Posted on 06/25/2016 7:32:38 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
Has Donald J. Trump become a born-again Christian?
That is the suggestion of James C. Dobson, one of America’s leading evangelicals, who said Mr. Trump had recently come “to accept a relationship with Christ” and was now “a baby Christian.”
Dr. Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family and one of the country’s most prominent social conservatives, gave his account at a meeting Mr. Trump had in New York on Tuesday with hundreds of Christian conservatives.
In an interview recorded at the event by a Pennsylvania pastor, the Rev. Michael Anthony, Dr. Dobson said he knew the person who had led Mr. Trump to Christ, though he did not name him.
“I don’t know when it was, but it has not been long,” Dr. Dobson said. “I believe he really made a commitment, but he’s a baby Christian.”
Mr. Anthony posted the interview to his blog on Friday. Dr. Dobson could not be reached on Saturday, and Hope Hicks, the Trump campaign spokeswoman, did not respond Saturday to a request for details.
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In his interview, Dr. Dobson conceded that Mr. Trump did not exactly fit the typical mold of an evangelical.
“He used the word ‘hell’ four or five times,” he said. “He doesn’t know our language.” He added that Mr. Trump “refers a lot to religion and not much to faith and belief.”
For evangelicals, the heart of Christianity is a faith-based dependence on God. They often contrast this with what they characterize as merely “religion,” which they view as more rules and rituals-based.
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Trump met with rubes, hayseeds and holly rollers.
No one who professes to be a Christian will ever be elected President.
no, It’s Mormons that don’t become president.
Sorry. I’m too cynical to believe it. But whatever. Go Trump! Our nation cannot allow the Hildabeast to become POTUS.
They said that if I voted for Romney, the country would be in the hands of a bizzare cult worshipping a ludicrous god, and they were right. (Forgot who wrote it).
I count Dobson, Graham, Falwell, Jeffress , etc as some of the finest, most Godly of men.
They are neither rubes nor hayseeds.
“I believe he really made a commitment, but he’s a baby Christian.”
“Make a commitment” is not the Gospel, first off (but now’s not the time). Second, why wrap “baby Christian” around Churchillian Trump’s neck at a time like this?
Dobson doesn’t know Trump’s heart.
yeah, I’m really glad the New York Times is all about defining what Christianity is all about....thanks, NY Slimes.
BTW, how many Bible believing Christians are in your newsroom/on your editorial board/in the publisher’s family?
Here’s the deal: Trump may or may not have a deep personal faith in Jesus Christ. I hope he DOES. What I do know is this: he is better equipped, smarter, and more loving of this nation than the alternative Hitlery. His faults, though many, do not include a predilection to statism. He did not let Americans who were begging for help DIE at the hands of terrorists in the desert—then LIE to their families about the cause. He did not leave open national security secrets to the enemy.
So there are AMPLE reasons to back Trump over his opponent. Religion isn’t one of them.
Same reason I backed Mitt Romney. Mormon theology isn’t classical, biblical Christianity. Not by a long shot. But his opponent was (and is) purely anti-Bible....even an enemy, I would say. So the choice was simple.
It’ll be simple this time, too.
Go Trump!
Props for your name :)
Oh, I believe it. Trump knows full well that the only way the death threats will ever stop is if Hillary is sworn in. The SS are only human, as good as they are.
So what to do, other than drop to your knees?
That, an many tens of thousands pray for him every day.
That's Ok Jim Dobson.
If he reads FR - he can learn all about that and things like the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom...
Meanwhile...
Your search - "Virginia act" "thomas jefferson" site:www.focusonthefamily.com- did not match any documents.
https://www.google.com/search?q="Virginia+act"+site%3Awww.focusonthefamily.com
Focus Harder! Trump ain't the Shrub.
“He doesn’t know our language.”
I hope they conducted the meeting in English.
Freegards
The greatest irony! Trump in heaven while Ted Cruz’s holly rollers are burning in hell!
No they're not. That's why Dobson deliberately gave the NYTs tinder to try to spin into a forest fire against Trump - because he knew exactly what he was doing.
Ill take a baby christian any day over the muslim we have in there now
Christian, Odinist, Buddhist, Native American, Sikh...as long as he puts his war armor on against Socialism and Islam.
I wonder how that slipped through the cracks?
Must be a closet Christian there.
Either that or it was an accident that they got something right for a change.
Deck the trump with boughs of holly, or whatever.
Rednecks are okay Christians because Jesus was born a humble redneck.
OMGOSH!!! Best post of the day!!! ROFLMAO!!!
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