Ignorance of the Bible is no excuse

If I am not mistaken, the statement below was made by Sessions here to justify taking children from their mothers. One infant was removed from the mother's breast...what I read.

Anyway, the biblical verse below is taken/used out of context.

"I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order," he said. "Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves and protect the weak and lawful."

The Apostle Paul was responding to the Roman Christian people often converted from Judaism who complained about the Roman authority over them. In all the years that Jews had been in exile, they were ruled by one of their own. No one who ever captured and took them away had controlled them. One of their own gave them orders. So, when Paul wrote, he was defending the Roman government, telling the people to quit complaining.

 (In POW camps, didn't the highest ranking captured office tell his men what to do?)

The Romans were benevolent protectors of Roman citizens. Since Paul was writing to Roman citizens who were also Jewish, these Jews benefitted from the fierce protection of Romans. NO ONE could bothers Roman citizens without suffering severe consequences. Therefore, the Jews were free to preach their new religion founded by those who followed Christ, making it much more likely the religion could gain ground when the Jewish Roman were protected.

Some have said that Christianity might never have survived and spread the way it did if the Christians had not been free to preach as they did.

Now, I learned this when I was about 16 and now I am 71. I have spread the above message and no one has ever refuted it. If you agree, good. If you disagree, prove me wrong. When you study the Bible, you must decided who said it, to whom it was said, what was the situation, what was the historical context.

I am sure you are well aware that slavery was justified using the Bible. Other things have been proved by misusing Biblical passages out of context

I would love to teach Bible as Literature.

Do me a favor. If you agree with me, will you just say "agree"? You can say more, write more if you please. If you disagree and agree with Session, just say disagree. If you want to explain why you disagree with me or agree with Sessions, you can explain or not.

If you want to respond, respond only on this post. If this is discussed or commented on any of my other posts, I will delete the comment. I am trying to contain this to one post. Thanks.

I cried when I first heard children, even babies were separated from their mothers.