What Would Jesus Do?

Well, it depends on who you ask. According to Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, the Son of God and Author of life would be in favor of suctioning viable babies from their mothers’ wombs and killing them.

On last night’s interview with Bill O’Reilly, the Obama supporter claimed that God’s Son would be “even more radical” than Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on partial-birth abortion. Hill tried to rationalize his wildly implausible claim to a skeptical Bill O’Reilly, who ended the interview with a challenge for Obama to explain this position.

Hill, an Associate Professor of Urban Education and American Studies at Temple University, made this pronouncement when O’Reilly asked him to reconcile Obama’s faith with his distinction as America’s most pro-abortion politician.

Like many in the political arena, Hill has it backwards. Instead of bringing his political views under the authority of Scripture-as God calls us to do-he’s seeking to make Christianity conform to his liberalism.

As such, the interview speaks to a much broader problem in modern politics. Leaders like Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) have tried for years to redefine Christianity so that it’s compatible with their anti-life, anti-family agenda. Many, like Obama, have turned the Bible into a theological smorgasbord where people are free to pick and choose their convictions.

When you untether Jesus from His Word, as Hill has done here, you can turn Him into an advocate of almost anything. What matters, however, is not what Hill says, but what the Bible says. In Jeremiah 1:5, we read, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.”

Psalm 22:10 says, “…from my mother’s womb you have been my God.” And perhaps most importantly, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” (John 14:6)

Tony Perkins heads the Family Research Council. This article is excerpted from the Washington Update that he compiles for the FRC.