“And I am good. I don’t do a lot of things that are bad. I try to do nothing that is bad.”
That. That right there tells me a lot.
how can one not be at least a tad concerned with his state of mind?
ah, at least we’ll have a pres that tries to do nothing bad :)
i guess it’s an honest statement and one we would like to think of ourselves aspiring to. or something.
“Almighty and most merciful Father; We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou them, O God, who confess their faults. Restore thou those who are penitent; According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake; That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, To the glory of thy holy Name. Amen.”
It tells me he is a simple man. And that's a good thing, not a bad thing.
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.