ABEL DAMINA’S ASSAULT ON THE UNIQUENESS OF CHRIST

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By Akin Ojumu

Recently, Abel Damina was the guest speaker at the L.O.G.I.C. religious business enterprise in Lekki, Lagos. 

What sort of religious organization calls itself L.O.G.I.C, anyways?

As is often the case, Damina captivated the spiritually undiscerning crowd with theatrical gestures, rhetorical flourishes, and an air of profundity. He unleashed his torrent of heretical teachings upon a biblically uninformed audience.

Yet beneath the dramatic presentation was the same aberrant theology for which he has become notorious.

Taking his cue from the ancient deceiver, Lucifer, Abel Damina sought to diminish the uniqueness of Jesus Christ and the incomparable wonder of His incarnation. According to Damina, there is apparently nothing particularly extraordinary about the eternal Word becoming flesh, entering His creation, and dwelling among humanity.

With characteristic confidence and theatrical bravado, he declared:

“It’s not only Jesus that the Word became flesh in!”

The statement is not merely careless. It is a direct assault on the uniqueness of Christ and a distortion of the apostolic testimony concerning the incarnation.

Scripture does not present the incarnation as a common experience shared by Jesus and ordinary believers. It identifies Jesus Christ alone as the eternal Word who was with God, who was God, and who became flesh and dwelt among us.

What was the congregation’s response to this denigration of Christ?

They cheered.

They shouted.

They celebrated the statement as though they had just received some profound spiritual revelation. In reality, they were enthusiastically embracing a teaching that undermines one of the foundational truths of the Christian faith.

It is heartbreaking to watch.

I have said it before, and it bears repeating: Abel Damina is preaching another gospel. Scripture’s verdict upon anyone who corrupts the apostolic gospel is neither vague nor negotiable. Those who preach a different gospel are damned.

Galatians 1:8–9
“But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.”

Those who continually sit under such teaching must take heed. False doctrine is not harmless entertainment. It is spiritual poison.

Christ is not merely one person among many in whom the Word became flesh. Jesus Christ is the eternal Word made flesh – the unique, only begotten Son of God, full of grace and truth.

To diminish that truth is to diminish Christ Himself.

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