GOD LOCKED OUT OF HIS OWN CREATION?

How Arome Osayi Gives Man More “Legitimacy” Than His Maker

By Akin Ojumu

With no shortage of confidence—or hubris—Arome Osayi declares in this video clip:

“Man happens to be the only creature that was created in the image of God. Two, man is the only creature that is given legitimacy to operate in the two realms, spiritual realm and physical realm. Because man has a spirit which is calibrated to be able to function and to relate with the spiritual realm. And man has a body of earth that gives him legitimacy and capacity through his senses to interact with this physical realm. Not even God has what it takes…the legitimacy to operate in both realms. Not even God. Because God is spirit. Think about that…Okay, you are not thinking…Only man has that license…Are you there? It’s a powerful being. It’s a powerful being.”

This is so blasphemously erroneous that one scarcely knows where to begin.

According to Arome Osayi’s theology, man—a finite creature fashioned by God—somehow possesses a legitimacy that God Himself does not possess.

Read that again.

The creature supposedly enjoys greater jurisdiction within creation than the Creator.

Man, allegedly possesses a “license” to operate in the physical realm that God lacks. The Almighty, who created matter, space, time, the human body, the earth, and everything within the natural realm, is somehow disqualified from operating in that realm because “God is spirit.”

Apparently, in this theology, God created a realm into which He lacks legitimate access. In Arome’s theological worldview, God is an illegal alien with zero legitimacy on the earth that He created.

The creature has the license. The Creator does not.

That is not merely bad theology. That turns the biblical order of reality upside down.

Scripture begins with an entirely different declaration:

Genesis 1:1

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

God does not enter creation as an unauthorized visitor. Creation belongs to Him because He made it.

Psalm 24:1

“The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.”

The earth is not man’s jurisdiction into which God must obtain legal permission to intervene. It is God’s earth. Man does not grant God access to creation. God grants man existence within it.

Man does not possess authority independently of God. Every breath, every faculty, every capability, every dominion, and every ounce of authority possessed by man is derived authority—authority granted by the Creator.

Yet Arome’s formulation reverses this relationship.

God becomes restricted. Man becomes licensed.

God supposedly lacks “legitimacy.” Man supposedly possesses it.

And then, astonishingly, man is celebrated as:

“A powerful being.”

Yes, man bears the image of God. Scripture teaches that plainly. But being created in God’s image does not make man more jurisdictionally versatile than God. The image-bearer does not outrank the One whose image he bears.

The creature does not possess rights over creation that the Creator lacks. The dependent being does not become more sovereign than the One upon whom his very existence depends.

Whatever theological system produces a man who possesses greater legitimacy within creation than his Maker has crossed the line from biblical anthropology into creaturely exaltation.

Scripture repeatedly condemns precisely this impulse: the creature attempting to rise beyond his appointed place and assume prerogatives belonging to God.

Isaiah records the language of arrogant self-exaltation:

Isaiah 14:13-14

“I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high… I will make myself like the Most High.”

The recurring sin is unmistakable:

The creature refuses to remain creature.

Biblical Christianity moves in the opposite direction.

God is Creator. Man is creature.

God possesses authority inherently. Man possesses authority derivatively.

God is sovereign. Man is dependent.

God does not require man’s permission to act. Man cannot take his next breath apart from the sustaining providence of God.

As Paul told the Athenians:

Acts 17:24–25

“The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth… is not served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.”

Notice Paul’s order.

God gives. Man receives.

God sustains. Man depends.

God is Lord of heaven and earth.

Yet we are now being told that the Lord of heaven and earth lacks the “legitimacy” to operate in one of the very realms over which Scripture explicitly declares Him Lord.

That is theological absurdity.

And this is precisely why Christians cannot evaluate preaching by charisma, vocabulary, mystical sophistication, impressive titles, crowds, visions, spiritual experiences, or claims of apostolic authority.

The standard is the apostolic Gospel.

Paul—the genuine Apostle—issued one of the most terrifying warnings in the New Testament:

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.”

Notice Paul’s standard.

Not charisma. Not titles. Not “deep revelation.” Not mystical experiences. Not angelic encounters. Not claims of supernatural dimensions. Not “apostolic” branding. Not the number of followers sitting mesmerized in an auditorium.

The standard is the Gospel delivered by Christ’s Apostles.

Paul goes so far as to say that even an angel from heaven has no authority to alter it.

If an angel cannot rewrite apostolic truth, neither can a modern preacher carrying the title “apostle.”

The Church, therefore, does not need a new revelation explaining how man supposedly possesses a spiritual license that God Himself lacks. We need the old apostolic truth.

The biblical order remains gloriously simple:

God is Creator. Man is creature.

God is sovereign. Man is dependent.

God possesses authority inherently. Man receives authority derivatively.

Creation belongs to God. God does not belong to creation.

Any theology that reverses those categories does not magnify man’s legitimate spiritual authority. It diminishes God in order to enlarge man.

And Paul’s warning should cause both preacher and hearer to tremble. 

A different gospel is not a harmless theological novelty. It is not something to applaud because it sounds “deep.” It is not made orthodox because the preacher calls himself an apostle.

The Church does not need modern “apostles” teaching us how much authority God supposedly surrendered to man. We need to return to the Gospel preached by the real Apostles.

As for the extravagant assertion that man is supposedly the only being with the “legitimacy” to traverse, crisscross, and operate freely between the physical and spiritual realms, there is one glaring problem:

The Bible teaches no such thing.

Not one Apostle teaches it. Not one prophet teaches it. Jesus never teaches it. There is no biblical text granting mankind some special cosmic license to move back and forth between the natural and supernatural realms.

In fact, Scripture points in precisely the opposite direction.

Human beings ordinarily inhabit the created, physical realm God has assigned to them. And whenever men attempt to penetrate the unseen realm through forbidden spiritual means—divination, necromancy, sorcery, mediums, occult practices, or attempts to communicate with the dead—God does not congratulate them for exercising their supposed spiritual “legitimacy.”

He condemns them.

Deuteronomy 18:10–12

“There shall not be found among you anyone…who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.”

That is hardly the language of a God who has issued mankind a universal passport into the spiritual realm.

The New Testament is equally hostile to speculative spirituality, mystical curiosity, fascination with angels, unverifiable visions, myths, and claims to secret spiritual knowledge.

Paul warned Timothy against precisely this kind of speculative religion:

1 Timothy 1:3–4

“As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.”

And to the Colossians, Paul warned against people who became preoccupied with angels and boasted about what they had supposedly seen in the spiritual realm:

Colossians 2:18

“Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind.”

Notice Paul’s response.

He does not say, “Of course you are seeing these things—you are a powerful being calibrated to function in the spiritual realm.” He says such a person is “puffed up without reason.”

That is the exact opposite of the theology being promoted here.

So, the claim that “man is calibrated to be able to function and relate with the spiritual realm” while his physical body gives him special “legitimacy” to operate in the natural realm is not biblical anthropology.

It is a preposterous theological speculation dressed up in spiritual-sounding language.

Scripture nowhere teaches that human beings possess some unique supernatural license to roam between realms. And when men deliberately seek access to the unseen world through means God has not authorized, the Bible does not call that spiritual power.

It calls it rebellion, deception, and, in certain forms, abomination. It is sorcery, witchcraft, necromancy, and shamanism.

The Christian faith does not instruct believers to become spiritual realm-travelers. It instructs them to hear God in His Word, believe what He has revealed, obey what He has commanded, and refuse the intoxicating lure of secret spiritual knowledge.

Calling speculative mysticism “biblical revelation” does not make it biblical. 

And calling man a uniquely “powerful being” with greater cross-realm “legitimacy” than even God does not exalt biblical Christianity. 

It abandons it.