Was Jimmy Carter Really a Christian?

At the end of 2024, former President of the United States Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100, the longest living

American president. He was president for a single term from 1977 to 1981 and was considered by many to be one of the worst presidents in American history, though he was later celebrated for the humanitarian work he did after his presidency.

Upon his passing, he was lauded by many for being a faithful Christian. Former Vice President Mike Pence said

Jimmy Carter lived out his Christian faith and values with integrity and devotion. Charlie Kirk of TPUSA called

Carter a sincere Christian, and Christianity Today said that he cherished a love for the

Savior. Are they sure about that? Jimmy Carter voiced his support for gay marriage even before Barack Obama or Joe Biden.

He said, I believe that Jesus would approve of gay marriage. I think Jesus would encourage any kind of love affair if it was honest and sincere.

But Jesus said, Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female?

And said, Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

A union between two people of the same sex is not marriage, and the Bible says homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Carter had been a Sunday school teacher in a Baptist church for decades, and he taught it was not necessary to believe in Jesus to go to heaven.

In a quandary like that about people who don't know about Christ, what will be their fate, I'm inclined to believe that they will not be condemned or punished by God.

But the Bible says whoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life.

And Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me.

If a man is to be praised for his Christian faith, especially when the day comes that he stands before God, he must believe the words that Jesus said.

For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the