(Natural News) A prominent leader within the largest non-Catholic religious denomination in the United States is urging Christians everywhere to get vaccinated for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) because this is supposedly what Jesus wants them to do in order to “love thy neighbor.”
Albert Mohler, head of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., penned a lengthy article for his The Briefing newsletter that compares President Donald Trump’s warp speed COVID-19 vaccines to the moon landing, calling the jabs a “successful” example of mankind’s God-ordained “dominion” over the earth.
Because tens of millions of Christians are presumably planning to forego the shot, Mohler is trying to manipulate them into complying using the Bible as a pro-pharma weapon. Mohler presents “seven points for consideration,” supposedly from the Bible, that demonstrate – according to him, anyway – how God wants all believers to get jabbed with the experimental injections.
“Pressing against disease and viruses is part of our mandate,” Mohler writes, suggesting that people who believe in God have a biblical duty to get vaccinated whenever the government tells them they should. “Medical treatment is an extension of God’s common grace and Christians have always understood this.”
Bizarrely, Mohler presents the example of famous American evangelist Jonathan Edwards as proof of the “legitimacy of inoculations.” Despite the fact that Edwards died from a toxic vaccine injection that gave him “a lethal case of smallpox,” which Mohler openly admits, Edwards’ willingness to get vaccinated at all shows that he appreciated “the science of medicine,” as should all Christians, according to Mohler.
Edwards is an example to us all, Mohler goes on to suggest, because he “made the point that a biblical Christian worldview understands.” That point, according to Mohler, is that everything is “orderly and intelligible” thanks to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, which are apparently “based in the Christian doctrine of creation.”
Mohler also addresses concerns among Christians about COVID-19 vaccines containing ingredients made from aborted human babies, dismissing the seriousness of this by claiming, in essence, that “no one who is producing these COVID-19 vaccines had any direct involvement in bringing about the abortion,” thus rendering the jabs morally aligned with Christian beliefs.
Belle, please show this FUNDAMENTALIST PENTECOSTAL Christian where the COVID vaccine is the Mark of the Beast and where the pastor even hinted that believers should take the Mark of the Beast. If you’re a mature Christian you’ll either do that or admit you’re wrong.
I wouldn’t demand that all take the vaccine, nor do I believe the state should mandate it. But please, don’t blatantly lie about Scripture. Just what does Exodus 20:16 mean after all?
So please tell us, what reputable biblical scholar or theologian has said COVID-19, the quarantine, or a vaccine is related to the “mark of the beast”. In Revelation, the “mark” isn’t a medical procedure. Nor can the “mark” be accidentally taken either. That’s because the “mark” is tied to the worship of the beast, a mark of loyalty and devotion to the beast.
Also it’s plausible the “mark” is likely a sign identifying one as something they already are – a wicked and evil person of the dragon. I say this because when you read Rev. 7:1-8 and 14:1 (where the mark of the Lamb is discussed), you’ll notice it is a mark given to God’s people, God’s servants, in order to identify them as such and, of course, to protect them.
All too many of us Christians are aware of only one mark. But in Revelations there’re two – the mark of the beast and the mark of the Lamb – two opposite signs, two different types of people, namely, the wicked and the righteous. This reveals ignorance about the biblical text, dangerous but not spiritually fatal.
The book is “The revelation of Jesus Christ”, not of Satan and his wrath. The center or the book is about Jesus and his triumph. Thank God.
So perhaps much of the misguided eschatological hype has very little to do with theology per se and more to do with certain political ambitions that could be obtained by weaponizing key biblical texts for their own ends.
Please read https://academic.logos.com/covid-19-and-the-mark-of-the-beast/.