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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Agreed!
Most people, it seems, don’t want to do the things necessary to keep their bodies healthy and their God-given immune system strong so they opt for an unproven way with a vaccine. I’m sticking with healthy and strong immune system. It’s worked for me so far.
Pfizer. First shot was a longer line than I like. Took about 40 minutes to get thru it. I felt kinda run down for several hours afterward, which I was warned could happen. Other than that no reaction. Second shot was honorific traffic getting in. They just opened up to 18 year olds. Line was several hours long I’m guessing but I did not have to wait in it since it was my second shot. So far Ive had no reaction to the second shot but my son in law told me the second shot made him feel worse than the first. Only lasts about a day though.
DO OVER.
Same thing happened to people I knew. They took the jab and their obituaries read ‘died suddenly ‘
Big nope from me. The point of the good samaritan isn’t that ALL medicine is good. The point was that COMPASSION is good and hypocrisy is bad.
I think the Pfizer vaccine was a good choice.
I think that’s smart. I’ve also been vaccinated for everything you can imagine. It’s no big deal.
Basically, the vaxes are theft of human bodies.
https://cogforlife.org/fr-phil-wolfe/
There are far too many other good, moral and safe solutions out there to consider a vax. See www.c19early.com for just a few examples.
Franklin Graham already has a Social Security #. No worries on the vaccine as the mark of the beast.
People have lost their minds over this vaccine. So many wild claims based on zero evidence. Probably a good idea to get it if you are in a high risk category. Covid will kill you a lot faster than the vaccine.
https://www.namb.net/southern-baptist-disaster-relief/
I’ve been an ardent supporter of Samaritan’s Purse but here is another alternative that is also worthy of support.
Franklin is making a huge mistake by claiming God would approve.
I still like him, but he will lose a lot of followers on this.
Somethings are best left alone, this is one of them.
He should have told everyone that it is between them and GOD, not them and STATE!
By incorrectly using Scripture, he is siding with the state, whether he knows it out not. Even Joshua was fooled by the Gibeonites, which was in direct violation of GOD’s command. Joshua failed to ask God for his guidance in the matter. Thus I question if Franklin properly fasted and prayed for GOD’s guidance in this matter. He was influenced more by his ministry. Which is understandable, he is a man, and thus in good company with Joshua. (Joshua chapter 9)
I say influenced by his ministry, because the vaccine passport could damage the American missionary movement. Especially his international Samaritan Purse ministry.
Yet, I am of the belief that American Churches need to step back from foriegn missions and start concerning themselves about their own back yard. We are losing America.
Maybe, this whole vaccine passport thing could be the catalyst American Churches need to redirect their funds to win American souls they are losing to Satan.
I live in a town of 7300 people, and their are like 15 churches in it. That is an astonishing when you consider the number of people. Yet, most of them are almost empty.
On my way to Friday nights Good Friday service, I had to drove past the High School football field. It was packed with well over 1000 people. I am guessing they were signing kids up for Summer Little league teams. Yet I had to search to find a church having services Friday night.
Only one Church did, and none of them were in this town. I had to go across to Ontario Oregon to find a church holding a Good Friday Service. When I got there, maybe 150 people showed up. Yet in Payette, not one church did In a town that has one church for every 488 citizens, that is pretty sad. Yet they had no problem getting over 1000 people to show up for Little league sign ups.
I bet every one of these churches support some type of missionary ministry for foreign nations. Maybe it’s time we spent that money on saving all those souls more interested in little league.
So many religious groups putting ethics on pause lately.
It's the State demanding it so that your social credit score will not be compromised.
Just say NO!
Don’t care who else is pushing it.
Too much wrong with this whole PLANdemic.
I TRUST NOTHING that Gates and the Government says.
They have PROVEN THEMSELVES to want us destroyed.
That is All I need to know.
Ah...no. Not allowing ourselves to be herded into an experimental vaccine is not “loosing our minds”. You don’t know the downstream impact of this untested vaccine. But your trust in Government is great. As for me and my house...
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