Ben Carson, despite his celebrated career as a highly successful neurosurgeon and his conservative political endeavors, is deeply enmeshed in the Seventh-Day Adventist cult—a religious group whose doctrines are as far removed from biblical Christianity as east is from west. Carson’s alignment with a sub-Christian sect that peddles false prophecies and distorts the gospel is nothing short of spiritual poison.

During his presidential campaign in 2015, Carson claimed that God gave him the answers to his chemistry exam in a dream:

“When I went to take the test the next morning, it was like ‘The Twilight Zone,’” Carson said. “I opened that book and I recognized the first problem as one of the ones I dreamed about. And the next, and the next, and the next, and I aced the exam and got a good mark in chemistry. It worked out okay and I promised the Lord he would never have to do that for me again.”

To make matters worse, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) had extended an invitation to Carson to speak at their annual meeting. Thankfully, discerning voices within the community raised the alarm, and after significant pushback, he was ultimately disinvited.

Now, Carson is making an even more outrageous claim—that the Constitution, just like the Bible, is the inspired Word of God.

“You know the founders of this country were really some terrific people,” Carson said during a recent speech at the Billy Graham Library, “and they were studious and they studied every government system that ever existed in the history of the world because they wanted to take the good things and leave the bad things out and give us the kind of country that would last and would have freedoms for our people.”

“But it was a rough go,” he said. “And in that last constitutional convention in Philadelphia the whole thing almost broke apart because there were so many disagreements about how it should be done.”

“And then the elder statesman 81 year old Benjamin Franklin came up and he said, ‘Gentlemen, stop let’s get down on our knees and let’s seek wisdom from God.'”

“And they knelt and prayed and they got up and they put together the Constitution of the United States,” he continued, “which I think is a God-inspired document if we will follow it.“

Now Carson, with the approval of Franklin Graham, wants us to believe that the Constitution, like the Bible, is the inspired Word of God? What’s next—are we going to canonize the Federalist Papers and declare James Madison a prophet? If we follow Carson’s logic, then Benjamin Franklin, a known deist who doubted divine intervention, suddenly becomes a saint who received divine revelations on par with the Apostles.

I don’t necessarily have to agree with your religion to support you politically, but pleaseinterpret the actual Word of God properly, don’t prop up your political views with twisted interpretations of Scripture—just leave your religion out of it altogether. And I’d like to think Franklin Graham knows better, but clearly, he doesn’t.

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