Creation
Museum and Ark Encounter President Ken Ham recently spoke with a Muslim reporter
for an Asian news network who asked Ham whether he is going to Hell because of
his Islamic faith, to which Ham responded that all who are not born again are on
the wrong path.
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Ham said in
an article for Answers in
Genesis that the interview with the
reporter from Channel NewsAsia took place at the Creation Museum in Kentucky,
and that he faced up to some "aggressive questioning," also on social issues
like gay marriage and abortion.
"As a
Muslim, the reporter wanted to know if I believed he was going to Hell. I
answered by quoting Scripture and Jesus, who said: 'Most assuredly, I say to
you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God' (John 3:3),"
Ham shared.
"I explained
that whether a person was a Baptist, Presbyterian, Hindu, Muslim, or so on, if a
person was not born again, then that person will not be with the Lord but
separated from Him in a place the Bible calls Hell. I was able to explain the
Gospel in detail to him," he added.
The Young
Earth Creationist, who supports the traditional definition of marriage as a
union between one man and one woman, also said that people accept same-sex
marriage because of sin.
"The more
that generations are taught evolutionary ideas, the more they will doubt and
disbelieve the Bible — and the more they will abandon Christian
morality/doctrines," he argued.
The Creation
Museum president added that he and the reporter spoke for "quite a while," and
noted that the Channel NewsAsia report is scheduled to air sometime in
2017.
"The Lord
certainly gives us some interesting opportunities to share the message of God's
Word and the Gospel to others," Ham reflected.
Pastor
Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, was also recently asked to explain his belief regarding Muslims and Hell in an interview with the TV show "Good
Morning Texas" last week.
Jeffress,
who in the past has said Islam was "inspired by Satan," said in his latest
interview that "any false religion ultimately is a deception of Satan, to try
and keep people from the only way to Heaven, which is through faith in Jesus
Christ."
He also said
"there are very few who are going to Heaven," given Jesus' warnings about
following the narrow path.
Ham has
mostly focused on warning about the growing secularism in America, and has told
Christians that it is their responsibility to share the Gospel with
non-believers.
"Jesus tells
us to 'lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for
harvest' (John 4:35). We should recognize that the growing numbers of
secularists are a mission field with whom we have the responsibility and
privilege of sharing the Gospel (Matthew 28:19)," Ham wrote back in June.
"Our hearts
should break at their lost state, and we should be encouraged to be salt and
light (Matthew 5:13–16) as we share the Good News of the message of Jesus Christ
with a broken, hurting world," he
added.
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/ken-ham-responds-to-muslim-reporter-who-asks-if-hes-going-to-hell-171920/#mCvbcMTbRfj7mALg.99
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