He wasn’t much of a Pastor.
God would forgive him for the infidelity, and adultery.
Suicide is the only unforgivable sin.
Talk about being really bad at your job, all the way around.
Failure to believe on Christ before you die is the only unforgivable sin.
“Suicide is the only unforgivable sin.”
That’s a roman catholic doctrine. Most Christians do not follow that belief and just see it as yet another sin that Jesus paid the debt for.
Mental illness can be a dark place it includes depression which can bring hopelessness. I knew someone who battled it for most of her life and before I met her attempted it up to the point of being ready to cut. She had taken all she could take. She was a very strong Christian and a few years later faced a life sentence to an illness she would suffer nearly 30 more years and with it more depression. It took her about 15 years after I met her before she finally got help for the depression and PTSD from a nearly entire life of abuses up till she was 35 and I met her.
So should we say well I want out of here and kill ourselves? NO! Why not? Because it brings many serious issues to family left behind. But someone desperate enough to take their life is not thinking clear. Their thoughts are distorted by stress, mental illness, hopelessness, etc. The last thing they need to hear is more condemnation and guilt. They need serious professional help no matter what circumstance drove them there by their own fault or acts of others against them.
A friend of mine's dad killed himself. I know a preacher who had the gun ready to do so as well. That was before Christ found him. He was the son in law to my friends dad. I knew a church secretary who had a nervous breakdown and later jumped into a lake from the highest bridge in the city. Why? No one knows. She suffered a breakdown months before and was in the hospital for it. That was back in the early 1970's.
Perhaps the preacher at a point needed more forgiveness and less judgement among others? We don't know and we'll never know. There's an old saying "there but for the Grace of GOD go I". When we see something like this we should not say I'm glad I'm not a sinner like that preacher was. Rather we should say thank you Lord that I wasn't put to that temptation.
I don't mean it as a lecture. LOL. My postings been kinda harsh as of late. Got them things I'm working through that takes a long time to resolve and at times a temper in me comes out.
We who believe and call on His name for salvation are His even though we fail.
Where does it say it’s the only unforgivable sin?
“Suicide is the only unforgivable sin.”
LOL! It is?
Please quote the verse for all of us to see!