Posted on 05/16/2014 12:34:41 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Young earth creationist Ken Ham lashed out at televangelist Pat Robertson over his claim earlier this week that someone has to be “deaf, dumb and blind” to believe that the Earth is only 6,000 years old, accusing Robertson of compromising “the Word of God.”
“Pat Robertson illustrates one of the biggest problems we have today in the church — people like Robertson compromise the Word of God with the pagan ideas of fallible men!,” Ham wrote on his Facebook page. “Pat Robertson is not upholding the Word of God with his ridiculous statements — he is undermining the authority of the Word. And any attack on the WORD is an attack on the person of Jesus Christ, who IS THE WORD!”
Ham, who runs Answers in Genesis, a Christian ministry that takes the Bible’s Genesis account of creation literally, broke down the comments Robertson made on CBN’s “The 700 Club” earlier this week in a point-by-point analysis.
In addition to accusing Roberson of expressing “his utter ignorance of science,” Ham wrote that the televangelist “makes Christianity look silly.”
But Ham took particular exception to Robertson’s claim that there is no way that the Earth could have possibly come to fruition in such a short time span.
“Really Pat Robertson? You mean there is no way God, the infinite Creator, could not have created the universe in six days just six thousand years ago?,” Ham rhetorically asked. “God could have created everything in six seconds if He wanted [to]! And it’s not a matter of what you think anyway — it’s a matter of what God has clearly told us in His infallible WORD!”
As TheBlaze previously reported, Robertson unleashed his critiques on young earth creationists Tuesday, saying that they are mistaken in their views about the age of the planet.
“The truth is, you have to be deaf, dumb and blind to think that this Earth that we live in only has 6,000 years of existence, it just doesn’t, I’m sorry,” Robertson said.
He added, “I think what we’re looking at is that there was a point of time after the Earth was created, after these things were done, after the universe was formed, after the asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs — after that, there was a point of time that there was a particular human being that God touched — and that was the human that started the race that we are now part of.”
Watch Robertson’s comments below:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
I never said that I didn’t acknowledge God, did I? In which thread # did you read that?
When you suggest that men wrote the Bible, and that what He says are miracles really aren’t, you’re calling God a liar.
No I’m not.
On the contrary. If God’s word is untrue regarding the creation, it is untrustworthy on every other point.
Vestments and pew cushions are inventions of men, and have no bearing on the veracity of the Scriptures. Quibbling over them is pointless.
God’s word, on the other hand, is deserving of scrutiny - and will survive it unscathed. Not only that, but the exercise itself increases faith in Him. (Like a witness who endures cross-examination, and his testimony comes through as reliable and trustworthy.)
Consider “doubting” Thomas: He demanded to be able to examine Jesus’ wounds. And when HE was convinced, that gives even greater weight to the eye-witness testimony preserved for us.
Why is Ken Ham propping up his business partner Bill Nye?
Nice post, but...
“Only that man has been here partaking in God’s creation for 6000 years.”
I don’t think it says that either.
If this were of importance it would be spelled out quite clearly and unequivocally.
How long was a day to God in his time frame? Maybe a billion years?
So why can’t Ken Ham believe the earth is 6 billion years old?
2. Not believing in the literal creation story won't keep a believer out of the Kingdom.
3. A person can be brought to saving faith in Jesus without believing the creation story is 7 literal days. Seen it happen.
Is God’s account of creation of no use then?
(I know you believe otherwise. I just want you to consider why God put it in the Scriptures, and why it’s important for us to believe Him.)
I have long thought that God called it done when His Word was upon the earth in Mans mind. A falling tree etc...
But as the Author of Time the flow of it is subject to his Hand. It does what He tells it to do. Our view of it is foreshortened by our perspective.
The time in a digital sound file is a function of the clock used...44.1k, 88k, 1,000,000k...The sound recorded, however, isn’t any longer or shorter.
The only relevance any of this has is Faith.
Questions a Christian must consider in this issue: 1) Is God capable of creating the earth and all we know in any amount of time He desires? Six nanoseconds, six minutes, six days, etc
2) If God is not capable of doing the events noted in Genesis 1, then He is not capable of doing anything else in the Bible. This would also require the nullification of Cross. 3) The last part is the real goal of people who deny God the ability to create ex nihilo.
This is one of the worst distortions of the Bible there is and is a bad case of reading something into the Bible which is not supported by the text.
In Genesis 1 where day is preceded by an ordinal number it means a 24 hour day as we understand it.
If you can't believe Genesis 1 as a literal event or that the earth is a young earth then:
Does it matter how many days involving the crucifixtion? Did Christ really rise on the third day?
Did Jesus really heal the blind man or cure the man with leprosy?
If the genealogies we have in the OT are correct, then the Bible does indicate a young earth.
EXCELLENT POINT!
What’s a “dragon”?
When were “dinosaurs” first called that?
Then how can that person believe in a literal resurrection?
The atheist creation story:
“In the beginning, there was nothing, and it exploded”
Other than the written Word of God??
this is the Gap Theory and it is not supported from a Biblical perspective.
Are you aware of the evidences for a young creation?
Or have you just been exposed to information to the contrary as I was for 30+ years?
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