The (insert church proper noun) church will claim moral high ground. Even Heaven has a gatekeeper and walls. There are rules and qualifications to enter
The foundation of a church’s morality lies upon law. If there is a crime codified toward that law, it is perfectly fair to enforce it.
If that wasn’t possible, a “church” could name unprovoked, unwilling human sacrifice as a ritual, practice it, and hide behind “Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion.” We know that isn’t the case.
The line is going to be a fine one, but it can be walked. They are aiding and abeting an invasion. That’s not biblical, save as a curse. It’s against the foundation of our law, and therefore is unlawful. We just have to learn how to say it.
If any church says it is above the law, how did that come to be so, and what is the law, then?
15“Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. 16But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’ 17And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.
18“Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
19“Again[d] I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
Which was a citation of Leviticus
Leviticus 6:2-7
2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; 3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: 4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, 5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, [and] give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering. 6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: 7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
We’ve forgotten that false witness may not just mean silly trifles like “Johnny took my candy please buy me some more”, but actual wrongdoings that find their way into court before a magistrate.
Legal and moral issues are seldom the same
The (insert church proper noun) church will claim moral high ground. Even Heaven has a gatekeeper and walls. There are rules and qualifications to enter
Statutory, yes. Lawfulness, no.
The foundation of a church’s morality lies upon law. If there is a crime codified toward that law, it is perfectly fair to enforce it.
If that wasn’t possible, a “church” could name unprovoked, unwilling human sacrifice as a ritual, practice it, and hide behind “Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion.” We know that isn’t the case.
The line is going to be a fine one, but it can be walked. They are aiding and abeting an invasion. That’s not biblical, save as a curse. It’s against the foundation of our law, and therefore is unlawful. We just have to learn how to say it.
If any church says it is above the law, how did that come to be so, and what is the law, then?
Matthew 18
Dealing with a Sinning Brother
15“Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. 16But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’ 17And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.
18“Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
19“Again[d] I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
Which was a citation of Leviticus
Leviticus 6:2-7 2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; 3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: 4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, 5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, [and] give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering. 6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: 7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
We’ve forgotten that false witness may not just mean silly trifles like “Johnny took my candy please buy me some more”, but actual wrongdoings that find their way into court before a magistrate.