Ben Carson - Religion
What
is the religion of Ben Carson? Is Ben Carson really a Christian?
Ben Carson was born to a mother who at 13 years of age wed a 28-year-old
minister of the Seventh Day Adventist religion. When Ben Carson
was 8 years old, his mother discovered that her husband was a bigamist. The ensuing
divorce pushed Ben Carson, his brother and his illiterate mother into poverty (see
Ben Carson Background and
Justice of God).
Ben Carson was baptized into the Seventh Day Adventist religion at 8 years of age and
again at 12 years of age, when he told the minister of another Seventh Day Adventist
congregation in Detroit that he hadn't fully understood the significance of the first ceremony.
He has remained a Seventh Day Adventist since then, and for the past two
decades has been an elder and a Sabbath-day teacher at the Spencerville Seventh
Day Adventist Church in Silver Spring, Maryland.
What is Seventh Day Adventism?
Seventh Day Adventism is a religion founded by William Miller, a 19th century false
prophet who prophesied that Jesus would return sometime during the twelve months
starting in March of 1843. In April of 1844, a defiant Miller re-prophesied that
Jesus would return on October 22, 1844.
Ellen G. White, a follower of Miller, then re-grouped Miller's
demoralized flock around her own even more dangerous false prophecies. She
claimed to have watched God create the universe, and taught, among other
heresies,
that keeping the Sabbath was the greatest commandment, Sunday Sabbath is the "mark of the beast,"
God forbids coffee and tea, and non-vegetarians will not be saved in the last
days. More serious, she taught the demonic lies that there is no hell, Jesus is
a lesser God, Jesus did not die
to pay the penalty for our sins, and that that honor belongs to Satan:
"When Christ, by virtue of His own blood, removes
the sins of His people from the heavenly sanctuary at the close of his
ministration, he will place them upon Satan, who, in the execution of the
judgment, must bear the final penalty." -
Ellen G.
White, The Great Controversy Between Christ And Satan, 1858
Ellen G. White claimed over 2,000 supernatural visions, authored over 5,000
articles and 40 books, and is revered as a prophetess by today's Seventh Day Adventists,
whose beliefs reflect her heretical and Satanic teachings.
Does Ben Carson believe in the teachings of Seventh Day Adventism?
When a Seventh Day Adventist journalist asked Ben Carson in 2013,
"Are
there ever any times when you feel it’s best to
distinguish yourself from the Seventh-day Adventist Church and what it teaches,"
Ben Carson replied,
"No, I don’t." -
Adventist Report, April 6, 2013
In 2015, Ben Carson wrote a Facebook entry that reflected some of the teachings
of Seventh Day Adventism:
"As Easter approaches,
let us remember the role that Jesus Christ and God play in our lives. Let us
also remember that Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in God, and while
there are ideological differences in who Jesus was, we should find peace in the
fact that we are all God’s children. Jesus is my role model, and he preached
love, he preached acceptance. He also was a man of values and principles, and he
ended up being crucified for it. But, he rose again to advocate godly principles
of loving our fellow man, caring about our neighbors, developing our God-given
talents to the utmost so that we become valuable to the people around us, and
maintaining high ideals that govern our lives."
- Ben Carson, Facebook, April 4, 2015
"Jesus Christ and God" implies Jesus is
not God, which contradicts the Bible's repeated declarations of Jesus' deity
(see
Proof Jesus is
God).
"Christians and Muslims" do not believe in the
same God.
Christians believe in the God of the Bible. Muslims believe in Allah, the
moon god of Islam (see
Islam:
what the West needs to know), which denies both the Trinity and the deity of Jesus.
Jesus voluntarily died on the cross to
pay the death penalty mandated for our sins (see
Justice of God); He is not someone who unexpectedly
"ended up being
crucified" for some
"values,"
and He
rose from the dead, not to
"advocate ... developing
... talents," but to prove His deity
(see
Proof of
Jesus' Resurrection).
In line with Seventh Day Adventist teachings, Ben Carson does not believe in the
existence of hell, the absence of which would devalue Jesus' sacrifice on
the cross:
"I don't believe there is a physical place where
people go and are tormented. No. I don't believe that... I see God as a very
loving individual. And why would he torment somebody forever who only had a life
of 60 or 70 or 80 years? Even if they were evil. Even if they were only evil for
80 years?" -
Ben Carson, The Washington Post,
December 1, 2015
A man who rapes a child may receive leniency from a pedophile judge, but a
just judge will lock away the criminal for a long time. God is just (see
Justice of God) and eternity
is long time to God, who told us that hell exists (see
Bible Verses
about Hell).
Disavowing hell leads Ben Carson to even delight in those who are headed there:
"As a Christian, I am not the least bit offended by
the beliefs of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Mormons and so forth. In fact, I am
delighted to know that they believe in something that is more likely to make
them into a reasonable human being." -
Ben Carson, America The Beautiful, 2012
Is Ben Carson a born-again Christian?
Here is how he describes his conversion:
"Yet in looking back, I’m not sure when I actually
turned to God. Or perhaps it happened so gradually that I had no awareness of
the progression." -
Ben Carson, Gifted Hands, 1996
We look forward to his answers to our questions below.
1. Are you a Christian?
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2. When and how did you become a Christian?
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3. How did becoming a Christian change you?
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4. How would you describe your relationship with Jesus today?
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5. Do you believe Jesus is the Son of God?
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6. Do you believe
Jesus is God?
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7. Do you believe Jesus died on the cross?
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8. Do you believe
Jesus Rose from the dead?
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9. Do you believe
Jesus Ascended to heaven?
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10. Do you believe Jesus will return someday?
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11. Which person, if any, do you believe represents Jesus on earth until He returns?
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12. By what criterion do you believe people go to heaven?
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13. By what criterion do you believe people
Go To Hell?
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14. In the past 12 months, how much time have you spent in prayer daily?
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15. When you pray for our nation, what do you pray for?
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16. In the past 12 months, how much Bible-reading have you averaged daily?
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17. What are your 2-3 favorite Bible verses and why?
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18. In the past 12 months, how many non-Christians have you told
Why Jesus Died?
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19. In the past 12 months, about how many church services have you attended?
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20. Which church do you attend most frequently?
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21. Which gift(s) has the Holy Spirit given you and what fruit(s) have they borne?
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22. Why would Jesus want you to be our next president?
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23. What experiences have prepared you to be our next president?
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24. How do you define
Marriage?
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25. Under what circumstances should
Abortion be allowed?
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26. What is your opinion of
Islam?
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27. What do you consider to be the top three challenges
America faces today?
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28. What do you believe to be the underlying root cause(s) of those challenges?
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29. What do you believe to be the key to overcoming those challenges?
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30. What else would you like to say to Christian voters?
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Before God, I affirm my answers above to be entirely true and without exaggeration.
Signed: