There was a time when false prophets had to travel from town to town, gathering a following through charisma and deceit. Now, they simply upload. With a tap of the screen, heresy spreads to millions — a digital pulpit where the fear of God has been replaced with self-expression and applause.
One recent video by Ken Ham of so-called “TikTok pastors” is a tragic snapshot of where modern Christianity has drifted. These individuals claim to be ministers of Christ while denying everything He said and everything Scripture teaches. Some openly doubt God’s existence. Others declare that Jesus is not God, that the Bible is riddled with errors, and that sexual immorality is not sin. One even goes so far as to call God “queer.”
It would be easy to dismiss them as fringe voices, but their videos rack up hundreds of thousands of views. For many young people, this is their first and only encounter with “Christianity.” The result is predictable: confusion, rebellion, and a loss of faith in the authority of Scripture.
The Root of the Deception: A Low View of Scripture
Ham rightly identifies the common thread behind this deception — a low view of Scripture. These TikTok “pastors” claim the Bible was merely written and interpreted by imperfect humans, and therefore cannot be trusted as the inerrant Word of God. That’s the same lie Satan whispered in Eden: “Did God really say?” (Genesis 3:1).
Once that foundation crumbles, everything else collapses. If the Bible is fallible, then every moral boundary, every divine command, and every word about salvation becomes negotiable.
Yet Scripture is anything but uncertain about its own origin and authority. Paul wrote, “All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16). The Apostle Peter warned that false teachers would “secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them” (2 Peter 2:1). And the church in Thessalonica was commended because they received the message “not as the word of men but as what it really is, the Word of God” (1 Thessalonians 2:13).