[Johny Joe Hold]

There is no doubt that "every person is created in the image of God" but plenty go off the rails as, unlike the congregation of Landover, they follow something that is not the "Word of God".
I think that it is made clear in
M't:7:16: Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
M't:7:17: Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
M't:7:18: A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
M't:7:19: Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
M't:7:20: Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
We know that immigrants are rapists and drug dealers. It is said by liberals that some aren't, and yet a moment's thought would bring a sensible person to the view that "They aren't because they've not had the opportunity."
This bit about hewing down and casting immigrants into the fire, is no more than the current Administration under the leadership of Donald is doing by sending them back home. Yes, Donald is fulfilling the prophecy.

A profound post, Pastor Bathfire. It illustrates why we at Landover Baptist have your pastoral position, Pastor of Tolerance and Diversity. Like Donald Trump, you teach us human beings are a diverse lot, colors, cultures, beliefs, etc. The Scripture you quote informs us how to deal with this diversity, to keep those parts of humanity that harm us at arm's length. In some cases that is on the other side of an ocean. We are grateful for you and Donald Trump for carrying out God's will.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

There is no doubt that "every person is created in the image of God" but plenty go off the rails as, unlike the congregation of Landover, they follow something that is not the "Word of God".

I think that it is made clear in
M't:7:16: Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
M't:7:17: Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
M't:7:18: A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
M't:7:19: Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
M't:7:20: Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

We know that immigrants are rapists and drug dealers. It is said by liberals that some aren't, and yet a moment's thought would bring a sensible person to the view that "They aren't because they've not had the opportunity."

This bit about hewing down and casting immigrants into the fire, is no more than the current Administration under the leadership of Donald is doing by sending them back home. Yes, Donald is fulfilling the prophecy.

[MitzaLizalor]

The Bible begins with the fundamental truth that every person is created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). This foundational concept instills the intrinsic value, dignity, and worth of every individual, regardless of their nationality, ethnicity, or legal status.

The “intrinsic value, dignity, and worth” of any individual (or group) may not be what they proclaim for themselves. Indoctrinated savages could announce that all Christians were beneath them, for example, and required to pay some made-up tax to fund the savage lifestyle due to intrinsic higher value of savages and the vile god they obsess over. After all, God has described very easy parameters for determining that.

Nevertheless, in Acts 17:26, we read: "And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place."

Acts 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us

Satan seems not to read The Bible and perhaps I'm overly tolerant, yet do they need to rot in a cage? Couldn't they just return home? Having chosen to flout the law by paying tens of thousands of dollars to a people smuggler—when they could just have gotten visas + airfare at a fraction of that price—are they not demonstrating exactly the deficiency driving wherever they come from into the pits? Because the leaders there have the same heritage and therefore the same mental deficiencies informing their policies and every decision they'll ever make? Hell is probably similar. Or am I getting confused?

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

The Bible begins with the fundamental truth that every person is created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). This foundational concept instills the intrinsic value, dignity, and worth of every individual, regardless of their nationality, ethnicity, or legal status.

Nevertheless, in Acts 17:26, we read: "And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place."

This suggests that the existence of distinct nations and borders is determined by God. So, overall I believe that each nation has the right to defend its borders and to set policies for immigration. If Jesus meets the criteria He is admissible otherwise He can rot in a cage. This is directly from the Bible.

[MitzaLizalor]

Bangladeshi ship-wrecked mariners who regularly wash up on the shores of Europe?

How on earth one gets from (the former) Bengal to Europe escapes me. Or whatever they called themselves pre-partition. And their brethren attacked/blockaded them. So they decamped to Europe? But continued in ((the former) former) East Pakistan anyway? So how come Bangladesh remains populated today?
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What would you say to a tourist [blow-in] in Alabama who doesn't bother to apply for a U.S. visa

That is not a tourist. Before I go anywhere, I check out visa requirements—generally speaking I don't need one but just to make sure, you know—then turn up, or maybe I don't but I could if I wanted to, how easy is that?

Titus 3:1

Technically, you wouldn't consider me an illegal migrant, right?

Same as me in Zurich: not if ya gotta visa! GET ONE!! Tweezy ~ using the vernacular. And no, you don't have to keep moving. Just get a visa. Often they're available at borders anyway. But what has this to do with Bible verses? Albania, Scotland, New South Wales, all have laws and to comply is straightforward: say if somewhere my "world view" gets my head chopped off: I wouldn't go there. And if escaping from one such hellhole, very unlikely to promote its ideology at the nearest safe haven. How do you think Paul's belief system aligns with this paradigm?

Romans 2:13

[GanduHindu]

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• Adam and Eve: There were no borders: you can't migrate unless there's a border.

All right. Point noted.

• Noah: He was a ship-wrecked mariner.

Any thoughts on Bangladeshi ship-wrecked mariners who regularly wash up on the shores of Europe?

• Abraham: He was a tourist.

Certainly while he was in Damascus, Syria. But he was also in the town of Sichem, Canaan from where he went to Egypt as there was a famine in Canaan.

What would you say to a tourist in Alabama who doesn't bother to apply for a U.S. visa, stays at an Airbnb with relatives for years, and then, when the money runs out, decides to scamper to California?

• Joseph: He was kidnapped and dumped in Egypt - that's not "migration".

Yes, that's human trafficking. We can make an exception for Joseph. But what about his deadbeat brothers? As soon as the food runs out, instead of trading or growing crops through organic farming and scientific prowess, they rely on chain migration to rejoin their estranged brother

• Jonah: He was told by God to preach abroad. Basically he was a street-preacher on steroids. As God owns the earth, God didn't recognize borders.

Okay.

• Saint Paul: As long as he kept moving, he wasn't a migrant.

I probably have about 30 years left, based on the average life expectancy in my country. Perhaps I should arrive in the United States on a legitimate visa. Long after the visa expires, I continue to spend roughly six months in each state, preaching Hinduism on every street corner to make a living.

Technically, you wouldn't consider me an illegal migrant, right? I keep moving, yeah.

[GanduHindu]

Re: Jesus was a migrant, Matthew 2:13-14 says so

The places Jesus traveled belonged to Him. God had given Him the entire world.

That's actually a very good argument.

As to Moses, he was on his way to the Battle of Jericho. Sure, he had stops along the way, how else could he get there? Moses commanded his entire group plus an army that would later rid his country of those squatters who did not belong there.

Your post should be labeled fake history.

What about Moses' ancestors? The ten or eleven brothers of Joseph who went to Egypt in the second year of the famine.

Perhaps they should have found innovative ways to grow potatoes and edible mushrooms in the Negev Desert, which has been achieved more recently by their descendants, the Israeli scientists of the 21st century. Today, more than 40 percent of Israeli crops are grown in that desert.

Instead, Joseph and his brothers decided to sponge off the Egyptian welfare state for their entire families.

Pray, how do they not fit the definition of economic migrants?

[Romeo Rovagnati]

Re: Jesus was a migrant, Matthew 2:13-14 says so



I came back to this thread, because I've realized that I've missed some details: other prophets were migrants too. Some examples includes:

• Adam and Eve: Both were kicked out from Eden and were forced to find a new homeland. Clearly migrants.
• Noah: Built a boat to traverse the sea. One of his passengers was his son Ham, who was the first black person. Definitely a migrant.
• Abraham: Was a guest, along with his wife and half-sister Sarah, in Egypt. Surely a migrant.
• Joseph: Became an important Egyptian when he was brought there. 100% migrant.
• Jonah: Went to Sardinia via a whale (like the one in Pinocchio). Was also a racist who later repented.
• Saint Paul: Did a long journey that eventually led him to Rome. How can he not be a migrant?

Shall I continue?

I've just remember that I've forgot to add other important Bible figures, such as Jacob, who was a guest to the Father of his own wives. Also should I mention that Lot and his family were not a native of Sodom? And how about Eshter, who managed to make the Persian King accept the captive Judeans as citizens of his empire? Answer: they were all migrants!

If you need more proof that Christianity is a pro-immigration religion, I can also show you the lives of some Saints that may give you some inspiration.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Jesus was a migrant, Matthew 2:13-14 says so

I have reprimanded myself for not reading more completely before posting. As you know, it's not my way to seem critical of other, false, belief systems however far they have migrated from The Truth (assuming they were ever in contact with it at all) and Rome is a good example of this. Having reread the thread to appreciate all the posts in context, two points stand out regarding [1] Noah and [2] Christ Jesus, highlighted in SeaGreen and RoyalBlue respectively..

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Originally Posted by Romeo Rovagnati
I came back to this thread, because I've realized that I've missed some details: other prophets were migrants too. Some examples includes:

•..Noah: Built a boat to traverse the sea.

How could any two points be distinguished in a world completely covered by water? Such locations would be necessary for any traversing to be done. God is clear that the waters rose up from below as much as fell down from above, perhaps like a boat in a bathtub with the plughole working in reverse but definitely not like a reservoir's dam bursting.
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Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
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As we know, The Firmament (colloquially known as "sky") restrains a significant volume of water. Let's go woke and accept the astrologers' claim:
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a sphere of water 540,833,534,332,891,911,238,367⅞ miles across!
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all held back except for windows operated by God. So in other words like having a boat in your bathtub with reverse plughole function and the shower on. The water rises straight up. A major difference is that your toy could be assigned a location by measuring from the edge of the bath. Mount Everest could substitute for that but the problem is that Mount Everest was covered with water if it even existed beforehand and that Noah came back down more-or-less where he started from. "Traversing" from anywhere to anywhere else is completely absurd under such circumstances.
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Genesis 8:2-5 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month…were the tops of the mountains seen.
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THEN, a location could be determined but were those mountains even there beforehand? There were some, as we know from their tops having been covered, vv18-20, but regardless of how high they were it's certain that Everest was covered because no mountains were visible until the time recorded by God to inform us. This brings us to the blue section.

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Originally Posted by God

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

When the days of her [Mary's] purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord…and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

When they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.

Luke 2:20, 21, 22, 24, 39

Colombo, San Sebastián and Thomson Bay are settlements on the islands of Ceylon, Grand Tierra del Fuego and Rottnest respectively. Travel between them is relatively straightforward. One could start in Colombo for example and go to Thomson Bay, then turn hard right and go on to San Sebastián. Mostly this would be by sea or air.

Jesus similarly had several options, in getting to Nazareth (or returning to in the case of Mary & Joseph) from Bethlehem. When He was born, after a few days, they'd all gone to Jerusalem and spent some time there. Several options exist for getting to Egypt on the way home, sea would be one, road another. Probably by road via Egypt, pausing to take in the Egyptian riviera, maybe a look at the pyramids, this is just a fancy on my part you understand, then a pleasant cruise back up to the coast near Nazareth, disembarking around modern-day Haifa. In none of these places would Jesus be any sort of migrant, neither an immigrant nor an emigrant. Exactly the same as in my other imagined journey. God gives the destinations but nobody went anywhere to actually live. It's an important distinction and worth pointing out.

Thank you.

[Adam Fag]

Re: Jesus was a migrant, Matthew 2:13-14 says so

• He was a ship-wreck
• He was told by God to preach
• led him to Rome

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[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: Jesus was a migrant, Matthew 2:13-14 says so

He was not,

You started off quite well. I had hopes for you. I thought "At last! That kiddy-fiddler has seen the error of his ways! He has manged to read a Bible... and then...

I came back to this thread, because I've realized that I've missed some details: other prophets were migrants too. Some examples includes:

• Adam and Eve: Both were kicked out from Eden and were forced to find a new homeland. Clearly migrants.
• Noah: Built a boat to traverse the sea. One of his passengers was his son Ham, who was the first black person. Definitely a migrant.
• Abraham: Was a guest, along with his wife and half-sister Sarah, in Egypt. Surely a migrant.
• Joseph: Became an important Egyptian when he was brought there. 100% migrant.
• Jonah: Went to Sardinia via a whale (like the one in Pinocchio). Was also a racist who later repented.
• Saint Paul: Did a long journey that eventually led him to Rome. How can he not be a migrant?

Shall I continue?

• Adam and Eve: There were no borders: you can't migrate unless there's a border.
• Noah: He was a ship-wrecked mariner.
• Abraham: He was a tourist.
• Joseph: He was kidnapped and dumped in Egypt - that's not "migration".
• Jonah: He was told by God to preach abroad. Basically he was a street-preacher on steroids. As God owns the earth, God didn't recognize borders.
• Saint Paul: Did a long journey that eventually led him to Rome. How can he not be a migrant? As long as he kept moving, he wasn't a migrant.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Jesus was a migrant, Matthew 2:13-14 says so

No.

There are different sorts of "migrants" for example emigrants and immigrants. Clearly treating sojourners in one's land the same as natives necessitates a single legal system for all. Outmoded ecclesiastical law may be swallowed by the inept few unable to think for themselves: in no way can it be binding: Paul is an instance of this.

• Saint Paul: Did a long journey that eventually led him to Rome. How can he not be a migrant?

Because he was a Roman citizen already.

ACTS 22:25-28 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman. Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.

And Paul said, But I was free born.

[Romeo Rovagnati]

Re: Jesus was a migrant, Matthew 2:13-14 says so

(Leviticus 19:33-34)

When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

I came back to this thread, because I've realized that I've missed some details: other prophets were migrants too. Some examples includes:

• Adam and Eve: Both were kicked out from Eden and were forced to find a new homeland. Clearly migrants.
• Noah: Built a boat to traverse the sea. One of his passengers was his son Ham, who was the first black person. Definitely a migrant.
• Abraham: Was a guest, along with his wife and half-sister Sarah, in Egypt. Surely a migrant.
• Joseph: Became an important Egyptian when he was brought there. 100% migrant.
• Jonah: Went to Sardinia via a whale (like the one in Pinocchio). Was also a racist who later repented.
• Saint Paul: Did a long journey that eventually led him to Rome. How can he not be a migrant?

Shall I continue?

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Jesus was a migrant, Matthew 2:13-14 says so

very early in Chapter 1 verse 5 we see that it says "I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon."-Song of Solomon 1:5. I do not mean to be argumentative but clearly he is saying he is a Black man.

That is not an argument, it's not even wrong. In the first place if a description reads "black but comely" and another description reads "white and ruddy" then clearly two different people are being described. The description you've pointed to is obviously not of the King and can be broken down as follows:

Song of Solomon 1

4b..The king hath brought me into his chambers:

4c..We will be glad and rejoice in thee,

4d..We will remember thy love more than wine:

4e..The upright love thee.

5a..I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,

5b..As the tents of Kedar,

5c..As the curtains of Solomon.…

12a.While the king sitteth at his table,

12b.My spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

Multiple other references confirm this in chapter one alone and the soliloquy opening chapter two is particularly poignant in this respect.

Song of Solomon 2:1-6

Handmaiden has pointed out specific comparisons less common today, except in certain circumstances, but nevertheless very expressive. The bed is green. The King is not a horse. Look for the following key words:

• I have compared. thee to
• Thou art. fair
• Our bed is. green.

[Brother Gonzalez]

Re: Jesus was a migrant, Matthew 2:13-14 says so

He was not, and even if He were, there is good migration (Norway) and bad migration (brown people) as Donald Trump has enlightened us recently.Jesus would be of course the best migrant EVER.