In a TV interview with American channel MSNBC, Lentz responded to a question about politician Jeff Sessions using the Bible to justify immigration policy: “it’s embarrassing, to be honest, I think everybody – if you have any compassion – think something’s off with this.”
Last Thursday, the Attorney General referenced Paul’s letter to the Romans in the New Testament to defend a policy which has seen more than 2000 children separated from their parents: “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.
Carl Lentz responded to this on a news programme by saying: “When you see politicians, especially using what we call classic misapplication of scripture you just hope you get the opportunity to do this – which is to tell people, in case they are wondering ‘Is this Jesus? Is this Christianity? Is this the Bible?’, you get to say ‘absolutely not’.”
Lentz explained how this was taking Paul’s letter to the Roman church completely out of context: “This is…a politician trying to use the Bible to prove a point that they want.”
The presenter, Yasmin Vossoughian, asked what the passage was actually about: “Romans 13 is…a good scripture, we do need to obey the laws of the land. We do have things that have to be followed…
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