Restrictions In The Bible

Understanding biblical dispensations helps with knowing more about how God rules His kingdom. There are two dispensations that make up God’s will for humanity and His kingdom before the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The dispensations of promise and law are foundations that God uses to make up His administration in His kingdom on earth. A dispensation is a distinct period in the outworking of God’s purpose. Looking at these two dispensations we can see that the promise leads into the law, and progressively transforms because God’s kingdom plan continues to be revealed slowly. God creates a land covenant during these dispensations that has roots founded

Many people are being displaced due to fear of religious, racial, or political persecution, and this is demonstrated through a story about a Sudanese refugee. Nyawet Tut had to flee because, “...soldiers set fire to her village and she had to run for her life with her own five children and five others of relatives killed in the conflict” (Edwards, 2017, para. 8). Many refugees like Tut had to leave their homes and everything behind so they wouldn’t be persecuted for their beliefs. These people represent to mockingbird metaphor because even innocent children are being oppressed because of war. Decades after the novel took place, this metaphor still connects to today’s society and persecution of the innocent. The restriction of refugees entering the US mirrors the killing of a mockingbird. An executive order from US President Donald Trump says, “Deteriorating conditions in certain countries due to war, strife, disaster, and civil unrest increase the likelihood that terrorists will use any means possible to enter the United States” (Trump, 2017 para. 4). This executive order gives some insight into the conditions that refugees are facing. Millions of people are being forced to leave their country due to political, racial, religious persecution as well as the fear of war. This order is saying that due to the possibility of terrorism entering the US through refugees, it is safer to not let them seek sanctuary or asylum in here. While may help

Much like many white people in the South believed black protestors had no right to infiltrate their cities in the 1960s, a large number of Americans are against the idea of letting refugees or anyone that follows a strongly stereotyped religion into their country. However, like King says, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (78). Over the course of history, the United States have established themselves as a major power with the intentions of helping others. Whether the tactics for this have actually been successful in the past is a different discussion, but if the motives are pure, then this country has a moral and ethical obligation to help those in need. In this case, that would mean allowing these refugees into the country and not continuing to stigmatize an entire group of people any further. This country turned away refugees during World War II, and a portion of them were killed in the Holocaust. The exact same thing could potentially happen if these refugees and muslims are banned from traveling into the United States.

And the United States themselves should be able to accept as much refugees as they can due to the fact that there are some Americans that would do anything to help refugees out. For example, I read a document from the Boston Globe, titled “An Outpouring of Support for Refugees” and basically talked about how Cheryl Hamilton from Lowell asked many people to help her out to support refugees arriving from Congo, Syria, Myanmar, and Iraq. Cheryl and others basically gathered a collection of kitchen supplies, winter coats, blankets, and much more, just to give them to the refugees that have arrived to a totally different place than what they were used to. And it also said: “Volunteers walked into the office and said, “I can’t stand watching the news anymore. How can I help?”” This shows that there are some Americans that have no problem with letting in refugees, and are willing to do anything for them, because it help seeing what type of conditions they were living in, as well as what is going on in their home countries. For example, there’s a photograph from Time which shows a young boy covered in blood, and says: “Footage shared online by the Aleppo Media Center is said to show a boy who was pulled from an airstrike on Aug. 17 in the Syrian city of Aleppo.” which I remember

But with the current scenario, people are being separated from their loved ones because they are born in a specific country! Banning young children and aging grandmothers from the six countries obviously isn’t the right move. Everyone knows that America always had strained relations with Muslim bearing countries and the ban deteriorates it even further. Notably, 97 tech companies suggest that this ban is bad for business (Reilly) Jared A Goldstein states that every president has deemed that anyone of any race, religion can become an American citizen as long as he/she upholds the Constitution (Goldstein) Based on the opposition received by the ban since day one, it is imperative that the people oppose it as much as they can.

In The New York Times’ article called “Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Illegal” published on January 27th, 2017, David J. Bier expresses his personal opinion about the execute order signed by Trump that supports to bar all permanent immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries. According to Bier, the order is illegal, since Congress outlawed all discrimination against immigrants and American citizens based on nationality, race, sex, place of birth, or place of residence by means of The Immigration and National Act of 1965. However, Bier explains that the 1965 law does not ban discrimination based on religion, which was Mr. Trump’s original proposal. The author uses examples to prove that presidents have used their powers many times to forbid

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, the same day that thousands commemorated the National Day of Prayer, that claimed to “vigorously enforce Federal law's robust protections for religious freedom.”

Regarding Erwin Chemerinsky’s article from January 29, 2017, “Op-Ed Trump's cruel, illegal refugee executive order,” I am happy to see this issue raised publicly. I believe Trump’s banned order is unacceptable because it is discriminate, unconstitutional, and inhumane. Firstly, it is discriminate because no one should be banned from entering the Unit States of America base on the nationality. This means any banned nationals with immigrants are not allowed and discriminated with voided visa. Secondly, it is unconstitutional because this order is breaking the first amendment which allows an individual’s region should not favor over another. In the article, Trump also told Christian news that will give Christians a greater help. Thirdly, it is

There are no social injustices that go without affecting the public, and Executive Order 13769 has impacted many people not only in our nation, but also in the periphery, in many different countries around the world. The victims of this social injustice are primarily those from the seven countries, especially Muslims, but anyone who has put their faith in American idealism will experience the fallout from this destruction of our constitutional values. When it comes to accepting refugees now, the White House is essentially prioritizing Christians over Muslims from the Middle East. In fact, in an interview with the Christian broadcasting network a few days after the immigration ban was instated, Donald Trump claimed he would favor Christian refugees as an exception to the executive order (Yulas). People with dual citizenship are being affected now as well by not being able to travel freely outside the country without worry they may not be allowed to return. A specific victim of this injustice, Thon Maker, a rookie on the Milwaukee Bucks, is a native of Sudan, one of the seven countries that Trump has banned for travel (Reports). The National Basketball Association is now concerned with Maker’s ability to travel with his team to Toronto for future games (Reports). The immigration limitation not only affects people living in the seven countries, but also those who care about upholding our values and human rights

In 1944, former president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order forming the War Refugee Board. As briefly explained by ushmm.org, “the Board is responsible for devising and carrying out programs for the rescue and relief of victims of Nazi persecution.” During World War II, the United States help settle refugees who couldn’t be in their own country because of the war. This was a great thing to do and shaped the future we live in today. Letting Jewish refugees into the United States “was a turning point in American immigration policy and established a precedent for later refugee crises,” according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.What is happening today with refugees is no different than what happened in the past. The Washington Post uploaded an article January of this year stating “If the order is enacted, among those immediately affected would be potential immigrants and visitors from seven

Household codes are a list of responsibilities for each member of the household. They first appeared in the Colossians chapters 3:18 to 4:1. It is believed that early Christian writers used works from Aristotle and Stoic sources as influences in their writings. In Aristotle’s work, Politics, he discusses the idea that males should be lead over females in order to keep a properly functioning home and a properly working state. In Stoic sources listing household codes, the subordinate member is listed before the dominate member of the household and a command is listed before the reason for obedience. The household codes recorded in Ephesians have been misused, in some edits of the Bible Ephesians 5:21, “Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.” has not been printed. Therefore, the message is taken and changed into something that was not intended. Another reason for abuse of the household codes is the fact that in some versions of the Bible, “be subject” is not written in chapter 5:22. The Greek translation for “head” can mean “origin” rather than always meaning “leader” or referring to

If a woman and her young children were standing on your doorstep, tired and hungry, with no place to go, would you turn them away? I would at least offer them some water and allow them to rest their feet while I try to find them something more suitable, like a church. Of course, you could always send them packing but, if something were to happen to them, you 'd probably feel bad about it. By allowing these refugees, in obvious need, to settle here, we are seeing our countrys ' morals. Americas ' moral compass is exactly what us Americans want and need to see. There are already many who are willing to do their part in helping them, once they are let in. With over fifteen mayors vowing to accept more and at least nine

(Impact) Judge, this country itself was founded on the fact of equality (consisting of religion) and one of the main virtues that this country provides, is freedom through religion as per our laws. Though judge, when witness the implementation of this ban by the president, this directly contradicts with the fundamental values of our country, because we see that the president implies in his ban that this law discriminates religions, as we have just proved! Because of this, the executive order is clearly

People no matter what race, gender, ethnicity, or religion should be able to immigrate to a country to seek freedom and justice. People immigrate from all different places around the world to escape suffering or torment from countries in which they lived. In this past 2016 election there has been a major shift on the lives of immigrants as they try to enter the United States of America. President Donald Trump has ordered an immigration ban which bars immigrants for 90 days from entering the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries which includes Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Even more strikingly, it also bans all refugees for 120 days, and Syrian refugees indefinitely. Even though the president is supposedly attempting to suppress terror within the U.S, he is targeting people from distinct religious groups, an action that has deemed truly unjust within our Constitution. In doing so, he is separating innocent families, banning students from re-entering their university, and preventing helpless children begin a new life in a seemingly free country.

I believe the complete ban on refugee admissions is a failure to meet America’s humanitarian obligations. The policy violates the moral principle that it is wrong to discriminate based on religion. The seven countries whose citizens are not permitted entry are all overwhelmingly Muslim and that is no coincidence. Trump himself has implicitly acknowledged that it is wrong to discriminate based on religion by denying that he is doing so. However, this recalls the old saying that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. In this case, the hypocrisy is so blatant, given Trump’s past and present statements about Islam. This policy is clearly and deliberately aimed at restricting the entry of Muslims and that under no circumstances can be dismissed as a moral act.