Jeffress: Churches Should Not Harbor Undocumented Immigrants
First Baptist Church of Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress takes issue with liberal churches that take in the undocumented.
During a debate on Fox & Friends on Sunday, Jeffress was asked why he would turn in immigrant to ICE if he “shows up at your church, he’s hungry, he needs help, maybe he has a child with him…
“Look, a lot of these liberal churches that harbor illegal immigrants who are criminals say they are following the example of Jesus, the only problem is they are following the Jesus of their imagination rather than the Jesus of the Bible,” he insisted. “Jesus was not this wimpy little guy who walked around munching sunflower seeds and saying nice things to people.”
“The real Jesus of the Bible said ‘render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s,’ that is obey the government,” Jeffress continued, adding that the “real Jesus” cared more about American citizens who were victims of violent crimes committed by immigrants.
Southern Evangelical Seminary President Dr. Richard Land, however, argued that the church and the state had different jobs in God’s eyes.
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25 responses to Jeffress: Churches Should Not Harbor Undocumented Immigrants
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Budda July 12th, 2015 at 13:45
Let’s talk about your tax free status Rev.
Carla Akins July 12th, 2015 at 13:50
Pick a side buddy. The church is teflon until it does something you don’t like?
Larry Schmitt July 12th, 2015 at 13:55
What Jesus meant by “render unto Caesar” was to pay your taxes. Which you don’t.
Tommie July 12th, 2015 at 13:55
Amazing, some really nice “Christians”, what ever to helping , by lending a helping hand to another human being.
Hirightnow July 12th, 2015 at 15:17
Looks like the kind of “church” Jesus was against, you ask me…
Terry "Death to Equality" Xu July 12th, 2015 at 16:38
Society in general should not harbor illegals
Putting compassion above reasoning is one of the more severe problems with Christian teachings
bpollen July 13th, 2015 at 05:36
Terry “I’m so LONELY” Xu.
beulahmo July 13th, 2015 at 13:08
That’s a ridiculous statement — not because it criticizes Christianity but because it asserts that compassion and reasoning are necessarily incompatible. Compassion and reasoning do not exist separately in healthy human minds.
Your declared ideal for organizing human interaction has been attempted repeatedly over the course of human history. It has also caused horrific suffering, unimaginably brutal violence, and the rise of spectacularly corrupt regimes. In order to facilitate your ideal for social interaction, it would be necessary to adopt social values and personality traits that our society finds abhorrent, regardless of religious affiliation. We embrace an ideal that we must aspire to; and though we have not yet perfected our practice of the ideal, we believe it’s not only worthwhile but also morally right to continually strive for our ideal.
Here’s why your ideal for human interaction will never gain traction in America: our raison d’etre was enunciated in our Declaration of Independence, the first official document of our nation. We acknowledged and cited universal human dignity as a necessary precept for legitimate authority and governance. This foundation cannot be removed from our society because it undergirds everything upon which America is built.
Terry "Death to Equality" Xu July 13th, 2015 at 16:00
The American foundation and way of thought is inferior and should be replaced with nationalist ideology, that’s sort of the point. I am of the legalist opinion that laws should be constantly improved and rewritten as a form of social engineering, not worshipped like pieces of scripture
Although you are right that compassion and reasoning are not mutually exclusive, only that reasoning should come first – the second paragraph is based on that mistaken assumption so I’m not gonna address it
bpollen July 13th, 2015 at 16:32
Please prove that American thought and foundation is inferior, Terry “Never Met A Fact” Xu. And, since you aren’t a lawyer nor an American, your “legalist opinion” carries no weight.
Terry "Death to Equality" Xu July 13th, 2015 at 16:34
in this case it actually is my opinion
but legalism is a philosophy, you dont need to be a lawyer to espouse it
Warman1138 July 13th, 2015 at 21:07
Actually legalism is a philosophy dating back to the time of the first emperor of China.
beulahmo July 13th, 2015 at 17:09
The structure of our government and the laws that govern us do not exist because we worship them. They exist because your ideal for “social engineering” has been tried — in countless forms — and they have failed or are doomed for failure because they require that the masses be oppressed in some way. Stability is never guaranteed, no matter how much you demand it.
Terry "Death to Equality" Xu July 13th, 2015 at 17:26
But they haven’t improved because you worship them – it’s a sort of virtue for the sake of virtue. Same reason why Americans still talk about equality outside of the law as if it were a positive thing
Legalistic social engineering has been used in China for thousands of years, through good times and bad. As with Korea, Vietnam, and Indonesia (strangely enough) – some oppression is necessary for functioning societies
Warman1138 July 12th, 2015 at 16:42
Sooooo, if Jeffress was around 2000 yrs. ago on the other side of the pond he would have told Joseph and Mary to take a hike?
Barbara Vaughn Posey July 13th, 2015 at 10:58
Ignorant of the Bible.
tracey marie July 13th, 2015 at 11:26
yes you are, 7 years of prayer and it was ansered by god is what you believe.
Warman1138 July 13th, 2015 at 21:05
Yes I am, ignorant of a hand picked conglomeration of material compiled hundreds of years after the fact and the tossing of more than 90% of the source material rewritten several times since. Get a time machine or a brain.
illinoisboy1977 July 12th, 2015 at 16:43
Feed and clothe them. Take care of their immediate needs. Then, turn them over to ICE for deportation. That’s fair AND compassionate. You can’t shelter someone, permanently, if they’re in the country illegally. They need to be sent back and made to come back the proper way.
robert July 12th, 2015 at 17:46
anything to avoid taxes
beulahmo July 13th, 2015 at 13:11
Notice how they whip out the “Render unto Caesar…” quote when it suits them, but they run from that quote when the argument turns to raising taxes.
Roctuna July 12th, 2015 at 18:22
Is there like some kind of a mold somewhere that we can break? They’re all so similar.
bpollen July 13th, 2015 at 05:38
Amazing how many putative Christians travel with a bag of rocks everywhere they go.
tracey marie July 13th, 2015 at 10:21
There was no America when jesus was alive(snicker)…. the illegals much later were us.
greenfloyd July 13th, 2015 at 12:06
I think “Sanctuary Cities” may no longer be necessary. As I understand deportations of so-called “undocumented” is declining. Although it seems the number of Mexican and Central American criminals being deported is on the increase. Yet I don’t know why we even bother sending them back, Mexico will not or can not keep them locked up. Many of these hardcore thugs merely pick-up a load of dope and come right back!?