"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter--when you see the naked to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?"
---Isaiah 58:6-7
2006-07-18 02:18:41 · 19 answers · asked by brainy_ostrich 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
gidget: If I don't have the Bible on my side of the debate, I don't have anything. "Using" the Bible is exactly what it's their for. We should "use" it to guide our life, our thought, and our political views.
2006-07-18 02:29:48 · update #1
Jessica---Sorry, but no one reads answers that long.
2006-07-18 02:39:53 · update #2
most ppl on here aren't smart enough to get that verse, plus a lot of them r anti-illegal. good try though. i agree!
2006-07-18 02:29:11 · answer #1 · answered by ladiB812 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dear Brainy,
The others above me have quoted the Bible back at you quite well, so I won't do so in redundancy. Clearly the Bible tells people to follow the law where they live and allows for war to keep our land and settle various disputes.
Clearly the Bible also tells people to share with those less fortunate then themselves....but it doesn't say this help should be tax sanctioned benevolence. Every individual needs to act INDIVIDUALLY to give to others as they choose.
Individuals go to heaven...Governments don't.
2006-07-18 12:44:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Does This Mean??
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors Goods
2006-07-18 12:34:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And what does this bible verse tell you?
Romans 13
1Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. 4For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. 6This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. 7Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
What a conundrum...
2006-07-18 10:45:47 · answer #4 · answered by Ricky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My own flesh and blood are my fellow AMERICANS who are in this country LEGALLY. I will not support people who defy the laws of my country to get food and shelter that they could have gotten in their own country if they had not been so lazy. There are people in my own country who have worked hard and have nothing. I will help them FIRST. Illegal people need to go to their homeland and strive to make their life better THERE.
2006-07-18 09:25:39 · answer #5 · answered by vacant 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nicely said, in my city we are ripping families apart, sending these mothers, fathers, husbunds, wifes back to there countries for something they did when they were 15 or 16 years old. It's awful to watch people getting on airplanes and having to leave there children and spouses behind.
2006-07-18 09:29:36 · answer #6 · answered by Cherish S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they are here illeally, they are hardly oppressed. If they are fleeing from oppression, then they should submit as refugees. But, they do not claim refugee status. Instead, they come here and leech our system and take money from the American worker, and send it to Mexico. If they were truly good people, trhey would improve their own damn country, or come here legally and become Americans.
2006-07-18 09:25:14 · answer #7 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So your saying it is OK to hurt many to help others?
And if your head isn't in the sand--our poor are hurting more-because of the benefits being used by a flood of too many people flooding in.
Do you feed your neighbors poor dog and let yours starve?
Take care of those here than reach your kind heart out--or don't they count?
2006-07-18 21:15:50 · answer #8 · answered by *** The Earth has Hadenough*** 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said, Give that to God which is God, give that to ceasar which is ceasars
Someone already pointed this all out.
I don't care if it's Jesus, Mohammed, Hammurabi, Cesar, Confusious or Bozo the Clown America is a soveriegn country and no poetic license is going to change that!
2006-07-18 09:40:03 · answer #9 · answered by yars232c 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you should send that verse to the Mexican elite.
Or all the other corrupt governments of countries where these people come from.
And maybe they will send you personal reply.
AFTER THEY ARE DONE LAUGHING.
The illegals coming across the border look pretty fit to me.
2006-07-18 10:00:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋