You're going to believe what you want to anyway. My previous statement stands. Saul was converted to Paul, and that doesn't erase anything Saul did.
A few things.
It is the fact that his choice hinged on whether one kid was a loser or not. His own words. That is disturbing.
Regarding faith: “You Will Know Them by Their Fruits”.
There is zero fruit on this front from Trump. It is all words. He’s not championed anyone or made any donations for pro-life causes that I know of. He certainly did pro-abortion causes.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/politics/trump-has-never-sought-forgiveness/
From link above:
Moderator Frank Luntz asked Trump whether he has ever asked God for forgiveness for his actions.
“I am not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so,” he said. “I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.”
Does that make any sense to you? How is it possible to be a Christian without ever asking for forgiveness???
I cannot vote a man into the most powerful office in the world based on faith in his words alone. I need some fruits - some evidence beyond words.
His story does imply that. His rationale is akin to Anders Behring Breiviks' when he said in his manifesto that a resurgence of Judeo-Christian culture is what will save Europe from Islamization even though he was not a practitioner. Trump's argument in his op-ed is that the right to life is useful as form of social utility which coincides with his description of the rules of building construction and physics. Which is consistent with his characterization of his moment of conversion. Trump is not making a moral argument.
For some that will be enough. They'll take what they can get. I'd like to see what I he said on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade in 2015. And after all this time, he mentions federalism and the 10th amendment? Just after he said land in western states should be retained by the federal government? Like somebody else said, I wonder who wrote this for him.