Posted on 09/06/2015 4:15:02 PM PDT by TigerClaws
A pastor appearing on CNN Monday morning gave a novel excuse for why people should stop saying the words “illegal immigrant”: because Jesus was an illegal immigrant.
“Well, not only was Jesus a rebel, but Jesus was an undocumented immigrant himself when he fled to Egypt seeking persecution [sic] in his day,” said Rev. Ryan Ellers in a debate with CNN conservative contributor S.E. Cupp. “So the question becomes [would] we call Jesus himself illegal if he were, you know, in our modern times?”
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He was INDEED documented.
In the Gospel of Matthew.
If that isn’t “Documentation”, i don’t know what is!
NO, he is the Son of God!!
Thanks for that clarification!
Uh, maybe I am missing something, but weren’t Judea, Egypt and all of the lands of the Eastern Mediterranean part of the Roman Empire, and as such, basically the same country? Egypt would have had very little say. It was under Roman domination.
Well, he did. Lots of "Jesúses". :0)
His parents supposedly fled to Egypt. He had nothing to say in the matter. Both Egypt and Judaea were under Roman authority at the time.
You’re welcome, but I think some of the others may have come up with a much better explanation. It’s one that sees Egypt as merely another enclave of Rome, much like Judea. As such the family of Jesus would just be migrating to another part of the Roman empire.
I believe you have a valid point there. Thanks for the mention.
That “old abortion thingie” has become SO gargantuan in its numbers that these “women” must surely be using Planned Parenthood’s abortion mill as their main source of birth control. Ha! The motto “keeping abortions safe and RARE” seems, on the face of it, hypocritical.
its hilarious some of the things these people can come up with, completely making up things or reinterpreting scripture to suit their personal or political agenda...
“For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted ....” and so forth....
None. If it sounds cool, or seems to be relevant in any way (by their twisted thinking) then they connect the non-existent dots. Listening to a liberal try to make a point, support an agenda, or - gasp - debating an issue with one is to invite a laundry list of logical fallacies...
That’s kinda what I said.
Yeshua was a child, it was his parents that took him to Egypt and then returned when Herod died. There was free migration between Egypt and Israel at the time therefor He couldn’t have been an illegal immigrant in today’s sense of the word.
The guy sounds like another graduate of the “close cover before striking” school of divinity.
Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem in accordance with Roman law so they could be counted in the yearly Roman census and taxed accordingly. Jesus was born in Bethlehem making him a citizen or legal resident if you will of Judea, which at the time was a Roman province. So how does that make him an illegal alien? Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt because they were warned by an angel that Herod’s soldiers were searching for the child who had been called ‘The King of the Jews’’ in order to kill him ( “The Slaughter of The Innocents’’). They remained in Egypt for forty days and then returned to to Judea. This guy’s a loon.
When his Mom Maria and the Dad Joe got to the border of Egypt, they had the GOLD of the 2 wise men, they got their passport with this, and paid the taxes, and were legal.
Rev. Ryan M. Eller is a hard working Soros stooge—assigned to promote the the illegal alien invasion of the US.
Kinda
Anyway geeze I’ve had enough with this revisionist stuff. It’s going to be obnoxious next week
Ryan Ellers is no spokesman for the Great I Am, in fact, he represents the devil.
This is a classic tactic of Satan, to destract, deflect and deceive.
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