Prominent clergyman Rev. Timothy Njoya has criticized church leaders who are against family planning.
According to Njoya, church leaders against family planning who site their reasons from the bible choose to partially interpret the bible.
“I don’t buy their arguments; these kinds of arguments arise when you look at the Bible as a text book, which is not theological. They have to read the Bible fully and understand it well and not in parts,” said Njoya.
Different church leaders came out to condemn vasectomy after over 100 men volunteered to undergo vasectomy during the Vasectomy day that was in the month of November, some of the men who underwent the procedure were aired on a local television station.
The leaders cited their justification from the book of Deuteronomy that `bars from entering the congregation of Lord and being called Lord’s people those “Wounded in the testicles, has been made a eunuch or penis cut off`”.
Njoya however disputed the justification in the bible saying the book targeted the eunuchs who were perceived to be blemished because they were usually castrated or incapable of reproduction because of birth defects.
“The word of God is not about flesh and blood. People can by nature or career be eunuchs and should not be excluded from salvation “he said.
He however, pointed out that undergoing vasectomy does not make one eunuch or a sinner.
“The bible commands us to go produce and manage and that if you don’t control what you have produced, you violate a commandment,” said Njoya.