For the Love of God-Don Carson (Nov 3)
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This controversial topic has unfortunately often been addressed in emotional ways, not through biblical analysis. Those of us who grew up Roman Catholic have always heard suicide is a mortal sin that irretrievably sends people to hell. Influenced by the arguments of Augustine and Aquinas, this belief dominated through the Reformation. However, for Luther, the Devil is capable of oppressing (not possessing) a believer to the point of pushing him to commit the sin of suicide (Table Talk, Vol 54:29).
http://www.biblestudytools.com/rsv/2-kings/3.html
http://www.biblestudytools.com/rsv/2-thessalonians/3.html
http://www.biblestudytools.com/rsv/daniel/7.html
http://www.biblestudytools.com/nrs/passage/?q=psalm+114;+psalm+115
2 Kings 3; 2 Thessalonians 3; Daniel 7; Psalms 114–115
THE PASSAGE IN 2 Thessalonians 3:6–13 is unique in the New Testament. Nowhere else do we find so many lines devoted to the sin of idleness.