Re: What Would Stop a "Once Saved, Always Saved" Believer From Committing Suicide?
This is just my own personal belief but I don't believe that we, on the outside, can every fully gauge whether someone is a "genuine" Christian or not. I also believe that not every person who commits suicide is an unbeliever.
Of course we can. The Bible teaches...
1Jn 3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
1Jn 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
1Jn 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1Jn 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1Jn 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
John was taught directly by the Master Himself and John plainly stated that a Christian is manifest in that they do not sin. He who sins is of the devil. He who does what is right is righteous.
Suicide is a sin. Suicide is not righteous. A Christian would never commit suicide any more than a Christian would molest children, murder their neighbour, steal at the market, or watch pornography. It is pretty simple. It is just that many people don't want to forsake unrighteousness and thus cling to alternative beliefs in which they can engage in sin and not surely die.
Those whom tell people that a Christian can in fact commit suicide have blood on their hands, for they are promoting the idea that one can kill themselves and not be condemned.
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I know there is comfort in lies in numbers and that it is easy to choose something that tickles the ears, but truth is truth. He who sins is of the devil. The Bible does say that, and even Jesus spoke of that...
Joh 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
There is no way one can commit murder and not be of the devil. Sure the devil would have one believe otherwise but woe to those who swallow such an error.