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Laodicean Franklin Graham Pleads With Evangelicals To Receive The Sacrament Of Vaccination, Says He’ll Join With Joe Biden To Push The Jab
nteb ^ | 11/1/21 | Geoffrey Grider

Posted on 11/02/2021 10:29:33 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I think it’s unlikely that Jesus didn’t politely partake of herbal teas or whatever was customary at the time. Not that he needed them.


61 posted on 11/02/2021 11:00:48 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

This “story” is from last February, well before the problems with the vaccine were confirmed. NTEB is being disingenuous by misquoting Dr. Graham and by publishing it now.
Here’s a more accurate quote:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/franklin-graham-believes-jesus-would-take-covid-vaccine-he-s-still-catching-grief/ar-BB1fLDLe
My husband and I got the vaccine last winter too, well before the problems with the Phizer vaccine came to light. We got the Moderna vaccine and I will get a booster if my *doctor* recommends it.


62 posted on 11/02/2021 11:01:34 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Guenevere

And all those who would support those who espouse poisoning themselves with a possible death serum....dear mercy, where is your BRAIN???

Either he repents of his sin (yep, that’s what I said),or.....you figure it out.


63 posted on 11/02/2021 11:02:56 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Adios Franklin. Same with Robert Jeffries.


64 posted on 11/02/2021 11:03:32 AM PDT by Old Yeller (You can’t obey your way out of tyranny.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Off the deep end. And our ladies group just put together almost 3,000 boxes for Samaritan’s Purse. I hope this whackadoo fetish he has with these shots doesn’t leak into his other projects.


65 posted on 11/02/2021 11:04:13 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

He uses man-made healing today, including vaccines.


66 posted on 11/02/2021 11:05:20 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: hoagy62

SEE POST 62


67 posted on 11/02/2021 11:06:29 AM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do t)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

It is a brisk and hasty leap to call this man Laodicean. A Laodicean posture is one of being neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm. Graham is neither lukewarm nor cold. He is a firebrand.

Now, on the issue at hand, he is taking a stand that many disagree with. But this doesn’t place him in Revelation 3 territory. Instead, he is more in Romans 14 territory.

Because many readers might think it’s not worth looking up, I will excerpt a few phrases from Romans 14:

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
2 One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.
3 Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.
4 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5 One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

13 Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. 14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean. 15 For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.

There are strong opinions regarding covid itself, and about treatments for it. As in society at large, so in the church at large. When Paul wrote to the Roman church, he knew about strong opinions on matters that weren’t about salvation at all. So the most cogent phrase he wrote on the subject was to let each person be fully persuaded in his own mind and let it go at that.

I think where Graham is violating Romans 14 is that he is tacitly shaming Christians who disagree with using the vaccine. And that is causing people to doubt him, his ministry and maybe even his faith. It is causing some, in other words, to stumble. When we believers know our words might be divisive and counterproductive, it behooves us to keep it to ourselves. We should look to Romans 14 when asked one of these kinds of questions and say, “opinions vary; let each be fully persuaded in his own mind.”


68 posted on 11/02/2021 11:07:15 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: Sans-Culotte

“Disappointing.”

And perhaps revealing.


69 posted on 11/02/2021 11:08:23 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Billy’s boy is exposing his lack of spiritual discernment. Now I wonder how his sister would answer this challenge. She appears to have spiritual discernment. Shall we see?


70 posted on 11/02/2021 11:08:55 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I’m sure Jonathan Edwards would take it as well.


71 posted on 11/02/2021 11:09:03 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

bye


72 posted on 11/02/2021 11:09:07 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and FEW there be that find it.”
73 posted on 11/02/2021 11:13:38 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

What an idiot!!


74 posted on 11/02/2021 11:13:41 AM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Is Franklin familiar with the commandment “Thou shalt not kill”? That applies to one’s own body. So why submit voluntarily to a “vaccination” that could kill you?


75 posted on 11/02/2021 11:14:43 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I’m amazed at the number of people on this forum who have swallowed this article whole without question, allowing it to affect their opinion of Graham.
Why have so few of you bothered to question the accuracy of this article? You should.
This article is a lie.
https://www.axios.com/franklin-graham-biden-evangelicals-covid-vaccines-18cdc32e-9a4c-478b-bc0d-c292fa487953.html

He never said what the article says he did.


76 posted on 11/02/2021 11:17:06 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

I wonder what Franklin thinks of Fauci?

Maybe I don’t want to know.


77 posted on 11/02/2021 11:19:59 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Wiser now

Thank you....I too am surprised and greatly disappointed in their knee jerk responses........ Scary how fast they turned


78 posted on 11/02/2021 11:23:41 AM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do t)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

When I need medical advice I always go to a sky pilot.


79 posted on 11/02/2021 11:23:56 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
It's not clear what he was asked. But he led off with Pastors should be telling people about how to be saved.

"It's consistent with Scripture"...

80 posted on 11/02/2021 11:23:59 AM PDT by DannyTN
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