And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,
QUOTE: "In the Bible, walls were built to keep invading armies out of cities, not foreigners out of the country. And they were never, ever built to confine people to small areas."
Are we agreed that a legitimate application of Nehemiah would be that walls can be used to stop an invasion?
I think that trying to compare walled cities in the Ancient Near East with a modern hundreds-mile-long wall on the border of a modern nation-state just doesn't work.
I have no problem with our nation reasonably securing its borders. My problem is trying to use the biblical text to justify this particular method. It's a form of hermeneutical gymnastics that could be employed to force Scripture to support all kinds of things in other scenarios.
Kaitlyn Schiess, whom I cited in the article.
https://youtu.be/uRlDCf3KT8k?si=EERhKL9jd1-gbZcJ
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,
QUOTE: "In the Bible, walls were built to keep invading armies out of cities, not foreigners out of the country. And they were never, ever built to confine people to small areas."
Are we agreed that a legitimate application of Nehemiah would be that walls can be used to stop an invasion?
I think that trying to compare walled cities in the Ancient Near East with a modern hundreds-mile-long wall on the border of a modern nation-state just doesn't work.
I have no problem with our nation reasonably securing its borders. My problem is trying to use the biblical text to justify this particular method. It's a form of hermeneutical gymnastics that could be employed to force Scripture to support all kinds of things in other scenarios.
Thanks. There is a broad pinciple.