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Trump is Antichrist

posted onJune 11, 2017
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Article snippet: clconnett //&nbsp Posted at 9:53 pm on May 16, 2016 by clconnett I’ve said it before, but just to lay out where I’m coming from I want to explain my background.  I’m a Christian, normally considered part of the Evangelical tradition.  I grew up Southern Baptist and have attended multiple churches with strong Baptist traditions.  I received a M.Div. (Masters of Divinity) from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and have studied under men like Dr. Russell Moore, and Dr. Albert Mohler (full disclosure, I never had any classes under Dr. Mohler, only having the opportunity to benefit from having him as President of the seminary and thus attending chapel to hear him preach along with a couple of instances of getting to sit in a class under him, I give him only as an example of the quality of academics at SBTS).  I note all that to explain why I feel I’m justified in saying that from a theological perspective, Donald Trump is an Antichrist. Note that I’m not saying he is “the” antichrist.  In fact, in the Christian tradition there isn’t even an agreement that there is necessarily one antichrist who is the anti-type of the antichrists we otherwise find in Scripture and in the world.  However, looking at Scripture, Donald Trump fits the description of an antichrist, all the way down to the fact that Christians are supporting him. What does the Bible say about Antichrists? And Just from these sections we can already make the argument that Trump is an antichrist, but... Link to the full article to read more

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