WHEN SPIRITUAL SCIENCE FICTION MASQUERADES AS THEOLOGY

By Akin Ojumu

Pretentious nonsense. 

That’s exactly what Toluwalogo Agboola is teaching in this video clip.

And that is about the most charitable description I can give to this endless parade of grandiose spiritual speculation masquerading as deep Christian theology.

Toluwalogo Agboola and his spiritual mentor, Arome Osayi, have established their own Christian Mysticism Factory—an assembly line where speculation goes in at one end and “revelation” comes out at the other.

No biblical text required. No careful exegesis necessary. No apostolic precedent needed. Just imagination, confidence, mystical vocabulary, and preferably a sufficiently serious facial expression.

Welcome to the factory. Here, theological smoke machines run twenty-four hours a day.

The machinery manufactures spiritual dimensions, supernatural protocols, invisible hierarchies, mysterious transactions, heavenly technologies, angelic operations, spiritual frequencies, metaphysical mechanisms, and elaborate theories about how the unseen world supposedly functions.

And whenever anybody asks the rather inconvenient question:

“Where exactly is this taught in Scripture?” 

Another truckload of mystical jargon is dispatched from the warehouse.

The result is not biblical Christianity. It is spiritual science fiction masquerading as theology. It is Marvel Studios with Bible verses. It is Doctor Strange with an apostolic title. It is metaphysical fan fiction narrated from a pulpit.

And because the terminology sounds mysterious enough, biblical illiterates are expected to sit there nodding solemnly as though they have just received classified intelligence from the third heaven.

Apparently, the more incomprehensible the teaching, the deeper the revelation. The more speculative the claim, the greater the anointing. The less Scripture you can find for it, the more “mystery” you have supposedly encountered.

What a convenient theological business model.

Christianity has somehow been transformed from “It is written” into “I entered a realm.” From “Thus says the Lord” into “Let me explain what happens in the spirit.” From apostolic doctrine into celestial engineering. From biblical revelation into supernatural TED Talks. And from the careful exposition of Scripture into a guided tour through somebody’s religious imagination.

Apostle Paul—the real Apostle—had something to say about this kind of intellectual and spiritual pretension:

2 Corinthians 10:4–5

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ…”

Notice the word:

SPECULATIONS.

Paul did not instruct Christians to collect them. He did not tell believers to admire them. He did not establish a School of Advanced Mystical Speculation where ambitious young apostles and prophets could earn doctorates in Invisible Realm Technology.

He said speculations were to be destroyed.

Yet large sections of contemporary Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity seem determined to industrialize precisely what Paul commanded Christians to demolish. We now have an entire religious economy built upon manufacturing “deep things” God apparently forgot to put in the Bible.

Every week somebody discovers another spiritual law. Another realm. Another dimension. Another protocol. Another angelic department. Another heavenly bureaucracy. Another invisible transaction. Another secret governing principle of the universe.

At this rate, the next generation will need flowcharts, engineering diagrams, and a degree in metaphysical systems analysis simply to understand what these apostles claim happens when somebody prays.

But here is the embarrassing problem:

The Apostles who actually wrote the New Testament did not teach Christianity this way. 

Paul did not spend his letter to the Romans explaining portals. Peter did not devote his epistles to spiritual frequencies. John did not reveal twelve classifications of angelic energy. James did not explain how to manipulate atmospheric spiritual laws. The writer of Hebrews somehow managed to exalt the supremacy of Christ without giving us a schematic diagram of invisible dimensions.

Strange, isn’t it?

The men who actually saw the risen Christ apparently lacked access to the sophisticated supernatural technologies being unveiled from pulpits today.

Perhaps somebody should have invited Paul to one of these conferences so he could finally learn how the spirit realm really works.

Apparently, being transported to the third heaven was insufficient preparation. The modern mystics have advanced beyond him.

This is where the satire becomes tragedy.

Because underneath all the impressive terminology are ordinary Christians who have been conditioned to mistake complexity for profundity, speculation for revelation, confidence for authority, and mystical storytelling for biblical doctrine.

They hear something they cannot understand and assume the problem must be their spiritual immaturity.

Perhaps they are “not deep enough.” Perhaps they have not entered the right dimension. Perhaps they lack sufficient revelation.

No.

Sometimes you cannot understand a teaching because the teaching is nonsense. Sometimes the emperor really is naked. Sometimes the “deep revelation” is simply a preacher stacking undefined spiritual terminology on top of unsupported assumptions until nobody remembers what question was originally being answered.

Biblical Christianity is not a contest to determine who can produce the most elaborate description of an invisible world nobody else can verify.

God has spoken in Scripture.

The Christian’s responsibility is not to supplement His revelation with imaginative cosmology but to understand, believe, obey, proclaim, and defend what He has revealed.

Every prophecy must bow before Scripture. Every apostle must bow before Scripture. Every supernatural experience must bow before Scripture. Every dream must bow before Scripture. Every revelation must bow before Scripture. Every mystical theory must bow before Scripture. Every supposed journey into another realm must bow before Scripture.

And every impressive-sounding spiritual claim must be dragged out of the Christian Mysticism Factory, placed beneath the bright light of God’s Word, and subjected to one embarrassingly simple question:

WHERE IS IT WRITTEN?

If it cannot survive that question, Christians have no obligation to pretend that it is deep.

Shut down the smoke machine. Turn off the mystical conveyor belt. Close the celestial research department.

We do not need spiritual science fiction. We need sound doctrine. We do not need another tour of somebody's invisible universe. We need the Word of God.

And we certainly do not need men manufacturing mysteries God never revealed and then selling their religious imagination to biblically malnourished Christians as apostolic revelation.

My heart breaks for those who consume the spiritual poison.

The Church desperately needs to rediscover the difference between revelation and imagination, doctrine and speculation, biblical mystery and manufactured mysticism.

Because Christianity already possesses its authoritative revelation. It is called Scripture. Everything else must take its place in line and submit to it.