What the Left Wants
The left tells many of you and me that Trump is intemperate and brings chaos (chose to use description of the left). I can say that — it’s true — but the left cannot. Why? The left has no objective standard for morality. This is also why the left is relativistic on temperance and chaos. The left selectively applies its own opinions about temperance and immorality. In fact, almost all of the time, if not always, the left applies moral values only to those other than themselves who have values objectively. The left had a high expectation of Christians acting like Christians in the sense that Christians would require Donald Trump to be temperate and stop bringing chaos.
Based on an objective standard, which is also a true one, the left is equally to more intemperate and brings equal to more chaos than Trump did and does. The left expects Christians to moderate Trump, as if Christians are his king, based on their objective and true standards and not the left, who is at least equally intemperate and chaotic. I think I could prove that the left is twice as intemperate and chaotic than Trump. Upon receiving a moral reprimand from the left, who have no objective moral or true standard, Christians are themselves required by the left to admonish Trump.
Equal Admonishment of Left and Right
When those on the right, including biblical pastors, go ahead and admonish and scold Trump for his intemperance and chaos-causation, I don’t disagree with them. They’re right. I’ve heard some say that they did that because they’ve got to be equal with the left and the right. From my perspective, which I think is true, I don’t think you can be equal with the left and the right, because the left is so, so far worse than the right. It would require a full time position to reprimand them for doing worse than what Trump might do. Anyone who nails Trump for his intemperance might need to quit his job to have the time to catch up with the left’s comparable intemperance.
For decades, Hollywood has presented an unbiblical and blasphemous presentation of Jesus Christ. When Christians reprimand Hollywood, no one repents of that behavior. Hollywood keeps doing it. They actually get worse and more hateful. When Trump relatively and, I think, ambiguously or even potentially blasphemes Jesus Christ (as he later retracted or explained), the left wants a reprimand for him. They fight against a reprimand of Hollywood and scream for a reprimand of Trump. Trump is at most a cultural Christian. He says he believes in Jesus Christ. He doesn’t live like the Bible teaches a Christian is to live.
Not Expecting Trump to Act Like a Christian
Because Trump doesn’t live the Christian life and he doesn’t profess New Testament Christian doctrine, I don’t consider him a Christian. I would be happy to enlighten him on it and engage in a discipleship with him. Others have professed to talk to him about Jesus Christ. He attended Charlie Trump’s memorial service and other similar events and heard moderately, albeit too unclear, Christian messages. However, I don’t expect Trump to act like a Christian, because he isn’t one. I’m saying he isn’t. The New Testament in fact holds Christians to a less strict standard of treatment for unbelievers than it does for believers.
I don’t expect Trump to act like a Christian. When Trump put out the recent picture that most people thought was a suggestion that he might be Jesus Christ, that was Trump acting like he really is, not a Christian. And yet, the left wants a standard, that it doesn’t even believe or couldn’t believe, because it doesn’t have objective moral standards, applied to Trump. And so what do Christians do? They feel this obligation to apply a Christian standard to Trump and scold him. I say, fine, apply it. But when they apply it, they could just go ahead and explain the gospel to Trump, the actual true gospel.
Acting Like a Believer or an Unbeliever
When I voted for Trump, I didn’t vote for him because I thought he was a Christian. His thinking is far, far more Christian than the left. Trump actually holds to a framework for his thinking that could allow Christian thought to exist in his mind. He is not coherent at all in expressing Christian or biblical thinking, but he borrows from Christian standards like someone who gets the frame of reference for Christian thinking. The left just attacks that very frame of reference and the framework for Christian thinking. Its advocates hate it. Trump doesn’t hate it.
I believe there are six Supreme Court justices who are better than the other three at interpreting the Constitution. There are three of those who are better than the other three of the six. I don’t believe any of those six or the other three are Christians, based on a biblical exposition of the gospel. They profess Christianity, but they are what scripture calls, disobedient to the gospel. I’m saying there are zero Christians on the Supreme Court so I don’t expect them to act or judge like Christians either. God doesn’t lower His standard of behavior for anyone, but I expect unbelievers to act like unbelievers.
Admonishment from Preachers
Daniel reprimanded the kings from Babylon and Medo-Persia, whom he served — Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Darius, and Cyrus — twice, and privately. He wouldn’t do what these kings would do, like bowing to a tall idol. Also, Daniel would not live like they lived, violating Old Testament restrictions. Daniel urged both Nebuchadnezzar and then Belshazzar to repent, but he also served in their administrations according to the will of God. The former really appreciated how Daniel lived, what he said, and the good counsel that He gave. The goal first should be to help your authority to make appropriate changes.
What I’ve noticed is that Trump is more likely to accept or listen to the loving admonishment of a true, biblical preacher, who also supports the good things that he has done and is doing. I don’t agree with a lot of the preachers with the greatest influence on him and many things that they say to him. He has a few people, it seems, that can tell him things he needs to hear, that conflict with something he’s done. I don’t see Trump needing complete agreement from actual advocates, those who try to help him. They show loyalty in public, but they can state their naysaying in private.
The Relative Support and the Strategy
Praising Trump for what I like and what I want him to do doesn’t mean that I like his intemperance and chaos-causing. It just doesn’t work that way with support for a president. The way it works is that you take into consideration everything, because there are always at least two sides on this. You are picking a side and supporting it overall. From that standpoint, it’s far easier to support Trump, because he corresponds much more closely as a whole to the Christian worldview, even with his intemperance and chaos.
I might explain Trumps intemperance and chaos, because I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. I’m willing to see it in the best light. Do not confuse this with support of his or any intemperance and chaos. Support of him is not support of that. I get what the left is doing and the actual large scale damage it wants to cause. Also, I don’t believe the left really believes what it says. The left sees the value to its cause in repudiations of Trump by his own voters. This could chip away at Trump support and peel off some voters or motivate their staying home. That’s the ultimate strategy here and they luxuriate in it.
The big picture and a grand strategy in opposition to the left, I don’t believe, is capitulation to whatever intemperance or chaos of Trump. Enough occurs that anyone could scold him like a dog that barks at every person, car, or bird that comes down the street by its back yard. I read those who threaten to stop support. This is the last straw — that kind of thing. Just take a moment and understand what all this means. The other side in general can’t tell you what or who a woman is. It also booed God at their own convention, when someone suggested God might appear in its platform.