[CS-FSLUG] [OT] The Bible on How to Treat Aliens (or immigrants)

[Eduardo Sanchez]

By any chance... was Abraham, when he established himself in Canaan, a 
lawful alien? Who gave him the visa? 

By any chance, was the Hebrew people a lawful alien when they were 40 
years in Sinai? Were there with permission of the rulers of their 
country?

Was Jeremiah a lawful alien when he went into Egypt? Did he apply for a 
green card so he could work in the building business (doing mud balls 
might call for that)?

Was Ruth a lawful alien when she came to Bethlehem? Who gave her a visa 
or a green card, so she could go to harvest fields?

Come on. Doc, you have a good point: aliens should always respect the 
rules of the host country. But to apply the category of lawful 
alienship to these Biblical precepts is, I am afraid, just a 
projection. Aliens were just aliens and the Schripture applies to all 
of them.

Blessings,

Eduardo
(a former lawful alien resident of the U.S.)

On Friday 07 April 2006 20.30, doc wrote:
>  > Michael Bradley, Jr. wrote:
>
> He gives every evidence of being a sloppy neo-scholar
> who has indulged himself in the sin of proof-texting.
>
> Not one of these texts speaks a word to the problem of
> *illegal* aliens.
>
> This addresses *legal* aliens, people who are *not native*
> to the land in which they are *legally resident*.
>
> Remember, Jesus never instructed the Centurion to
> cease being a Centurion, He merely instructed him
> to be ethical.
>
> A Centurion could kill an illegal alien if he caught
> him crossing a border that the Emperor had declared
> off-limits.

-- 
Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
http://shadow.sombragris.org
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