If you had read my posts, I have said over and over that NO ONE should be forced to take this vaccine. So, please no more hearsay about me, that is false. I'm Canadian, but I value free speech and control over our own bodies (except where abortion is concerned, because a baby is not part of our body, but it's own person from conception).
My point is that no one should be shamed and humiliated because they took the vaccine, not once, but twice. Esp., we should not be scolded and threatened that we will lose our salvation if we get a vaccine. Show me the book, chapter and verse where the Bible says that! No one can lose their salvation in the first place, but if somehow we could lose it, we would never lose our salvation over a science/medicine disagreement! When people say that, I recognize immediately that they don't read their Bible daily, or maybe not at all. They also have very wrong doctrines they believe.
Further, we still have the right to choose the vaccine or not. If we decide to get the vaccine, it is not the gov't putting the vaccine in our bodies. When we choose to get vaccinated that is not on the gov't but ourselves! There is no need to have this fear of the gov't & the paranoia that shows up in this forum!
I don't regret getting my vaccines, I had to push myself to do them, so glad I did. As for giving people autoimmune disease, I agree it is a possibility, I won't lie, I had allergy shots for bad allergies In the 1990's that were damaging my lungs. I took them twice a week, for 7 years. It helped my allergies go down, and now I have no environmental allergies. But, late in the 7 years I was taking allergy shots, is when I developed severe and painful Rheumatoid Arthritis. I have multiple AI diseases, I believe allergy shots turned my immune system upside down, plus I also had Post partum hormones during that time.
As for living another 5 years, no one knows how long any of us will live. We could have an accident, in our cars, no fault of ours. We could get many diseases like cancer or heart disease or diabetes and die from those disease. We could die in our sleep. I have so many physical things wrong with me, I literally could die any day. So, I'm trusting God completely, and he had helped me in so many ways. On top of it, the needles I inject to stop RA are cancer drugs, which suppress the immune system and can give you cancer. Yet, the latest stats in longevity show people who take these medications will live 5 to 10 years longer than people not on meds. To say nothing of standard of life! RA is extremely painful. Without meds, you can end up bed ridden, which has happened to me a few times. God gave me a good husband to lift me into my wheelchair and take me too the toilet and then back too my bed , again!
So I get it! But after seeing so many people die or almost die of COVID, and the bad damage in my lungs (scarring from pneumonias, fluid in the bottom of lungs- which cleared up from not getting any colds turning into pneumonia), and Rheumatoid Lung Disease. I would never survive COVID based on my lungs, let alone my damaged heart, which RA and prednisone attacked!
Finally, I don't believe in Dispensationalism, or that Revelation should be interpreted literally. The genre is apocalyptic which has totally different standards & devices in text, which shows the early church knew should not be interpreted literally. So, throw out the Mark of the Beast, the Rapture appears no where in Scripture. (don't try to prove harpazo in 1 Thess. 4:17 means rapture, because I read Greek well, and have read the Bible in Geek a few times, and the word "rapture" is not there. But I digress.
I appreciate your kindness in describing to me your doctrinal views, but I hope you will get a book on the 4 end times doctrines, which overlap one another, and also are polar opposites in some places. I'm Amillennial, and a partial Preterist & have always been, that is what the Bible says for me! But, that doesn't mean we have to tear the other person apart. If you read a few books on the other views, you might decide that you still believe the Bible supports Dispensationalism, and that is a choice you are free to make. End times (or eschatology!) is always a difficult topic. We need to look at all the 4 eschatological views, look up verses to be sure of the context, I think most scholars would say no one can know what happens in the end, so we are waiting for Jesus to unveil his whole story. Again, we should be free to study, reason, research, this doctrine, come to our own conclusions, and not be harassed or screamed at because another person thinks you are wrong. I had someone in this. forum, few years back tell me I wasn't saved because I was Amillennial. Only Dispensationalists are saved, according to this person. Wrong! Eschatology never saved anyone. And the person who said that was very angry and unrepentant, not open to studying all the sides, as I said.
Anyway, sorry for the long post!
