By Toyin Adeniyi
Popular Nigerian preacher and founder of Port Harcourt based 180 Degree Rehabilitation Centre, Rev Christy Bature has identified reasons women who commit adultery face dire consequences as against their male counterparts.
She made this known while speaking to a group of women in a message posted online monitored by Church Times
Bature said she had once wondered at the undue victimisation of women who commit adultery from the accounts in the Old Testament books of the Bible while nothing is done to the men
She said she had also questioned the Old Testament practice that allowed a husband to bring a suspected adulterous wife before a priest and made her go through certain rituals to prove her innocence.
If the women are found guilty they face dire consequences. But the men seem to have a field day committing the same sin.
Bature said after years of not understanding why women are always at the receiving when it comes to adultery, God opened her eyes to some hitherto hidden truth about the issue.
She came to realise that God shows no favoritism toward men either citing scriptures in Proverbs and Job that also condemn adulterous male folks which indicated that men who commit adultery will be reduced to a piece of bread
Bature explained however that the Bible’s emphasis on female sexual purity stemmed from the woman’s role as the “legal doorway through which life comes to the earth.”
She argued that when that “passage is polluted,” it affects future generations.
Drawing from her experience running a faith-based rehabilitation center for individuals battling drug and sex addiction, Bature said many of those struggling with sexual addiction were “children of promiscuous mothers,” whom she said carried “spirits from every man they slept with.”
She then urged Christians to let the scripture and not culture or personal experiences guide their beliefs while also warning men against living immoral lives as the end for them is not always palatable.
About 180 degrees rehabilitation centre
180 Degrees Rehabilitation Centre is based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. It is a non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation.
The centre provides support and services to help people, especially youths and adolescents, overcome drug abuse and improve their lifestyle.
Bature was reportedly motivated to set up the centre due to the negative effects of drug abuse on members of her own family.
The centre, which she opened in January 2015, is noted as one of the first proper drug and addiction rehabilitation centers in the South-South zone of Nigeria.
