(June 20, 2015 at 11:51 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(June 20, 2015 at 11:44 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: He chose to die by choosing to not resist the enemy. I wouldn't call this suicide.
No comment on the subjective morality of the early first century?
If he chose to die, that's the very definition of suicide. If I push a child out from in front of a speeding bus and get run over instead, I'm still killing myself even if it is to save another. It's a special type of suicide called a noble sacrifice, but it is still a suicide.
This is the definition parsing that I think is such bullshit. Murder is the unjustified killing of someone. If you kill someone is self defense its not murder. You can twist the words and definitions all you want but it doesn't change the principle. Suicide would be an unjustified self murder. Jesus did not murder himself. He gave himself up to die for a morally justified cause