April 6, 2025
“I am not doubting God, I know with Him all things are possible. But He told me, and I told some of my people, that a day is coming when the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Governing Council will hold their meeting on the moon. I know that does not make sense, but then, that is God.”
I got the above quote from the Google platform on the internet today, Sunday the 6th of April, 2025. It’s attributed to Pentecostal Christian pastor Enoch Adeboye of Nigeria in West Africa. Someone had brought it up for conversation on Facebook. Some people were debating whether God actually communicated to Adeboye what he claims. My contribution was simple, that Adeboye has started his lies again.
My comment drew the ire of persons (Nigerians) who believe that respect must be accorded to “men of God.” So, I took my position one step further in a friendly fashion because the young man who confronted me was great to disagree with me in a mature constructive way.
“Sorry if you believe that people should not criticize so-called men of God,” I started. “It’s your opinion based on your upbringing as a Christian. You were groomed to believe this probably from your tender age because of your Afro-cultural environment. Unlike you, I grew up into a man in a western environment where pastors are not worshipped as if they are God Himself; an environment where statements in the Bible are tempered with open philosophical mindset. For instance, I grew up to know that the same Bible that says, ‘Touch not my annointed…’ wich is misinterpreted and overbloated in Africa also says that there are more ‘False Prophets’ than the real “annointed” prophets. And I know that the same Bible says that we MUST not listen to those false prophets.”
As a radical or free thinker, I always love opportunities like this to present my disagreement with young Christians in Africa who fall into the trap of virtually worshipping Christian pastors instead of God, believing that pastors or “men of God” never do any wrong.
“In Africa, Christians have been groomed never to question anything that comes out of the mouth of a ‘man of God,’ regardless if the so-called man of God is a ‘False Prophet’,” I continued my sermon to the guy. “Whenever I discuss these facts with typical African Christians, their common response is, ‘You must not judge. Let God be the judge whether the man of God is a sinner on the Judgment Day.’
“On the other hand, a typical American Christian will quickly tell you that you are talking absolute nonsense! African Christians are contradicting what the same bible tells you that you MUST beware of false prophets and don’t honor them. A typical African Christian forgets that by the time we get to that Judgement Day, if it does truly exist, a lot of damages must have happened to you by the false prophets who the bible asks you to avoid. To me, Pastor Adeboye has proven that he is a false prophet,” I argued.
“Not long ago, he confessed it himself when he told us that he made a mistake to tell his followers that anybody who does not pay tithe must go to hell. I’m sure you must have seen his confession; right? So, you should ask yourself, does God ever make mistakes? When Adeboye told the lies about tithe to extort his followers to buy private jets, he told his followers that it was from God, didn’t he? Now, he reversed his earlier lie and asked for your forgiveness. Does God make mistakes? Does God ever reverse His positions and ask for your forgiveness? We all know that the answer is ‘no.’ God is constant and always right. So, which God told Adeboye the first lie he told about tithe? Was it another God of lies, and the true God later corrected Adeboye’s lies? Does he serve two Gods?
“If you continue to believe everything that Adeboye says after his confessed lies about tithe, don’t you think you are believing a man who lies when it suits his self-serving human needs? Now he tells you that God told him that he is going to the moon to hold his meetings. Why must anyone even listen to any more of his outlandish statements after his self-confessed lie about tithe?
“When he lied about tithe, I openly and vehemently condemned him, and some of his followers called me names. I had lambasted Adeboye with the argument that tithe is not even meant for pastors to buy private jets and build private businesses to become billionaires as our Nigerian criminal Pentecostal pastors do. According to Deuteronomy 14, verses 22 to 29, one form of tithe (every three years) is STRICTLY for the welfare of the poor. The second form of tithe is every year, which the tither and his/her family consume at their worship place (synagogue in the ancient Israel). Apparently, God wanted/wants His children to come together in His presence to feast and make merry. God commanded the tither to invite the Levites to partake in the feasting because the Levites were not allowed to cultivate their own crops and livestock. The next tithe, every three years, was/is supposed to be taken to His “storehouse” where the poor and the needy fed/feed from. Also, the Levites partook, for the same reason that they were not allowed to cultivate food, so that they would contrate on just doing God’s work.
“IMPORTANTLY, unlike today’s Pentecostal pastors, the Levites did not privately store any of the tithe to get wealthy. I insist that any pastor who uses “storehouse” tithe for anything other than the welfare of the poor is a criminal. When I said this, Adeboye’s followers said that I am anti-Christ for ‘insulting a man of God.’ After Adeboye’s confession that he had lied, I expected such people to come back and apologize to me, but they are not honorable enough to do so. Well, actually, I must admit that a couple of people did apologize to me.”
After the above sermon in that Facebook conversation, I refered the participants to some of my treatises on Afro-Scope.com where I discussed some common errors among Christians in my Africa, which are not so common among Christians in the western world. The differences exist between the two worlds because my African Christians refuse to open their minds and question things that do not make sense to any discerning mind. Too many Africans believe that it is unGodly to question any rubbish that any so-called man of God says or does, even when it doesn’t make any sense to right-thinking sensible people.
The common example that I cite whenever I address this issue is what I title, “The Stupidity of Til Death Do Us Part Christian Doctrine As Practiced In Africa.” My point is that it is not possible that Christ or God told anyone that marriage is forever between a couple, even if one spouse is torturing the other every doggone day!!! I insist that Christ or God could not possibly have told anybody to follow such nonsensical doctrine because neither Christ nor God is a sadist who loves to watch a person suffer in the hands of another person in the stupid name of marriage. Too many persons, especially women have been killed by their spouses because they were too stupid to leave the marriages while they still had the chances to escape death, meeeeeeeen!!! I have a link to “The Stupidity of Til Death Do Us Part Christian Doctrine” treatise below.
Now, back to Pastor Adeboye and his lies, I ask, did or does Christ really agree with him and his kind that they should spend tithe money to purchase private jets, exotic cars, and heavenly mansions all over the world, while some poor people in their congregations are dying of hunger every day? Ask yourself, did Christ who they claim to represent live such flamboyant lifestyle? Donkeys were the private jets of Christ’s time. Did he ever own a single donkey of his own then? Did he not borrow a donkey each time he traveled? Couldn’t pastor Adeboye and his kind take first class seats on public planes when they travel, rather than blow so much money with private jets? Did Christ not advise his followers or disciples against worldly possessions and ostentatious lifestyle? Didn’t he say that it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven? So, how come that Pentecostal pastors like Adeboye and his kind live the lifestyles that make a mockery of the non-materialist lifestyle and teachings of the Christ that they pretend to represent? Going by what Christ said, do Adeboye and his kind actually qualify to enter the kingdom of heaven that they preach about??????
HERE’S THE LINK TO “The Stupidity of Til Death Do Us Part Christian Doctrine” Part 1:
“The Stupidity of Til Death Do Us Part Christian Doctrine” Part 2:
