Following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, which many have stated was divine intervention as the bullet was mere millimeters away from ending his life, the conservation around the Christian faith has been ignited in the party. Many prominent conservative leaders have professed their belief that God was watching over Trump during the Pennsylvania rally while calling for prayers.
Vice Presidential Candidate J.D. Vance recently shared his testimony about how he put his faith in Jesus Christ. Vance represents a common story in the Christian faith, similar to the story of the prodigal son, where one grows up in the church, experiences a fading in belief, and is eventually brought back to Christ as their experiences in the world.
Addressing the miraculous, last-second head turn that saved Trump’s life last Saturday, Vance outlined how miraculous the gesture was. “It’s such an honor to stand with him after what happened last Saturday. I’m sure that you’ve heard a lot of people say this, but you will never be able to convince me that that last-second turn of a head was anything other than a miracle. I absolutely believe that,” he said.
The running mate explained his upbringing in faith, stating, “I was raised, as I mentioned last night, by my mamaw, who, despite the fact that she loved the F word, was a woman of very deep Christian faith. And you know, she she, she was, in some ways, what you might call unchurched. We went to church maybe once or twice a month, sometimes less, sometimes more, but she read the Bible every single day. She prayed every single day. She loved to watch Billy Graham whenever he was on the TV. And that was really my introduction to the Christian faith.”
Vance added that his faith began to fade as he grew older, stating, “While I really believed and I believed quite passionately. There was something a little bit shallow about my faith when I was a kid. And so like a lot of kids, you know, I went off to the military, to college to law school, and somewhere along the way, that faith that had developed and was germinating sort of evaporated. And so by the time that I was in law school, I started to call myself an atheist.”
However, the Ohio senator explained how he eventually came back to Christ, particularly when he got married and became a father. “But to me, what really brought me back to Christ was finding a wife and falling in love and thinking about my thinking about what was required of me as a husband and as a father, and the more that I thought about those deeper questions, the more that I thought that there were, there was wisdom In the Christian faith that I had completely discarded and completely ignored, but was most relevant to the questions that were presented in my life as a husband and father.”
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