AnneTheWriter<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@JonUlrich" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>JonUlrich</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Strandjunker</span></a></span> </p><p>I'm a Christian, but you're missing the point here. Even taking the Bible literally, the diseases were NOT "eradicated" in those Bible verses. The individual cases were healed, yes, but the viruses themselves continued to spread throughout the population. They were only wiped off of the face of the Earth with <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a>. </p><p>Remember the story of the man on his roof in a flood/hurricane, and how God gave the man the means to get safe, but the man kept waiting for magical miracles. </p><p>Vaccines are like the lifeboat and helicopter in the story. We must not sit back and wait for God to do all the work. We have to do our part and get on board. (See also Matthew 4:7.) </p><p><a href="https://truthbook.com/stories/funny-stories/popular-stories/the-drowning-man/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthbook.com/stories/funny-st</span><span class="invisible">ories/popular-stories/the-drowning-man/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/VaccinesWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VaccinesWork</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TheDrowningMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheDrowningMan</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Miracles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Miracles</span></a></p>