Posted on 01/10/2009 10:19:38 AM PST by wagglebee
"Kill" means whatever believers say it does.
I think that believers are not really concerned much with judgments from non-Christians on what is Christian really is.
I don't see that someone who clearly hates Christianity is capable of a rational or accurate interpretation of Scripture.
Would you prefer to live in an atheist society or under an atheistic form of government? For example, one like the USSR (Stalin)? China? Cambodia? NK? Cuba?
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God Himself may put a Christian in a situation - or permit him to be put in a situation - which is life-threatening. And He may miraculously save him, or He may bring him home.
But in every case, God's will is what matters, not ours. Emphasis mine:
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And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and [of] Barak, and [of] Samson, and [of] Jephthae; [of] David also, and Samuel, and [of] the prophets: Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: And others had trial of [cruel] mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.
... -Hebrews 11
Amen!
HEY - OVER HERE!
Really, I know what you mean.
Speaking directly to the issue of state sanctioned assisted suicide, though, I always had two major problems.
First, I don't think laws ought to be made that change the definitions of common words, such as marriage or suicide. If a suicide is assisted, it is not really a suicide by definition. Here, the ingestion of a lethal dose of barbiturates is assisted (perhaps made possible) through the direct cooperation of both a doctor and a pharmacist providing those drugs to the patient. It is a professionally enabled, hastened death.
Second, as a sort of social libertarian, I'm not convinced a procedure like this ought to be either sanctioned or prohibited by the state. There was nothing to prevent the private arrangement of substantially the same thing before it became explicitly legal. The law as it stands now merely limits the practice to certain methods and circumstances.
Better to just leave well enough alone IMO.
I’ve lived in P’land and Eugene so I can say that! ;-)
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