The OT verses are for those who enter a country legally.
No it doesn't. The OT didn't have ENTRY rules - just laws about how immigrants should live within Israel's borders.
And other than a few enemy kingdoms, I can't see anything about treating them miserably or exporting them.
It is not biblical to violate a law to achieve a possible “good.”
Yes it is! Are you to obey God or the laws of men?
Gods word teaches to obey the laws of the land. Rom 13.
True. But did you notice that Paul calls the Roman government "God's servants to do you good."
They maintain the law. But they also allowed exposure - the placing of full term babies in the woods to die by thirst or wild dogs!
My point? While Paul called on us to obey the law because chaos could bring down a civilisation - and Paul endorsed the Roman government as "God's servants" in this role - there is no way Paul would have endorsed letting babies be torn to bits by wild animals. That is - their role in protecting against chaos is good - but not every law they passed was good - and not everything they allowed was good.
If you don't like a law, then do everything legally within your power to get the law changed.
That's the difference! We live in a democracy.
So when you say: "
Are you ok with millions of illegal entrants the Biden administration let in during his 4 yr term...or should they be deported?"
I have 3 comments:
1. If Biden
allowed them in - why are they illegals?
I'm sure you didn't mean it - but to me the term 'allowed' implies he welcomed them in with open arms and gave them citizenship. Or were you merely referring to his 'softer' stance on the border? On immigrants? Could it be his stance was more compassionate and in line with the bible on immigrants than Trump?
2. Sure - with Democratic Presidents there is a 'rebound effect' where the numbers can surge on the mere
perception of a kinder President. It took a few years to take effect, but Kamala started doing great work
south of the border in addressing the reasons they wanted to leave. She was never the "Border Tsar" - that wasn't her brief. But she was working on reducing the so called "push" factors as she visited the nations south of the border. Numbers were coming down. This is also a demonstrable fact.
Trump can't see those nations - he just wants to spend umpteen billion dollars a year maintaining a crazy huge wall to stop those immigrants - and even got upset when people told him they could NOT afford to dig a trench and fill it with water, snakes, and crocodiles from sea to shining sea! This is also a demonstrable fact.
3. Sure Trump's
harshness has addressed some of the "pull" factors. But is that a good thing? What is it you are afraid of, given that most immigrants are MORE likely to be law-abiding citizens and eventually contribute more to America than native born Americans?
Did you know this demonstrable fact from dozens of studies? It's like complaining that a river of gold is pouring into your country.
But now that his masked ICE goon-squads are starting to grab any 'ethnic looking' person off the street - American citizen or not - what kind of society are you living in? Are you OK with tens of thousands of LEGAL American citizens being harassed like this?
When business people from friendly nations like Canada are grabbed - no explanation - and held for 2 weeks in terrible conditions because of the smallest glitch in their paperwork, what kind of society are you living in?
When customs officers demand you open your phone and hand it over so they can check your social media feed - what kind of society are you living in? Do you know what motivates some of these private companies? They are paid per person! The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. It's a perverse incentive - a cash grab.
Until then, it is a law and should be obeyed.
An inconvenient truth. Be blessed.
I'm lucky. I'm Australian. But if I were living somewhere in the USA and knew the personal circumstances of some fellow-human beings, like some of the stories I've read about - there's no way I would co-operate. If ICE were knocking on my front door, my love for these people would compel me to lie and have my wife help them escape out the back. For example, one story I read about. A bunch of Central American coffee growers have had a rough few years with the weather and natural disasters. Their income is slashed! But not only that - there's a drug gang in the area demanding 'protection money'. The farmers could not pay. So the gang abducted their teenage daughter to run in their prostitution cartel. My heart bleeds for them when I think of my own daughter - does yours?
I would NOT be handing this family over to ICE just because a tiny fraction more Americans voted for the alt-right rather than common human decency!
So I'm with Bonhoeffer on this. I would not comply.
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