Christ Committed Suicide

Jesus was not omniscient, in his own words. Pro is asserting otherwise, and provides quotes from St Paul and from the disciples, but not from Jesus himself. Of relevance here is Jesus' abilities during his lifetime on Earth. In the beginning, "the Word was God", but then he transformed and "became flesh and made his dwelling among us" (John 1:1). During that time he was not God, but was related to God, and he was not omniscient, as I have shown. In a similar way, we are all derived from blood, breastmilk, food and water. However, we are not the same as blood, breastmilk, food and water. We exist in a new form, with new capabilities and limitations, and so it was for Jesus.In terms of his powers, we need to turn to the Gospels for information, and they are clear. I quoted from Mark before; here is a very similar passage in Matthew:But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.Matthew 24: 36 suicide Suicide means an intentional and deliberate act to cause one's own death. There must be a direct link between the act and death, and it must be deliberate. Otherwise, almost anything could be called suicide. Lying around on a Sunday afternoon eating cake could be called suicide since we know that there's a link between lack of exercise and unhealthy diet and diseases such as cancer and heart disease. However, it is not really suicide, unless you are deliberately trying for death by obesity, because in most cases people are just lazy and like sweet food. This is obviously a different sort of act to slashing your wrists in the bath.Jesus did not kill himself. There is not a single act listed in the Bible that caused his death. He died by crucixion. He had not broken any laws for which crucifixion was an official penality; he did not turn himself in or ask for death. He did come to Jerusalem aware that the consequences could be death and suffering, but as I have shown, the language he used ("He must" and "it was necessary") show that he did not feel he had a choice. Pro's case rests on the assertion that Jesus could have avoided death if he'd wanted. We only have Pro's word for that. There is no indication in the Bible that this is true. On the contrary, the prophecies states centuries earlier what was destined to occur. Here again in Mark, Jesus explains that he "must" die, and when Peter protests, he explains that Peter has not understood God's concerns: He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”Mark 8:31-33 Thus Jesus was destined to die from the moment of the immaculate conception. In human flesh, he was related to God, but he was not the same as God. He did not have the powers of God because he was in human form. He did not have the power to escape death except that granted to him by God; just as none of us have the power to escape death. We are all destined to die.Commiting suicide does not mean fulfilling our pathways and destinies to the best of our abilities even though it will inevitably result in death at some unknown time. Committing suicide means acting deliberately to die earlier than we would otherwise - through poison, or hanging, or tying weights to our feet and jumping in the ocean, or by some other direct means. Jesus did none of those things, and he did not commit suicide.