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HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

a Biblical Theology of Life and Death issues

John Cho

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

‘We are dependent beings, and to think otherwise – to make independence our project, however sincerely – is to live a lie, to fly in the face of reality.’

Meilaender

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

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• The sovereignty of God over life and death
• The sanctity of life
• The sanctity of death
• ‘How, then, should we live?’

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

the Sovereignty of God over life and death

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.

Isaiah 46:10

See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Deuteronomy 32:39

…the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will

Ephesians 1:11

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

“Am I not al allo lowed wed to do what I ch choose

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Matthew 20:15

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

‘Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.’

John Stuart Mill

I know, oh Lord, that the way of man is not in himself; that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Jeremiah 10:23

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

“There is no attribute more comforting to His children than that of God’s Sovereignty…”

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

the Sanctity of Life

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:26,27

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

“We are most ourselves not when we seek to direct and control

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grounded in and sustained by God.”

Meilaender

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

“People are equal in the same way pennies are equal… each person bears the image of the King of kings.”

G.K. Chesterton

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

the Sanctity of Death

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Isaiah 40:6-8

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

How, then, should we live?

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

‘Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we rot away because of them. How then can we live?’ Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 33:10,11

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Proverbs 14:12

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HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 90:12

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death – that is, the devil – and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

Hebrew 2:14,15

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

1 Corinthians 15:20-26

HOT TOPICS: CS: eutha thana nasia sia and d assist sisted ed suicid ide

a Biblical Theology of Life and Death issues