There are many far-left (so-called) scholars who distort Scripture to argue for open national borders, extrapolating the biblical concept of compassion entirely out of context. These pseudo-scholars mistakenly invoke the 50-year Jubilee (a law detailed in Leviticus 25 that forgave debt and returned property to the original covenant-keeping Jewish owners) to promote state largesse and universal grants — including property rights for all, whether people reside in a nation legally or are squatting illegally.
What these left-leaning scholars consistently ignore is the fact that Yahweh established the Jubilee and other Mosaic laws in the Torah to protect the inheritance of covenant-keeping (i.e., circumcised) Jews who lived within the framework of biblical law — functioning as a nation with divinely appointed boundaries.
When people take Scripture out of context to prop up their worldview, we must discern their biases and reject their flawed applications to modern public policy.
We also need to distinguish between how the church ministers to people and how the civil government administers justice. As a pastor, I will welcome anyone to my church, documented or not, by offering care, food, and material help for their families. But if I were elected as a civic leader, my responsibility would be to secure the borders and uphold the law of the land.
Unfortunately, too many well-meaning but uninformed pastors conflate the role of the church with that of civil government, failing to grasp the biblical concept of separate jurisdictions — personal, family, business, civic, and church. […]
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