As we embrace Christmas we have to put up once again with the Grinches who cannot let people just celebrate the season and enjoy traditions. Because everything has to be about politics--and only the progressive form--we have to hear about Jesus being a refugee and even an "undocumented immigrant."

They'll tell you that the most important part of the Christmas story was when Mary and Joseph had to escape to Egypt. The young Jesus was a stranger in a foreign land. So, if you believe in an immigration policy that actually vets out foreign criminals and requires assimilation, well, you would be guilty of letting the Savior Himself die from persecution!

In this episode we will see what the Bible says about the flight to Egypt and its purpose, what history shows about Egypt as a Roman province, what progressive politicians have said about their desires for cheap foreign labor, and what the Bible says about immigration policy.

Sources Cited:

Merriam-Webster Online s.v. "refugee"

Merriam-Webster Online s.v. "immigrant"

Rafael Warnock, "Marty Center Events | 2023 Nathaniel Colver Lecture with Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock," UChicago Divinity School, June 2, 2023.

"Jesus was an immigrant! This is the Christmas story," New Life Decatur, December 19, 2025.

"Nancy Pelosi: There’s A Workforce Shortage, So Immigrants Are Needed In Florida To “Pick The Crops,”" GOP War Room, September 30, 2022.

"Democrat rep. blasted for saying US needs migrants to pick the food we eat, clean our homes #shorts," Fox Business, April 20, 2023.

"Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Why Immigration Is Important to the U.S.," latinousa.

"Bernie Sanders on illegal immigrants “who do you think is picking all of the crops?,”" Jim Fannon in Dominican Republic, February 8, 2020.

"[3] Jasmine Crockett: U.S. Needs Illegals—‘We Done Picking Cotton’!" DMs Tech & Freedom Channel, April 7, 2025.

Scriptures Referenced:

Matthew 2:13-15

Zechariah 9:8

Romans 9:3-5

Exodus 22:21

Leviticus 25:14

Nehemiah 2:20; 4:11

Exodus 12:48-49

Numbers 15:29-30

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This episode is part 26 in a series going through the story of the Book of Mormon.

This episode covers chapters 27-32 of the book of Alma. Ammon and his brothers bring King Lamoni and his Lamanite people now known as "Anti-Nephi-Lehi" to Zarahemla for safety. Another false prophet stirs up the people of Zarahemla with his libertine atheist rhetoric and gets cursed. Alma assembles a team to do missions work among the Zoramites who broke off from the Nephites and followed an idolatrous twist on religion. Alma preaches to poor Zoramites on the hill Onidah in a way that seems to borrow from Jesus preaching the sermon on the mount.

Further research:

Book of Mormon in video

Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration

The Book of Mormon online: Alma [chapters 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32]

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My Mormon bishop friend recently presented a lecture about how statistics show that the Book of Mormon defies naturalistic explanations. How did Joseph Smith as a "subsistence farmer" write a book with long-form structural chiasmus and different voices?

Let's jump into some of these statistical claims to see if the Book of Mormon is truly a miracle and that it shows that Joseph Smith had to be translating an ancient record.

Sources Cited:

"The Insane Statistical Impossibility of the Book of Mormon’s Origin | Matt Vallejo"

"Chiasmus," churchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints.org.

Robert Patterson, "Hebraicisms, Chiasmus and Other Internal Evidence for Ancient Authorship in Green Eggs and Ham," Dialogue Journal 33, no. 4 (Winter 2000): 163-168.

Boyd F. Edwards and W. Farrell Edwards, "Does Joseph’s Letter to Emma of 4 November 1838 Show that He Knew about Chiasmus?" Dialogue Journal (paperless), August 26, 2006.

ImTheMarmotKing, "I'm glad that FAIRMormon exists. The FAIRMormon apologists do an excellent job of pushing people away from Mormonism," May 3, 2017.

Daniel Mynyk, "Planned Parenthood’s Founder Fought Against Abortion," The American Spectator, October 19, 2025.

Matthew L. Jockers, Daniela M. Witten, and Craig S. Criddle, "Reassessing authorship of the Book of Mormon using delta and nearest shrunken centroid classification," Literary and Linguistic Computing 23 (December 2008): 465 - 491, doi 10.1093/llc/fqn040.

D. I. Holmes, "A Stylometric Analysis of Mormon Scripture and Related Texts," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society) 155, no. 1 (1992): 91-120.

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