{"id":13080,"date":"2019-03-04T12:38:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T17:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=13080"},"modified":"2019-03-05T09:37:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T14:37:41","slug":"13080","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2019\/03\/13080","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump Christian? Jim Bakker Says Yes, Claims Trump Has Been Saved \u201cMany Times\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump\u2019s faith has been a subject of curiosity and, like everything associated with the president, controversy for several years. Some people claim that Trump is a devoted though new Christian. Dr. James Dobson, for example, claimed that Trump surrendered to Christ in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe he really made a commitment, but he’s a baby Christian. We all need to be praying for him, especially if there is a possibility of him being our next chief executive officer,\u201d Dobson said prior to Trump\u2019s election in 2016.<\/p>\n

Other people, however, claim that Trump\u2019s own personal faith is weak or nonexistent. Pastor David Lewicki, for example, claimed that he was the pastor at Trump\u2019s family church for five years but that Trump \u201cnever actually enter[ed] the church doors. Not one time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Controversial televangelist Jim Bakker had his own comments on the matter. According to Bakker, President Trump has been led to salvation \u201cmany times.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI personally know people who have led him to Christ. He\u2019s been saved so many times that I\u2019ll tell you what, if he counts, he\u2019s got more numbers than anybody I know of. And I\u2019m serious. I can name the people who prayed with him,\u201d Bakker said. Among those people, Bakker claimed, was fellow televangelist James Robison. \u201cBut [Robison is] just one of them,\u201d Bakker said. \u201cBut they were leading him, guiding him, preparing him, nurturing him through it all. There is a Daniel\u2019s company and it\u2019s so big\u2026This is probably one of the basic reasons why there\u2019s miracles coming out of the White House and why there\u2019s a miracle in America,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s why the world hates him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bakker\u2019s comments have always leaned toward the controversial, including his statement that he believes \u201c110 hitmen\u201d have been hired to kill Trump, but some of his arguments in favor of Trump\u2019s Christian faith have been easier to confirm or disprove. Bakker\u2019s statement that \u201cwhen [Trump] flies, he has pastors with him. When he\u2019s in the White House, he has pastors with him,\u201d can be proven simply by keeping an eye out to see who has been a recent guest of the president.<\/p>\n

Whether Trump has actually been recently saved, repeatedly saved or never been led to Christ at all is not something that can be proven at this moment. The question has certainly gotten a great deal of attention from Christians and, like almost everything related to President Trump, created a lot of buzz and talk. One can only wait to see if this sort of buzz will turn out to be beneficial or not for the president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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