Ken Ham

Christian leaders will not be able to give answers until they accept Genesis 1–11 as real history (and real science).

We need to be reminded of the past. The level of ignorance regarding history and America’s Constitution and what it means is rather shocking—people need to be reminded about the past! But, even more so, people need to be reminded of something else many have forgotten—the truth of God’s Word and the gospel. I believe the life-size Ark at the @ArkEncounter is one of the greatest reminders on this planet of the truth of God’s Word and the saving gospel. That’s why we stepped out in faith to build it. And the Lord has mightily blessed. Because the Ark project received so much attention, we believe it is more vital than ever that we ensure everyone has the opportunity to clearly hear the gospel message. The gospel is tastefully presented many times inside the Ark. We are unashamedly Christian. There is nothing more important that the message of the saving gospel. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:14–16).

When God made the trees, He knew that a tree would one day be used for the evilest event of history: Jesus’ crucifixion.

Is it unloving to rebuke compromise? When we stand against Christian leaders who compromise, I sometimes get accused of being unloving and have people tell me that I should be going to these leaders personally as per Matthew 18. But it’s not a personal matter. It is not a Matthew 18 situation. When Christian leaders make public statements and teach compromising positions on God’s Word beginning in Genesis publicly, then we need to judge what they teach against God’s Word publicly. We need to warn people. It’s not a personal conflict situation. Now I’m not saying all those who compromise God’s Word are not Christians. But those who are compromising God’s Word are not only undermining its authority but unlocking a door for a stumbling block to be placed in people’s way in regard to trusting God’s Word. I believe many in the younger generations have been led astray by Christian leaders who have compromised God’s Word. I have often been reminded of the watchman in Ezekiel: “Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul” (Ezekiel 33:7–9). When we have the opportunity to do so, we must stand lovingly, graciously, with gentleness, but boldly against compromise to warn people, knowing such compromise can put people on a slippery slide of unbelief.

Today, I am talking about the recent midterm elections and why the failure of the church to address generational compromise led to where we are right now, along with how we can move forward as Christians from this point on.

The first time the gospel was preached was in Genesis 3:15.

There is one thing I really dislike about being in the @AiG ministry! What I hate about it is something every Bible-believing Christian should hate. I hate it when we have to publicly oppose, debate, and challenge sincere Christians who, while they believe the gospel (and would even say they believe in biblical inerrancy), compromise God’s Word in Genesis. That is what I’m most saddened and stressed about. And all Christians should be saddened by this as Genesis 1–11 is the foundation for everything, for all doctrine, for our Christian worldview, and for the gospel. I hate it when the world sees this contention among believers. But at the same time, it’s very important for Christians and non-Christians to see us boldly, uncompromisingly, and unashamedly stand on the authority of God’s Word from the very first verse. As I’ve stated many times, and as we have documented with research published in various books, compromise on Genesis (particularly with Christians who add millions of years into the Bible) has had a devastating impact on how this generation views the Bible. And sadly, this compromise has been a major factor as to why so many people are leaving the church and are now secularized in their thinking. It must be perplexing to many people that Christians with a heart for the gospel, who say they believe in inerrancy, battle each other over their views on Genesis. But it’s our contention that compromising Christians (as I call them) have an inconsistent approach to Scripture that unlocks a door to undermine biblical authority in Genesis—and puts people on a slippery slope toward unbelief through the rest of Scripture. Such compromising Christians are trusting man’s word over God’s Word in Genesis. They are doing what I call eisegesis not exegesis. We plead with Christian leaders to apply a consistent hermeneutic to Scripture and reject compromise that undermines the authority of the Word, which has such a negative impact on the people they influence.

God created the land animals (including what we today call dinosaurs) as well as the first two people (Adam and Eve) on the sixth day of creation.

I praise the Lord for the impact my father had on our family and on me as one of his sons. When my father was dying in hospital in 1995 at age 66, one of my younger brothers was with him and asked him, “Why did you love God’s Word so much?” All of us knew that our father would never knowingly compromise God’s Word. He hated compromise. He taught us to spot compromise regarding God’s Word at a million miles away! My father answered with something like this: “My father died when I was 16, so then I didn’t have an earthly father, so I turned to the words of my heavenly Father and read them and studied them over and over again.” He became a student of the Word! He knew what God’s Word stated. And he wanted to make sure he let God speak to him through his Word. He understood that once someone used ideas outside of Scripture to begin reinterpreting parts of God’s Word that was unlocking a door to undermine the authority of Scripture. He knew that once the door was unlocked, it could easily be pushed open further and further as doubt led to unbelief. Our father would always stand boldly on the authority of God’s Word. When he was asked to preach in church or was teaching a Bible study group, I can still see and hear him as he would get so excited about quoting Scriptures such as, “Have you not read, ‘it is written’” and “Thus says the Lord.” When he quoted such verses, he would remind everyone of the authority of God’s Word. At my father’s memorial service in 1995, each of the six children gave a brief testimony about their father. We all independently prepared what we were going to say. As each of us gave our testimony honoring our father, we all said many different things in different ways, but we also said the same thing! What came through each of the testimonies was the impact our father had on each of us regarding standing uncompromisingly and boldly on the authority of the Word of God. Yes, our father’s stand on biblical authority came through loud and clear. After the service, one of my good friends came up to me and said something like, “Wow! What phenomenal testimonies about a father’s impact on children concerning the authority of the Word of God. I’m going home to ask my children, ‘What are you going to say about me when I’m dead?’” I thought to myself, that would be a great title for a book. Imagine this title, “What Are Your Children Going to Say About You When You’re Dead?” That certainly is something to ponder. What spiritual impact are you having on your children and others?

Molecules-to-man evolution is not true.

I had no idea where this promise would take me! When I was 10 years old, my parents were involved with a missionary from the Open Air Campaigners organization (which was founded in Australia) who was going to run a program for children at the church we were attending. My parents would invite children from the local area to come to the program, and they would offer to pick them up and drive them to and from the program. They were the days when there were no seatbelts in cars, and you could pack as many people in a car as you could! During this particular outreach program, the missionary gave a challenge to the kids. I remember him saying something like, “For those of you who have put your trust in Jesus and are willing to do whatever he wants you to do and go anywhere he wants you to go, I want you to sign this piece of paper with this commitment on it.” I remember saying to myself, “Yes, I trust the Lord Jesus to save me. I want to be like my parents and tell people about Jesus and his Word in the Bible. I want to do whatever he wants me to do and go wherever he wants me to go.” I really meant this. I did not know that I would become a schoolteacher, and God would call me to start a creation apologetics ministry in our home. I did not know that the Lord would call me and my family to go to America and eventually start the @AiG ministry that also would build the two leading Christian themed attractions in the world. Yes truly, the Answers in Genesis ministry is a legacy of parents who loved God’s Word and had a burden to reach souls for the Lord. Like I said yesterday, I challenge you: what legacy are you leaving for your children?

Today, I sit down with @ToddFriel to talk about the idea that quietly reshaped our culture and made its way into the church. You’ll hear how it connects to the biggest issues of our day and what Christians can actually do about it.

The supposed millions of years for the age of fossils (and the earth and universe) are simply not true.

What will your legacy be? At the @CreationMuseum, in the lobby of the Legacy Hall auditorium, there is an exhibit called the “Ham Family Legacy Exhibit.” This exhibit features my father and mother and tells of the phenomenal spiritual impact they had on their family. Inside a glass case is my father’s Bible, opened at Genesis, showing his many notes he had written beside the text. He would use such notes as he taught Bible studies not just on Genesis but through the whole Bible. There is also a wooden model of Noah’s ark that he built me many years ago, not knowing that one day we would build a life-size Noah’s Ark attraction. I’ve had the opportunity to speak to people who were at the exhibit contemplating what was being conveyed. I’ve asked them, “What does this exhibit mean to you?” The answers go something like this, “It’s challenging us about what legacy we are leaving in our children and what legacy we are leaving in this world.” I’ve told people that really the ministry of @AiG, the @ArkEncounter, and Creation Museum that impacts (conservatively estimated from our research) 30 million people directly and tens of millions more indirectly each year is a legacy of parents who taught their children to stand boldly and uncompromisingly on the authority of the Word of God. What legacy will you leave for your children?

“Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it” (Psalm 127:1).

Americans still believe in the supernatural. For decades, the public education system, secular museums, and media have taught naturalistic atheism as fact to generations. Americans have been told that there is no God, that life evolved by naturalistic processes, and that, therefore, there is no supernatural. But a new survey of Americans’ beliefs shows most Americans don’t actually believe what they’ve been indoctrinated with. The American Bible Society recently released its State of the Bible report. According to reports, this study of US adults found that: •62% believe in the supernatural •53% believe Jesus rose from the dead •49% believe the virgin birth “is at least probably true” •44% believe the Red Sea was parted by God •Over 50% believe Satan, demons, and hell exist Now, of course, this doesn’t mean that the majority of people who believe Jesus rose from the dead or was born of a virgin are born-again Christians. Christianity is about both believing the truths of Scripture and giving your life to Christ—it’s not merely about intellectual assent to a few truths. What it does mean is that the majority of Americans still believe at least some of the Bible is true and that the supernatural does exist. Those are, of course, good things at face value. But consider a recent Gallup poll of US adults that found: •48% believe in “psychic or spiritual healing or the power of the human mind to heal the body” •39% believe in “ghosts, or that spirits of dead people can come back in certain places and situations” •29% believe in “telepathy, or communication between minds without using the traditional five senses” •27% believe “that people can hear from or communicate mentally with someone who has died” •25% believe in “astrology, or that the position of the stars and planets can affect people’s lives” •And 24% believe in “reincarnation, that is, the rebirth of the soul in a new body after death” In other words, Americans believe in the supernatural far beyond what the Bible teaches, including beliefs that directly contradict the Bible. It really comes back to what I’ve taught for decades: The real battle is between God’s Word and man’s word. The battle is not ultimately between atheistic naturalism and the Bible. Many Americans today do not subscribe to that worldview even though they’ve been indoctrinated with it their whole lives. They know there must be something beyond the here and now. Why? Because, as Ecclesiastes says, “He has also set eternity in their heart” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Also, Romans 2 tells us God wrote the law on our hearts, so we have a conscience. We are not mere physical bodies—we have a soul that will live forever—and something inside of us (the image of God) just “knows” there is something more, something supernatural, something unseen. But people look in all the wrong places. Americans who believe, for example, that Jesus rose from the dead and believe in reincarnation are not basing their worldview—their beliefs—on the Word of God. They are basing them on their own opinions. They like the idea of Jesus and some parts of the Bible, so they believe that. But reincarnation and a little astrology also make sense to them, so they add that on. Their worldview is determined by their own wisdom (and is therefore subjective and arbitrary), not by any objective standard for truth. The battle raging in our culture today, whether it takes the form of atheistic naturalism or vague, buffet-style spirituality, is man’s word vs. God’s Word. Who will be our authority? That’s always been the battle since the garden of Eden 6,000 years ago. “[The serpent] said to the woman, ‘Did God actually say . . . ?’” (Genesis 3:1 ESV). “And the serpent said to the woman . . . ‘You will be like God’” (Genesis 3:4–5). The first attack was on the authority of the Word of God, and that attack has not abated. Satan continues to use that same strategy down through the ages. “But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:3 ESV). Whenever people adopt part of Scripture but add on ideas from their culture, their own thinking, or other religions, they are succumbing to that Genesis 3 attack. They are doubting the authority of Scripture, making themselves the authority and being their own god. If we want to effectively share the gospel with and challenge the worldview of those who may have some common ground with us (e.g., they believe, at least intellectually, in the resurrection), we have to help them understand they have the wrong foundation for their worldview. They need to stop building their thinking on their own wisdom and instead start with God’s Word and build their thinking from there. (And that’s how we need to be teaching our kids and our grandkids to think!) As God’s Word says: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5 ESV). The battle is God’s Word vs. man’s word. It always has been and it always will be until Jesus returns. Are you equipped to deal with the real battle?

The Bible tells us that the heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork (Psalm 19:1).

Can anti-aging fanatic Bryan Johnson actually escape death? He spends millions every year trying to accomplish just that, and today I respond to his controversial message from a biblical perspective.

What is the role of government? Well, the answer to that question—I don’t think you’ll be surprised by this—begins in Genesis! God instituted human government after the Flood (Genesis 9). Since God is the one who first instituted government, it is God who defines the role and purpose of government. If we want to think biblically about government, we must first start with Scripture. According to God’s Word, the purpose of human government is not to solve all of our problems! Rather, it is to restrain and punish evil and to promote order. This immediately raises a question: What is evil? Someone must define what evil is. And, again, God has done that for us in His Word. When we start with the Bible, we have an unchanging, eternal foundation for determining what is right and what is wrong. But, you might ask, isn’t that “Christian nationalism”? No. But whoever is in government has a worldview that determines how they define morality and vote on issues. Now, consider this: Every single law in the United States is based on someone’s morality. No law is morally neutral. So who gets to decide? Is morality determined by sinful, fallible human beings or by the perfect, authoritative Word of the Creator? Whenever we legislate, we are always legislating morality. The question is: Whose morality are we legislating?—is it based on human opinion or God’s Word? This is just another reminder that, in all areas, we need to start with God’s Word as our authority!

I thank God for my Bible-believing father, who told me, “Son, just because we don’t know the answers doesn’t mean there aren’t any. We just have to search for them and ask the Lord to reveal them to us.”