EUTHANASIA

Psalm 139:13-16 TLB

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit them together in my mother's womb. [14] Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! It is amazing to think about. Your workmanship is marvelous-and how well I know it. [15] You were there while I was being formed in utter seclusion! [16] You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book!

 

Euthanasia is a fancy and roundabout way of committing murder! 

The Bible does not specifically discuss euthanasia. However, what it says about life and death offers a balanced perspective. Causing death is unacceptable, but there is no requirement to go to desperate lengths to prolong life during the natural dying process.

God gives and knows life from the beginning to the end, and when someone decides to cut short their own life for whatever reason, all they are saying is that God made a mistake in making them, that God has no interest or control over their lives, and that nothing will change for them. So, they take themselves out to go to a “better place”—is it though?

God cursed Cain in Genesis 4 for killing his brother Abel but put a mark on Cain to stop anyone from killing him and promised to punish anyone who did. It is clear throughout the scriptures that life and death are fully God’s domain according to Acts 17:28 and Psalm 36:9.

Euthanasia is the termination of life to achieve some concept of good, such as putting an end to physical suffering. It could be death by choice or the choice of others. It may be called death with dignity, mercy killing, assisted suicide, or death selection. Exactly what Exodus 20:13 warns against. This verse is commonly referenced in Christian ethics as a basis for the sanctity of life, prohibiting the intentional ending of a human life regardless of suffering.

In God’s eyes, life is very precious. For this reason, God condemns both taking the life of another and taking one’s own life. According to 1 John 3:15, whoever hates his brother is a murderer. 

And no murderer has eternal life (except for the repentant) because God cannot dwell in a heart where hatred and malice remain.

Any number of people in the Bible with sickness, disabilities, and suffering could have taken this route out of their predicament, but if they were born in this era, who knows what they would have done? Job, the woman with the issue of blood, the sick and crippled people of Jesus’s time all needed relief.

God ordained a natural order for ending life and beginning the next, but euthanasia opposes the sovereignty of God in His creation. God ordains the days of our lives, as stated in Psalm 139:16. Death is inevitable—Psalm 89:48 states that we will all face death soon, so active euthanasia is murder.

Every believer should leave mortality in God’s hands. We cannot and do not own life; it is a gift from God. None of us has the power to control life or death according to Ecclesiastes 8:8. True ownership of life belongs to God, and it is His choice—not that of an individual or society—when life should end. It is God’s gracious responsibility to create, sustain, and care for life at every stage—pre-born, infancy, adolescence, maturity, and old age as seen in Job 14:5.

Someone might say they have the right to die because this life is no longer bearable. But how are you sure that wherever you are going is going to be bearable—heaven or hell?

Nobody has the right to take something that does not belong to them. 

It is healthy to want to preserve life and natural not to want to prolong death, but why would someone prematurely take their life in their hands just to escape what Hebrews 9:27 says is inevitable?

Ecclesiastes 7:14 states that sometimes God allows us to suffer for a long time before death occurs; other times, one’s suffering is short. No one enjoys suffering, but that does not make it right to decide a person should die when death is already a natural occurrence.

Life is valuable to the Lord! Cherish it!

REFLECTION QUESTIONS 

- What’s your view of “suicide”? Is it something you would ever consider, and why? 

- Do you think there is a better place for those who took their own lives? 

- How would you respond to or encourage someone contemplating suicide? 

- Do you think the church can do more to raise awareness and stop this?

PRAYER: Lord and giver of life, help me to always remember the sanctity of life that cost Jesus His life and never allow anything to push me to want to step out before my divine appointment, in Jesus’ name, amen.

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