In my last post, I argued that

• the perceived benefits of the Trump presidency
  • from a biblical perspective,
    • are temporary and earthly, not eternal.

Now: The continued Trump presidency

• from a biblical perspective, will be
  • damaging, and
  • of eternal significance
    • for the Church, for America, and for the world.
• Under the Trump Presidency

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• Truth/Facts/Reality and our attitudes towards them have suffered.
  • The Trump administration is “An Administration of Lies.”
    • The president is a proven, pathological, and an unrepentant liar.
    • His supporters repeatedly offer “alternative facts”
      • to explain the administration’s actions and statements.
    • Getting more people to believe a ‘narrative’
      • (by retweets, ratings, polls, ‘likes’, ‘going viral’, soundbites, etc.)
      • in modern America
      • is now more important than the facts and
      • has been exacerbated by an administration
        • that peddles lies, obfuscation, spin and/or misdirection.
  • Truth is a Biblical and Christian ideal.
    • Truth is eternal!
    • Deceivers will be eternally punished.
  • Truth is reality and reality is truth.
    • Science deals in facts and objective Truth;
    • without truth and objective facts,
      • normal living is not possible;
        • to live in alternative reality is insanity, and
      • the progress of human civilization is hampered.
    • Justice for all depends on establishing
      • what is true and what are the facts (evidence!).

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• The Image of God
  • present in every human being;
    • (along with a sinful fallen nature) that is,
  • everything that is noble, pure, selfless, and admirable in man suffers.
  • Instead of the image of God:
    • humility, selflessness, love, harmony, peacefulness, self control, patience, gentleness, holiness, mercy….
    • Trump models the sinfulness of Man:
      • pride, narcissism, hate, division, quarrelsomeness, short temper, impatience, meanness, ‘fight back’, vengeance, impurity and indecency….
  • Trump undermines our common human dignity by 
    • choosing to divide instead of bringing people together
      • in order to harness political power.

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• The Direction and Fate of the World May Change Forever
  • The Bible predicts that history is marching towards the ‘End Times.’
  • America is the only economic, military, and cultural superpower.
    • Trump has stated he acts based on his guts instincts
    • Trump who appears willing to take unnecessary risks
      • (economic, military, cultural, political)
      • without strategy or clear planning;
      • he can therefore plunge the world into an ‘end times’ scenario
        • predicted in the Bible.
      • This can also weaken America from within.
• America as
  • a moral beacon in the world,
  • ‘the city on a hill that cannot be hid’
  • a clear voice for universal human rights,
  • model of freedom of the press, and as
  • a model of human dignity,
    • will be lost forever;
      • making the biblical ‘end times’ scenario that more certain.

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So count me out, I will not be voting for Donald Trump in 2020!