Donald Trump
Trump Campaign
www.donaldtrump.com
D. Coman
Clayton, N.C.
Re: Ben Carson political attack in Iowa
11/13/2015
OPEN LETTER TO DONALD TRUMP
Dear Mr. Trump,
I would like to inform you that you may have grossly insulted the evangelical community. You have professed your belief that testimony by Ben Carson of God’s intervention and healing in his life is “crap”. Inadvertently, by questioning the event in its entirety, you have clearly made a stand against God’s ability to change Ben Carson’s life and that anyone who believes that God has the power to heal or change in this instance is stupid and believes a bunch of crap. In your Iowa rally, you questioned Carson’s story of nearly stabbing a friend by stating, “How stupid are the people of Iowa? How stupid are the people of this country to believe this crap?” You also compared pathological tempers to child molestation. You claim that you do not want a person who has a pathological disease. Are you afraid Ben Carson is capable of molesting a child? This is a man whom has spent his life caring and advocating for children. Check his record.
Mr. Trump, voters and the media lay wait like predators for a presidential candidate’s smoking gun. Unfortunately for you, the trigger has been pulled!
Let me be perfectly clear in my observation. Ben Carson’s testimony in his book “Gifted Hands” describes himself running to the bathroom after attempting to stab a friend and praying for God’s help in healing his temper. Carson said, “During those hours alone in the bathroom, something happened to me.” “God heard my deep cries of anguish. A feeling of lightness flowed over me, and I knew a change of heart had taken place. I felt different. I was different.” Mr. Trump this is called a testimony in the evangelical community. Christians believe this is the power of God through Jesus Christ. In your Iowa rally you said of Ben Carson, “I don’t want a person who’s got pathological disease… There’s no cure for that, folks… He’s a pathological, damaged temper.” This was your message at that rally. In Fort Dodge, you questioned Carson’s religious transformation. You questioned him entering the bathroom troubled and exiting transformed by questioning, “now he’s religious?”
Mr. Trump, according to your statements and without the usual defensive spin, you imply that God’s intervention in Ben Carson’s life is questionable. God does not have the ability to heal pathological disease. You question the stupidity of Iowans. You imply that Americans who believe in Ben Carson’s testimony of faith are stupid for believing this crap. According to God’s Word, you are a false prophet and a deceiver. As for my opinion, you are an enemy to the evangelical community!
Obviously, your claims that faith in God’s power to intervene and transform our lives is simply “stupid” and “crap”. This is in complete contradiction to the fundamentals of Christianity! At your rally in Florida you claimed to be a Presbyterian. It may be of great concern to the Presbyterian leadership body to find that a proclaimed Presbyterian believes that God cannot heal or transform certain individuals or instances. I ask you, “Does God not offer his miracles of healing through faith for all of mankind in every situation?” It may concern the Presbyterian body and all Christians abroad that you made the following claim in Iowa “And the people of Iowa believe him. Give me a break. Give me a break. It doesn’t happen that way”. You followed by saying, “Don’t be fools.” Therefore, I hereby call upon the leadership of the Presbyterian body to comment and clarify their fundamental beliefs! It may be in their best interest to separate themselves from your proclamations concerning these issues as you claim to be of the Presbyterian faith.
As for my personal Christian faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, this is exactly how it does happen, Mr. Trump. I encourage you to open the Bible you claim to own and read the scriptures where the Apostle Paul, a persecutor of Jesus Christ, was traumatically transformed or converted on an open road during his journey to Damascus. You may also want to read the fifth chapter of Mark where Jesus miraculously healed a pathological grown man whom was far more troubled than Mr. Ben Carson was as a child. If you so choose to read these scriptures you will find that Mr. Carson’s experience is exactly, “how it happens” according to the Bible. You will also find in the writings of Paul, that God’s Word instructs us that our faith concerning these issues in not stupid or foolish but a confirmation and proof of the Spirit of God. You will also find through the teaching of Jesus Christ and the writings of John that those who claim otherwise are false prophets.
My friend, you have been extremely successful with the business of man, as to the business of God Almighty you are indeed “TRUMPED”!
D. Coman
Christian by faith and American by birth
