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1 | Bible's view on suicide? | Matt 27:5 | Morant61 | 125572 | ||
Greetings Angel! Thanks for the response my friend! Allow me to clarify that I never said that suicide was okay! :-) All I said was that you were making very precise statements about suicide that simply are not supported by Scripture. Is suicide always a 'sin' issue? There is evidence to indicate that mental illness or chemical imbalances can be a cause of suicide. I am simply not prepared to say, without any Scripture to back it up, that anyone who commits suicide has rejected Christ and is going to Hell. :-) Nor am I prepared to say that someone who commits and sin and dies before he can confess it is going to Hell. I would simply urge that any discussion on such a complex issue be based on what Scripture actually says, not what we think it means by what it doesn't say. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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2 | Bible's view on suicide? | Matt 27:5 | JCrichton | 125611 | ||
Hi, Tim Moran! I understand your point! Though, my concern is with "Christians" who are promoting the idea that we can commit suicide--since the Bible is basically silent on this issue (as far as stating "do not commit suicide"). There are people in my community, from other nations (both on and off the net) who are teaching that it is ok to commit suicide because Christ has already paid the price for our sins. This is ludicrous! If a person driving to work dies in an accident before he/she has time to make peace with God I believe that the Holy Spirit would pray for that person's salvation. On the other hand, if that person just had a shoot-out with the police after comitting a crime and that person dies in his/her sinful state how can we believe that he/she is to be welcomed into God's presence in their sinful state? This would negate Scripture! There are people who have diminished capacity who could potentially cause harm to others or to themselves... it will be the Holy Spirit who will see to their final moments if they commit suicide. But we cannot decree that all people who commit suicide die in a state of grace! There are people who are such cowards that when they decide that life is not worth living (whatever the reason) they seek to end their existence... they are not thinking of God. They are not even thinking of those they will leave behind. In their blind selfish desire they end it all! We cannot decree that they are in God's grace! It is not for me to judge who lives and who dies... Christ said that those who do not believe are already judged by the Word! He also cautions that not all who claim to be saved will be saved, but those who do the Will of the Father! Since God can turn even the most negative situation into good for those who love Him, and since Christ has assured us that if we go to Him He will not cast us away, there's no excuse for a person who calls him/herself Christian to commit suicide in order to escape the turmoil of his/her corporal existence! Lack of faith in Christ Jesus can allow Satan to deceive us into seeing nothing but darkness and death as the only answer to life's problems. This is why it is so important for all Christians to fellowship, to love, to care for their weaker brothers and sisters, to demand that we become more responsible Christians instead of looking for loopholes and quick solutions to life's tribulations! If I am forceful in demonstrating that suicide is not the answer, please forgive me. But my responsiblity, as a Christian, is not to accomodate those who have had a brush with or are contemplating suicide, but to offer them Christ as the means to resolve their personal situations. Christ, when praying for the disciples, said to the Father that He did not ask Him to take them out of the world (tribulations and persecutions) but to keep them safe! God has the power to keep us safe in our temporal existence, but we must humbly abide in Him and obey His Word! God Bless! Angel |
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