A Biblical Critique of Vaccines, Part 2: Vaccination as a Violation of the Sixth Commandment

by Stephen Halbrook
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Excepting biblically lawful capital punishment, self-defense, defending others, and just war, Scripture forbids harming others – whether it be injuring (Lev. 24:19, 20; Ezekiel 18:18) or killing. These are violations of the Sixth Commandment: “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13), which requires us to preserve – not to take – life and limb.

Vaccination both injures and kills – and on a large scale at that. This should not surprise us since, as we previously discussed, vaccination is a vain attempt to improve upon God’s design. Such an unnatural act will naturally have consequences:

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. (Matthew 7:18)

Countless people throughout vaccine history have testified to friends and family members suffering injuries or deaths following vaccination. Injuries may range from everything from allergies, to autoimmune disorders, to “autism.” Deaths may be miscarriages, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and cancer.

To dismiss so many testimonies as “coincidence” seems patently dishonest. Vaccination, then, is a violation of the 6th Commandment and therefore sinful.

Good intentions do not justify violating the Sixth Commandment

Good intentions do not justify vaccination. Indeed, many intend to do good, and not harm, with vaccination. But intentions do not change reality. The reality is that vaccines harm. Communism has good intentions too – the end of poverty. But is has also been the most murderous political ideology in history. The “greater good” required it.

Vaccination violates the Bible’s safety laws

With vaccination proved overwhelming unsafe, it is not only wrong if it harms someone after it is performed (e.g., autism or death); its potential for harm (which is enormous) is cause enough for it to be wrong in and of itself. To vaccinate is to irresponsibly play Russian Roulette with someone’s life and limb. Moreover, some vaccine harm can be too subtle to detect, but may manifest later in life as, for instance, cancer.

Actually, when it comes to vaccines, I would consider potential harm an understatement. Rather, it is probably better to say that all vaccines do harm, which we would expect whenever we assimilate material that our body is not meant to assimilate (i.e., poison). This is especially when injected into one’s bloodstream, which bypasses the innate immune system and the detoxifying function of the intestinal tract and liver.

The Bible’s safety laws require putting a barrier between a person and a potential threat. (Regarding vaccination, this principle would naturally mean to avoid vaccination). For instance, Scripture forbids endangering the blind with a stumbling block:

Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord. (Leviticus 19:14)

Vaccination is too, in a sense, putting a stumbling block before the blind, as it endangers those who are blind to its dangers. Scripture elsewhere reinforces the idea that not only death and injury must be avoided, but the neglect of precautions that could result in such things:

When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence. (Deuteronomy 22:8)

Neglecting precautions, then, for something that is dangerous can make one morally culpable for someone harmed accidentally by it. Now, regarding the text above about making a battlement for one’s roof, keep in mind that the safety laws have underlying moral principles that apply beyond their particular application. Thus, Greg L. Bahnsen writes,

The Old Testament required that a railing be placed around one’s roof as a safety precaution, since guests were entertained on the flat roofs of houses in that ancient society; with our sloped roofs today we do not need to have the same literal railing, but the general underlying principle might very well require us to have the fence around our backyard swimming pool — again, to protect human life.
Greg L. Bahnsen, By this Standard: The Authority of God’s Law Today (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1985, 1991, 1998), 138.

The following describes the moral culpability of neglecting to take safety precautions after one is warned about a particular danger:

If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. (Exodus 21:28-30)

This situation is so serious that it may warrant capital punishment by the state. However, vaccination is even more aggravated than this. Vaccination is not even accidental, but deliberate. However well-intentioned it might be, it is equivalent to intentionally unleashing a “goring ox” on the populace.

The more doctors, nurses, parents, and other parties that willingly take part in vaccination are warned about the dangers of vaccines, the more serious and sinful their participation in vaccination is. The greater the knowledge, the greater the responsibility (Luke 12:47-48).

The sin of ignoring the harm caused by vaccination

Not only can we say that it is unlawful to participate in vaccination regardless of one’s motive, but it is unlawful to close one’s eyes to the dangers of vaccination and neglect to warn and protect others.

There are many temptations for those who are aware of vaccine dangers to turn a blind eye. Doctors and nurses may be afraid to lose their jobs. Pastors may be afraid of upsetting many in their congregation. Civil rulers may fear losing campaign support from Big Pharma and the end of their political careers. Those in the media may fear losing lucrative advertising from vaccine companies. Anyone may fear backlash from family members.

Nevertheless, Scripture – not fear – should be our guide:

“The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.”(Proverbs 29:25)

Consider the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). He didn’t pass by the man who was beaten and pretend there wasn’t a problem, but bound his wounds and had him nursed back to health. In short, he would not neglect a man in danger, but made an effort to protect his life and his health. He did not sin by neglecting to love his neighbor as himself.

Indeed, turning a blind eye to those endangered by vaccines is very serious. Scripture says,

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works? (Proverbs 24:11, 12)

Granted, many are simply unaware of the vaccine holocaust, thanks to brainwashing and info suppression by those who are bought by Big Pharma. This includes many doctors and nurses, who blindly trust what they are taught. Those of us blessed with the knowledge that vaccines are poison should love our neighbors by working to inform them.

We must, of course, do this strategically and tactfully, as vaccination is an emotionally explosive issue. Some aren’t ready to hear the truth about vaccines, and may work to destroy you in one way or another for daring to speak out.

Not every one will humbly accept the truth about vaccines, but once they are given the truth, they are without excuse. As William Wilberforce once said,

You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.

Concluding words – love God by hating vaccines

Those of us who are Christians should show love to God by loving His law – and hating violations of the Sixth Commandant, such as vaccination:

Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. (Psalm 119:104)

Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. (Psalm 97:10)

If ye love me, keep my commandments. (John 14:15)

Loving God leads to loving one’s neighbor. When it comes to vaccination, educate, refuse to participate, and warn others.

“But wait a minute! Aren’t vaccine risks okay if they save lives?” While it’s questionable if they ever save lives, the answer is an emphatic “no.” This we plan to discuss in part 3, on vaccination as doing evil that (supposed) good may come.

Appendix: Reverend Isaac Lockhart Peebles on vaccination as a violation of the Sixth Commandment (1902)

Isaac Lockhart Peebles was a Methodist Reverend who wrote a thorough critique of vaccination in the book Unanwerable Objections to Vaccination, published in 1902.

In this book Peebles takes aim at the twisted, evil philosophy that justifies killing a few with vaccines in order to save many. Such a philosophy obviously justifies violating the Sixth Commandment, which Peebles strongly condemns:

“The plea of the advocates of these [vaccination] abominations when cornered is, it is right to kill a few in order to save many. What a plea! Kill a few to save many! In reality it is killing many to save none. The commandment of the God of the universe is ignored, whose commandment is: ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ (Ex. xx. 13; Rom. xiii. 9.) O killers of the people, an awful day awaits you! And may you realize this awful truth before it is forever too late! ]ust simply open your eyes and behold your diseasing, tormenting, unmerciful, and deadly work, and repent most sincerely of it, and cease it at once and forever before our God shall call you before him to account for it!”

Reverend Isaac Lockhart Peebles, Unanwerable Objections to Vaccination (Nashville, TN: South Bigham & Smith, 1902), 50.