Shall we consider Mediaite to be a source favorable toward biblical studies and interpretation?
Shall we consider Mediaite to be a source favorable toward biblical studies and interpretation?
What does that have to do with what Ham said?
The quote in Mediaite is accurat. Ken Ham said what they said.
http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2014/07/20/well-find-a-new-earth-within-20-years/
“This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam’s sin, but because they are not Adam’s descendants, they can’t have salvation.” Note that Ham inadvertently(?) switches from subjunctive mode to indicative within the sentence.
Ham “answers” his critics, but it is grammatical trickery. He says that he couldn’t have said that extraterrestrials cannot be saved, since he doesn’t believe in them. However in the original article, he says specifically that the Bible is silent on the topic of ETs. Therefore, by his own standards of biblical interpretation, he does not know and cannot comment intelligently.
Mediaite appears more honest than Ham to me in this case.