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To: know.your.why

I’m trying to make the point that ALL is not categorically well with Jesus and faith. The dogmatic notion of “all you need is Jesus and all will be fine” is flawed.“

No it isn’t.

People are flawed, sometimes tragically. This woman made a decision and followed through. The life she built on some assumed media model was empty. Ok, millions have made that mistake. Superficialities can fool the best of us. I know people who suffered to a degree that they begged God to kill them but soldiered on for decades because they believed in God.

People as accomplished and intelligent as this woman find themselves in her position alll the time. They start out mistakenly believing that if they accomplish A B and C their life will just happen. When it doesn’t they don’t climb up to the roof and throw themselves off. If she had invited Jesus into that emptiness He would have no infallibly filled it because THAT is what He does.

No there is more to her trials than she is letting us in on. There is something she couldn’t face and couldn’t face life without. People just don’t destroy themselves because they made erroneous assumptions that we all have, to some degree, made.

God have mercy on her.


53 posted on 01/31/2022 7:09:28 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: TalBlack
If she had invited Jesus into that emptiness He would have no infallibly filled it because THAT is what He does.

And yet there are many suicide prevention programs that are specifically targeted to Christians. 65% of Americans identify as Christians. There were 47,511 suicides in the US in 2019 (pre Covid). So, 30,822 of those were Christian. That's over 84 Christians per day that take their own life. Now that's raw data and maybe there are some skews in certain non-Christian groups, but we are still talking about lots of Christians.

54 posted on 01/31/2022 9:32:40 AM PST by Poison Pill
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