Ray Comfort (born December 5, 1949) is a New Zealand Christian preacher and evangelist living in the United States. Comfort started Living Waters Publications and The Way of the Master in Bellflower, California, and has written numerous books.
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According to Comfort's autobiography, her parents put "Methodist" on her birth certificate but she has not been given religious lessons since childhood. Comfort identifies itself as a Christian and Jew.
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Careers
In 1989, Comfort accepted an invitation to join a pastoral staff in a non-denominational Calvary Chapel in Southern California.
The Way of the Master ministry
In the mid-1990s, Comfort persuaded Kirk Cameron, the star of the hit sitcom who aborted Growing Pains, to become an evangelist. In 2002, the couple formed an organization called The Way of the Master , with the intention of teaching the church to more effectively preach the evangelical Christian message.
Consolation says that evangelism is the main reason the Christian Church exists and that many of the evangelistic methods used during the last century have resulted in a false conversion to Christianity. Convenience often uses the Ten Commandments to talk about sin before delivering the Gospel of Jesus. In the mid-1980s he formulated two sermons entitled "The Best Secrets Awakened from Hell" and "True and False Conflict."
The comfort of speaking professionally in churches and evangelistic seminars, and preaching in Huntington Beach, California. In addition to hosting former Way of the Master Radio with Kirk Cameron, he is the co-host of The Way of the Master Television Show.
In 2006, Comfort recorded a segment for the TV show The Way of the Master where he argued that bananas were "atheist nightmares", arguing that it featured many convenient features that were clever design evidence. The comfort of the video after learning that bananas are the result of man-made selection, and the wild bananas are small and uncomfortable.
Debate
On April 13, 2001, Comfort appeared at the American Atheist's 27th National Convention in Orlando, Florida, where he debated Ron Barrier, the National Spokesperson for Atheist America. Then Comfort states that "they laugh at my humor, and though there is a taunt united in some of the things I say, I can pass the Ten Commandments, the fact of Judgment Day, the reality of Hell, the Cross, and the need for repentance, and nothing stops me. "
On May 5, 2007, Comfort and Cameron participated in a television debate with Brian Sapient and Kelly O'Connor from the Rational Response Team, at Calvary Baptist Church in Manhattan. The debate focuses on the existence of God, which according to Convenience can be proved scientifically without depending on faith or the Bible. Martin Bashir's correspondent for Nightline is the moderator of the event. During the debate, Cameron and Comfort repeatedly referred to the Ten Commandments and denied the theory of evolution.
In February 2009, Comfort challenged Richard Dawkins to argue, offering to donate $ 10,000 to him. Dawkins, who previously declared a general policy not to argue with creationists, said he would agree to do so if Comfort contributed $ 100,000 to the Richard Dawkins Foundation for the organization of reason and reason. Comfort raised its bid to $ 20,000, which, according to PZ Myers "is not enough."
Publications
Tracts
According to Comfort, he has designed dozens of gospel tracts since the 1970s, and sells millions of Living Waters channels every year. Some of his tracts are designed to resemble paper money, including counterfeit banknotes of $ 100, $ 1,000 and $ 1 million. Others use new things that are meant for entertaining, such as "tickets to heaven" that invite readers to tear it if they do not need it; tickets printed on the polymer substrate, making it very durable. The treaty usually seeks to convince the reader that on the day of judgment, they will surely be found guilty of violating one or more of the Ten Commandments, and will therefore be sent to hell, unless they say a prayer to acknowledge Christ's atoning redemption.
In June 2006, US Secret Service agents confiscated thousands of "Million Dollar Bill" gospel tracts of Ray Comfort from Darrel Rundus, president of the Great News Network. A federal district court judge ruled that a treaty, marked as "not a valid payment instrument", did not violate federal law and ordered their return.
In October 2010, The New Zealand Herald reported that parents received a "card of appointment" by a California-based publishing company, Living Waters, asking them to fill in information about the date and time of their deaths, and to advise them to contact evangelists to avoid hell. The card recipient expressed anger and horror at receiving them, and contacted the police on the matter, with one of them commenting, "This is disgusting.It's scary enough.I can not understand why people will ask you to predict the date of your death." The New Zealand Herald summarized the statement from Living Waters spokesman Lisa Law, who said that "the cards are a way of raising awareness about human deaths to spark a discussion of Jesus," and that the Law "does not know who sent [tracts] ".
Books
Ray Comfort has written over 80 books and treatises. His 2009 Book You Can Lead An Atheist Become A Proof But You Can not Make Thinking , is ranked # 1 in the category of atheism and apologetics of Amazon.com when it debuted in February 2009.
Short Version of On Origin of Species
In November 2009, Comfort released an edited and summarized version of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, with a 50-page introduction detailing the creationist argument against the theory of evolution. The book is provided free of charge in selected schools throughout the United States. Stan Guffey, a biologist at the University of Tennessee, alleged that most of Comfort's portion of Darwin's life was plagiarized from his work.
According to the Comfort website, "nothing was removed from Darwin's original work", but Eugenie C. Scott, executive director of the National Science Education Center (NCSE), noted that Comfort removed four chapters by Darwin illustrating evolutionary evidence, adding that the two chapters eliminated, Chapters 11 and 12, presenting biogeography, some of Darwin's strongest evidence for evolution. He wrote that the preface of Comfort is "the hopeless chaos of the long-denied creationist argument, full of misinformation about the science of evolution, inhabited by the legion of straw, and shows what can be described with gloom as chaotic thinking."
In 2011, Comfort wrote and produced a 33-minute documentary titled 180: Changing the Heart of the Nation . The film was criticized by The Huffington Post due to a comparison of abortions with the Holocaust.
The Comfort Movie 2016 The Atheist Delusion is first published in Ark Encounter, a Christian theme park operated by Christian apologetics and the young Earth creation organization Answers in Genesis on October 22, 2016.
Movieography
- The Secret of Affected Nostradamus (1995): Author, producer
- True Fiction (1999): Author
- The Way of the Master series (2003-14): Self-Host, author, producer
- 180: Changing the Nation's Heart (2011): Self, author, producer
- Genius (2012): Self, author, director
- Evolution vs. God: Shake the Faith Foundation (2013): Self, director
- Noah and Last Last (2014): Director, producer, author, self, runner, voice
- Audacity (2015): Author, executive producer
- The Atheist Delusion (2016): Executive producer
- Exit: Suicide Appeal (2017): Narrator, Author, Executive Producer
References
External links
- LivingWaters.com - Official website
- Comfort Zone - Ray Comfort blog
- The Way of the Teacher - Website for his service with Kirk Cameron
- Ray Comfort on IMDb
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