If god plans out our lives or fate, or its just mapped out including our deaths then why is suicide wrong? How do we know thats not the plan of the persons life, death by suicide. Peoples lives are cut short by disease and murder and that was their plan but why is suicide never a part of that plan. One could say that the person commiting suicide is ending their life plan but how is it that they are not simply following it? Don't worry, im not suicidal or pondering my own death I was just questioning this myself and the whole fate/ life plan point of view...
2006-09-06 17:53:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Besides the whole god and sin thing, what about fate and destiny. If it was "written in your cards" or something along those lines.
2006-09-06 17:59:14 · update #1
If you are basing it on religion and God solely, because it is in the Bible that it is. I would also wonder, if it was ordained as you said, planned out, and someone killed themselves, wouldn't that be God sending them to damnation, but we all are able to be redeemed?
2006-09-06 17:56:47 · answer #1 · answered by the traveling mage 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not plan your life, he planned your birth but you are responsible for your own fate. He offers advice and guidance in the form of church and the bible but the path you choose is up to you. Plus you know suicide is a sin therefore it would not be a "fate" that god has chosen for you. Murder is not the same as suicide. If I walk up to you, put a gun in your face and pull the trigger you have no control over that, it is called bad luck or being in the wrong place or making the wrong person mad. If you kill yourself than that was your decision not fate. If you are religious, which you clearly are not, then you know what the point of your life is to spread the word of god. That does not mean you cant do what ever you want or not have any fun. God put you on this earth to enjoy the life he gave you. He just ask that you follow a few simple rules.
2006-09-07 00:55:39 · answer #2 · answered by searay092003 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So where did you get the idea that God planned everything out and we are just following the script? If you are basing that on the Bible then you have totally mis-read the scripture. But you are not the first to get it wrong. In Ephesians where it talks about predestination, the message to us is not that God wrote a script and we play a part. (You have to do a little exegetical study sometimes to get correct understanding.) The message to us is that God "Fore-Knew" not that He "Fore-Ordained." Essentially He looked through time (before time was) and He saw who would respond to His invitation. He only set a place at the table for those He knows are going to attend. He gave us all free will to choose whether we will love Him, follow His way, be obedient to Him, or whether we will ignore Him and go our own way. The consequences of the latter or dire indeed, but He did go to extraordinary lengths to make a way for us to get to Him. He became flesh and lived among us and paid our sin debt when we were unable. In greater suffering and pain than we have ever experienced He laid down His life to do this for us. And the REALLY cool thing is, if Adam and Eve had never sinned (they were created perfect--without a sin nature,) and if none of their descendents had ever sinned and if in all of humanity YOU were the only one who had ever sinned, He would still have done the exact same thing for JUST YOU.
When He celebrates the marriage supper of the Lamb He wants you to be there but He will not force you to attend. He will not force you to love Him or obey Him. But it truly grieves Him when you choose other than Him.
2006-09-07 01:24:15 · answer #3 · answered by bigrob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know the exact answerer to your question. i believe that i here to learn certain lessons through the good and the bad. i may or may not move on to a new existence with new lessons. to com mite suicide to end the lesson before your time would mean you have to start it all over again but at a lower level. but i think if i get very sick and in pain and only staying alive by the assistence of so called modern medicen they i should be allowed to make the choice about life or death. god bless have a good life
2006-09-07 01:09:06 · answer #4 · answered by twocrows 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because a book written by people who still believed the earth was flat, saw a fatal flaw in their reasoning that people would go to heaven - nobody would want to stay here. Thus, they'd have no power over the people.
Thus, it's a "cardinal" sin.
2006-09-07 00:56:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You decide your fate, no one else has it maped out for you. The way i look at it, is you make your own choices. If you choose to die, then thats your choice. If you choose to live, thats your choice. god gave us that right. The right to choose. yet what ever choice you make there are conciquinces in the afterlife. you can choose to let god work through you or the devil.
2006-09-07 01:31:43 · answer #6 · answered by KCZ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God says don't kill, and the suicide is a murder also. To kill someone else is not a bigger sin than to kill yourself.
2006-09-07 01:03:42 · answer #7 · answered by Karolina D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have free will, so its not predestined. But for God, already knows everything that will happen.
2006-09-07 00:55:54 · answer #8 · answered by owner4nothing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the problem with all semantic religions. they also say you are all born as sinners.
that is just bull..
Dont pay any attention to it
2006-09-07 00:57:32 · answer #9 · answered by Rammohan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was too deep que for me
2006-09-07 00:55:29 · answer #10 · answered by sid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋