God is Not a Christian, By Fred Adetiba

The average religious mind will shudder upon seeing this title. I cannot overemphasise how much I despise religion in its entirety. Religion dulls the spirit and kills the brain. It pollutes and perverts the ways of God, replacing them with what may seem to have originate from man, but which actually originates from the master of deception himself, Satan. It is the spirit that has not only given those who subscribe to the values and principles of the kingdom, a religion called Christianity, but also carved a Christian-god for them.

Man has always had the tendency of being ahead of himself, without recourse to the Creator on what next step to take per time. Social, political and economic systems of the world are falling apart today because man thinks he can navigate through life without God. This is the same posturing of religious spirit. Rather than seek direction and definition from God, man continues to do as he pleases. It is this spirit that has placed Christianity alongside other religions of the world, with its own god. That is why Christians have certain dispositions toward other religious people. Whenever this Christian-god is being projected, I wonder if He is the same God that created the heavens and the earth, everyone and everything in them as recorded in Genesis 1. I also wonder if He is the One that said “I am the Lord, the God of all flesh…” (Jeremiah 32:27). The God I know and serve, created everyone including those who do not believe He exists.

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And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (life-giving spirit of God); and man became a living being – Gen 2:7 (NKJV). 

Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”  So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked (man became self-aware – the ‘soulish’ dimension of man became activated); and I hid myself.”Gen 3:9-10 (NKJV). (Words in parentheses are mine.)

Man is made up of three main components – Spirit, Soul and Body. Man is essentially spirit, with a soul that lives in a body. The body is the physical structure; the soul is the compartment of the mind, where concepts are developed and the material world processed and understood (intelligence); the spirit is the most abstract of these components. It is that part of man that relates with God, because He is Spirit (John 4:24).

Africa of my Ancient Fathers

Africa of my Ancient Fathers

Before the mountains of Zion

Were discovered and established

Before the Arab springs googled

Out their pride waters

Before the Mississippi ever flows

Nile gave world civilization

O ever memorable ancient Africa!