Christians can 'love all people' and support 'Alligator Alcatraz,' Evangelical group says
Sharayah Colter, chief communications officer at The Danbury Institute, a nonpartisan association of Evangelical churches based in Dallas, Texas, says while the controversy over the Alligator Alcatraz is likely to continue, Evangelicals and other Christians “should support earnest efforts to secure the nation and to uphold law and order.”
When “non-citizens are lured to cross the border illegally” and “undertake a dangerous journey which they may not survive,” women and children risk being raped, killed or taken into human trafficking rings, Colter said. But beyond public safety and security, Colter said allowing people to continue to illegally enter the country could fuel further lawlessness.
“People inside and outside of America are taught by the actions of the nation that our laws are impotent,” she added. “It is wrong to convey to people that it is OK to break the law since Scripture calls people to obey the laws of the land so far as they do not cause a person to break God’s law. When a nation passes laws, the righteous thing to do is to uphold and enforce those laws. To act otherwise is both wrong and cruel.”
“Christians can love all people they encounter and work to share the Good News with all they encounter while still upholding the nation’s laws, advocating for secure borders that protect innocent life, and desiring a safe immigration process for those willing to enter the nation through legal routes,” she added.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/chris...atraz.html
So this also means that the Alligator Alcatraz is very much in line with God's law because "Christians obey the law of the land as long as they do not break God's law."
Sharayah Colter, chief communications officer at The Danbury Institute, a nonpartisan association of Evangelical churches based in Dallas, Texas, says while the controversy over the Alligator Alcatraz is likely to continue, Evangelicals and other Christians “should support earnest efforts to secure the nation and to uphold law and order.”
When “non-citizens are lured to cross the border illegally” and “undertake a dangerous journey which they may not survive,” women and children risk being raped, killed or taken into human trafficking rings, Colter said. But beyond public safety and security, Colter said allowing people to continue to illegally enter the country could fuel further lawlessness.
“People inside and outside of America are taught by the actions of the nation that our laws are impotent,” she added. “It is wrong to convey to people that it is OK to break the law since Scripture calls people to obey the laws of the land so far as they do not cause a person to break God’s law. When a nation passes laws, the righteous thing to do is to uphold and enforce those laws. To act otherwise is both wrong and cruel.”
“Christians can love all people they encounter and work to share the Good News with all they encounter while still upholding the nation’s laws, advocating for secure borders that protect innocent life, and desiring a safe immigration process for those willing to enter the nation through legal routes,” she added.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/chris...atraz.html
So this also means that the Alligator Alcatraz is very much in line with God's law because "Christians obey the law of the land as long as they do not break God's law."
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
