Obama distorts biblical views simply because not being a Christian he really does not know them.
I do not think Obama actually knows the distinctions between the Old Testament codes and the New Covenant reality. Any Christian that knows the beliefs of Obama should know that he is not truly a Christian. How could a Black liberation theology social gospel “Christian” understand that the Church is not under the laws of the Old Testament? He just throws the whole Bible together not understanding the distictions between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant and then he uses staw-man arguments when real Christians have no such concepts as he suggests.
For him to ask which Christianity is true James Dobson’s or Al Sharpton’s says wonders and is a no brainer? It distinctly shows Obama’s total ignorance of Christian issues. James Dobson’s believes mans’s salvation comes by Grace through faith and his authority is the scriptures. While Al Sharpton’s Christianity is based on social activism that saves no one. One teaches new Testament Christianity and the other teaches secular socalism and race baiting.
Once again why would Obama know this. He is not a Christian and any Christian deluding theirself because they want a “yes we can” man and “change” artist need to examine themselves to find out if they are in the faith. If elected, Obama will do everything he can to make all believe that there are many paths to God even if he has to do it through hate speech laws.
McCain is not much beter. I am still waiting for anyone that can be endorced by Bible believers. Be it third party or whatever.
“Even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools?” Obama said. “Would we go with James Dobson’s or Al Sharpton’s?” referring to the civil rights leader.
Dobson took aim at examples Obama cited in asking which Biblical passages should guide public policy - chapters like Leviticus, which Obama said suggests slavery is OK and eating shellfish is an abomination, or Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, “a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application.”
“Folks haven’t been reading their Bibles,” Obama said.
Dobson and Minnery accused Obama of wrongly equating Old Testament texts and dietary codes that no longer apply to Jesus’ teachings in the New Testament.
“I think he’s deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology,” Dobson said.
“… He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter.”
Dobson reserved some of his harshest criticism for Obama’s argument that the religiously motivated must frame debates over issues like abortion not just in their own religion’s terms but in arguments accessible to all people.
He said Obama, who supports abortion rights, is trying to govern by the “lowest common denominator of morality,” labeling it “a fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution.”
“Am I required in a democracy to conform my efforts in the political arena to his bloody notion of what is right with regard to the lives of tiny babies?” Dobson said. “What he’s trying to say here is unless everybody agrees, we have no right to fight for what we believe.”
Date posted: Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 11:02 am | Under category: Politics, aberrant/heretical teaching, discernment
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It really frosts me that people claim the name of “Christian” when they deny the basic tenets of the faith. They want the legitimacy and whatever “worldly good” comes from the name, but they want to define its meaning their own way.
You might be playing something that looks a lot like baseball, but if you’ve only got two bases, it’s not baseball anyone, no matter how much you might like to think otherwise.
At one time, I thought that this sort of thing would end as events caused the real Christians to split away from those who merely “trade” in His name. Now, I think what will happen is that those with the counterfeit faith will succeed in redefining Christianity away from Jesus, and His true followers will be increasingly marginalized into criminals. We see that happening now with the emergent Evangelicals marginalizing the “fundamentalists” evangelicals, to the point of claiming that their’s was the proper definition of Christianity all along. Because of the resurgence of “thought crimes,” Christians and their stances are landing people in jail. It will get worse; much worse until the rapture.
The devil is the “father of lies” and truly, unbelievers are ever attached to the lie; they have been extremely successful in redefining the language to suite their perverted purposes. In view of this, I think they will succeed in steeling Christ’s name until that day of final reckoning.
Brett,
You hit the nail on the head. They are going to outlaw true Christianity and many of the ones doing it will still call themselves Christians. Now you know where the persecution at the 5th seal comes from. It mainly will come from harlot pluralist religion. ALL the blood of the prophets and saints were found in this whore. This is Mystery Babylon.
Many religious and world leaders are already saying that biblical fundamentalists are dangerous. To get the Muslims to crackdown on their own fundamentalists they will also have to promise to crack down on the teachings of Bible fundamentalists. They will redefine all religion and redefine which scriptures can be retained in the scriptures.