I don’t agree (that they knew the Gospel) - at least not it all cases. Some reject the Faith, being reprobate.
Romans 1:28 King James Version (KJV)
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
2 Timothy 3:8 KJV
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
Titus 1:16 KJV
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
I don’t think Obama EVER knew the Gospel. But I’d say his works show him to be reprobate.
Please don’t take my post to mean that “reprobate” is rare these days. Sadly it doesn’t seem to be.
The time seems to rapidly approaching when once again only by the power of the Holy Spirit can enable men to confess Christ ... whereas for a long time now, in America at a minimum and especially in politics (as you note about Obama) it has actually been not just easy but worldly-beneficial to fake it.
My point was, and I’m sorry if I was unclear, that those who have identifiably should have known the Gospel, or at least had valid information about the same, are potentially in a different danger zone than those whose knowledge was at best superficial, if not nothing but actual strawman.
... wow, there was some really TERRIBLE grammar in one of those sentences I just posted to you....
My bad.