If Suicide is Wrong then Why did Jesus do it?

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. If suicide is wrong, then why did

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God commit cosmic suicide? This is an argument some of the new atheists try to make as if Jesus Christ taking his own life on the cross is an attempt of suicide.

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That might be if it was that Jesus was created in the image of God and not actually

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God. What you end up seeing here is a category error on what suicide actually is and why it's wrong.

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The reason that suicide is wrong is taking of the life of even yourself an image bearer of God.

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God would say that we are not to murder, and so to take your own life is an act of murder, even if it's of yourself.

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However, what Jesus Christ did on the cross was not an act of murder. He gave of his life.

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Remember, he was on the cross. Given enough time, he would have died just from natural circumstances, but he, being

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God, was in control of his soul. The fact that he could be having his hands stretched out, his feet having nailed in to a cross, he couldn't take his own life if he wasn't

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God. So the irony is when they say Jesus took his own life, what they're actually arguing without realizing it is that they're admitting that he has to first be

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God, that in that act, he could give up of his own soul. That proves he's

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God. Therefore, it wasn't suicide, and they just lost the argument. This podcast is part of the

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