God's Word or man's word??

Letter from Ken Ham
  I started to write this letter to you with a heavy heart just before Christmas  -  with a burden for this nation, including for the church.  Now, I'm certainly not discouraged.  If anything, I'm more motivated than ever to be as active as we possibly can to reach people with the truth of God's Word and the gospel.

Much has happened in the news over the past few weeks related to biblical authority in America, and I'm sure you are awar of them.  Let me summarize a few:
  In December, I had the opportunity to be interviewed for a four-minute segment on the "Fox & Friends" TV program (Fox News Channel) concerning atheist billboards popping up all over the country.
  I praise the Lord for opening the door for AiG to say what needed to be said in a national program about an intolerant and angry minority, the atheists, who are in positions of influence to impose their anti-God religion on the culture.
  I received an overwhelming number of positive responses from Christians after the TV interview.  Many of them commented that we need to see more Christian leaders standing boldly and unashamedly and taking an uncompromising stand in regard to the Christian worldview and the authority of God's Word.
  At the same time, the atheists went ballistic over the fact I was actually allowed to have a public platform to defend the Christian faith and warn people what was happening in the cuture as it turns away from biblical authority.
  A secular professor at the University of Chicago was highly upset by my appearance on Fox, and that this network allowed a biblical creationist to be on the air!  According to this evolutionist, because I'm a creationist, I apparently should not be allowed such a national opportunity.  The reaction by these atheists certainly shows their increasing intolerance of anything Christian, and exposes the fact that these people don't want freedom of religion  -  they want freedom from Christianity.

Three days after my Fox TV interview, one of the stars of the popular Duck Dynasty cable TV program was supended by the A&E television network because of statements he made in a magazine against homosexual behavior.  Although Phil Robertson used some language I wouldn't use, nonetheless he stood up for Christian morality and biblical marriage, and as a result has been greatly maligned and misquoted by those who oppose the Chrtistian teaching on marriage.
  But there is a much deeper issue here than someone being suspended from a television program  -  a MUCH deeper one:
  As Dr. Al Mohler, Jr., president of TheSouthern Bapist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY) and who spoke at our Creation Museum a few years ago, stated on his December 19 blog: "So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing about the sinfulness of homosexual acts or risk sure and certain destruction by the revolutionaries of the new morality.  You have been warned."

  Steve Deace, a syndicated radio host and another friend of the Creation Museum, wrote this in an opinion piece for USA Today (December 19): "Especially in an era when government believes it has the power to compel a Christian baker to make wedding cakes for homosexuals, compel a Christian photographer to photograph a homosexual union in a state that doesn't even recognize them, and tell a Christian company it has to provide birth control to its employees in violation of its owner's moral conscience, we have reached the point where government believes it gets to play God."

And I could add  -  a government that has dictated that the religion of naturalism be taught to students in the public schools, and has allowed Christian symbols to  be removed from society and public education facilities.  At the same time, U.S. and state governments have dictated that symbols like illustrations of ape-like creatures evolving into people be allowed in schools.  This endorsement forces the religion of naturalism (atheism) on generations of students.  So much for the secularists' claim of a supposed separation of church and state  -  the state is now dictating a religion of atheism on the culture.

Christians want to continue to enjoy freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers intended.  But the intolerant elitist like those referred to in the USA Today opinion piece want freedom from Christianity and freedom of speech only for those with whom they agree.

It is really a battle of worldviews because it's a struggle over two main religions  -  God's Word or man's word.
   (Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis newsletter, Jan. 2014, www.answersingenesis.org)