I used to tell those who care to listen that we have overloaded the bad sides of the pandemics which came by covid-19 without any thought or exploration of its enormous good sides . Only those who can read Biblical Principles well and apply them correctly and radically would understand that it came with good tidings within its pangs.
For instance, it was not for nothing that the epidemics of the 20s which Biblical Principles had meaning in the Retreat:( Igbele) and Procession: ( Iwode) doctrines of the Aladuras ( Cherubim and Seraphim churches with Christ Apostolic church) resulted in the revivals of the early 20s and 30s from which loin today's Pentecostal and charismatic church have sprung up .
To many people the John 17:21 Biblical Principles in which the world has shrunk into a global village ( in the universal Lordship of the father and son Unity of Spirit) have no meaning for our internet age .That's the extent to which our over secularisation and overtopicalisation mentality has taken us to . We often read the Bible or the Qur'an as if we are reading newspapers.
Virtually, all the good legacies left behind for the church in Nigeria have now been basterdized. The early missionaries came with the Bible and the Plough doctrine which the main line churches like the Anglican, Methodist, African and Baptist churches applied faithfully on the farms while it yielded our cocoa, rubber and mango seeds and trees which in turn fetched us great wealth in the southwest region.
Where are these crops today ? Training schools in which vocational education was given to our youths have now been turned into event centres while Bishop courts in which matters were adjudicated upon peacefully ( without secular judiciary intervening ) have also disappeared.
The catholic church holds sacred her priesthood Holy order as well as her vow of chastity doctrine which Biblical Principles ( being applied correctly) have tremendously helped the fields of mass communication and freedom of expression in Nigeria.
Do you wonder why catholic priests are the last hope of the common man when dictatorial excesses of our leaders come to play in the country, especially during military regimes ?
Rather than the church appreciating its values, some ignorant Christians would come ranting against the catholic and vomiting ignorance authoritatively about its doctrine.
Most of us stupidly believe modernisation has cancelled spirituality.
Right now the Aladura churches which popularised the Dada ( dreadlocks wearing children) known in the Bible as Nazirites ( through Saint Orimolade) are either ignorant or afraid to apply the Biblical principles behind it correctly. Their prophets are always quick to prophesy to women or parents not to allow razor to touch their hair ( dreadlocks) without explaining or teaching all it entail. It is the new form of bullying through which many youths have become deviants. ( Read my new book on the matter :" TRAUMA OF THE DREAD-LOCKED " )
Rather than advancing the Nazirite the way Catholics have breathed into her holy priesthood and equipped priests as true defenders of the faith , the Dadas in Aladuras are left on their own to wander about not comprehending God's purpose for the dreadlocks they carry about like yokes .
Dadas or Rastafarians are now placed at the corridors of violence , gangsterism and criminality ( amid mistag in which they have suffered in the society) ,little realising their spiritual and special purpose on earth. ( Apology to Ikedi Nwafor author of The Benighted Child who gave his honest remark on my book :" TRAUMA OF THE DREAD-LOCKED)
Just applying the same Biblical Principles on the Dada and Nazirite phenomenon, I have discovered that it goes beyond Yoruba land and beyond the Aladuras into global world where few who understand their Biblical Principles are not confining dreadlocks to the parochial lane of mere fashion.
With the consonantal Principles of motivational writing, the illumination which it has thrown on the obscurity assailing and assaulting the Dadas as a global phenomenon, reveals that Dada is the same Andrew in the Android that we are all making use of .
This is the result of reading Biblical Principles radically and applying them technologically in the same way Philip Emeagwali made use of a bit of " mathematics in ifa Oracle " to work out the idea of the fastest computer the world has ever known.
The church does not lack gifted hands ,what the church lacks is the mindset of Christ in applying Biblical Principles correctly to benefit humanity.
OLALERE FAGBOLA REPORTING
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