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Trump's evangelical adviser: ‘God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un.'

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KSweeley

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According to Trump's evangelical adviser, Romans 13 in the Bible gives Trump the full authority of God to take out North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un and this advisor seriously believes God put Trump in office as POTUS: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...says/?tid=pm_local_pop&utm_term=.88ec38b87da4

Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, one of President Trump’s evangelical advisers who preached the morning of his inauguration, has released a statement saying the president has the moral authority to take out North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

“When it comes to how we should deal with evil doers, the Bible, in the book of Romans, is very clear: God has endowed rulers full power to use whatever means necessary — including war — to stop evil,” Jeffress said. “In the case of North Korea, God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un.”

Jeffress said in a phone interview that he was prompted to make the statement after Trump said that if North Korea’s threats to the United States continue, Pyongyang will be “met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”

The biblical passage Romans 13 gives the government authority to deal with evildoers, Jeffress said. “That gives the government to the authority to do whatever, whether it’s assassination, capital punishment or evil punishment to quell the actions of evildoers like Kim Jong Un,” he said.

He said that many pacifist Christians will cite Romans 12, which says, “Do not repay evil for evil,” but Jeffress says that that passage is referring to Christians, not to the government.

“A Christian writer asked me, ‘Don’t you want the president to embody the Sermon on the Mount?’ ” he said, referring to Jesus’s famous sermon. “I said absolutely not.”

In his sermon on the morning of Trump’s inauguration, Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, compared Trump to the story of the biblical leader Nehemiah who helped rebuild the city of Jerusalem.

The first step of rebuilding the nation, Jeffress said, was the building of a wall around Jerusalem to protect its citizens. “You see, God is not against building walls,” Jeffress said in his sermon at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington.

Jeffress last met with Trump in July when a group of pastors laid hands on the president in the Oval Office. He said now that health care is off the table, evangelicals are hoping for tax reform, though he didn’t have any specifics in mind.

Jeffress, who was was an early supporter of Trump, has said that after sharing Wendy’s cheeseburgers in Iowa, he believed Trump would be the next president and that it would be because God placed him there. In July, his church choir and orchestra performed a song called “Make America Great Again” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts where Trump was in attendance.
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neoanarch

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Someone please save us. Fuck.



Honestly I'm not that concerned. But please hurry with those Russia investigations.
 
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Acorn

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Atleast Trump doesn't believe in God aside from during elections to gather votes. His god is his reflection.
 
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Ishan

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Whether you like him or not. I highly highly doubt trump has made any decision based on a evangelical advisor .... this is a non issue.
 
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Volimar

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Completely perverting your own holy scriptures to rationalize war...

Are any of Trump's associates not complete asshats?
 
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Syf

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Acorn

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Fucked up that we've reached the point that most of the world is more concerned with what this shitlord will do than the dictator crazy cult leader.

This world.
 
EYEL1NER

EYEL1NER

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I burst out laughing when I read the OP. This guy is just so full of shit! I mean, we obviously know that about evangelicals, and the piece of shit in office wanting to mix it up with North Korea isn't a laughing matter, but goddamn if this whole thing isn't just ridiculous!

Awww man, I don't think I've ever heard that kind of hysterical laughter come from myself. I think Trump, the GOP, evangelicals, and this nation of deplorables have finally broken me.
 
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Keasar

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"Seperate Church from State"

USA just "Fuck it, let's just integrate them fully and have a crazy person in contact with God give political and military advice!"
 
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KSweeley

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Trump's evangelical advisor believed that President Obama paved the way to the Antichrist:

Jeffress is no stranger to controversy. He has said in the past that former president Barack Obama paved the way for the antichrist and drew wide attention for calling Mormonism a cult during the 2012 Republican primaries. Jeffress knows his comments on North Korea could be considered controversial, even among fellow evangelicals.

“Some Christians, perhaps younger Christians, have to think this through,” he said. “It’s antithetical to some of the mushy rhetoric you hear from some circles today. Frankly, it’s because they are not well taught in the scriptures.”

Over the past two years, Jeffress said, Trump has been “very measured, very thoughtful in every response.”

“People instinctively know that this president is not going to draw an imaginary red line and walk around it like President Obama did,” he said.
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Imperfected

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Hektor said:
Weren't it the mighty rulers of rome that nailed Jesus to that piece of wood
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That was fine because they were from the government, and Romans 13 is quite clear on the point: "whatevs".

Now, I know you're going to bring up the contradiction presented by Romans 12, but that's some basic bitch scripture. Real OG Christians skip straight to 13 to get the good stuff.
 
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ponpo

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Bush didn't finish the job smh. Gog and Magog escaped to North Korea.

Save us Trump.
 
Monocle

Monocle

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SRG01 said:
Isn't the entirety of Matthew about the dangers of military power?
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Who cares, when you can cherry pick passages to support anything you like, as people have been doing for hundreds upon hundreds of years.

Did you know the Bible justifies slavery and segregation? According to a bunch of slavers and segregationists it did!
 
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SRG01

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Monocle said:
Who cares, when you can cherry pick passages to support anything you like, as people have been doing for hundreds upon hundreds of years.

Did you know the Bible justifies slavery and segregation? According to a bunch of slavers and segregationists it did!
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Yeah, that's kind of true.

As a recent Christian convert, it never ceases to amaze me how many Christians have not read the bible or studied it thoroughly...
 
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astroturfing

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didnt Bush 2 start the Iraq war because God told him to? so he could stop the biblical characters Gog and Magog (or sth)?

this is how America operates at the highest level, as a Christian extremist nation. not surprising.
 
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