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To: Mrs. Don-o
Is terminal sedation Biblically OK?

Samson committed suicide. I've not seen him condemned for it.

Would he be considered a kamikaze terrorist bomber today?

195 posted on 07/26/2015 4:09:55 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
"Samson committed suicide. I've not seen him condemned for it."

If that incident, stated the way you just started it, were sufficient to prove a principle, it would prove too much: that suicide is OK by God; and/or that, as you say,"kamikaze terrorist bombing" is OK by God.

But the idea that this incident in Judges proves a principle, is invalid.

That would mean we approve in principle of the burnt offering of children unto the Lord, because that's what Jephthah did in Judges 11, and without a word of disapproval from on high;

...and it would mean we approve of forcing one' daughters out the door to be violated by a mob of rapists ("I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes");

...it would mean all that Biblical polygamy is fine of us, too, as well as slavery and genocide; in fact the entire catalog of OT lechery and butchery and jihad-level morality would be OK --- right?.

Somehow, this doesn't seem right.

Especially since God in His actual legislative Word repudiates such things repeatedly, e.g. He condemns "the shedding of innocent blood" as an abomination pret-near 20 times by my count.

So, no: Samson does not prove a general moral principle.

And especially since it was from the Book of Judges, which twice warns us that "men did what was right in their own eyes."

Remember that a lot of the point of the OT is to demonstrate just how desperately we need a Savior.

Which recalls the wise saying, "Well if you can't be a good example, you're just have to be a horrible warning."

202 posted on 07/26/2015 7:18:47 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Semper Fi.)
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