Popular social media critic, Martins Ortse, also known as VeryDarkMan, has taken a swipe at Pastor David Ibieyomie of Salvation Ministries.
This is coming, after the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E.A Adeboye apologized for saying that Christians that are not paying tithe might not make heaven.
VeryDarkMan, reacting to the development, took to his Instagram page and said; “I’m happy about what Papa Adeboye revealed so I’m waiting for all those pastors like David Ibieyomie that preach about giving tithe.”
“The number one man of all the religious people in Nigeria has come out to apologize that he’s sorry for saying if you don’t pay tithe you won’t make heaven; that it’s not in the Bible.”
“Which other things have they told us is not in the Bible? That’s what I’m concerned about; how many things have they manipulated that is not in the Bible? I’m glad that Papa Adeboye came out to say these things, so imagine the ones that would come out to apologise and have manipulated the people, they have twisted the right words of the Bible to suit their own narratives.”
“Religion has blinded and finished us in Africa and I will keep talking about how messed up religion has made us, carry your Bible. I’m waiting for those who will come tomorrow and say prayers won’t move Nigeria forward. I hope God will touch papa and the tithe collected will be used to touch the people of the country by creating jobs for millions.”
For those who don’t know, Pastor Adeboye had before now claimed that paying tithe is one of the prerequisites for going to heaven.
However, Pastor Adeboye on Thursday night apologized for his statement which he described as a “mistake”, adding that there is nowhere in the Bible where it is written.
Pastor Adeboye who addressed the congregation on Thursday night at the ongoing RCCG Youth Convention at the Redemption Camp, said; “I apologize for saying ‘If you don’t pay tithe, you might not make it to heaven.”
“I’m sorry, that’s wrong, and it’s not in the Bible. What the Bible says is ‘follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see God’.”