“Acting like God

• Bishop flays Minnis from pulpit
• Accuses MPs of being spineless.” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “In a fiery sermon that was widely circulated on social media yesterday, Mount Tabor Church Bishop Neil Ellis railed against Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis and his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, accused him and their members of his Cabinet of having a god complex and slammed members of Parliament as a ‘spineless’ group of men and women who refuse to demand accountability from Minnis.

Linking his assessment of the prime minister’s performance to scripture, Ellis said, ‘You’ll see in text that while feeling the success and the weight of his power, and caught up in an exaggerated sense of his own self-importance, Nebuchadnezzar, the head of Babylon, developed what Dr. Tony Evans calls a theo ego; theo means God.  Ego is mindset.”

In a sermon that seemed more political than about spreading the word of God, Bishop Neil Ellis then went on to say; “Don’t just come, ‘I want an extensions for another month ‘, hook, lock and sinker, all of your men and women vote for it.  How dare you all.”  Here the good Bishop seems to suggest that the lockdowns are at the fancy of the prime minister/ [Competent Authority] and are without reason or merit but even those less “intelligent” than the Bishop knew that with the rising numbers of COVID-19 numbers in the country that a lock-down may have been coming to make an attempt to mitigate the spread of this pandemic.  So, for the good Bishop to suggest otherwise either is a lie from the pulpit to evoke emotion of rage from his congregation or is plain ignorance on his behalf.

You would have thought that the good Bishop would have stopped there but then he goes on; “Ellis said, ‘You’re insulting our intellect and parading on our democracy and sidelining our right of movement and humiliating our business owners and entrepreneurs.  Your one-man stand is killing our economy and it sure does not help when the one in the chair does not believe in God.”  At this point it just gets plain “ugly” because the good Bishop has already sidelined the true reason for the extension and exactly how does a man of God get up in the pulpit and condemn someone of not believing in God; how does he know this man’s heart?  I have seen some supporters of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) try to walk back this disgraceful and irresponsible comment by attempting to say that the good Bishop actually meant another person but the person whose name they call is in no “chair” to be considered a “one-man stand”.

The good Bishop even at one point went on to label the prime minister as a “dictator’, let us bear in mind this is the very same man that once advised his congregation to either vote PLP or leave.  As the good Bishop make this very strong recommendation is the good Bishop also suggesting that our Lord God only sees the souls of PLP supporters worthy of salvation or is the Bishop that political that he believes that persons that do not support the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) are not worthy of his sanctuary and his words of salvation?

These remarks were very “ugly” and God does not like ugly and the good Bishop should be very mindful of this fact.  I am sure that at some point that the good Bishop will come out and try to walk these comments back but they are already out there.  Yes good Bishop your true heart is on display for all to see.

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