This article explores how the Bible’s teaching on suicide and our culture’s new norms about death reveal whether death is our friend or our foe, and who has the right to decide when life should end—God or human convention. In what follows, we will look honestly at the Bible’s teaching about death and suffering compared and contrasted with topic of suicide in general and the alarming suicide rates emerging in the west.
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Emmanuel: God with Us
Is God knowable? All the religions of the world would answer “No” – except one. Christianity alone claims that God has made Himself known in history in the person of Jesus Christ. Emmanuel or God with us is a central tenet of the Christian faith. The apostle John shows his excitement as he begins his first letter,
[Read more…] about Emmanuel: God with UsThat which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched – this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared, we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard…
1 John 1:1-3 NIV, emphasis added
