Posted on 12/12/2016 10:09:23 AM PST by heterosupremacist
Read this: http://www.thebereancall.org/content/why-did-mary-and-joseph-flee-Egypt
There’s a difference between refugee and visitor. They were sent by God to Egypt to hang out there for a bit while he took care of the Herod problem.
They did not move to Egypt. Refugees are one who abandon their home and go to another country permanently.
Apparently, I can read more than Wikipedia, and understand what I find there.
No, those would be "immigrants". "Refugees" are supposed to be repatriated (or repatriate themselves) when able. Joseph repatriated himself and his family when the threat from KING Herod had ended with Herod's own death.
Pope still hiding behind the Vatican wall?
Or perhaps a FALSE PROPHET.
Amen, a jerk false prophet.
Christmas reminds me that Totalitarian Dictatorships can force people to unbelievable lengths to tax the living CR*P out of them.
Maybe, but he certainly wasn’t part of an invasion force who was trying to kill everyone in the land they migrated to.
I never thought I would say this, but this Pope is a moron. Stay out of politics.
8 USC Sec. 1101 (42) defines a refugee as “any person who is outside any country of such person’s nationality … and who is unable or unwilling to return to … that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion ….”
Herod is known to have died in 4BC, which dates Jesus birth to somewhere around 5-6 BC (matthew 2:15)
So, assuming that the family departed for Egypt when he was a young boy, they only stayed in Egypt for a few months. Certainly not the actions of a refugee.
They simply did what God commanded then to do. His authority is not to be questioned.
Thank you!!!
“So the pope is saying that Nazareth wasn’t actually part of Israel?”
I’m pretty sure this pope would say Nazareth was an illegal settlement on Muslim lands (even if the Muslims didn’t yet exist at the time).
Really? From what I read, Jesus was a native Israeli citizen and returned home after many years abroad. How does this make one an immigrant/migrant?
No, he wasn’t a “migrant”. His parents went on a government mandated journey for a census to be put on the tax rolls.
No you aren't.
When you traveled from one Provence to another in an empire you are not going from one country to another.
At most you are traveling from one state to another.
You and the Bishop of Rome might have a point if Joesph had taken his family to Persia.
Since he didn't then you are WRONG.
Facts are often lost on roman catholics.
Egypt was run directly from Rome, Israel was run locally under Roman supervision. You’re trying to make the various Roman “provinces” look like US States; that’s an incorrect comparison. The EU is a better analog.
They returned when able, as I have repeatedly pointed out.
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