“I am a Christian...I believe that there are many paths to the same place”
These statements are mutually exclusive. You absolutely cannot be a Christian and believe there are “many paths.” There is one path, and Jesus himself said so.
One does not have to judge Obama to confidently say that he is not a Christian. He does not know Christ. His own statement tells us so.
I pray that one day he will be saved, and that, in the meantime, he will not continue to be such a deceiver.
"I am a Christian.… So, I have a deep faith. I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.
it's not clear that he's referring to a Christian path througy Jesus, rather multiple "paths" to the same destination, presumably salvation though I believe elsewhere he's equated heaven with kissing his daughters good night. That would be consistant with a multicultural viewpoint.
There are many paths even within Christianity. Roman Catholicism has a different interpretation than Greek Orthodox than Lutheranism than Southern Baptist than Methodist than Presbyterian than Ecumenical than Restorationist than etc. etc. etc.
There are so many facets and fragments and sub-fragments, so many interpretations, so many different perceptions of the “Truth,” that there end up being many, many different paths taken. And each and every individual takes his or her own unique path to spirituality, too. No one individual’s interpretation is exactly like another’s.
Sure, all of these center on Jesus Christ. But the interpretations of Scripture can be very different. Even within the church that I grew up with, Lutheran, there is the Missouri Synod, the ECLU, and the LWF churches which are at odds with the CLC churches. The LWF and CLC consider each others’ practices to be “fake Christianity.”
So, many paths. Many mansions.
I am not saying all of this in support of Obama in any way, but just as a factual statement.
Hmm, while I’m rambling on here, let me ask an off-the-wall question: How many of you believe that there is life (with souls) on other planets in the Universe?