Bishop David Olaniyi Oyedepo, a Nigerian preacher, has condemned gay marriages.
At a recent conference, Oyedepo, the senior pastor of Living Faith Church, told clergymen that God created men and women for a specific purpose: to replenish the earth.
He also frowned on gay marriages, adding that anyone who conducts a same-sex marriage in his church will not be admitted to heaven. No government policy, he claims, can override his religious convictions.
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He said:
“Don’t say I believe the whole bible. Specifically, what are the fundamental things you believe? Do you believe in the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ? Do you believe in the second coming? Do you believe in the rapture? Do you believe in marriage between man and woman? not between female and female, man and man?
Till Jesus comes, anyone who dares to marry man and man in this church will not make heaven. No policy of any government under heaven can rule over my faith. What I believe I believe. It is not your policy that brought me to what I believe.
People fall too cheaply into things. We are defenders of the gospel. Male and female he created he them. The reason is to replenish the earth.”