For example; "It is sad what happened, but God chose to take her back at this young age, and this is something we will just have to accept"
Churches didn't even acknowledge that suicide is human choice do they?
2007-11-23 02:12:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Some churches acknowledge it as a personal choice.
Others, who follow Calvinist theology would use the line you quoted or something very similar to that.
Remember that not all churches are Calvinists.
Your complaint is only about the beliefs of Calvinists not all Christians.
Pastor Art
2007-11-23 02:20:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think that when a person takes their own life there are a lot of reasons. Some of the main ones are drugs,alcohol and severe depression, it is in the end their their final choice. I do not think that a god has any thing to do with it, If you are considering suicide before you try it I think you need to talk it over with your pastor or seek some professional help, with a little effort you can change your life! I am sure you can find reasons to continue your life.
2007-11-23 10:42:01 · answer #2 · answered by TheAsender 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If what you say is true and it is a choice then what can be said about Gods sovereignty? He knows the beginning from the end. He knows all things. I would rather question the identity of the person committing suicide. Would a real Christian do such a thing? Personal choice is an illusion to undermine Gods authority.
2007-11-23 10:29:42 · answer #3 · answered by Overseer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you're quoting is from one person. It's not Scripture. Someone else might have said something differently. What is your point of view that we are to take in answering this question? Someone whose close friend or relative has committed suicide or distant acquaintance, someone who is contemplating suicide, or the friend of someone contemplating suicide? You ask this question matter of factly as if you are a student in a college counselling class. You ask a very complex question. There are so many different responses to this question that can go all over the place. Please qualify your point of view here so our answers will be better focused to the perspective you have.
2007-11-23 10:20:47 · answer #4 · answered by Steve C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Suicide is a personal choice, and a horrible thing to do. To put it bluntly, it's murder, because your life belongs to God and not to yourself. You have no right to kill anyone, including yourself. But people at funerals are grieving, and going around talking about someone who committed suicide as a murderer is a harsh and cruel thing to say at a time like that. So people use euphemisms to soften the blow. That's all.
2007-11-23 10:32:17 · answer #5 · answered by Billy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is only one unforgivable sin and suicide is not it. Having said that, does not mean that a person can kill themself. The 10 commandments says... Thou Shall not kill. So if you kill even yourself, you are breaking the 10 commandments.
You can be forgiven, but what happens if you die before you can repent and ask for forgiveness?
I don't know, that is for another question I guess.
I have been suicidal a few times and can relate to how one feels and what can get a person feeling that way. How ever, I was smart enough to ask for help when I got that way. I am still here. Killing one's self is one of two things...
A feeling of total hopelessness, which means you are devoid of trust in God and have lost all hope.
Or
You are weak and need to get angry, fight to live, get a back bone, never quit and don't take the coward's way out.
Food for thought...
A very wise pastor told me once, that if a person thinks killing themself will end their problems, think again, at the point of death, their problems just got suddenly worse. You still have to meet your maker and answer to him for murdering his precious child. (I have been suicidal but never wanted to kill myself, there really is a difference.)
2007-11-23 12:47:44 · answer #6 · answered by Hillbillee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are confused. Suicide is not a good thing-except in most rare of circumstances. If some young person took their own life-then something was dreadfully wrong. You can rest assured that satan was involved.
2007-11-23 10:19:29 · answer #7 · answered by Higgy Baby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
suicide is your choice, God knows that you are going to make that choice though. but since he gave us free will he can not stop us. he can only provide the information of what will happen if we do commit suicide. .........and YES churhces do know that suicide is a human choice!
2007-11-23 10:19:51 · answer #8 · answered by *PEACE BEGINS WITH A SMILE* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God the Son Jesus Christ was very radical about committing suicide... offending a child who happens to belive in Jesus ammounts to a suicide!
Mat 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
2007-11-23 10:28:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
my ex boyfriend committed suicide and i do not even know if he was saved. i was praying about him this morning to God. it has happened, i know that and i do still love him but i cannot keep putting my mind through the worry about is he ok and has he been forgiven. i have put it in Gods loving hands because that is where my complete trust lies. thankyou Father and praise you
2007-11-23 10:24:17 · answer #10 · answered by ele101 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋