Evangelical leaders who embrace Trump's "spiritual advisor" deny their own convictions.

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/putting-low-value-on-truth-evangelical.html

Paula White-Cain is Trump's appointee to lead whatever he calls his White House religious liaison. He calls her his "spiritual advisor," rather than his "pastor", but he clearly accords her, and her heretical, pseudo-Christian preaching a high place in his world. This is just one more humiliating frustration Trump's right wing sycophants among the conservative Evangelical heretics of the United States must accept in order to play by his rules and catch whatever scraps fall off the table for them.

There are two specific points where Trump's choice of a spiritual advisor, which left out all of the sycophants from conservative Evangelicalism, goes completely against conservative Evangelical convictions. One is the fact that in conservative Evangelicalism, especially in the United States, women are not permitted in the pastorate. They cannot be ordained as ministers, and cannot serve in any capacity that even resembles spiritual leadership. Churches that have women on staff relegate them to pre-school, children's ministry and mission support groups and ladies circles. They do not teach Sunday school classes with men in them, nor can they lead worship or preach from behind the church's "sacred desk."

So Trump's choice of an ordained woman, who calls herself a "prophetess," is, by the conservative Evangelical definition, a serious departure from Biblical truth. This is something that causes denominations to break fellowship with churches who do this, but don't expect any courage like that to come from spineless Evangelical Trumpies.

The other is that Paula White is, by every conservative, Evangelical definition of the word, a theological and doctrinal heretic. Her emphasis on the exercise of prophetic, miraculous "spiritual gifts" is, in Evangelical theology, a completely backward approach to the Christian gospel. Her belief that revelation continues to come from God, via practices such as speaking in tongues, which can supercede biblical revelation is directly in opposition to conservative Evangelican beliefs that the Bible is the sole authority for Christian faith and practice, and is without error and infallible. While there are those in the Pentecostal branch of conservative Evangelicalism that accept miraculous sign gifts, the idea that revelation is ongoing, and that only a few select "prophets" are qualified to interpret it is heresy.

She has been labelled a cultist by many of those in the Evangelical churches and denominations, and is considered as a false prophet. But she was chosen by Trump to be his spiritual advisor, precisely because that's the kind of theology that doesn't require accountability or repentance. And while I can't name a single Evangelical denomination that would not consider her a heretic and a cultist, I haven't heard any Evangelical leaders fuming or griping about her being chosen, again, to lead the White House faith liaison office, like so many of his right wing religious sycophants want to do.