{"id":166,"date":"2020-09-03T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.easybible.net\/?p=166"},"modified":"2023-12-10T13:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T13:04:14","slug":"christians-immune-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.easybible.net\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Christians immune to Covid-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I have recently read that there are &#8216;true Christians&#8217; who consider themselves immune from Covid-19. So I did a search and came up with this site, although I didn&#8217;t find any personal claims:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YmZ0qIyCdY\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulpitandpen.org\/2020\/03\/03\/charismatic-prophet-another-one-claims-christians-are-immune-to-coronavirus\/\">Charismatic Prophet (Another One) Claims Christians Are Immune to Coronavirus<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Charismatic Prophet (Another One) Claims Christians Are Immune to Coronavirus&#8221; &#8212; Pulpit &amp; Pen\" src=\"https:\/\/pulpitandpen.org\/2020\/03\/03\/charismatic-prophet-another-one-claims-christians-are-immune-to-coronavirus\/embed\/#?secret=fhj33zUuAI#?secret=YmZ0qIyCdY\" data-secret=\"YmZ0qIyCdY\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t bothered researching this in any way, but it doesn&#8217;t surprise me that some Christians would hold this immunity view, whether it be with some scriptural support or through faith alone.<\/p>\n<p>If you are one of these individuals, then I would urge you not to deliberately put yourself in harms way. For example, in a crowded situation where social distancing is not possible and face protection is not worn. To do so would amount to tempting God.<\/p>\n<p>Consider Jesus&#8217; example when being tempted by Satan as recorded in Matthew 4:5-6:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,<br \/>\nAnd saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The temptation here was to go against God&#8217;s word to prove a point. But Jesus&#8217; response was &#8220;&#8230; It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.&#8221;, quoting Deuteronomy 6:16.<\/p>\n<p>If Jesus wouldn&#8217;t do it, then I suggest you shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I have recently read that there are &#8216;true Christians&#8217; who consider themselves immune from Covid-19. So I did a search and came up with this site, although I didn&#8217;t find any personal claims: Charismatic Prophet (Another One) Claims Christians Are Immune to Coronavirus I haven&#8217;t bothered researching this in any way, but it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.easybible.net\/?p=166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christians immune to Covid-19?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.easybible.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.easybible.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.easybible.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.easybible.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.easybible.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.easybible.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/blog.easybible.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.easybible.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.easybible.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.easybible.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}