What Grok3 has to say about Donald Trump, his connection to Norman Vincent Peale and Positive Thinking.
Never heard of that before.
Interesting. The left had everyone believing that Trump had never stepped foot in a Church before, and that he was spiritually illiterate. Yet he grew up in the Church hearing the Word.
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Marble Collegiate Church was more of a populist, self-help-oriented church than a strictly Scripture-based one. While part of the Reformed Church in America, Peale emphasized positive thinking and personal success over deep biblical doctrine.
His approach blended faith with motivational psychology, making the church widely popular but raising concerns about its theological depth.
The Power of Ethical Management Hardcover – February 11, 1988
by Norman V Peale (Author), Ken Blanchard (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Ethical-Management-Norman-Peale/dp/0688070620
“The number’s can all be right, and the decision still be wrong.”
I have it in my library.
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Norman Vincent Peale is also the godfather of the Charismatic movement, more particularly their NAR eschatology, a combo of preterism and postmillennialism. The NAR charistmatics are the strongest supporters of Trump’s policies overseas.
Interesting. Thank you.
It is easy to criticize Peal, Robert Schular. etc.
But if you look at it as a cup of water to a thirsty man, it was proper. It is the same context of a free meal, or giving a coat.
Jesus said if His name was used even if improperly, Jesus can use it.
Jesus uses this even if emphasis is wrong.
So give an encouraging word to someone today, even if you don’t say something out loud.
I have my grandmother’ copy of “The Power of Positive Thinking” on my bookshelf.
Have to check to see if it’s a first edition.
One of the oldest philosophical statements that is of profound truth is:
“Whatever is, is”
Parmenides philosophy has been explained with the slogan “whatever is is, and what is not cannot be”. He is also credited with the phrase out of nothing nothing comes. He argues that “A is not” can never be thought or said truthfully, and thus despite appearances everything exists as one, giant, unchanging thing. This is generally considered one of the first digressions into the philosophical concept of being, and has been contrasted with Heraclitus’s statement that “No man ever steps into the same river twice” as one of the first digressions into the philosophical concept of becoming. Scholars have generally believed that either Parmenides was responding to Heraclitus, or Heraclitus to Parmenides.
The above is not an anti truth, it is a partial truth.
When I hear, “what ever is, is” ,which is more common than you might think, I agree, “yes, that is true, God is sovereign.”
The two philosophies are often discussed with the idea that one is true and the other is not, meaning are you is or are you becoming.
I respond with “God is, He doesn’t change. But we are becoming”
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