[wagglebee]

So according to the idiot who wrote this drivel a Marine who throws how own body on a grenade, or charges a machine gun nest to save his comrades is committing a mortal sign [sic] because he didn’t die “naturally”.

This is quite possibly the most absurd thing I've ever read on FR.

NOBODY has EVER suggested that dying in combat or defending others is sinful.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!

Christians and Jews should bear in mind that we entered this world naked and alone and we will leave it the same way.

While we are here we are stewards. Stewards only. Never owners. Ownership is an illusion:

The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. - Psalms 24:1

For that reason we should treat all things - whether living or non-living - reverently as stewards only because everything is God's property.

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. - Revelation 4:11

And that includes our own physical lives. Sacrificing one's life for one's friend is the surest evidence of love:

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. - John 15:13

And again,

For [the kingdom of heaven is] as a man travelling into a far country, [who] called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods...

For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. - Matthew 25:14-30

God's Name is I AM.