IOW, the Church can make more money.
“The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born.”
I read that to mean if the alien has broken the law to be here, the alien must be held accountable just as one of the native-born would.
Sojourners is Jim Wallis' rag.
Drivel such as this is one of N reasons (where N is a large number) that I am no longer a Catholic.
Not so tough. It tells us not to mistreat people just because they are aliens. The Bible (Jesus) also tells us to render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. Now, that’s mostly in financial tribute to our government but the Bible also tells us to respect and obey our government’s laws.
We have laws on the books that deal with illegal-aliens. They are constitutional and should be obeyed. Obeying them in no way mistreats people who came here illegally.
There are aliens and then there are illegal aliens (who jumped the line). Then there are aliens who want to replace our language and laws with their own. And there are those who rape and murder, fill our jails, take our jobs, and take opportunity away from those who wait to enter legally.
I must have missed the part of scripture that commands us to give them, and all their relatives, free goodies for life, and to vacate our lands on their behalf.
They are NOT CHARITIBLE to say the least.
Time for "these strangers" to go back home.
If you read a little more about Leviticus, you would realize that they are talking about Gentiles (also referred to as Strangers.) They are not talking about Illegal Aliens.
If you read a little more about Leviticus, you would realize that they are talking about Gentiles (also referred to as Strangers.) They are not talking about Illegal Aliens.
The New Testament tells us that Jesus brought a new Law that wiped out the old. Read John 10:1 and get back to me on ambiguity.
It shouldn’t be a tough one with you. I don’t think anyone is advocating treating immigrants as second hand citizens. Those that immigrate should be treated well.
However, those that enter our country with no permission should be sent back.
The ambiguity is in the status of the alien. One would assume the alien is there legally since the Israelites were in Egypt legally.
"People of faith" who jump on the anti-Arizona bandwagon are basicly "people of emotion" who's faith is a mile wide and about an inch deep.
(Now, if you similarly separate wool and linen, don't eat shellfish, tithe 10%, then this applies to you).
2) In other parts of the OT, God told the Israelites to "utterly destroy" those living in the and they were to occupy. Well, if we apply that today, we would have destroyed the Mexicans in the Southwest in the first place---though obviously not those in Mexico.
3) The Bible also intended that the alien live by Jewish laws---obviously, the alien had to adapt to Jewish culture. Somehow I don't think any "alien" shouting "Viva Babylon" in Judea would have lasted long. Are the current immigrants doing this?
As for the utterly goofy notion that I need a bunch of illegals to keep me from being a racist---it's so stupid I don't have words.
Yes, there is a lot of ambiguity.
Most importantly, what is the context of this passage? Who is an alien and how did they get there? What was expected of them in return? Did they need to have the approval of the king to live there or did everyone just wander around crossing borders and squat on whatever plot of ground looked appealing to them?
Immigrant rights activists believe in breaking the law but you won’t find much support for that viewpoint in scripture.
Our nation has one top priority. That priority is to survive. Without that one priority being realized, all is lost.
People will use the Bible to back whatever they want. They’ll even find a reason why abortion is Biblical. They’ll defend the Manson family based on religion. People are sick, and you’ll have to come to terms with that at some point.
Allowing people from terrorist states to relocate here, is not supported by the Bible.
Allowing our nation to be over-run, Northern White European influence destroyed, Christian religion to be relegated to subservience to Islamic beliefs, is not Biblical.
The United States has been more receptive to immigration than any other nation on planet earth.
It is not a sin to devise reasoned immigration laws, and enforce them.
It is a sin to allow your family to be destroyed, when you could stop it. And our nation is our extended family.
No ambiguity at all.
Build the wall.
Actually, we do treat immigrants as we do our own.
If you have a green card you have all the rights of a US citizen except for the vote.
And we admit a million legal immigrants a year. (Some say that double book-keeping obscures the fact that we admit many more than a million legal immigrants a year).
No other country comes close. No other country comes close.
As for illegals? They are treated humanely, and they are repatriated to their homeland. If they have reason to fear persecution, they are routinely granted asylum.
Mexico, by the way, has pride of place as the single largest quota of legal immigrant visas out of every other country. They get more visas than the next half dozen countries combined. They get about 10 or 12 times the visas that our closest partners in the world get.
And Mexico is at least nominally a Christian country. If it is being abandoned by its people at the rate of nearly a million a year, year after year (between legal and illegals combined) then something is seriously wrong. They are a major industrial power. They are a major oil producing nation. And yet their people are fleeing by the millions. There is a serious moral problem at the root of it, and the church has an important role to play there.
Mexico has become a mission field. If the church is looking for a role to play, its right there in front of them.
They’re not “strangers among us.” They’re invading barbarians. The Bible doesn’t require you, or your nation, to commit suicide.