Pastor Enoch Adeboye made the correction during a recent church programme.
The General Overseer of the The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has tendered an apology for lying that anybody who doesn't pay tithe will not make heaven.
The statement had generated controversy some years ago when he made it. Nigerians on social media didn't take kindly to it and tackled the pastor and church.
Apologizing during a recent church programme, he said:
"I’m apologizing for saying,'If you don’t pay tithe, you won’t make it to heaven.' I’m sorry, that’s wrong, and it’s not in the Bible. What the Bible says is, 'Follow peace with all men, and holiness,without which no man shall see God."
See comments and video below:
@ChikalanwaKevin: Everyone is shouting humility but no one bothers to ask how many souls may have been lost because of such false teachings. Lord have mercy, these are indeed the end times.
@_Obakoso: The moment he said you can be right and wrong at the same time, I knew I wasn't apologetic, and that shit he said about light makes no sense at all.
@OmahNaija: In all of this, at the end of the day, they'll all return and agree with Dr. Abel Damina. So much false doctrines have been preached by christian leaders just to collect money from members, and a lot of pastors still scam members today.
@xt0pher007: After years of collecting tithe, why he nor address am since…
Christianity Dey bring this country down, but you guys are too blind to see it
@iAmThree_siXty: It’s a good thing you are apologizing because it’s this tithe issue that pastors use to manipulate gullible people .
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