The Oscar Ajoku Blog

  This title has become a very popular statement among a certain group of Christians around the world; and while logically or literally it may appear to be wrong because every living being that can will itself to do a thing can also wield the same willpower to not do certain things. And so, we can say God cannot lie, God cannot fail etc. Yet at the same time, when God needed the King called Ahab to be lied to, He sent a deceptive spirit into one of the king’s seers to achieve that. When the same king assumed God wouldn’t fail because he thought wrong, in that God would grant him victory, he fell in battle. In other words, on the surface, it’s a conclusion that cannot be true of anyone when you carefully analyze all the premises surrounding this argument. However, this is more contextual than anything else. First because we cannot compare the ways of man to the ways of a god.  We can’t juxtapose the limitations of physical qualities when metaphysical features intervene. And esp...

 MONTHLY SPECIAL!!!! Suffering is often seen as a consequence of ill actions, but in reality it is the simplest symptomatic proof of life. It’s the evidence that one is alive—and just as significant to the sustainability of the human ecosystem as all other forms of growth, because suffering in itself is a form of growth.  The human soul and mind are conformed to develop through moments of joy and suffering. Perhaps not intellectual growth, or of any terrestrial form, but the type that borne self-realization and acceptance. If one is attentive, it can be easily realized that it is at this point we find our truest selves, our deepest ideas, and our inevitable truths.  All living things suffer; it’s a cancerous side effect of being alive we can’t but do without. The only difference is based on what we define as suffering. And because we see different things through different lenses and in differing lights, we assume some do and others don’t—suffer, that is. But this isn’t tr...