Dave Hunt

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Dave Hunt (1926 – ) is a Christian apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author. He has been in full-time ministry since 1973. The Berean Call ministry, which highlights Dave's materials, was started in 1990. Hunt has traveled to the Near East, lived in Egypt, and written numerous books on theology, prophecy, cults, and other religions, including critiques of Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism, and Calvinism, among others. His books have sold over 4 million copies and have been translated into at least 20 languages.

Theologically, Hunt is evangelical, "progressively" dispensational, not a Calvinist (though he does hold to eternal security), and was associated with the Plymouth Brethren Movement.

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[edit] Early life

Hunt was born in 1926 and raised in a Christian family. He is an alumnus of UCLA and is married with four children. He worked as a CPA before his entry into full-time ministry. [1]

[edit] Positions

Hunt is a strict Biblical Creationist - refutations of evolution are a frequent topic of his radio programme. He has stated his view that evolution is a form of occult religion related to reincarnation.

Hunt believes occult or pagan influences are pervasive in modern culture - this includes evolution, as well as all forms of psychology, some forms of entertainment, all forms of science-fiction or fantasy - especially Harry Potter - yoga, some forms of medicine, environmental concern or conservation and much of public education. His book Occult Invasion is dedicated to this area, while several other books mention it in part.

[edit] Calvinism

Hunt addressed Calvinism in a book called What Love is This? Calvinism's Misrepresentation of God, published in 2002 and revised in 2004, which became one of his most controversial works. The accuracy of the book is disputed, especially its treatment of Calvinist sources such as Charles Spurgeon.

Also published in 2004 was Debating Calvinism: Five Points, Two Views, co-written in a debate format by Hunt and Calvinist theologian and translation consultant James White.

[edit] Catholicism

In A Woman Rides the Beast, he identifies the Roman Catholic Church as the Whore of Babylon from the prophecies in chapters 17 and 18 of the Book of Revelation, a position advocated by most Protestant Reformers. Catholics, and many modern-day evangelicals disagree.

[edit] Mormonism

The God-Makers, co-written with Ed Decker, and the accompanying film of the same title, was a provocative expose on Mormonism.

[edit] Other

The Seduction of Christianity (co-written with Tom 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 reconstructionist 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?

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[edit] Critical Assessments

  • Douglas E. Cowan, Bearing False Witness? An Introduction to the Christian Countercult (Westport: Praeger, 2003).
  • Gary DeMar and Peter Leithart, The Reduction of Christianity: A Biblical Response to Dave Hunt (Fort Worth: Dominion/Atlanta: American Vision, 1988).
  • Irving Hexham, "The Evangelical Response to the New Age," in Perspectives on the New Age, James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton, eds., (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992), pp 152-163.
  • Brant Pelphrey, "Negative Thinking in a "Positive" Age (Book Review of The Seduction of Christianity)" Areopagus, 1/1 (Fall 1987), pp. 42-45.
  • Thomas F. Reid, Mark Virkler, James A. Laine and Alan Langstaff, Seduction?? A Biblical Response (New Wilmington: Son-Rise, 1986).
  • SCP Staff, "The Final Threat: Cosmic Conspiracy and End Times Speculation," in The New Age Rage, Karen Hoyt and J. Isamu Yamamoto, eds., (Old Tappan: Revell, 1987), pp. 185-201.
  • Gilbert W. Scharffs, The Truth About "The God Makers": A Response to an inaccurate portrayal of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1986).
  • Wally Tope, "The God Makers," Areopagus, 3/1 (Advent 1989), pp. 48-50.

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