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White evangelicals are least likely to say U.S. should accept refugees: How would Jesus respond?
Big Think ^ | 07/09/2019 | Stephen Johnson

Posted on 07/10/2019 7:05:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Valpal1

Chronicles 14:7 King James Version
Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the Lord our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.


41 posted on 07/10/2019 7:56:40 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: isthisnickcool

The Bible is very clear - Israel was not to let foreigners OR residents who disobeyed religious laws remain.

There were multiple times where WIVES AND CHILDREN were kicked out the country - ideology and morality were more important.

We have a moral obligation to say no, we aren’t letting you in if we don’t know if you’re a member of MS-13, going to commit Islamic terrorism or infect us with tuberculosis.


42 posted on 07/10/2019 7:58:05 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: SeekAndFind

I say every country has every right to determine immigration policy, and illegal aliens are lawbreakers and are not welcomed, lefal immigrants that respect our laws.

Who is gappy to welcome into their home people who show no respect for the rules of the homeowners?

Pelosi and all demtards have their gates and security systems and armed personnel to prevent lawbreaking trespassers breaking in and entering their land and homes.


43 posted on 07/10/2019 8:00:59 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

1. Resident aliens are the equivalent of green card holders not illegal immigrants.
2. Christians are not harming green card holders or for that matter illegal immigrants.
3. We do not live in a theocracy. Christ refused to try to take over the government, which is what many assumed prophecy said that the Messiah would do. He was crucified in part for that reason, so this is important.
4. We live in an imperfect world with limited resources and laws that carry unintended consequences.
5. We have to use our brains.
6. To that end, the United States is, bar NONE, the most generous country in the world for taking in the dispossessed and the downtrodden, but we have limits.
7. Doing stupid things to try to please an insatiable audience always pushing for more, is vanity. Vanity is a form of pride. Pride goeth before a fall. It is also a sin.


44 posted on 07/10/2019 8:03:09 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (The hysteria about Trump reminds me a lot of the Y2K hysteria)
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To: SeekAndFind

Over and over in the Old Testament, the Lord castigated the Israelites for allowing foreigners into the country to pollute their culture, bringing in their gods.


45 posted on 07/10/2019 8:04:49 PM PDT by odawg
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To: amihow
The Ca8tholic teaching is that we should take anyone in to the extent we are able.


We should be going by the teaching of the Bible, not the teaching of a church (especially when that church doesn't teach from the Bible (directly)).

46 posted on 07/10/2019 8:07:23 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/FT_18.05.24_Refugees_Topline_for-release.pdf
47 posted on 07/10/2019 8:10:14 PM PDT by fluffy
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To: SeekAndFind

Funny I have never heard this stuff in 40 years of regularly attending church. I guess I need to ask a journalist what the Bible means rather than seminary-trained pastors.


48 posted on 07/10/2019 8:12:13 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: isthisnickcool

Cloward-Piven exactly. Overwhelm the police, the hospitals, the schools and the welfare system. When everything is bankrupt and collapses, replace it with a communist dictatorship.


49 posted on 07/10/2019 8:19:52 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: SeekAndFind

God said to arm yourselves and build the wall.

“When our enemies heard that we knew of their plans and that God had frustrated them, we all returned to our work on the wall. 16 But from then on, only half my men worked while the other half stood guard with spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail. The leaders stationed themselves behind the people of Judah 17 who were building the wall. The laborers carried on their work with one hand supporting their load and one hand holding a weapon. 18 All the builders had a sword belted to their side. The trumpeter stayed with me to sound the alarm.”

—Nehemiah 4:15-18


50 posted on 07/10/2019 8:20:47 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: SeekAndFind

seems like they had cities and countries(lands) in the bible.

and define “refugees” & “asylum”.

Therein lies the problem. Are we supposed to take in people that just can’t seem to manage a civilized society?

Countries/Peoples/Cultures that have had hundreds, if not thousands of years to get their shit together.

They all need to have their own Great Awakening.


51 posted on 07/10/2019 8:22:57 PM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: SeekAndFind

OK then. Explain to me how they were to completely remove all those nations within Canaan and take it by force...some by utterly destruction-that meant everything.

You know the answer to that one.

As for Egypt, they were welcomed into Egypt and after years, Joseph was forgotten by the rulers and they (the Hebrews) became oppressed.

BTW, they told the Hebrews to leave and what did the Hebrews do? They plundered.


52 posted on 07/10/2019 8:24:56 PM PDT by crz
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To: amihow

Regardless of what Catholics teach, Catholic Charities rakes in billions of tax payer dollars to fund their human trafficking mission. I wonder who commissioned this research? We the people need an audit of the total amount we are fleeced for illegals.. no wonder Christ said there would always be poor. Its is built in from the pulpits.


53 posted on 07/10/2019 8:25:36 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: SeekAndFind

PU poll


54 posted on 07/10/2019 8:56:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (TDenounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Bikkuri

Sorry for the 8. Mistake.


55 posted on 07/10/2019 9:06:17 PM PDT by amihow ( Plane around?)
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To: SeekAndFind

How would Jesus respond?....................”Send these Romans back from where they came”?


56 posted on 07/10/2019 9:21:03 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft
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To: SeekAndFind

We are expected to take care of our own. Not leave them living in gutters and parks and under bridges with nothing while we give free everything to invaders. THAT is evil and wrong.


57 posted on 07/10/2019 9:34:43 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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He that doesn’t come in by the door the same is a thief and a robber. Enter in by the strait and narrow gate.

Honor the old landmarks.

Render unto Caesar (i.e. obey the law).

Not that hard.


58 posted on 07/10/2019 9:37:12 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: SeekAndFind

Illegal aliens are not refugees, economic migrants are not refugees, hostile invaders are not refugees. Also, for actual refugees the ideal situation should be that they return home when their home country’s situation has normalized, not that they produce anchor babies while they are here and then then never return home. Only children of citizens ought to be born as citizens. Refugees and legal immigrants and their children should have the right to pursue earning citizenship, if they wish to become Americans, but it shouldn’t simply be given.


59 posted on 07/10/2019 10:06:01 PM PDT by Lurker51
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To: SeekAndFind

The Lord also said “Thou shall not covet thy neighbors house’’. He also said “He thou shall not work, shall not eat’’. These arrogant beggars aren’t coming here to work, and even if they were they drive down wages for many Americans, they’re coming here to sponge off the welfare system.


60 posted on 07/10/2019 10:21:38 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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