Christians On Trump's Big Bill, and Is Biblical Sufficiency Biblical?

Christian opinions about Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, global persecution headlines, some recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings, whether biblical sufficiency is biblical, and more.

Anthony Langer
July 05, 2025

It’s Saturday, July 5, 2025.

Today’s edition covers Christian opinions about Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, global persecution headlines, some recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings, whether biblical sufficiency is biblical, and more.

“Do not forsake [wisdom], and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.” (Proverbs 4:6)

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Of Christian Concern

CHRISTIAN CONTROVERSY OVER THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL

Screenshot: Header of the White House’s webpage on “The One Big Beautiful Bill”

The Bill’s Provisions

Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill on Thursday, and President Trump signed it into law yesterday. The complex budget bill involves a significant portion of Trump’s agenda and was considered necessary for Republicans to avoid massive losses in the midterm elections. Some notable points:

The bill extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, avoiding tax hikes for an estimated 68 percent of Americans.
The bill increases the child tax credit to $2,500 per child.
The bill blocks Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid money for one year, scaled back from the originally proposed 10 years.
The bill blocks Medicaid funds from going to transgender surgeries.
The bill raises the state and local tax (SALT) deduction limit for married couples.
It reinstates work requirements for receiving food stamps or Medicaid.
It cuts federal income tax on some tips and overtime.
It increases the debt ceiling to $5 trillion.
It allocates at least $70 billion to border security.
And more…

Christian Opinions Vary

Opinions about the bill differ among Christians. Regarding the partial defuding of Planned Parenthood, an anti-abortion activist known online as Abolition Women pointed out that Planned Parenthood would still receive Medicaid funding if they perform abortions only for “rape, incest, and/or health of the mother,” adding, “From what I can tell there is no oversight…they will just be trusting planned parenthood to be honest. That should go well 😵‍💫”

On the other side, in response to the news that Planned Parenthood had been defunded, pro-lifer C.Jay Engel took a stab at abolitionists, saying they “have been totally and utterly humbled. They will not admit they were wrong though.”

To that, popular abolitionist group Abolitionists Rising responded, “This would definitely be humbling to those who supported Trump and are now looking at only a year of defunding, while making this their main legislative priority. Are you really this dense and so easily deceived? Children are murdered by the millions in this country at an increasing pace, and increasingly not by Planned Parenthood.”

Meanwhile, Christian businessman and writer Rod Martin praises the bill as “an enormous achievement, and one that would have been impossible but for [President Trump].”

Likewise, commentator Virgil Walker (who, like others mentioned above, claims the label “abolitionist”) lauds the bill as “a Declaration of Independence for Christian conservatives—cutting taxes, crushing woke policies, and restoring sanity.”

What do you think?

Learn more about the bill’s provisions from Walker’s posts here and here.

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Also Noteworthy

The Wisconsin State Capitol, where the Wisconsin Supreme Court meets. (Photo: Steve W.)

→ Some global Christian persecution headlines:

→ A Christian mother in Brazil who was prosecuted for homeschooling her son is fighting in court for her right to do so. The legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International “is supporting her legal defense.”

→ The U.S. Supreme Court “allows parents to opt their children out of school lessons involving LGBTQ+ themes,” reports SCOTUSblog.

→ The U.S. Supreme Court also ruled in favor of “Texas’ law on age-verification for pornography sites.”

→ The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down a 176-year-old law that considered most abortions a felony, ruling that more recent legislation supersedes it.

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The Bible, Briefly

Is Biblical Sufficiency Biblical?

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The doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture affirms that the Bible alone is necessary for everything pertaining to the Christian faith. It is summarized well in the Westminster Catechism:

The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man’s salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit, or traditions of men.

This challenge has sometimes been leveled: If the sufficiency of Scripture is true, surely it must be found in Scripture. Otherwise, the doctrine itself would be a “tradition of men” and therefore self-defeating. So, is the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture found in Scripture?

Yes. In 2 Timothy 3:15-17, Paul the apostle writes to his disciple Timothy about “the sacred writings,” saying they:

are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Notice what Paul says Scripture is able to accomplish:

Make one wise for salvation in Christ
Teach
Reprove
Correct
Train in righteousness
Make the man of God complete, equipping him for every good work

Focus on this last point, which is the culmination of Paul’s list. If all the benefits derived from the Scripture result in making the man of God “complete,” equipped for “every” good work, is anything else necessary?

The language in these verses conveys that the Bible is exhaustive regarding what a person needs to be both saved and sanctified. No outside authority is required.

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