OBAMA:
Where do you move forward with that? This is something that I’m sure I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and proselytize. There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people who haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior, that they’re going to hell.
GG
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.
Part of the reason I think it’s always difficult for public figures to talk about this is that the nature of politics is that you want to have everybody like you and project the best possible traits onto you. Oftentimes that’s by being as vague as possible, or appealing to the lowest common denominators. The more specific and detailed you are on issues as personal and fundamental as your faith, the more potentially dangerous it is.
3 thoughts on “For Freedom’s Sake”
Speaking of the freedom that we have in Christ I think of our habits, the good ones and the bad ones, for we all are creatures of habit and sometimes it’s really hard to get over the bad ones but it is only possible through Christ, thanks God! I’m living proof of that and find myself slipping into doing bad habits again but am more aware of it now and lean on Jesus to stay the course and correct the tendency to do the wrong thing.I call it “little repentances” everyday. As Paul said I do the thing I do not want to do and I leave undone the right thing I need to do. Can we not all relate?
After spending most of my life in so called institutional church denominations (organized Christian religion) like the evangelical Lutheran, fundamental Baptists, reformed Baptists … I wholeheartedly understand what this short, but powerful post is all about. Oh what a glories Gospel. We are free indeed. “Come out of her, my people” (Rev.18:4). Amen brother!
Hi Gary,
If you don’t already know about him, there is a man in London named Eamon McMullan who has multiple videos on youtube and shares ultimate reconciliation of all through Jesus.
His main focus is usually the gift of righteousness, but he often expresses belief in what you refer to as the Glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ. Here is a link to one of his videos where he deals with CU. I think you will really enjoy this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPTUBlVugrQ
Thanks again for all you continue to accomplish for the Glorious Gospel of Jesus!!
Dave Goodreau, Rhode Island