Police stop mass to check masks

Do what you want. Your call as it is your God given right

 

If the police raided the right church I could easily see shots being fired.

 

As Christians we can use our faith to oppose the first two, but not the third.

There is a Christian justification for opposing a law that requires only women to cover up, particularly if that law was religiously motivated by another faith and applied to Christians. There is a Christian justification for opposing a law that 'others' Christians, although I think a gold cross is a little less on the nose than a Star of David. The bible passes no judgement on subdermal tracking devices.

Obviously you can oppose the government sticking us all with surveillance chips on a secular level, but I think concepts like mass surveillance, weapons of mass destruction accessible by terrorists and the right to privacy were a bit out of scope for Jesus, the apostles and the OT prophets. There's no religious justification for resisting a law you personally don't like, no matter how much it terrifies you.

As an aside: Obviously the police officer walking down the pews was not an appropriate way to enforce mask mandates. And the community backlash, even from a state extremely on board with harsh COVID policy, reflects that.

 

It doesn't do so directly, but picture an implant that not only tracks our whereabouts but also carries our financial and ethnic information. What if it is used to determine where we can go, where and when we may work, what we can buy (do we get to buy any food, for example), and whether we are permitted to procreate?

The Bible does address this somewhat tangentially It foretells of a time when the following will happen:

Rev 13--- And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon...And he doeth great wonders...And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth...and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Unfortunately many Christians have been taught to disregard prophecies concerning our future (some don't even believe Jesus will return visibly and bodily!), similar to how many of the Israelites disbelieved the future prophecies God gave to them through the OT prophets. So you've probably discounted Rev. 13 as something that will never take place, and see no danger.

 

We are going to just have to agree to disagree