Results 1 - 3 of 3
|
|
|||||
Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Ordered by Verse | ||||||
Results | Verse | Author | ID# | |||
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 |
||||||
2 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Ex 20:13 | kalos | 106151 | ||
You ask: "Is destroying the living temple of the Holy Spirit in a sense blaspheming the Holy Spirit?" "Whoever SPEAKS a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever SPEAKS against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come. (NASB Matthew 12:32, emphasis added) blaspheme 1 : to SPEAK of or address with irreverence intransitive senses : to UTTER blasphemy (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary) (Emphasis added.) Clearly both the very next verse after Matt 12:31 and the meaning of the word "blaspheme" clarify what Jesus meant. Blasphemy specifically pertains to what one speaks or utters. Thus, I do not take "destroying the living temple of the Holy Spirit" to be blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. It would be a stretch of the meaning of the word blaspheme as well as the meaning of Matt 12:32 to suppose otherwise. (Matthew 12:31 occurs within the context of Matthew 12:32.) |
||||||
3 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Ex 20:13 | EdB | 106161 | ||
Kalos I think I also means what we keep in the heart. We can speak of the Holy Spirit is loving terms and hold comtempt in our heart and be found guilty of Blasphemy. EdB |
||||||