God helps those who help themselves... Hm, please theologically reconcile that statement with the following:
- Luke 4:25-27 (NIV)
I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.” - The work of Christ -- which was literally saving those who could not save themselves and could not, by any of their means, become righteous.
- The entire book of Job.
- James 5: 16b-18 The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.
we can start by changing our immigration laws & deporting the criminal illegals who reside here.
I'm not saying we can't; I'm saying that if demographics is destiny, then we need something greater than destiny.
(I'm actually quite a strong proponent of border defense and enforcing the law. [See, in particular, US Constitution Art 4, Sec 4])