Wednesday 6 June 2018

Using the Bible for Political Gain


Recently Jeff Sessions, the US Attorney General, quoted the Bible to defend the US Administration on the family separation issue on the southern US border. Specifically, the Bible passage he referred is the following:

“Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God. Whosoever resists the power, resists the ordinance of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves condemnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Should you not then be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and you shall have praise of the same.” (Rom.12:1-3)