Friday, May 14, 2004
A Big Whopper! 
(Big Whopper at least means here a big lie. and the pic has nothing to do with anything, except I am sure it resembles the big whopper, (another usage of the term here) Lyssa caught while she sat nodding on the river-bank!)
The Big Whopper in reference, is seeing as this came up, and I do hear people I know who are believers, speak of real suicidal tendencies. Its one thing, to have a thought, another to act upon it. But, we all have our own demons we deal with. This is no longer one of my demons, tho the enemy would like it to be. And it can be hard to handle, with a minds eye view of looking back.
Augustine said: "Men, by taking away their present life, deny themselves their future life." Which is I guess what I was referring to about dying that way, when obviously by the very nature of it, one can never repent of it."
And seeing as satan's biggest sin, is wanting to be God, it doesn't take very far to see, that if one does do that, then we are playing God with life and death. Whether its Euthanisia, (blech how ungodly things get technical names so easily!) or murder of another human, or self murder, its still usurping God's place in the order of things.
"I dare not say they are not saved, because of their sinful death. Yet for the temptation itself, I say, if a man does not yield to it; as their is no duty which a Godly man performs, but a wicked man may do the same yet remain wicked; so their is no temptation which a wicked man may yield unto but a Godly man may be tempted into, yet remain Godly."
(not sure if that quote is by William Perkins or William Bridges- tis on page 160 of a lifting up of the downcast anyhow!)
I think at least the second quote makes the good point, that even when we see someone else, a brother or sister, wrestling with some temptation, that even if its something we think we would never wrestle with ourselves, temptation can come to any of us.
I think one of the scariest things in medicine today, is how cheap life has become. In Holland one can be euthanised simply if one is depressed and has lost the will to live. We make babies to then go on and use their bodies to heal us. And not counting the millions of unborn babies that never make it alive into the world, cos they are murdered in the mothers stomache by a surgical procedure. |
