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www.ghanaweb.com: General News of Sunday, 30 October
2005
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=93242

It's wrong to blame all evils on satan - Rev.

Kumasi, Oct. 30, GNA - A renowned Minister of Religion
has described as not only wrong, but also
unacceptable, the tendency for people to always blame
all evil deeds and misfortunes that come their way on
satan or the devil.

Primate S.K. Adofo, Spiritual Head of the Brotherhood
Church, who made the observation, said most of such
evils and misfortunes, are created by people
themselves and not necessarily by the devil as always
alleged.

He said such blames therefore needed to be placed at
the doorsteps of the individuals and not the devil as
often being done, adding, "just because satan is a
spirit and not visible nor tangible, most people feel
comfortable shifting all evil deeds onto it."

Primate Adofo made the statement when he addressed a
Vigil Service held by the Brotherhood Church at
Asuoyeboah, a suburb of kumasi, on Saturday night to
signify the end of the one week celebration of the
church's annual spiritual festival, known as the
Tabbora.

The Tabbora was used to fast and pray intensively for
national stability and security, and was attended by
over 5,000 delegates and observers from Ghana, Togo,
Cote d'Ivoire, Benin and Cameroun. Primate Adofo was
not happy that the devil and witches, most often
suffer the consequencies of evil deeds when in actual
fact the root cause of such a mishap is " the human
being himself".

He said this does not mean that evil does not come
from satan, but only that some of such evil deeds "are
man-made and self-created, and the human beings must
accept the guilt instead of pushing it onto the
satan".

Primate Adofo reminded Christians and leaders of the
nation of the need not just to pray and attend church
and mosques services, but to also back up such prayers
with hard, dedicated and honest work. He made it clear
that it is only through practical demonstration of the
prayers by way of working that such prayers could
receive positive response from GOD.

Source: GNA



Aggo Akyea
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"Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets,
I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them."
WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau – 1854

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