“America is facing national theft through demographic replacement. Foreigners are violating the eighth and tenth commandments by coveting our land and envying our children’s inheritance. They are stealing from us and exterminating us through systematic assault,” argued Partridge. “Immigration without biblical assimilation is a form of invasion. To apply the scriptures of orderly and just immigration to the chaotic and evil immigration of our day is not befitting of a man of Piper’s theological prowess.”
Worship leader and conservative activist Sean Feucht wrote, “Never imagined a theologian I once looked up to would became so unbelievably WOKE while weaponizing scripture to justify the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation.”
“John Piper has always been a pietistic leftist,” said Texas Pastor Joel Webbon.
One anonymous account wrote, “I never would have expected such a colossal hermanuetic (sic) fail from John Piper. Never ever put any man on a pedestal.” Others debated the definition of the term “sojourn.”
While policy debates have intensified amid the Trump administration’s wave of actions against immigration both legal and illegal, many evangelicals have long been marked by their calls for compassion toward immigrants.
For example, the Southern Baptist Convention, which is the largest Protestant denomination in the nation, passed a resolution in 2018 affirming that “God commands His people to treat immigrants with the same respect and dignity as those native born.”
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The resolution declares “that any form of nativism, mistreatment, or exploitation is inconsistent with the gospel of Jesus Christ” and that pastors should “address immigration issues with their local churches and…exhort their congregations to serve their local immigrant communities.”
