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1 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Ex 20:13 | EdB | 106138 | ||
No Tim I'm not. Before we go much further on the sickness issue I think everyone on this forum would agree that a person has to have mental instability to kill another person. Whether that instability comes from jealousy, anger, rage, greed, sickness or whatever it requires some inbalance to take a life. Let's not take this discussion to the point of trying to legally define an sane with insane act. Aside from a physical condition that would effect normal thinking I'm saying suicide is an act far different than any other sin. The last act a person that commits suicide does is in direct rebellion to God. I think it safe to say at that point their heart and spirit is in opposition to God. My question can that be the state of a truly saved person? We can go into all kinds of theological discussion here on sin and forgiveness of sin, does it or does not require a contrite heart, does it require confession of sin, repentance, belief and etc. We can take this discussion even further by examining what exactly constitutes salvation. Does praying the prayer of salvation save or is a change of heart also required. Can I be saved and live in rebellion to God. Is just belief enough? Then we can discuss the unforgivable sin. The only sin that can’t be forgiven is blaspheming the Holy Spirit. Is destroying the living temple of the Holy Spirit in a sense blaspheming the Holy Spirit? Can a Christian that is in communion with Christ having the Holy Spirit dwelling within them destroy the very inhabitance of that Holy Spirit? Can a saved person, be in opposition to God to the such a high degree that suicide would require? EdB |
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2 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Ex 20:13 | kalos | 106146 | ||
I think it would be stretching a point if one were to imply that every individual who ever expresses any emotion, be it jealousy, anger, rage, or greed, is mentally ill. If that were true, then one would have to conclude that 100 percent of the population is mentally ill. Nor do I believe that Christians NEVER experience such emotions. |
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3 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Ex 20:13 | EdB | 106150 | ||
I don't think I said that. I said, "I think everyone on this forum would agree that a person has to have mental instability to kill another person. Whether that instability comes from jealousy, anger, rage, greed, sickness or whatever it requires some inbalance to take a life." I think that statement is far from saying that people that merely experiences such emotions is mentally ill. EdB |
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4 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Ex 20:13 | kalos | 106202 | ||
EdB: It's true you did not say that. And that is why in my post I used the phrase "if one were to imply...", emphasis on the word IF. I ought to have made it clearer in my post that you were neither saying this nor implying it. Please accept my apology for my carelessnes in not doing so. Peace, kalos |
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5 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Ex 20:13 | EdB | 106212 | ||
no problem! Be blessed my brother EdB |
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