(July 5, 2017 at 12:51 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(June 30, 2017 at 7:43 pm)Lek Wrote: People don't go to hell for committing suicide, but for refusing God's offer of salvation. Yes, suicide is considered sinful because our lives belong to God. A follower of Christ shouldn't consider suicide. The problem is we don't know what the state of a person's mind is at that point and are not equipped to make a judgement concerning that person's salvation. If a person says "God, I know what your will is, but I don't care" I would think that he doesn't want salvation and won't have it. If his mind is messed up, as is the case of many suicide victims, who knows?
This is one example of many where Christianity has "changed its tune" over the centuries. Prior to the year 1900, there was no question whatsoever in theologians' minds that individuals who committed suicide went straight to eternal Hell.
Again, it is always worth pointing out, that the further you go back in human history, worldwide, the more superstitious and the more socially conservative most humans were, not just in Christianity, but worldwide.
Conservatives exist in every religion and superstitions too. Far more of the world in antiquity were ignorant of scientific reality back then.
@Lek
NO, I don't belong to anyone. I am not property. Sad that you think your life belongs to someone else. Sad that you would subject yourself needlessly to some backwords romance which in reality is worship of servitude.
The good thing is that God does not exist and you are not the property of anyone. The bad thing for you, is that you have yet to realize this.
