Is this even allowed? Judging someone’s Christianity. Trump seems to claim it.
The Bible does say to test all things >
"Test all things; hold fast what is good." (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
So, I can say I agree or disagree with something a person says. And tell how I have tested it. Instead of only arguing about what *label* to put on Donald, we could test each thing he does > evaluate his actions in comparison with scripture and the example of Jesus and how God's word says to relate in love.
For one example, what I find interesting is his idea to establish Gaza-Palestine as a demilitarized zone . . . not with barbed wire and mines but with an international community prospering and spending their money for what they want.
But - - testing this by the Bible > that could be assisting people to live the way they jolly well please, though perhaps within civil and legal limits. But Jesus says >
"He who loves his life will lose it," in John 12:25.
So, establishing a paradise for selfish living might be helping people to live selfishly and feel that all is well for themselves.
But as a Catholic I was told it is a mortal sin to get another person to commit a sin. So, in case a person is arranging for people to love their selfish lives, but in a nonviolent way, would you consider that to be Catholic? How would the priest in confessional rule on that? If you please, tell your priest I say hi, and ask him what he has to say about this.
Can we judge it? He is the president. Not a pastor. He has to represent us all not just Christians. Not sure what the point is?
Indeed, in democracy in the United States an elected person is supposed to act on behalf of the voters. And we have kind of a fifty-fifty thing here. So, I see it should be that everyone somehow can get what is good.
Even so - - another item > God is known to have let wrong people have even much *worse* than the wrong they dictate they should have!!
For one example, the Jews in history demanded a human king, instead of Jesus as their King. God gave them one, and it went horribly for them. They got Saul who even tried to kill David who had killed Goliath.
So, right now > each of us can be getting what we have been dictating. Ones who do not want Jesus are getting their fill of how Satan rules a heart with fear, frustration, raging anger, dictatorial demands and drives for pleasure, and unforgiveness.
What is important is to evaluate what helps us to grow in how Jesus is and loves . . . to have the character which helps us with this. And we need to evaluate who and what helps us with this.
So-o-o >
Is Donald one of your Christian examples who you use to help your children to grow in Jesus and how He has loved? We are commanded to love like Jesus on the cross > and be "examples" of this >
"And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma." (Ephesians 5:2)
"nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock." (1 Peter 5:3)
So, is Donald an example of how to be and love as a Christian? Or, is Donald promising and working to help certain people love and live their own lives? Or, is God using him to give people an opportunity to live the right way, whether he does or not?
According to Romans 13, Donald is God's minister "for good" . . . somehow, I would say, in any case.
However, 1 Timothy 2:1-4 to me means God wants us to pray "for" him. But don't we need to evaluate him somewhat so we have a clue what would be "for" Donald personally? Not what we want to use Him to get, but what God knows would be good for him as a person. Because Jesus does care about Donald.
Are we only trying to label him, or do we care about him?
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