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

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>> I expect to be held accountable to the law wherever
>> I am, so did Jesus, or have our social-revisionists
>> also done away with 'Render unto Caesar that which
>> Caesar's and God's what is God's'?
> 
> A gentle question, Sir: What if Caesar trespasses God's law? Does Romans 
> 13 apply also to Stalin? For many in Christ today, what we see before us 
> in US government may well be not so far different from Stalin, Hitler, 
> Pol Pot, et al, in significant ways. I worry you come too close to 
> stating your position so strongly you assume your position is the only 
> one possible for anyone who loves Jesus. Do you realize to some readers 
> you would sound bitter and hateful?

No, Romans 13 does not apply to those who directly
violate God's law.  This is not such a case so the
point is moot.

To compare this case to Stalin, Hitler, or Pol Pot would
be laughable if it were not so dangerously ignorant.
Shame on anyone who would make such a ridiculously
preposterous suggestion.

Do you realize that the alternative statement
makes Jesus sound like a liar?  Read again the
Word of God.  Jesus used some of the strongest
negative language in the Bible and God was not
shy, nor will He be in the late days of these
End Times, to use violence against the enemies
of those who are His.  Violence is not evil,
nor is enforcing laws.

I frankly could care less how God's truth sounds
to those who listen with anti-God filters.  Jesus
didn't.

Political correctness is a tool of Satan to silence
truth-speakers.  Speaking the truth in love does
not mean not speaking the truth if someone whines
that it makes them feel bad, it means to speak the
truth so that the love expressed in being used to
lead them to eternal salvation is realized.

God sent Jonah to Ninevah to "speak the truth in
love".  He didn't ask him to be a wimp and candy
coat things.  Jonah's problem wasn't that he didn't
want to speak truth, it was that he didn't want to
see God's love enacted if the truth caused the
Ninevites to turn away from sin and toward God --
Jonah didn't want to love the Ninevites.

In this case Caesar (USA) having a long-standing
law re. legal immigration, of which Mexico's
leaders and citizens are well aware, has not
violated God's law.

I can love illegal immigrants and still expect
my government to enforce the law.  There is no
dissonance there at all.

NOTE:  God's annointed nations had borders and
when alien peoples invaded God saw to it that the
invaders were slaughtered. (Unless His people
were in rebellion against God and He wanted to
chasten them, then He sometimes allowed the
aliens to win!)

What part of God's history are we cutting out with
a pen knife (John Stott) in order to indulge the
cause' du jour?

God defended national borders, Jesus endorsed both
Caesar's right to attend to secular matters and the
Centurion's profession, and secular governments like
the USA are not the intended subject of teachings
directed at individual Christians in their
interpersonal relationships.

I am sorry that hard teachings are hard, please
feel free to take that one up with God.  Jesus
sure didn't worry about speaking frankly, neither
did Paul or post-Pentecost Peter, and Paul and
Peter instructed those who followed them to do the
same.

Political correctness is not a Biblical construct.

-- 
Respectfully ... dmc

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