I was utterly disgusted this past summer as I attended a Wednesday night
summer-long Bible study series by false prophet Ken Ham at Campus Church (on
the property of Pensacola Christian College).
Ken Ham preaches another gospel!!! The Word of God warns that anyone who
bids Godspeed to evildoers becomes partaker of their evil deeds.
2nd John 1:11, “For he that biddeth him God speed is
partaker of his evil deeds.” Senior Pastor Jeff Redlin is an accomplice
to murder, helping Ken Ham damn souls to Hell with his false Gospel of
“Lordship” salvation (which is Calvinism repackaged).
Read Ken Ham's heretical words for yourself...
The Free Gift of Salvation: Belief in Christ
Jesus, being the perfect sacrifice, offers the free gift of salvation. God loves you so much that He sacrificed His own unblemished Son to suffer the wrath against sin and die on the Cross. He commands you to repent (change your mind and turn from sinful ways) and trust in Him. [emphasis added]
SOURCE: https://answersingenesis.org/gospel/salvation/what-does-it-mean-to-be-saved/
That is NOT the Gospel of free grace through faith alone in Jesus Christ's death on the cross, burial and bodily resurrection. I triple-dog dare you to show me even one place in the inspired King James Bible where it says that you must “TURN FROM SINFUL WAYS” to be saved. You cannot!!! What saith the Scripture? ...
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John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
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John 5:24, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
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John 6:40, “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
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John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”
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Acts 2:41, “Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.”
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Acts 10:43-44, “To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.”
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Galatians 3:2-3, “This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
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Ephesians 1:13-14, “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”
I don't see anything in these precious Scriptures about turning away from your sinful ways, do you? I don't see anything about surrendering all to Christ as “Lord,” do you? I don't see anything about faithfully running and finishing the race to get the award of Heaven (as Steve Pettit foolishly preaches), do you? The Bible simply says to BELIEVE on the name of Jesus Christ as your Savior!!! Christ died on the cross to pay for our sins. He was buried. Three days later Jesus physically resurrected from the dead (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). If you BELIEVE that 'GOOD NEWS' (GOSPEL) you are saved!!! Ken Ham is a theological liar and a conman! By bidding Mr. Ham Godspeed, Pensacola Christian College (PCC) and Campus Church have blood on their hands, partaking of their evil deeds, leading people into Hell. The Gospel is delicate and easily corrupted by wicked ignorant religious men (2nd Peter 3:16-17).
Ken Ham Preaches a False Gospel of
Reformation For Salvation
It
is frightening that Pastor Clarence Sexton of the Temple Baptist Church in
Knoxville, and other Baptist preachers today support and promote Mr. Ham's
counterfeit Gospel. I am also against Ken
Ham's Young Earth heresy! Our apostate churches have embraced Calvinists
as if they are Christian brethren! Calvinism is NOT the Gospel!!! Turning
away from sinful ways is NOT the Gospel.
Dr. Harry Ironside (1876-1951) beautifully states:
“Which comes first, repentance or faith? In Scripture we read, 'Repent ye, and believe the gospel.' Yet we find true believers exhorted to 'repent, and do the first works.' So intimately are the two related that you cannot have one without the other. The man who believes God repents; the repentant soul puts his trust in the Lord when the Gospel is revealed to him. Theologians may wrangle over this, but the fact is, no man repents until the Holy Spirit produces repentance in his soul through the truth. No man believes the Gospel and rests in it for his own salvation until he has judged himself as a needy sinner before God. And this is repentance.” (Except Ye Repent, p. 16) [emphasis added]
Pastor Ironside is absolutely correct, repentance is judging one's self as a needy sinner before a holy God. Romans 3:19, “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” Clearly, repentance does NOT mean to turn away from sinful ways, which is what Evangelist Ken Ham errantly teaches.
Read again the heresy from Ken Ham's goofy website, Answers In Genesis:
The Free Gift of Salvation: Belief in Christ
Jesus, being the perfect sacrifice, offers the free gift of salvation. God loves you so much that He sacrificed His own unblemished Son to suffer the wrath against sin and die on the Cross. He commands you to repent (change your mind and turn from sinful ways) and trust in Him. [emphasis added]
SOURCE: https://answersingenesis.org/gospel/salvation/what-does-it-mean-to-be-saved/
It may seem like a small matter that's not worth debating, but it definitely is a big issue. Just adding that one little extra Biblical requirement to “turn from sinful ways” to be saved, totally perverts and negates the saving power of the Gospel.
Either a person must “turn from sinful ways” to receive God's gift of forgiveness of sins and eternal life, or they do not. It cannot be both! Either a man must purpose in his heart to forsake a deathstyle of fornicating, boozing and thieving to be saved, or he can simply believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved without giving up anything. The difference between these two plans of salvation is drastic. One requires nothing on the part of the sinner, except trusting faith in the Gospel. The other places a heavy burden upon the sinner's shoulders—requiring that he make substantial life's changes, forsaking the sinful world, ceasing from sinful bad habits, and following Jesus as his absolute Lord. None of these constitute the Gospel.
Carefully examine our text passage of Scripture again. Notice that salvation is “without works,” and that a man is saved solely by God's imputed righteousness through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (i.e., “Him that justifieth the ungodly”)...
Romans 4:5-6, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works.” [emphasis added]
So few people have a clear understanding of how salvation works. Let me make it very simple. YOU ARE A SINNER and unless you accept Christ's payment on the cross for your sins, you will spend eternity burning in the fires of Hell. You cannot add or subtract anything to Christ's payment. Jesus paid the price of our sins in full with His precious blood (1st Peter 1:18-19). Religion is man trying to reach God through human effort, but Christianity is God trying to reach man by the sacrifice of His Son on the cross. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. Unless you trust CHRIST ALONE for your salvation, you CANNOT be saved.
