The author is drowning in the Satanist cultural revolution, and believes that individuals should swim or tread water, and not grab onto a flotation device.
No, Trump is not perfect. Throughout the Bible God has used imperfect people to do good. The author seems to think it better to support a spawn of Hell like Hillary Clinton than allow an imperfect leader to help fight the flood. And not supporting Trump is supporting Hillary.
If Trump has had a conversion and sought God’s forgiveness no Evangelical need listen to this confused author.
The evidence is that Trump has had such a conversion.
I do not always like some of president Trump’s behavior. What this author fails to be able to comprehend in his self-righteousness is that not supporting Trump essentially supports worse.
You can not - unless you are a completely delusional lunatic even argue that whatever President Trump’s moral failings The PIAPS were worse. In fact, given the obvious, egregious, intentional sin and advocacy of sin propounded by The PIAPS to fail to cast your vote for the ONLY candidate that had any chance of keeping her from power for a moral reason is the same as the Pharisees standing on the corner and praying out loud, announcing to the world how pious they were.
It like saying is that because Hezekiah wasn’t perfect you’d he’d rather have Ahab! What a fool. What an evil thing to desire!
Would this man have refused to vote for King David because he was an adulterer? Would he have withheld his approval of David’s sons for having not three but three hundred wives and 700 concubines? Yet the Bible says both of these men, with moral failings as great as any of Trumps were chosen by God.
Would he have, as the Sadducees and Pharisees did condemn Jesus for having a meal with sinners? Is he more righteous than our Lord?
Apparently, he believes he is. That is the argument he is making.
I doubt he will ever see this but I am calling on this recalcitrant sinner to soften his heart and repent of his self-righteousness.
Mr. Ellis, you are not God and it seems you have a very over blown opinion of your own righteousness and believe yourself to be a judge. Such arrogance.
This is a common occurrence with many of you leftists and pretend conservatives.
If people were perfect in God’s eyes, he wouldn’t of sent us Jesus.
What great Biblical patriarch or character did not have major character flaws or moral failings? God works through imperfect humans because we are all deeply flawed. God applies his wisdom and strength to mankind’s efforts to accomplish his will. God makes the rules, not self-righteous politicians, pundits,journalists or theologians.
Bought and paid for by the swamp
As an actual evangelical Christian I follow God’s word above all else. Not some fanciful milquetoast socialist utopian version where everyone marches in lockstep with zealot shamers like this twit.
Is Trump the ideal Christian? Hell no. But then recall that none of us are worthy of heaven or could be called proper Christians as we all fall short of God. Besides - we don’t elect presidents to be our religious orthodoxy (good thing too)
So Trump has had sex with lots of women - good for him - as a male I applaud his ability to attract that many women. I also applaud his ability to respect them as individuals and giving them positions of power in his administration. I’ve yet to see one allegation of assault about him.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
As for his language - again it doesn’t bother me. I’ve heard far worse from evangelicals in the locker rooms.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Above all things, for all his foibles, for not being “god like” - Trump is enacting Gods Word in deed.
That’s all I need to know.
It is good to see sanity returning to FR. When Romney was defeated by Obama there were Freepers who were declaring the glory of being rid of Romney. The point is that the Democrat will ALWAYS be worse than a flawed Republican. ALWAYS vote straight Republican as they will always be better than the Democrat.
Gerson’s much-ballyhooed articles in The Atlantic and The Washington Post are just a pile of BS. Not once in his Atlantic article did NeverTrumpista Gerson mention Hillary as the reason many Christians voted for Trump.
Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions!
Psalm 58:6
What the author doesn’t seem concerned about is that voting “none of the above” doesn’t achieve that result. Normal people are concerned about getting the best of the choices before them, not registering a protest vote over the imperfect choices on offer.
Trump isn’t perfect. He’s human but he did the Kessel run in 12 parsecs and that’s all that counts. :)
“Having spent the first two decades of his adult life as a theatre artist throughout the Southeast, John now lives in the DC area with his wife and two kids. Besides writing, he works on the staff at his church. Prior to writing for PJ Media, he was a columnist for No Depression.”
Sure thing. My go to guy when I want hard hitting analysis. /s
“Unlike my Trump-voting friends, I believe that they are overlooking another option—the choice of expressing “none of the above” with your vote.”
“You see, no one can simply vote against someone. As in, you can’t vote for Trump merely as a vote against Hillary. By voting for Donald Trump, you are claiming a level of support for the man, something I’m not comfortable with.”
More B.S. and not so different from the B.S. of Gerson.
I did not vote for ANYONE for President because I thought he was morally fit to lead a church. I don’t expect a President to have much to do with any church other than to have policies and laws that respect the legal rights of churches and the constitutional rights of religious freedom, including religious freedom in the workplace and with your business. The only directly moral requirement I have on a President is that he agrees with policies and judgments that respect the right to life of the infant in the womb.
Those things concern me far above a President’s personal peccadilloes and on those grounds I would, and believe any “evangelical” should prefer Trump over any Marxist/Progressive who appears to be a moral saint.
And no, I don’t think a “none of the above” stance, between a Donald Trump or a Marxist/Progressive moral saint, is a morally, theologically “better vote”. It is nothing other than an acceptance of horribly bad government just because its president is “without sin”.
Additionally the “anyone but Hillary vote” is precisely a vote that puts the purposes of government, not your church, as the priority purpose in who you want in government. Trump wins on policy, and they have been policies that many people of faith have been wanting - regardless of Trumps personal sins.
What are all these articles “from the right” calling Trump supporters out for Trump’s “sins” attempting to do? They are attempting to divide the support for Trump on so called “moral” conditions and ignoring that the purpose of government is NOT to be the church or the religion, but to make the best government policies. On that Trump stands far ahead of any Marxist/Progressive/Liberal president in my lifetime - even with his personal peccadilloes.
I came back to read the comments in this thread and am greatly encouraged by all the right-thinking, clear-thinking folks we have on FR!