- "Vaccination is a direct violation of the everlasting covenant that God made with Noah after the flood.... Vaccination never saved human life. It does not prevent smallpox."
[_The Golden Age_, (predecessor to _Awake!_) (Jehovah's Witnesses)
2006-07-26 02:21:21 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Are you being serious?
2006-07-26 02:25:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that "hell" is a fiery place of torment. The bible teaches that there is no suffering in "hell", or the grave. Eventually, death and "hell" will themselves be destroyed.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire
The Scriptures are full of references to an earthly hope.
(Psalms 37:11) 'the meek will possess the earth'
(Proverbs 2:21) 'upright will reside in the earth'
(Isaiah 45:18) 'God formed the earth to be inhabited'
(Matthew 5:5) 'the mild will inherit the earth'
(Revelation 21:3) The tent of God is with mankind
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2002/7/15/article_01.htm
2006-07-27 03:25:14 · answer #2 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, go find the word "vaccination" in the bible. It isn't there and that sentence about it not preventing smallpox is a proven lie.
Much of what the Watchtower has put out is completely fabricated and they have been caught in several "errors" like all the times they've predicted the end of the world.
Garbage, complete garbage.
2006-07-26 02:25:39 · answer #3 · answered by Lori A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a total mistranslation of the Bible verse by the Jehovah's Witnesses Cult. And that statement will also not stand to scientific scrutiny.
Vaccinate your kids. Stay far from the Jehovah's Witnesses.
2006-07-26 02:37:00 · answer #4 · answered by P P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do what you think is necessary. Just bear in mind that it is because of vaccinations that many diseases do not exist in our country anymore. So your child might get lucky and never catch anything. Just hope that they will never travel to any countries where many illnesses are still abound. Oh I guess you are also planning on home schooling, because I doubt that they will be able to attend public schools without their shots being up-to-date. But I'm sure that was the plan all along, that way you have control over their brainwashed education.
2006-07-26 02:28:44 · answer #5 · answered by ilovemyarmyguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in government, they are a radical group of religious zealots. No you will not go to hell. God gave man a brain. Man made medicines and vaccines with things GOD placed on the earth. Using the brain God gave us, the tools he gave us, to live as god wants us to is never a sin.
2006-07-26 02:27:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you won't. Vaccinations prevent diseases that people used to die from in the thousands. Whoever said vaccinations don't prevent smallpox needs to show me where all the smallpox cases are now.
2006-07-26 02:26:28 · answer #7 · answered by Purdey EP 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excuse me? That's just another interpretation of something that doesn't exist in the Bible. If God didn't mean for medical treatments to be useful, he wouldn't have given an the ability to make such discoveries.
2006-07-26 02:33:22 · answer #8 · answered by Sherry K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
but you will save your children life, from Tetanos, chickenpox and lots of other deseases
you need to be a bit more philosophical in real life my friend
2006-07-26 02:41:06 · answer #9 · answered by Julia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be hell to watch your children suffer from a vaccine preventable disease or become disabled or even possibley die.
2006-07-26 02:28:42 · answer #10 · answered by Pam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christ didn't say anything when the woman spent all of her money on doctors and they could not heal her. Christ just healed her. Christ did not condemn soldiers for doing their job or doctors for doing their job. Only man condemns themselves, God never condemns.
http://www.mechanicsburgnewchurch.org
2006-07-26 02:29:26 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋