Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: reasonisfaith
Notice something about the attempt to call Christ’s death a “suicide.”
Nobody does it. This is because such an attempt doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

What about the definition the intentional taking of one's own life is wrong WRT suicide?
If the above is right, and Christ's sacrifice was not suicide, then his sacrifice must have (a) been an unintentional sacrifice, (b) had death as an unintentional result, and/or (c) not been a death.

Let us reject (c) out of hand, as the Christian faith hinges on the Death of Christ. (More accurately the Resurrection, which is but a lie without His death.)
Both (a) and (b) are invalidated by John 10:18 where Jesus flat-out says that no-one takes his life, and that he lays it down of his own will.
Therefore, Jesus did in fact commit suicide.

If you don’t believe me, keep on with it and eventually you’ll understand.

Please, show me where my logic is wrong.

29 posted on 08/15/2014 6:27:15 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]


To: OneWingedShark

If the case were prosecuted in a court of law, the mens rea would apply to the Roman guards and possibly the Jewish leaders.

This is perhaps a little easier than you might think:

Ask yourself: who administered the lashings?

Who drove the nails?

Who pierced his side with a spear?


31 posted on 08/15/2014 6:35:32 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson