It makes me cringe.
It is not Biblical.
It doesn’t make rational sense.
It is not true on its face. Christians die. Christians die from persecution. Christians suffer and die from persecution.
It also suggests God is cruel. God will let you suffer and suffer and suffer and suffer but won’t let you die to end the suffering.
I am a Bible-believing, God-fearing, Christ-following (at least I aim to be) Christian. This non-Biblical saying makes me cringe.
1 Corinthians 10:13 King James Version (KJV)
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
I’m with mbarker. makes me cringe.
Thank you for summing up my thoughts so well. The first time I recall hearing that phrase I was 10 years old and my Grandpa (that I was very close to) was on his death bed. Some yahoo preacher tossed that line to me sitting in a hospital balling my eyes out. Resented it ever since.
But if you choose to end your own life after such suffering, then God will condemn you.........
How about those who God condemned to dementia and ended their lives at their own hands?
The cool thing about God is that HE can never be faulted since the argument always falls back to his giving free choice to his creation..........