BIBLE

PRINCIPLES
ON
VACCINES
 VACCINES
The following is a statement on
the teachings of LORD'S COVENANT
CHURCH in relation to immuniza-
tions, inoculations, vaccines, and
related so-called "cures," "preventa-
tives," or "medicines" given by
injection into the body-

We believe Christians are not

to demand or accept any such
injections for the following reasons as
gleaned from God's Holy Bible-

The church is to be holy.

Ephesians 5:27, That He might
present it to Himself a glorious
church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or
any such thing; but that it should be
holy and without blemish.
Individuals are to be holy.
Romans 12:1, I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of God, that
ye present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service.
Also, 1 Peter 1:15-16, But as He which
hath called you is holy, so be ye holy
in all manner of conversation [life];
because it is written, Be ye holy; for I
am holy.
 Holy means not only to be in
service to God, but to be "clean." We
have a saying, "Cleanliness is next to
godliness." That that is true is
verified in the Old Testament passage
Peter was referring to in his quote in
the preceding paragraph. It was from
Leviticus 11:44-45, For I am the LORD
your God: ye shall therefore sanctify
yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I
am holy, neither shall ye defile
yourselves with any manner of
creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth. For I am the LORD that
bringeth you up out of the land of
Egypt, to be your God: ye shall
therefore be holy, for I am holy. These
verses were at the end of the list of
clean and unclean beasts in the
chapter where God's people are
commanded NOT to eat the unclean.
The implication here is obvious-that
if they were to eat that wh ich is
unclean, they would not be holy.
This same doctrine is in
Deuteronomy 14. It begins, Ye are the
children of the LORD your God; ye
shall not cut yourselves, nor make any
baldness between your eyes for the
dead [these were common heathen
religious practices in that day], for
thou art an holy people unto the LORD
thy God, and the LORD hath chosen
thee to be a peculiar people unto
Himself, above all the nations [peo-
ple) that are upon the earth. Thou
shalt not eat any abominable thing,
and then follows the command again
NOT to eat things God calls unclean.
Also, in verse 21, we read, Ye shall
not eat of any thing that dieth of
itself ... for thou art an holy people
unto the LORD thy God ...
There are two other things in
that last passage quoted above that
are further reasons for refusing
vaccines-
Firstly, we are not to cut
ourselves. Inoculations, vaccinations,
etc., include puncture or cutting of the
body. (See also Leviticus 19:28 and
21 :5.)
Secondly, we are not to eat,
Le., partake of, anything that dieth of
itself. Vaccines are often made of, or
in, bodies, fetuses, or the eggs of
creatures that are unclean according
to the plain Word of God. Moreover,
the process of producing the so-called
"vaccine" often causes the body,
fetus, or egg to die in the process.
Therefore, it is further forbidden us.
We are also commanded not to
eat the blood of animals. But flesh
with the life thereof, which is the
blood thereof, shall ye not eat (Gen.
9:4). This was made a statute at Mt.
Sinai and repeated several times as in
 Lev. 3:17, 7:26, 17:10, 19:26, Deut.
12:16, and others. It was commanded
to Christians in the New Testament in
Acts 15:20, 29. Many vaccines are
made in or of the blood of diseased
animals and the injection is, in effect,
a blood injection into the human body.
In 1 Corinthians 3:16 Chris-
tians are asked, Know ye not that ye
are the temple of God, and that the
Spirit of God dwelleth in you? The
Word then continues, If any man
defile the temple of God, him shall
God destroy; for the temple of God is
holy, which temple ye are. Vaccine is
an alien substance, unclean by
Scripture definition, and injected into
the body in a manner condemned by
God in His Holy Word.
CONCLUSION
Christians are commanded by
God not to accept anything into their
bodies that would tend to defile them
and make them unclean. The vaccines
are such substances and are therefore
forbidden.
Written for instruction to
obedience in Jesus Christ,
Pastor Sheldon Emry

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