"[F]aith leaders announced last week that they would welcome immigrant families even if it is against the law."
Groups claim “we must obey the laws of God over the laws of our government — and that means ‘welcoming the foreigner as if he or she were our own flesh and blood.’” Welcoming the stranger, even if it’s against the law
Wow, talk about mishandling the Word of God. Bad hermeneutics + ignorant religious people = bad theology and attribution to God of things He never said.
Why is it that my voice always seems to be loudest when I am saying the dumbest things?
It’s a pretty old maneuver: skip over the really debatable part, assume you’re right about that part, and plead for the obvious response to the fact that you’re right. But the real debate for evangelicals and immigration is the question “What does the Bible teach regarding nations and foreigners?” Even in OT Israel—which would not apply to present-day USA as a direct transfer—foreigners were welcomed according to certain rules. It wasn’t a case of ‘anybody who wants to come on over, behave as you like, and stay as long as you like.’
And Jesus wasn’t talking about national boundaries or government policies at all in the very loosely paraphrased text used in the article.
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