"Palin: I know exactly why you are asking that question in this forum. You want to play the "gotcha" game. You want a headline from this interview. You want something sensational. You want me to say something controversial and provocative and maybe even offensive to millions of Americans of other faiths. But I'm not going to play that game with you. I have already told you what I believe about salvation and redemption. It's the same belief hundreds of millions of other Christians around the world share. I am firmly committed to my faith just as others are committed to their faiths. I respect the faiths of others, just as I hope they respect my beliefs. This is a serious issue that cannot be adequately addressed in bumper sticker slogans and sound bites. Therefore, I'm not going to fall for that bait. I love to talk about my faith. That's something I'm qualified to do. I welcome the chance to talk about the issues facing this country today. That's something I'm qualified and prepared to do. But I'm not going to talk about the faith of others. Nice try. Next question."
This is exactly the right answer. They hope she chooses either an answer that will alienate evangelical Christians or turn off moderate and secular voters. To wit:
#Palin: Yes, unfortunately, all those people are currently destined for hell. Unless we can reach them with the gospel and the saving grace offered by Jesus, they are doomed to eternal torment in the lake of fire.
# Palin: No, there are actually other ways to heaven. I think if we're just good people in this world of ours, God will reward us.
# Palin: I just don't know the answer to that question, and I'm not sure of its relevance to this campaign.
I hope she's going to give lots of thought to being prepared for the "gotcha" question about faith. This is where the MSM hopes to find the chink in her armor. With the debate coming up next month, its sure to come up. Let's pray Sarah is ready.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
she doesn’t hold of replacement theology. I think she made it clear in the hannity interview
Palin is not as dumb as Farah.
I thought she answered it well in the Hannity interview when she said she does not seek to impose her faith on others.
If someone asks her your specific question, she should just brush it aside and say she will be Vice President of all Americans, of whatever faith or of no faith at all.
I think a good quick answer would be that her religion is a private matter between her and her God and it’s really nobody else’s business.
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LIke everything else about this woman, whenever the name Sarah Palin is mentioned by someone, that someone reveals more about himself or herself than about Sarah.
The correct answer is:
When John McCain is elected president, he will have no power to send people to heaven or decide their fate in the afterlife. That decision is up to God.
But one thing you can be sure of, with a McCain/Palin victory, the world will be one step closer to the freedom necessary to allow all people to make choices about faith, free of persecution and fear.
We are all saved the same way that Abraham and Rahab were.
This is what happens when you lost sight of your true purpose--reporting--in favor of your self-appointed role of advocacy.
"Our constitution guarantees the right of all Americans to freedom to choose what they believe. The President is not president of just one group, he is president of all, and one of his most important roles is to protect the rights of all faiths. God decides who goes to Heaven and Hell, not me. That said, I believe as do most Christians that God has said through scripture that Jesus is absolutely essential for salvation."
Most of America is Christian, She isn't going to offend enough people if she answers the question truthfully, to matter, and most of those people weren't republicans anyway.
As long as she makes it clear that she knows her role is to protect everyone's right and that she's not the one who decides who goes to Heaven and Hell, she'll be fine regardless of what she says.
Absolutely, I'm on it!
Here at my house we had been praying for someone like her to come along and she did. Now we're praying that God will give her the right zinger response to every clever, sly "gotcha" the abominable, hate-filled MSM heathen can throw at her.
I'm afraid that if the American people have sunk so deeply into depravity that they will elect Obama, that may well be the last straw for the One who answered the prayers of the founding fathers and has patiently watched us turn away from Him to obscene idols of our own making. Not to mention 50 million aborted babies.
He has been incredibly patient with us for many decades, but there is a limit to His patience as the ancient Israelis found out when old Nebuchadnezzar showed up outside the walls of Jerusalem wanting to come in and nave a look around.
Well Obama says he is a born-again Christian. What would he say?
>> I hope she’s going to give lots of thought to being prepared for the “gotcha” question about faith.
Response to this type of trickery is best handled unscripted and better handled by conviction. Man is not the gatekeeper to heaven.
“Will you be honest and admit that you gave up the Islamic religion of your youth for a racist, white-hating, anti-American extremist fringe church?”
I respect the faiths of others, just as I hope they respect my beliefs.
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This is gobbeldygook, right? If she had “respect” for other faiths, she would also believe them. Right?
Exclusive claims to truth, necessarily exclude other competing exclusive claims to truth. Therefore, the same way Christianity excludes other faiths as not true, other faiths exclude Christianity as not true.
Thus in the same way that Judaism excludes Christianity as not true, Christianity excludes Judaism as not-true. It’s the nature of the beast.
My answer
PALIN: Are you proposing a religous test for political office.
Simple answer; I believe what the Bible says on this subject. Since you know what it says, why are you asking, except to smear me out of an anti-Christian religious bias, to serve another candidate and your own religious bigotry?
er eh um um ... I think that's above my pay grade.
All she needs to say something like this:
Well, you know, Christianity has been around for 2000 years and in that 2000 years this question has been pondered by many a priest, bishop, pastor, Pope and theologian and the answer what Christianity teaches about eternity is there for those who wish to honestly and fervently seek such an answer.
As for me, I am a simple Christian lay person and if you want to know what Christianity teaches, I'd suggest you consult with a genuine Theologian. As for me, I'm not in the position to dispute 2000 years of Christian scholarship.