Hallelujah! Dr. James Dobson says Donald Trump has accepted Christ, is a "baby Christian"

[PJMcK]

60. Our points are the same, rpannier

We're on the same side here as I was riffing on your "Baby Christian" comment. I think we can agree that Donald Trump has conveniently found religion at an opportune time. It's interesting to me that Mr. Trump has attended church for decades but is only now finding Jesus. And he's claimed that the Bible is the only book ever written that is greater than his own book, "The Art of the Deal."

I'm always struck by how many "Christians" really don't know anything about the Bible but they'll swear that it's the inerrant word of god. The point of my response to your post was that most Evangelical Christians today have such a skewed understanding of the Bible, especially the New Testament, that it's contemporary interpretation would be incomprehensible to the original authors. At the end of Jesus' life, there were no "Christians" per se and it would be centuries before the church would begin to organize. It would be later still that the writings that became the Bible would be edited and organized.

I've heard various leaders and politicians quote the Bible out of context which often changes the meaning of the passage, often reversing the point being made. That technique will work well for Donald Trump. (sarcasm)