I truly wonder if you simply skim through posts and not actually comprehend what was written.
"So, 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. That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there’s an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived." - From an interview with Chicago Sun-Times religion reporter, March 27, 2004, Chicago, Ill.
He denies the authority of the Bible when he claims other religions, and religious writings (such as the Koran) are as valid as Christianity and the Bible.
It doesn't matter in regard to the separation of church and state - what matters is what God thinks about it. God condemns both homosexuality and abortion. And it's rather funny you say Obama doesn't support abortion when he is one of the most pro-abortion Presidents ( and before that - Senator) in recent American history. Take a look at his voting history in regard to abortion when he was a Senator. Obama even said "God bless you" to an assembly of baby-killing Planned Parenthood employees and supporters in 2013.
I never said he was a muslim. Again, you are not really reading posts. I said he "affirms" Islam. Affirm means: To offer support and encouragement.
Obama's mother was an agnostic. Obama wrote in The Audacity of Hope: "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." - "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,"
Her own daughter, Maya Soetoro-Ng, when asked later if her mother was an atheist, said, "I wouldn't have called her an atheist. She was an agnostic." Chicago Tribune 04-02-2012
First point there is only way to heaven and that is through Jesus Christ, however did you come to Christ the same way I came to Christ. I bet you probably didn't as some come to him from growing up in a well rooted household in the faith, and others do not come to him tell later on in life do to a hardship or so on that leads them for help. They then turn to the Lord for that help, so technically our paths are different that lead us to Christ.
Second I am glad you posted some sources, but in some points they were again opinion based on what you have heard.
If he has made that statement of the Koran being just as valid as the bible for salvation then he is wrong.
Third separation of Church and State does matter because even our Lord Jesus said we are not to force our beliefs on others, and if our laws here in America were only based on God's laws
(Which I wish they were!!!) it would be forcing our beliefs on others who live here that do not believe the same.
Forth Obama has said all along do to the separation of church and state that he is pro-choice not pro-abortion, as there is a difference between the two. One does not have to support a situation if they are giving all people the right to choose how they live. Even God gives us the choice to follow Him or follow the ways of the world !!!
God does not take our free will to choose away
(Joshua 24:15) so why do you want to take the free will away from others to choose...........
Lord Jesus says we are to show love to all people, including those who are our enemies.
Jesus says to pray for them and do good to them
(Matthew 5:43-48), nowhere does Jesus say to show hatred or condemn these people. We are to show them love, help, and encouragement, and in the process show them the Lord's truth..........
The source I posted said this about Obama;
"Barack Obama abandoned this non-conformism and skepticism to be baptized as an adult in the Trinity United Church of Christ."
"The United Church of Christ emphasizes the freedom of the individual conscience over adherence to creeds or hierarchical authority. This is similar to traditional Baptist Christianity and something that is honored more in theory than in practice when it comes to the Southern Baptist Convention. "
It says the teachings of his church are similar to that of the Southern Baptist teachings, as it refuses to follow creeds or hierarchical authority, which is something the Catholic church teaches as they have been known to place their personal creeds and the authority of their church and pope over the teachings of the Lord in the bible.....
I don't believe in allowing gay marriage as this church has come to do in some of its branches as it shows this denomination is split, yet I also know it is not my place to enforce my beliefs on others nor to tell another person they can't have equal rights to choose how to live......
