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Paige brown romans bible study10/4/2023 ![]() And I know for lots, these last couple weeks have pushed people to different forms of an emotional breaking point, and for me this was my emotional point of being totally overwhelmed and just wanting to jam a stick in the machine and burn it all down, so to speak. Which rhetoric was then reiterated by Sarah Huckabee Sanders and others in the White House. This morning an article was posted by a guy named Andrew Seidel or I guess this morning I found the article, I think it maybe came out yesterday, with sort of the inside scoop on a White House Bible study that is the likely source that influenced both the policy decision, the policy defense, and Jeff Sessions’ speech pointing to Romans 13 as a defense for separating families. But then there’s been a shocking defense and justification that has actually used the Bible as the main source of justifying this policy. So there’s been all sorts of outrage, there’s been I guess in some ways an impressive number of church institutions and denominations and leaders speaking out against this, including even some of the people who we usually pick on. As most of you have probably been following, there’s been a crisis unfolding in American immigration over the last few weeks where we’ve realized that what was already a pretty inept and oftentimes cruel system of border patrol and immigration policy has recently turned absolutely crazy and sickening with this supposed zero-tolerance policy that is actually separating, essentially kidnapping children from their parents at the border and imprisoning little kids. As I’m recording this right now, it is Wednesday, June 20th. And I hope this is encouraging for those of you out there who feel like the Bible, Jesus, and God are constantly being used against you and against the marginalized in our society. And so today Tim is going to dive into a pretty crazy thing that happened last week and a way that the Bible was used to support some just terrible things. And I believe many of you want that as well. I care that the ideas that I believe and share with people I meet and pass on to my children, I care that those ideas bring about life and goodness and love and inclusivity and peace and joy, that I stand with the marginalized and the oppressed. I honestly don’t care about talking doctrine or debating theological positions or stances or any of that. Friends, we believe our theology is so important because of the things it can lead to, like actual death in the past couple weeks as we’ll hear about on today’s show, or some of the worst atrocities and suffering in our history. Good things, bad things, life or death, or as Jesus said, to see if a tree is good or bad by the fruit of the tree. As we always say on this show, it’s so important to look downstream of our theological ideas and see what kind of things they’re leading to. We were both really busy this week, so Tim just recorded an episode on his phone by himself, because we think this is so important. The Bible is being used to defend ripping children away from their parents, and we think this is absolutely sickening. ![]() ![]() This is an impromptu episode because if you’re listening to this in June 2018, some really crazy stuff happened this last week and is still happening. Our theology matters because it can lead to death or life. We're sickened, so we put out an impromptu episode calling BS on that. Last week Jeff Sessions used the Bible to justify kidnapping children, separating families, and continuing one of the cruelest immigration policies in US history. ![]()
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