Democrat ‘Pastor’ Running For Senate Claims Bible Is Riddled With ‘Hundreds’ Of Errors

James Talarico has drawn attention for his skewed interpretation of the Scriptures, but he’s not the only Democrat running for Senate this year on a platform rooted in an unorthodox version of Christianity.

Adam Hamilton, for example, is a Methodist pastor hoping to represent Kansas on Capitol Hill, and he has attracted criticism for his take on the typical Christian view that the Holy Bible is the inerrant Word of God written through human hands.

As Breitbart reported:

Hamilton is a senior pastor at Resurrection, A United Methodist Church, who is running for Senate, hoping to take down Republican Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS). He wrote in a message to his congregation that he is running as an “’independent-minded’ candidate on the Democratic ticket for the United States Senate.”

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He is largely running on an “affordability” agenda, leaving social issues out of the way at the kickstart. However, he already has a record of controversial views on record — particularly his view that the Bible is full of errors.

In one sermon titled, “Is The Bible True?” Hamilton appears to conclude that it is not — at least, not entirely.

“If I could prove just one mistake in the Bible, will I have won the debate? He said, ‘Absolutely.’ I said, ‘Ok,’” he said, detailing his conversation and noting that he could think of “hundreds” of mistakes in God’s Word.

After reporting that he went on to harp on one supposed discrepancy between two Gospel accounts, the Breitbart article added this:

However, Hamilton is wrong. Matthew actually does not provide a location for Jesus’s ascension to the Father. The gospel ends detailing Jesus giving the Great Commission on or near a mountain in Galilee, but there is no mention of the ascension. Mark also does not provide a specific location of the ascension, nor does John mention it. The Gospel of Luke, however, describes Jesus leading his followers out to Bethany, said to be on the slopes of the Mount of Olives. Acts also records Jesus’s disciples returning “from the mount called Olivet” after the ascension.