'Stop engaging in traditional marriage; it's barbaric' - Pastor slams Christians

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  • Truth Table 2 weeks ago

    And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (1 John 5:11) ,, .
    ,,,,, ..

  • AWAL 2 weeks ago

    Please is not a testimony god doesnt care weather u marry or not seek knowledge my people

  • AKABENEZER 2 weeks ago

    How about so-called pastors who sleep with people's wives, women and under age children of the church in the name of religion. WHICH IS MORE SERIOUS?

  • God will elevate Nigeria 2 weeks ago

    Illiterate people paa, so it’s your fetish priests that doesn’t sleep with your wives? Hehehe such gullibility on Ghanaweb!

  • AKABENEZER 2 weeks ago

    Kwasia, imoral behavior is wrong whether its from a pastor or a fetish priest. I was adressing him directly. Idiots like you defraud your country to bankrupcy, and run to other people's country for the purpose of committing c ...
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  • Blue Pen 2 weeks ago

    @Akabenezer. You set your on wrong question and answer them. No one has ever said it is okay for any pastor (genuine or fake) to engage in fornication or adultery. In some properly administered churches, any pastor caught in ...
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  • The Spear 1 week ago

    Don't mind the fool, traditional marriages forever! The next step is marriage in the courts.
    You can even avoid Church marriage.

  • God will elevate Nigeria 2 weeks ago

    My Sense is Jesus and yours is the latter so Goodluck on our journeys.

  • Williams 2 weeks ago

    Did Christ perform his first miracle at a marriage ceremony in Canaan Jesus observed every tradition of the jews

  • KOFI 2 weeks ago

    NOT SURE THIS PASTOR READS THE BIBLE OR HAS FOLLOWED THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST.

  • God will elevate Nigeria 2 weeks ago

    Who is lying to you? Jesus paid tax and advised one to pay tax, so how does that mean he served any traditional nonsense? How can the creator serve items or things that came from creation? A lot of you need help because you h ...
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  • Saintt 2 weeks ago

    he even turned water into wine there when he realized their tradition was to serve wine and not some fanta or let me say orange juice by then. the pastor is just a confused hypocritical creature.

  • Blade 2 weeks ago

    Proud and lucky to be a Muslim

  • Great one 2 weeks ago

    You are lost,any African who is Mohamedan is lost, so because of toto, you are following a scammer who married 13 wives, I hear that jihadists are promised 72 hoors in paradise

    Everything about Mohamed is toto, sad that A ...
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  • J.Drey 2 weeks ago

    Foooooooool

  • God will elevate Nigeria 2 weeks ago

    You call him a fool for saying the truth about dedications to Satan religions. Continue Saa!

  • Cuss 2 weeks ago

    Inept slave.Komot 4 dere

  • Koo Prempeh 2 weeks ago

    Gh

  • God will elevate Nigeria 2 weeks ago

    Chale I love this slavery that has made me a solid foundation and king over the gods of darkness. Because he that is in me is greater than the ones in the world.

  • TJ 2 weeks ago

    what truth is in what he said? Because he is a pastor? No. that is his opinion and we all have opinions. Opinions are not truths

  • Koo Prempeh 2 weeks ago

    You are fool yourself for aiding this foolish man to say our culture is barbaric. Idiots

  • AWAL 2 weeks ago

    Oh challey u see how dis jusus and mohammed company has done to us.

  • Akwasi Prempeh Bonsu 2 weeks ago

    Koo,
    You are truly Prempeh

  • Shithole 2 weeks ago

    What truth...another f'xxxxxxxui

  • Saintt 2 weeks ago

    your brainwash level no dey this earth. wake up . Christianity is not bad but you dont practice it in stupidity, attach common sense small. Jesus' time they wore sacks, according to the bible, why do you wear suits or the kin ...
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  • Bolasky 2 weeks ago

    In fact am really measured in my words but some of these pastors are the cost of our backwardness.

  • kakabo 2 weeks ago

    Don't be measured. These Bible-hugging pastors and the so-called Charismatic churches are the cause of our backwardness. Before Christianity came to Africa, didn't we have marriages? Were those marriages not longer-lasting, a ...
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  • Blue Pen 2 weeks ago

    Massa, be truthful and honest with yourself and find out the true cause of your backwardness. For instance, is the Church responsible for the practice of female genital mutilation in some African societies or for your village ...
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  • Francis 2 weeks ago

    Hmm ,I'm really very shocked that an African preacher has this to say about how our mothers got married,all in the name of religion,yet he will get people attending his church and paying offering
    I'm very very sad,no wonder ...
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  • Hi 2 weeks ago

    This is why im thinking now some of our so called pastor r gradually turning Christianity into mockery... even our lord jesus was born into a family

  • Gameli Noviwo 2 weeks ago

    If you call someone a fool, you are twice that fool. These charlatans are becoming a national security threat. I solemnly appeal to the government and the appropriate authorities to classify these fake prophets and their chur ...
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  • joebowy 2 weeks ago

    The communion wine and the wafer you use in the church are produced by Indians who are Hindus, but you are ok to use them. Do you know who make the instruments (drums, organs, guitar etc.) that you use in your church?
    Please ...
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  • Paul was an African 2 weeks ago

    If you read to understand the bible, you will know that Paul was a black African from Niger.

  • Great one 2 weeks ago

    This one is a clown pastor, nobody should be upset with him,today Africans do traditional,court and then church,truth is that the one called traditional should be enough as long as it is registered but we have allowed desecra ...
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  • Konkonsa 2 weeks ago

    Absolutely

  • Pelicles 2 weeks ago

    If you are a fool, obey or listen to what this foolish preacher is saying. There was marriage before Christianity, and God did not spit on those marriages. Gyimii saa kwa.

  • akos 2 weeks ago

    mental health problems people calling themselves pastors.

  • jaye mends 2 weeks ago

    marriage is between two families, and not a church ceremony. you marriage in a church without the consent of the family is no marriage. but marriage in a family without the church is approved by GOD. please, read the bible we ...
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  • JD 2 weeks ago

    Just look at this stupid idiot. You think white wedding is from God...

  • Kanawu 2 weeks ago

    Traditional marriage was here before the church.
    I will not do a church wedding. Only traditional marriage.
    Abusua na eware!

  • Justice 2 weeks ago

    What is barbaric about traditional marriage? If you prefer court or church marriage, go for it and stop speaking against traditional marriage. Those who want traditional marriage will equally go for it.

  • Kofi 2 weeks ago

    Slave mentality! Such nincompoops are the main problems confronting Africa. We shall continue to resist trojan horses like you. Inferiority complex at its highest.

  • He is a Trokosi 2 weeks ago

    You must know he is a Trokosi with their inferiority complex

  • lkdf 2 weeks ago

    nonsense

  • kk 2 weeks ago

    that's his own ignoramus opinion. stop covering your nonsense with 'in the spirit', 'in the spirit' which spirit? there is a spirit of stupidity too.

    are you more Christian than the pope? and yet they have retained their t ...
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  • Jah Alone 2 weeks ago

    Jaye Mends, I share your sentiments.Marriage without both families is nothing .
    No church in the world has total control of a member getting married,unless the two families accept and give their blessings.
    Aside this,nothi ...
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  • KWABENA KASAPREKO. 2 weeks ago

    YOU ARE VERY, VERY BARBARIC !!! ARE YOU THAT STUPID ??? YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO SHOULD BE CLEANINIG THE WHITE MAN'S KITCHEN AND BATHROOMS BY NOW. IT IS BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE YOU, THAT IS WHY GHANA, AND FOR THAT MATTER, AFRICA IS ...
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  • An Ignorant Pastor is Misleading People. 2 weeks ago

    What is Christian marriage Ignorant Pastor?. Did your father have Christian marriage to give birth to you?

  • Ben 2 weeks ago

    I’m sure he’s talking about his Ewe traditional marriage.

  • Commander 2 weeks ago

    The church has no business taking control of the institution of marriage or placing itself above the two families involved.
    Marriage is fundamentally a covenant between two people and, within our cultural setting, an agreeme ...
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  • Max 2 weeks ago

    This is utterly nonsense.

  • Commander 2 weeks ago

    The church has no business taking control of the institution of marriage or placing itself above the two families involved.
    Marriage is fundamentally a covenant between two people and, within our cultural setting, an agreeme ...
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  • NMG 2 weeks ago

    pastor ENOO BE KOLOOOMIIII WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • Straight forward 2 weeks ago

    419 pastor, you want to chop offering always,you don't have control on someone's daughter

  • Akwasi Donkor 2 weeks ago

    Stupid, human being. This so called man of God is mad. How can some people follow this man? He's going to destroy some gullible people. Wooow I'm even shock to read that. Traditional marriage is the real marriage. All the res ...
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  • NMG 2 weeks ago

    PASTOR LIKE YOU DEY INFRONT OF MY FACE THE WAY I GO GIVE YOU SOME SLAPS KWAASIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA CON MAN FAKE MAN AZAAAAAA MAN YOU PASTORS ALL YOUR TIME WILL COME SOON

  • Kwaku 2 weeks ago

    Another black monkey with a colonised mind

  • TJ 2 weeks ago

    The key idea in tradition, is that people keep doing it over a long time and pass it on to others—not that it is connected to a religion. For example, Cultural: our traditional clothing, music, food, dances, or greetings ar ...
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  • Nii 2 weeks ago

    This is a slave

  • AWAL 2 weeks ago

    His opinion is too young to change the world.

  • Koa 2 weeks ago

    This one and many more who are the agents of the western world is telling us to do away with our culture and traditions. Anyone who forgoes his/her cultural and traditions has no identity. I want this pastor to visit Cape coa ...
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  • Ablorde 2 weeks ago

    Yakanu

    The tithe is not enough. They now want bride price . Azure, Abolokpaku

  • Shithole 2 weeks ago

    Gyimii saaa saaa kwa

  • Asantehene ba 2 weeks ago

    This people calling themselves pastors...pastor my foot.

  • Ato 2 weeks ago

    Hooo Mr pastor are you of yourself

  • Saintt 2 weeks ago

    is he married ? if yes , whose daughter ? is the wife a Ghanaian?- that is if he's married ?

  • God will elevate Nigeria 2 weeks ago

    Yes he is married via Church and Court registration. Must there be so called traditional method applied? All you children of darkness why attack the man God if you are correct people? The pastor said the truth and didn’t in ...
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  • Atom 2 weeks ago

    He is a fool. Jesus didn't marry so I thought your advice would be "don't marry because your personal saviour didn't " but rather misleading the congregation. Did Christians even understand the word tradition?

  • Albert 2 weeks ago

    That is absolute nonsense. A whitewashed person masquerading as a man of God. Why would you say some stupid, idiotic shit like that.

  • Patrick 2 weeks ago

    Is this man suggesting that Jesus performed his first miracle in a church? Confused people

  • curtis maison 2 weeks ago

    The African oh when african!!!!!
    The african has taken on all traditions and cultures not their and affectionately display it publicly without shame.
    The african has refute all of theirs and surrender the life living and be ...
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  • DOVI 2 weeks ago

    Slave mentality, sickening

  • May 2 weeks ago

    A Very Christian Pastor: Full of ignorance and empty of what the Bible teaches. He thinks Western is civilized and Traditional marriage is African so barbaric. For lack of knowledge my people perish ,in ignorance follow Pagan ...
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  • Yaw Manu 2 weeks ago

    Brainwashed pastors infecting their congregations with such teachings. The God of all nations doesn't expect Christians to follow western customs. He expects localized Christianity.

  • K K BOATENG, TORONTO 2 weeks ago

    His name is JOHN WESLEY AMENUKU AGBLE.Somebody should advise that he changes his traditional NAME.......

  • Kuntu Blankson 2 weeks ago

    Shut up, if you have nothing more to preach from the bible.
    Many people have survived without religion, continually we will survive without it.
    I will require my parents blessings in marriage not OSOFO, to hell with a chur ...
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  • Kuntu Blankson 2 weeks ago

    Shut up, if you have nothing more to preach from the bible.
    Many people have survived without religion, continually we will survive without it.
    I will require my parents blessings in marriage not OSOFO, to hell with a chur ...
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  • kulbogo 2 weeks ago

    stupid pastor, we are people with tradition and culture. so this idiot is advising us to follow the western lifestyle and leave ours, this are the people we called pastor who even have large congregations, seriously Ghana is ...
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  • Obrakatu 2 weeks ago

    This so called pastor is possessed by the spirit of inferiority complex so he is talking nonsense.

  • Chai!!! 2 weeks ago

    Has Jesus prescribed the way Christians should marry???
    God respects the traditions of humans.

  • Johnny B. Good 2 weeks ago

    Stupid pastor and nonsensical preaching.

  • What a brain dead idiot 2 weeks ago

    He would pick the whiteman's culture instead of his own. Mindless

  • Asemsebe 2 weeks ago

    Oh pastor, are we Africans or Americans.? Are the couple not coming from a family and a home? Oooh .... daaaabi

  • The man is sick. 2 weeks ago

    I have listened to him. He is full of himself and looks naturally stup.i.d.
    I wonder why people will get up in the morning, take a bath and follow this thing.
    He even said giving money to a pastor is more important than giv ...
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  • Kofi Bonsu 2 weeks ago

    This pastor is evil. God does not discriminate on what marriage you choose as long as you trust and believe in him.

  • Mat 2 weeks ago

    Watching the video, the pastor did not condemn traditional marriage as a whole. Ghanaweb, your choice of title is what is causing all this brouhaha. Woe unto the writer who forwarded this write-up… (Luke 17:1)

  • FACTS ARE SACRED 2 weeks ago

    Our Jesus Christ is a creation of man, and the Church was a creation of Man.
    Emperor Constantine, a pagan, was the one who called for the establishment of the church.....to further his POLITICAL AGENDA.
    JEWS KNOW this, that ...
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  • BornAgainAfrican 2 weeks ago

    This is the most useless man on the planet. Equally useless people will listen to him

  • NANA AWAASU 2 weeks ago

    It seems some people become educated by mistake or I should blame religion. STOP eating any African food is barbaric tui

  • Citizen V 2 weeks ago

    Very illiterate pastor. Brainwashed by foreign religion, which is fetching him worldy wealth.

  • God will elevate Nigeria 2 weeks ago

    You are rather the big illiterate here. How is Christianity Foreign religion? Christianity started in Middle Eastle and in Africa Egypt was the Maiden. So who is the brainwashed person here because as I know we are all Africa ...
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  • Nana 2 weeks ago

    This so called pastor lack knowledge about Biblical marriage and God command concerning dowry, Bible said if a man found a lady he should go the father and paid her dowry and take her as wife

  • CHURCH MARRIAGES ARE UNBIBLICAL -Kwabs ,London 2 weeks ago

    Then Christians shouldn't marry because Jesus didn't marry.
    Where in the New Testament did Jesus and the apostles instruct Christians to marry in churches.Did God instruct marriages to be done in churches?

  • Yalla 2 weeks ago

    Person wey no get sense bia dey use the word of God to fool. Before Christianity, there was marriage ceremony which was done in traditional way. We should ditch traditional marriage and bring it to the church like say ibe you ...
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  • Owia 2 weeks ago

    European born in Ghana… there are a lot of grown fools in who are mentally deranged calling themselves European preachers

  • Joe 2 weeks ago

    Are all Ebusuapanins non- Christians? Pastor i think you're caught in a time warp. You call it traditional marriage others see it as the merging of two families.

  • PAA RASTA 2 weeks ago

    EVERYBODY DISRESPECT AFRICANS. I BET THIS IDIOT WOULDNT SAY THAT ABOUT MUSLIMS OR THEIR WAY OF MARRIAGE.

  • akos 2 weeks ago

    The pastor should leave Ghana and go and stay in Israel because Ghana was established with tradition before Christianity came in 1800.

  • Wendy 2 weeks ago

    This man is stupid. Who conceived him at all?

  • Osama 2 weeks ago

    I pity his church members!

  • Francois 2 weeks ago

    You, you are not serious,go and learn

  • Tony 1 week ago

    Just listen to a fool who calls himself pastor, btw who named our marriage ceremony “traditional”? They should understand that the child in the first place was born into a family and not the church. That so called white w ...
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  • Sumaa 1 week ago

    Is it the content/items on the list collected from the "abusuapenyi" that you're against or the fact that the man's family seeks the approval and the consent of the lady's family and the family head happens to mention the ite ...
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  • Adu Amankwaa 1 week ago

    This Pastor has forgotten that you belong to a family too. The mistakes made by churches are that they think they can take away the family unit and replace them by church traditions. No, that's wrong. This pastor is confusing ...
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  • Is this man a normal person 1 week ago

    Didn't Jesus attend a marriage ceremony? Where was it celebrated?? In a synagogue?
    How did Abraham chose a woman for isaac?
    I wonder which people go to his church

  • Emmanuel 1 week ago

    He is so right , where would he get his collection when the marriage happens traditional ways ?

  • Firing Squad 1 week ago

    All these people with dubious character calls themselves Pastors, but has also forgotten that we have our culture and traditions intact before Christianity came into existence, so Pastor, if you want us to do away with Tradit ...
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  • Samuel 1 week ago

    My simple question for the Pastor is:Where's the Child Named before taking to Church?

  • Ernest 1 week ago

    Where in the bible is this teaching coming from.