I can do that
too! I've got two parts to comment on
here.
2 John 1:7-11(NKJV)
For many deceivers have gone out
into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a
deceiver and an antichrist.
Look to yourselves,
that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.
Whoever transgresses and
does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in
the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.
If anyone comes to you and does
not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet
him;
for he who greets him shares in
his evil deeds.
The first part again
points out the need to believe that Jesus came in the flesh. The big problem here is that we are starting
to see some of the big, more Liberal churches actually starting to question and
in some case reject that belief.
Heck at an Episcopal
Church Synod about a decade ago they couldn't even get support for a motion
from the floor to reaffirm that the Bible is the inspired word of God!
Now to my second
point. It is always funny to me to see
people who are normally hostile to religion suddenly try to use Scripture to
support one of their own points. As I
have said many times the Bible is a book of balance and needs to be interpreted
in its entirety.
But I can play the
cherry picking game like anybody else if I want to so let's take a look at the
second highlighted part above.
This passage was
written by the Apostle John. John flat
out says that if they don't believe the doctrine of Christ then not only
shouldn't we let them in to our house (or country as the case may be), we
shouldn't even greet them. Now there is
no doubt that Muslims do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ. If they did they would be Christians, not
Muslims. :) Therefore this Scripture is talking about
them as well as others.
Now do I really
think that this is the ultimate Scripture on the subject? Nope.
As I said before you have to take the whole Bible in context. But I do think that this Scripture is strong
enough to refute the charge that in all cases it is "unChristian" to
exclude the refugees. We have a
Scripture here that tells us that in some cases at least, it is the
"Christian" thing to do.
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