Should I Get Vaccinated Against the Latest Pandemic?
It would be a mistake for me to be dogmatic on a subject on which Scripture is silent. The Bible does not address the issue of vaccinations. This book is Word-based, so I have no firm answer for this question.
I know people who got a COVID vaccine and every booster and proceeded to get nasty cases of COVID anyway – some had two or three bouts. One person I knew seemed to be in good health when he got a COVID shot, and he almost immediately got sick and died four days later. (During the pandemic, that statement would probably have gotten this booked banned from the internet.)
I also know a person who never got a COVID shot who died a horrible and protracted death from COVID complications. I know another person who never got a COVID shot and was pretty much given up to die by the triage people in the hospital, though in her case, prayer got her out of there alive.
I’m not going to preach my personal experience as doctrine. As of this writing, I have never gotten a COVID shot, and I have never had COVID. I tested negative every time after I was around people who had it. I did not want anything messing with my immune system so that my immunity could depend on a pharmaceutical company in the future. Nor did I want to be human guinea pig for an untested product with unknown side effects.
But what you do is up to your personal conviction. If you got the shots, don’t disparage those of us who refused to get them, and if you didn’t get them, don’t disparage those who did. It’s sort of like the issues of eating or not eating meat and celebrating or not celebrating certain holy days. On non-essential issues, the Bible gives you liberty to live out your own convictions, but not to disparage those with opposite ones.
Romans 14:2-5:
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
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