Ping to the thread. Could you repost your excellent Solomon citation?
This is the post in its entirety:
When a person is smart enough and old enough to see the heart of man and his fate - but is unwilling to accept Christ’s Grace, suicide will be the likely outcome.
I think this happens with a lot of “above average intelligence” people as they age. Look at Ecclesiastes. It’s Solomon as an old man, full of wisdom. After getting the chicks, the cars, the private jets, the villa in the Alps, he realizes it is ALL a chasing after the wind. But then the zinger is in the last paragraph:
Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the duty of all mankind.
For God will bring every deed into judgment,
including every hidden thing,
whether it is good or evil.
If one is at the same level Solomon was at and refuses to accept that last paragraph, suicide is the logical next step. It would be for me, and I’m only 60.
As Paul said in 1 Corinthians,
“For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.”
And...
“What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, ‘Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.’”
The first thing I saw on my FB this morning was a nasty post against Rush by Lewis Black, reposted by a friend. I wondered what Rush could have said to get such a response, but from what I can tell, there is nothing scandalous or untoward in Rush’s statement. As usual, Rush speaks, the left goes insane.
I had no idea Williams had such financial problems. He wouldn’t be the first person to commit suicide over finances and mixed with clinical depression, it’s not surprising at all.