[Article] When God becomes a religious product

When God becomes a religious product

Products are marketed for the problems they can solve. Remember that products get replaced or discarded when they have solved, or are incapable of solving the problems for which they were advertised.

When the medical technology for dealing with barreness becomes cheaper, what happens to the Jesus you are marketing as solution for barreness? Already some of the testimonies of childbirth you are seeing are products of this technology.

When government becomes competent and people begin to get wealthy as is the case in some countries, what happens to the Jesus you advertised as solution to poverty?

When security improves greatly and people can travel to their villages in safety, what happens to the God you sold as minister of defence by olive oil?

Products expire. The “product Jesus” will expire, in fact it has expired in some places. Rutger says: “A side effect was that in those countries with a strong rule of law, assuring regulations and contracts would be honored, belief in a vengeful God diminished. The role of God the father was to be supplanted by faith in the state”.(Pg 249, Human Kind by Rutger Bregman). If you are cynical about this citation, just remember that most of these powerful men of God people flock to for miracles rely on the state for protection, they use bullet proof cars and escort policemen, while selling oil to you for protection.

When they have problems with people, they call police for them, they forget to invoke the holy Ghost fire they invoke for your own enemies and troubles, I’m merely stating the obvious.

I have nothing against them enjoying those state services, that’s what it should be for every citizen, I’m only against them selling a product to you that they don’t use.

The apostles never packaged and marketed Jesus Christ as solution to anyone. People don’t die for a product to sell, people die for people and for a cause. If the apostles marketed Jesus Christ as a product, Christians wouldn’t have died for his sake and his gospel.

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Do I need to remind you that the only reason the jews of his time rejected Jesus Christ as Messiah was because he didn’t solve their socio economic and political problems. They wanted a Messiah who would defeat their enemies in military battle and make Israel super power, but here’s a carpenter claiming the title and preaching forgiveness.

The God sold as solution product will expire sooner than expected. All it takes is for people to wake up from the illusion and delusion.

If you read this piece and interpret it to mean Fada oluoma doesn’t believe in miracles, congratulations, you are a Grammy Award winner, but the category of your trophy cannot be mentioned here for the sake of decency.

Once more, Lk 24:47 reiterates: “In his name, repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached to all Nations”.

Jesus is not a product, eternal salvation is the gospel, when it is preached, God accompanies it with other things.

“Lord there is a longing only you can fill, a raging tempest only you can still. My soul is thirsting for you O my God, Lord quench my thirst, Lord fill my heart.
Take me deeper in love with you Jesus, oh deeper in love”