(previous page...) then the conversation Barack Obama is having is with Barack Obama, not the God. In 2008, the then candidate Barack Obama declared his Christian faith to Christianity Today as: "I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life. But most importantly, I believe in the example that Jesus set by feeding the hungry and healing the sick and always prioritizing the least of these over the powerful." (Barack Obama Christianity Today, January 2008) What is "most important" to Christians isn't feeding the hungry and healing the sick, but Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, which doesn't merely provide "a path" to be cleansed of sins; it is what cleanses Christians of our sins and therefore on which heaven or hell hangs in balance. Barack Obama's declaration of Christian faith most likely is sincere. But his own words indicate his faith to be centered on neither the cross of Christ nor the Bible. Instead, the focus of President Obama's faith appears to be the poor and the outcast, which he was in his youth. As a young lawyer, he found churches already helping the poor and the outcast in Chicago's South Side whom he desired to help, and joined one of them. For President Obama, Christianity appears to be not the end but the means to his true passion: helping those he considers to be oppressed by the "powerful", including the poor, African Americans, homosexuals and "punished" women". As indicated by these reasons and his current rating, he is not the Christian president that America desperately needs today.
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