2006-10-23 04:15:00 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How can you kill and NOT be mentally ill?
2006-10-23 04:16:44 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My question is to what extent a person who is "mentally ill" is the same as the person who occupies the body without the disease. We as "persons" are our minds, and to have the mind corrupted is to have what we are redefined. How can the mind beset by mental illness not be reflected in the person's "spirit", as Christians would define the idea? Their very character, what made them who they were, would be altered beyond recognition were we to strip them of their mental deficiencies.
I do not believe mental illness would be a valid qualification in the ideas of the Christian "God", for whom judgement is a defining characteristic.
Mind you, I feel the idea of afterlife to be sorely mistaken within monotheist circles. Life is a quality in itself independent of mind, and were life to be passed from one form to another, the conscious self would not be transferred with it, but would instead be preserved in the memory and hearts of others we have touched with our lives. In other words, our slates are swept clean on death, though the impact of our deeds and misdeeds will still affect those we leave behind.
2006-10-23 04:42:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the mental illness, and the intention. Mentally ill people still have a choice between good and evil. They know what they are doing.
2006-10-23 04:21:16 · answer #3 · answered by waterborn69 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As Christians, we know that God is merciful and he is a God of justice. He knows our inner thoughts and mental capacity. If someone has a mental illness and commits a serious sin such as murder, then God will take that into account. If the person who has the illness dies, then he has paid for that sin, for the wages sin pays is death.(Romans 6:23)
What does the Bible really teach about hell? Hell is not a place of eternal torment like Christendom teaches. The Bible hell is where all people go when they die. It is the common grave.
How do we know that hell is the grave? Well, we can read many verses in God's Word that assures us of that fact. Here are but a few:
Proverbs 15:24--"The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath." (Wise and unwise people go to the Bible hell)
Psalm 139:8--"If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there." (If hell is a fiery,hot place of torture, would the Psalmist think God (Psalms 83:18) would be there ?)
Amos 9:2--"Though they dig into hell, From there My hand shall take them; Though they climb up to heaven, From there I will bring them down." ( Can you dig into fire? No, but you can dig into the earth and God can find you no matter where you try to hide.)
Jonah 2:2--"And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice." ( The belly of the fish would have been Jonah's grave, if God had not rescued him.)
Ecclesiates 3:19,20--"For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again."
( Humans and animals go to the same place when they die)
Revelation 1:18--"I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." (Why would Jesus need keys to hell? Because the dead do not have to stay in hell forever; they can be resurrected back to life.)
Revelation 20:13-14--"And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." (Hell delivers up the dead, meaning a resurrection from the grave), and what happens to death & hell? They are thrown into the lake of fire, meaning total destruction.
God is love and tortures no one.
2006-10-23 04:42:30 · answer #4 · answered by Micah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From Islam's perspective: No. You are mentally ill, which means you did this sin unintentionally, you don't know what you are doing and if you weren't mentally ill, you would not have done that sin.
However, if you WERE NOT mentally ill and you did it INTENTIONALLY, definitely you would go to hell, no matter what your religion was, even if you were Muslim killing non-Muslims.
Killing is a sin, unless you are mentally ill and unaware of your actions. Islam is a fair religion.
2006-10-23 04:24:29 · answer #5 · answered by Confused 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, yeah! Mentally ill people will all go to Hell for all eternity anyhow, so that's just a match on a fire.
2006-10-23 04:16:57 · answer #6 · answered by St. Toad 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ah, there is no such thing as mental illness, just possession. And if you are possessed, it is because god has allowed it! This is all in the bible - go figure!
2006-10-23 04:18:02 · answer #7 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lol You tell me if tiger hunt any animal than god send to tiger in hell if not ? its not clear that killing man is right or wrong who clarify who is right and who is wrong and after that we can clarify god send to hell to killing man or who has killed by you butg one thing too interesting if any where one is killed than i can tell that to whom god will send to helland to whom he gives the award to living
2006-10-23 20:07:25 · answer #8 · answered by name of spritual tantra horr0r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is the judge but I am sure it depends on your capassity to understand what you are doing
2006-10-23 04:28:06 · answer #9 · answered by Sam's 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. mentally ill is defined by man, not by god.
2006-10-23 04:25:07 · answer #10 · answered by Brett K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋