Controversy as Nigerian pastor faults popular biblical teachings, says Adam and Eve never ate apple in Garden of Eden   

Popular Lagos Pastor, Sign Fireman has faulted many popular Bible teachings among Christians, which have never been contested for ages.

He said that you don’t know the truth by how popular teaching is, but by how scriptural it is. He cited the popular claim that Adam and Eve ate apples in the Garden of Eden as one of such teachings that is wrong and not in the Bible.

“We were all taught from childhood that Adam and Eve ate an apple in the Garden of Eden. In the scripture, there is no mention of Adam and Eve eating apples. It is not in the Bible. Genesis 3: 1-3 tells Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden.

“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat from any tree in the garden?

“The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.

“You can see that the Bible never tells us of apple and eating of apple does not make you know things,” he noted.

Fireman who spoke at a book chat in Lagos said as controversial as the contents of his new 440-page book The Final Move of God might be, he stands by his revelations about the trinity order.

He stated that for hundreds of years, trinity order remains very controversial and that unfortunately, many teachings of this generation do not have scriptural backings. He said that the teachings on the trinity (God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost), are teachings that came out of the arguments that happened for centuries. He revealed that God the father is not Omnipresent as wrongly taught by Christians for ages.

“It has been taught for ages that the three persons in one God are Omni-present. If the three have the same attributes, they don’t need to come together. One popular verse used to teach that God the father is Omnipresent is Psalm 139: 7. ‘Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?’

“But, the focus here is on the Holy Spirit and not the father. So, this scripture shows us that the member of the trinity who is Omnipresent is Holy Ghost and not God the father or son. Again, when Jesus was talking to his disciples, he said pray like this: ‘Our father who at in heaven…’ So, Jesus stated where the father is. God the Father cannot live everywhere, not even in our hearts. The Holy Ghost can be in everywhere. Genesis 11, 5 says ‘And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.” If God is everywhere, he does not need to come down, after all, he is down too,” he added. Again, God the father said heaven is my throne while the earth belongs to the trinity.

According to him, the Holy Ghost has a parent personality as presented in 1Corinthians 12; 11, which says ‘But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.’ “Out of the parent personality, the Holy Ghost can generate as many of himself as in needed to every part of the universe,” he added.

Another example he described as unscriptural is that three wise men visited Jesus Christ to present him a gift. This, he said, is not in the Bible citing Mathew 2: 1-7 which says: “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him…” He stressed that the Bible never mentioned three and the wise men could have been more or less.