Is civil disobedience against mask mandates supported by Acts 5:29?
What is the Biblical basis for pastors like Artur Pawlowski refusing to follow public health directives?
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ElwoodBlues · M
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@ElwoodBlues That was specific to paying taxes
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@ElwoodBlues Jesus regularly practiced and inadvertently incited civil disobedience. Not necessarily against Rome, but in and around Roman occupation. It was part of the reason Pilate released Him to the jews to let them do what they wanted with him.
ElwoodBlues · M
@SW-User true, you can make a good New Testament case for civil disobedience in the pursuit of free practice of religion. but Jesus never encouraged the willful spreading of diseases and there's no biblical prohibition against masking.
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@ElwoodBlues He was quite contrary - He taught his disciples how to heal disease and sent them to do so. And you're absolutely correct - there is no provision for "anti-masking"
The Most High is not quite so concerned with carnal matters, like wether or not we wear masks, as He is with the End Game, which is bigger than anything we experience down here. Some people take comfort in that, and in others it incites intense rage.
The Most High is not quite so concerned with carnal matters, like wether or not we wear masks, as He is with the End Game, which is bigger than anything we experience down here. Some people take comfort in that, and in others it incites intense rage.
ElwoodBlues · M
@SW-User I have a neighbor, lovely young woman, who is immuno-compromised. She got the vax, but it really doesn't do much for her. There are millions more Americans like her. These people need our herd immunity.
The current mask refusal and pandemic of the unvaccinated is killing some of our most vulnerable people. We, as a society, should be better than this. And, I would expect anyone from the party of "choose life" to implicitly understand this line of argument!
The current mask refusal and pandemic of the unvaccinated is killing some of our most vulnerable people. We, as a society, should be better than this. And, I would expect anyone from the party of "choose life" to implicitly understand this line of argument!
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@ElwoodBlues Absolutely. The thing about Mankind is we were given an innate sense of right and wrong, and we were given free will to choose. We don't need to rely on scripture for Morality and Ethics. We should already know what is right.
I also agree with your observation about cultural christianity, always fighting for the unborn children, (which I absolutely agree with) and the apathy for the people who are on this side of the womb.
"We as a society should be better than this". It's true. We all know what is right, but we each want what we want and that gets in the way of the common good.
I also agree with your observation about cultural christianity, always fighting for the unborn children, (which I absolutely agree with) and the apathy for the people who are on this side of the womb.
"We as a society should be better than this". It's true. We all know what is right, but we each want what we want and that gets in the way of the common good.