REASONS TO BELIEVE is Dr. Hugh Ross'
ministry. His name was conveniently omitted from his flyer for his October 2002
seminar to catch unsuspecting people. He seems to frequent, unfortunately,
Regent University.
Let me quote you some of the unbiblical things he
said at Regent University in the Moot Court room when I saw him October 24-25,
2001:
Adam was in a sinful state when he was
created.
Fifty thousand years ago the first human
evolved spontaneously and naturally [disregarding Genesis creation AND his
previous statement.]
Eden is good, but not perfect.
God had billions of creation events.
Life originated 3.86 billion yrs ago + a few
million years, and got killed. And new life continually and repeatedly had
interventions from God since then.
It took so long for God to get the bacteria to the point of removing all the
poisons from the Earth for life to evolve. (3.5 billion yrs ago until 0.5
billion years ago is his quote this time.) Then he created the
right quantity at the right time. God created life that very moment it could
exist [so is God a prisoner of his creation???]
Our universe's anthropic
principle [unusually high 'chance' that environment/Earth suits man just right]
is just chance.
If we Christians do absolutely nothing,
naturalism and Darwinism will die [sounds like Satan's goal to me - DO
NOTHING!]
Intelligent Design (ID) does not focus on
Christ therefore it is not a good topic [this contradicts many creationists.]
In a meeting in 1966, mathematicians
contradicted biologists' evolution theories and destroyed Darwinism. [But why
are public schools, colleges, T.V., etc, still teaching it??]
He believes there was death before Adam's sin but some of the scriptures telling us when
death came into the world are:
1 Corianthians
15:21-22 "death came BY a man [Adam]."
The other is God's word to Adam telling him
the day that he eats of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good & evil,
he will die (Genesis.) That's when Adam & Eve suffered
spiritual death - loss of Holy Spirit - and eventual physical death 900+ yrs
later.
His scriptural rebuttle
[convenient misquote] for the Corinthians scripture was death came TO man. But KJV, NIV, NASB nor Amplified versions of
Bible say this. This was a direct misquote of
scripture.
Also see Romans 5:14-17
He believes in a "universal"
flood (NOT global.) [This is a word
manipulation that means local flood. If he
means local he should say it. He’s obviously selling something if he has to
change words to catch unsuspecting people! [This is like calling the baby a
fetus (Latin for baby) instead of calling it a baby.]
Genesis 7:21-22 clearly states: "the
mountains were covered and all flesh that moved on the earth perished...and all
mankind."
Psalm 29 states: "The Lord sat as King
at the flood." Why would it even be mentioned if it were not some
extra-ordinary event?! A local flood (between some mountain ranges) is not very
noteworthy. And, scientifically, if you look at a topographical map, it is not
even possible!!
See my
creation web page to find out more
reasons this local flood hodge-podge is scientifically rediculous!
He was asked by someone in the audience about
the Behemouth (Job
40:15-18) and Mr. Ross stated it certainly is not a dinosaur as some
ministries claim because it does not fit any known dinosaur. [This, of course,
is not at all true! It fits
many sauropods: brachiosaurus, diplodocus,
etc.]
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So, can you see that Dr Hugh Ross of Reasons
to Believe ministry has questionable views of the Bible?
I'm sure you can check out Regent's audio
tape library for the dates above to verify these statements and many many more.
Since Hugh Ross started putting science first
he had to fit the Bible into his views of science. This creates many unusual
views of science as one bends & dodges Scriptures that contradict these
strange and inevitable views. (And they don't even make a lot of sense.) If he
would put the Bible first and fit science into the Bible, then he wouldn't get
all these subjects askew.