Leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals have issued several clarifications on the group’s stance on immigration reform in the days since it released its resolution on the issue.
Over the past week, various groups – Christians as well as secular – have criticized the NAE’s decision to take a strong stance in favor of undocumented immigrants already in the country. Among the criticisms are that the evangelical body is supporting amnesty for those that break the law and that the group is becoming more liberal.
“NAE is adopting the sad trajectory of the National Council of Churches, speaking to detailed political issues beyond its traditional moral purview and the consensus of its constituency,” decried Mark Tooley, president of the conservative Institute on Religion and Democracy.
Tooley further said that while the NAE acknowledges that the Bible does not offer specific guidelines for modern legislation on immigration, the group has done so.
“So who is speaking here, if not the Bible?” he challenged the NAE.
NAE Deals with Criticism After Immigration Statement | Christianpost.com.
P.S. there is a reason why the Bible does not ‘offer specific guidelines’ on immigration. It’s because the Bible is not a political book, a tool for legislation, or a constitution to govern with.
October 19th, 2009 3:33 pm
Mark Tooley is the one speaking outside the context of the Bible, not the NAE honoring the Deutoronomy-era mandate to “not harm the strangers in (y)our midst”.
That Tooley would accuse NAE of political stances while helming an organization that both calls itself conservative AND disputes the biblical stance of the NAE is appalling. Surely this man has read his Bible? Perhaps he follows the shameful evangelical tendency of reading ONLY the Pauline epistles, making up the rest of his theology from what Rush and his ilk tell him to believe.
October 19th, 2009 3:35 pm
Amen.
October 19th, 2009 5:00 pm
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October 30th, 2009 7:11 pm
Only Jesus can save us- everything else is useless.
All other religions are demonized? Islam, buddhism, etc. – because they do not have Jesus, salvation through Jesus?
That is why modern life style is satanic- demonized too:
We do not feel anymore anything? We see poor homeless people, junkies, etc.- and we walk by without even thinking about those people. We see our cell phone, but nothign else. We have violence, being ‘hard’ or ‘heavy’- culture, ‘no emotions’-culture or ’show no emotions’ – culture. From where this all comes?
It is satanic life style, introduced us by TV, entertainment, etc.
http://www.icr.org/article/739/
“LaVey … sees television as the major mainstream infiltration of the new Satanic religion.”
Modern immigration of those demonic religioons is created by satanic world elite- in order to destroy christian life style- and destroy christians?
We get huge immigration of islam,oriental cultures and latinos, catholics. All these lack Jesus, and therefore they are demonic?
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-says-all-other-religions-worship-%E2%80%9Cdemonic-powers%E2%80%9D
http://mythandhope.blogspot.com/2009/10/pat-robertson-says-other-religions.html
You can see this yourself. These people harass other people? These people do not hesitate to use violence if needed? They lie- are very nice or quiet, if they are alone- but if they are majority, they change in one second being angry or hostile?
Note that this immigration also changes our western democracies totalitarian obey-culture states…= satanic obey-cult? This immigration from barbaric culture countries consists of people, who have no slightest idea about democracy? Their only idea about state is to obey some dictator? = satanic new world order’s ideal?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAG-6RakGZQ
= Freemasons have no Jesus,= demonic?, and that is why they use their high politicians in governments and send these immigrants into our countries?
http://euro-med.dk/?p=10133
http://www.thewatcherfiles.com/islam-network.html
Right way to help those countries, is to help them to create democracy and equality. Why immigrants from those countries stay in our countries instead of bringing their new knowledge to their own countries?…