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Trump bungles Bible reference at Liberty University
POLITICO ^ | 01/18/2016 | Blake Hounshell

Posted on 01/18/2016 10:26:35 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan

Donald Trump, speaking to a religious crowd at Virginia's Liberty University on Monday, turned to scripture.

"We're going to protect Christianity. I can say that. I don't have to be politically correct," he said. "Two Corinthians, 3:17, that's the whole ballgame ... is that the one you like?"

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2corinthians; 4thgrade; 4thgradelevel; 4thgradespeech; bible; christianvote; favoritebookthebible; gaffe; libertyu; tds; trump
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To: nickcarraway

When did Trump read off a teleprompter? He will refer to notes occasionally. Not a big deal I was just curious. Thanks.


161 posted on 01/18/2016 11:22:47 AM PST by patq
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To: nickcarraway

[I actually have never had access to a teleprompter.]

It is rather difficult to use a teleprompter, especially if it is scrolling faster than your reading ability (and if you have vision problems)


162 posted on 01/18/2016 11:23:40 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. - Psalm 33:12)
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To: nickcarraway

No, in your case it’s more like a broken record.


163 posted on 01/18/2016 11:23:47 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Politico and the Bible in the same sentence is well insane. :-)


164 posted on 01/18/2016 11:24:26 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Pitiful. Obviously, there are no biblically literate Christians on his staff to tell him that John 3:16, is referred to as “the Gospel in a nutshell,” but no passage is “the whole ballgame.”


165 posted on 01/18/2016 11:24:40 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: DaveyB
I have indeed misquoted scripture, but I asked for forgiveness,

Oh my gosh. that isn't even a sin. Lord. Get a grip. Donald is doing a great job. Not everyone can just quote every verse of the Bible and quite frankly good. Who wants some regergitator anyway. Cruz probably regurgitates the Bible. Not impressed.

166 posted on 01/18/2016 11:25:42 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: austinaero

I’d promised myself not to respond to posters who deal in personal insults, but yours was so elegant ...

“YOu suck seriously”


167 posted on 01/18/2016 11:26:03 AM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: kjam22

A serial unrepentant (unforgiven, not wanting forgiveness) adulterer? He is clueless.


168 posted on 01/18/2016 11:26:22 AM PST by Tzfat
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To: austinaero
If Trump wants to keep the private,,who are YOU or anyone else to judge?

First of all, I am not judging Trump on pronoucing a book of the Bible. I find it odd - kinda like an off-key musical note. Ain't nothin' wrong with commenting to that affect.

Secondly and wholly outside of Trump's quotation of Scripture, have you read what the Bible says about judging other believers?

1 Corinthians 5:2 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

We are supposed to hold other believers accountable. This thread has nothing to do with that.

As for Trump keeping his confessions private, that's his right. I don't know that I would tell anyone either. I also wouldn't tell anyone that I had never confessed anything. That is another oddity.

169 posted on 01/18/2016 11:26:30 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: nickcarraway

I believe that what he was implying is that your seem to be reading from a narrative that everything Trump does is evil.

Nick, this whole thread is an example of the depths of the sickness the Crewz have spread on this forum.

He said 2 instead of second.

That is now something that adults want Trump disqualified for.

Wake up folks. Get a grip.

You are better than this. You all are.

For heaven’s sake. Snap out if it.

This is EVIL.


170 posted on 01/18/2016 11:26:34 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Every home needs a crewznadian that has been domestically trained.)
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To: Red Steel

Next time he might say “Eye eye Corinthians” LOL. Would that be just semantics too?


171 posted on 01/18/2016 11:27:43 AM PST by Tzfat
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To: Catsrus

agreed - pharisee’s have a hard time seeing how they are out of line with God. I have had to deal with it in myself and I encounter numerous christians who often speak and act as pharisees. we all need more of Jesus daily.


172 posted on 01/18/2016 11:28:19 AM PST by b4me
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To: Mollypitcher1

Dearest Molly ... the only person on FR who thinks for herself.


173 posted on 01/18/2016 11:28:22 AM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: lodi90; BuckeyeTexan
"Interestingly, this hasn’t bothered Jerry Falwell Jr. who has warmly praised Trump many times."

Yes, and he also had Mitt Romney speak at commencement in 2012 one month after Romney said that two people of the same sex who "love each other" should be able to adopt children.

As someone who was born and raised in Lynchburg and lives fifteen minutes away from Liberty, I can say truthfully that Liberty students are the best in the world, but Jerry Jr. has been bitten by the fame bug.

174 posted on 01/18/2016 11:29:49 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ("Ted Cruz is the type of guy to swim across a moat with a knife in his teeth. He knows how to fight")
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To: The Iceman Cometh

II Corintians. Is that pronounced “eye eye Corinthians”? Better ask your Trump genius.


175 posted on 01/18/2016 11:30:35 AM PST by Tzfat
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To: austinaero

You have it right and I agree, their display of perfection is nauseating!


176 posted on 01/18/2016 11:30:38 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Jim Robinson

Ted Cruz come off as more strident and ideological. If I was his consultant, I would have him study Reagan more. Reagan didn’t come across as so ideological. He came off as friendly, personable, casual (sometimes more formal), humorous. Reagan didn’t sound like a demagoging politician. He sounds like a “regular guy” and likeable, contrasting with his Democratic opponents. Clinton noticed that. Clinton knew he didn’t need to come off like Dukakis or Tsongas.


177 posted on 01/18/2016 11:30:39 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: DoughtyOne

That was a much better response than the one I got earlier, which was

“YOu suck seriously.”


178 posted on 01/18/2016 11:30:51 AM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: austinaero

No, more like “I don’t pretend I”m so effing perfect that I can tell other people how to be MORE Christian”

IN other words, like you.
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Are you posting to the wrong person? The ONLY words of mine in the post you replied to (post # 52) are:
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Kinda like: “Can I get one of them thar huntin’ licences, heaar”.
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Please, as a courtesy, pay more attention to who is saying what.


179 posted on 01/18/2016 11:31:24 AM PST by House Atreides (Cruzin' [BUT NO LONGER Trumping'] or losin'!)
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To: Tzfat

How many times are you going to use the same line? It wasn’t funny the first time. Just trying to help you out.


180 posted on 01/18/2016 11:31:56 AM PST by patq
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