The modern world pushes a vision of borderless globalism, mass migration without regard for assimilation, and the erasure of distinct peoples. As Christians, we must ask: what does Scripture actually say about nations, peoples, boundaries, and ordered societies? Not the slogans of politicians or the latest cultural trend, but the clear teaching of God’s Word.
God Divides the Nations
Scripture begins with unity in Adam, but quickly moves to particularity. After the Flood, Genesis 10 records the Table of Nations, families growing into clans, languages, and distinct peoples. At Babel (Genesis 11), humanity seeks a unified empire in rebellion against God. His response? Confuse their languages and scatter them across the earth. This scattering was judgment, but it also established the pattern for human life: distinct nations in distinct places.
This is reinforced in Deuteronomy 32:8:
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Paul echoes this on Mars Hill in Acts 17:26:
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.
God Himself sets boundaries and allots territories. Nations are not arbitrary human constructs to be dissolved at will. They are part of His providential order. No kingdom rises or falls outside of His will.
Israel as the Prototype
The nation of Israel stands as the clearest biblical model. A people defined by common descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, bound by covenant, given a specific land with clear borders, and called to maintain their distinct identity. Laws against intermarriage with certain surrounding peoples (Deuteronomy 7:3-4; Ezra 9-10) served to protect religious and cultural fidelity, not out of arbitrary prejudice but covenant faithfulness.
God judged other nations for border violations and expansionist violence (Amos 1:13). He gave Israel specific territory and expected them to dwell in it as a light to the nations, distinct, not dissolved.
Of course, the Church is different. In Christ there is “neither Jew nor Greek” for justification and spiritual unity (Galatians 3:28). The Church gathers from every tribe, tongue, and nation (Revelation 7:9). But this does not abolish creational distinctions for civil society. The New Testament still speaks of nations as real entities that will bring their glory into the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:24-26). The Great Commission is to disciple the nations, not erase them.
Civic Order Within Distinct Peoples
This is not about hatred or supremacy. It is about God’s good design for humanity in this age. Australia is a historic people: Anglo-Celtic, European, and Aboriginal. Our forebears stewarded, bled, and died to build this Great Southern Land for us. Every people should have their own homeland, their own culture and way of life, under just laws.
This is civic-ethnonationalism. Ethno: nations rooted in shared ancestry and heritage. Civic: a stranger can come if he actually becomes one of the people by adopting full sale the language, the law, the loyalty, the way of life. Assimilation is possible. Replacement is not. That is why the number matters. Australia must remain at least 90% Anglo-Celtic, European, and Aboriginal. A few who join and stay joined are not the death of a people.
On the other foot, a purely ethnic nationalism without Christ is insufficient. True flourishing comes when a people order their common life under God’s moral law. Rulers bear the sword for good (Romans 13:1-7). Laws should reflect biblical justice, protecting life, property, family, and the vulnerable, while preserving the nation’s character and each persons right to self-expression, individualism, and choice, insofar as it does not impede another's.
Why does Muhammad revel in the blood and sweat my forebears spilled to win our freedoms? Why does Harshit receive government assistance to buy a home in a country his father did not contribute to? Why is Zhang allowed to own 500 homes whilst living in his penthouse in China? This new world order is backwards, perpetuated on the lie that “everyone can just get along” and “multiculturalism is our strength.”
Mass, unchecked immigration that overwhelms a people’s capacity to assimilate undermines this. It strains resources, erodes social cohesion, and often imports incompatible worldviews. We see it in the news every week: immigrants committing rape, fraud (including in the NDIS), and violence, while cases like the young Henry Nowak in the UK highlight the deadly cost. Police priorities and open-border ideologues trade away our inheritance. If the Anglosphere behaved this way in other nations, would any self-respecting people tolerate it?
Scripture calls for hospitality to the stranger and sojourner (Leviticus 19:34), but this assumes the stranger comes in submission to the host culture’s laws and norms, not as a demographic replacement program. Wisdom and prudence apply here. A nation has the right and duty to maintain its own identity and borders, just as a family maintains its household. “Ourselves” does not mean just anyone with an Australian passport that Albo decided to hand out. There are real categorical ways to define the Australian people.
Countering the Objections
Some claim the gospel demands open borders and the end of national distinctions. This confuses the Kingdom of God (spiritual, transnational) with the kingdoms of this world. Others point to “love your neighbour” as mandating endless intake. But biblical love does not require national suicide. Neighbourly love includes protecting your own people from harm and chaos. We cannot help our neighbours if we cannot protect or look after the ones we already have.
The Bible nowhere commands ethnic self-erasure for Christians in the civic realm. It affirms particular loves, love for your family, your church, your people, within the universal command to love all image-bearers. God’s design is not a flattened humanity under global technocrats, but every people in their homelands, seeking His sovereignty.
I say this with sincerity and goodwill: I all nations to become safe, prosperous, God-honouring, clean places. But they must build that for themselves, not steal it by replacing us, nor can we force it on them.
A Path Forward
We can save our way of life. Our culture is under threat, but not beyond recovery. Practically:
Slash immigration to high-skilled workers Australia actually needs (not Uber drivers, cashiers, or fake degrees).
Remigrate non-Anglo-Celtic/European arrivals from the last ten years who do not offer essential skills.
Offer real incentives for Anglo-Celtic/European families to have more children (lower taxes, cash support, education benefits).
Prevent ethnic enclaves from forming.
In Australia, we face rapid demographic change, pressure on housing and services, and cultural erosion. Civic-ethnonationalism provides a better framework for temporal justice than globalism.
Ultimately, our hope is not in any earthly nation, but in the King of kings. Yet while we await His return, we labour to see His will done on earth as it is in heaven, including in the ordering of peoples and borders.
Jesus is Lord over the nations. Let us seek His wisdom in how we live as His people in this one.