Immutability and Eternity of God

 Opinion news

              The substance of God is his essence or his being. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the essence of God, the nature of God, and the attributes of God, in this opinion news I shall discuss the attributes of God, to be more specific the natural attributes of God which is classified by some theologians as non moral attributes. however in this opinion news I shall put forward the immutability and eternity of God.

                  In all of the attributes of God the immutability and eternity of God is the most powerful in my opinion, I shall say, this is why I say so, we human being we do change our mind so often, some of us did once get marriage then after some years or even for some today is just a matter of hours or day then they divorce, reason I change my mind, others it is on promise made but not keep, and many more reason they will give I am human being I am entitle to change my mind, but does not change his mind.

                 By immutability of God is meant that in essence, attributes, conscience, holiness, justice, righteousness, there is no change. God cannot change for the better; he is and has always been the best to perfection. He cannot change for the worst since it would be a contradiction to his nature. God can never be wiser, more powerful, more present, more holy, or more just, he cannot be less merciful, less truthful, or less righteous, he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. James informs us that ' He is the Father of light, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning ' this show us how God is constant with himself and he never denied his word, how many us speak one thing and do something else many and all day long.

                  Although God cannot change in his divine prerogatives or his moral attributes, there are occasions when he may change his relationship to his moral creatures. He may pronounce a judgment upon a city like Nineveh. Jonah cried and said ' Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown ' . then later  ' God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way and repented...... and he did it not ' Jonah 3:4-10, here is the example of his relationship with his creatures, That God can change for his creatures when they turned around that is not mean his attributes his change.

                 Both the promise of God and the judgments of God are conditional depending upon the obedience of the righteous or the disobedience of the wicked. God reserves the right to withhold the blessing from the righteous or his curses from the wicked if either turns from his ways, the word eternal is used in the scripture with two meanings, literally and figuratively, the literal meaning of the term applies only to God, who has neither beginning or ending. With him there is no past, present, or future. He inhabits eternity, an eternal now, one has described it as follows ' It is duration, without beginning or ending; existence, without bounds or dimension; present, without past or future. His eternity is youth without infancy or old age; life without birth or death; today without yesterday or tomorrow.'  In the figurative sense, eternal refers to existence with a beginning, but without an end.  Angels and Human beings have a beginning, but they will have no end. it also refers to a gift from God. John 3:16

                 This is the difference between God and human beings, God is the same from yesterday, today and forever and eternal without beginning, therefore to say we are God in small g is not to understand who God is, I hope you did understand the immutability and eternity of God, it is called theology proper.

                 God bless you all

God of Providence

Opinion news

             In today opinion news I will put forward about God of providence, you will hear people most of the times saying, why is so much poverty in the world, now in part of Africa you hear this why are we so poor and poverty is like part of African life. Now let see it this way, a Christian believer must believe that God is, here the most important way, because God is not was faith deal with the present not yesterday and when he believe God is and that he not only created the universe, but that he upholds and sustains the heavens and the earth by his power and decrees. which bring me to say providentially, God deals with and influences the affairs of men and nations. He rules the laws of nature and supplies daily bread according to his will, in theology proper it mean He is in control. 

              Let try to give you the meaning of the word PROVIDENCE, there is many however I love this one, PROVIDENCE OF GOD etymologically the word means foreseeing. from this point of view, it means that God foresees, makes plans, and provides for the future. the best example is at creation men was created after everything was already made ready for him by God, there is no better picture than this. When you look this example in my humble opinion African have no reason to cry poverty because God has provide Africa with all. In a theological sense, it applies to the activities of God that he exerts in the universe and upon his creatures in bringing to pass his original purpose in the creation. although evil has entered the universe, and in the a certain respect is a thorn in the side of God, yet God will not allow the powerful force of evil to thwart  or defeat the fulfillment of his original wise and holy purpose.

             What is the existence of evil, since God is the omnipotent one who eternally possesses almighty power, and since evil is so devastating and diametrically opposed to God's holy nature, then what is the answer to this riddle of evil in the universe? This indeed is a hard question. Has evil always been in the universe? if not, how did it come to be? if it had an origin, was God in any degree responsible for its origin? if God were responsible for the origin and implementation of evil, then he would be a contradiction unto himself and would thus be both a devil and a God in one divine good and evil personality, which is impossible. and such an answer is blasphemy and impossible. I can say this entire opinion could be spent in an attempt to answer this issue. Let me just put it like this God created the heavens and the earth, and also created rational beings who were morally free to do their own thinking and making their own decisions, this is known as free moral agency. within this freedom, God created both angels and men. blame cannot be placed upon God for his creating these rational beings with such inherent freedom. therefore God did not produce evil as some material object that one may choose, the evil was the choice itself, the decision to obey or disobey God's moral law; thus evil was inherent within the free rational being and not in God. I can go on and on what I can say is blaming God for our short coming he does not a ground and African blaming God for their poverty he does not have ground it is their choice.

           Law and order as practiced by the government of the world is a demonstration of God's providence in protecting society from the beastiality of the society, that is Apostle Paul tells us that the sword is not established in vain, it is God's power operating in the preservation of the good. therefore choosing a good leader is of paramount for any society if not do not blame God. God he providentially supplies our needs the bible have plenty of example in this issue, example Joseph in Egypt the need of Israel was cover. let all acknowledge God providence in our life and say thank you.

             God bless you all.

Failed States

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               I will try to write this opinion news today with a heart that is heavy of the situation that is going on around us here in the country but also make sure that I am not carry on by the distraction of the event. my point today is the failed states however you need to understand that failed states is not only in Africa but it is a complex situation in all of this let us acknowledge that in Africa most countries is qualify to be failed states.

               What is a failed state? a state whose political or economic and judicial system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control.by going with this definition you will understand that more countries all over the world can be call failed state. Now why is African countries are notorious to be qualify has a such! let me quote the Nigeria writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche; " My point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe.... I am Nigerian because the white man created Nigerian and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. but I was IGBO before the white man came." from this quote I see many problem that African are not ready to solved.

               My question are , was he a mistakes by the white man giving us countries as we know it today? She is right before 1945 Berlin conference we were all know by our tribe and clan because the name of the countries as we know it just arrived after that conference and independence, it is a mistakes for the African to have the countries as it is today or we supposed to have the countries according to each clan and tribes, the situation is African people beside their culture and tradition which is made them unique however they are still not raise above their tribes and clans, that is even where war and looting come from. Another one is corruption, this word corruption is a simple word but very powerful word, I remember longtime ago in Congo a former minister of foreign affaires was ask a question by a Belgium  journalist about the corruption of the president Mobutu, his answer was " the word corruption is in lingala, or tshiluba or kikongo." this is all Congolese language however what he was pushing was in our language the word corruption does not exist therefore what you called corruption for us is not. in that time we all applauded him, now when I realize and study everything then I say thing does African people really understand what is corruption? does African politicians really understand what is corruption? most of the times the same poor people who are marginalize will says let him also get the money so what because most of the times because we are from same tribe, another one is judicial I think according to our tradition and customer and culture which is an elders are always right and you can not question an elder and elders are not accountable to anyone young and a chiefs is above everything and all, the judicial is become a problem in this Africa as we know it.

             Now did we get ourselves to a system which is above us? or did we get ourselves to the situation of making someone a Messiah then the same Messiah start making our life miserable? or is democracy  not an African thing? to understand the Nigerian write which I did quote above, I also have my tribe and not by my choice a country was given to me however the tribe issues still high and playing a big role of division in my country most of the time we do not know how to make the country go forward by seeing the capacity and ability of the person but we are always debating from which tribe is coming from. we have even the term geo politic which is every provinces must be in government not quality. if this is the way to go Africa does not have a chance to succeed but to be a failed states, I can say also the Berlin conference was just a great problem created by the oppressor to make us suffer more and it is very difficult to have a spirit of nationalist because we do not belong to this thing called country which we have no link at all and it was imposed to us but our tribe was born in us, what can we do simple let us African raise and build the Africa in diversity which we want all live in and for better future of our children.

            God bless Africa.

The Revelation of God by Miracles.

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              I will first put the term revelation what is all about, also let me say there is two words that I used when I am talking of revelation, there is what I called GENERAL REVELATION; which means that God makes himself  known through nature, human conscience, and history. there is also what I called SPECIAL REVELATION; which means that God makes himself known to specific people in a special and unusual way, and at specific times. there are various special revelations of God, such as Prophecy, Miracles, gifts of the Holy Spirit and many more but in my opinion news today I will put forward only the revelation of God by miracles.

              Genuine miracles are a special revelation of the power and presence of God, that aspect it showing also the omnipotence which is the all powerful God, however the confusion or what same people do not understand is Satan and his agents attempt to reproduce every good program and work of God. by that I will like to warn anyone that making God revelation base on miracles only is not enough, A miracle is an event of divine, and sometimes of satanic, origin that is contrary to or divergent from an existing law in nature. in brief I can say it is something beyond man ability.

              The miracles in Egypt as the Bible recorded are verify the definition which holds that the miracles may as its source of power God or Satan, Moses as God's representative and Egyptian sorcerers as Satan's representatives engaged in the same type of miracles working up to a certain point. Both threw down their rods and they turned into serpents, they did that again and again until when they tried to bring lice, the Egyptian magicians tried and failed but Moses and Aaron succeeded. this show us that in Egypt God used miracles to impose judgment upon the nation, that make us to see throughout the old testament miracles were used almost equally as acts of judgment and as acts of mercy, and on some occasions they were used as acts of judgment to the enemies of God and as acts of mercy to the people of God, therefore I will love to be in the side of mercy than judgment.

               Explaining what is meant in the definition of an event contrary to or divergent from a law in nature, the example of Simon Peter is selected. According to one of the first laws of physics, one concludes that when an object is placed into the liquid, it will sink into the liquid by the pull of gravity until it displaces its weight in the liquid. Simon Peter did stepped out of the boat into the water, in this situation Simon Peter was the object and the water was the liquid, according to the law of gravity, he would have immediately sunk into the water but he did not he even walk on the the water contrary to the law of nature. that is the miracle. the case of Miriam and Aaron in the book of numbers 12:1-8, which the Lord anger was kindled against them, Miriam was left with dreaded disease of leprosy, however Aaron was saved because of him being a High priest and having the priestly cloth with him then God placed the judgment upon her, their problem was not only about Moses wife but it went far about God talking only to Moses, but by Moses prayer God did have mercy on her.

             The miracles that Jesus performed are recorded by all four gospel writers, the total number that are recorded is 35, only one is recorded by all four which is the feeding of the five thousand, Matthew records 21 miracles, Mark records 21 miracles, Luke records 20 miracles, and John records 8 miracles, of John's eight miracles, six of them are recorded only by him, which are water made wine, healing of the nobleman's son, the impotent man, the man born blind, the raising of Lazarus and the drought of fishes after resurrection 

           The miracles did continue even in the time of the Apostles as the book of acts does record, even today with the help of the ministry of the Holy Spirit however not every miracles come from God as mention above, and signs, wonders and miracles does not mean God is with you and this revelation alone is not enough. it is important to have a good study and understanding of God theology for you to have great and complete revelation of God.

                  God bless you all

The independence day of Congo

 Opinion news

              Today in the 30 of June 1960, Congo became a free, that freedom sometimes I consider it as a curse which fallen upon this huge country with great potential, let me tell you who I am, my name is Jose T, Ntambwe born in Congo as this day they are debating about who is a Congolese as for me I am a 100% Congolese no debate about it.

               Congo as a country as we know it today was not like this before the coming of the white man, it was a place where Kingdoms was all over the land of Congo, most popular Kingdom was Kingdom Luba, Kingdom Lunda, Kingdom Kongo and others this Kingdoms did have their leaders or Kings whom did lead the Kingdoms with measure of prosperity, they were organize one things we need to stress here is they were not united block because this Kingdoms are different in cultures and traditions and their way of living, until the white men come to the land it was so.

               When the so called explore come and make know to the world that they discover something that was there before even they were born is amazing, then as president Zuma once say the problem of South Africa start when a white settler landed in South Africa this is also the case of Congo, the explore sale the land to Leopold 2 of Belgium and this man who he was the King of Belgium make sure that all the Kingdoms of Congo must became one country, remember before this they were not a country called Congo, by force and evil mean he make sure this vast land became  one as a country then start the Congolese woe, first that vast land became a private property of a man called Leopold 2 King of Belgium, for years he rule the land as his own house, under him 10 million plus Congolese lost their life, and he make sure whoever was not doing what he ask his hand must be cut off, he exploited all the mineral of the Land without accounting to anyone, because it was his private property, when his evil action was know by his European counterpart in 1908 he give the country to his Kingdom, the Belgium, he was never blame or judge for his genocide action in Congo, let us make it know that his action in Congo is worse than what Hitler did to the Jewish people in Germany however until today nothing happen to him or his descendent.

             1908, Congo became know as Congo Belgium, this again the white men of Belgium became the master of everything, not like in English rule country in Africa, but in Congo Belgium, the oppressors were in charge of everything , which is all the administration was lead or control by the white oppressors, all doctors, mayors were white oppressors, for the Congolese of high education was level 4 primary school, and this was done to make sure that the Congolese people remain in bondage , one of the Belgium did even said that for independence in Congo will be only discus in 1980, can you imagine, however when Ghana became the first African country to be free, a man called Lumumba also inspired by the Ghana Kwame the leader of the freedom Ghana, Lumumba start talking about the independence of Congo now, soon the people like Kasa Vubu the first president of Congo, Kalonji mulopwe , Tshombe, Bolingako raise up against the oppressors and they did not have others choice than to accept the defeat and Congo became free in 30 of June 1960, but no one from the Congolese side was ready to government the vast Congo land, because none of Congolese people at the time was raedy to do anything in the country, because all was done by the oppressors, now they are gone and no one is ready to do anything, this is what happen 7 days after the declaration of the independence they was a civil war and the separatist of the Katanga and Kasai declared the separation to the rest of the country, 11 days later Lumumba as the premier minister was arrested by Mobutu and put to death by Mobutu.

         Here what I want to say, Lumumba did ask for the independence of Congo as it is, meaning no region or province of Congo must became a country, however by my humble thinking that is were we miss everything, by bringing this vast Land together it was a mistake, why the first election which for me the real one, they were not a majority winner, this push the parties to make alliances but because Lumumba party have 33% which high than any others parties he became first ministers, this is the problem even today no party can have majority rule in Congo because of this situation of bringing all of together, this also was the reason why Lumumba did not rule the country, he only last 21 days in power it took him all night to have a government ministers because every provinces wanted to have someone in power, 1965 Mobutu took power by plotting against Kasa Vubu, he became the country second president in his first 5 years in power he was good and the economy was great and the copper was doing great, in 1970 he change the country name to Zaire and the currency also then things start going bad, in the mid 1975 the price of copper went down and the country also, 1990 the cold war was over and Mobutu is no longer needed by the west, 1997 Kabila took power and he was killed and his son became president then 2018 Felix Tshisekedi became president.

        But the Congo problem still high since 1960, poverty is high or one of the highest in the world, beside all the mineral Congo is very poor country, no infrastructure, no health facility, no road , no good school, even most of others African countries with no mineral resource like they have developpe their more than Congo, but Congolese are still busy killing each others to a war which have no cause, Congolese have easy language of insulting each others without a cause, I ask myself this question was it a mistake to have this Land as one country? because we are going nowhere it is with heavy heart I am saying this, but in all let us have a blessed birthday and a great 61 birthday.

          May the Lord bless the great Congo.

Elijah a Man of same Nature like us [ A DECLARATION OF WAR ]

The Natural Attribute of God

Opinion news

             The substance of God is his essence or his being. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the essence of God, the nature of God, and the attributes of God. In this opinion letter, I shall discuss the attributes of God but only one attribute only, the natural attributes of God which are classified by some scholar of Bible as non moral attributes. by the natural attributes of God is meant those qualities of divine personality that do not involve moral or emotional issues. and also man does not have the natural attributes of God, which are omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and eternity. however as I said before only the omnipotence I will talk about.

              By the omnipotence of God I mean that God is all powerful, with the ability to do whatever he wills. Let me dwell on this, in some measure Man is seen or qualify as powerful but not like God's power, Man power is quantify by what he has for example a Man with a lot of money is called powerful man, here I am talking about the billionaires which are few anyway, Man with position of authority like president of the country, let me put it clear here, it is not about the name of the countries that count but being a president that matter because you are in the position of power, Man with the position of authority in any scale of power in the society is also called powerful, even in the family sometimes age does not count when you are in the position of power than those who are elder to you, however this power of Man is limited, also most of the times Man does not have control over his power which lead Man to be a dictator, most of problem of the world is because Man is drunk to his power and he think only for himself not for others, like the wars in the world is about Man power just is out of control. Because Man want to dominate and to rule others men.

              By contrast God's will is limited by his nature. He cannot contradict himself, nor can he do evil. He will not grant the power of making free moral decisions to his intellectual, created beings and at the same time withhold from them this free moral agency, God's power is limitless and man power is limited, but God's power is harnessed to harmonized and coincide with his purposes. It does not minimize God's power to say that he cannot look upon iniquity with approval, that he cannot deny himself, lie, commit sin. God has power over his power and exercises it in harmony with his freedom and nature, God could have kept sin out of his universe and he could save a sinner against the sinner's will, but this would be a contradiction of the relationship of freedom that he has established in the free will of his rational creature.

            There are actions of God and demonstrations of his power that are in harmony with God's nature and will which cannot be hindered or withstood by any other force in the universe.  Some of these demonstrations have been manifested in God's work of creation, in his miracles, in the revealing truth through the prophets, in his sending Christ into the world, in his sending the Holy Spirit, and in his answering prayers that are prayed in Jesus name. Also in the future in the second coming of Christ. 

            God's omnipotent power was demonstrated when God said, let there be light and there was light, when God put the rainbow in the sky, when Moses rolled back the waters of the Red sea, when Joshua commanded the Sun to stand still, when Jesus said to the storm tossed sea peace be still. there are plenty of the example in the Bible of God's power my letter can not contain it all.  

            When God demonstrates his power let men stand in awe, let angels prostrate themselves, and let devils shudder with trembling. None can withstand his power. God can indeed do what he purposes to do.

           God bless you all