The writers of the letter “Christians had reasons to vote for Trump” (March 11, TribLive) ask, what is a Christian? They quote the Scriptures, which are indeed true.
However, Jesus, in Mark 12:28-34, also gave instructions on how to live. He said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” The second is this: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Have you lived as Christ told you? Your letter suggests otherwise. It seems that you have lost your basic Christian principles. You do not love your neighbor as yourself. In your pride, you do not follow God’s admonition to refrain from judging others’ faith.
Your overreaching pride is in deciding when a soul comes into a fetus. No one knows. Some believe the soul enters at conception. Others believe the soul enters with the birthed child’s first breath. Others choose intermediate times. Each person must make that determination based on their own faith or convictions.
As for wickedness, St. Paul wrote, “(Christians) must not associate with anyone who called himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. ” (I Corinthians 5:11)
President Trump is known for sexual immorality, slandering his “enemies” and swindling workmen of their earnings.
The examples are numerous, but you refuse to see. Are you blinded by your assumptions that Trump can make the world the way you want it? You will see your folly in believing such a false prophet.
Brenda H. White
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