Ep. 116: A Christian Perspective on the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump [The Outstanding Podcast]
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4.7 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Whether you love, hate, or tolerate him - the recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has left many Americans stunned and questioning how this will impact the upcoming election. Host Joseph Backholm is joined by FRC's Senior Fellow Owen Strachan for a discussion on the biblical response to the almost fatal shot. If God wanted to end Donald Trump's life, he would have - but why did he allow another to take the bullet? Joseph and Owen unpack their raw reactions to hearing the news, the difference between coincidence and God ordained, and God's sovereignty ordaining evil for good. As Christians, we are not called to give up on the public square. May we trust our God is faithful and working on our behalf.
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| 0:00.0 | You think about a passage like Psalm 13916 along these lines. Let me just read it briefly. |
| 0:06.8 | Your eyes saw my unformed substance and in your book all the days of my life were written before ever they took shape. |
| 0:14.4 | When as yet there was none of them, let me just zero in on one little section there. |
| 0:19.0 | In your book, in the book of history that God has written out all the days of my life were written. |
| 0:26.3 | Outstanding is a production of The Washington Stand where you can find news and commentary |
| 0:30.9 | from a biblical worldview. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to Outstanding where we have news and commentary from a biblical worldview. |
| 0:32.8 | Welcome to Outstanding, where we have critical conversations |
| 0:36.1 | about the news of the day and the ideas that shape us once again. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm your host Joseph Backholm, encouraging you |
| 0:42.3 | to take every thought captive to the obedience of |
| 0:44.6 | Christ and today we're going to do that about the news of the day and we're going to |
| 0:50.3 | ask the question does God want Donald Trump to be president? |
| 0:55.2 | Now, of course, I don't mean by that is God Maga. I think we know the answer to that. |
| 1:00.7 | But when a president has a piece of the ear shot off by a would-be assassin and rises from the moment like |
| 1:09.2 | Rocky Balboa to lead the shocked and horrified crowd in chance. |
| 1:15.0 | It's difficult to wonder if God isn't putting his thumb on the scale in some way. |
| 1:20.4 | Now, whether you love him, hate him, or tolerate him, we can't ignore these events that they were impossible to orchestrate, and they are going to make an impact on the election. |
| 1:32.0 | So that's our discussion for today. Joining me for this is our good friend, |
| 1:37.2 | Owen Strand. He is like I am a senior fellow for biblical worldview |
| 1:42.9 | here at the Family Research Council, |
| 1:44.3 | and he's also more recently |
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