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You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt." 14. Leviticus 19:34 Also as much as we want to show hospitality to strangers who come to our homes, we must do this we caution as we do not know who has good intensions or evil intensions. Professor Christine Pohl said “hospitality is resistance” to the way things are in the world today. Avoid assumptions at all times. Making assumptions based on looks alone can be dangerous and lead to unfair judgement. For example, you can look at another person’s attire and assume they are well-off and snobbish. However, this would be an unfair assessment as you have no idea if all their money has been squandered on their apparel, nor could you presume their character is unkind.
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The sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveller." 12. Hebrews 13:2 I read Barth’s Roemerbrief a long time ago. I don’t still have it on my shelf. Your summary of what he is saying is not very clear, so I shall not say more unless you do. But Paul is very clearly talking about unconverted Jews in Romans 9:2-4. Do you and/or Barth dispute that? Nevertheless, if you look at what `The Church’ has been doing to help Ukrainian refugees, it has been surprisingly wonderful and I think that you are unjustified in doing it down in this particular instance. The Church is actually doing an awful lot to facilitate helping Ukrainian refugees. For example, my niece (studying at university) has welcomed two Ukrainian refugees into her apartment – and this was arranged through `the church’. My brother-in-law who has a spare apartment has put it at the disposal of a Ukrainian family who were looking for accommodation and – again – he was put in touch with the family through the church. I have seen quite a lot of activity connected with churches around here thoroughly involved in the effort to help the refugees. There are lessons for Western democracies and the Church from Australia's contentious Voice referendumOther Christians have taken a diametrically different position, and have called for cities and educational institutions to be set apart as “safe zones” for undocumented immigrants. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me (Matthew 25:35).
Welcoming Strangers? What Does the Bible Say About Welcoming Strangers?
The outworking of this love for stranger is precisely what we find amongst the early followers of Jesus. God has destroyed the ‘dividing wall of hostility’ between Jew and Gentile (Eph 2.14) and therefore between all who were strangers to one another. Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house." 25. Leviticus 24:22 The Maharal, Rabbi Yehuda Loew of Prague was a late medieval (1525-1609) mystic, philosopher and mathematician. How does he understand the Talmudic passage we just studied? Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers,but fellow citizenswith God’s people and also members of his household. Ephesians 2:19
The global genealogy that we find in Genesis 10 might seem obscure and mythical to us—but it says something very important. All humanity, in its variety and diversity, has a common spiritual ancestry in Adam and Eve—there is only one race, the human race. The story of Babel in Genesis 11 tells us that this diversity becomes rivalry and enmity only as the result of sin. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach." 4. Genesis 24:31
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If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you (Leviticus 25:35). We should welcome the refugee, yes. But they are supposed to claim asylum in the first safe country they come to. Regarding the huge numbers trying to cross the Channel, is France not a safe country? Or the country they reached France from? And are they really refugees or economic migrants? A) Be sure to welcome strangers into your home. By doing this, some people have welcomed angels as guests, without even knowing it.Why are those crossing the Channel not ‘bona fide’? The UK does not provide any legal route for them to enter the country, but that doesn’t affect their eligibility to apply for asylum and obtain refugee status. Reply There can be little room for doubt about the position of the Bible when it comes to how we should treat the stranger, or "sojourner", meaning someone who resides temporarily: he or she should be welcomed, embraced, and loved. Many of us find meeting people from another context, culture or language challenging. When people think, say or do things differently, we find it—well, strange. That is why we call them ‘strangers’! It is much less work relating to people who are like us—and strangers find the same. That is why, in any context, minority ethnic groups will almost always cluster together; this is the unexplored reality behind our current debates about race and discrimination. Refugees in the Bible Hagar — Genesis 16:1-15 David — 1 Samuel 23:13-18 Jesus — Matthew 2:13-23 Aquila and Pricilla — Acts 18:1-3; Romans 16:3-5, 1 Corinthians 16:19 OTHER BIBLICAL REFERENCES I doubt that being of use to their host country is uppermost in their minds. We could deal with this abuse of our generosity if we were to cut our benefits system to a little below that of France. And save the hard-pressed taxpayer some money too; tax falls hardest on the working poor, which is one reason why the ‘red wall’ was breached at the last election.
What the Bible says about welcoming refugees
Cities of refuge were available to Israelites and foreigners in cases of accidental murder. Numbers 35:15
The stranger who dwells among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God (Lev 19.34).
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