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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-09-06 10:46 AM
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71. How can Peter and Judas both deserve words of condemnation?
If Jesus was indeed an incarnation of God, then it should stand to reason that he would "know" his path and his destiny.

Here he is explaining the plan and saying "Get behind me, Satan!" to a disciple who opposed the plan:

Matthew 16
21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
22 Peter rebuked Jesus. "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to you!"
23 Jesus said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men."

...it does knock a huge hole in the Christian dogmatism of "No Suicide" doesn't it?

I recall reading that early Christianity encouraged suicide, that there were lots of suicides, and that later Christianity responded by officially condemning suicide.
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