The Faith of Barack Obama
Thursday November 13, 2008
Categories: Election '08
In a 2004 interview with Cathleen Falsani, Barack Obama shows his particular strain of social gospel and cosmopolitan Christianity. Beliefnet's Steve Waldman received permission to reprint the entire interview: The most detailed and fascinating explication of Barack Obama's faith came in a 2004...
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That is a wonderful interview. It sheds more light on a fascinating leader. It makes me appreciate him even more.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
This makes me appreciate him all the more. And that part about tucking his daughters in at night as being a piece of heaven - priceless!
Words of Hope from our Next President
"Pennsylvania, that’s what hope is – that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better is waiting around the bend; that insists there are better days ahead. If we’re willing to work for it. If we’re willing to shed our fears and our doubts. If we’re willing to reach deep down inside ourselves when we’re tired and come back fighting harder."
President Barack Obama
Speaking in Chester, PA during 2008 Campaign
Good, insightful interview. Bad theology. Oh well, what can you do.
By Obama's own words he is not a true Christian. He denies Jesus as the exclussive Savior of mankind. He also defines sin as a violation of his values. This is not sound doctrine.
http://whyimnotademocrat.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-defines-sin-and-it-is-not.html
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.” Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:1-6
When Obama appeared on the scene as a candidate for president a red flag went off in my spirit. His canned rhetoric, associations, religious influences from his childhood and his dancing with statements of faith confirmed in my spirit that he is just a man who looks to himself as a god and doesn't know Jesus as his personal Savior and Lord. He is such a self impressed man that there may not be room for anyone else on the throne of his heart
His canned rhetoric, associations, religious influences from his childhood and his dancing with statements of faith confirmed in my spirit that he is just a man who looks to himself as a god and doesn't know Jesus as his personal Savior and Lord. He is such a self impressed man that there may not be room for anyone else on the throne of his heart
"Judge not, lest ye be judged." --Jesus
Who are you to say at all what's in Barack Obama's heart? Just because something was "confirmed in your spirit" (whatever the heck that means) means it must be true? I'm assuming that you've never spoken with Barack Obama, yet you feel justified in judging his spiritual life from afar?
People like you give Christianity a bad name. Please don't speak of things you don't know.
Very bad theology. It seems that this is a mish-mash of many things but no one ideology. This is the problem of trying to be everything to everybody. While he is a very bright and eloquent man, especially compared with our current president, and I may like much of his political ideology his theology is scary. Christians should fasten their collective seatbelts, this is going to be a bumpy ride.
You can not be convinced of the Lordship of Jesus Christ and answer these very fundamental questions as Barak did. Christ followers need to be on their guard and pray feverantly for this man.
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