Trump is quite…tame…compared to who God chose to raise up and favor during Biblical times.
Sadly, many Christians do not have cultivated imaginations nor senses to truly view the world Biblically. Scriptures have lost their power and have devolved into empty words, rules, and whatever platitude or intellectual fluff fits one’s theological or political preference du jour.
The Bible is a tapestry of fully fledged HUMAN BEINGS with distinct PERSONALITIES and QUIRKS. With colorful pasts, messy families, and having their most meaningful encounters with God less so in temples, and moreso in the midst of all kinds of rebellion and mischief. Not to mention bloody warfare.
Even Jesus would not be “suitable” for Christians today. A single, degree-less 30-something carpenter who is now homeless after just moving out of his mom’s house?! John the Baptist ate locusts, permanently camped outdoors, by all accounts unemployed otherwise, and sported his day’s version of dreadlocks.
Paul spent most of his adult life a persecutor of Christians.
And what of the R-rated life stories of the Old Testament kings and prophets?!!!!!
(Not to mention the brash characters of former presidents like Teddy Roosevelt and many of our founding fathers.)
Our culture has been raised to believe that, if you do good things that you’ll get results. But that’s not what the Bible teaches.
Excellent summation!
Regards,
Correct, except for Jesus, and maybe Noah, God seems to have a habit of taking broken and flawed people, fixing them up, and putting them to His use. His mercy is great.