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actually, you have committed suicide:Suicide: The act of causing ones own death.
Suicide may be positive or negative and it may be direct or indirect. Suicide is a positive act when one takes ones own life.
Suicide is a negative act when one does not do what is necessary to escape death such as leaving a burning building.
Suicide is direct when one has the intention of causing ones own death, whether as an end to be attained, or as a means to another end, as when a man kills himself to escape condemnation, disgrace, ruin, etc.
Suicide is indirect (and not usually called suicide) when one does not desire it as an end or a means, but when one nevertheless commits an act which courts death, as in tending someone with SARS knowing that they may well succumb to the same illness.
Just because you don't understand divine justice doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense, Aasimar. The Bible says that everyone will be judged properly.
I don't pretend to understand everything about God, but the Bible seems to indicate that he has everything worked out and I shouldn't try to do his job.
Assuming the Bible story true, this is absurd...Jesus did not sacrifice anything
Two questions, for anyone that is religious to answer:
1. Will committing suicide damn you to hell?
2. Will being assisted to commit suicide damn you to hell?
Answers and comments, please.
Sacrifice is the loss of something. What was lost? Effectively, Jesus was in a coma for a few days. Or you can believe that he went to hell for a few days. (Can that compare to someone spending eternity there?) Jesus was up and alive according to Christians a few days later. So Jesus just got hurt really badly. Is that worse than what some POWs have had to go through? There is no sacrifice if nothing is lost.Assuming the Bible story true, this is absurd...
In Islam, the body is a niima or a blessing from Allah SWT. Its like this: god "leased" us this body and sent us to earth to worship him. Destroying his body and omitting the test is not an option... Plus suicide sometimes may seem like an easy way out of things but its wrong. Just because your current situation isn't looking up doesn't mean that you wont ever have a happy time again. A recent poll shows that 89% of people that committed suicide regretted it later
I think you can breathe easy, for there is no heaven or hell. Those ideas are not even well-suppported biblically.
Assuming the Bible story true, this is absurd...
And I need to make this point clear, Jesus did not sacrifice anything, nor did God. God "Sacrificed his son" who is still supposedly chillin with God up in heaven. That's not a sacrifice. He's not dead. It was at most a 30 year stressful time for God during the eternity of his life, which is not so impressive I must say.
If you were God, all-powerful, all-knowing, why in your right mind would you ever subject yourself to endure a life full of pain, suffering, and death? He chose to live life just like we do, even though he didn't have to. Does that sound like something other than sacrifice to you?
And yet you still have not answered the question.D'UH! HIS DEITY! He became a freaking MAN, for goodness sake! I'd like you to use comparative religions to show me any other incident of a god single-handedly taking the entire guilt of the world... upon himself! Who did... NOTHING wrong!
How is it NOT a sacrifice is the better question.
Nice try.This is like the fifth time your response to an argument I make is that I did not answer your question. What you really mean is, "you didn't give the answer that would make me right". I'm done arguing with you on this subject, thank you very much.
That is just it.You just don't get it, Mestemia.
If you are infinite, by making a choice to limit yourself is to sacrifice your deity. To make yourself finite IS a sacrifice. You can disagree with me, but I most certainly answered your question. It just wasn't the one you wanted.
Two questions, for anyone that is religious to answer:
1. Will committing suicide damn you to hell?
2. Will being assisted to commit suicide damn you to hell?
Answers and comments, please.
That is just it.
He did not limit himself.
He was STILL IN HEAVEN whilst Jesus (the "limited" part) was on earth.
So the fact remains that you have NOT answered the question.