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- From: ptfarre@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Peter Farrell)
- Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
- Subject: Re: suicide- is it a sin in God's eyes.
- Message-ID: <Nov.17.03.27.38.1992.26376@geneva.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 08:27:38 GMT
- Sender: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu
- Organization: The Great Beyond
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- In article <Nov.15.21.53.33.1992.23792@geneva.rutgers.edu> moy@acf3.nyu.edu (Gloria J. Moy,N.DORM C3,(212)9983456,) writes:
- >
- > Is suicide a sin in the eyes of God?
-
- Before much answer and discussion, I am curious: is there a FAQ file that
- deals with major doctrinal questions and rights and wrongs such as suicide?
-
- These days, suicide is usually being considered in the context of someone
- who wants to throw the life they were given back in God's face. Now popular
- among the cultural elite these days is the notion of "assisted suicide"
- and other forms of self-destruction as a right or prerogative.
-
- I'd like to toss one of the first easily debateable ideas out that if a
- person is giving their life for a friend, family or God, perhaps not.
- But if a person is hurling the package back at God in disgust, probably
- so.
-
- If we take upon ourselves the notion that a human life created by God to
- be lived in accordance with His wishes is really something we can do with
- whatever we want regardless, we've really worked past the specific matter
- of suicide to the underlying matter of who owns that life ultimately.
-
- Hence the dilemma of our society; once enough people
- have convinced themselves that God either doesn't exist or doesn't care,
- where are the moral bulwarks to prevent the ethic of suicide? Preoccupation
- with the self ultimately arrives at one of its most horrible and logical
- conclusions.
-
- --
- Peter Farrell | "Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord,
- ptfarre@afterlife.ncsc.mil | shall enter the kingdom of heaven; but he
- | who does the will of my Father in heaven."
-
- [I've got FAQ entries on many things, but not on suicide. It doesn't
- come up often. --clh]
-