{"id":61374,"date":"2022-12-25T00:54:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T00:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=61374"},"modified":"2022-12-25T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T00:54:11","slug":"whatever-merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=61374","title":{"rendered":"Whatever, Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three of the Abrahamic faiths – of the Jews, the Arabs, and the rest of us (i.e the Jews, Arabs, & others) believe in The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY<\/h1>\n

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam believe he was born.<\/h3>\n

Two of them – Christianity and Islam – believe his conception was miraculous.<\/h3>\n

Judaism only prophesied it.<\/h3>\n

The atheists & ATRs (African Traditional Religionists) will either slaughter you with their tongues, treat you with disdain, scoff, or even kill you if you ever bring him up.<\/h3>\n

Christianity & Islam both spoke of the Spirit of God coming upon Mary (Maryam), and her conceiving.a son.<\/h3>\n

Judaists say he is the son of a carpenter.<\/h3>\n

Muslims say he is the son of Maryam.<\/h3>\n

Christians say he is the Son of God.<\/h3>\n

He claims he is the Son of God.<\/h3>\n

So, since no person can be without a father, (except, of course, Adam, if people of the Abrahamic faiths are to be believed), who really is his father? Who can he claim to be his father?<\/h3>\n

The Judaists insist it is Joseph.<\/h3>\n

The Christians insist it is God since it was His Spirit that came upon Mary (Maryam).<\/h3>\n

The Muslims say since God was not begotten, He cannot beget. They prefer to align, at the least, with their cousins, the Jews.<\/h3>\n

Meanwhile, the atheists continue to scoff and mock: “So there is a God who mated with a woman and gave birth to a son, what preposterity from crazy minds!”<\/h3>\n

The ATRs simply do not want any part of this argument. God came down, entered a woman by his spirit and a son was born. Hmm. They prefer to believe spirits (or demons) can enter people and manifest, but their own God? Nah, nah, no!<\/h3>\n

Who is right, and who is wrong?<\/h3>\n

Eternity, if any, will tell.<\/h3>\n

If the Muslims and Christians are to be believed concerning his miraculous birth, why was he born?<\/h3>\n

The Muslims say to be a prophet & messenger of God<\/h3>\n

The Christians point to the core of their faith: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”<\/h3>\n

And, here comes the atheists: “When a person dies, s\/he dies, nothing more, nothing less. That foolish talk about perishing in hell after death is rubbish! Eternal life after death is worse rubbish!”<\/h3>\n

The ATRs believe and insist that after death, there is no perishing; dead persons only join the ancestors.<\/h3>\n

Wonderful God, wonderful religions. Beautiful world, beautiful peoples.<\/h3>\n

Whatever, merry Christmas to all!<\/h3>\n

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\u00a9OAD.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three of the Abrahamic faiths – of the Jews, the Arabs, and the rest of us (i.e the Jews, Arabs, & others) believe in The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY Judaism, Christianity, and Islam believe he was born. Two of them – Christianity and Islam – believe his conception was miraculous. Judaism only prophesied it. The atheists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":61304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[5397,159,5398],"class_list":["post-61374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith","tag-abrahamic","tag-jesus-christ","tag-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}