Evangelical James Dobson Calls Donald Trump "Born Again, Baby Christian"

Julie Brown Patton : Jun 27, 2016
Gospel Herald

"I think there's hope for us. I have great concerns about the next election." -James Dobson

(New York, NY)—[Gospel Herald] One of America's leading evangelicals, James Dobson, claims to know the person who fairly recently led GOP candidate Donald Trump to accept a relationship with Jesus Christ. This week, he called Trump a "baby Christian." (Photo: REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/via TruNews)

"We all need to be praying for him," the author told Godfactor, in a blog published Friday.

Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and one of the most prominent social conservatives in the United States, gave his account at a meeting Trump had in New York on Tuesday with hundreds of evangelicals.

Godfactor's Michael Anthony recorded an interview at the Tuesday Trump event in which Dobson said he knew the person who led Trump to Christ, though he did not name who it was. "I don't know when it was,  but it has not been long," Dobson said. "I believe he (Trump) really made a commitment, but he's a baby Christian."

Last year, Trump said he had never asked for God's forgiveness, did not mention publicly during the New York meeting that he was Born Again, reports The New York Times.

Trump, who says he is a Presbyterian, won a majority of evangelical voters in the Republican primaries, though some prominent Christian right leaders kept their distance. Dobson had endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz during the process, for example.

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