“Unexpectedly, the cure became the killer, and he died from the inoculation on March 22 at the age of fifty-four, leaving Sarah to raise their large family alone. It was the last and worst of a series of heavy calamities that had befallen Sarah. … Sarah would never recover from her loss.” — Carolyn Custis James
The crux of the vaccine debate is morality, or ethics. That is, “ought we to vaccinate?” This must be decided by Scripture, as Jesus is King of kings, and has all authority in Heaven and on Earth. Therefore, He must be obeyed in all areas of life; Scripture equips for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16, 17).
“I can obey the laws of my country only so far as they are in harmony with the laws of God, and when any law interferes with my duty to my family or my God, I feel no longer compelled to obey it; and this law of compulsory vaccination unquestionably comes into collision with both.”
Regardless of whatever Brian means about the Gospel (God knows), the doctrine of justification by faith alone must be defended on all fronts. In the vaccine awareness community, there are those who hold to the true Gospel, but there are also those who claim to be Christians but who hold to a false gospel, such as salvation by “faith plus works.” There are also evolutionists, atheists and pagans, as well as New-Agers who may seem to believe in Jesus, but in reality deny Him by seeing him as just one of many paths to God.
“Accordingly we turn with hope and with remonstrance to the religious bodies of Great Britain, and summon them one and all to a religious war against vaccination. They are the final refuges against natural panic, which is the ground on which vaccination lives. Let them teach men to be brave in the cleanliness and purity which come from God. They are the centres of rebuke to evil and of encouragement to good.”