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Re: Hypothetical Moral Question
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Originally Posted by Aquila
Soldiers have often taken up roles that were essentially suicide to increase the likelihood of mission accomplishment.
I'm reminded of a story about a nuclear physicist. While in the lab a piece of radio active material was suddenly exposed. To protect the group he grabbed it and isolated it fully knowing that the radiation he's absorb would kill him. He later died of radiation poisoning and cancer. But he saved the lives of his colleagues.
Jesus would be the primary example of one who willingly died to save others.
I don't think it's "suicide" in the sense that we understand it.
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I agree 100%. Giving one's life to save another or many other lives is not suicide. It is taking action that results in ones death but without one wishing death to be the result of the action.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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