re: Trump says he doesn’t think there’s anything that’ll get him to heaven

You are either in the kingdom of heaven or in hell at the present moment. You can always choose at any moment. Sounds to me Trump ain’t doing too bad right now.

Trump gets more true love than most people ever dream of, SH. He originally based his quest to be the ‘greatest’ and experience the personal feelings therein , via status, fame and relative affluence power. I’m not sure that Trump’s Father knew the Feeling of Love and truly loved Trump. I think Trump did love his Brother, to the degree that he was able.

Albeit Trump, like many, live life and experience Love to varying degrees in their peers. Trump does have opportunities (given his status and power) to indeed have access to experiencing “the best “, but that don’t mean he could be it, or that he would choose love over power and status. The ideal would be to have both, yet not be corrupted by Power.

A POTUS has to make VERY spiritually problematic judgments and actions, bearing the heavy Karmic blood of countless ’innocents’ on their hands. I think this is what Trump realizes and therein acknowledges in his response to Doocy’s question. And it is why many of us who doubt Trump’s Christian Belief, admire his honesty and defense of Christianity and the many loving folk who do embrace it in hope of an eternal and loving relationship with our God Creator and all therein. Trump will get a lot of lobbying for Jesus’s mercy from those people.

Trump is learning, to experience Greater Love just like we all are. Moving towards‘Heaven’ as it were. At least or until we reach the crossroad where we must choose Love over the corrupting power, of Power via status and fame. Lucifer set the standard, and ‘Adam and Eve’ jumped in, and off we go on the road to truly knowing ’who’ we are.

WTH is that , Squirrel? You’re crazier than me.

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Nobody earns heaven. It is by grace. Believe in Christ. That is how you get there.

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Yep. You can be as good of a human as possible and do all kinds of great things and good deeds and hurt nobody in your entire life and if you don’t believe in Christ and accept Him and ask to be saved then you aren’t getting in.


On the other hand a man who committed murder can show repentance and ask to be saved and he will. Some of the most devout Christians I know were absolute pieces of shite at one time

Paging Franklin Graham!

Somebody needs to tell our president about the King of Kings and Lord of Lords stat

Very true, MT. But it is by our “works” that will determine our heavenly reward. Or lack thereof, which in effect would be a ‘punishment’ of sort. There will be massive differences in people’s relative ‘status’ in Heaven. I used to wonder what that would look like, until I took a good look around me. Note that Trump did say that “I might be in ‘heaven’ now”. He knows. A lot do. Now where he ends up in the next one, whether he moves up or goes down, is still to be determined. For all of us. And things are likely to get VERY challenging. Very soon.

I don’t know if Trump has the luxury of Jesus’ mercy and the Holy Spirit’s guidance and care, but without it he is in grave danger due to his spiritual status and power. If I were him I’d be on my knees to Jesus every time I caught a private break. Lest Satan overcome.

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Very true, MT. But it is by our “works” that will determine our heavenly reward. Or lack thereof, which in effect would be a ‘punishment’ of sort.

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Absolutely spot on. Where people get confused is when people try to mix salvation with rewards based on how we live our lives, and that will drive a person to miss what saves them, and live in a constant state of having NO assurance, because their salvation is in what they do rather than what Christ already accomplished on their behalf. Our assurance is found in what God said. Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness. It certainly wasn’t his obedience or righteousness, in as much as it wasn’t David’s, or Lott’s or Noah’s, or Job’s, etc, etc.

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I really hope

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St. Augustine said: “Hope has 2 beautiful daughters; their names are Anger & Courage. Anger at the way things are, & Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”

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WTH is that , Squirrel? You’re crazier than me.

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It’s the Greek of Isaiah 45:1, where Cyrus (Persian Emperor and king of Babylon) is called the LORD’s anointed (Christ). In the Hebrew bible Cyrus is called the Hebrew word “Messiah” in this verse.

Hebrew - Messiah
Greek - Christ
English - anointed

The reason I posted a photo is because this board doesn’t display Greek characters.

K Squirrel.

The cultural context re the meaning of words as they are translated and interpreted by and in different cultural contextual scenarios is key. It would be obvious to anyone in the know that God would not designate Cyrus as THE Messiah, as that is essentially untrue. That God would annoint Cyrus as ‘A’ messiah/savior towards serving His purpose would not be an irrational reach.

It’s all hidden, IMO, but to/for those who have the Holy Spirit’s help in deciphering the greatest riddle in existence. “Eyes that see and ears that hear”, as it were. And most profound and definitive. That ‘riddle’ will be solved pretty soon. AI will assure that.