To: Jonty30
" No, you are self defining it. Scripture tends to focus on your treatment of others, not yourself." OK, so therefore: please quote me, chapter and verse, where it says "Scripture tends to focus on your treatment of others, not yourself." Because I don't see that anywhere.
The only near-verbatim equivalent quote I can find, is "treat others as yourself."
So if you think it's OK to kill yourself, you would also think it's OK to kill others, since you treat others as yourself.
The error here is not acknowledging the Biblical teaching that you are not an isolated "self" at all. You and other other person are both members of one Body. Because neither you nor the other person belong to yourselves: you belong to Christ. Another commandment (1 Corinthians 6:20): "You were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body. "
Killing yourself would disobey this commandment.
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223 posted on
12/15/2018 3:56:35 PM PST by
Mrs. Don-o
("In Christ we form one body, and each member belongs to all the others." Romans 12:5)
To: Mrs. Don-o
By your measure, when you aren’t doing everything possible to keep a hurting person alive, including quitting your job and becoming their full time servant, you’ve contributed to their suicide because you weren’t there when they ended their life.
233 posted on
12/15/2018 5:00:00 PM PST by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
The only near-verbatim equivalent quote I can find, is "treat others as yourself."
HMMMmmm…
I would surmise that THIS is fairly accurate; since it has the imprimatur of...
Matthew 23:9 Douay-Rheims
And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.
269 posted on
12/16/2018 4:22:55 AM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Mrs. Don-o
I wonder...
...is it printed in RED in an actual D-R?
270 posted on
12/16/2018 4:23:42 AM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Mrs. Don-o
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271 posted on
12/16/2018 4:26:45 AM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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