Jake Arsenal
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Sorry, but we are to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's.
This my body is in fact God's - it doesn't belong to Caesar and it doesn't bear his mark (as did that coin to which Jesus referenced), it bears the seal of God.
Therefore - Caesar has NO PLACE telling me what to do with this, a living TEMPLE OF GOD.
It's something I'm happy to die for. You don't feel the same, and that's your choice. I don't have the ability to choose otherwise however. I will never submit this body to Caesar because it's not his property...
I'll obey any laws that don't try to take what is God's place alone or place me in sin, but this body doesn't belong to the government, and this is absolutely a hill I'm more than happy to die on...
I can generally think vaccines are a medical positive, but because Caesar has decided our bodies are his property to do with what he wills, I have the responsibility to make sure Caesar knows that's absolutely not the case.. it's in fact the temple of the living God, and as such, God's property alone.
You are right - a medical decision cannot effect salvation.
But this medical decision is deeply dividing believers.
You are right - the way this has been managed by Governments is pretty oppressive.
They are freaking out given that the economy is at stake...
I am inclined to think this whole episode will eventually blow over - new better vaccines will be developed - there are some promising ones in the pipeline already.
The UN are pushy because they think the future of mankind is in their hands...
What else can you expect from a Godless organisation leaning on worldly wisdom...
However this is not the final scene in the history of the world.
I was told that if I was vaccinated my salvation was in question.
Such alarmist rhetoric is pretty nuts.
Where does division and strife come from? (James 3&4)
Whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God.(Romans 14:22)
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. (Romans 14:5)
Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. (Romans 14:13)
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean/I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. (Romans 14:14)
If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.(Romans 14:15)
Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.(Romans 14:19-21)
So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. (Romans 14:22)
But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin. (Romans 14:23)
James 4:11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
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