Quote about sin reveals confusion

Published 3:01 pm Monday, August 30, 2010

The interesting rise in polls to 44 percent of Americans who do not know what religion President Obama practices is, in part, explained in the Aug. 30 letter, “He has fostered the confusion,” about the provocative words of then-Illinois state senator that he believes not in “individual salvation, but in collective salvation.”

In that same interview with Cathleen Falsani, while running for the U.S. Senate, Obama is quoted in response to the simple question, “What is sin?” His answer: “Being out of alignment with my values.”

Most Christians understand sin as being out of alignment with God’s values. Since the central concept of salvation is then to be saved from sin, and from the consequences of sin, the more we actually see Obama’s own words, the more we can understand his confusion. For man to be the final judge of right and wrong is tantamount to eating from Adam’s tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Gerald N. Yorioka

Mill Creek