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Immigration and the Bible: Changing the Conversation

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“How can we process the topic of immigration as informed believers?”

This is the question M. Daniel Carroll R. sets out to answer in Immigration and the Bible, a 60-minute video produced by Urban Entry. The video was taped at a forum held by the Christian Community Development Association in Phoenix, Arizona, in January 2010.

Caroll is author of Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Border.

You may or may not agree with Carroll’s conclusion, but every Christian needs to wrestle biblically with the immigration issue as he has done.

5 responses to “Immigration and the Bible: Changing the Conversation”

  1. Derek Avatar
    Derek

    I would be willing to listen to it. It costs $10, though?

    Immigration is clearly an important political issue but why exactly do we need to wrestle with it biblically? Maybe I’m not up to speed as much as I should be on this but in all sincerity, what are we trying to figure out?

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  2. georgepwood Avatar
    georgepwood

    That’s precisely Carroll’s point. We Christians know–or think we know–the legal, political, and economic issues surrounding immigration, but we have not brought a distinctively biblical way of thinking to bear on the topic. Interestingly, the Bible, especially the Old Testament, has a lot to say on the topic of how we treat the “alien” (Hebrew, ger). Instead of buying the DVD, you might want to spend the couple extra dollars and just get his book.

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  3. themadjewess Avatar
    themadjewess

    God says in the Tanach about America, that we are a nation that ‘loves foreigners, and allows foreign ‘g’ods to come in” Which is an abomination and breaks the basic commandment of having NO other ‘g’ds before the Lord your God.

    God is for each and every nation having its OWN sovereignty, Mexico and those South of the border do not want that, they are Americas palestine. Over 30,000 Americans have been murdered on our borders since 9-11.
    “Thou Shalt Not Murder”

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  4. Derek Avatar
    Derek

    Yes, I would like to learn more about this. The one question I have, and I’m sure he addresses it, is how much some of the laws from an Old Testament theocratic form of government is applicable to say the United States.

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    1. themadjewess Avatar
      themadjewess

      It was a prophecy #1. Which has come to pass.

      #2. This is not ‘immigration’ this is INVASION.

      http://immigrationcounters.com/
      See it. Americans should come 1st in their own nation, not usurpers.

      11,526,661 Skilled Jobs Taken by Illegal Aliens

      And we are crying about unemployment? Send them HOME, they have a home AND a country.

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