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Technorati"To them, the Bible is not real," he said. "In churches we're teaching moral things, spiritual things, relationships, doctrine ... [but] we're not teaching those earthly things. We gave that up to the world."
"Who said that's not for the Church?" the Young Earth creationist asked, noting that the Bible deals with geology, biology and other sciences.
"We gave it up because we didn't know how to deal with it and now we're losing generations," he said.
Ham – whose Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., displays dinosaurs next to humans – finds many pastors and Sunday school teachers teaching what he believes are compromised positions, informing youths that they can believe in evolution and that the age of the earth is millions or billions of years, rather than 6,000 years, while still believing in Jesus.
But by being taught such views, students begin to question the first book of the Bible, particularly the creation account. Later they find themselves not trusting the entirety of the Bible and its authority.
"If we teach our children (or anyone) to take God's Word as written concerning the Resurrection, the miracles of Jesus, and the account of Jonah and the great fish ... but then tell them we don't need to take Genesis as written but can reinterpret it on the basis of the world's teaching about millions of years and evolution – we have unlocked a door," Ham wrote in his book.
That door is the door to undermining biblical authority.
"When we undermine the word of God, the next generation undermines it more and more," Ham said.
The foundation of biblical authority and God's word is crumbling in America while human reasoning and man's word is being held high.
There's a spiritual problem in America, Ham said, and sadly it is Christians who have dropped the ball and allowed moral relativism and secular worldview to rise.
Churches have failed to raise the younger generation on the authority of God's word and to teach them how to defend their faith or give answers to secular attacks, Ham said.
"We let them (secular humanists) take generations of our kids and give them a different foundation," he lamented.
Christians have an epidemic on their hands and what they need now is a "complete renovation," not a mere remodel, Ham stressed.
It's time to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God. And for the Young Earth creationist, that call begins with Genesis.
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