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I have before me, an 'Answers in Genesis' Newsletter by Ken Ham. Allow me to post what is happening inside the USA. READY?

--ATHEISTS AREN'T THE ONLY PROBLEM!

The Bible warns us about a group of people that our children need to be rescued from: "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!' says the LORD" (Jeremiah 23:1).

I thought of this verse recently when someone brought a segment of the 700 Club TV Program--hosted by Pat Robertson--to my attention. A lady had written the following to Pat Robertson, which he read on the air:

"I have three teenage boys and now two of them are questioning the Bible. This scares me! They tell me if the Bible is truth, then I should be able to reasonably explain the existence of dinosaurs. This is just one of the many things they question. Even my husband is agreeing with them.

"How do I explain things to them that the Bible doesn't cover? I am so afraid that they are walking away from God. My biggest fear is not to have my children and husbnd next to me in God's Kingdom."

Pat Robertson gave an answer on the air that so burdened me that I just had to warn you again about compromising shepherds in the church and the kids who need to be rescued from them. His answer:

"Look, I know peopole will probably try to lynch me when I say this, but Bishop Ussher, God bless him, wasn't inspired by the Lord when he said that it all took 6,000 years. It just didn't. And you go back in time, you've got radiocarbon dating. You got all these things and you've got the carcasses of dianosaurs frozen in time out in the Dakotas...

"They're out there and so, there was a time when these giant reptiles were on the Earth and it was before the time of the Bible. So, don't try to cover it up and make like everything was 6,000 years. That's not the Bible...If you fight real science, you're going to lose your children, and I believe in telling the way it was."

Well, I pray this lady does not accept Pat Robertson's destructive advice. This televangelist does not understand that the Bible includes references to huge land-dwelling creatures--what we would call dinosaurs--that lived at the same time as man; furthermore, he does not understand the difference between historical and observational science. Plus, he obviously does not understand carbon dating at all, which has nothing to do with millions of years.

Notice how he mocked those of us who take a stand on a young earth (he has done that before.) Robertson was essentially telling this concerned woman to make sure her kids believe what the secularists say about earth history. Sadly, this kind of approach is a major reason children are walking away from Christ and from the church in unbelief, not because of the teachings of biblical creationists.

To be frank, and though he has done much good( especially in humanitarian relief), Pat Robertson is one of those compromising shepherds we discuss in my book Already Gone. /