'Respect Native Intelligence in Your Choice of Marriage Partners, Avoid Incompatible Partners' Pastor Adeboye Cautions 

By: Olufemi Orunsola 

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has cautioned Christians to respect the ancient wisdom offered by native African intelligence in their choice of marriage partners.

The highly revered Nigerian Clergyman reveaoed that contrary to what many people think, traditional Africans possessed knowledge about lineage and inherited conditions, emphasizing that their awareness went beyond formal education.

During his message shared with his congregation, Baba Adeboye as he is fondly called, addressed misconceptions about African knowledge.

In his words, “You may think the Africans are unlearned, they have their knowledge . It might not be the knowledge of chemistry, the one they teach you in school."

He maintained that long before modern scientific knowledge of Genetics, Africans deployed knowledge of ancestral patterns and inherited traits in families to recognize inherited behavioural tendencies.

“Because if there have been a one mad man in a lineage, sooner or later another one will come. If there is a leper, sooner or later, another one will come,” Adeboye stated.

Adeboye further noted that today, science calls these inherited traits “genes,” but Africans had long understood their impact. “Today they call it genes. It’s only today now that if two people want to marry, they will say go and check their gene,” he said.

He illustrated the practical implications of this knowledge in marriage decisions, using sickle cell as an example. “If you find that one side is AS, the other side is also AS, you’ll say no, look for somebody else to marry because AS plus AS can produce SS,” Adeboye explained.

Adeboye emphasized that these practices, rooted in observation and caution, remain relevant today. “These things have been there and it’s still there,” he added.

The Pastor linked this awareness of inherited conditions to spiritual intervention, highlighting the power of prayer over lingering family challenges. “If there’s any curse still tending in your family, in the name that’s above every other name, it’ll end tonight,” he declared.

In his message, Adeboye illustrated the continued relevance of traditional African wisdom and its connection to both genetic inheritance and spiritual protection, urging his congregation to respect ancestral knowledge while seeking God’s intervention where necessary.