Lutheran called self-martyr after suicide

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Lutheran called self-martyr after suicide

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Found this artcle today.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Conten ... 3371809232
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Re: Lutheran called self-martyr after suicide

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Beanbean wrote:Found this artcle today.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Conten ... 3371809232
Pretty bizarre. I don't see how an act of suicide can be martyrdom in this context. It sounds like a man attempting to make a point, but with other issues involved.

Suicide is inconsistent with submission to the sovereignty of God. It is God who determines when life ends.
Dogmatism is the comfortable intellectual framework of self-righteousness. Self-righteousness is more decadent than the worst sexual sin. ~ Dan Allender
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