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tulipsandroses

(5,122 posts)
Wed Nov 11, 2020, 09:15 PM Nov 2020

Did Hell Freeze Over?? Robert Jeffries breaks rank, says Biden is President Elect

Trump-Supporting Pastor Breaks Ranks, Calls Biden President-Elect

Trump-Supporting Pastor Breaks Ranks, Calls Biden President-Elect
Evangelical Christian leader Robert Jeffress calls Biden’s victory “a bitter pill to swallow,” but, unlike Trump and other Republicans, he isn’t calling it a fraud.

An evangelical Christian leader who has been one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters is breaking ranks with the president over who won the election.

In an op-ed for Fox News, Robert Jeffress said “it appears that former Vice President Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States on Jan. 20, unless President Trump succeeds in legal challenges to the counting of votes in several states.”

He calls Biden’s victory “a bitter pill to swallow” for “millions of Christians across our nation.” But, unlike Trump and other Republicans, he isn’t calling the election a fraud.

Jeffress admits it’s “always easier to submit and to pray for someone when he was our preferred candidate,” but added that Christians should welcome the chance to show ”[we] are not hypocrites.”

He wrote:

“When Joe Biden becomes president, we should commend him for the things he does right. We should condemn the things he does wrong. And above all, we must pray fervently for our president.

“If President Biden succeeds, we all succeed. May God bless Joe Biden, and may God bless the United States of America.”
[link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-jeffress-biden-is-president-elect_n_5fac236ac5b6ed84597d752f|

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Did Hell Freeze Over?? Robert Jeffries breaks rank, says Biden is President Elect (Original Post) tulipsandroses Nov 2020 OP
Satan just fired up the Zamboni. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2020 #1
I believe that an unpleasant photo Cartaphelius Nov 2020 #4
Good Lord, the Southern Baptists are the ones out in front on the math and facts nt Shermann Nov 2020 #2
Calculated sweetness, oh bless his heart! Brainfodder Nov 2020 #3
Hell's cooling off even with safeinOhio Nov 2020 #5
He's recanted atreides1 Nov 2020 #6
LOL, someone must have called and given him an earful. Those were his words that he wrote on FOX tulipsandroses Nov 2020 #7
He makes me sick. StarryNite Nov 2020 #9
Fricking hypocrite. StarryNite Nov 2020 #8
Meh. Eff him and the horse he rode in on. yellowcanine Nov 2020 #10

atreides1

(16,066 posts)
6. He's recanted
Wed Nov 11, 2020, 09:55 PM
Nov 2020

On Twitter...


Dr. Robert Jeffress
@robertjeffress
Don’t believe some false media reports that I have “broken” with our great President @realDonaldTrump. I support him completely. We do NOT have a “president-elect” until electoral college votes December 14. I will discuss on “@LouDobbs Tonight" Friday.
4:35 PM · Nov 11, 2020

tulipsandroses

(5,122 posts)
7. LOL, someone must have called and given him an earful. Those were his words that he wrote on FOX
Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:06 PM
Nov 2020

Now its false?

Wonder how long before Fox disappears his OP ED?

Those were his exact words. - Joe Biden is president elect - right there in the title

Pastor Robert Jeffress: Biden is president-elect — how should Christians respond?

Later on in the article:


Human governments and rulers change at God’s direction and design. Our faith and our salvation lie not in any human ruler, but in the ruler of rulers, the King of kings. We have to remember that even though the occupant of the White House is changing, the One who occupies the throne of Heaven hasn’t changed.

The fact that God has established authorities means that by obeying the government, we obey God.


[link:https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-elected-christians-response-robert-jeffress|

StarryNite

(9,435 posts)
8. Fricking hypocrite.
Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:09 PM
Nov 2020

When did that little effer ever condemn tRump for all of the horrific things he did wrong?



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