Donald Trump to Swear on Two Bibles, Including Abraham Lincoln's, at Inauguration Ceremony

President-elect Donald Trump will swear on two different Bibles during his inauguration ceremony at the United States Capitol on Friday, one of which will be the same Bible used by Abraham Lincoln during his first inauguration.

The Presidential Inauguration Committee announced on Tuesday that Trump, who will be sworn in as the 45th president, will use his own Bible and a Bible used by Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, when he took his first oath of office on March 4, 1861.

In addition, it was also announced that Chief Justice John Roberts will conduct Trump's swearing-in ceremony.

"In his first inaugural address, President Lincoln appealed to the 'better angels of our nature,'" PIC Chairman Tom Barrack said in a statement. "As he takes the same oath of office 156 years later, President-elect Trump is humbled to place his hand on Bibles that hold special meaning both to his family and to our country."

According to a press release, Trump's own Bible was given to him by his mother when he graduated from Sunday Church Primary School at First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, New York in June of 1955.

The Bible, which is a Revised Standard Version, was produced by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1953 and has Trump's name embossed on the cover. The inside of the cover includes signatures from church officials and also highlights when it was presented to Trump.

Trump previously showed off his Revised Standard Version Bible in a campaign video in early 2016 that was designed to thank evangelicals for supporting his campaign.

"My mother gave me this Bible — this very Bible — many years ago," Trump explained in a video. "In fact, it's her writing right here (on the inside cover). She wrote my name and my address and it's just very special to me. I want to thank the evangelicals. I will never let you down."

The "Lincoln Bible" was originally purchased for Lincoln's first inauguration by Supreme Court clerk William Thomas Carroll and has been used for three different inauguration ceremonies, including Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 and President Barack Obama's inaugurations in 2009 and 2013.

The Bible is housed at the Library of Congress and received a special conservation treatment prior to Obama's inauguration, according to the Library of Congress website. The Bible is bound in burgundy velvet and has a gold-washed metal rim around the outside edges of the covers.

A representative from the Presidential Inaugural Committee told The Christian Post Tuesday that the Bibles will be closed and stacked on top of each other when Trump takes his oath of office.

Over the weekend, it was announced that Vice President-elect Mike Pence will be sworn in using the Reagan Family Bible, the same Bible that 40th President Ronald Reagan used to take his oaths of office. Friday will mark the first time since Reagan that the Reagan Family Bible will be used for an inauguration.

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

Pence's oath of office will be conducted by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

"It will be my honor to take the Oath of Office to defend our Constitution from a man who has dedicated his life to the same noble pursuit," Pence stated.

"In his first inaugural address, President Lincoln appealed to the 'better angels of our nature,'" PIC Chairman Tom Barrack said in a statement. "As he takes the same oath of office 156* years later, President-elect Trump is humbled to place his hand on Bibles that hold special meaning both to his family and to our country."

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You really can't make this stuff up.

Over the weekend, it was announced that Vice President-elect Mike Pence will be sworn in using the Reagan Family Bible, the same Bible that 40th President Ronald Reagan used to take his oaths of office. Friday will mark the first time since Reagan that the Reagan Family Bible will be used for an inauguration.
Additionally, Pence will have the Bible opened to 2 Chronicles 7:14.
The verse reads:
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

This verse is oft quoted in isolation, but really should be viewed in its context, especially considering the Providence of this inauguration:

11. Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king's house; and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the Lord, and in his own house, he successfully accomplished:
12. And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice:
13. If I shut up heaven so that there should be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people:
14. If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land:
15. Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place:
16. For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there for all time:
17. And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and shall observe my statutes and my judgments:
18. Then will I establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel:
19. But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them:
20. Then will I pluck them up by the roots from my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast from my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations:
21. And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one who passes by it; so that he shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house:
22. And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them forth from the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them; therefore has he brought all this evil upon them:

I think you misunderstood my post.

The old family bible trump is using is from his Sunday school. Which meant he not only attended but passed the requirements.

Zero’s religious training as a child (as he explained in detail in his autobiography) was mandatory Islamic training they have in Indonesia. He stilll has his youthful Koran.

It’s a contrast not of their oath, but of a Christian upbringing vs an Islamic upbringing

Religion aside, they will have fundamentally different world views.

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