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1 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Ex 20:13 | EdB | 106152 | ||
Everyone is missing my point here. Instead of trying to define what we can and can not do to keep our fat out of the fire I’m trying to show what matters is the condition of our heart. The Pharisees kept the law not because of their love for God and fellow man but rather as fire insurance. Their keeping the law was in a way self righteousness they were depending on their actions to show them sinless. Our salvation does not depend on our sinless state but rather on the relationship we have with Christ. Read Rev 20:15 not one person is placed in the Lake of Fire because they sinned they are there because their name wasn’t written in the Lamb’s Book of life. In other words they weren’t in relationship with Christ. He didn’t know them. I’m saying we do not keep from sin because we’re afraid of burning but rather because of our relationship with Christ. It is that relationship that precludes a true Chrsitian from committing of suicide. EdB |
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2 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Ex 20:13 | Morant61 | 106159 | ||
Greetings EdB! I understand what your saying my friend, but I have three problems with it. :-) First of all, Scripture nowhere calls suicide a sin, or that if it is that it cannot be forgiven. Secondly, Scripture nowhere says that a Christian cannot or will not commit suicide. Thirdly, Scripture nowhere says that a person who does commit suicide does not have a relationship with Christ. I just believe that the safest position is that suicide is not desireable, but that it is not an unforgiveable sin. But, since Scripture doesn't address it at all, this is only my opinion! ;-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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3 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Ex 20:13 | EdB | 106167 | ||
Tim Your first point. Your right but do you or not agree that it is not sin itself that keeps us from salvation but the lack of relationship with Christ? I once again frame this question in reference to Rev 20:15 Point two: Again we can not know the mind of one that has committed suicide but the experts in the field tell us it stems for a sense of hopelessness, anger, a feeling of being unwanted or unloved, desperation, no other way out. Does any of these terms in your opinion apply to a genuine Christian in right relationship to Christ? Point three: If they had a relationship where did the feeling of desperation, being unloved, loneliness, anger, hopelessness come from in view of 5 Cor. 5:17? I believe the safest position is to say suicide is not a viable option for a Christian. Therefore the question of whether one that commits suicide is saved or not is purely hypothetical and can not be answered this side of heaven. Who are we to declared how God will judge it? EdB |
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