James MacDonald Explains Why He Left Trump's Evangelical Advisory Council

Source: Christian Post | October 13, 2016 | Brandon Showalter

A member of Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory council is explaining why he will no longer participate, having described the Republican nominee as “lecherous” and “worthless” in light of the lewd comments Trump made that surfaced Oct 7.

Unimpressed with Donald Trump’s video apology that his campaign released Friday, Pastor James MacDonald of Harvest Bible Church emailed members of the council contending that Trump’s 2005 remarks should not be dismissed as simply locker room talk. Until Trump demonstrated a true repentance he would refrain from participating in any advisory role, he said.

In a Tuesday blog post titled “Is Donald Trump Truly Repentant And Does It Even Matter?” MacDonald reiterated the importance of a genuine change of heart.

“The reason evidence of full repentance matters so much is that if Mr. Trump is not entirely repentant for the content of that recording, he cannot have changed,” MacDonald explained.

“And if Mr. Trump has not truly changed (because that is what repentance actually is: change), then we do not have a rational reason to anticipate different behavior in the future. And we have lost the ‘better of the two’ argument that brought so much evangelical support to Mr. Trump in the first place,” he continued.

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