Religion, according to Mr. Ssenyonga only locks up people into a dimension of hopelessness and “does not represent the true God.”
He made these remarks Thursday during an interview with one local television station that hosted five including Pr Joseph Kabuleta from Watchman Ministries, Pastor Rogers Atwebembeire, Director of The Africa Center for Apologetics Research, Dr Julius Twongyeirwe from Uganda Evangelical missionary agency and Andrew Karamaji, a lawyer.
Mr. Ssenyonga used this platform to challenge the panel, asserting that people get offended when you find a man who comes up and “lives the scriptures.”
“Religion, I believe would be a dogmatic belief in a supernatural being. It means going through certain institutions and schools and as such, would gain a certain authority not by virtue of experience, however spirituality, as opposed to religion, is one that gives you a transcendental supernatural experience and it is completely departed from what you would call feelings.” Ssenyonga said.
“If you choose to believe in your God, put him on a line – demonstrate him. Many of them have God in theory, they cannot demonstrate this God they believe.” He stated.
Mr. Ssenyonga urged that Christians demonstrate God through scriptural accuracy and that one cannot speak about scripture only from a spiritual perspective without revelation.
“I do not subscribe to some dead Jesus who lived and was poor. Jesus is the glorified son of the Lord. You can not purport to get power from a man who does not have it. One of the things Jesus would give you; power, authority, glory virtue, honor – all those would come and those are the things Paul was persuaded follow salvation – Salvation was not meant to subscribe us to some sort of poverty, that is the nonsense of religion. The danger with religion is that it wants to keep people with some sort of secular humility. True humility is subscription and demonstration of the word of God.” He said.
Theologian, Byamukama Joseph currently enrolled as a Master of Divinity student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s Hamilton Campus, in Massachusetts, U.S.A has in response to Ssenyonga’s statement on how Christians demonstrate God said it’s a grave error to think that Christianity is about man demonstrating God through miracles.
“It is biblically accurate to say that God revealed Himself to us, through His Son. And therefore, the demonstration of God among us is through the humanity of God, not the deity of man. It is through God becoming man, not man becoming ‘a god.'” Byamukama says.
“God the Father demonstrated Himself to us through His Son’s daily obedience to Him, and daily reliance on Him for His daily bread, not in plenty of material possessions. And He has never written a note to us about His change of mind.” He adds.
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