*sigh* ok so some people on here think you can just pray depression away. It doesn't work that way...at least not for most people. if it worked for you wonderful! God must love you more! But it didn't work for me. I had to go to therapist after therapist, get medicated and a whole bunch of crap before my depression was under control. I prayed for it to go away, I believed God would take it away. After all it seemed to be working for my more religious friends why not me? Well God didn't take it away magically. He used my doctors and therapists to do it. I think he did that to increase my faith because where would I be if I just asked God "hey God can you take this from me?" and he was like "ok!" then I would have learned to treat him like a candy machine. Put a quarter in get candy out. Why God seems to work more directly with some people i don't know but please stop telling people with depression to pray it away because it just doesn't work for everyone and it comes off like God loves you more than us.
Also suicidal thoughts are not a sin. I struggled with them for a long LONG time. It's not anything fun and it's not selfish. It truly is an illness. Why people label it as a sin I think because you're scared to deal with the depth of hurt that has over taken that person . I understand hurt is scary but who are you to judge when you have not walked in their shoes, had their brain and their way of thinking? Yes, everyone has had their fair share of pain I get that but this isn't a competition of "I suffered more than you" Everyone is an individual and handles things different. So stop judging because you have no idea what you are talking about unless you have been there.
sorry if I sounded rude this is one of those things that drives me up the freakin wall though. I am a HUGE mental health advocate
Amen, wonderful post. All we can do is pray that the religious Christians will someday be able to take their blinders off.
To ignore the reality of something is to judge and condemn it, two things Christ tells us not to do.
Please show me the scripture in the bible that talks anything about suicide. And please don't presume that murder is to be interpreted as suicide, that would not be wise to do, as we are not to add to the word or take away from it. If you believe that suicide is self-murder, then that's your opinion and that's all good, but please don't dare to presume that the bible is putting suicide in with murder, because it doesn't.
Only man is putting the two together because it scares the crap out of you.
Adultery is a sin, how many of you know that merely thinking of another person in a sexual way, no matter how fleeting that thought is, is considered adultery, therefore every single man has and continues to commit adultery. And please don't tell me guys you are so righteous that you've never thought for a fleeting second of another woman other than your wife.
That would be like saying that young teenage males never masturbate, because people have been brainwashed that that is a sin too.
If any of y'all males say you don't masturbate, then you've committed another sin of lying.
God bless