Obama Suggests Jesus Christ Not the Only Way to Heaven

BobV »

Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:13 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 9

This artcicle s lacking in enough information to make an intelligent determination as to what the Senator actually said.

The Catholic Church at Vatican II in the "Declaration on the relation of the Church to non-Christian religions (Nostra Aetate, 1965) stated:

"God made the whole human race to live over the face of the earth."

"The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these [non-Christian] religions."

"God holds the Jews most dear for the sake of their Fathers..."

"...the [Roman Catholic] Church is the new People of God..."

"...the Church has always held and holds now, Christ underwent His passion and death freely, because of the sins of men and out of infinite love, in order that all may reach salvation."

Nothing in the text below quoted from this article seems at odds with that:

But he also believes Jews and Muslims and non-believers who live moral lives are as much “children of God” as he is, according to The Associated Press.

As an example, he spoke about his late mother who was “not a believer.”

"[S]he was the kindest, most decent, generous person that I have ever known," Obama said, according to the Times. "I'm sure she is in heaven, even though she may not have subscribed to everything that I subscribe to."