Posted on 10/25/2015 2:48:36 PM PDT by conservativejoy
El Trumpo continued his attack on Ben Carson for his taking the lead in the Iowa polls while he joined CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
He tried to explain that he didn’t intend his comments about Carson’s faith as an insult, but rather that he just didn’t know anything about the denomination. Some have said that it’s smart of his bringing up the subject as it’ll cause some doubt among Evangelicals in Iowa.
He also said that his campaign “completely disavowed” superPACs after a pro-Trump superPAC was closed down when the Washington Post found questionable ties to the Trump campaign.
Interview at Link
Supposedly the evangelicals didn’t like Romney’s Mormonism.
I’d think Seventh-Day Adventism would be as big a problem.
(If I remember the “Bible Answerman” program correctly.)
Yes, a big problem. Like Jehovah’s Witnesses, SDA’s teach that Jesus is the Archangel Michael. Not what mainstream evangelicals believe at all.
FYI
Maybe the evangelicals aren’t as familiar with SDA as they are with Mormonism.
Ah the Clinton defense!
‘Rump is not a venal insulter.
He is just ignorant.
“He tried to explain that he didn’t intend his comments about Carson’s faith as an insult, but rather that he just didn’t know anything about the denomination. “
“Supposedly the evangelicals didn’t like Romney’s Mormonism.”
I had problems with Mormons in the presidency because it is a religion of works, not faith. Hence you get things like Romneycare.
I know zilch about SDA, but maybe someone could explain how it would affect Carson’s governing philosophy? Religion does matter in my mind.
But it may not matter, Carson is beginning to implode.
Likely they are not. My main concern is the teaching of Pacifism that has been a part of SDA since its founding in 1863. Until the draft and Vietnam, SDA’s served in noncombatant roles in the military. I don’t see Pacifism and the role of Commander in Chief as being compatible at all, but it does explain why Carson said his first approach to defeating ISIS would be through economic measures.
While I can sell against LDS< SDA and JW, I couldn’t care less if one were elected to the White House.
Muslims OTH ....
I make no bones about it and have even said as much to Muslims and asked that hear me out.
After they understand why and their silence is complicit imprimatur they get my opposition....
Please see Post 8. I had already sent it before reading your post. Thanks.
The SDA teaching of Pacifism and serving in non combatant roles in the military is a problem for a Commander in Chief.
Interesting history. Thanks! I don’t like pacifism either.
THIS IS IT! TRUMP’S POLL NUMBERS WILL TANK NOW, I TELL YA!
They teach that? Thats insane and blasphemous
I never put Mormonism doctrine together with Romneycare. Makes sense.
One of the worst things to happen to our body politic has been the transformation of the gov’t into a compulsory charity organization.
I spent a great deal of time giving scripture to refute that very thing to an SDA member on a thread yesterday. Blasphemy was just what I called it, too.
Wait till Trump starts asking how a Pacifist can be an effective Commander in Chief!
It’s one of the top four cults.
Be not surprised.
Whaaat..???
:^o
I find some of Ellen White’s teaching problematic.
Her unfulfilled prophetic statements are whisked away by the assertion that somehow the actions of men were to blame. How can men overcome the will of God?
The backtracking and explaining away of her claims that some races are an amalgamation of man and beast are also suspect in my mind.
Disclaimer: I have never sat under the teaching of an SDA ministry, and cannot speak for the whole of their doctrine.
But I have read enough about and by Mrs. White to come to the conclusion that holding her up as a prophet(ess) is, in my own opinion, a position and pedestal unsupported by scripture.
How that bears on my opinion of someone’s qualifications for office? No bearing at all.
However, I think it would be naive to believe that some evangelicals, included among these some who supported Huckabee simply based on his prior ordination, would and will find his denominational choice troubling.
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