Posted on 11/02/2021 10:29:33 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Franklin Graham is begging his evangelical buddies to line up and receive the government injection “before it’s too late!!!”, going so far as to say he would love to partner with Joe Biden in administering the sacrament of vaccination. He said his famous father, the pro-Vatican Billy Graham, would have taken the vaccine, and for that matter, he said Jesus would take it, too.
“A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?” Jeremiah 5:30,31 (KJB)
All this panic and fear mongering over a virus with a 98.2% recovery rate, pushing a vaccine that is being forced on the global population against their will, with governments threatening their citizens with economic deprivation for refusing to be injected. Billy Graham said that the Roman Catholic pope was the most spiritual person he had ever met, his son Franklin Graham wants Christians to be injected against their will. The apple really doesn’t fall too far from the tree now, does it?
Franklin Graham urges evangelicals to get vaccinated before it’s ‘too late’ FROM RELIGION NEWS: “But we have a vaccine out there that could possibly save your life. And if you wait, it could be too late,” added the prominent evangelist and president of the relief organization Samaritan’s Purse. Graham said his father — the famed evangelist Billy Graham, who died in 2018 — would urge them to do the same.
“MY FATHER WAS A FIRM BELIEVER IN MEDICINE. HE BELIEVED IN IT, SO HE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SUPPORTER — NO QUESTION,” HE SAID.
The Axios interview comes as polling by the Pew Research Center shows 45% of white evangelicals say they definitely or probably will not get vaccinated against COVID-19, a higher number than any other religious group. Despite those numbers, Graham told reporter Mike Allen he wasn’t sure that more evangelical Christians are reluctant to get the vaccine than other groups but said he knows that some people are afraid of needles and that some don’t like to be told what to do.
THE REV. FRANKLIN GRAHAM WOULD BE HAPPY TO WORK WITH THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ON ENCOURAGING EVANGELICALS TO GET COVID VACCINES, HE TOLD “AXIOS ON HBO.”
Graham received pushback from many of those evangelicals in March after posting on Facebook that he had received the vaccine and believed Jesus would advocate for it, too. Samaritan’s Purse has hosted both field hospitals to treat COVID patients and vaccine clinics.
What convinced him to get vaccinated, he told Axios, was conversations he had with Ben Carson — the well-known neurosurgeon and Seventh-day Adventist turned politician and Trump cabinet member — and other doctors and scientists, who all told him they planned to get vaccinated.
“TO ME, THERE WAS NO QUESTION IT WAS SAFE,” HE SAID.
Graham encouraged pastors to talk to their congregations about the vaccine, saying, “We are leaders in the community, and we have a responsibility to inform them of the truth.” Asked whether getting vaccinated was a pro-life issue, he said, “Of course, and I’m pro-life.”
“Medicine is pro-life,” he added.
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.
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.
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.
Adios Franklin. Same with Robert Jeffries.
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.
He uses man-made healing today, including vaccines.
SEE POST 62
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.”
“Disappointing.”
And perhaps revealing.
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?
I’m sure Jonathan Edwards would take it as well.
bye
What an idiot!!
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?
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.
I wonder what Franklin thinks of Fauci?
Maybe I don’t want to know.
Thank you....I too am surprised and greatly disappointed in their knee jerk responses........ Scary how fast they turned
When I need medical advice I always go to a sky pilot.
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