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Listening to Dan McClellan, I was surprised how much care for the stranger is a running theme in both the NT and OT. Of particular note is the sin of the city of Sodom for which it was firebombed, which was not about homosexuality, as per modern interpretations, but about mistrust of the stranger, mistreatment of them, and failure to feed them and show them hospitality while holding an abundance of material wealth.
Not only does the US have a problem with internal disfavor of immigrants, but so do most industrialized nations, and as the bible shows us, this has been a problem for a very, very long time. (I hypothesize, today, public animosity towards migrants in the US is exacerbated by the oligarch-owned massive far-right propaganda machine, as a means to distract common Americans from the excesses and abuses of the ownership class, but that's another convo.)
In fact, I think I remember McClellan noting that kind treatment of the foreigner is part of the ancient Babylonian doctrine that inspired the OT.
You can see why a modern Christian fundamentalist might want to creatively interpret certain messages in the bible.
Yes. And in doing so, by showing that their doctrine can be creatively interpreted to mean whatever and affirm their own ideology, they demonstrate that their foundational text is not divinely inspired; if it were, it would have a singular meaning understood by anyone and everyone who read it.
Instead we have 40,000-ish separate denominations of Christianity, most of whom see themselves as uniquely valid and the other branches as deliberately false.
Jesus only really goes full "Good people go to Heaven and evil go to Hell" on one occasion. It's in Matthew 25, and the criteria is based on treatment of the poor, the sick, the elderly, and the imprisoned.
My little rant about "Jesus died for our sins."
God sends his son Jesus, who is also Him, to Earth to sacrifice himself... to himself... to persuade himself to forgive humans for Original Sin, which happened before they were born but was somehow a reason to ban them all from eternal salvation. Yeahhhh, easy to see how a Supreme Being intelligent enough to create the entire universe would think this made sense.