the overwhelming white evangelical support for Donald Trump
I am white and claim to be some kind of an evangelical, which to me simply means gospel preaching. But it seems to me that I might not speak for any and all evangelicals
So, first off > I intend to share a little about myself, then some general stuff I think I have picked up >
Because of how I see things > I can not vote for a presidential candidate who is ok with killing unborn people; also, if a candidate's example is anti-love, I also consider anti-love candidates to be un-votable, no matter who their party is.
We need to be pro-life but also pro-love, I would say; because there is a major problem in the United States because of people not being sure of love, not being able to tell the difference > as could be evidenced by America's over-fifty-percent divorce rate. Also, I see how there is even cultural pressure for unwed pregnant mothers to kill their own unborn with whom they could learn real love. To me, it seems pretty evident how there is major devastation in people's minds and souls and hearts because of not being brought up by parents whose example has helped them to know how to love in marriage, and because of how people have not been brought up to deeply cherish nurturing unborn children.
Jesus says,
"if you love those who love you, what reward have you?" in Matthew 5:46. So, Jesus expects us to love any and all people; yet, in the United States there are some number of people who are so deeply ruined, that they can barely get along with their own family members and their own unborn children. And in their weakness of what is not God's all-loving love, they can break down into arguing and other abuse, plus all the other problems we are seeing, including in politics, of people incapable of first loving, then speaking. Notice how Jesus related with the guy He knew was wrong > Mark 10:21 > Jesus loved first, and then spoke, and this with caring about the guy's need . . . not merely how Jesus might want to use or control the guy > Mark 10:21. But ones now can be about how they want to use a candidate, not personally caring in prayer with hope for each person, like 1 Timothy 2:1-4 says to do
"first of all".
Unsure love could be, then, in my opinion, the main national security problem of the United States. It is not enough to save unborn Americans, and then essentially murder their souls with bad example so they grow up not knowing how to love and how to know who they belong with in marriage. If you don't take care of this . . . nothing else can work . . . I would say.
So, we need a candidate who is not only pro-life, but an example of how to relate in love.
We, of course, already have Jesus.
So . . . about things I suppose I have noticed about different sorts of evangelicals who might be different than I am >
There are people who claim Donald is tops, nothing wrong with him, at all.
Ones seem flabbergasted at how he has recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. There are ones claiming to be evangelicals, who insist we must vote for Donald in order to bless Israel. It is possible certain people are even threatening us, that if we do not vote for him, then we are not blessing Israel and therefore God will curse us. But I would say not all pro-Israel evangelicals are trying to use threats like this. And my opinion is we need to bless Israel by requiring them to openly confess Jesus is their Messiah and obey Him, or else they are themselves disobeying how God would bless them.
There are other evangelicals who consider Donald the lesser of two evils.
And there are evangelicals who consider a Mormon not acceptable; so on principle they won't vote for Mitt, or maybe they would consider him the lesser of two evils if he became the Republican choice.
As you can see . . . if I am correct > not all evangelicals are functioning the same way. There might be other variations.
