Dave Hunt (Christian apologist)

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Dave Hunt
David Hunt in 2008 in Canada
Hunt in 2008 in Canada.
Born
David Charles Haddon Hunt

(1926-09-30)September 30, 1926
DiedApril 5, 2013(2013-04-05) (aged 86)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Occupations
  • apologist *author *speaker *radio commentator
Years active1973–2013
Known forApologetics
Notable workThe Seduction of Christianity: Spiritual Discernment in the Last Days
SpouseRuth Klassen (m. 1950–2013; his death)
Children4
Parent(s)Albert Hunt
Lillian Hunt
Websitethebereancall.org

David Charles Haddon Hunt (September 30, 1926 – April 5, 2013) was an American

Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism, and Calvinism
, among others. Hunt's Christian theology was evangelical dispensational and he was associated with the Plymouth Brethren movement.[3]

Early and personal life

David Charles Haddon Hunt was born on September 30, 1926, in Riverside, California, to Lillian and Albert Hunt. He was raised in a Christian family, with two siblings.[4] As a young man, he also spent time in the military, at the end of World War II.[5] He studied at UCLA and married his college sweetheart, Ruth Klaussen (1926–2013). The couple had four children: David Jr., Janna, Karen and Jon. He worked as a CPA before his entry into full-time ministry.[6]

Positions

Hunt believed occult or pagan influences are pervasive in modern culture – this includes evolution, as well as all forms of psychology, some forms of entertainment, yoga, and some forms of medicine. His book Occult Invasion is dedicated to this area, while several other books mention it in part.[7]

Creationism

Hunt was a strict Biblical

Creationist – refutations of evolution and theistic evolution
were a frequent topic of his radio programs, Search the Scriptures Daily and According to God's Word.

...I think you’ve got to be very stubborn to reject God and to say evolution—it all happened by chance. No rational person could support that thesis. And I would challenge anybody....—you know the more they get down—when we discovered electron microscopes and we got down to the molecular level of life, we found that it was far more complex than Darwin realized.[8]

Calvinism

Hunt addressed

Arminian
stance. He outlined a theological middle ground between Calvinism and Arminianism, where, according to Hunt, one can believe in eternal security but reject Calvinistic teaching. Also published in 2004 was Debating Calvinism: Five Points, Two Views, co-written in a point-counterpoint debate format by Hunt and Calvinist apologist James White.

Catholicism

In A Woman Rides the Beast, he identified the

Roman Catholic Church as the Whore of Babylon from the prophecies in chapters 17 and 18 of the Book of Revelation
.

Mormonism

The book

The God Makers (1982) by Jeremiah Films were an exposé of Mormonism, highlighting the Mormon belief that Jesus is the spirit brother of Lucifer and many other disturbing facts. The book and film have been criticized not only by Mormons themselves as inaccurate portrayals of their religion but also as inaccurate by other non-Mormon groups that are critical of Mormonism.[9]

Prophecy

Dave Hunt regularly spoke on Bible prophecy, including his book A Cup of Trembling which warned against the then-current peace process.[10]

Other

In 1973 he wrote the screenplay for Time to Run, a Christian film produced for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (Hunt later criticized Graham's ministry for its open ecumenism).

The Seduction of Christianity (co-written with Tom A. McMahon), which categorized Word of Faith teachings, meditation, and psychology-based counseling as New Age heresies, generated much debate in the 1980s. Responses from meditation proponents and from Calvinist re-constructionist writers include Seduction?? A Biblical Response and The Reduction of Christianity. Hunt has written a rejoinder to the latter critics in his Whatever Happened to Heaven?

Hunt wrote about Y2K with the intent of refuting the fearful predictions being made by other Christian fundamentalist writers (Y2K: A Reasoned Response To Mass Hysteria).

In his final book, "Cosmos, Creator and Human Destiny", Hunt supported the Creationist viewpoint and alleged that there were deficiencies in both the Big Bang theory and the theory of evolution.

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "'Bold, Loving' Christian Apologist Dave Hunt Passes Away at Age 87". The Christian Post. 12 April 2013. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
  2. ^ "Radio". The Berean Call. 2013-10-24. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  3. ^ "About Dave Hunt". Chick.com. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  4. ^ "About Dave Hunt". The Berean Call. Archived from the original on 2018-02-02. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  5. ^ "End Times Prophecy Author Dave Hunt Has Died". Now The End Begins.com. 2013-04-06. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  6. ^ "The Berean Call: About Dave Hunt". The Berean Call. Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
  7. ^ "Can You Believe in the Bible and Evolution?". The Berean Call. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
  8. ^ "The Godmakers". YouTube. 2007-11-20. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  9. ^ "Dave Hunt Rally: Prophecy, Current Events, and the Return of Christ". VCY America. WVCY-TV. 9 September 2000. Retrieved 31 August 2019.

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