The Obama family can’t find the time to attend church this year, but President Obama certainly found time to use the Lord Jesus Christ as a symbol to be used for socialism.
Speaking Monday afternoon to a group of children from the Washington, D.C., Boys and Girls Club, the president delivered a mini sermon on “why we celebrate Christmas.” He asked the children if they knew. One piped up and said “The birth of baby Jesus.”
One can imagine the reaction of the media and other elites had a Republican president asked such a question. That Republican would have been accused of violating church-state separation and discriminating against those who celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or nothing. Because the president’s Christmas lesson perfectly fit his social goals, there has been no outcry.
The president spoke of what Jesus “symbolizes for people all around the world,” which he said, “is the possibility of peace and people treating each other with respect.”
And then, in the best tradition of a community organizer, the president said Jesus is about “doing something for other people.” Even the “three wise men” were invoked to support the president’s idea of wealth redistribution: “…these guys … have all this money, they’ve got all this wealth and power, and they took a long trip to a manger just to see a little baby.”
And what conclusion should be drawn from that journey? The president told the children, “…it just shows you that because you’re powerful or you’re wealthy, that’s not what’s important. What’s important is … the kind of spirit you have.”
To the president, this means the spirit of government taking from the productive and giving to the nonproductive. To him, Jesus is a socialist, or perhaps an early Robin Hood. Any first-year seminarian (if the seminary is a good one) could destroy this flawed exegesis.
Let me correct a few things for the President:
- First the Lord Jesus Christ is not a symbol, He is a man-THE GOD MAN.
God Who was manifested in the flesh – 1 Timothy 3:16a
- Jesus is not a symbol of socialism, but the source of salvation.
Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12
- Jesus did not come preaching redistributive change, but He came preaching redemption.
the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ…gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity.. Titus 2:13-14
Mr. President, man’s greatest need is not social justice, but rather salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ.
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