Kansas Senate Frontrunner Adam Hamilton Attacked the Bible With One Contradiction and Lost

Adam Hamilton wants to be Kansas's next senator while pastoring the largest Methodist church in the country.

Before his own congregation, the frontrunner turned preacher picked apart the Bible to prove his point.

He staked his whole argument on one supposed contradiction and it may not even exist.

Pastor Turned Senate Candidate Tells Congregation the Bible Is Wrong

Hamilton leads Resurrection, a United Methodist Church, a Kansas City megachurch with tens of thousands of members.

He is also the Democrat frontrunner hoping to unseat Republican Sen. Roger Marshall in November.

Hamilton has campaigned mostly on cost-of-living issues and has kept social issues out of the spotlight so far.

But he already carries a long record of controversial theology, and one sermon in particular is now getting attention.

In a message called "Is The Bible True?" Hamilton told his congregation he could prove Scripture was not entirely reliable.

He described challenging a church member to a debate over whether the Bible contains mistakes.

"They can't both be right, so one of them is wrong," Hamilton told his congregation, laying out his supposed proof.

His example centered on where the Gospels say Jesus ascended into heaven.

Hamilton claimed Luke places the ascension at the Mount of Olives while Matthew places it in Galilee, a gap of 75 to 90 miles.

To Hamilton, that was case closed. The whole Bible was now on trial.

He went further and mocked anyone whose faith depends on Scripture being trustworthy, telling the room their faith had fallen apart over a single mistake.

Scripture Never Actually Says What Hamilton Claims

Here is the problem. Matthew never says where the ascension happened, and Mark and John never mention the location of the ascension at all – but Mark tells of Christ sending word to His disciples to meet him in Galilee and John quotes Jesus telling of His ascension and then reports He appeared in Galilee.

The word used in John is the Greek phaneroo – that means Jesus didn’t just show up in Galilee, He literally manifested or appeared supernaturally.

All the Gospels insist Christ is who He said He is, which means he was resurrected and ascended to heaven.

Luke is the only Gospel that names a location for the ascension, the Mount of Olives, and Acts backs it up.

There is no 75-mile gap.

Hamilton built his entire case against biblical inerrancy on a mistake of his own making, not the Bible's.

In the same sermon, he held up a colander and told his congregation to sift out anything in Scripture that clashed with Jesus's words.

He never mentioned that Jesus said He came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets, not discard them.

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A Kansas City Megachurch Meets a Statewide Campaign

Hamilton's church, Resurrection, counts roughly 24,000 members across nine locations in Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio.

He announced his Senate run in April after spending weeks on a listening tour through 18 Kansas towns.

Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932, and Hamilton entered the race as the Democratic frontrunner.

The Kansas Republican Party has already filed a federal complaint alleging Hamilton and his church illegally used staff time, equipment, and email lists to promote his campaign before he ever officially announced.

Now Kansans get a preview of the theology guiding the man who wants to represent them in Washington.

Here Is What Should Worry Every Kansas Voter

A man asking Kansans to send him to the Senate stood in front of his own congregation, declared the Bible riddled with errors, and got the error wrong.

That is not a minor slip. That is the entire architecture of how he sees truth itself.

He held up a colander like it was a theology degree and still couldn't get four short Gospel accounts straight.

That's the man Kansans are being asked to trust with a vote on the next border security bill.

The United Methodist Church has lost millions of members as it abolished its bans on gay clergy and marriage and its pulpits drifted further left, and this sermon shows exactly why.

He is not shepherding people toward Scripture. He is teaching them to distrust it, using a contradiction that any seminary freshman could debunk in five minutes.

Kansas voters do not just get a senator if Hamilton wins in November. They get a preacher who told them the Bible is wrong and was wrong about why.

That is not independent-minded, whatever his campaign calls itself. That is careless with the truth, in the pulpit and on the campaign trail alike.

Sources:

• Hannah Knudsen, "Kansas Democrat Senate Frontrunner and Methodist Pastor: Bible Is Full of Errors," Breitbart, July 20, 2026.
• "Democrat Frontrunner for Senate in Kansas Is Pastor Who Says the Bible Is 'Full of Errors,'" Not the Bee, July 21, 2026.
• "RELEASE: KSGOP Files Ethics Complaint Against Adam Hamilton for Illegal Use of Tax-Exempt Church Resources," Kansas Republican Party, April 24, 2026.
• Jon Brown, "United Methodist Church Abolishes LGBTQ Ban, 'Last of the Major Mainline Groups to Liberalize,'" Fox News, May 6, 2024.