Ken Ham
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The founder of Answers in Genesis, the popular Creation Museum, and the world-renowned Ark Encounter.
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What is the curse of Ham? For centuries, people twisted a Bible passage into something it never said and used it to justify real evil. Today, I break down where the so-called curse of Ham comes from, what Genesis really says, and why this idea has no biblical support at all.
Ken Ham50,235 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
Watch the short video clip attached of Andy Stanley. He is a teacher with a large flock in Georgia. How should we respond to what he is teaching in this clip? God’s Word has a severe warnings for those of us who are teachers. God instructs us that teachers/leaders are going to be a problem. You see those who teach, don’t just teach facts per se. A teacher imparts a way of thinking, an interpretation of the facts, a worldview to the people being taught. That’ why God gives us this warning: “Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness” (James 3:1). My father was a school teacher, but he also loved to teach God’s Word. But he would explain how he never wanted to lead anyone astray, which is why his favorite verses of Scripture began with, “have you not read?” or “it is written.” He taught me about study bibles this way as an example of how we should evaluate what we are taught. He would say “remember, the notes are not inspired like the text, so always use the text as the commentary on the notes.” In other words, we need to judge what someone is teaching against the absolute authority of the Word of God. If we don’t do this, we could easily be led astray God’s Word has many warnings about shepherds who lead the sheep astray. In fact there are numerous warnings, so we really need to take heed of this issue. For instance: “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the LORD” (Jeremiah 23:1). “Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down my portion; they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness” (Jeremiah 12:10) “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves” (Matthew 7:15). As you watch this video clip, think about how lukewarm much of the church is today. Think about the fact that there’s been a generational loss from the church with Generation Z church attendance down to less than 9%. Think about the increasing number of churches going soft on the LGBTQ worldview accommodating their views instead of lovingly explaining how our beliefs and behavior have to be judged against the absolute authority of the Word of God, and that such a worldview is sin. In the era we live in, a major fact that has greatly undermined the impact of the church and led to many of the younger generations leaving the church for the world, is the rampant compromise the majority of church leaders have made with evolution/millions of years and thus undermining Genesis as literal history. And this history in Genesis 1-11 is the foundation of all doctrine, our worldview, the rest of the bible, of everything ultimately. This compromise has had catastrophic consequences on the church and the younger generations who have become so secularized and anti-Christian with many leaving the church. Doubt in God's Word led to unbelief. Generation Z are now considered the first post-Christian generation. This video clip is a prime example of what has happened in much of the church. Andy Stanley makes it very clear that Christians can accept evolution and say God used it to create. In fact he’s adamant Christians have to accept this. Thus he is saying that God use death, suffering, disease and violence over millions of years to bring man into existence. That God calls all this death and disease as “very good” as He describes everything He created in Genesis 1:31 this way. Stanley has also accepted the evolutionary history in regard to interpreting cultures of the past. He is saying that the ancient Hebrews were not as intelligent as us today. That God couldn’t explain how he created to them as they didn’t have all the “science” that we have today. But this is not true. First of all, man has been intelligent right from the start. I’m sure Adam was highly intelligent with his perfect brain. Secondly, the bible is not a book written to counter near eastern mythology as Stanley claims. No, the bible is God breathed (2 Timothy 3:16) and is for all people, for all ages, for all time! “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever” (Isaiah 40:8). “Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens” (Psalm 119:89). Thirdly, God wrote His Word and knew that we in the 21st century would be the ones who would have trouble understanding it, as because of our intellectual pride in thinking we know a lot, we will think we are too sophisticated to believe God’s Word as written. We would rather believe the fallible word of man than the infallible Word of God. I judge Stanley’s word against God’s Word. Stanley is judging God’s Word against his own word and the word of fallible scientists he has chosen to believe. Such compromised teaching undermines the authority of the Word of God and results in lukewarm Christians at best. Sadly, over time, many doubt God's Word and end up walking away from the Christian faith. I know a lot of people will be upset with me critiquing such a popular speaker. But all of us need to accept that Andy Stanley is not the absolute authority, he is a fallen human being like all of us. He has a sinful heart as we all do, and our sin nature is prone to exalt the word of man instead of the Word of God, which was the temptation the devil made to Eve in Genesis 3:1. But we do have an absolute authority, God. He has given us His Word. So we need to judge our own actions and beliefs and what others are saying against the absolute authority of God's Word. When you do this with what Andy Stanley is teaching in this video, you realize he is not teaching God's Word as written, but imposing man's religion of evolution on God's Word. Evolution is a religion. It's the religion of naturalism, which is atheism. It's man's attempt to try to come up with a way of explaining life without God, based on natural processes. Sadly, just like the Israelites, so many of our leaders have taken mans false religion and compromised it with God's Word. This is an attack on God's Word and an attack on the character of God by blaming God for millions of years of death, disease, violence and suffering as the evolutionary story details. A verse I often think about in regard to such matters is this one: "Let God be true though every one were a liar" (Romans 3:4). “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myth” (2 Timothy 4:3–4) We need to pray for Andy Stanley that God will open his eyes to the truth of His infallible word and faithfully teach God's Word to people.
Ken Ham406,653 просмотров • 3 лет назад
Dolly Parton spoke openly about believing in God, heaven, and Christianity—but some of her beliefs also contradicted the Bible. Her life raises an important question for every Christian: When culture and Scripture conflict, which one is our ultimate authority?
Ken Ham31,624 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
On Wednesday March 29, Tucker Carlson on Fox News made a very interesting statement. I’ve attached the 20 second video segment. Now I do not believe (from all I’ve heard & read of Tucker Carlson) he understands his statement in the sense of the spiritual battle that I see it as a bible believing Christian. But he does recognize a chasm in this nation that is widening. He put it as a chasm between those who believe they are god, and those who believe they are not God. Insightful. I would put it this way, it’s a battle between two religions, man’s word & God’s Word. It’s a battle that began 6000 years ago in garden & is detailed in Genesis 3. The beginning of this spiritual battle occurred when the devil in the form of a serpent tempted the first man & woman (Adam and Eve) to disobey God’s Word. The devil said, “did God actually say? (Genesis 3:5). And then he said, “you will be like God.” In other words, reject God’s Word & be your own god. Actually, Genesis 3:1 & 3:5 sum up the sin nature of man. We know Adam succumbed & listened to the devil & disobeyed God. That’s the origin of sin, resulting in the judgment of death. Because Adam succumbed to the devil’s temptation, the sin nature of man is that he would rather believe the word of man than the word of God. Secondly, humans will want to be their own god, to decide “truth” for themselves. Now those who trust Christ for salvation, can look to Christ & the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives to not let their sin nature master over them. We need to be sanctified as we daily conform our thinking & behavior to that of the Lord Jesus Christ. But those who are not Christians, to one degree or another, allow the sin nature to master over them as they act as their own god. We are seeing this play out before our very eyes as those who act as their own god determine “right” & “wrong” for themselves. God’s Word describes man’s sinful heart this way, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” The natural man has a depraved heart. As humans allow their depraved heart to master over them, they will resort of all sorts of perversion & depravity as they attempt to exhibit their supposed god status. They will turn against everything that the Creator God who owns them has set down as His rules about life. The Bible describes them this way, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20) They will pervert marriage. We see that in their insistence on Gay “marriage.” (There is no such thing as Gay "marriage" as there’s only one marriage, the one God created, one man (male) for one woman (female). They will pervert gender--the transgender movement. God created two genders only, male and female (and science confirms that). They will pervert that man is made in God’s image. They pervert this as they do all they can to kill as many children as possible by abortion, which is nothing less than the child sacrifice to the god of self. And a major reason they are so emotional about demanding the ability to kill children is because they refuse to obey God’s rules in regard to sex. They want to do whatever they want with whomever they want & get rid of any of the consequences such as pregnancy, by any means possible. They have adopted sexual humanism & attempt to force this on everyone. They will pervert that God gave man dominion over the creation, & will put the creation in dominion over man as we see in the modern climate religion. They will worship the creation instead of the Creator. Yes, we're seeing man being his own god & perverting God’s Word in increasing ways with increasing exhibitions of depravity. It’s a spiritual battle. It's a battle between those who believe they are god, and those who trust in the real God. God own us. “Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?” Isaiah 2:22
Ken Ham238,527 просмотров • 3 лет назад
You may have recently seen a video posted by Kirk Cameron where he shares his new views on hell. Today, I respond. Kirk is a long time friend of our ministry and a personal friend and we do highly respect and love him but respectfully disagree on this particular matter.
Ken Ham61,920 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад
Atheists have been determined every year to show up and protest the Ark Encounter, and this year, the 10th anniversary of the Ark Encounter, is no exception. Today, I address their accusations and set the record straight on why they are really protesting the Ark Encounter.
Ken Ham13,896 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
