OBAMA lied. He was raised agnotistic/Unitarian by mama and grandma. He was raised as a muslim in school and by 2 absent muslim fathers. He never was raised Christian and has said that he does NOT see Jesus as "the way". He sees Christ as a "historical figure".
2004 Interview: Obama Talks about Jesus, Heaven and Sin June 3, 2008 (CBN Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2008)
In 2004, he gave an interview to Cathleen Falsani who was the religion reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times.
(GG is God Girl aka Cathleen Falsani) GG: Whos Jesus to you?OBAMA: Right. Jesus is a historical figure for me, and hes 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 hes also a wonderful teacher. I think its important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.
GG: The conversation stopper, when you say youre a Christian and leave it at that.
OBAMA: Where do you move forward with that? This is something that Im sure Id 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 prostelytize.Theres the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people havent embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they're going to hell.
GG: You dont believe that?
OBAMA: I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I cant 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. Thats just not part of my religious makeup.
... GG: Do you believe in sin?
OBAMA: Yes.
GG: What is sin?
OBAMA: Being out of alignment with my values.
GG: What happens if you have sin in your life?
OBAMA: I think its the same thing as the question about heaven. In the same way that if Im true to myself and my faith that that is its own reward, when Im not true to it, its its own punishment
Sin: “being out of alignment with my values”
He defined himself as his own god, right there.