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President Trump joined the \u201cAmerica Reads the Bible\u201d challenge on Tuesday, with a pre-recorded message. The marathon<\/a> is put on by Christians Engaged and is billed as \u201ca national Scripture-reading event\u201d in honor of America\u2019s 250th<\/sup> birthday this year. The event runs from April 19 to April 25, with 12 hours of daily Scripture reading at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, with the purpose of reading through the whole Bible. The event will feature some 450 readers, with the likes of Candace Cameron Bure, former presidential candidate Ben Carson, and many others joining in.<\/p>\n

President Trump read from 2 Chronicles 7:11-22, which takes place after King Solomon has completed the building of the First Temple in Jerusalem. God responds to Solomon\u2019s prayer for the kingdom of Israel by promising to relent from punishing Israel after the people have sought true repentance. The passage includes the familiar phrase, \u201cIf my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.\u201d It\u2019s a verse often cited as a call for national repentance.<\/p>\n

The President released a statement<\/a> acknowledging the event and acknowledged the Bible\u2019s influence on many formative events of the United States\u2019s history, from the landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock to the writing of the Declaration of Independence, to President Franklin D. Roosevelt praying a national prayer over the radio just before the United States and its allies stormed the beaches of Normandy in what would later be called D-Day. \u201cToday, during our 250th year of American independence, the America Reads the Bible [Initiative] invites all citizens to once again acknowledge our Nation\u2019s extraordinary Biblical foundations and to give thanks for the countless ways in which God has been the sacred source of our unity and national strength,\u201d the President noted, adding that \u201cTogether, we will honor Holy Scripture, renew our faith, usher in a historic resurgence of religion on American shores, and rededicate the United States as one Nation under God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of the President\u2019s supporters applauded his participation, while critics pointed out the President\u2019s recent social media snafu where he shared an AI image that appeared to depict himself as Jesus healing the nation. Writing prior to the President\u2019s reading, however, Paul M. Neuberger, founder and CEO of Christian networking organization C-Suite for Christ, called for the event to be \u201cnot a political moment.\u201d \u201cIt is a spiritual crossroads,\u201d he wrote in a blog post<\/a>. \u201cA line has been drawn, not by a man, but by the Word of God. And every person, every leader, every believer will choose where they stand. Because the reality is simple and unchanging: A nation that honors God stands. A nation that rejects Him falls.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump joined the \u201cAmerica Reads the Bible\u201d challenge on Tuesday, with a pre-recorded message. The marathon is put on by Christians Engaged and is billed as \u201ca national Scripture-reading event\u201d in honor of America\u2019s 250th birthday this year. 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