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Trump on God: 'I don't like to have to ask for forgiveness'
Business Insider ^ | January 17,2016 | Maxwell Tani

Posted on 01/23/2016 9:05:50 PM PST by gusopol3

After months of reflection, Donald Trump says he still doesn't regret his decision not to ask God for forgiveness for his sins.

In an interview on Sunday with CNN, the Republican presidential frontrunner said that he does not regret never asking God for forgiveness, partially because he says he doesn't have much to apologize for.

"I have great relationship with God. I have great relationship with the Evangelicals," Trump said in the interview before pivoting to his poll numbers among Evangelical voters.

"I like to be good. I don't like to have to ask for forgiveness. And I am good. I don't do a lot of things that are bad. I try to do nothing that is bad."

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


TOPICS: Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: forgiveness; hesalloverit; trump
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To: HarleyLady27

You don’t understand what God calls ALL of us to do which is confess our sins to HIM (not a human priest) and turn from our wicked ways and turn towards Him.

No man is good; no not one.


101 posted on 01/24/2016 5:40:49 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: gusopol3

Latest spin when Trump expels some silly statement is, “He was telling a joke.”

Maybe that could be retroactive?


102 posted on 01/24/2016 5:44:12 AM PST by don-o (Where did my tagline go?)
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To: Bidimus1
wow that was what 3rd grade level speech

There is an analysis out there that pegs it as 4th grade level for vocabulary and sentence construction. Let's try to be accurate.

103 posted on 01/24/2016 5:47:01 AM PST by don-o (Where did my tagline go?)
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To: catfish1957
I never dreamed we ever see a more arrogant narcissistic candidate for POTUS in our lifetime. And DANG!!!!!! It's from our side.

It astounds me that so many on FR have fallen for him. In 13 months, when President Trump embraces and sets out to expand the Obama agenda, what will they be saying?

104 posted on 01/24/2016 5:48:27 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: gusopol3
"I like to be good. I don't like to have to ask for forgiveness. And I am good. I don't do a lot of things that are bad. I try to do nothing that is bad.

"I've never been a sinner.
I've never sinned.
I've got a friend in Jesus..."

105 posted on 01/24/2016 5:53:37 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Politicalkiddo

Jesus: “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God.”

The Jews measured their righteousness by the 10 Commandments, seeing them only as external requirements - and they were convinced they were good. The 10 C’s were their “bar”. They did not realize “God looks at the heart...”, not the external.

So Jesus raised the bar - by several miles - in the Sermon on the Mount, paraphrased, “You think the bar is here (the 10 C’s); but I say to you.....if any man look at a woman with lust, he is guilty of adultery.....”, and so on.

Trump neither knows himself - nor God. BTW, they go together......

He sets himself as the standard of goodness. This is self-deception.

Not unlike Obama.


106 posted on 01/24/2016 5:59:50 AM PST by Arlis ( A "Sacred Cow" Tipping Christian)
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To: catfish1957

And Cruz’s parents are divorced and both have re married....don’t think Cruz or Beck walk on water, ONLY GOD DOES THAT, and they aren’t GOD!!!


107 posted on 01/24/2016 6:58:43 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ( 'THE FORCE AWAKENS'!!! TRUMP; TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP !!! 100%)
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To: CA Conservative

...and WHO are you to judge? Maybe I should ask my friend to run your background and see what we come up with...


108 posted on 01/24/2016 6:59:45 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ( 'THE FORCE AWAKENS'!!! TRUMP; TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP !!! 100%)
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To: raybbr

What I ask God is none of your business...what you ask God is no body else’s business...so keep your ‘walk on water’ opinions to your self...you might fall in and drown...


109 posted on 01/24/2016 7:01:32 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ( 'THE FORCE AWAKENS'!!! TRUMP; TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP !!! 100%)
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To: gusopol3

Presbyterians say “Our Father...” during services.


110 posted on 01/24/2016 7:04:11 AM PST by onedoug
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To: HarleyLady27
How about this is being 'you and your God' and leave it at that...

Tell it to Trump.

"I'm Presbyterian, he said. "Boy, that's down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don't know about. I just don't know about."

Donald Trump: No apology for questioning Ben Carson's Seventh-day Adventist faith


111 posted on 01/24/2016 7:07:17 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Truthsearcher
Had he said "the things I ask God for forgiveness is between God and me", that's a perfectly acceptable answer, instead he said hasn't done anything that requires forgiveness. Anyone who is a Christian should be troubled by that answer from someone who purports to be a Christian.

Bingo.

112 posted on 01/24/2016 7:08:55 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: HarleyLady27

LOL I was talking about Trump and HIS pride and you look it personally. Typical of someone who has projected a celebrity or politician to a level above mere human.


113 posted on 01/24/2016 7:09:25 AM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Remember: ‘Put you hand in a bucket of water and pull it out and lets see the hole you have left’....it’s called: ‘unimportant’.....


114 posted on 01/24/2016 7:17:08 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ( 'THE FORCE AWAKENS'!!! TRUMP; TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP !!! 100%)
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To: Truthsearcher

I suspect there are many Christians who never sat in Sunday School, or Confirmation class or any instruction on what it means to be Christian.

“Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so,” is about the extent of their knowledge. That alone means a lot.


115 posted on 01/24/2016 7:20:04 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: gusopol3

Delusions of grandeur. I am more fearful with each passing day of a Trump presidency.


116 posted on 01/24/2016 7:20:10 AM PST by nfldgirl
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To: Bulwyf

By the God Man Jesus incarnation and death and by obedience to Him.

We have no idea how God judges any particular man however.


117 posted on 01/24/2016 7:31:06 AM PST by amihow (l)
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To: reaganaut

No one likes it but the presence of the righteous God drives His children to their knees and then He dries their tears and gives them peace, love, and joy. That is why we call Him Father.

9 And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’ 13 But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 18:9-14

Prayers for our next President.


118 posted on 01/24/2016 7:31:58 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: chris37

If you want to know Him, simply be willing to disregard all of man’s teaching, read the Bible and pray for the truth and nothing but the truth for He is the Truth (the Way, the Truth, and the Life). I’m glad He chose you. Maranatha!


119 posted on 01/24/2016 7:38:27 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: HarleyLady27
...and WHO are you to judge? Maybe I should ask my friend to run your background and see what we come up with...

I am a voter, and I am certainly allowed to judge the character (or in Trump's case, the complete lack of character) of someone who wants to be president. As to whether or not someone who commits adultery needs to ask God for forgiveness, the Bible is pretty clear about that.

And if you are trying to intimidate me (another Trump trait) you are failing big time...

120 posted on 01/24/2016 7:58:09 AM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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