Christians and non Christians alike were left in shock Monday morning when photos surfaced on social media of hundreds of bibles pilled up and set ablaze at Makerere Kikoni, Kawempe Division.
Moments later, sources said that acclaimed Pastor Aloysius Bugingo of House of Prayer ministries had ordered his congregation to burn bibles which have the word “Holy Ghost” in their text.
UG Christian News was notified that Pastor Bugingo assembled most of these bibles during the Church’s Easter Service on Sunday, 16th April 2017.
Several notable Pastors, Christian figures and organisations have come out to condemn this act as this website reports.
“There are so many campaigns we are running concurrently, all because we are concentrated on spiritual issues…coming in, I found a brother who used his money to buy 10 bibles, King James Version. This bible was falsely translated, however the original ones still exist. When he gave them to me, I checked to see if they bore the word “Holy Spirit”. This is something I’m able to notice by the Grace of God. I quickly opened one to Mathew 17: 21 which talks about the fasting and prayer we are engaged in. The texts were clear.” Bujingo told congregants, who totaled up to over 6000 on Sunday. “I further searched for where they talk about the “Holy Spirit”. Always pay keen attention to Luke 4:1, which talks about Jesus being filled with the “Holy Spirit” that led him into the wilderness. That is one of the scriptures where the worshipers of the devil who want people to worship “Ghosts” change Holy Spirit to Holy Ghost.”
Bujingo, who is the proprietor of media brands 107.0 Salt FM and Salt TV, says in God’s set up, there is no “Ghost.”
“We thank God for the Luganda bibles, they are still authentic. There was one that had come up – trying to confuse people too – they translated the book of Genesis, “Lubereberye ” as “Ntandikwa “. These are two different words. “Genesis” and “the Beginning” are two different words. When you read the book of Genesis, you will find this word; In the beginning. So you cannot use a statement in the story to be the title.” He said.
“Satan is trying to twist the minds of those that think are learnt. No one is supported to add or remove form the bible. In your English bible, it doesn’t have to be “Holy Ghost”, it has to be the “Holy Spirit”. We serve a God who is so far apart from the Kingdom of Satan. There is no word used by Satan, that is used by God.” He said.
“Let those who want to disagree or fight go ahead. We were simply taught the Language. Let us actually appreciate Bible Society of Uganda. Words like “Omuzimu” are used here in Uganda, but the institution did not use this word for the place of “Spirit” when translating the bible to Luganda. They do not use words like “Omuzimu Omutukirizu” in place of “Holy Ghost”. He added.
Bujingo noted that their next project after building the Church, often referred to as “Canaan land”, will be building a printery house that produces verified bibles.
“Our next project for as long as I’m alive – even if I die, what those after me will put in place – will be printing bibles. We are not going to buy a machine that prints Newspapers. But as God lives, we will have a printery house that produces verified bibles . Whatever it will take, we will write to those meant to give us rights, so that we print authentic and verified bibles. Once we take the counterfeit bible from someone, before we burn it, we give them the true bible.” He said.
“Those who started counterfeit bibles, especially those that want to worship misleading spirits – the Nigerians, those in Ghana and UK – they distribute them freely in their churches. Even here in Uganda, they are very cheap. They used “Holy Ghost” with limited mention of the “Holy Spirit”, a word they will soon eliminate completely in the near future.” He added.
In reference to The Good News Bible, the pastor said parents are forcefully told to bring them to school for students as a requirement. He told the believers that such bibles are produced by Homosexuals who omit and wrongly translate scripture.
“They are very counterfeit. They miss countless scriptures. Where we have words like Homosexual, they changes it to prosecution. My appeal goes out to all teachers, this bible has several omitted, and partially-written-scripture; over 200. Come and we sensitize you. Where God destroyed cities for sexual perversity acts like Homosexuality, they only mention prostitution. Those that printed these bibles are Homosexuals. They pretend to be giving out grants and funds. We are going to take it to media and explain what scriptures are missing from this bible.” The Pastor said.
Already contacted by Bible Society of Uganda?
“You will hear that their agents – they call them selves pastors here in Uganda – rising up to fight what we are doing. Even the Bible Society of Uganda might rise against me and say that what I’m saying is false. When you are reading Mathew 17 of the Good News bible, it is from verse 20 to 22. They omit verse 21.They are not ashamed to leave a blank space then verse 22. They then insert verse 21 in the notes.
“Bible Society wanted to call me to explain some of these issues, but I told them it is not necessary, let them print back scriptures where they belong and write them the way they are meant to be.”
Come what may!
“I’m not ready for any meeting with anyone, If I’m doing the wrong thing, I’m ready for hell. God Knows.
He quoted Revelation 22; And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll.
“No sensible generation can publish a bible and write the chapter of Mathew 17, hiding verse 21. These are for burning.
“But when you are strong, I keep some of them because I want to reveal these things to you. But if you are not strong, and are not going to teach anyone about this, simply burn it. Sell some of your belongings and go buy another bible. Evaluate it intensely before you do.
“He also warns against prayers made with mention of the “Holy Ghost”.
About latest edition of dictionaries that describe “Ghost” as a Spirit of God.
“They have come up with new editions of the dictionary that describe “Ghost” as a spirit of God. They knew we would reason from the definition at one time. Wrongfully, they used the word “Spirit” to describe Ghost.” They have not realised that “Ghost” means “Emyoyo gya’baffu” to loosely mean “Soul of the dead.” Ghost represents the spirit of death. It is only the spirit of God that brings life.”
Naive of social media attacks?
“I know it is all over social media. They are saying that I ordered for the burning of the King James Version of the bible. I have not made that order. But “King James” was filtrated. This counterfeit version printed in Korea in 2010 is full of “Holy Ghost. “However, the one printed on 1611 does not mention “Ghost” as the Spirit of God.
“It has been advanced over the years for simplicity of language but the ” Spirit of God” remains the Spirit of God.” Pr Bugingo says.
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