HOUSTON – Several different Hispanic evangelicals leaders speaking at the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference in Houston this week argued a biblical basis for the Obama administration’s push to grant legal status to millions of illegal immigrants currently in the United States.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/hispanic-evangelicals-argue-biblical-case-for-amnesty/ "we believe it is hypocritical to separate families, to deport a mom or a dad and leave the children behind." Really? Jesus has a dim view of lawlessness.
Hispanic evangelicals argue biblical case for amnesty
Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Jedi Knight, May 3, 2015.
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Jedi Knight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Lame.
They can always take their children with them. :BangHead: -
Jedi Knight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Also speaking there was Barrett Duke, who shared the Southern Baptist position:
http://conservativeangle.com/hispanic-evangelicals-argue-biblical-case-for-amnesty/
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Jedi Knight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Baptist Believer Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
The call of Jesus is to mercy and redemption.
The U.S. has a long history of granting amnesty and opening its borders to those who have no other place to go. -
Jedi Knight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Baptist Believer Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
People end up in the U.S. unlawfully for many reasons. More often than you would expect, they are here because of threats to their lives or because they are trying to avoid getting pulled into drug gangs. -
righteousdude2 Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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righteousdude2 Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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This is why we're known for what we're against and not for loving people. -
Jedi Knight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Gotta love those double standards. -
I didn't say anything about the US or any other country controlling their borders. We haven't. But the folks are HERE now so why is it such a huge thing to expect Christians to show a little Christian love and kindness instead of political rancor?
Folks who are calling themselves Christians continue to show themselves to be some of the meanest, nastiest, unmerciful, inhospitable people on the planet.
If ANYONE should understand mercy, we should. But we've allegianced ourselves to politics and political party ideology instead of to Christ.
We can make up every excuse in the world or quote whatever piece of Scripture we want. At the end of the day, it's a display of our lack of love and mercy. And that's a darn shame when we should be screaming mercy at the top of our lungs because we know how good Jesus has been to us.
You are trying to reconcile who we are supposed to be SPIRITUALLY with who the government has said it is. That's just crazy. -
Jedi Knight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Maybe that and selfishness are what pass for Christianity in the realm of Jedis.
But in the real world, it's a display of wickedness. -
I believe that unemployment in Mexico is currently no greater than our own. There is no good reason to continue to ignore our laws.
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Jedi Knight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Has NOTHING to do with how we are to as Christians treat them.
Their entire country could cross that border and it STILL has no bearing on how we as Christians are called of Christ to treat them.
Let Caesar enforce his own laws. Carry the Cross of Christ so that the mission field that he's sending to us can be sown, cultivated and reaped.
Has NOTHING to do with how we are to as Christians treat them. -