{"id":638,"date":"2020-10-04T17:03:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T21:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scdivinelight.org\/?page_id=638"},"modified":"2020-10-28T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:04:41","slug":"suicide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scdivinelight.org\/?page_id=638","title":{"rendered":"Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hot topic #1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/esv\/john\/15-13.html\"><strong>John 15:13 (ESV)<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/a>Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.  Doesn&#8217;t this Bible passage talk about an intentional suicide?  Would this person go to hell for his bad deed?<br>A. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q. If my life has been a waste up until now, why not kill myself and start over fresh?  Maybe I just need another chance.<br>A. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q. If a person has done terrible atrocities and has no future but a lifetime in jail, why not take the easy way out by killing himself and saving everybody a lot more pain?<br>A. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q. I&#8217;ve smoked two packs a day since I was a teenager and I have throat cancer. Why do some people say I&#8217;m killing myself?  We&#8217;re all going to die anyway.<br>A. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q. My best friend stole my wife&#8217;s affections, I feel like I want to kill myself but I don&#8217;t want to be condemned to hell so I&#8217;m thinking of killing them instead. Which is worse for me?<br>A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q. If my life is just a blink in the eternity of my soul&#8217;s existence, I don&#8217;t understand why I can&#8217;t drop  out for a second or two. It seems that it won&#8217;t make that much difference in the long run.<br>A. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot topic #1 Q. John 15:13 (ESV)&nbsp;Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. Doesn&#8217;t this Bible passage talk about an intentional suicide? Would this person go to hell for his bad deed?A. Q. If my life has been a waste up until now, why not kill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":646,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-638","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","eq-blocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scdivinelight.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scdivinelight.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scdivinelight.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scdivinelight.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scdivinelight.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scdivinelight.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/scdivinelight.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638\/revisions\/992"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scdivinelight.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scdivinelight.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}