or dogmas or your inherent misunderstanding of God's will.

And your evidence that it was your god that stroke them to death is? . . . . . .I laugh, . What exactly is your god's will? Haven't you heard of stories about people who mocked allah and died because allah ''stroke'' them to death?

4. again u goofed in the marthin luther king scenario. I ask u, what does the will of God entail? do u know if marthin had done all that God required of Him and His time was up?
True xtians do NOT fear death. . . . .for death is described as an ENEMY of Jehovah and the last enemy to be destroyed.
true xtians learn to submit and live by the will of God. . .do u know the will of God for martin?

This is quite false because If Christians do not fear death as you claim they will not pray or cry to their god to protect them when they are in trouble or when they come face to face with death. What exactly is the will of your god for martin luther? The way this god hypothesis is framed does or offers no real explanation for anything if some thing god happens to a person it the will be termed as the will of god, If something bad happens to the same person it  will also be termed as the will of god, so what exactly is this will of god and how come it is only apologist that always lay claim to this elusive will of god?