Scriptural advise concerning medical treatment and known vaccine to treat a potentially deadly virus: Personally I don't think the government has the constitutional authority to force treatment upon anyone. However......since the decision not to get vaccinated places others in danger when you freely chose to take public advantage of any of the services provided by the government that is tax payer funded you are subject to the rules and laws that governs the use of said service.......and one could be forced to receive treatment/vaccination if one wishes to use these services.
Example: Forced insurance coverage for your automobile............the reason that it's legal and constitutional is because the government has the right to regulate the infrastructures funded by tax payers. You have to provide the protection to make one whole in case of an at fault accident or simply don't use the public highway systems and drive all your want without insurance on personal property.
With my personal opinion out of the way......what do the scriptures have to day about medical treatment.....and your freewill choices? Its one thing to reject treatment for a terminal disease when that disease effects only you, you might decide that the quality of life is more important than the quantity of life in cases like cancer....and certain other disease where the side effects of treatment could be just as bad or worse than the effects of the disease itself.
However.........to refuse treatment that provides hope for a cure to a known potentially deadly disease is another thing. Its like you are putting God to the test, it would compare to one walking off a cliff with its known danger and requesting God to make sure no harm came to you, that He should protect you from harm because you prayed for protection.
What did the Christ say about putting God to the test? "Then the devil/Satan took Him up into the Holy City, set Him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If you are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written 'He shall give His angels charge over You' and in their hands they shall bear You up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone; Jesus said to him, "It is written again, "You shall not tempt the Lord your God." -- Matt. 4:5-7
Its simply tempting fate by placing God to the test when treatment is readily available. Whose to say that God did inspire man to provide this treatment in answer to the prayers of the righteous?
Example: Forced insurance coverage for your automobile............the reason that it's legal and constitutional is because the government has the right to regulate the infrastructures funded by tax payers. You have to provide the protection to make one whole in case of an at fault accident or simply don't use the public highway systems and drive all your want without insurance on personal property.
With my personal opinion out of the way......what do the scriptures have to day about medical treatment.....and your freewill choices? Its one thing to reject treatment for a terminal disease when that disease effects only you, you might decide that the quality of life is more important than the quantity of life in cases like cancer....and certain other disease where the side effects of treatment could be just as bad or worse than the effects of the disease itself.
However.........to refuse treatment that provides hope for a cure to a known potentially deadly disease is another thing. Its like you are putting God to the test, it would compare to one walking off a cliff with its known danger and requesting God to make sure no harm came to you, that He should protect you from harm because you prayed for protection.
What did the Christ say about putting God to the test? "Then the devil/Satan took Him up into the Holy City, set Him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If you are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written 'He shall give His angels charge over You' and in their hands they shall bear You up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone; Jesus said to him, "It is written again, "You shall not tempt the Lord your God." -- Matt. 4:5-7
Its simply tempting fate by placing God to the test when treatment is readily available. Whose to say that God did inspire man to provide this treatment in answer to the prayers of the righteous?
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