StroppyChops wrote:

General Mackevili wrote:

StroppyChops wrote:

potty wrote:and somewhere else it also says, suicide is sin or something. well, you should know...?

Where does it say that, specifically?

I'm with Potty on this one.

One of the 10 commandments, valid in both the Old and New testaments, is "Thou shall not kill."

Plain and simple.

Committing suicide or helping someone kill themselves is clearly breaking one of the most direct orders that your biblical God gave you.

According to your book, God gave you life, and it's not your call to decide to end it.

In my opinion, to call oneself a Christian you have to believe in all of it, not just cherry pick here and there with parts that YOU agree with.

Again, it reminds me of a person that told me, "I'm a vegetarian, but I eat beef."

As discussed elsewhere the proper translation of the original Hebrew statement is "do not murder" - which in context is 'do not kill without just cause'. This is not my convenient understanding, this is current theology and has been since scholars disagreed with many of the points of translation in King James' version.

Some arm chair atheists hang their hat on this single issue and refuse to hear the corrected alternative because they then like to write God and the Bible off with "God said don't kill, yet he killed this person or that race... so he's a hypocrite, clearly he doesn't exist" which is a pretty juvenile logic chain when the premise is completely flawed.

Always interested to hear what I should/should not believe according to people who don't share my faith and have not actually read/understood the book.

I hope Jess has bacon on the menu tonight.