openairboy
Puritan Board Freshman
I realize this may be a touchy subject, but can a person that commits suicide be saved? The stock response is that we can't do anything to earn our salvation, so we can do anything to lose it. In light of 1 John, were murderers do not have life, how can we make a distinction between a murderer and a person who commits suicide? How is self-murder exempt from this?
One of the things the Lord used to bring me to himself was a friends suicide. He was a professing Christian, and I just assumed he was still saved. I say that to say that it isn't strictly an hypothetical situation for me.
I'm just having trouble reconciling the fact that murders cannot be saved, even our denouncing of Paul Hill, which I believe is justified, but we suddenly become real psychological in our analysis of a suicide, i.e. they were depressed, etc. If a group of Christians crashed a plane into a building then we would denounce the act and say there weren't Christians, etc.
Any help?
Thanks,
openairboy
One of the things the Lord used to bring me to himself was a friends suicide. He was a professing Christian, and I just assumed he was still saved. I say that to say that it isn't strictly an hypothetical situation for me.
I'm just having trouble reconciling the fact that murders cannot be saved, even our denouncing of Paul Hill, which I believe is justified, but we suddenly become real psychological in our analysis of a suicide, i.e. they were depressed, etc. If a group of Christians crashed a plane into a building then we would denounce the act and say there weren't Christians, etc.
Any help?
Thanks,
openairboy