Is it a Sin to Not Wear a Mask or Get a Vaccine?

After telling the church to love your neighbor and put on the Lord Jesus Christ, the

Bible says in Romans 14, 1, do not quarrel over opinions, yet many Christians are quarreling over masks and vaccines.

Some go as far as saying that you are sinning if you do not mask up or get vaccinated. Russell Moore, president of the

Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission, said in the Washington Post that loving your neighbor means urging people to get vaccinated and that you also take the vaccine for the coronavirus.

Columnist David French has said that reluctance among Christians to get vaccinated demonstrates a disregard for the health and well -being of neighbors.

He says Christians who don't get vaccinated do more harm to the health of the church than the worst of Joe Biden's culture war regulations or the most radical developments in the sexual revolution.

Karen Swallow Pryor, professor at Southeastern Seminary, said that pro -life Christians who do not wear a mask have brought a culture of death.

How is that loving your neighbor? Accusing him of sin he has not committed? Has God not said, you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor?

Wear a mask and get a vaccine are not commands of God. They are the commands of men. In Mark 7, the

Pharisees saw that Jesus' disciples did not wash their hands. So they asked him, why do your disciples not walk according to the traditions of the elders but eat with defiled hands?

Jesus replied, well, did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites? As it is written, this people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.

If you want to wear a mask or get vaccinated, then do it. If you don't want to wear a mask or get vaccinated, then don't.

Stop calling sin that which God does not call sin. Let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but pursue what makes for peace and mutual upbuilding when we understand the text.