Charles Clough

Role: Conference/Guest speaker

After four years of active duty as a weather officer supporting Air Force operations, he entered Dallas Theological Seminary. Charlie earned the Th.M. in Old Testament Hebrew while at Dallas, graduating in 1968. His master’s thesis was titled A Calm Appraisal of The Genesis Flood, which was a review and analysis of the reviews and analyses of John Whitcomb and Henry Morris’ classic work The Genesis Flood.

By this time in his life, he had examined the philosophical foundations—rarely mentioned in contemporary education—underlying the extension of the scientific method for forensics (study of past events not reproducible in laboratory conditions). He concluded that no conflict exists between actual data and the Bible’s historical narratives. The oft-cited “conflicts” between forensically applied science and the Bible arise solely due to the philosophical speculations required to generate interpretive theories, not due to any actually observed data. While involved in Christian ministry to university students, he utilized this insight to present biblical truths as forming a basic framework for all of knowledge.

Continuing his work with the Air Force as a Reservist in the early 1980s, Charles earned the M.S. in Atmospheric Science from Texas Tech University. From 1982 through 2006, he served as a staff meteorologist with the Department of the Army in charge of atmospheric measurements, modeling, and environmental applications to support weapons testing at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. He retired from the position as Chief of the Atmospheric Effects Team.

Starting in the fall of 1995, Charlie began teaching a Thursday evening class at Fellowship Chapel in Jarrettsville, Maryland on his Basic Framework for Christian Doctrine. This series was completed in the Spring of 2002. All of the 224 MP3 lessons, class handouts, lecture transcriptions, and miscellanea are available for downloading from this Web site: http://www.bibleframework.org

A well-respected Bible scholar, with a scientific background, Charles is a much sought-after conference speaker and teacher. He is on the Governing Board and serves as a member of the Adjunct Faculty of Chafer Theological Seminary.

Charlie and Carol reside in Bel Air, Maryland. They are parents of four grown sons.

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Thinking Through Ministering in an LGBTQ+ Culture

Friday, November 10, 2023

by Charles Clough

Series: 2023 Charles Clough

Duration: 45 mins 26 secs

One of the most significant challenges facing parents, educators, students, employers, and in many of our relationships is this notion that we can create our own sexual identity. Have you been scratching your head, wondering where the illogical ideas of the LGBTQ+ community originated? And why have they become so accepted and pervasive? Ideas don’t just pop up out of thin air. Ideas have roots in past philosophical and religious ideas, often those which are virulently opposed to God, His creation ordinances, and Divine Institutions. In this lesson which Charlie Clough presented to Dr. Dean's online pastors group, he traces the source of these ideas and how and why they have become so pervasive and persuasive. Please listen to this presentation to understand the ultimately Satanic strategy which is designed to attack and destroy the Christian values in this world, to attack and remove parental authority over their children, and destroy the foundations of any nation in marriage and family.