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To: engrpat
2004 Interview: Obama Talks about Jesus, Heaven and Sin (CBN June 3, 2008)

GG: Who’s Jesus to you?

OBAMA: Right. Jesus is a historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.

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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."

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.

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GG: What is sin?

OBAMA: Being out of alignment with my values.

And separately (I posted the link to the following quote in a post to that thread):

In his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope Obama wrote, “I was not raised in a religious household... My mother's own experiences... only reinforced this inherited skepticism. Her memories of the Christians who populated her youth were not fond ones... And yet for all her professed secularism, my mother was in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I've ever known.”[22] Religion for her was “just one of the many ways — and not necessarily the best way — that man attempted to control the unknowable and understand the deeper truths about our lives,” Obama wrote.
(Wikipedia quotes from his autobiography)

and

Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, but Obama’s household was not religious. "My mother, whose parents were nonpracticing Baptists and Methodists, was one of the most spiritual souls I ever knew," Obama said in a 2007 speech. "But she had a healthy skepticism of religion as an institution. And as a consequence, so did I."
(Time Magazine)

He may not be a muslim but he doesn't seem to be a Christian to me.

12 posted on 10/21/2008 10:56:53 AM PDT by weegee (In honor of Joe the Plumber, at noon, we should all lower our trousers to half mast.)
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To: weegee
>GG: What is sin? > >OBAMA: Being out of alignment with my God's values. There, I fixed it. Though one has to question whether this is simply a moral-relativistic reply, an ignorant reply, or a reply based on idolatry (Obama thinking of himself as God).
19 posted on 10/21/2008 11:01:12 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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