I speak to a lot of Christians who don’t understand this. It seems so simple.

Here’s the premise: 

Men don’t determine good and evil; God does. Christians are to advocate that government not harass people who aren’t sinning.

If I stated this in the context of gun control or something consistent with what Trump is teaching, Christians would agree. However I’ve been starting it in regards to immigration, and you should see how many fuses it blows. 

The completely predictable  response people have over and over is to quote Romans 13 and say everyone should obey the law. If you read what I said, you’ll notice that isn’t even really a response to what I said. I didn’t say anything about what immigrants should be doing. I said that Christians shouldn’t support the government when they are committing injustice.

If they can get move on from there, which they rarely can, the question would be: what is a just or unjust law? I could probably write a book on that where I would explain that justice is defined in the Old testament civil law and how it teaches that moving isn’t a sin. Fortunately for the little Facebook comment box, an essay isn’t required. I can use Romans 13, which they’ve often helpfully copy and pasted. Verses 3 and 4 say that those who do good have nothing to worry about and that those who commit a crime that earns them God’s wrath are to come under jurisdiction of human government. 

Moving to a new country is not a sin, so how can men try to make it illegal? If men  do try to make it illegal, it’s the job of Christians to teach the government that they have no right to make something that’s not a sin into a crime.

For a Christian to advocate for anything other than that reveals that they’re actually idolaters who think that men can define right and wrong.