Posted on 01/29/2025 11:04:53 AM PST by Red Badger
Yes, they actually posted this.
The proper response to this, in the spirit of the Prophet Elijah mocking the priests of Baal, goes something like this:
But it's worth reading a few of the more civilized replies:
The email:
A person with common sense might conclude that Christianity Today has a lot less to do with Christ these days and more to do with left-wing talking points from 1985. It's be an insult to spend my time debunking the whole article, but Trump isn't "upending life" for refugees.
He's rounding up criminals like this:
WATCH: Dr. Phil joined Tom Homan to round up illegal immigrants and the first one was a sex offender The roundup of illegals has begun in this country and the numbers are looking great so far. NOTTHEBEE.COM https://notthebee.com/article/we-got-dr-phil-on-the-ground-with-tom-homan-rounding-up-illegal-immigrants And this:
Trump isn't deporting lawful immigrants or people who have been granted refugee status, though he is going to be more selective in who is deemed a "refugee."
Believe it or not (this will come as a shock to the staff of "Christianity" Today), there is nowhere in God's Word where He instructs us to invite MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gangbangers into our communities so they can rape and murder our kids, or set fire to women on the subway, or flip off the news cameras.
God commanded the Israelites to not oppress the foreigner among them, because they themselves had been foreigners in Egypt (Exodus 23:9). But God also had very specific instructions for foreigners. For example, they could not partake in the Passover meal (Exodus 12:48-50) unless they and every male in their household had been circumcised (ouch!). The foreigners who sought to live in Israel had to follow Israel's laws and customs, or else be expelled.
Throughout the Bible, God spends a significant time instructing humans about borders - that is, about what it means for something to be set apart as unique (holy) from other things. Even in Jesus Christ, who has broken down "the wall of hostility" between Jews and Gentiles and between people and God, there is an extraordinary level of exclusion.
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
These principles apply in a lesser sense to human organizations and institutions, chief among them nations. In order for a nation to be right and just before God Almighty, it must protect (set apart as unique) its own people, laws, and culture, which means having border laws.
And yet many of the boomer liberals that have taken over Christian publishing want us to believe God demands we have open borders to welcome in everyone on the planet while also facilitating the largest human trafficking pipeline in world history.
To further this narrative, they lie about the current president of the United States as part of a highlighted campaign that excludes many of the good things that Christians should be celebrating right now, including the protection of life and new opportunities to advance the spread of the Gospel.
Speaks volumes, doesn't it?
10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you: that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
11 For we hear that there are some among you who walk disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
Christianity Today was hijacked years ago by leftist rats.
Love it. For too long the false teachers pushing the Alt Left dogmas under the guise of “Christianity” have been allowed to spew their poisons unchecked
Hey! I didn't write the thing.
Please explain. Are you talking about the Biblical conquests?
If so, are you equating the illegal immigrants with a foreign conquering nation?
I think of Christianity Today as a religious version of National Review. Both publications were founded by men with respectively strong religious or political conservative credentials: Billy Graham and William F. Buckley, respectively. Both publications were taken over by liberals in conservative costumes. They are now playing on the enemy side.
Overstayed their visa by 40 years, too...
Mike Pence with a woke flair
Mike Pence with a woke flair
Regarding the need for those in authority to protect those under their guardianship:
“I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.” John 10:7-13
There is a gate for proper entrance; those who enter by it are blessed. Those who don’t are thieves, and it is the job of the shepherd to protect the sheep from those thieves.
Well, not quite.
When God commands something it is neither illegal or horrific, but Holy.
Now when the people who are called “God’s “ people do something that God calls sinful, then that is another matter all together and they cease being “God’s “ people at that point.
The original post is kind of useless without seeing the embedded tweets. The embedded content is the meat of the story. All we’re seeing is the commentary.
Unfortunately, there are mainstream folks sitting in the pews who read and swallow this stuff, and they pressure their pastors to keep them from saying what the Bible actually says by calling it “politics”.
This whole thing that “Do not abuse the sojourner” means that we can’t have any national borders is actually being preached from pulpits by otherwise-faithful pastors.
It really should be addressed by church bodies. Same thing with “sanctuary cities”; do people even know that sanctuary cities are where people could escape the vengeance by families of someone that the refugee had ACCIDENTALLY KILLED?
There is a lot of Biblical teaching to be unwrapped. I personally believe that every church should do a study of Exodus and Deuteronomy, to see what God considers true justice in this life under the sun. It would surprise a lot of Christians.
It is difficult to post tweets in their native format...............
Post the post!!
Christianity Today
@CTmagazine
In the first week of his second term, President Trump plunged communities into fear, upended life for thousands of refugees, and moved to stop charities from helping immigrants already in the US.
https://x.com/CTmagazine/status/1883968261303263274
Nominated for post of the day, and the Award for Completeness Using Brevity.
Trump did nothing to stop charities from helping immigrants already in the US. He only said that US tax dollars would not be used for that purpose.
Using money to entice people to disobey just secular laws is NOT a Christian thing to do. And that is what is drawing so many of these people. For sure that should not be done by a government, forcing individual tax payers to be complicit in subornation of crimes. But each Christian also should be asking him/herself whether he/she should be suborning these crimes as well.
Helping people who truly need asylum is a different issue altogether, and that would be a Christian thing to do. Materially helping people who just choose to break laws is not.
Helping people who obey the laws and are experiencing difficulties is also Biblical.
Those are the things these groups should be working on, not conspiring to make lawless behavior profitable.
Before the Mosaic Covenant came into existence, God established certain ordinances, such as monogamous marriage, the need to subdue the earth, and the establishment of nations, for all mankind. While the specifics of the Mosaic Covenant with regard to the civil laws established in Exodus and Deuteronomy are not applicable in the church age, the general principles of such laws should apply to civil magistrates. Honest weights and measures, punishment for murder, theft, and sexual immorality, land ownership rights, and protection of the nation remain necessary in the church age. Looking at the Tower of Babel story, it is evident that God abhors globalism.
Say “Shibboleth” /Old Testament>
There is a friend of both my wife and myself who we thought was a pretty good Christian woman. However, right after this whole thing started off with Trump using ICE to round up the worst of the worst, she started spouting off things on social media about how Christians should welcome The Foreigner in their land, etc etc etc. She was obviously taking things way out of context.
I showed her post to my wife and my wife very dejectedly said, “It sounds to me like she drank the kool-aid”.
I’m going to have to take her out of my friends list. I don’t need that crap anymore.
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