“killed himself by himself”? So He comitted suicide did He? You are as delusional as your controlling spirit is demonic.

Another day another Muslim straw man another hearsay parrot MD Khalid posted: “If Jesus be God or Son of God why he allowed to be suicidal? Isint suicide a sin?”

We often see this sort of fallacious argument used by Muslims in their desperation to denounce the crucifixion.

Let’s debunk the myth. Jesus allowed Himself to be killed and die an unjust death to save others. That self sacrifice is the most noble and greatest expression of love possible:

“No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13 HCSB)

And Jesus had the authority to sacrifice Himself it was not a random selfish act of a needless waste of life, as characterizes suicide:

“No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the right [KJV “power”] to lay it down, and I have the right [power] to take it up again. I have received this command from My Father.” (John 10:18 HCSB)

Suicide means you take your own life. It is an active choice (even when mental issues such as depression are involved). But where do we draw the line? If someone sits on train tracks knowing a train will come because they no longer wish to live, it’s suicide. If someone throws themselves on a grenade to protect others, it’s not.

In other words, suicide is defined more by the reason for dying than it is the act of dying.

Jesus had no desire to die. His prayer in Gethsemene proves that. “Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” (Luke 22:42)

Of the many things that made Jesus the Son of God, one is that He had the choice to live. All other people who have and will live on earth only have the choice to die. We can, if we so choose, decide the moment of our deaths. But none of us, facing that moment, can choose to avoid it. We can choose not to die in that we choose not to raise a gun to our heads today. But we cannot choose to live once the trigger has been pulled.

But Jesus could choose to live: “Or do you think that I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide Me at once with more than 12 legions of angels? How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way? ” (Matthew 26:53‭-‬54 HCSB)

At any moment, even while hanging on the cross, He could have commanded the angels to lift him down. The onlookers mocked Him for His failure to save Himself. He could have commanded his wounds healed. He could have chosen to live (and was even once tempted by Satan to abuse this power, Matthew 4:6). But the atonement required a willing sacrifice ” a person willing to throw themselves upon the proverbial grenade to protect others ” and that choice had to be absolute in every possible way. With his last breath He could have chosen to live, but the rest of us were more important to Him than His own life. He allowed Himself to die that we may live. That is the essence of love.

A willing sacrifice is an act of selfless love and respect for others. Suicide is inherently selfish, an effort to remove oneself from burden or responsibility. It is also inherently sinful because God alone has the right to take life and the form and moment of His choosing.

So it’s not the fact of death it’s the WHY a person chooses to die that determines whether or not the act was one of suicide or sacrifice.

Therefore, no, Jesus did not commit suicide. He remains not guilty of sin. And having lived a perfect life, He has the privilege of judging all sin. And while I do not understand all things, I believe I understand this well enough to be content and at peace with my faith.

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