Answers in Genesis founder Ken Ham has urged Christians to pray for Michael Gungor following the musician's latest comments suggesting Jesus may have been wrong about creation, or lied about it to the Jews.
"[N]ot only does Michael Gungor deny the historical accuracy of the creation and Flood accounts—but he believes Jesus Christ was probably wrong, too!" Mr Ham wrote in a blogpost.
"This is a sad place for a professing Christian to be in."
Comments by the award winning Christian artist regarding the literal happening of Old Testament events such as Noah's flood and the Creation story have ignited heated debates over the past month.
"I have no more ability to believe, for example, that the first people on earth were a couple named Adam and Eve that lived 6,000 years ago. 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," Gungor wrote earlier this year.
His most recent comments made in a discussion with Mike McHargue implied that it was possible for Jesus to be wrong about creation as he was limited in his human form, or perhaps he was aware of the incorrect interpretation of the scripture but hid it in order to fit in with popular culture.
"To just see a few words that somebody said, that Jesus said, about Noah, and to assume that you can get into Jesus' mind and know exactly how he thought about the whole situation, and how He considered history versus myth versus whatever—how do you know?" Gungor said.
"And even if He was wrong, even if He did believe that Noah was a historical person, or Adam was a historical person, and ended up being wrong, I don't understand how that even would deny the divinity of Christ. . . . The point is it wouldn't freak me out if He was wrong about it.
"Even if Jesus knew that Noah and Adam were mythical, but knew He was talking to people who thought they were real, that's another possibility."
Ham labelled the claims as "outrageous" and hoped the influential musician would take up his offer to visit the Creation Museum.
"I urge you to pray for him, that he'll accept our offer to visit the Creation Museum and that he'll come to accept the authority of God's Word in every area—including the history in Genesis!" Mr Ham wrote.