Paula White: ‘I would like to set the record straight…’

The pastor who was branded a charlatan a few days back has responded to her critics:

President-elect Donald Trump’s longtime religious adviser, Paula White, is firing back at critics who have called her a heretic and questioned her personal finances and romantic history.

“I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan, and an addict. It has been falsely reported that I once filed for bankruptcy and — my personal favorite — that I deny the Trinity!”

“I have hesitated to even address such patently false accusations about my personal life and my beliefs so as to not dignify them with a response,” White said in a statement. The 50-year-old pastor is one of six religious leaders scheduled to participate in Trump’s inauguration on January 20.

“But since these comments pose a potential distraction to an otherwise celebratory and historic time in our country, I would like to set the record straight in the hope of returning our collective attention to what’s most important.”

Among other things, she explains:

In her statement, though, White says, “I believe and have always believed in the Holy Trinity,” as well the rest of the Nicene Creed, including the “exclusivity and divinity of Jesus Christ.”

The pastor also struck back at critics who accuse her of peddling a “feel-good gospel,” saying that she has preached and written as often about the “difficult seasons” of life as she has about “times of abundance.”

For his part, Trump, who has faced questions about his own commitment to Christianity, has called White “a beautiful person both inside and out.” White said she and the president-elect have been close since he called her a decade ago to discuss sermons he had heard her deliver on Christian television.

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And there is more from her statement at The Christian Post.