JD Vance Criticized for "Ordo Amoris" Comments (Order of Love)

Baptist news .com Vice President JD Vance is getting schooled by

theologians over his inverted theology expressed in a January

29th interview on Fox News.

So this is being called the Ordo Amoris or the order of love.

So who should you love first and foremost your family and then your neighbor and then people in

China.

Like what's the order of our love.

So here's the comment by JD Vance the new vice president.

He said there is this old school and I think it's a very Christian concept by the way

that you love your family and then you love your neighbor and then you love your

community and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country and then after that

you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world.

So his argument seems to be that this is a Christian idea that you love your family first

you have a responsibility to them first then your next -door neighbor and it's

about proximity.

It's kind of go it goes out from there.

So the people that you know and live with your family's number one and then your

neighbor number two.

And it kind of goes out from there your own country and then people in other countries.

And when I heard this I just thought well this is kind of just common

sense.

But he did make the claim that this is biblical.

So we want to try to figure out what are some Bible verses some biblical concepts.

Is this biblical or is it not so.

One theologian.

I guess he's a theologian.

He said this a guy named Zach L we'll just call him that he says it's important to

point out that this what JD Vance says is the exact opposite of what Jesus

teaches in the Sermon on the Mount which is three chapters.

He gives no specifics and it's the exact opposite of what Jesus teaches based

on the parable of the Good Samaritan.

So it's a little more specific.

So let's turn to Luke chapter 10.

We'll look at the parable of the Good Samaritan and we'll see

if the parable of the Good Samaritan contradicts what JD Vance said.

But there was another guy.

I think this other guy was a theologian.

He said JD Vance is completely wrong.

It's the opposite of what Jesus taught he said if you have your child here and

a complete stranger another child here and you can only save one of their lives.

The Christian thing to do is not to save your own child's life.

It's to save the complete strangers life.

That's what Jesus taught.

He said.

If you don't like that that's fine.

But just just admit you're not ready to pick up your cross and follow Christ.

So you should let your own child die in favor of saving the complete stranger.

That's what Jesus taught.

Listen.

I'm just gonna say it.

That's that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

Okay that's I would say that's actually evil.

You know this this term gaslighting where people say things that are obviously not true but they're trying to convince you

that something absurd is actually real.

That's what that seems like to me.

But it doesn't necessarily mean that JD Vance's argument is biblical.

But let's look at the parable of the Good Samaritan and remember this

other theologian is saying that the Good Samaritan contradicts what JD Vance says.

But is everyone clear on the argument that JD Vance is making.

Nobody needs clarification on this

right.

Yeah.

Well I mean I think that's I think that's a given.

I think he's just talking about humans.

Okay.

Yeah he's never.

I don't think he ever implied that you put your own child above God.

But we're just talking about human beings.

Okay.

So the parable of the Good Samaritan Luke 10 starting in verse 25 says.

And behold a certain lawyer stood up and tested him saying teacher what shall I do

to inherit eternal life.

And he said to him what is written in the law.

What is your rendering of it.

So he answered and said you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with

all your strength and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself.

And he said to him you have answered rightly do this and you will live.

But he wanting to justify himself said to Jesus and who is my neighbor.

Then Jesus answered and said and here's the parable.

A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves who stripped him of his clothing

wounded him and departed leaving him half dead.

Now by chance a certain priest came down that road and when he saw him he passed

by on the other side.

Likewise a Levite when he arrived at the place came and looked and passed by on the other side.

But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was and when he saw him

he had compassion.

And why is this significant.

Because the Jews and the Samaritans typically hated each other.

That's why this would be significant that a Samaritan actually stopped to help.

So it says in verse 33 the Samaritan had compassion.

So he went to him and bandaged his wounds pouring on oil and wine.

And he set him on his own animal brought him to an end and took care of him.

On the next day when he departed he took out two denarii gave them to the innkeeper and said to him take

care of him.

And whatever you or whatever more you spend when I come again I will repay you.

So which of these three do you think was a neighbor to him who fell among thieves.

And he said he who showed mercy on him.

Then Jesus said to him go and do likewise.

Okay.

So I guess the question is does that parable of the Good Samaritan teach that we

must love the stranger before our own children.

I'm not.

I'm not seeing that.

I don't see how you would come to that conclusion.

Does it teach that as Americans we have just as much of a duty to people in Ukraine as we do to

people in our own hometown.

You know I think that I think you're stretching the parable when you try to make it

apply to things like that.

What does the parable teach us though.

Love your neighbor as yourself.

So do we have a duty to our fellow man.

Yes.

So just because someone isn't my family member.

Just because they're not a fellow Christian.

Just because they're not a fellow American.

The way I would apply the Good Samaritan.

I don't know.

Let me let's say let's say and be

gracious.

I'm just pulling this out of a hat.

Okay.

Let's say there is somebody who's perceived as they don't.

They don't support immigration.

They don't want any immigration of this country.

That's kind of their position.

That's their attitude.

But they find a Mexican immigrant on the side of the road beaten and bloodied.

Well they have a duty whether they like immigration or not.

They have a duty to help that person out and to make sure that they

get medical care.

And I think most people would do that again.

Maybe that's not the best illustration.

But I don't think Christians.

I don't think Christians would pass by somebody who was in need like that.

So I'm just not making the connection.

How this parable is is undoing or contradicting what JD Vance

had to say.

So is his comment biblical.

Well there is one principle that was set down by the Apostle Paul in first

Timothy 5 verse 8.

Here's what the Apostle Paul says.

He says if anyone does not provide for his own especially those for of his own household he

has denied the faith.

And it's worse than an unbeliever.

So what's Paul saying if if a man doesn't take care of his own wife and children

he's worse than a heathen.

He's worse than an unbeliever.

So if you're in a situation like that theologian talked about where you can either feed your own kid or the kid next

door or save your own child's life.

Or the complete stranger Paul is saying you have a duty to your

own children which again this is not just biblical.

I think it's it's common sense.

Yeah husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church.

You have a specific duty to your spouse.

You have a specific duty to care for your own children.

If you don't do that you're worse than an unbeliever.

And now JD Vance was talking I guess about the policy of the US

government and how we're sending you know money to help.

You know we're sending billions of dollars to help people in other countries and yet we have homeless veterans you know

sleeping under bridges and we're not helping our own people.

And I think that's probably the main argument he was making.

But again this just seems like without getting too much into that this just seems like common

sense.

But to say this is the opposite of what Jesus taught is is

it's garbage.

But obviously a lot of quote -unquote Christians and the reason I say quote -unquote.

If that's really what you believe I again Paul says you're worse than an unbeliever.

So I don't think you're a Christian.

If you really believe that some of these people are probably what they call virtue signaling online

but just to get a rise out of people maybe but yeah absolutely absurd.

Now one thing I would say is Jesus did talk about remember his mother and his

brothers came and he said okay your mother and brothers are outside.

They want to speak to you and he says who are my mother and who are my brothers.

You know whoever does the will of God is my mother and my sister and my brother.

So there is a one one point I would make is that fellow Christians

we are in a sense closer to fellow

believers than we are to unbelieving family which some people would have a hard time with that.

So I do have a closer but like this is an eternal family

between Christian brothers and sisters more so than even my own blood relatives.

But that doesn't undo your responsibility to your own kids.

So I think people just got this mixed up.

One theologian at least there is one guy in this article who is making sense.

He said I agree with what JD Vance says.

He said Christ our Lord taught the parable of the Good Samaritan to reveal that our duty

to love our neighbor extends to all which nobody's denying that.

Nevertheless the order of love is not flattened out completely and redistributed to all

persons without distinction.

For example as a married man I have the obligation of love to make sure that my wife's medical

care is being met before I do the other 50 women on the same hospital floor.

There is a higher love for my wife.

That is not wrong or selfish.

Likewise I have a higher obligation of love to make sure that my own children are properly

cared for above my duty to feed and clothe children in France.

Again it's it's.

Obvious.

So yeah I was just thinking too is some of these people that come out and they just

whatever JD Vance was to say or President Trump was to say

they're going to flip it up and they just can't stand it whenever they speak

and you know they just kind of their sensibilities

just can't help themselves.

Yeah I mean like you hear what he said.

Whatever whatever Donald Trump or JD Vance says there will be people who automatically take the opposite

position just because and I'm not siding with JD Vance because he's on my team so

therefore I'm gonna die.

I think he's truly correct trust me like I said he's Roman Catholic and if he said something that was

unbiblical I would I'd be talking about that but I do agree with him here.

So this is the whole purpose of this class in case somebody's new or somebody new watching online

the whole purpose of current events to talk about relevant issues and to learn how to think

biblically because we're encountering all sorts of ideas like this we hear things

encounter things every day and we want to figure out what okay what does the Bible

say about all.

Of these different things.