Category: Death/Suffering

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If a person is in so much pain (unbearable pain) day to day is it a sin to commit suicide??????

Answer:

Suicide is defined as “the act of taking one’s own life voluntarily and intentionally” (Merriam Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary).Continue reading

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They killed Him not it is a fact that any careful impartial reader of the four gospels which are in the Bible will derive strong evidence to show that the man who was put on the cross did not die on the cross but only appeared to have died.

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There are some people in this world who refuse to believe that Jesus died on the cross. They believe that he just “swooned” (passed out from the beating and loss of blood), and then later revived in the tomb, and walked away.Continue reading

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Please help me help a young lady who is being told that because her Mother committed suicide that she is no longer a Christian and is in Hell. Will suicide send you to Hell? I need Biblical references to show her that it doesn’t. Thank you for your help.Continue reading

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Should Christians cremate the bodies of their loved ones?

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Cremation means “to reduce to ashes by burning” – (Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary).  In some countries space is at a premium, so they are encouraging the practice of cremation, and just spreading the ashes somewhere, or keeping them in an urn in the home.  In other cases, people think that cremation is cheaper, so they request in their wills for their bodies to be cremated. In doing do, they think that their families will be saved extra costs after they are gone, but by the time that cremation costs are figured in, there might not be the savings that they think.Continue reading

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If a husband learns (after the fact) that his wife prepared herself to end her own life by pill over dose, and she demands he do not call for help, and to just let her die, because she was in so much pain and misery, what does the Bible say about this?

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We are never to knowingly assist someone in committing suicide.Continue reading

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What does the Bible teach about euthanasia?

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The word euthanasia means “the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy” (Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary). There are two totally separate matters here in this definition, Biblically-speaking.Continue reading

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It says in the Bible that there only 2 roads.  Either you are saved and are on the narrow path going to heaven, or you are on the road heading to hell. So why do Catholics believe in purgatory?

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Matthew 7:13-14 says, “13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:   14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Notice that it does not say that “few find it, at first; and then many, eventually.” It says, “wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.” These verses do not teach a “temporary” destruction, but a “permanent” destruction. There are two roads from which to choose in life. That choice is an eternal one, and must be made while a person is still alive.Continue reading

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Can a Christian die a horrible death (plane crash, ghastly car accident, etc.)?

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Yes, some faithful Christians die what would be called horrible deaths—and others are delivered from them. None of us know when, or how we will die—or if the Lord will catch us up in the Rapture.Continue reading