Here's Obama telling Falsani, "The difficult thing about any religion,
including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize
and proselytize. There's the belief, certainly in some quarters, that if
people haven't embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior, they're going
to hell." Falsani adds, "Obama doesn't believe he, or anyone else, will go
to hell. But he's not sure he'll be going to heaven, either." Again, that is
contrary to what Evangelicals and most Catholics believe.
Here's Obama again: "I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after
I die. When I tuck in my daughters at night and I feel like I've been a good
father to them, and I see that I am transferring values that I got from my
mother and that they're kind people and that they're honest people, and
they're curious people, that's a little piece of heaven."
Any first-year seminary student could deconstruct such "works salvation" and
wishful thinking. Obama either hasn't read the Bible, or if he has, doesn't
believe it if he embraces such thin theological wisps.
Obama can call himself anything he likes, but there is a clear requirement
for one to qualify as a Christian and Obama doesn't meet that requirement.
One cannot deny central tenets of the Christian faith, including the deity
and uniqueness of Christ as the sole mediator between God and Man and be a
Christian. Such people do have a label applied to them in Scripture. They
are called "false prophets."