He’s not a Muslim. He’s not a Christian either.
Obama: There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they’re going to hell.
Falsani: You don’t believe that?
Obama: I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can’t imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That’s just not part of my religious makeup.
President-elect Obama, there’s someone here who says he knows you and he’d like to have a word with you. What’s that? You don’t recognize him? Let me see if I can get his name… He said to tell you, ”I am the Way; I am Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.”
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November 28, 2008 at 11:51 am
Love is the only thing that can save us all. xo-Carla.
November 28, 2008 at 11:59 am
I watched the video and I agree that we all need to show compassion for one another. This is a core belief of the Christian religion. Jesus says the two greatest commandments are Love the Lord your God and Love your neighbor as yourself.
My post is about Barack Obama’s repudiation of another core belief of the Christian religion: that is, salvation through Christ. You and many others believe that the only thing that can “save us all” is love. Christians believe that the only thing that can save us is Jesus. This doesn’t make us “intolerant.” It makes us Christians.
November 29, 2008 at 2:53 am
It makes your ilk a rather stuck-up and self-righteous brand of fundamentalist Christian. There are millions more who believe Christ is the Son of God and was sent to Earth to offer salvation to mankind.
If the “Royal Commandments” are the greatest, then it follows that any other “core beliefs” are of subordinate to them, especially when beliefs are in conflict with commandments.
November 29, 2008 at 10:39 am
The two greatest commandments, as Christ gave them, beautifully and simply encompass all of the Old Testament “10 Commandments.” They do not trump them, they reinforce and repeat them. There is no conflict.
I am not a fundamentalist Christian. I am an evangelical Protestant.