“After seeing the intense reaction that arose from suggesting evolution is “undeniable,” Houston hedged a bit by offering some context to his earlier tweet.”
(Faith Wire) Hillsong Church has, over the years, hardly avoided the limelight, often finding itself at the center of hotly-contested debates. Now one of its biggest leaders is running headlong into the creation debate.
Joel Houston, eldest son of the Sydney-based church’s founders, lead musician in the worship band Hillsong United, and co-pastor of Hillsong Church in New York City, tweeted Monday that “evolution is undeniable.”
See Joel Houstons Tweet on the site
Houston is certainly not the first to raise questions about the six-day creation story outlined in Genesis, but the affirmation of evolutionary theory nevertheless remains controversial in many — if not most — Christian circles today.
In 2014, Christian musician Michael Gungor stirred up controversy for a blog post he actually wrote in 2012 in which he explained he had “no more ability” to believe “that the first people on earth were a couple named Adam and Eve that lived 6,000 years ago.”
He continued, according to Relevant:
“I have no ability to believe that there was a flood that covered all the highest mountains of the world only 4,000 years ago and that all of the animal species that exist today are here because they were carried on an ark and then somehow walked or flew all around the world from a mountain in the Middle East after the water dried up.”
Related:
Hillsong articles — Word of Faith teachers Brian & Bobbie Houston, Carl Lenz, et al