{"id":20595,"date":"2014-01-11T11:07:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=20595"},"modified":"2014-01-11T11:07:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T16:07:37","slug":"progressive-christianity-is-a-threat-to-ken-hams-deceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/01\/progressive-christianity-is-a-threat-to-ken-hams-deceptions.html","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Christianity is a Threat to Ken Ham’s Deceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Ken Ham has gone on record as saying that progressive Christianity is dangerous<\/a>. This is good news. Any authentic Christianity ought to seem dangerous to oppressors and charlatans and the narrow-minded. Otherwise, we are doing it wrong.<\/p>\n

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Among the ironic things Ham said was this gem:<\/p>\n

Apparently they call this sort of thing \u2018Progressive Christianity.\u2019 I guess that means \u2018evolving Christianity\u2019 \u2013 whatever the secular world believes about where they came from, you accept that as infallible and then change their assumed fallible Word of God to fit! So sad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why is this ironic? Because what he describes is exactly what the Biblical authors did. They always assume the best view of the natural world available in their time. They never, ever, even once<\/a> offer some new information about the natural world not already available to the \u201csecular world\u201d in their time.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s keep up the good work in exposing Ken Ham\u2019s lies as pseudoscientific and unbiblical nonsense!<\/p>\n

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