It seems many Christians consider it a virtue to bury your head in the sand and ignore conspiracies. “Just focus on Christ,” they hold. But Christ Himself says to be wise as serpents as a means of surviving dangerous wolves. Focusing on Christ includes applying His commands and wisdom.
Imagine a day where churches are not plagued by vaccine-caused deaths and illnesses and can give their main focus to salting the earth — instead of to hospice care.
Those who make vaccination a Romans 14 matter of liberty are oversimplifying, to put it mildly. The examples given in the text are food and days — not matters of life and death, and of moral law. They are not analogous. Health and morality are not “optional liberties.”
A horrifically bad argument to justify vaccination that you may have heard goes like this: “Since the Bible does not specifically condemn vaccination, we cannot condemn vaccination.” Let’s refute this.
Is ignorance of the sin of vaccination morally excusable? That is, is it not sinful to vaccinate someone or be vaccinated if one does not know that it violates God’s law, such as the Sixth Commandment?