“What you believe is the right thing to vote for, according to the Scriptures.”
Well that's the problem. Could never figure out why any Evangelical would even consider Trump. It isn't that he isn't a Christian. Its that he mocked Christ by saying he had no need for forgiveness. Every Christian should have gotten that according to the scriptures. John 3:16 everyone knows that one.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Why and how did he give his Son? As a living sacrifice for sin. If you deny that you need forgiveness you are a liar. Everyone sins and falls short of the Glory of God. Otherwise there would have been no need for Jesus to give his life on the Cross for our sin.
Spot on, C.D. Excellent post.
Trump supporters ("some" or maybe "many", but feels like "most") go ballistic when I claim to be #NeverTrump because #ForeverChristian. They simply cannot believe that a man would refuse to "win with Trump", due merely to Christian principles. They believe I am a fake, as both a Christian and conservative. They simply cannot fathom, it seems, that someone might believe in "absolute truth", nor let the Bible be his guide. The number of times I've been accosted online for my faith by Trump supporters in the past month exceeds by a factor of 5x to 10x all secular humanist/atheists that I've run into combined in my entire 60 year lifetime.
When one of these mocks Cruz for his faith, and then turns "prayerfully religious", I have to wonder "what kind of god does he worship?". But most of the time, it's obvious the Trump supporter is an atheist, using Trump as an opportunity to "stick it" to the Christians he/she so hates.
I tell them simply that you cannot intimidate, mock, "guilt", or insult me into supporting Trump. I honestly wish there were some magic condition in which I could vote for Trump, to defeat Hillary. However, even if Trump suddenly had a Christian "conversion" experience, he's been such a inveterate liar that I still could not support him. If he suddenly apologized for the false witness against Cruz and many other candidates, if he apologized for his various gleefully admitted sins, maybe gave most of his fortune to Samaritans purse (e.g. a veritable Christian charity), was endorsed by his Christian opponents, well, I'm still not sure. Franklin Graham, who I respect quite a bit, could even testify to Trumps new found faith, and perhaps some other Christian could join his campaign and the VP, and maybe .....
I just don't see it. Any Christian Pastor who counseled Donald after his theoretical conversion would urge him, for the sake of his own soul, to emulate Saul of Tarsus, forget the Presidency, and go seek the Lord in some wilderness, out of the public eye.
That's how strongly I feel that Trump is "anti-Christ" (not "THE" Antichrist). I simply could never support him.
I haven't got a dog in the hunt for the November election. I don't believe I'm alone. I hope as Trump states, i.e. that he doesn't in fact need the Christian conservative vote to win in Novermber, because he hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell of receiving it. This is how badly Trump has "screwed the pooch" for the GOP. (How could such a result be an accident by Trump? It would have been so easy to win the nomination, and then the G.E., without the gratuitous insults and lies.)