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1 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Mark 3:28 | melchizedekau | 2787 | ||
dear jv . this is all very ,here say, my belief is if you commit suicide you go to hell.you might say that that is not very loving for me, or for God.the scripture that the Lord has revealed to me is 1 corrin 3:16,17 we are the temple of the Holy Spirit.if we chose to destroy this temple then it is OUR will not Gods WILL.Gods will is that none should perish.if we are then doing our will ,then we are in rebellion ,which is the same as witchcraft.a sin.therefore i assume Reverlations 21:8 takes effect.i believe it is the same as abortion,we take Gods place over a life and become GOD to the unborn child to determine its destiny.it has a lot to do with control.which is a form of witchcraft.if you do a word study on the TEMPLE more will arise.But we pray; YOUR will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Amen YIC | ||||||
2 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Mark 3:28 | RElderCascade | 2801 | ||
I hope you'd like it If I might add a few thoughts here. It is an unusual and very interesting question. I first off want to point our thoughts to Romans chapter five; that the grace (not performance of a life lived a certian way) that saves us is much greater than the death that we are born into(in Adam). Therefore we should not sin! May it never be named among us. Suicide is a sin. But then all of what human beings do is tainted or colored by sin! We should take Paul's approach and simply say that sin must not be our practice. Your text in 1 Cor 3 talks about a different thing. This text illustrates the oneness of a person with the act we do. And keeping in mind the indwelling Holy Spirit we (physically) are linking the Spirit with the the practice. Strong words used by the Apostle to discourage us from trusting in work done in the flesh. The context there is the work of the Gospel getting out. Paul was exhorting them for their fleshly (man appealing to man) approach of preaching the Gospel. He wanted the Corinthians to stop picking who is their favorite guy and simply be pleased that the Gospel is being built upon -- as long as the foundation is Jesus Christ! It is best to understand the building (TEMPLE) metaphor by looking at the context. His illustration is disciplined and stayed on the idea of building, plus it expands our understanding of our great role in each others lives as we participate in building on the foundation of Jesus Christ. So this text is talking about other things and it can not be used as a proof text for being certian that suicides lead to Hell. I would not say that they do -- especially based on the text in 1 Cor. 3:16-17. You should remember to look at what did the author intend his immediate readers learn from his letter, and then what does that mean to us now -- remembering we are really reading other peoples mail. The Corinthians were factionists, and this was extremely fleshly and unspiritual. They had no clue what huge impact their attitudes might have on the co-laboring of the Gospel message. Therefore Paul reminds them that they are the Temple of God. |
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