(June 21, 2015 at 10:05 am)Won2blv Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 12:24 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Since you want to call m e out for twisting a definition:
Suicide
noun
1. the intentional taking of one's own life.
2. destruction of one's own interests or prospects:
Buying that house was financial suicide.
3.a person who intentionally takes his or her own life.
verb (used without object), suicided, suiciding.
4.to commit suicide.
verb (used with object), suicided, suiciding.
5.to kill (oneself).
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I see nothing there about your claim that suicide is "an unjustified self murder."
Taking your own life is suicide, no matter how you dress it up.
So would you classify every soldier in that has died as a suicide? No? Because it wasn't intentional? What if a soldier was surrounded by the enemy and had no way out but to take down as many of them with him and just stormed out with guns blazing? There are instances where you could say that the soldier was committing "suicide" but no one would even think to imply that to his grieving family. And even if you could parse and find a way to say that the soldiers death by definition was a suicide it would not change the fact that his death had a justified cause. Jesus did not kill himself and he never would have. Saying it was a suicide is like saying every soldier that has died in combat committed suicide since they knew of the possible outcome
Jesus came to fulfill sacrificial law, that was the whole point of him being sacrificed. This means that jesus came to earth to be sacrificed and knowing that he would be sacrificed, it was his intention, so that would be suicide.
