Hello Terry,
Like Donald said "God saved him" so why are you surprised?
God did not save Donald Trump.
Just think what that would imply.
"God protected Donald Trump." ~ US Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)
Other politicians, as well as religious folk, have said much
the same thing. But I doubt any of them have thought about what
they have said.
This way of thinking implies that God redirected the bullet into
the person who was killed at his rally, or the two people who were
critically injured.
Do you honestly believe that?
God kills people so that others will live?
Is that the kind of God you want to believe in?
Not me.
God kills some hostages in Gaza so others can live.
Isn't that the same thing that some folks are saying
in reference to Trump's survival? God killed others
so Trump can live?
I was brought up to believe that God is Love. This is at the heart
of the Christian faith. Or so I was led to believe.
The New Testament says "No one has ever seen God, but if we love
one another God abides in us."
There you go. All we have to do is love one another.
Jesus showed us how. By his own example.
Paul (who never met Jesus, but was knocked off his horse) says
"All the law is summed up into this command -- Love, Love God and
each other."
Do you think that Paul was kidding? Remember, he was the one who
went about persecuting Christians in his day.
What a guy. Talk about blinded by the light. He learned fast.
Now think about this -
If God is love then God wants us all to love and flourish.
When we hurt and kill each other, like Cain and Abel, how do
you think God feels?
An invisible deity. Nobody can know how God feels.
That is why Christians have Jesus.
Go ahead. Look at Jesus. Look at what he did when Peter
used a sword to chop off the ear of a Roman soldier. Jesus did
not praise Peter, but admonished him by saying "Live by the
sword, die by the sword."
And then he went on to heal the soldier's ear.
You do see what I am getting at. The way of Jesus is nonviolence.
Even to those who are violent to us.
So how can anybody believe Trump claiming that God saved him?
How can anybody believe others who claim that God saved him?
When Jesus disarmed Peter, he disarmed every one of us.
And yet there are Christians. Or those who call themselves
Christians. Who really do not know or want to know what it means
to be a Christian.
There is no such thing as redemptive violence. It is all a lie.
A big lie. Violence is the problem, not the solution. Violence is
the disease, not the cure.
Why did Jesus come? Certainly you have your own beliefs.
Precisely why Jesus came should be obvious to all - but so
few people get it. He wanted to show us what God is like and
what love looks like. With skin on. In the flesh. Somebody
others could relate to. Unmistakeably nonviolent.
If we do not conclude that God saved Donald Trump on Saturday,
what lesson(s) should Christians take from Saturday's attempt on
Donald Trump's life?
Any theology that puts God, rather than sinful human beings,
behind a gun or a bomb is bad theology. Really bad theology.
Is that the theology Christians want to place their faith in?
If so, please leave me out of it.
For Life,
Lee
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