Hillary Clinton Talks About Jesus

The Brody File at CBN News has a transcript and recording of an interview Hillary Clinton gave to New York Times reporter Michael Luo last year about her faith.

For those who take their Christian faith seriously, you may be interested in some of the quotes Brody features.

Reporter: And, do you believe on the salvation issue -- and this is controversial too -- that belief in Christ is needed for going to heaven?

Senator Clinton: That one I’m a little more open to. I think that it is, as we understand our relationship to God as Christians, it is how we see our way forward, and it is the way. But, ever since I was a little girl, I’ve asked every Sunday school teacher I’ve ever had, I asked every theologian I’ve ever talked with, whether that meant that there was no salvation, there was no heaven for people who did not accept Christ. And, you’re well aware that there are a lot of answers to that. There are people who are totally rooted in the fact that, no, that’s why there are missionaries, that’s why you have to try to convert. And, then there are a lot of other people who are deeply faithful and deeply Christ-centered who say, that’s how we understand it and who are we to read God’s mind about such a weighty decision as that.

Hillary must not have talked to too many serious Christians, because God is pretty clear on this issue. Even if she couldn't find any serious Christians, if she really wanted to know, she could crack open the Bible and find out.

Here is what Jesus said in John chapter 3:

Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."

When Nicodemus asks him what he means, Jesus again replies

Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.'

When Nicodemus asks another time for clarification, Jesus says this:

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

That sounds pretty clear to me that belief in Jesus is the ONLY way get to heaven.

Jesus says in John 14:6:

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

Notice that Jesus didn't say, "I am A way, A truth and A life." He said he was THE way, and THE truth and THE life.

Jesus' apostle Paul says in Romans 5:15:

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!

Notice that reconciliation to God came ONLY through Jesus Christ.

Paul says in Romans 5:17:

For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

Notice that it doesn't say God's grace comes through a good man, but through "one man, Jesus Christ."

Paul again tells us in 1 Timothy 2:5:

For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus

Paul didn't say Jesus was A mediator, or a good mediator, or even the best mediator; Jesus is the ONLY mediator between God and man.

In Galatians 1:8-9 when Paul finds out that some people have been teaching that humans can get to heaven through good works (i.e. another gospel), he says

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!

Paul is pretty clear. That Jesus is the way to heaven is the gospel, or "good news." Paul says adamantly that there is no other "good news" or gospel, other than that Jesus is the way to heaven.

So we don't have to "read God’s mind" when he's spelled it out for us in his Word.

Whether we have a Christian worldview or not dicates how we view the entire world, from religion to science to politics to society to relationships.

The Founders of the United States had a Christian worldview and they established our government based on that view of the world.

Anyone who does not have a Christian worldview cannot lead this country in a manner that is in harmony with how this country was designed to run.

And if someone doesn't believe the claims of the Bible about Jesus, doesn't believe that Jesus is the way by which God established reconciliation between humanity and Himself, then it can hardly be said that they have a Christian worldview.

Something for Christians to keep in mind when voting this year...