If Christians find the health of the soul more important than physical life....?

Question

...then why are they against such things as abortions and suicides?

and some christians also argue, that the sooner we end up at the side of jesus the better.

So if physical life is non-important for christians - why do they fight for it anyway?

Answer 1

The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Abortion and suicide are sins committed on your body. We do not have any right to take our own life, more so the life of an innocent child. Those who resort to abortion and suicide are not brave enough to face the life and consequences of their actions.

'and some christians also argue, that the sooner we end up at the side of jesus the better. so if physical life is non-important for christians...' - This is just your opinion. Life is a gift.

Answer 2

It is important. Christians are a pretty big group of people. We may have some basic shared beliefs, but that doesn't necessarily mean we all think the same things or all beieve every word in the bible. Everyone's different, so it's hard to answer a question like that. I'm not against abortion, people have different reasons for aborting, most of which are very vaild. I'm against suicide, but only on the principle that you should find help before things get that far. I have no intention of dieing anytime soon to get to 'the side of jesus'. Physical life is quite important to me, and i'm a christian, so obviously you are being way to general when you say that physical life is not important to christians.

Answer 3

These arguments don't makes sense.

These are reasons why we feel LIFE is important, because it affects our spiritual health.

Whatever decisions we make regarding LIFE, whatever we do to our bodies or the bodies of others, affects our spiritual nature and health.

"...the sooner we end up at the side of jesus the better."
-I'm not sure what you mean here, if it means dying...we better be spiritually prepared any day
-Whoever said this to you might have meant that the less time we have on earth, the less exposure we have to commit sin...but I also understand it as being more God/Jesus AWARE, the sooner you understand their nature the more better for you so that you live the rest of your days in a positive way and with a LIFE-conscious attitude

Answer 4

Abortion and suicide are not healthy for the soul.
If you want to end up at the side of Jesus, you must learn to love other people in the way that He did.
If God thought our physical lives were not important, why would He have given them to us in the first place?

Answer 5

Physical life should be important to Christians .....to a large degree.
If you have talked with some who think otherwise, they are lying when they call themselves Christian.
However, you might recall God gave man dominion over the animals.
He can swat a mosquito if he decides such.

Answer 6

I don't think you have a full picture on the Christian worldview or their thoughts of humanity. Physical and spiritual life are both valuable in a Christian worldview because God made them both. Physical life is important and should not be destroyed intentionally by another person or by oneself.

Answer 7

Where in the world did you get the idea that physical life is not important to Christians? If it's from one crackpot Christian, please remember that one person doesn't speak for all of us. Why don't you engage your brain and think about whether something makes sense before you go around asking silly questions?

Answer 8

Because both are bad spiritually and physically?

I think you are confusing the difference between "not as important as" and "not important at all"

Answer 9

Just because the salvation of your soul is more important than life itself, does not imply that murder is OK.

Answer 10

because its wrong? yes its important about saving your soul. but for Jesus to save your soul you have to live right according to him. And living right does not include abortions and suicide.