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Posted on 08/21/2026 8:52:51 AM PDT by lasereye
United Methodist Church Pastor Adam Hamilton catapulted onto the national stage after his Democratic primary win last month in the race to represent Kansas in the U.S. Senate.
Hamilton, who secured the Democratic nomination to run against incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, says he's reaching out to conservative Evangelical voters as part of his “Leading From the Middle” statewide tour.
The founding pastor of Resurrection Church in Leawood, Hamilton has positioned himself as an alternative to Marshall, who also identifies as a Christian and was elected to the Senate in 2020.
In a 2014 interview with Jonathan Merritt to promote his book, Making Sense of the Bible: Rediscovering the Power of Scripture Today, Hamilton made several claims regarding the content and inspiration of the Holy Bible.
Here are three of Hamilton’s controversial takes.
1. ‘Christians must address’ God’s command for Israel to commit ‘genocide’ in the Bible
Hamilton has stated publicly that “Christians must address” portions of the Old Testament in which God punishes both Israel and Israel’s enemies.
“My premise is that the Bible is the words of people who were influenced by God, and yet who were also shaped by the times in which they lived. The violence attributed to God in the Bible is a serious issue that Christians must address,” he said, adding such behavior is “inconsistent with the character of God described in many places in the Old Testament, and certainly inconsistent with the Word of God revealed in Jesus Christ who calls His followers to love their enemies.”
While his campaign frequently references Leviticus for Moses’ command for the Israelites to “love your neighbor,” Hamilton expressed personal offense to Leviticus 21:9, which states that if a daughter of a Levitical priest becomes a prostitute, she must be “burned to death."
As for God’s command in Joshua 6:21 for Israel to take the Promised Land by putting to death every man, woman and child, Hamilton calls this divine order “genocide,” adding, “God commands priests to burn their daughters alive if they become prostitutes. I cannot imagine God calling me to burn one of my children alive, regardless of what they had done.”
2. Christians don't believe the Bible was ‘dictated by God’
Hamilton also appeared to exalt the Islamic belief in the divine origin of the Quran over the supremacy of the Bible with his claim that “Christians do not hold, as Muslims do, that our holy book was dictated by God.”
He downplayed arguments that passages such as 2 Timothy 3:16 indicate the Bible is “inspired by God,” claiming such titles are mere metaphors and shouldn't be taken literally.
“Christians often assume they know what this means, but Paul seems to have created the word ‘inspired.’ It does not appear in the Greek language before this and is used nowhere else in the Bible,” said Hamilton. “It literally means ‘God-breathed’ but Paul doesn’t go on to explain precisely what he means. It is a metaphor, and metaphors are not precise. Push them too far and they break down.”
He downplayed arguments that passages such as 2 Timothy 3:16 indicate the Bible is “inspired by God,” claiming such titles are mere metaphors and shouldn't be taken literally.
“Christians often assume they know what this means, but Paul seems to have created the word ‘inspired.’ It does not appear in the Greek language before this and is used nowhere else in the Bible,” said Hamilton. “It literally means ‘God-breathed’ but Paul doesn’t go on to explain precisely what he means. It is a metaphor, and metaphors are not precise. Push them too far and they break down.”
Instead, he said, Christians should understand “inspired” as “God-influenced,” which, added Hamilton, “leaves open a variety of ways in which the biblical authors were influenced by God.”
3. Bible passages on homosexuality, slavery ‘do not express the heart and character of God’
In the 2014 interview, Hamilton compared the Bible’s condemnation of homosexuality in both the Old and New Testaments with its treatment of slavery.
On one hand, Hamilton, who said in 2019 that Christians can support gay marriage and not be at odds with Scripture, argued “... what Moses and Paul were addressing in their teachings on same-sex intimacy was very different from two human beings entering into a covenant relationship of mutual love.”
Calling the Bible “complex,” he also made a secondary argument in which he appeared to claim that passages on controversial issues are not necessarily God’s views.
“I suggest it is possible to be a faithful Christian who loves God and loves the Scriptures and at the same time to believe that the handful of verses on same-sex intimacy are like the hundreds of passages accepting and regulating slavery or other practices we today believe do not express the heart and character of God,” he said.
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There is at least one obvious problem with the above procedure: How did he decide which passages to select in step 2? The answer is that those are the ones he likes. Or he assumes that he just knows what God's character is and therefore those passages he selected are the correct ones. There's a circular reasoning aspect to it. It's also arrogant.
Some people who believe the entire Bible is inspired also use the "character of God" idea to ignore the plain meaning of certain passages in the Bible.
Some people who believe the entire Bible is inspired also use the “character of God” idea to ignore the plain meaning of certain passages in the Bible.
God is both kind and severe....................
To be more accurate, each "flavor" of western Christianity has split in two, one remaining true to the doctrines of the faith and the other falling into leftist/Marxist/perverted heresy. True mainlines would be Presbyterian Church in America, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, Global Methodist Church, Anglican Church, some Baptist conventions. Heretics would be Preesbyterian Church USA, ELCA, United Methodists, Episcopal Church, Metropolitan Community Church, UCC (not the Japanese coffee), and other Baptist conventions. (The Catholics haven't split in two yet, but they're working on it.)
This isn't exhaustive, but it gives an idea.
The rats are really using the BS faith play big time.
Therefore:
Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Be rooted in Christ!
The August 19 date refers solely to the adoption of the gaysbian agenda, NOT to the “Full Communion” agreement.
Quite apart from his we-go-to-heaven error (rather, God will come to earth to live with His people), he is a universalist, no matter how he tries to spin it. He thinks that everybody will eventually end up in heaven.
Joshua 6:21 for Israel to take the Promised Land by putting to death every man, woman and child, Hamilton calls this divine order “genocide,” adding, “God commands priests to burn their daughters alive if they become prostitutes.
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Not quite.
Rahab the prostitute was rescued from Jerico.
And I can’t find the burn your daughters verse.
Is there a typo or did he misname the tour? Shouldn’t it be the “Leading from the Apostate” statewide tour”?
People who claim to know the mind of God are usually crazy.
Lev. 21.9 says “if a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.” (NIV translation)
Evangelicals will tell him to go to....uh...away.
Moreover, Rahab marries Salmon, who according to the Midrash was one of the spies doing recon in Jericho. Their son, Boaz, married Ruth from Moab, which makes their son, Obed, 1/4 Jewish and 3/4 Goyishe.
Obed was David's granddad.
As a pastor its hard for me to see so many not understand the cohesiveness of the bible from beginning to end and its consistant themes of sin, judgment, grace, mercy. How a loving God cannot turn a blind eye to sin and nations that are so corrupt they kill their children.
They believe their wisdom is greater than God’s. They believe the same God who raised Jesus from the dead cannot control what we see as Scripture. They discount the Holy Spirit’s ability to reveal the nature of God to the Apostles and the early church.
God also waited 400 years for the Israelites to go into Cana because the Cannanites were not evil enough yet. They were worshipping Baal and Molech; child sacrifices, sexual rites, etc.
And God told the Israelites to wipe them out. The Israelites defeated them, but didn’t wipe them out. Of course then the Israelites started to worship Baal. And God was patient with them for hundreds of years before allowing them to be taken over and shipped off to exile.
So God is loving, patient and just.
He’s just another freak who thinks he’s smarter than God.
Aye, from the fiery sword of Genesis 3 to the lake of fire in Revelation the line of judgement is unmistakable.
Lev. 21.9
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Thank You.
I’m pretty sure there’s a special place in Hell reserved for people, especially proclaimed priests, who pervert the words of God for their own personal agenda.
I left the UMC in 1988 and have never looked back. Why? Because it was being taken over by “ministers” like this guy who cared more about a social gospel than the true gospel. A UMC church I attended in college now flies a rainbow flag out front.
It’s my understanding that Adam survived an abortion but is pro abortion.
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