GeneralShepherd: Sometimes I wonder how some people reason!

You claim people should not celebrate xmas because it has links to roman gods, do you know that everyday of the week is dedicated and name after a roman god?

Do you the mean of SUNday?

Kingscee: Stupid and weed pastor, seeking for attention, hahahahahaha people don't give a dammit about his church again, na for that church you go see women over 50 years without husband, because of them stupid lifestyle, the animals believe say na them holier pass.

Victoriousvic: Abeg, what are they practicing? Religion or bondage?

Chai! What's my own sef?
Most of his members don't even have the money to celebrate it, so it makes no difference.

Demain_man: KUMUYI is a nobody in the scheme of things!. His children do not even obey his church declared doctrines




talkless of me. Remember the white wedding and daughter inlaw makeup things?

Na im wahala be dat. I'm sure if you visit his children on the 25th, they sef will be celebrating Christmas!

slimthugchimee: I have 5 things to say to this post
1:dont make me waist 5 mins of my life reading this
2:this is why i support abortion
3:how does that consign us
4:am sure u be hausa
5:how did u know

jimino: Christians dat celebrate christmas celebrate it in d Name of Jesus Christ nt in d name of any gods mr pastor

jmoore: Christmas means celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
Why is that too hard to comprehend?

The General Overseer of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor W.F Kumuyi, has again warned members of the church against celebrating Christmas, saying the annual celebration of Christmas is idolatrous and unscriptural.

Kumuyi warned that partaking in the celebration made Christians to go back from the commandment of Jesus Christ.

The cleric said this on Saturday at the annual national December convention of the church, which held at the church’s camp ground in Ogun State.

He said, “We don’t celebrate Christmas. It actually came from idolatrous background. That is why you don’t hear us sing what they call Christmas carol. Never! We always say it is the December retreat. We are only gathering together because it is the holiday period and love the Lord more, and rededicate ourselves more.

“When you find anybody coming in, or any leader, trying to introduce the idolatry of mystery Babylon, that they call Christmas and you want to bring all the Christmas carol saying that is the day that Jesus was born, and you don’t find that in the Acts of the Apostles or in the early church, then you don’t find that in the church either. If you don’t know that before, now you know.”

He warned that any of the church’s leaders that tried to introduce the “idolatry of Christmas” into any section of the church would be sanctioned, while also encouraging other believers in Christ to jettison the celebration as part of their sacrifice to perfection.

Kumuyi said the duty of the church was to make people more like Jesus Christ and not join in worldly celebrations.

“We are not trying to make the church turn like the world. We want it to be like Jesus Christ, and more like the Apostles. If you don’t have that mind with us, then you have permission to go to other places,” he added.

But the Director of Social Communications, Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Monsignor Gabriel Osu, in his reaction to Kumuyi’s proclamation, said, “I don’t know what he means by saying the practice of celebrating Christmas is wrong.

“Is he saying that Christ wasn’t born? That he didn’t come to die for us? Does he not celebrate his own birthday? Do Kumuyi’s pastors not celebrate him? It is not everything I react to; some people just seek attention. If Kumuyi is a Christian, then he must believe in Christ.

“The celebration of Christmas didn’t just start today; it is too public an event for anyone to say that they don’t know what it is about.

“If Kumuyi is condemning the commercialisation of Christmas, I can understand that. Christ came to redeem us from our lost state; this was actualised through his coming, his birth; that is why we celebrate Christmas. It is the fulfilment of God’s promise.”

“I saw him on the television a few days ago. He was in Akwa Ibom State and was the chief preacher during their Christmas celebration event. Kumuyi is just saying what he feels; he is not making any doctrinal statement.”

The spokesperson for the Christian Association of Nigeria, Oshodi chapter, Lagos State, Pastor Barnabas Otoibhi, said that Christmas was worth celebrating.

Otoibhi told one our correspondents in a telephone interview that the origin of Christmas was not as important as its essence.

He said, “The origin of Christmas, as we know it, could be traced to Roman Emperor, Constantine. Christmas was a day for celebrating the Sun God. However, because Constantine was a Christian, the day was changed to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ.

“The tradition has continued to date and since the aim of Christmas is to celebrate Jesus since there is nothing bad in honouring Jesus. Also, the worship of the Sun God was done in Rome and not everywhere in the world, so it is not part of our history.

“We mark Christmas with the singing of songs as a day, which has now been consecrated.”

xynerise: Jesus wasnt born in March. He was born in October


Besides, we are celebrating Jesus not Idol

honey001:


http://www.punchng.com/news/christmas-is-idolatrous-kumuyi/

slimthugchimee: I have 5 things to say to this post
1:dont make me waist 5 mins of my life reading this
2:this is why i support abortion
3:how does that consign us
4:am sure u be hausa
5:how did u know

Oletty: Pastor Kumiyi is right. Christmas is idolatrous, but so are most other aspects of Christianity. The purported virgin birth, divinity of Jesus Christ, his crucifixion, resurrection. These are not unique to Christianity but abound in other ancient religions around the present day Middle East. Open your eyes Africans, there is nothing historical about Christianity--it, like all other religions, is allegorical. Jesus Christ may or may not have existed but outside the Bible he is not mentioned anywhere else except in the writing of the Roman historian Flavius Josephus who refers to a Christ.

December 22 is Winter Solstice when the sun fades into the azimuth in the Northern hemisphere and 'dies for three days'. It only begins to rise on December 25th. Coincidence that December 25 was fixed as the birth date of Jesus? Of course not. Jesus Christ, like most ancient deities, is likely a personification of the sun. Twelve months in a year, twelve apostles. Sun dies for three days and rises and so does Jesus Christ. There's a lot more. Only the intelligent and wise can understand the symbolism in Christianity. It's all myth and allegory. It is not historical. Wake up Africa. The Europeans who brought the religion to you no longer believe in it literally.

UceeGod: Kumuyi's message is simple, true xtians shouldn't join in Xmas celebration cos it's of pagan origin, if u must celebrate d birth of Jesus, do it anytime. A lot of people don't read b4 making comment.