Ken Ham Defends 'The Ark Encounter' to Secularist
Ken Ham, president and founder of Answers in Genesis, took to social media Monday morning to send a message to secularists who criticize Noah's Ark and blame God for all of the world's problems.
Ham is launching The Ark Encounter, a theme park set to open in Kentucky this summer. The main attraction is the largest timber frame structure in the world, replicating Noah's Ark from the Bible. The structure standing at 510 feet long, in accordance with the dimensions specified in the Bible, is getting a lot of attention not only across the United States but around the world.
Along with international interest has come an onslaught of attacks on The Ark Encounter. Ham took to Twitter Monday morning to address those who are trying to discredit the validity of Noah's Ark and who argue that the Bible's account of the great flood is cruel and unjust.
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Read the series of Tweets in its entirety below.
"Secularists emphasize God's judgment at the Flood of Noah's day but ignore man's wickedness and why a righteous God had every right to judge
Secularists accuse God of being immoral as He judged at the Flood but ignore the fact they've no absolute basis to make any moral judgment
Secularists emphasize the judgment aspect of the Flood but ignore man's wickedness and the fact God is a God of salvation providing an Ark
Secularists mock at @ArkEncounter because they want to suppress the wickedness of man and that we're all under judgment by a Holy God
Secularists mock @ArkEncounter as they don't want to acknowledge they are in need of the Ark of salvation--Noah's Ark is a picture of Jesus
Secularists mock those who trust God because of death & suffering we see-cause they refuse to acknowledge death's a consequence of our sin
Secularists inconsistently use moral judgments to mock God cause they're desperate to suppress God is the absolute authority & we're sinners
A key issue secularists close their eyes to is that we're all sinners, God is a righteous God, death & disease are consequences of our sin
Secularists mock Christians and blame God for the problems of this world as they refuse to acknowledge our sin against God is the cause
Death, suffering and disease are not God's fault, they're our fault because we sinned against a Holy God who is the righteous God
Before God judged our sin with death (Genesis 3), He promised a Savior to pay the penalty so we can be restored to our Holy Creator"
More than 1.4 million visitors are expected to tour The Ark Encounter in its first year, with its opening date scheduled for July 7. The 40 days and 40 nights theme reflects the number of days and nights it rained while Noah and his family were in the Ark, as recorded in Genesis 7.
The Ark Encounter can accommodate about 16,000 guests per day, but tickets have gone to pre-sale because it's predicted that more people than that may try to visit within the first few weeks of opening due to it being summer.
Construction of the Ark cost $92 million and most of that has been raised through bonds, donations, and memberships.
The Ark Encounter website recently released helicopter footage of the ongoing construction project.
For more information about the life size replicated Ark, visit www.ArkEncounter.com.
