Curtis Chang: Covid Vaxx ‘Redeems an Abortion’ Just Like Jesus Redeemed Us
With the depressing news that Russell Moore is joining forces with David French and Curtis Chang to launch ‘The After Party” a teaching curriculum to educate Christians on how to have a proper view of politics, we thought it important to delve deeper into the less-known part of the trio.
Chang is an author, a professor at Duke Divinity School, and Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary. A former pastor, he founded Redeeming Babel in 2019 to address “underlying theological problems driving the chaos and confusion of our current world” which includes “a mishappen approach to politics.”
He is perhaps best known for his website ‘Christians and the Vaccine’ where he routinely shamed Christians for refusing to get vaccinated, as well as argued there should be no religious exemptions to vaccine mandates.
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In a video posted on March 6, 2021 video, Chang argues that the Covid vaccine is an image of God’s redemption, and that in the same way that God reworked our spiritual death into life, so too has He reworked the death of babies from abortion into the life-giving vaccine.
The Covid vaccine can serve as an image of God’s redemption. Redemption is God’s ultimate answer to the problem of original sin. Redemption is taking something that originated in a wrongful state and reworking that thing into something good. The Bible tells us that in His death and resurrection, Jesus redeemed human sin, the very human line.
1 Corinthians 15:22 puts it this way; “For as all die in Adam, so also all shall be made alive in Christ.” In other words, Adam’s original sin had an impact on us all. We are descendants of his spiritual line and we are impacted by his original sin. But the sinful origin is not the final verdict. The spiritual line of Adam has been reworked by Jesus, so that what began as a story of sin and death has been reworked into a story of forgiveness and life.That is what it means to be ‘made alive in Christ.’ That is redemption.
He continues:
Now, this idea that what began in death could be reworked into life. Well, it’s hard for the human mind to grasp. This is why we need images of redemption in the world. We need examples that can serve as metaphors of what Jesus accomplished, that show us Jesus’ redemption, well, it’s kind of like that.
I propose that the COVID vaccine is an image of redemption. Yes, the vaccine may have a distant origin story in abortion, but that past has been reworked and redeemed into something that saves life. We can point to the vaccine and say, ‘Jesus’ redemption is kind of like that.’ And indeed, the production of a vaccine in less than a year, it’s really a miracle. Something like this has never happened this quickly. I personally believe God’s redemptive power was present in the process.
So, my invitation to pro-life Christians who may distrust the Covid vaccine currently is this: please remember that the Christian story is the story of redemption. Every one of us has an origin story in sin. None of us can avoid this, yet each of us has had our story reworked by Jesus into new life.
That’s what it ultimately means to be pro-life. To be pro-life is to be pro-redemption, and to be pro redemption, in my view, means being pro-vaccine. The vaccine is ultimately a redemption story, so let’s be part of that story.
h/t The Dissenter
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Unlike the clot shot, God’s redemption is neither ineffective nor deadly.
Exactly.
This is egregiously evil on many levels. It reminds me of Jeremiah 8:8 …
How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of the LORD is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
Has made it into a lie.
Those who care about people do not push on them what is harmful . Yet he is a pastor/leader who shamed people into taking what is known to be harmful (many knew it then, and more know it now), and he did so by twisting and perverting the Word of God! He is disqualified in many ways. But, instead, he is increasingly promoted. That is how it works in corruption.
I’d never heard of Curtis Chang until he appeared on that video with Fat Rick, Tim Keller, and N.T. Wright singing the praises of Francis Collins. No wonder they get along so well.