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Obey righteous laws. Laws against the stranger is against the law of love.
Is the admonition that if one is able to work and does not, then they should not get assistance also against the law of love? What of how people may understand if a hungry man steals food, but he’s still required to pay restitution? Both are found in the bible. If a hungry man is expected to follow laws against theft, how can we argue the immigration laws are against the law of love?
If we are obeying God's law in America when do we start making homosexuality a crime?
But what about the sin of breaking immigration law? Every nation has immigration laws.
I don’t understand how your question fits with my answer. If we are enforcing immigration law (part 1 of my answer), there is no breaking of immigration law that is not being addressed. In the second part of my answer, I was dealing with the reality that enforcing the law can be done in ways that is wrong, both morally and legally itself.
Millions of people are breaking the law. Where is the sense of law and order?
The other is denying food. The point is that the law of love can be twisted to justify anything. Being that there are lawful avenues of immigration and naturalization, there isn’t a supposed violation of the law of love. And since a naturalized citizen is a full citizen, there is no bias toward strangers.
You don’t get to pick and choose. Follow the laws of the governing authorities.
It is time to take the blinders off. Under current directives, the administration has expanded enforcement to include individuals with legal status, such as green card holders, visa recipients, TPS individuals and refugees.
Read post #15. The Trimp administration is breaking the law and the Constitution.You don’t get to pick and choose. Follow the laws of the governing authorities.
“Every person is to be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. Pay to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.”
Romans 13:1-2, 5-7 NASB2020
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Every person is to be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed thebible.com
No. It is enforcement of violations, such as overstaying visas. The laws are already on the books. That some think that enforcement of existing law because they don’t like the law is most instructive. If you don’t like the law, work to change it; don’t ignore it because it’s inconvenient.
Maria, this is not the first time this in history when we’ve had a bad administration. There are always questionable actions. I agree with you with regard to how the laws are being enforced but I do not disagree with the immigration laws in general. The laws are part of the governing laws. The admonition in Romans 13 came at a time when the leaders of Israel were persecuting the Christians and when the Romans were putting pressure of the Christians to worship the emperor which led to the Neronian prosecution and the martyrdom of hundreds if not thousands. This was the political atmosphere when Paul wrote Romans and even under that the admonition is to be in submission of the government authorities. You don’t have to agree but scripture is clear. The blessing that we have in the US is that we can always vote out the bad administration on the next election, something that the early Christians could not do.
Why is enforcement of immigration laws bad? Every nation does it. Its called law and order
Take your pick to verify the facts.
