The author must surely understand that we are all flawed.
And to hold our flaws against us is good for finishing school and teaching manners to a child - but if we were held to the standards that the President is held to we would go live in a cave.
Trump is a good man. He’s not perfect. He’s gone to confession and has been baptized. He’s abrasive, he’s quick to comment and he’s not a nice man. But Jesus loves him as much as He loves any of us.
I have a client who is an absolute nightmare to be with. He’s like being stuck in an elevator with a running woodchipper with all of the safeties removed. Brash doesn’t begin to describe him. He’s a millionaire that simply sh!ts all over anyone else while he vapes. And he vapes in my office after repeated requests not to.
But he pays his bills and takes my advice so I respect him as one of my best clients.
This sounds like a solution in need of a problem.
The problem is not that someone voted for Donald Trump. It is that Satan has so corrupted some people that speaking of Christ and God, separate from politics, is now disallowed, because Satan insists these political issues supersede God.
WTF? Sorry but this is plain nutty and why average folks think that Christians are insane.
Sorry, this is way out there and it is difficult to follow. Maybe the author chose to take a circuitous route to his point. Whatever.
A lot of American blood and treasure has been wasted pursuing globalist, socialist and crony capitalist goals. If Trump can get the behemouth Federal juggernaut under control and turn it back to serving the American people, that is enough for one man's honor and reputation enough to put him in the class with our founding fathers.
Thanks for posting.
Perhaps it would do to say that “I worship Jesus as my Lord and Savior; and I voted for Trump for 2 reasons: to reduce the size of the Federal government which has become overbearing and abusive, and because he is not Hillary Clinton.
I suspect the author is a little squeamish about Trump and obsessed with the fact that MAGA definitely does not make American moral again. I voted for Trump because he’s a good man and won’t let the Democrats turn America into a shithole. Mostly though he respects the Constitution and the rule of law. Not just respect, but reverence. And Trump recognizes and often states that the rights in the Bill of Rights and God-given.
Setting all that aside, Trump provided salvation from the real here and now hell of hillary clinton
I don't recall EVER having heard ANYONE say that he did or that you should, surely not from Trump.
OTOH, I've heard more than enough of the "Black Jesus" and 0 being "sort of a god" to last a lifetime.
Why is this an issue now?
Many of the Great leaders of the Bible were flawed men. But God often used flawed men for his purpose.
Most had rebellious periods during which they lost their way, but the best learned their lesson and returned to Him seeking his forgiveness and love.
Simplistic and self-evident moralization fit for a sunday School class at best.
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Michael Brown was an anti-Trumper from day one. This jackass has been over his head all his life and wont stop braying.
Heck of a job Brownie...
The media's and Trump haters' argument really is that a vote for Trump is an immoral act, even an act of violence. That is their bias and they will not be swayed. If a confessing Christian has perpetrated the immoral act, then they should repent publicly of course. That is the expected reaction that "they" are all waiting for.
Absent repentance, then they doubt our confession as a Christian, or discount the value of a Christian confession.
The ANSWER is to NOT conflate religion and politics (see my username). They are not stablemates in this day and time. It is like accusing someone of immoral violence for supporting the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. They would be conflating religion and football. That is the sad state of affairs regarding how far afield politics has gone from having moral inputs. ALIMHO
Yes, I voted for Trump and how dare anyone who didn’t, cast a shadow on anyone who did, for they voted for hillary and before her, they voted for obama... both were an abomination to our country!
The “christians” who would cast accusations on anyone who voted for Trump are so wrong they don’t know north from south.
I do believe God picked Trump out all the men/women in our land, to be our President. Why?
Why did God choose David (in the Bible)? David was not perfect in any way... he had an affair with a married woman and he had her husband killed. That’s pretty blatant and pretty bad. But God looked at the man, David, and said he was a man after God’s own heart. God saw something in David He wanted to use. Though David did wrong, he sought God with all his heart...he sought forgiveness and God always grants it to those who ask.
God looks around and finds those with a willing heart to do His works here on earth. “if you humble yourselves and seek my face, I will hear your prayers and heal your land.” Many were praying for our land after 8 years of obama’s “fundamentally changing our country” into his.
I also believe this land was brought about by God. The founding fathers included God in all their writings and decisions. I look at what they wrote in our constitution and know God was in it.
So I believe God had a purpose for this country He brought about and made as successful as it’s been and a country so many want to come to.. for realizing their dreams.
If God made this country into the best in the world, surely He didn’t want to see obama send us back to the lowest denominator. Surely God did not choose to forsake this land ... the land we fought for and died for to save it... the land God used to send missionaries from .. the land He gave so much to, that we shared with others and helped save other nations from being overtaken by an enemy.
Surely He did not aim for the foolishness of a younger generation who had not lived through a war or bleak and hard times, to dismantle everything that made us great.
After 4 years of obama, there were still too many who blamed everyone and everything but the one guilty... obamm. So their votes gave obama another 4 years. Eight years were enough ... the destruction and demolishing of our nation was before us.
God heard our prayers and sought a man... He went looking for a man who would serve.. a man who was capable .. a man who had the right training to fix our land ... BUT a man who was willing... a man who could take the heat, the attacks God knew were coming to him... a man who would not give up and a man who loved our nation enough to stand his ground and make America Great Again.
God didn’t ask that the man be pure as the driven snow or to be free of all past sins... God didn’t ask that the man go to church or be in the choir.. God didn’t ask for any qualifications, other than the man be willing to serve... God would do the rest. And in the process, God would also make President Trump a great man.. for the man was without pride in himself... only in his accomplishments for this nation we love and God loves!
God found that man in Donald J Trump! God is with him and those who dare to come against him.. come against the powers of the Heavens.. against our God!
Be of good cheer.. God has overcome the world! God is in His Heaven and all is right with the world!!
“I agree that some evangelicals have so visibly hitched themselves to Trump and/or the Republican Party that we have compromised our integrity”
If we left it up to hayseeds like this, we would be reading an op-ed about how mean President Hillary is to Christians, instead of someone have a first world problem.
All A Christian need to do is re-read the parts of the Bible relative to David, a morally flawed man if there ever was one; yet he fulfilled his destiny and with all his flaws, in spite of his flaws, he Loved G-d.
I also remind folks in electing ANY president, I, for one, am not electing a necessarily “spiritual” leader of the nation, and do not expect ANY president to fulfill such a role.
It is wrong for any Christian to treat electing the U.S. president as if “electing” the head of their “national Church”.
Cowardly bastard
I wouldn’t have been watching CNN anyway, but Thank Goodness for Breaking News.