{"id":4343,"date":"2026-02-01T13:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:43:19","slug":"according-to-what-you-prefer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/?p=4343","title":{"rendered":"According to What You Prefer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"A question on Quora<\/a> came up that asked how you can support President Trump as a Christian.<\/div>\n
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As you can imagine, there are people, both unbelievers and believers, who are hell bent on insisting that you can’t call yourself a Christian if you support President Trump.<\/div>\n
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I weighed in because I believe in the empty tomb. And I also believe that you don’t necessarily support a personality as much as you support the policies that he champions.<\/div>\n
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But that doesn’t register with some people. They’re determined to believe that anyone with a manner and a past that doesn’t line up with what they would prefer is not only unsuitable for any leadership position, but anyone who supports such an individual is obviously not a believer.<\/div>\n
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Here’s the last response I got:<\/div>\n
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…the Word of God says friendship with the world is enmity with God! That we’re either hot or cold, lukewarm individuals He said He’d spit them out! There is no way ANY child of the Holy and Righteous God can support DJT and what he’s doing and how he’s doing it! He is like his father the devil and is doing his father’s bidding! And I don’t use the word Christian anymore because some have just muddled it up\"\ud83d\ude1f\"<\/span>! Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don\u2019t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality.<\/div>\n
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Here’s how I responded:<\/div>\n
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Remember how Jesus was tempted? Satan actually quoted Scripture, but he took it out of its original context. And my relationship with Christ is based on the empty tomb, not the way I vote (Rom 10:9\u201310).<\/div>\n
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That\u2019s the first thing\u2026<\/div>\n
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Secondly, I don\u2019t support adultery or vulgarity. But that didn\u2019t stop me from serving in the Marine Corps or pursuing a career as a national recording artist or being employed in general. If you extend your rationale to it\u2019s inevitable conclusion, you don\u2019t have a mission field, you have a support group (1 Cor 5:9\u201310).<\/div>\n
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Third, my support of President Trump is based on his policies, not his theology. King Cyrus didn\u2019t know or acknowledge God. For an orthodox Jew, that must\u2019ve been a hard pill to swallow given the fact that Cyrus was not only a Gentile, but he was an idolater. Yet, God referred to him as \u201cmy shepherd\u201d and it was through Cyrus\u2019 administration that the Hebrews were able to rebuild their capital city (Ezr 1:2-4; Is 44:28; 45:5).<\/div>\n
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Fourth, if you refuse to engage the world as it is and support those who God is using, despite their manner or their past, you\u2019re not being Christlike, you\u2019re being disobedient. (Mk 9:39\u201340; 1 Cor 5:9\u201310). What makes sin heinous is not so much the sin, as much as it\u2019s Who you\u2019re sinning against. From that standpoint, if we use your approach, no one is qualified to lead. And I\u2019m not saying that you excuse bad behavior by saying \u201cWe\u2019re all sinners.\u201d I\u2019m saying you don\u2019t dismiss however God is working simply because it\u2019s not packaged according to what you prefer.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A question on Quora came up that asked how you can support President Trump as a Christian. As you can imagine, there are people, both unbelievers and believers, who are hell bent on insisting that you can’t call yourself a Christian if you support President Trump. I weighed in because I believe in the empty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,22,27,41],"tags":[84,86],"class_list":["post-4343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-events","category-discipleship","category-muscular-christianity","category-politics","tag-christianity","tag-president-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4425,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions\/4425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muscularchristianityonline.com\/platform\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}