Former President Donald Trump was given a hero’s welcome at First Baptist Church in Dallas as thousands of Christians welcomed him with fierce applause.
The former president praised Dr. Robert Jeffress and the congregation for the impact their ministry has had on the nation.
“The love in this room is incredible,” he said.
The president told the crowd of thousands that he was going to deviate from prepared remarks and instead “speak from the heart.”
He quoted briefly from the New Testament about how an “angel of the Lord appeared to humble shepherds and proclaimed the reason for our Christmas joy.”
“For unto you his born today in the city of David a savior which is Christ the Lord,” the president said, quoting Scripture.
The former president acknowledged that in recent days our nation has descended into darkness, but he said there is hope.
‘Our country needs a savior right now. Our country has a savior. And It’s not me,” the president said. “It’s someone much higher up than me. Much higher up.”
Thunderous cheers filled the cavernous auditorium.
“The life and death and resurrection of Jesus Christ forever changed the world. It’s impossible to think of the life of our own country without the influence of His example and His teachings,” the president said. “Our miraculous founding, overcoming civil war, abolishing slavery, defeating communism and fascism, reaching boundless heights of science and discovery.”
He said the United States became a great nation because we followed the teachings of Christ.
“None of this could have ever happened without Jesus Christ and his followers and his church – none of it. We have to remember that Jesus Christ is the ultimate source of our strength and our hope. And here and everywhere and for all time Jesus Christ and we just want to thank everyone who believes,” he said.
Todd Starnes
"My point, however, is that evil men can be used by God for His purposes."
"Hmmmm. I don't really know that I agree with that. I would express things in a different way: God takes evil and turns it into good."
There's a lot of assumptions and surmising on your end. A lot of opinion. Luckily, your agreement or disagreement with the testimony of the scriptures doesn't matter to God.
You're denying the sovereignty of Jesus Christ as Lord. He is either in control or man is but which one do you think?
Let me be clear: all men serve God, whether for good or evil. Vessels of honor and dishonor. Proverbs? Isaiah? Pharaoh? Let's look beyond just the printed word of the Scriptures and discover the obvious examples given. I shouldn't have to sit here and pull verse after verse to show that you're wrong beyond hope, and I won't, but I get the notion that
You like to "talk" too much, whether it's to polish the shitty notions at which you arrive or in order to convince yourself or persuade others that what you're spewing is true when it is, in fact, bullshit.
You're grossly ignorant of the bible, though those who indoctrinated you did teach you some correct things. Still, that's not good enough for the Lord or anyone with a mind to utilize. A book is not just about the letter, son.
You think to know something but know nothing as you ought. You're no theologian or scholar, missing even the most basic of spiritual truths apparent in your posted drivel.
Jesus Christ is the author of evil, though He is not evil Himself. By Him ALL things consist. There's no wiggle room there for your ilk. Honestly, the false Christ that you people serve isn't doing you any favors if the world can see through the bullshit but I'm sure a self-righteous defense is on the way?
Just an honest observation from a non-Christian who knows that men can always be fooled but not God.
LOL. Well, that was quick.
"If you take away the Christian joy of holding Hell over other's heads and feeling special, you'll be met with pet verses and vehemence."
I get that you're just testifying to how you see reality, but its ironic how you stated this in a very recent comment, then turned around and pronounced judgment, declaration, and a lot of 'pet verses' (if not in letters, then in statements of doctrines/beliefs, which you have made) and a solid dash of vehemence.
I mean, wow. It almost reads as if you are being deliberately sarcastic in order to highlight the very behaviors you just criticized, but then, there is no indication of that except the extraordinarily contradictory nature of your two comments, or of your subsequent behavior with what you pronounced against a mere 40 minutes ago.
I was hoping to engage with you, but I think... no. It would be pointless, clearly.
I mean, for Pete's sake, contradiction?
"a lot of assumptions and surmising on your end. A lot of opinion" how this could apply any more directly to your own response here is beyond words.
And if you think my agreement or disagree with God's word is of no matter to God, then I wonder what on earth you conceive God to be.
I'll end here, except to say that I think you're pushing it in characterizing your vehemence and assumptions to be "honest". Seems very much dishonest to me. Do you notice how deftly you preempted any response or negation of your view by pre-labelling any response as "a self-righteous defense". Is this honest, or rhetorical maneuvering?
Either way, I don't expect you care and you seem far too full of yourself, evidently, even to equating yourself or your own beliefs to God.
My goodness. Recognize how clearly you reveal your own nature in your accusations and attacks on others. It's very, very clear, if only one has eyes to see.
Be well.
Edit: to paraphrase and borrow from you: You are welcome to your beliefs. Fortunately, your beliefs do not affect how God relates to me. They do, however, affect how he relates to you.
Be extra well.