Donald Trump and the Pharisees.

James Patrick Riley ^ | AUGUST 11, 2016 | James Patrick Riley

[DarthVader]

I read it and it is OK on this forum because the implications cross both politics and faith as related to real life very well.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

This has been posted in News and Bloggers.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3459885/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3479321/posts

[Gamecock]

YBPDLN, GRPL Devotional List Combined Ping! Donald Trump is more righteous than you think. He wants to protect you from Islamic zealots. He wants to protect your right to defend your families with firearms. He even wants to exempt your pulpits from IRS tyranny. He wants to end the death tax, so you can pass on your farms and your family business to your children. He wants to lower your taxes. He wants to protect the lives of unborn children and appoint Constitutional judges.

[SubMareener]

The Revelation 12:1-2 great sign in the heavens will happen on September 23-24, 2017. Whatever that means, it’s for sure that the time is short.

[knarf]

Thanx, Gamecock ... most don’t remember or never knew about Trumps statement to do away with the Johnson amendment.

[FourtySeven]

That’s nice.

[knarf]

“One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.
When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.” ~ Charley Reese, Orlando Sentinel

[PeteePie]

That...was totally worth the read. Thank you!

[Mechanicos]

God has a habit of calling and using the unlikely: Noah was a drunk, Abraham was too old, Jacob was a liar, Leah was ugly, Joseph was abused, Moses had a stuttering problem, Gideon was afraid, Samson was a womanizer, Rahab was a prostitute, David was an adulterer and a murderer, Elijah was suicidal, Jonah ran from God, Naomi was a widow, Job went bankrupt, Peter denied, the Disciples fled, Martha worried, the Samaritan woman was divorced, Zacchesus was too small and Lazarus was dead!

[HarleyD]

Great article. I have half a mind to send it to some members of my bible study.

[Just mythoughts]

Rahab was NOT a prostitute!!! Show me one place where God called her a prostitute.

[Mechanicos]

http://www.womeninthebible.net/women-bible-old-new-testaments/rahab-prostitute/

[Just mythoughts]

God never called her a prostitute!!! You cannot find one Scripture that has God calling her a prostitute. She had a flax/linen business. She hide the scouts among her flax inventory, not brothel beds.

[jjotto]

The Hebrew phrase ‘isha zonah’ can mean both female innkeeper (connected to the idea of providing food), or to a prostitute, specifying woman (’isha’) because they also had male prostitutes.

Either way, Rahab became a righteous person.

[Mechanicos]

The Biblical text identifies her as a zônāh, a prostitute (Joshua 2:1)

[Mechanicos]

Yes, funny how the original language is....

[Theophilus]

I’d help Trump if I found him “curled up by the side of the road, bloody and beaten by robbers.”

[Just mythoughts]

There is no “The Lord said”, every time the harlot is referenced it does not come from God Speaking. It is a ‘man’ thing. Rahab had a flax/linen business, which somehow got twisted into a brothel house. Just like the claim by many that Eve gave Adam an apple. Simply is not Written, they were in a fig grove.

[novemberslady]

Thank you for the ping
Good post