Suicide and the Christian
What does one make of a Christian who has committed suicide?
Robin Schumacher is an accomplished software executive and Christian apologist who has written many articles, authored and contributed to several Christian books, appeared on nationally syndicated radio programs, and presented at apologetic events. He holds a BS in Business, Master's in Christian apologetics and a Ph.D. in New Testament. His latest book is, A Confident Faith: Winning people to Christ with the apologetics of the Apostle Paul.
What does one make of a Christian who has committed suicide?
Maybe you’ve even reached the lowest point where you now believe answered prayer is for other people and not you.
If Darwin was right, the naturalists can’t even have confidence in believing naturalism is true. Or anything else for that matter.
Did Peter move from a saved to an unsaved state when he said he’d never met Christ?
Is there a God? Seems like a reasonable place to start, right?
Were you as surprised as I was to learn that Russia doesn’t carry out capital punishment?
And that was just a 5-minute perusal of the news a few days back. Things have gotten so bad on this front and people are so scared and lonely that they’re now turning to pet rocks for comfort, hoping it will relax them.
How much better it is to acknowledge our Creator who is the source of unchanging goodness and safety for His creation.
My vote for the biggest swing-and-a-miss Christian teaching goes to postmillennialism.
If we all agreed that no “work” can earn you Heaven, then once saved, what “work” can damn you to Hell?