Let me ask you. What if my job tells me I have to be vaccinated to continue working there? If I take it after such a threat, is that taking it freely?
Yes. Remember without the mark you can neither buy or sell. Why would having a job be an exception?
“......if my job tells me I have to be vaccinated to continue working there....after such a threat, is that taking it freely?”
Yes, you are taking it freely. Choosing this world over God.
He says....Flee Babylon. Jeremiah 5:16.
Cut off your hand or pluck out your eye if they would prevent you from entering heaven.
Mathew 5:30
Bend your knee to no tin god...Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego choosing the furnace over submission. (Daniel 3:16)
Daniel himself in choosing the Lion’s den vs submission..Daniel 6:5.
Give up your own ways and take up your cross and follow me. Mathew 16:24
In short, all the prophets, apostles and martyrs who chose death rather than bend a knee to anyone but Jesus.
If the bitter cup of choosing comes to you.....choose wisely.
The road to Hell is broad, that to Heaven a narrow gate.
Matthew 7:13