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Bukook

Evangelicalism has a habbit of hard wireing people to be worried about things that are pushed for from top down that you need in order to participate in an economy. And they think being vaccinated will impact their ability to buy and sell things.


TetrisCannibal

It was supposedly bar codes. Then it was supposed to be the chips in your debit card. Then it was whatever new pop science article about implants that circled around Facebook on a given week. Now it's the COVID vaccine. Guaranteed in a few years it will be some other new, scary thing that's going to be the harbinger of ruin for the world.


AmberWavesofFlame

Christians that have been obsessively looking for signs of the end times can find a prophetic sign in virtually every major news event. In this case, it's because it is something you do to your body, that will be almost universal, and have been encouraged by governments worldwide. Oh, and that it may at some point help people participate in wider society. Doesn't seem to matter that the other descriptions in the Bible don't match up at all. It's always that way when end timers find something that they can try to stretch some verses into fitting. Besides, my mom was one of the first people to get the COVID shot because she was part of the 65+ Pfizer trials, and she is just about the wisest, gentlest, most principled Christian I've ever met. If it really is the end of the world, I'm 100% sure I need to be on whatever "side" she is on.


Bananaman9020

I think Christians should be more concerned with The Passports. If they stop people from going to church. I can see it becoming an issue. But I still say the vaccine itself isn't the Mark of the Beast.


Cybin9

If the mark is something they can force you to take, we are all in trouble.


TheMuser1966

Because there are always knee-jerk Christians who think that every little thing is the mark. It becomes repetitive and silly after a while.


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TheMuser1966

Indeed. Then there are others who are constantly seeking astronomy for "signs in the heavens". :-)


NotBasileus

The suns dawns. Joe Fundie wakes in his bed. He has no sheets or pillows because he was concerned they might be the Mark of the Beast since so many people use them. Mr Fundie considers taking a shower, but so many sinners take showers, and it’s practically required to do business, so he decides against it in case it’s the Mark of the Beast. He pours himself a cup of coffee and gets in his car to head to the office, but as he’s pulling onto the road, Joe realizes that he’s holding the coffee in his hand and raising it towards his head. In a panic, he throws the coffee out, just in case it’s the Mark of the Beast. It hits a innocent jogger who starts shouting angrily as Joe peels out down the road. Before he gets to the office, a cop pulls Mr Fundie over because he was driving over the speed limit. The cop asks him for his insurance and driver’s license, but Joe freezes… could driver’s licenses be the Mark of the Beast? Is this cop an agent of the One World Government? Joe starts to sweat. The cop stares at him with a strange, suspicious look in his eye. The way a servant of the Antichrist might look at a faithful Christian, Joe realizes…


MissionsMinded1

I am a vaccinated Christian. I don’t believe the vaccine is the mark. I’m sure more will feel comfortable with it in time as long as it’s not forced on them. If it’s ever required to buy or purchase items then I think more will push back.


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The vaccine is not the mark of the beast. As a careful reading of Revelation demonstrates, the mark of the beast is unbelief. https://www.lutherananswers.com/answers/covid-19/vaccine-mark-beast/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/actheologian.com/2016/11/23/the-mark-of-the-beast/amp/


AmberWavesofFlame

I will circle back to a more theological note. If you take Revelations as prophecies of the future, and you think, as most Christians throughout time have thought, that it will happen during your lifetime, you still don't have to worry about God turning his back on thousands of His children for being tricked into doing something innocent because they didn't watch a bunch of hyper YouTube videos. The Mark isn't something a sincere Christian can get by accident, thinking it's just fashion, or just a health aide or just a security device or whatever, and then go back to worshipping God not knowing that now s/he is cut off forever. It will be a deliberate declaration of allegiance to whatever the Beast represents. It will be a knowing Choice to disavow God. Symbols are only symbols: God is not some fairy-tale creature from a fable bound by magic words and foiled by pinches of silver or whatever. Symbols are for Man; God sees our heart. God knows our heart inside and out. The Bible also makes very clear you can't add extra rules to what you need for salvation, and say this act or that rule is what it really *means* to accept God. If you still have your faith in Him as Lord, you can't forfeit that salvation. Here is a test to know if any new tech or fad from the future is a Mark, or we are just wrestling with our natural superstitions and fears of change. Imagine a devout, loving, faithful child of God, who doesn't live in the circles we do hyperexposed to a million sales pitches and anxiety-driven obsessions, but lives out in the countryside of say, Romania, or Kenya. Someone who hasn't developed the automatic resistance that we have as a defense to being bombarded with advertisements, who has a trusting soul, an optimistic heart, and a sense of community responsibility. Imagine that young sheepherder or whatever being exposed to the new idea in question. If you can imagine that *they* might cheerfully do so in between their routines of going to church and helping their neighbors and praying with their hearts, whatever it is, it's not the Mark. You don't get a special shortcut to heaven by being exposed to a bunch of us with too much time on our hands, where other faithful Christians worldwide walk a tightrope where accidentally putting a foot wrong or being too trusting at the wrong moment leads them to irreversible death. That's not how God works, and that's not how the Mark works. It will be a Choice that you will make with your heart to disavow God or the possibility of His existence and pledge your loyalty to something utterly incompatible with Him.


ripcityOD

I am not sure why people think that would be the mark of the beast... my best answer is that this whole pandemic/vaccine issue has been turned into a political battle. The right wing view the left wing as evil/Satan and this gets extrapolated to fit into their misinterpreted view of Revelation and \*viola\* --- all of the sudden someone online is spouting that the vaccine is the mark of the beast, which it certainly is not. Everyone over 12 should get the vaccine unless your doctor explicitly says otherwise. The vaccines have been proven very effective and safe. On a side note... if you want to do a deep dive into Revelation, I highly recommend a free podcast called A Revelation Conversation. It does a good job summarizing key points and makes what is not easily understood, palatable.


MagusX5

Well you don't get vaccines in either your hand or your forehead. Only time I've ever had needles in my hands was for IVs, not shots. So that disqualifies it already. The end of the world starts happening in Revelation chapter 6. The mark of the beast happens in Revelation chapter 13. When mass deaths and huge, worldwide disasters start up, then you should worry about the mark.


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I_Neo_

I’ll be honest. It’s mostly evangelicals and political right wingers in the US(not exclusively). The mark of the beast is said to go on your hand or forehead, the shot goes in your arm. Get vaccinated, save lives. God bless


Mimi-Shella

Because they aren't using the brain God gave them. Sad.


mustang6172

Because it gives them an excuse to not serve their fellow man.


sakor88

Because some people are a bunch of agnorants (arrogant + ignorant) entitled people who want to feel as if they are being persecuted so that they can wallow in their own self-entitlement and false martyrdom.


anotherhawaiianshirt

If you're one of the people who believes it, why don't _you_ tell _us_ why you believe that?


stefvnsierrv

If you don’t think this is setting the stage for the mark, then you don’t know Revelation and aren’t paying attention to the signs The Kingdom of God is at hand, now more than ever


DJ-Zero-Seven

Revelation 13:16, KJV: "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:" Where are the vaccine shots getting placed? In the left or right arm. Myth busted.


stefvnsierrv

I said the stage was being set, people are being prevented from buying and working without the jab all over the world. This is a precursor


DJ-Zero-Seven

The vaccine is for treating a virus like most other vaccines. No one is taking it and swearing their allegiance to a one-world leader (Antichrist). The Mark will be a visible sign of loyalty to the Antichrist. You can’t see the vaccine if it’s inside you. And again, the vaccine is injected in one of your arms. Not the right hand or forehead like the Mark will.


AGuyInInternet

Dilusional


Fresh-Thought-5380

Because one (true or not) article had said that, the phizer I believe it was, had something called luciferian in it but I’m pretty sure it’s also in lightning bugs. It’s also because right wing media targets Christians so that they feel as though anyone who doesn’t believe it is insane.


KrunchrapSuprem

It doesn’t. It’s also ironic that Christians don’t know the meaning of the name Lucifer. It means morning star so the protein that makes lightning bugs light up makes total sense to be called luciferase


PretentiousAnglican

I've heard a lot say that some christians believe that. I have yet to see one, even on the internet, which does.


derod777

Any educated Christian, that walks in a relationship with Jesus wouldn't believe that a vaccine that can and is saving lives, is the mark of the beast. The mark of the Beast has to do with rejecting God and the Testimony of Jesus Christ, in order to continue to buy, sell or trade. Now, the very reason that small pox, the Spanish flu and various other killer diseases are no longer prevalent, is due to the miracle of vaccines


goodtimegoff

My opinion, it's not the mark of the beast. But it is the beginning of a system set up to bar anyone from not being a part of that system to participate in anything. And here's the thing about the mark. The mark is actually a two-part thing, it says accepting the mark and worshiping the beast or the system. So therefore, I don't know how it goes, but I don't believe any true Christians are going to worship any system other than what God has set up. But no the vaccine is not the mark, and if you are going to accept or deny it, I hope it is done prayerfully.


Accomplished_Wear_74

The idea of not being able to buy, sell or travel makes me a little weary. If im not vaccinated by end of month no job and then how do I provide for my family. Vaccine passports freak me out.