Originally posted by Rajk999
Funny thing you have no real answer Jaywill. Or should I say .. I could understand why you have no answer.
If the Bible does not approve of suicide and one of your so-called 'eternally saved' people commits suicide then what ??
The problem with your doctrine is that you are preempting the righteous judgment of Christ by claiming to know in advance. I ...[text shortened]... cases .. absolutely no exceptions .. living Christians wait in hope of a favourable judgment.
Pardon me for wedging in here as I am not really qualified, but it seems to me that jaywill's post acknowledges the Christian teaching that it is the state of a person's faith, by God's grace, at the moment of their death, that determines their eternal fate, period. Any action taken by the person prior to that moment, whether the action is blasphemy/abomination 10 years prior, or stepping off the top of a building 5 seconds prior, is not the determining factor.
Of course this raises interesting questions such as, can a person be saved without having some sort of conscious act of prayerful acceptance of Christ?* On this forum we non-theists are being told the answer is "no". But the person who blows their brains out might not have any coherent conscious thoughts at all, after doing so. But then on the other hand, do we accept Christ with our brains, or with our spiritual souls, and are our spiritual souls limited by the physical condition of our brains? In brief, can we accept Christ after blowing our brains out? If so, the act of suicide is no more definitive of our fate than is a years-old blasphemy/abomination.
*edit: that is not rescinded prior to death.