As today is Good Friday — a subdued day for Christians, Protestants and Catholics — I came across this post on Facebook and am republishing because sometimes our friends on the Right need to be reminded what the Bible actually says. I’m waiting on permission from the person who posted but these are all in the Bible for those on the right to whine about cherry-picking:
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus 19:33–34
Leave Food for the Poor and the Foreigner
When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner.
—Leviticus 19:9–10
God Loves the Foreigner Residing Among You
He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.
—Deuteronomy 10:18–19
Do Not Oppress a Foreigner
Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Exodus 23:9
Do Not Deprive Foreigners Among You of Justice
“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.
—Malachi 3:5
Do Whatever the Foreigner Asks of You
“As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your name- for they will hear of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm-when they come and pray toward this temple, then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.
—1 Kings 8:41–44
Leave Your Door Open to the Traveler
No stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler. [Job, discussing his devotion to God] —Job 31:32
Invite the Stranger In
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.
—Matthew 25:25–36
We Were All Baptized By One Spirit
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body-whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free-and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
—1 Corinthians 12:12–14
Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
—Galatians 5:14
Have Mercy on Your Neighbor
He asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’ “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
What does that even mean.,.. Christians, Protestants and Catholics ”
Until the reformation, the words ” Christian ” and ” Catholic” were synonymous.
There was no other schismatic version of Christianity. Catholic simply means
“Universal” as it was the sole deposit of the Christian faith, with the exception of a few small heretical sects that differed in their understanding of the nature of Christ’s divinity. It wasn’t until Luther, who agonized over his sinful nature and enjoyed farting at the Devil ( Not Joking!) came up with some revised doctrines that let him off the hook for his sinful behavior. The German princes especially liked his doctrine of taking land and money from the Catholic church for their own benefit and embraced the schismatic cult. The serfs that lived in the domains of the greedy Princes were compelled to adopt the new schismatic faith. On the other side of the English Channel, Henry the eight threw in the towel with regards to the catholic faith so he could engage in adultery and also claim the wealth of the Church. Protestant religion is a linear outgrowth of greedy and adulterous men. All ” Christian” denominations are simply schismatic sects of the Roman Catholic church which positively traces its history and lineage back to the Apostles. Everyone else, is a pretender. Get your shit straight. Happy Easter
Try distinguishing those terms in the South
The facts are what they are. Protestantism and fundamentalism based on the doctrine of Sola Scriptura are unbiblical in and of themselves. Nowhere in the Bible, the canon of which was established in the 3rd century by Catholic Councils, does it say that oral tradition is to be disregarded. The Protestants altered the Bible to conform to thier own new doctrines. Sad that they can’t simply read history and find out they have been duped by second and third rate pretenders.
By the way, as a Christian you are commanded to accept the laws of those who govern you, whether you like them or not. Nice try Bozo. You are probably an atheist.
” But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away”. – Martin Luther.
Must really suck to be a Lutheran after you find out the truth about what a mentally ill person Luther was. Lutherans just try to mimic Catholicism as best they can but only succeed in practicing a cheap Temu imitation of the real thing.