now how do we as africans think that by switching off the light of knowledge and information
continuing continuous eating of these rotten eggs will make their own healthy in my own thing guys
we may as well just switch on the lights while we're eating when we notice what is rotten
that's my message for africa keep the lights on while you are eating what you don't understand
all african when you pick up the book by the way there's a chapter i put there
for african names of god in the african space and when you get
to that chapter you discover that african traditional religions are all monotheistic
upon all those names they don't talk of a plural god
when the white men found an african kneeling under a tree in prayer they said he is worshiping a tree
there is no african religion that teaches africans to worship their forefathers and their ancestors
ancestors are a historical connecting cable to the creation that happened before we became
therefore i am joshua the son of lazarus
lazarus who is the son of marara marara who is the son of mapunga mapunga
son of tobera son of morenga from the great kingdoms of guruswa in ember
the sons of nangashi were in utopia now who are the sons of hump in your bible
the sons of kush the sons of adam the sons of god now when you understand that our
relations of our african genealogy is not worshipping ancestors but recognizing those
who are here before us connecting us to the one who made us before we became
then you say in african worship's ancestors there's no african religion there's no african
spirituality that teaches you to worship your forefathers it simply says call on them and
by the way there's no african prayer that does not end before you say please tell the one who
created you to deal with this problem therefore it's what you call sacred history interpreted
in european construct when an african calls his forefathers just like a jew says god of our god
of isaac god of jacob god of abraham and etc and african and by the way white people don't know
the bible well they don't have ancestors they don't have psalms they don't have totems when
they say jesus of the tribe of judah they don't know the other jesus is in so we cannot help them
because even the construct of the text itself challenges their culture which they don't have
when your brother dies please go and marry the wife a white man does not know how to do that
but an african is culture when boys of a certain age please go and circumcise them
a white man does not know how to do that a black man knows how to do that
now how can you wait for a white man to tell you what is in the text when the culture
and the religion of the text is not european eighty percent of the bible is polygamy the
white man does not know that he comes down to the monogamous concept on the i end
then we start teaching cheating and etc on the left and create media around that
so let's not waste our time
what we now believe is christianity in china is european culture
my daughter will not leave this house until she's putting on a white dress
because the mother now thinks that a white wedding is superior to a black wedding or
a cultural wedding these are the realities we need to start talking about is africans that
are we saying what we've accepted as christianity is christianity or it is actually european culture
can you ask me
and i'll tell you that 60 to 80 percent of christian practices is european culture a
man who gives you habs to drink is a witch a man who aborts your wife and takes the fetus to make
tablets and give you back to drink is a doctor and your government says this is a witchcraft act
it's not witchcraft as a noun is witchcraft as a question which craft are you using
chapter 19 chapter 18 chapter 20 and 21-22 of the book of isaiah talk about the slavery of
the black people being shipped to lands afar and there are women being stripped and men walking
with bare buttocks is there then you read all of it including data from chapter 28. by the time
you are finishing chapter 20 21 of isaiah then there is a good news fire for the redeemed of
the lord shall return they shall come back i will take your way to your far land but i'll bring you
back to this land again and etcetera there's no other nation that was moved in ships and boats
where including jesus people wherever they moved from and from africa to into america into the
caribbean into britain and then the same bible actually goes on to say but i will bring you back
to your land beautiful prophecies but because of the eurocentric christianity
that does not see a black man in the text these prophecies are never spoken about we are told
that jesus is coming again how can jesus come back again before repatriation and reparation
if these promises will not be fulfilled then the bible is a lie so is is the gospel according to my
pong attaching on those issues that actually what i've just shared with you right now is chapter
chapter three chapter four yes who are the chosen nation christianity and islam by nature they are
bullies of african culture it is expressed in their intolerance of other people who believe
differently from who they are so here's a simple example if a muslim walks into this village the
first object is to build a mosque and make everyone in that village a muslim it changes
your timetable of waking up you wake up at five changes your fashion how you what changes the way
you bury your loved ones now you must have to do everything according to islamic law the same thing
is true with christianity christianity walks into a space facing the one to do is a zulu is a closer
you take off your shirt and put on your beautiful beads hebrew beads by the way which are jewish you
put on your hebrew gear which is traditional and you walk up to church krishna will look at you
though now there's a bit of tolerance but the first glance is is unacceptable
because the god that christianity has does not have tolerance for culture does not rather i'd
rather take off that thing i put on your shirt you put a tie on you put a jacket polish some sweets
now you look nice because apparently you must become european first before you can
become christian in order for god to accept you he cannot accept you in your authenticity
he needs first to take you through the culture of the dominant culture which is a colonial culture
before you can actually become an acceptable christian an intelligent conversation needs to
take place where we say is everything that we are doing in the christian church christian or some of
the things norms and rituals that were performing are actually european culture but now they've been
couched and packaged as christianity the way we sing for example the way we dress for
example the way we eat for example the way we celebrate our things our holidays our festives
our passovers and et cetera are these things be easters are these things biblical christmases yeah
there's a lot of feathers there's some changes that are cut issue over the easter weekend i
mean it's a simple question no i understand how many days are between friday and sunday if i can
ask you how many days i've had that question from a person i used to stay with in durban in 1999.
i i couldn't answer him but what he has to say mathematically don't be religious
i get that i get it but i don't understand why people don't look like when religion walks up
to you when religion walks up to you blinds you it must numb your brain from common sense
so that your simple question like how many days are between friday and sunday
you begin to you want to chew your your thing it's like almost all the knowledge you went to school
for disappears through the window but maybe christianity pushes russia i mean sorry faith
more than rationale so if you're accepted by faith maybe you don't have to rise but faith is not
stupid faith is is is knowledge in manifest faith you need to know what you believe in
okay you cannot believe in nothing no and therefore faith is a servant of knowledge
okay the world perishes not for the lack of faith the world perishes for lack of knowledge
knowledge is superior to faith though churches want to establish
people who believe but the bible says worship god with understanding come now let us reason together
it doesn't says come let us have faith together in our infancy we accepted everything in our old age
we question everything so here you are as a young man with lots of questions theological questions
biblical questions authority of the bible the writing about the bible the collection of the
books the difference between the bible and scripture and all these things miracles that
are happening in the bible jesus went him a bit further to pray by himself the disciples
were sleeping here and all of a sudden there is someone who is telling us this is what he said
but no one was there he said this is the the words of jesus in red in your bibles but who was there
to be recording this prayer because the bible says he was by himself so we must actually believe that
he prayed by himself but john was inspired to be given what jesus was praying by himself that's why
the letters are in red same with matthew same with luke and same with john you you collect
all these questions and by the way i went to a very beautiful school andrews university
send us professors down to solution campus who were thorough and and i think the preparation
was quite fast so we were not gagged in terms of thinking even some other guys the other day they
were busy laughing about this whole concept of 28 fundamental beliefs i was in the part of the jatta
committee the general of adventist theology which formulated the 28th fundamental beliefs 28 or 27
then there were 27. but i was there yes so it's not like i'm coming around with wet behind my ears
trying to take chances but then you have all these questions that keep on piling up and in class and
for the sake of progress you're told don't worry young man some of these things you'll find them
as you are moving into the journey then of course there's a beautiful answer because it pushes your
attention away from the focus area you have all these other things to be worrying about homiletics
hermeneutics how to preach nicely how to position out your right your knots how to do exegesis and
i you know all these things and you get excited in into the into the mechanics of pastoral homily
and boom you graduate and you start working and then the young people start walking up to you ask
some of them even asking the very same questions that you must be that you should be having answers
to which were not answered when you are there and now in old age when i begin to ask those questions
people take the same mud and throw it on my face and say you cannot tell us that after 33 years
you're still asking these questions now it's your turn to be giving us these answers and i say to
them it's not about finding answers it's about us engaging meaningfully on a conversation where for
the longest of time we have not been prepared or interested in having those conversations
uncomfortable as they are sola scriptura sola scriptura but you know salah scriptura you're
only dealing with 66 books the ethiopian bible is 18. what is which bible here is my motivation for
africa africa went to the shop and bought a packet of apples half the first one the pole was rotten
throw it away worms in the womb pick up another one again half
second bite two the worms are still there pool spit on the ground the intelligent friend
standing in the room then looks at this one who has thrown away two apples says hey i'm fruit
don't do that switch off the lights let's eat the apples now that one man is intelligent
because you don't the only problem we have here is the abundance of light
that what is showing us the worms so if we can switch off the light
we can eat there the apples and even the worms become part of the protein
now how do we as africans think that by switching off the light of knowledge and information
continuing continuous eating of these rotten eggs will make their own healthy in my own thing guys
we may as well just switch on the lights while we're eating when we notice what is rotten
i think that's what we don't want we don't want to switch on the lights
but would that be your message that's my message for africa keep the lights on while you are eating
what you don't understand and knowledge knowledge is expensive yes but if you think
knowledge is expensive try ignorance you may find that it is equally more expensive
the african people the duties on us in this age of information ignorance is a choice i thank you