{"id":16494,"date":"2018-07-04T13:05:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T18:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16494"},"modified":"2018-07-04T13:05:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T18:05:48","slug":"wailing-over-meaningless-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/07\/04\/wailing-over-meaningless-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Wailing Over Meaningless Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"

On The Resurgent<\/strong><\/em>, Susan Wright is discomfited<\/a> by another evangelist leader who’s using the Bible to support Donald Trump:<\/p>\n

Televangelist Andrew Wommack<\/a>\u00a0hosted a Facebook question and answer time on Facebook Tuesday night, as a lead-in to his usual Truth & Liberty livestream event.<\/p>\n

At some point, the pastor was asked by a viewer why so many Christians were \u201cblinded\u201d and couldn\u2019t see how God could be using Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same kind of nonsense I have dealt with in a thousand interactions since the election. Trump, with his adulteries, cheating, scamming, lying, and abusiveness is King David. He\u2019s King Cyrus. They\u2019ve stopped just shy of assigning messianic qualities to him, in some cases.<\/p>\n

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Just shy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wommack\u2019s answer to this question was the dangerous twisting of Scripture that so many have used to excuse their support of an ungodly man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Citing a passage from\u00a02 Thessalonians<\/a>\u00a0in which Paul warns that, in the Last Days, God will send a \u201cpowerful delusion\u201d on those \u201crefused to love the truth,\u201d Wommack said that this is precisely what is happening now.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow come people can\u2019t see things today?\u201d he asked. \u201cIt really defies logic. It really does defy logic. It seems like there is a supernatural deception that\u2019s over people that they can\u2019t see the fallacy of what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do believe that we are in the End Times and this is one of the signs of the End Times,\u201d Wommack said. \u201cI believe that there is a demonic deception that is blinding people today.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I\u2019ll agree with Wommack on this: There is a great delusion that has overtaken the people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Four heads are better than one.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Trying to derive doctrine from a text readable in so many ways, years after it’s been translated, all strikes me as one of the nuttier ways to spend one’s time these days. But I suppose it’s not surprising, as it’s a movement pre-disposed to accepting the cloying bullshit of charlatans.<\/p>\n

I know it’s just chanting into the wind, but how about evaluating President Trump on his own terms, using your life experiences with liars and cheats, and then tell me how you feel about his competency in a position completely outside of his experience? The difference in conclusions will cast a new light on the rancid remark magical thinking<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Yacking over “doctrine” … just leaves me shaking what I use for a head these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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