Bob Jones III on President Obama: "Where is the evidence that he is a Christian?"

Thanks Mike. I appreciate that.

[Mike Harding] James,

Based on my interaction with faculty and staff at BJU, including Dr. Bob Jones III, all would hold that there are necessary evidences of saving faith. My take on Dr. Bob’s comments regarding the President’s profession of faith is that he does not believe those evidences are there. Personally, I would agree. The church that President Obama attended for many years is quite liberal. His current positions and those of his administration on moral issues such as abortion and gay marriage are liberal as well. I think the president evidences common grace in a number of areas, but I am not convinced that he possesses saving grace. President Obama did not get my vote in the last election and he certainly will not get it in the next election.

What were the evidence that Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush or George W. Bush professed saving grace? What churches did they attend (those who attended church at all)? As far as moral issues like abortion and gay marriage (and by the way … some of us consider wars for reasons other than self-defense to be moral issues also … I’d guess that not a few unborn children were killed by our bombs in Iraq): there is what these people claim to support on one hand, and what their actions are on another. Ronald Reagan signed the nation’s most liberal abortion and divorce laws as governor of California, and saved Roe v. Wade by putting Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court (both of whom were/are also reliable pro-homosexual votes). George H. W. Bush was pro-abortion, George W. Bush was pro-abortion (said so himself) and successfully blocked the push for a constitutional amendment to ban homosexual “marriage”, appointed a record number of open homosexuals to posts in his administration, was the first president of either party to have an open homosexual as a prominent speaker at his presidential nominating convention (while the religious/social conservative speakers got relegated to the low profile speaking slots), and both Bushes put plenty of pro-abortion and pro-homosexual judges on the federal bench, as did Reagan and Nixon.

Plus Romney: he is Mormon. Santorum? Roman Catholic. Newt Gingrich: Roman Catholic with a sex scandal history little different from Bill Clinton, John Edwards or Ted Kennedy. Ron Paul: pro-homosexual and pro-illegal drugs. But when it is guys like that - and also when George W. Bush pushes heretical “many paths to the same God/the Bible is not literally true but contains moral instructions/Jesus Christ was a philosopher” we get “we are electing a commander in chief, not a theologian/pastor-in-chief” equivocations.

We need to quit using the faith as a partisan political weapon. Even non-Christians who don’t know a thing about the Bible see right through us when we do this “being a Republican covers a multitude of sins/justification by GOP affiliation alone” nonsense.

If on the one hand it’s helpful to point out that Obama isn’t a Christian, it doesn’t make sense to then say Romney’s religion doesn’t matter.

Job,

I agree with you about these others as well. I was simply explaining what Dr. Bob III meant by his remarks.