Accusations have increased against the Seventh-day Adventist
church administration that they were influenced by billions of dollars from the
US government that would be at risk if the church administration had not
blessed Covid vaccine mandates.
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| Seventh-day Adventist Church statement that blessed Vaccines as it appears at Adventist News |
In October 2021, the church administration released a
document blessing Covid vaccines as life-saving, and in line with the SDA
Church’s understanding of healthy living, a statement that has been criticised
by the Adventists faithful including Pastor Conrad Vine.
Critics put it that the church administration blessed Covid vaccines under the influence of over $20
billion the US government pumps into the North America Division that would be
at risk if the church had criticised Covid vaccine mandates.
The church administration released a statement on
26th January 2022 responding to the criticisms which also has
been criticised in a lengthy article at Fulcrum7.
Faith Reporters has juxtaposed both statements for
an easy understanding of what they entail.
The church administration vehemently denied any
influence by the government funds and explained that the money from the US
government stops at the recipient health care institutions to pay for the costs
incurred in providing health services to the government.
“Medicare and Medicaid payments by the government
to health care institutions are paid directly to those institutions for
services rendered to patients,” the statement said.
The statement argues that government funds into
education go to students not the church’s institutions or in any way get into
the Church’s world budget.
“Government funding for educational institutions is
in the form of grants and loans to students… not donations to the schools and
have no bearing upon the world budget of the Church, nor upon any decisions
that it makes” the statement reads.
Critics argue that the church administration could
not pass an immunisation statement that contradicts the Federal government’s
decree that requires all hospitals that receive government funds to impose
vaccination mandates upon their workers or lose the funding.
Moreover, they argue, Loma Linda University, the
listed collaborator in the release of the Covid vaccination statement,
generates user fees with respect to the Medicare and or Medicaid payments.
“Succinctly, the Church employees who constitute
ADCOM all benefit from Federal funds. The programming and projects of the
Church across the North America Division are reliant on Federal funds. The
retirement, pensions, debt-servicing capacity, and salaries of Church workers
to a greater or lesser extent have become reliant on Federal funds” the
challengers argue.
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| Loma Linda University in California/ Carl Canwell |
Covid
restrictions and religious liberty
The Seventh-day Adventist Church dismissed any element of religious liberty issue when it comes to Covid directives and restrictions (which they call preventive health mandates) and corrects believers who want to connect the current world crisis with Bible prophecy.
“The current COVID protocols are not that decree
spoken of in Revelation [13]. In addition to defending the freedom of
conscience, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has a long-standing history of
supporting responsible vaccination” the church administration said.
The statement emphasises that the church has been
ever since supportive of immunisation programmes against smallpox, typhoid,
diphtheria and other public health policies which have no difference from the
current Covid situation.
“We do not believe that [Covid] is a theological or
religious liberty issue for the Church. This is not to deny that
COVID immunization could be an issue of conscience for individual members with
personal convictions and thus a religious liberty issue for them, but the 2021
reaffirmation document recognizes personal choice” the statement clearly defines.
However, the challengers disregard the church’s
claim for having supported immunisation by having all missionaries and workers
get inoculated, arguing that Covid vaccines have some peculiar facts.
“The GC Release’s comparison of typhoid and
smallpox with COVID-19, the latter of which most people recover from absent
comorbidities such as obesity, smoking or diabetes, is not compelling” the
challengers argue.
They also present the difference between the
vaccines the world has known and Covid vaccines regarding simplicity.
“Vaccines in the early days of the Church consisted
of the use of such things as the pus from cows infected with smallpox, not the
highly bio-engineered mRNA technology for COVID assembled by large
pharmaceutical companies”.
They present fears over the fact that
pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer, Astra Zeneca have been characterised
by many flawed and misleading products and “repeatedly lost massive lawsuits”
The challengers assert that the October
immunisation statement doesn’t promote responsible immunisation as it says but
actually seals the fate of Adventists for forced and compulsory vaccination.
“Their Statements strip people of the civil and
religious liberty protections to say ‘no’ ….and do so with the supposed power
and authority of the Church” the challengers argue.
Mark of the Beast?
The church dismisses any alleged connection between
Covid vaccines with the Biblical image of the beast which critics argue that
it’s a weak argument the church bases on to endorse the vaccines for believers.
“There has never been a point in this earth’s history where the national and global infrastructure was set up to control travel, buying and selling, and to override civil and religious liberties,” critics say.
The argument also touches on the fact that it’s the
Covid situation that has caused the union of church and state which would not
have been possible in other ways.
“The unification of church and state on the
COVID-19 vaccine issue looks like an image of the beast” it says, calling church
administration to “consider sombrely whether their support for compulsory COVID
vaccination over the conscience [draws believers to the true church or to the
image of the beast]”
“We further call on all delegates to ensure that
there is a day of accountability for the current administration at the June
2022 General Conference Session” the challengers’ statement concludes.
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The Administration is seriously compromised. They sold principle for favor and donations, when facts were clear. Their relationship with the state and the Vatican through the Religious Liberty Department clearly is evident. Against real science, worldwide deaths of members, brutality of Governments, attack on human liberties, fulfillment of Revelation 13,they proved to already be in Babylon. They have compromised the belief that this is a protestant, remnant and a true Church of God, violating the Spirit of Prophecy,and they can't correct it. All facts are clearly evident. On YouTube, many SDA Churches and Members protested factually and proved that the COVID Vaccination was totally different from any immunization and has all hallmarks of a precursor to the Beast fulfillment.
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