Posted on 04/05/2021 8:37:09 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
Evangelical leader Franklin Graham believes Americans should get the COVID-19 vaccine. The missionary told CBS News that he thinks Jesus would want people to get their shots, and he's turning to Scripture and the parable of the Good Samaritan to make his case.
It's a case that will need to be made clearly if evangelicals — perhaps the most under-discussed group with high levels of vaccine hesitancy — can be persuaded.
"Jesus does tell the story of a man that was beaten and robbed and left for dead on the side of a road, and religious leaders walked past him and did not have compassion, they didn't get involved. But a Samaritan had compassion," Graham told CBS News in an interview. "And he immediately bandaged — he put oil and wine on his wounds and took him to an inn, and paid to have him cared for. Now the oil and wine were the medicines of that day… The vaccine is, to me, I believe, is saving life, and that's what Jesus Christ would want us to do, to help save life. It's just a tool to help save life."
Graham, the son of the late evangelist Billy Graham and grandson of a medical missionary in China, noted that the church has a long tradition of using medicine to help others. Last week, he told his 9 million Facebook followers that his international relief charity, Samaritan's Purse, had seen human suffering from COVID-19 "first-hand," and encouraged people to "talk to their doctor, and pray about it to determine which vaccine, if any, is right for them."
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It’s about their CONTROL.
They want to control everybody and everything.
These people are sociopaths of the highest order.
I’m sorry for your illness.
I don’t believe anyone is getting this vaccine ‘on a whim’
..... I can’t even imagine that!
Initially I was wary......but after much prayer and consideration I went through with it.
My compelling reason is my husband.........who I love dearly and have for a lifetime
He has a compromised system the circumstances of which convinced him he could be in a worse condition by denying the vaccine
So we both took the vaccine
We had no problem whatsoever with the vaccine.......nada, zilch!
I believe what Franklin Graham meant is God gives us a ‘free will’.....
....and he also encourages us to be wise ......
I chose the vaccine.
If you choose not....God bless you
Only God determines when we live or die.......He knew my beginning and end before I was formed in my mother’s womb.......
You get that from this?
“I think if there were vaccines available in the time of Christ, Jesus would have made reference to them and used them.” Franklin Graham
Free will
yes! I keep expecting people to tell me it’s the will of Landru to get the vaccine - LOL! Between that episode and the one with John Gill, I think original Star Trek nailed this era :(
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