Living In A New Era Of Christianity

THE PUBLISHER is concerned that the message from God’s supposed messengers have shifted from the Great Commission to predictions of deaths and doom in what has become a new era of Christianity blowing across Ghana.

Preachers and seers mentioning the names of popular persons and telling the whole world such persons would die at a particular date has become the new trend of Christianity in Ghana; a rather worrying trend that is obviously causing discomfort and fear in many homes.

The average Ghanaian believes in God or at least pretends to be religious. Therefore, it is worrying that the latter-day Christian seers do not take into account the fact that their death-prophecy-victims have families that would suffer sleepless nights and traumas over such public doom pronouncement.

We are not pretending to know more than members of the clergy, but we do know that prophecies meant for specific individuals ought to be given to those individuals under strict confidentiality but not to be broadcast in public to an audience that are not party to the message.

Another aspect THE PUBLISHER finds difficult to understand is how come the predictions have focused on only popular persons and the predictions have all been negative.

What happened to the good old Christian messages of salvation, righteous living and the second coming of Christ?

The new trend seems worrying and has the potential of branding God as a wicked old man seated up there telling His prophets who would die next.

It also sends a wrong impression that the latter-day prophets wield some live saving powers that they can use based on their discretion.

It is creating an impression that the supposed Prophets cannot pray to save a would-be victim of death unless the person personally comes to see the Prophet.

If a Ghanaian celebrity is based in Russia or doing some crucial assignment in Alaska, the celeb cannot be saved from the supposed death unless the persons takes the next available flight and flies down to Ghana to see a prophet.

The continuous silence from the Christian bodies, groupings and associations is worrying.

The silence from the Christian Council of Ghana (CCG), the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC), the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the other recognized Christian bodies is not sending the right signals and THE PUBLISHER is calling on them to speak out and restore some sanity.

We call on them to speak out even if their voices get ignored. It is better for them to make their position clear on this new era of terror-prophesies rather than to remain silent in what seems to be a subtle support.