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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Caveat Emptor. When there are solid medicines out there, why risk an experimental vaccine?
“I’m 64, and I put faith in GOD. Nothing can change the date of my death.”
God knows WHEN you will die, but I think His knowledge includes accounting for any dumb thing you do that hastens it.
I am NOT saying it is dumb to skip the vaccine. It is a personal choice and I respect your right to choose.
But I resent the implication you make that my getting a vaccine is a result of a lack of faith in God.
WRONG!
Your day of death has already been set in stone. Nothing can advance that day, nor shorten it.
You health can change, but not your death day.
As for health, at 98% survival rate the COVID is mild. Yet, the vaccine has a higher percent chance of harming you than the illness they are claiming they are protecting you from.
I’ll take my chance with COVID, which my wife did get, but with no symptoms, which I question the test. Especially since I never got it.
NO. I’ll trust God, not the vaccine, and Not Franklin.
I like Franklin, but he is wrong on this. As I told another Feeper, Franklin is more worried about the vaccine passport destroying his International Samaritan Purse Ministry. Thus he caved to the fear, instead of putting his faith in facts and GOD.
He’s human, so I forgive him, but he is wrong on this.
A missionary in Africa called my pastor with an urgent message several years ago. He recanted a dream he had - a message that made me take pause.
He saw a wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing enter a flock of sheep. The sheep accepted him into the flock, and all seemed well.
Then the wolf took out a syringe and began to inoculate the sheep. One by one they fell over dead.
I will never forget that message.
Multiple friends in their 70s have had it. No real reactions other than mild soreness from any of them.
Franklin Graham encouraged people to “talk to their doctor, and pray about it to determine which vaccine, IF ANY, is right for them.”
That is solid advice. Each individual should decide.
My wife had COVID. She is a paraplegic, she had no symptoms. She only got tested because she had a surgical procedure. Thus they postponed it. I never got it, and as I said she had no symptoms.
The vaccine has a higher 5 chance of doing to harm, than getting the COVID does.
I am asthmatic, and I have high allergy problems. I am out in public a lot, have been around this Wirth COVID.
If I die, then that is how GOD wanted me to die.
I could just as easily die from pneumonia in the middle of a hot summer, as I could from COVID.
This FLU has been blown out of proportion, by the fact they murdered well over 1000 elderly people across the country to drive up the numbers.
Wow. thanks for sharing.
Any more information on who the missionary is?
So you do not see doctors at all? For anything?
You said..”He should have told everyone that it is between them and GOD, not them and STATE!”
He did.....
encouraged people to “talk to their doctor, and pray about it to determine which vaccine, if any, is right for them.”
“The vaccine has a higher 5 chance of doing to harm, than getting the COVID does.”
The evidence strongly disagrees. Close to 4 million injections in Arizona alone. Folks are not dropping like flies.
“If I die, then that is how GOD wanted me to die.”
I wore a parachute and strapped into an ejection seat most of my adult life. It included a risk of death, but I didn’t refuse to strap in by claiming it would show a lack of faith in God. I’m also not defying God by using a seat belt.
GOD uses physicians to heal as well as medicine. I was healed of Crohns disease via surgery over 25 years ago. My mom was miraculously healed of a brain tumor. Her surgery was canceled.
I have currently been self-diagnosed with CS (common sense). No jab for me.
I don’t remember his name, but he was one of the many missionaries our church supported.
Government agents are rolling out a COVID "Vaccine Passport" in America. First in New York, then in Las Vegas, and now every state is under pressure from the Biden-Harris Administration to launch a worldwide medical passport that will include tracking and tracing!
This is the single greatest threat to your liberty to travel and perhaps directly to your health. This is the high-tech equivalent of the Nazi demand of "Papers, please"— only today it is exponentially more dangerous and it is coming unless we stop it.
Does your God endorse using aborted fetal cells to develop your “life saving” vaccines?
The danger may be when the next covid virus appears. Remember all who succumbed to the Swine Flu because of the vaccine they took earlier?
The omission is the problem. Do we pray about whether or not to use a vaccine developed using aborted fetal cells? Isn’t this Balaam’s prayer?
“Does your God endorse using aborted fetal cells to develop your “life saving” vaccines?”
Don’t know. I also don’t know if that is even an accurate charge. I also don’t know if they were used in any other vaccines I’ve had over the last 60 years. But I know a number of devout Christians who HAVE had the vaccine. And Franklin Graham has earned my respect.
You make your choice. I’ll make mine. Please don’t try to imply your choice makes you someone God loves, and mine makes me someone God hates. If God wants to convict me of impending sin, He has a week to do it in. He didn’t convict a number of sincere Christians I know.
Government agents are rolling out a COVID "Vaccine Passport" in America. First in New York, then in Las Vegas, and now every state is under pressure from the Biden-Harris Administration to launch a worldwide medical passport that will include tracking and tracing! This is the single greatest threat to your liberty to travel and perhaps directly to your health. This is the high-tech equivalent of the Nazi demand of "Papers, please"— only today it is exponentially more dangerous and it is coming unless we stop it.
No, I don’t remember.
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