Jim Brown - OneNewsNow
The moderator of Saturday night’s presidential forum on faith — Pastor Rick Warren — says Barack Obama failed to adequately address the question of when life begins.
Senator Obama (D-Illinois) told Pastor Warren that it was “above [his] pay grade” to determine at what point a baby should be given human rights.
Following the forum, Pastor Warren criticized Obama’s decision to dodge the question. In an interview with Beliefnet.com, Warren said “to just say ‘I don’t know’ on the most divisive issue in America is not a clear enough answer for me.”
Warren went on to suggest Obama’s non-answer will not sit well with many Christians. As Warren puts it: “If an evangelical really believes that the Bible is literal — in other word[s], in Psalm 139 God says ‘I formed you in your mother’s womb and before you were born I planned every day of your life’ — if they believe that’s literally true, then they can’t just walk away from that. They can add other issues, but they can’t walk away from the belief that at conception God planned that child, and to abort it would be to short circuit the purpose.”…
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