Posted on 11/03/2014 7:38:04 AM PST by wagglebee
Really, I've jumped the shark. YOU are the one pushing death.
I have to go out for a few hours, you may or may not still be here when I return.
“I see that you are still refusing to answer my questions. “
GEEZ. I miss one post and you jump the shark with your accusations.
I responded to your previous post and was going back to read the one I missed. I can’t type any faster. Duh.
Is this a joke to you?
“Really, I’ve jumped the shark. YOU are the one pushing death.”
Again you are mischaracterizing my posts. You seem to make a habit of that.
Dark and defeated is an appropriate analysis. There’s really no joy, no moral victory, no victorious anything in that story. And it even appears that Saul might have had something akin to a manic/depressive streak.
But, absolutely no sense that it was a positive ending.
There are also folks in the bible with some terrible illnesses and none of them choose suicide. I know that’s an argument from silence, but it is an accurate bible observation. Not even lepers.
Job is practically encouraged to lay down and die, but he calls that foolish.
“Is this a joke to you?”
No, but his posts are.
Glad to know that you’re enjoying this thread.
“But, absolutely no sense that it was a positive ending.”
There is no positive ending when God says you are going to die the next day and on that day your entire kingdom is destroy, you sons killed and you are mortally wounded ...
“Glad to know that you’re enjoying this thread.”
What’s to enjoy. Personal attacks, insinuations and mischaracterizations ...
“Job is practically encouraged to lay down and die, but he calls that foolish.”
Obviously, Job was not terminally ill.
But you miss the why of it?
Tragic rejection of God who gives life, wholesomeness, a future. Instead, here is Saul with darkness, defeat, and chaos. And he kills himself (in reality).
I'm so happy for you....but don't assume others you disagree with don't also have what they consider a close loving acquaintance with the Lord....
He was covered from head to toe with boils, he’d lost everything.
He didn’t quit.
“Tragic rejection of God who gives life,”
Uh, God told him he was to die that day. If he had not committed suicide, he might have lived another day and God would have been wrong ...
“He was covered from head to toe with boils”
Why did God tell Satan it was ok to cover him with boils?
Once assisted suicide is accepted, it’s just a short hop to “Why don’t you just kill yourself, you are costing the State money by continuing to live.”
I’ve lived in both fashions and I can vouch that legalism goes hand in hand with scanty love and rigidity. Been there, done that, learned my lesson.
God told him what God already knew.
Because God was proud of Job.
We know that evil will step up and push that once it becomes possible. It shouldn’t be so easy to ostracize someone from this mortal coil.
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