If JESUS commited SUICIDE by voluntarily walking to his death then why....?

Question

..... do Christians say that suicide is a sin and punishable with a slow death in Hell?
So, is Jesus in Heaven or in Hell?
Another Christian contradiction?

Answer 1

Both sides.

Answer 2

Its not a contradiction, its you being slow.

Just because someone voluntarily gives up their life does not mean that they committed suicide... Using your logic, that means all fifteen million of the Allied soldiers who lay down their lives in an effort to save the world from fascism committed suicide.

There is a difference between suicide and sacrifice... Anyone with a brain could see that.

Answer 3

1) "If Jesus committed---." You have to define suicide. The meaning of suicide is not straight-forward. For example, is it suicide for a parent to take on a mountain lion that is attacking a child? (This is what happened. A mother attacked the lion with a small stick. Both the mother and the child were killed by the animal. Did the mother commit suicide?) Soldiers who die trying to rescue other soldiers under enemy fire, are regarded as heroes. Did they commit suicide? Every year there are news accounts of people dying in the attempt to rescue strangers. Do all these individuals commit suicide? Saints who were killed for their religion knew they would be killed if they didn't deny their beliefs. Were they all suicides?
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In other words, there are some suicides that civilizations accept. And they should. One of those kinds is the kind Jesus chose.
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"Christians say--." Christians who read the Bible for themselves and stop letting priests and theologians tell them what is in the Bible, will find that there is nothing in the teachings of Jesus that says suicide is a sin. So, where are these Christians getting the sin-thing from? Not from Jesus himself. And Jesus is the only authority in Christianity. Not what the Pope says, or any other priest. And when the subject is not covered by anything Jesus said, then we have to wing it. For example, I think it is heroic and exemplary of people who have incurable painful illnesses, to kill themselves. When it's not covered by Jesus, we have to cross our fingers, do our sincere best, and hope god understands.
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"So, is Jesus in Heaven or Hell?" Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, my mother, my granny and my cat were all good persons. I don't care where they are, because wherever they are, that's where I am going. Call the place anything you like.
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"Another Christian contradiction?" Every religion has countless contradictions because every religion has been concocted by scheming people who wanted to have power over the vast majority of people who don't think for themselves and who don't want to think for themselves. This vast majority deserves to be nuked.
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Answer 4

ah, but jesus didn't commit suicide. It has nothing to do with voluntarily walking into your own death, pin head, you have to "pull the trigger", and he didn't, some one else killed him. This is NOT suicide. You can't fault Jesus for knowing the future. He's just better than you, not his fault.
Therefore, this is NOT a contradiction. So smarten up, numbskull!

Answer 5

Well because it was prophesied hundreds of years before how Christ would die and why he would die...and that He would be the Saviour. Check it out by doing a web search on fulfilled Bible Prophecy, if this hadn't happened the way it was written then the Bible would just be another book, you might also check out some of the other prophecies that have been fulfilled through out history and archeology. Makes for a interesting study.

Answer 6

Jesus went to the cross to save the world, not for his own selfish reasons, which is what normal human suicide is.
Jesus was fully God and fully man. Suicide is a sin because it's choosing to end what you, as ONLY human, do not have the right to end. Only God has cart blanche on who, when and where a human passes away. Since Jesus was God in human flesh, it was alright to allow himself to die for two reasons:
1. He was God so he wasn't making a desicion against God, or that would be making a decision against himself.
2. He was not committing "suicide" for selfish purposes. It was for the world, whom he loved.
make sense?

Answer 7

Jesus didn't commit suicide. What Jesus did was die in our place so that we might live. That's not suicide, that's heroic. To "take a bullet" for someone else is heroic. Get real.

You should try not to say things based on your emotions, and try to be more logical and intellectually honest.

Answer 8

no that's not suicide. He was just giving into the inevitable , fast fowarding to what was going to happen either way.
if he would've ran away, they would've hunted him down, so what would be the point of that?
and if Jesus was ressurected and ascended to the heavens, where do you think he ended up ?

Answer 9

I believe that anything that God asks us to do is not a sin. God asked Jesus to follow his directions to sacrifice his life so that we may be free. God only asked Jesus to do this. Not mankind. Therefore I know Jesus is in heaven with his father.

Answer 10

He lived like a man until death !!! He used the power of God to heal people and resurrect Himself from death !!! He voluntarily went to die as predicted in the OT !!!

http://bibleprobe.com/300great.htm
http://www.carm.org/doctrine/100truths.htm

Answer 11

Going to your execution in a respectable manner is not the same as suicide! He just showed some dignity.