Evangelist questions Obama's Christianity
Chad Groening and Jody Brown - OneNewsNow - 6/10/2008 8:00:00 AM
Keller is the founder of Liveprayer.com. Last year the evangelist challenged former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's claim to be a Christian, due to the fact that he was a member of the Mormon Church, which holds beliefs in opposition to orthodox Christianity. Now Keller is questioning Obama's Christian credentials, based on some statements the Illinois senator has made.
"A lot of the things that he is saying really call into question whether he really is a Christian," says Keller, offering up as an example Obama's statement that there are many roads that lead to God. "He has consistently been on record that he's willing to give away part of the land that God himself gave to the children of Israel directly to their enemies," he adds.
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A campaign brochure titled "Faith. Hope. Change." describes Senator Obama as a "committed Christian" who visited a local church one Sunday, "felt a beckoning of the spirit and accepted Jesus Christ into his life." But Keller says Obama has views on social issues that most evangelicals regard as unbiblical.
"He has consistently voted to uphold a woman's right to kill babies," Keller points out. "He has consistently voted to support the gay agenda, gay 'marriage,' gay adoption, special rights for gays."
Keller says while obviously only God can judge a man's heart, he does not think Senator Obama can call himself a Christian yet deny the basic tenets of the faith and rewrite them to suit his own purposes.
The evangelist has produced an eight-minute video addressing Obama's faith in which he categorizes the Illinois senator as a member of the "religious left" -- a group of people "who identify themselves as Christians and hold strong religious beliefs, as well as sharing left-wing ideals." Keller says he has formally invited Obama to sit down with him, on camera, and answer questions about his Christian faith.
