Is Donald Trump a Christian?
The other day, one of my children announced, "You know, Trump is a Christian." "Why do you think that?" I asked. "My camp leader told me he was." Why does this keep coming up? Is it that whole thing with him issuing his own Bible ? Or maybe because he's been inside a church ? I mean, I've been inside the Tillamook factory, but that doesn't mean I'm a block of cheese. I don't claim to know Trump's relationship with God, nor do I intend to judge him, but I think it might be worse to remain silent in this case. Here's what I shared with my child: In the Bible it says good trees bear good fruit and bad trees bear bad fruit. It also says we can know people by their works. (Matthew 7:17-20) There are also verses in the Bible that encourage kindness towards foreigners. (Jeremiah 7:4-6, Jeremiah 22:3, Deuteronomy 10:18-19, Exodus 23:9, Leviticus 19:33-34, Malachi 3:5, etc.) It seems that Trump seems to feel that immigrants don...