Jeffress Says Trump Understands Bible Better Than the Pope

A prominent evangelical pastor just said something that has Christians of every stripe talking.
Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas told Fox News this weekend that “President Trump has a better understanding of what the Bible teaches than the Pope” — specifically pointing to the role of government laid out in Romans 13. The remark came in the middle of a deepening public feud between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV over the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran. Trump has called the pontiff “weak on crime.” Pope Leo has held firm that war “only makes things worse” and that the Church opposes nuclear weapons across the board. Just two days before the interview, Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo at the Vatican for over forty-five minutes.
Jeffress softened the line in the same breath, calling the Pope “a good man” who is “sincere in his faith” but “sincerely wrong” on Iran. He argued that Scripture assigns the church one job and the government another. Romans 13 does charge governing authorities with restraining evil. That part is true. Whether any individual president carries it out faithfully is a question every American believer has to weigh prayerfully.
The deeper warning sits underneath the headline. When Christians start ranking leaders by who agrees with their politics, we risk handing the throne of our hearts to men who were never meant to sit on it. No president and no pope is the standard. The Word is.
“Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.” — Psalm 146:3
The Bible was settled long before cable news, and it will still be standing long after every politician and pontiff in this story has gone home to give an account.
Read it for yourself. Let no one else read it for you.
What do you think — does Romans 13 support what Jeffress said, or is something more being lost in the debate? #trump #truth #bible