Russell Moore Says His Desire for Divine Judgment on Trump ‘Is of the Devil’

Moore said that if he were ever to be angry if Trump “should ever find Jesus,” that would be a “denial” of the very forgiveness Jesus has given Moore. “My sin separates me just as far from God as your sin does you,” he said.

The theologian admitted that he too has to fight the “urge to want to earn [his] way into God’s favor.” Moore said, “You and I would both agree (for different reasons) that you are ‘one of a kind’ in a lot of ways. But in this one, you are just like everyone else.”

Moore continued:

To actually enter heaven, you have to give up that mindset of earning your way there. You have to recognize your own need for something you can’t win or achieve or earn. You have to consider Donald Trump to be the wrong path for you. In fact, you have to consider Donald Trump to be dead.

Moore told Trump that heaven is probably quite different than he believes it to be. “You probably think of a kind of eternal Mar-a-Lago, maybe with less gold, where everyone says ‘Sir’ to you and tells you how tired they are of winning,” Moore said, adding that heaven is completely different from what he assumes “Trump believes heaven to be.”

For example, Moore said, “You might also be surprised to find that an impoverished Salvadoran maid in one of your hotels right now will then be ruling and reigning, more famous than you.” Or that “Jesus was hidden in the lives of people who would never get White House invitations.”

“I suppose I am trying to, in your mind, Make Heaven Great Again,” Moore said.

“Put aside any way of earning your way out of the lowest place on ‘the totem pole’ in order to get right with God,” Moore urged. “You can’t do it—in a trillion lifetimes.”

Trump should think of himself as a “little child” who is “weak and dependent,” not as a “president or billionaire,” if he wants “to see the way to heaven,” Moore explained.

Moore concluded his letter by saying, “You can’t get to heaven with the art of the deal.”