The Northern Maine Campmeeting was held in Caribou Maine last weekend. Walter Veith and Conrad Vine were the main speakers.
Conrad Vine addressed the issue of liberty of conscience in his presentations. On Friday night he suggested that if the SDA church leadership were to side with federal government vaccine mandates—like they did in 2020-2022—that freedom-loving Seventh-day Adventists had an array of options to consider. The NNEC Conference issued a statement that appears to be in response to Vine outlining these ‘options’.
As mentioned, in 2020-2022 conventional medicine Adventists, GC leadership, a partisan PARL and almost all progressive Adventists aligned with the federal vaccine mandate.
Opposing the mandate was the Southern Baptist Theological seminary and a few others. They were vindicated when the Supreme Court ruled that the Biden mandate was not constitutional. This vindication could have been ours, had the aforementioned SDA entities demonstrated a commitment to bodily autonomy & liberty and the courage to follow our inspired health counsels. They didn’t.
They also demonstrated no compassion to thousands of Adventists whose consciences and livelihoods were violated by progressive autocrats during Pestilence-19.
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“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice” (Exodus 23:2).