Pastor Robert Jeffress says Trump knows biblical view of gov’t better than Pope Leo

Pastor Robert Jeffress on Saturday said President Donald Trump has a better grasp of what the Bible teaches about government than Pope Leo XIV, specifically on the question of military action against Iran, entering a public dispute that has already seen Trump call the pontiff weak on crime and foreign policy.

Jeffress, the senior pastor of First Baptist Dallas, made the comments on “Fox News Live,” two days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the pope at the Vatican.
While he called Leo a “good man” and said the pontiff was “sincere in his faith,” Jeffress said the pope was “sincerely wrong when it comes to Iran,” according to a video clip he shared on X.

“It looks like President Trump has a better understanding of what the Bible teaches than the pope,” Jeffress added.

He noted that God created government for a distinct purpose from the church, citing Romans 13. “The role of government is to protect citizens from evildoers,” he said.

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Akita Suggagaki said:

What if we elect them and don’t hold them accountable?

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Do you have an answer? What do you propose we do within the confines of the law?

Akita Suggagaki said:

All we can do it try to speak out and be prepared for silencing. Freedom of speech cannot be taken for granted.

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Silencing? We have freedom of speech here. So in other words, nothing different.