While I agree on your picture of defaulting to grace, in this instance there is something of the mark that is a black or white issue.
We’re told that the only sin that is not forgivable is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. We’re also told that whoever takes the mark is condemned. When this becomes THE mark, everyone all know what they’ve chosen.
Are they condemned because they willing changed their DNA mixing it with (for instance), pig DNA? Thereby “making anabomination that makes desilate” our bodies, the Temple of the Holy Spirit?
Are they condemned because they morphed their bodies into the internet through neuro-digital connections (either wirelessly or through an embedded chip), thereby being a part of the beast supercomputer?
I don’t know but these two are my current guesses.
The text hints that this will be clearly understood by those who participate in the beast global (government/religious/financial) system. It will not be a trick. You will know what you’re getting into.
So, for now, this isn’t the mark.
But it is paving the way toward it.
I agree. The vaccine isn’t the mark because it’s not being forced everywhere, or else. Some states are still free. When all governments say you get it or you don’t buy or sell, we will all know it and be able to choose to accept it or not. I don’t think the mark will be a vaccine. It will be something obvious at a glance like an actual mark. When they want to tatoo a barcode on my head or insert a chip into my arm I will consider that a mark. We won’t have to guess at it. Right now they are testing the waters.