He should stand on these two Cortinthian Pillars after he gets elected
Posted on 02/25/2016 10:19:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has made a number of comments about the Bible in the past few days, from suggesting that Secretary of State John Kerry hasn't read it, to claiming that no one reads it more than himself.
Trump told CBN's Pat Robertson at Regent University on Wednesday that the United States has made a number of foreign policy mistakes during the past couple of decades, including the recent nuclear deal with Iran which lifted economic sanctions from the Islamic Republic in exchange for limiting its nuclear program.
"When you think of how Iran is doing lately, right? Between the Iran deal, we give them $150 billion — we got nothing for it," Trump said. "We should have gotten our prisoners back long before we started negotiating ... (Secretary John) Kerry — this is the worst negotiator I think I've ever seen."
The billionaire businessman then said:
"Obviously Kerry did not read The Art of the Deal. Probably didn't read the Bible, either."
Kerry is a devout Catholic. He spoke about his faith in a Dec., 2013, interview with ABC News, and described how reading the Bible helped him understand that suffering is part of God's plan.
"You read the letters of St. Paul and you read other parts of the scripture and it talks about suffering and it talks about adversity. And I sort of began to put that in a better place. Not see it so much as, you know, a determinative God who makes every decision for everything that happens. But rather creates a framework within which we're responsible for making things happen," Kerry said at the time.
The Hill pointed out that on Tuesday, Trump touted his engagement with the holy book:
"Nobody reads the Bible more than me," Trump declared ahead of his third consecutive win in the GOP primary in the Nevada caucuses.
Trump has insisted that he is a committed Christian despite making some gaffes related to the Bible.
He described "Second Corinthians" as "Two Corinthians" at Liberty University earlier this year after the verse was provided to him by Family Research Council's Tony Perkins. Perkins said that he can accept the blame for Trump's gaffe at the time, since he wrote some helpful notes which referenced "2 Corinthians 3:17," but said that Trump's mistake "shows that he's not familiar with Bible."
Trump called the Bible his favorite book back in August 2015, but then refused to name his favorite verse when asked repeatedly in an interview on Bloomberg's "With All Due Respect."
"I wouldn't want to get into it. Because to me, that's very personal," Trump explained at the time. "The Bible means a lot to me, but I don't want to get into specifics."
Then later he claimed his favorite verse is "never bend to envy," which is not in the Bible.
Trump says he is a Presbyterian and a member of Marble Collegiate Church, but Marble Collegiate is not a Presbyterian church and has no record of Trump being a member.
The GOP frontrunner has also insisted that he has a "great relationship" with God and with evangelical voters.
"I live a very different life than probably a lot of people would think," Trump has said.
"I'm talking about over the last number of years, I'm leading a very good life. I try to lead a good life and I have."
Before the Iowa Caucus, he attended a church service in Iowa as part of his outreach to Evangelicals. But the church he attended was a Mainline Protestant denomination that supports gay marriage. At another Iowa church service, he put money in the communion plate, mistaking it for the offering plate.
Some conservatives, such as TV personality and radio host Glenn Beck, have dismissed the entire notion that Trump even reads the Bible.
Beck, who is a Mormon, said at a Ted Cruz rally earlier in February that "too many people are looking at Trump and believing that man has ever opened a Bible … that's the biggest crock of [expletive] I've ever heard."
"I'm going to be very blunt with you tonight," Beck added. "Donald Trump is very dangerous in my opinion."
ROFL.......Carly would definitely be in the really special UNDERGROUND wing.......ugly AND old... LOL
Now, now Doughty. Don’t be testy. Your guy is winning... you should be nicer.
Ted Cruz is not my God. He is the best candidate running.
If Trump is half the man you think he is, he will handle Hillary with one Bible tied behind his back.
Who told you Cruz uses deceptive tactics in his campaign? Trump an Trump’s campaign? Lol, ok.
The spirit of the Pharisee is alive and well.
I put with eight months of some of the nastiest Free Republic posting I've ever seen, and now the Cruz folks still aren't done.
And your excuse for shilling for Hillary is?
His supporters seem to be in awe at his ability to lie and get away with it. It is like the Bill Clinton administration with an R.
2. “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image†(Exodus 20:4). In this commandment, the Lord condemns the worship of idols. Idolatry may take many forms. Some people do not bow before graven images or statues but instead replace the living God with other idols, such as money, material possessions, ideas, or prestige. In their lives, “their treasure is their godâ€â€”a god that “shall perish with themâ€
This is just hyperbole. It’s like when Trump says stuff like no one loves the 2nd amendment more that him.
Why are these people so tightly wrapped?
Well, I guess he could at that!
This looks like a Church that Rooty Ghouliani would join.
I am not shilling (as you call it) for Hillary.
If you think people here on Free Republic making a little fun of Donald is going to affect Hillary’s candidacy, you are in that great delusion land known as Trumpville.
Believe me, Hillary has ten times as much dirt on the Donald as we could ever uncover.
And don’t give me that nasty stuff ... Trump supporters do it best.
“But Mr. Trump doesn’t have to make it so easy for them to dislike him.”
True. BUT, there’s a lot of people I truly dislike, but their accomplishments/ideas/etc. earns my respect.
The so-called "Trump University" will be a gold mine for the Democrats.
I have linked Cruz folks to a thread where I was called the victim of male on male rape, and Trump was called the rapist.
After months of doing so, I have yet to have one Cruz supporter say there was anything wrong with that.
Would you care to be the first?
You are correct. It’s like saying, “Who eats more chocolate ice cream than me?”
The real problem is, though, that people shouldn’t be all up in his relationship with God. They can’t be, so they shouldn’t try to be. It’s something you can never know. What the Lord finds acceptable from someone is His business.
No . . . he isn't. He disregards many of the teachings of the Church. Devout Catholics don't do that.
I hope he learned more from it than he did from his English teachers. The proper way of saying this is: ""Nobody reads the Bible more than I [do]."
You nailed it. My $64,000 question is, why can't they discern that?
118 You would have thought someone who was given the best education available would know that....Maybe he spent all his time dreaming up draft deferment lies.
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