Did God intervene and save Trump from assassination?

[friend of]

I think God did save Trump from assassination. After the bullet grazed him, Trump bled from the right ear and in the Old Testament, putting blood on the right ear was a way of consecrating the priesthood back then. To me, its God saying "Hey, look what I did! That was Me! I saved his life!" What does the rest of Christendom think?

 

[Hazelelponi]

I think God saved his life.

Like anyone with that close of a call with death, it's first a call to know the Lord, but then it's asking why did God do this thing...

Trump I think is just the right person at the right time so God is making use of him...Im sure we will all benefit.

 

[Mark Quayle]

I think God did save Trump from assassination. After the bullet grazed him, Trump bled from the right ear and in the Old Testament, putting blood on the right ear was a way of consecrating the priesthood back then. To me, its God saying "Hey, look what I did! That was Me! I saved his life!" What does the rest of Christendom think?

I think God saved his life.

Like anyone with that close of a call with death, it's first a call to know the Lord, but then it's asking why did God do this thing...

Trump I think is just the right person at the right time so God is making use of him...Im sure we will all benefit.

For whatever it is worth, we humans like the flashy fantastic things and forget God's providence all day long. In a sense, all facts of principle and physics and the 'natural' are "miracle" in that they are made by God and are at the core supernatural in their very existence. I could, then, say that anyone's next breath or next heart-beat is a miracle; but we take it all for granted, as though, as Tony Evans (I think it was) said, "We get up in the morning, like, 'God is supposed to do that'!"

That something seems unusual may invoke in us a raised eyebrow, but it is no more effort on God's part to deviate a bullet than it is to make the aim bad to begin with than it is to jam the gun, or make a round a dud, than it is to change the shooters mind that day, than it is to not even have the shooter be born.

Yeah, we love miracle, and I thank God for them, but I think it is fallacious, at least, if not immature, of believers to ignore God's 24-7-365 upholding of our very existence, and all he does for us. Better yet, even, the things he drags us through for the sake of transforming us into his image to the end of all things.

 

[Laodicean60]

I think God did save Trump from assassination.

No, since the bible says that God doesn't play favorites and so save Trump and not Corey. This I'll never know until I'm in the dirt.

 

[Mark Quayle]

No, since the bible says that God doesn't play favorites and so save Trump and not Corey. This I'll never know until I'm in the dirt.

Where does the Bible say that God doesn't play favorites —that is, do you mean God has no favorites and doesn't prefer this over that? Did he not deal with Abraham's progeny in particular ways? Does he not save some, but not all?

 

[Ignatius the Kiwi]

Some moderns seem to think our God is apolitical and essentially a Deistic God when it comes to human affairs. I tend to think, along with most Christians historically, that God does participate and guide things to his will. That political leaders are established by him for a reason. It is more than possible God saved Trump and that this action was designed to embolden Trump as he breaks down the postwar liberal order.

 

[expos4ever]

Trump bled from the right ear and in the Old Testament, putting blood on the right ear was a way of consecrating the priesthood back then.

Would they consecrate convicted felons and adjudicated sex offenders as priests "back then"?

 

[d taylor]

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I vote no because i think trump getting shot was fake.

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[expos4ever]

Trump I think is just the right person at the right time so God is making use of him...Im sure we will all benefit.

Does the "all" who will benefit include the many Trump supporters who are now out of work precisely because of the vote they cast?

And let's apply your logic to the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. Good luck trying to make the case that we "all benefitted" from that failure.

 

[johansen]

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I vote no because i think trump getting shot was fake.

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Sure. Dont get me started on a bunker busting bomb is what really hit the pentagon lol

 

[John G.]

And let's apply your logic to the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. Good luck trying to make the case that we "all benefitted" from that failure.

Had the assassination succeeded, Germany could have been in a position to negotiate an end to the war. Many lower-ranking Nazis would have gotten away with the atrocities they committed in Auschwitz, Dachau, Salaspils, Ravenbruck, etc.
Naziism would have been less of a flop.
Hitler could have been viewed as a martyr.
In years to come, Germany could have started another war.

As it played out, Germany was destroyed, severely punished, totally-deNazified with no appetite for another war.

 

[friend of]

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I vote no because i think trump getting shot was fake.

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How could anyone choreograph being shot in the head?

 

[Mark Quayle]

I think God did save Trump from assassination. After the bullet grazed him, Trump bled from the right ear and in the Old Testament, putting blood on the right ear was a way of consecrating the priesthood back then. To me, its God saying "Hey, look what I did! That was Me! I saved his life!" What does the rest of Christendom think?

Speaking for "the rest of Christendom", ( "as if!"), I think the blood for the right ear thing is "spiritualizing" superstitiously. I'm not saying that it is not more than coincidence, but that we have no basis for saying just what the coincidence means, or even if it means anything of such a category. To me, it would be approaching 'divination' like those who spend their day divining "the Lord's will".

 

[Clare73]

No, since the bible says that God doesn't play favorites and so save Trump and not Corey. This I'll never know until I'm in the dirt.

That assumes that saving Trump from a bullet means he favored him over Corey.

Who made that rule?

 

[Mark Quayle]

Sure. Dont get me started on a bunker busting bomb is what really hit the pentagon lol

I thought @d taylor was being sarcastic/ funny. Idk. Probably get another demerit for posting a laugh there. I meant you no disrespect, taylor.

 

[Mark Quayle]

How could anyone choreograph being shot in the head?

happens in movies all the time

 

[Clare73]

Speaking for "the rest of Christendom", ( "as if!"), I think the blood for the right ear thing is "spiritualizing" superstitiously. I'm not saying that it is not more than coincidence, but that we have no basis for saying just what the coincidence means, or even if it means anything of such a category. To me, it would be approaching 'divination' like those who spend their day divining "the Lord's will".

Those are all things we do not know without authoritative divine revelation.

 

[Hazelelponi]

Speaking for "the rest of Christendom", ( "as if!"), I think the blood for the right ear thing is "spiritualizing" superstitiously. I'm not saying that it is not more than coincidence, but that we have no basis for saying just what the coincidence means, or even if it means anything of such a category. To me, it would be approaching 'divination' like those who spend their day divining "the Lord's will".

Good thoughts...

 

[Gregory Thompson]

I voted no, that just not the impression that I get.

 

[friend of]

happens in movies all the time

Real life is not the movies.