According to Christianity,
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
Luke 9:24
This is according to the bible. Jesus teaches that you have to die to self in order to live a christ life.
What
I personally believe is what The Buddha taught. You have to live to sacrifice oneself for another. But jesus felt that you should die (as his own death) in order to do so. The highest sacrifice is to actually
die for another person. A mother would die for her child. Why would that be wrong if the situation called for it?
Sacrifice is not suicide. According to christianity.
Thats not biblical. You quoted the bible; so, I'm going off the bible.
Never said that nor was it said by context. Jesus didn't commit suicide. He literally said he gave himself for others to live.
That's a part of it. In Christianity, there is a physical component too. What you're saying is Buddhist thought. That is completely different than Roman thought when it comes to sacrifice. Christianity is a Romanized religion. It is very political and about power over the other starting with the apostles.
Jesus taught about sacrificing oneself for the love of god. You cant get love, mercy, and all of that without the highest sacrifice. No one I know today would jump the cliff for god but I asked people if they would give their child and only one person said yes.
That is true sacrifce. It's not just spiritual. It's physical.
But many people don't see that in the bible. It's not wrong
according to the bible it just means we can't do it for legal reasons in the states. We cant do what jesus did legally; but, that is what he taught. To think of him before mother and father. To think of god before flesh.
It's more than spiritual.