What's the punishment for those who've commited suicide in christinity? (Buddhism, Jehovah)
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I'm with BF on this one. "God won't give you more than you can handle" is one of those little sayings that some human being made up, but not one of the humans who wrote any of the biblical books.
It sounds cute and all, until you find yourself in a situation that you actually cannot handle, and then you feel as if you are too weak, or don't have enough faith, or did something for which you are being punished but you can't figure out what, because, after all, you're supposed to be able to handle it.
It's dismissive to someone's real pain to say that.
But I remember hearing the passage being read out to us and being reminded of Job and how God gave Job suffering but not too much for him to bear. Are some bibles different to others?
1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that
You've probably been taught wrong by well-meaning teachers. The same kind of folks that would suggest that "God helps those who help themselves". It SOUNDS good and often gets repeated, very likely innocently. People like to repeat what sounds good without actually verifying it.
But of course it couldn't be you who is wrong but well meaning.
So does god give us "stuff" he knows we can't handle? That doesn't sound very loving.
Well, we can't handle anything without God for in him we live and move and have our being. Jesus is our strength, our comfort and our joy. Sometimes God takes things away from us in the world that gives us the idea that we are handling it on our own so that we know that it is him from whom we have all our life, all our joy and all our strength.
When God struck my husband with a massive stroke on Christmas Eve morning from which he passed away three days later, it would be easy for me to say that God was not very loving either to him or to me. Yet sometimes God does things in our life that we do not understand, that we cannot see as loving and that we do not know how it is ultimately good for us (for God works all things to good for those who love him and who are called according to his purpose). This is when we must trust in the Lord and lean not on our own understanding.
Well, we can't handle anything without God for in him we live and move and have our being. Jesus is our strength, our comfort and our joy. Sometimes God takes things away from us in the world that gives us the idea that we are handling it on our own so that we know that it is him from whom we have all our life, all our joy and all our strength.
When God struck my husband with a massive stroke on Christmas Eve morning from which he passed away three days later, it would be easy for me to say that God was not very loving either to him or to me. Yet sometimes God does things in our life that we do not understand, that we cannot see as loving and that we do not know how it is ultimately good for us (for God works all things to good for those who love him and who are called according to his purpose). This is when we must trust in the Lord and lean not on our own understanding.
So I guess you're saying you deserved what happened?
But of course it couldn't be you who is wrong but well meaning.
Fine. Be that way. Honestly...I could say water is wet and you'd still argue with me after falling into a pool. Because it's me. And because you're just that way.
Please. Show me the verse where the Bible actually says it.
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