Don't be Foolish, COVID-19 Vaccine is from God, Famous Nigerian Pastor Blasts Colleagues

Don't be Foolish, COVID-19 Vaccine is from God, Famous Nigerian Pastor Blasts Colleagues

- Pastor Ituah Ighodalo of Trinity House has sent a message to Christians and church leaders who think receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is a show of unbelief

- Ighadalo clearly stated that such thinking is nothing short of foolishness

- The top Nigerian cleric admonished fellow citizens to see the jab as God's provision for healing

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The senior pastor of Trinity House, Ituah Ighodalo, has sent a message to some Nigerian Christian clerics who have refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine and are preaching to their congregations to follow suit.

Ighodalo admonished that what such religious leaders should understand is that God has provided a solution and remedy for the deadly pandemic, which is the vaccine, The Punch reports.

Don't be Foolish, COVID-19 Vaccine is from God, Famous Nigerian Pastor Blasts Colleagues
Pastor Ighodalo said those who preach against the COVID-19 vaccine in the name of faith in God are foolish (Photo: Ituah Ighodalo)
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The pastor, therefore, noted that it will be foolishness on the part of anyone who preaches that taking the jab is an act of unbelief in the supreme and miraculous power of the Almighty.

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He stated:

“It is foolishness to keep having faith that God will protect you from an infection he has made provision for vaccines that can provide a high percentage of protection.”

PM News reports that the vibrant pastor warned his colleagues "to stop misinforming and improperly educating people on guesswork, instincts and mere suppositions.”

Ighodalo said he has taken the vaccine after getting a clear direction from God to go ahead with the jab.

Meanwhile, for endorsing the COVID-19 vaccine, a well-known pastor in Nigeria, Chris Oyakhilome, had slammed his colleagues.

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Oyakhilome said it was wrong for pastors to tell their members to go ahead and take a jab.

He disclosed this in a sermon in which he asked his colleagues, "Where is your faith"?

The man of God said:

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“I can’t understand how a minister of the gospel would be waiting for some vaccine to be the solution for the world. Where is your faith? What happened to you?
“We cannot make such recommendations, it is not our calling to make such recommendations. We cannot be used for that. As a minister of the gospel, you should not be used for that..."

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